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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 17 – February 16, 2018 833 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 47 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ending Bitcoin Support

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning

    7 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Programming Notes for Professionals books

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Go accepts patches from GitHub pull requests now

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 57 stories

  1. Ending Bitcoin Support

  2. Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies

  3. AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018

  4. U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether

Show 10 more
  1. Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude

  2. Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS

  3. Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

  4. Fed Up with Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own

  5. Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors

  6. Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominant market position

  7. Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

  8. Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2B

  9. US startups don’t want to go public anymore

  10. It's Getting Harder to Tell Banks from Tech Companies

Sports 37 stories

  1. Wine 3.0 Released

  2. Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing

Show 6 more
  1. A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

  2. Designing Windows 95’s User Interface

  3. Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal

  4. Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest

  5. Phaser 3.0: HTML5 game framework

  6. Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them

Technology 611 stories

  1. SpaceX successfully deploys the Star man

  2. It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless

  3. Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”

Show 9 more
  1. John Perry Barlow has died

  2. Email is your electronic memory

  3. Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

  4. AMP for email is a terrible idea

  5. Ursula Le Guin has died

  6. Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company

  7. Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website

  8. Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

  9. The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler

  2. Show HN: Observable Notebooks

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project

  2. The Follower Factory

  3. Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly

  4. Tractor Hacking: Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair

  5. Netflix is now worth more than $100B

  6. Nintendo Labo Official Site

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