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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 21 – August 20, 2022 771 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 232 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

“Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Is this the end of social networking?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Developing Godot Projects with Neovim

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Apple is building a demand-side platform

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 33 stories

  1. “Quantum-Safe” Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC

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

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. CEO Shadow Program

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

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

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

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

  6. AMD passes Intel in market cap

  7. Man who robbed bank to get his own money back hailed as national hero

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

  9. Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)

  10. Want to Start a Startup, as a Software Engineer? Sell Something Online

Sports 27 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Mindustry – Open-Source Game

  2. The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN

  3. Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?

  4. Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case

  5. Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2

  6. Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)

Technology 608 stories

  1. How to Estimate Distance Using Just Your Thumb

  2. I regret my website redesign

  3. Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

Show 9 more
  1. Use one big server

  2. Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones

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

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

  5. I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard

  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. Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range

Entertainment 32 stories

  1. US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

  2. Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 800Gb/s and Beyond [pdf]

Show 6 more
  1. Tabler: Free and open source dashboard HTML/CSS framework

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

  3. Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking

  4. Show HN: I made a web-based notepad with a built in unit calculator

  5. Show HN: Reduce SQLite database size by up to 80% with transparent compression

  6. Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 years

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