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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 19 – December 19, 2018 829 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 353 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The deepest problem with deep learning

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: An open-source collaborative whiteboard

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Linux: IO without entering the kernel

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

  2. Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup

  3. AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking

  4. Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

Show 10 more
  1. Lyft Files for IPO

  2. Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds

  3. Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over

  4. China’s Economy Slows Sharply

  5. How the 0.001% invest

  6. Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin

  7. Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport

  8. After landing a lucrative job at a tech startup, I had made a terrible mistake

  9. Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake

  10. No End in Sight for Crypto Sell-Off as Bitcoin Breaches $4,250

Sports 35 stories

  1. We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly

  2. Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL

Show 6 more
  1. Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

  2. Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

  3. Windows Sandbox

  4. Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship

  5. A debt-collection machine that’s chewing up small businesses across America

  6. Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

Technology 636 stories

  1. Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

  2. Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder

  3. AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3

Show 9 more
  1. The Friendship That Made Google Huge

  2. Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview

  3. Quora User Data Compromised

  4. Goodbye, EdgeHTML

  5. Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver

  6. Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

  7. Backdoor in event-stream library dependency

  8. JIRA is an antipattern

  9. The Yoda of Silicon Valley

Entertainment 25 stories

  1. Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool

  2. Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: An open-source collaborative whiteboard

  2. Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen

  3. Show HN: Self-Driving Pi Car

  4. Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcut for iOS 12

  5. Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

  6. An interview with the documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis

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