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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 24 – August 23, 2022 770 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 235 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

    Apple is building a demand-side platform

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 31 stories

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

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

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

  4. CEO Shadow Program

Show 10 more
  1. Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z

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

  3. AMD passes Intel in market cap

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

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

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

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

  8. U.S. Treasury sanctions virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash

  9. Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network

  10. Look at median, and not mean GDP per capita

Sports 25 stories

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

  2. Mindustry – Open-Source Game

Show 6 more
  1. The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN

  2. The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool

  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 613 stories

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

  2. Use one big server

  3. Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones

Show 9 more
  1. Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser

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

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

  4. Librarian's Letter to Google Security

  5. What ever happened to the transhumanists?

  6. An odd discovery on Spotify

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

  8. A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal

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

Entertainment 36 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. Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor

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

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