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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 29 – July 29, 2022 784 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 30 · Issue 210 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Intel Microcode Decryptor

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  2. Technology

    The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Yes, social media is undermining democracy

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 35 stories

  1. Intel Microcode Decryptor

  2. Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

  3. EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

  4. More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade

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  1. Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers

  2. Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable

  3. TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business

  4. The world needs a non-profit search engine

  5. House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading – report

  6. My business card runs Linux

  7. Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z

  8. Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment

  9. How to advertise to developers: deep dive into paid developer marketing

  10. GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software

Sports 32 stories

  1. Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trading tipping scheme

  2. Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world

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  1. Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title

  2. Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE

  3. Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default

  4. Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

  5. Show HN: Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Returns

  6. FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes

Technology 615 stories

  1. Dutch schools must stop using Google's email and cloud due to privacy concerns

  2. I regret my website redesign

  3. Compare Webb's Images to Hubble

Show 9 more
  1. Apple previews Lockdown Mode

  2. Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig

  3. Felt

  4. Absurd Trolley Problems

  5. I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

  6. Glassdoor not so anonymous

  7. Deepest infrared image of universe

  8. Scratch is a big deal

  9. Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent

  2. Show HN: Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: PocketBase – Open Source realtime backend in one file

  2. Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid

  3. Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

  4. Music for Programming

  5. Show HN: I built an app for when I talk too much in online meetings

  6. Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors

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