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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 17 – January 16, 2018 823 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 03 · Issue 16 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Update on Meltdown and Spectre

    11 of 30 days · 13 articles

  2. Technology

    Building a Thermal Camera

    10 of 30 days · 12 articles

  3. Technology

    Rust in 2017: what we achieved

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 54 stories

  1. Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000

  2. Intel CEO’s Stock Sales May Warrant SEC Examination

  3. I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil

  4. Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

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  1. Spotify files for its IPO

  2. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life

  3. US Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted

  4. Bitcoin Cash deals frozen as insider trading is probed

  5. Goldman Sachs Report Explores Use of Bitcoin as Currency

  6. Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning against municipal broadband

  7. Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer

  8. Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Consensus (2016) [pdf]

  9. Blackbird: Bitcoin arbitrage

  10. Trends to Avoid When Founding a Startup

Sports 33 stories

  1. The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds

  2. Boardgame.io: State management and more for turn-based games

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  1. Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access

  2. CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Epic Games

  3. Learn to Code Ethereum DApps by Building Your Own Game

  4. Gamers Want DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games

  5. Show HN: A game my 12-year-old daughter wrote

  6. Buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase

Technology 606 stories

  1. Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors

  2. What We Get Wrong About Dying

  3. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

Show 9 more
  1. Dude, you broke the future

  2. Update on Meltdown and Spectre

  3. Building a Thermal Camera

  4. Intel Analysis of Speculative Execution Side Channels [pdf]

  5. California has the highest poverty rate in the USA

  6. Full-Text Search in Django with PostgreSQL

  7. Reading privileged memory with a side-channel

  8. Google Maps' Moat

  9. Google Memory Loss

Entertainment 32 stories

  1. Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year

  2. Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse

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  1. Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

  2. Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting

  3. Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?

  4. Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator

  5. Show HN: An educational blockchain implementation in Python

  6. Show HN: Sapper.js – towards a better web app framework

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