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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 13 – August 12, 2022 784 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 224 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Intel Microcode Decryptor

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Apple is building a demand-side platform

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Is this the end of social networking?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Crimes with Python's pattern matching

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 31 stories

  1. Intel Microcode Decryptor

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

  3. NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  8. AMD passes Intel in market cap

  9. Volkswagen enters battery business with $20B investment

  10. Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps

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. Mindustry – Open-Source Game

  3. The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN

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

  5. Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case

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

Technology 616 stories

  1. How to Estimate Distance Using Just Your Thumb

  2. I regret my website redesign

  3. Use one big server

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  1. Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones

  2. Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser

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

  4. Glassdoor not so anonymous

  5. Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

  6. Librarian's Letter to Google Security

  7. What ever happened to the transhumanists?

  8. I used DALL·E 2 to generate a logo

  9. Scratch is a big deal

Entertainment 29 stories

  1. US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

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

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

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

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

  4. Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

  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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