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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 7 – August 6, 2021 819 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 218 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

shkspr.mobi · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    What does 100% mean in CSS? (2020)

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Gaussian Processes from Scratch (2019)

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 45 stories

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

    shkspr.mobi · 1 outlets

  2. Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization

    josephg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance

    bou.ke · 1 outlets

  4. Building a data team at a mid-stage startup

    erikbern.com · 1 outlets

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  1. A better business model for video folks

    youtube.com · 2 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

    latimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads

    dailydot.com · 1 outlets

  5. Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  6. Dead Startup Toys

    deadstartuptoys.com · 1 outlets

  7. Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  8. Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol

    cyberscoop.com · 1 outlets

  9. Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  10. Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Sports 45 stories

  1. The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday

    typesense.org · 1 outlets

  2. Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance

    looking-glass.io · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Windows 96

    windows96.net · 1 outlets

  2. Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion

    cyclingnews.com · 1 outlets

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

    quantamagazine.org · 1 outlets

  4. Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  5. DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components

    daisyui.com · 1 outlets

  6. The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games

    leidenmedievalistsblog · 1 outlets

Technology 629 stories

  1. Expanded Protections for Children

    areoform.wordpress.com · 2 outlets

  2. Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement

    bbc.com · 4 outlets

  3. Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines

    npr.org · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Steven Weinberg has died

    math.columbia.edu · 2 outlets

  2. Valve Steam Deck

    steamdeck.com · 1 outlets

  3. Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  4. The Framework Laptop is now shipping

    frame.work · 1 outlets

  5. Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

    support.google.com · 1 outlets

  6. Scanning your iPhone for Pegasus

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  7. How Dwarf Fortress is built

    stackoverflow.blog · 1 outlets

  8. Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

    twitter.com · 4 outlets

  9. The rise of never-ending job interviews

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 36 stories

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

    engadget.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

    static.wiki · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card

    wificard.io · 2 outlets

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

    obsidian.md · 1 outlets

  3. Soldiers speak out about being blocked from repairing equipment by contractors

    mattstoller.substack.c · 1 outlets

  4. Of 55 students in my class at Columbia’s Film program, 4 made a career out of it

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  6. Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

    phoronix.com · 2 outlets

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