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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 10 – December 17, 2016 192 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 352 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)

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Business 14 stories

  1. How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)

  2. Starting a real business

  3. Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business

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  1. Gates, Bezos, and 18 others commit $1B to new cleantech fund

  2. The bank lent me $2m so I spent it on strippers and cars

  3. Pebble CEO explains why he sold to Fitbit

  4. Germany's New Crowdfunded Train

Sports 7 stories

  1. Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts

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  1. World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind

  2. YC's Winter Reading List

  3. Resolve simple merge conflicts on GitHub

Technology 156 stories

  1. Waymo: Google's self-driving car company

  2. Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco

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  1. Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team

  2. Things You Notice When You Quit the News

  3. German research institutions boycott Elsevier

  4. New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation

  5. Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. Show HN: Hire an Oldster

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  1. Show HN: 30 Days of React

  2. Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras

  3. The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able to Cut Off Your Internet Access

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