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The month's top story

Intel Microcode Decryptor

twitter.com · 2 sources

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2Outlets
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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Crimes with Python's pattern matching

    6 of 30 days · 6 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

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  2. Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

    sec.gov · 1 outlets

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

    consilium.europa.eu · 1 outlets

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

    growthbusiness.co.uk · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

  3. The world needs a non-profit search engine

    daoudclarke.net · 1 outlets

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

    seekingalpha.com · 1 outlets

  5. My business card runs Linux

    dmitry.gr · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  7. Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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

    developermarkepear.com · 1 outlets

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

    gnucash.org · 1 outlets

Sports 25 stories

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

    justice.gov · 2 outlets

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

    tjukanovt.github.io · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title

    chess24.com · 1 outlets

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

    mjg59.dreamwidth.org · 1 outlets

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

    totalrealreturns.com · 1 outlets

  4. It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot

    jolexxa.medium.com · 1 outlets

  5. Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)

    rwmj.wordpress.com · 1 outlets

  6. Arizona makes it illegal for bystanders to record cops at close range

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

Technology 607 stories

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

    tutanota.com · 2 outlets

  2. I regret my website redesign

    mtlynch.io · 1 outlets

  3. Compare Webb's Images to Hubble

    johnedchristensen.gith · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Apple previews Lockdown Mode

    apple.com · 2 outlets

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

    bun.sh · 1 outlets

  3. Use one big server

    specbranch.com · 1 outlets

  4. Absurd Trolley Problems

    neal.fun · 1 outlets

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

    techradar.com · 1 outlets

  6. Glassdoor not so anonymous

    webworm.co · 1 outlets

  7. Deepest infrared image of universe

    nasa.gov · 1 outlets

  8. Librarian's Letter to Google Security

    docs.google.com · 1 outlets

  9. What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

    noctslackv2.wordpress. · 2 outlets

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    justine.lol · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: PocketBase – Open Source realtime backend in one file

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    hexapipes.vercel.app · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

    parsnip.ai · 1 outlets

  6. Music for Programming

    musicforprogramming.ne · 1 outlets

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