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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 8 – January 7, 2019 789 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 02 · Issue 7 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people

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1Articles

What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Machine Learning for .NET

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Learn and practice modern JavaScript

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Learning KVM – implement your own kernel

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 45 stories

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

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

  3. Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors

  4. Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

Show 10 more
  1. EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects

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

  3. The Internet of Unprofitable Things

  4. China’s Economy Slows Sharply

  5. How the 0.001% invest

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

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

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

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

  10. Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake

Sports 37 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. Marriott Concedes 5M Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted

Technology 604 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. Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App

  4. Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

  5. Please do not attempt to simplify this code

  6. Algorithms, by Jeff Erickson

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

  8. Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

  9. China lands Chang'e-4 on far side of Moon

Entertainment 31 stories

  1. Show HN: Mkcert – Valid HTTPS certificates for localhost

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool

  2. Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue

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

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

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

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

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