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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 21 – February 20, 2018 819 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 51 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

    6 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Why I left Google to join Grab

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Go accepts patches from GitHub pull requests now

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 53 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. Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors

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

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

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

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

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

  10. Lessons from starting a design-as-a-service startup

Sports 43 stories

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

  2. A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

Show 6 more
  1. Designing Windows 95’s User Interface

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

  3. MacOS may lose data on APFS-formatted disk images

  4. Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge

  5. Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest

  6. Phaser 3.0: HTML5 game framework

Technology 600 stories

  1. SpaceX successfully deploys the Star man

  2. The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM

  3. Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’

Show 9 more
  1. Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”

  2. John Perry Barlow has died

  3. Email is your electronic memory

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

  5. AMP for email is a terrible idea

  6. Ursula Le Guin has died

  7. Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company

  8. OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble

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

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. Show HN: Observable Notebooks

  2. Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project

Show 6 more
  1. The Follower Factory

  2. Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly

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

  4. Netflix is now worth more than $100B

  5. Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

  6. Show HN: Curated, Pre-trained ML Models for Transfer Learning

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