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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 31 – August 30, 2022 751 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 242 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay

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1Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Functional Reactive Programming

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Stable Diffusion is a big deal

    3 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    What’s going on with security at PayPal?

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 25 stories

  1. Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay

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

  3. Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year

  4. CEO Shadow Program

Show 10 more
  1. Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding

  2. AMD passes Intel in market cap

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

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

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

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

  7. White House requires public access to all U.S.-funded research papers by 2025

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

  9. Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices

  10. FedNow FAQ

Sports 26 stories

  1. Mindustry – Open-Source Game

  2. The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN

Show 6 more
  1. The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool

  2. Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux?

  3. Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins federal case

  4. Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2

  5. Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

  6. Remote startups will win the war for top talent

Technology 595 stories

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

  2. Design the next iPhone

  3. The Big [Censored] Theory

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. Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit

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

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

  7. Librarian's Letter to Google Security

  8. What ever happened to the transhumanists?

  9. An odd discovery on Spotify

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers

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

  3. Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor

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

  5. Show HN: A piano chord reference tool

  6. Unofficial Spotify Client for the Nintendo Switch (PoC)

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