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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 29 – December 29, 2018 815 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 363 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

    Machine Learning for .NET

    8 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    China Cracks Down on Churches

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 48 stories

  1. Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

  2. Lyft Files for IPO

  3. Changes to U.S. federal authorities relating to production and marketing of hemp

  4. Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

Show 10 more
  1. Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds

  2. Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over

  3. The Internet of Unprofitable Things

  4. China’s Economy Slows Sharply

  5. How the 0.001% invest

  6. Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs

  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. Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

Sports 37 stories

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

  2. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (1989) [pdf]

Show 6 more
  1. Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

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

  3. Windows Sandbox

  4. What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars

  5. Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

  6. The Game Engine Black Book: Doom

Technology 613 stories

  1. Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

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

  3. The Friendship That Made Google Huge

Show 9 more
  1. Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

  2. China Cracks Down on Churches

  3. Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

  4. Please do not attempt to simplify this code

  5. Quora User Data Compromised

  6. Goodbye, EdgeHTML

  7. Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States

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

  9. Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

Entertainment 27 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. Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix

  2. Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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

  4. Show HN: AlphaZero Science paper

  5. Show HN: Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div

  6. Show HN: A new spline

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