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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 5 – January 4, 2019 809 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 01 · Issue 4 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Machine Learning for .NET

    9 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Using It

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 48 stories

  1. Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people

  2. Lyft Files for IPO

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

  4. Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors

Show 10 more
  1. Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

  2. EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects

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

  4. Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over

  5. The Internet of Unprofitable Things

  6. China’s Economy Slows Sharply

  7. How the 0.001% invest

  8. Federal judge finds state law governing who is an engineer violates free speech

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

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

Sports 40 stories

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

  2. Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

Show 6 more
  1. Windows Sandbox

  2. Windows file access performance compared to Linux

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

  4. Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

  5. The Game Engine Black Book: Doom

  6. Measuring the “Filter Bubble”: How Google is influencing what you click

Technology 620 stories

  1. New Horizons Reaches Ultima Thule

  2. Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

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

Show 9 more
  1. Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to

  2. Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

  3. Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

  4. Please do not attempt to simplify this code

  5. Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson

  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 30 stories

  1. Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts

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

Show 6 more
  1. Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue

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

  3. Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in My Guest Bedroom

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

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

  6. Show HN: AlphaZero Science paper

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