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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 16 – July 16, 2021 809 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 197 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What does 100% mean in CSS? (2020)

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Hire-to-fire at Amazon India?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Gaussian Processes from Scratch (2019)

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 41 stories

  1. NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup

  2. A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

  3. Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend

  4. Django for Startup Founders: A better software architecture for SaaS startups

Show 10 more
  1. Building a data team at a mid-stage startup

  2. Intuit to share payroll data from 1.4M small businesses with Equifax

  3. A better business model for video folks

  4. Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank

  5. I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”

  6. Stockfish 14

  7. Dead Startup Toys

  8. Tiny Acquisitions

  9. The potential Orwellian horror of central bank digital currencies

  10. Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says

Sports 29 stories

  1. YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch

  2. The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday

Show 6 more
  1. Wayfinder – a relaxing 'art game' in the browser

  2. Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband

  3. Microsoft announces Windows 11

  4. How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer

  5. Only Windows 11 Pro will let you install Windows 11 with a local account

  6. SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploit on Polygon

Technology 612 stories

  1. Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement

  2. Organicmaps: Android and iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers

  3. Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

Show 9 more
  1. A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

  2. Valve Steam Deck

  3. John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

  4. I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka

  5. Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments

  6. WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted

  7. Reddit’s disrespectful design

  8. How to Work Hard

  9. The 'Fuck You' Pattern

Entertainment 42 stories

  1. EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)

  2. Show HN: iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

  2. Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

  3. Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen

  4. No More Movies

  5. HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users

  6. Show HN: RSS feeds for arbitrary websites using CSS selectors

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