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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 12 – December 19, 2016 184 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 354 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)

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Business 15 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. The bank lent me $2m so I spent it on strippers and cars

  2. Pebble CEO explains why he sold to Fitbit

  3. Germany's New Crowdfunded Train

  4. Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband

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. Wolfenstein 3D – Gameboy cartridge with co-processor

Technology 145 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. German research institutions boycott Elsevier

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

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

  5. Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income

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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