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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 26 – November 25, 2019 797 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 48 · Issue 329 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Women shocked by "hidden" cost of mammograms

Health insurance covers mammograms every one to two years, but many women often need secondary tests that aren't covered

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The problem isn’t data protection, it’s data collection

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    “What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects”

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Cooling off your Raspberry Pi 4

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

  2. How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]

  3. Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation

  4. Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance

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  1. Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes

  2. Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’

  3. Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

  4. In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A

  5. Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

  6. PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns

  7. Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Giant of Fraud

  8. Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

  9. Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017)

  10. Man Underpaid Property Tax by $8.41 County Seized Home, Sold It-Kept Profits

Sports 27 stories

  1. IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program

  2. Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam

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  1. Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban

  2. How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

  3. Close Encounter with a Gigantic Jet

  4. Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed on Thursday

  5. 'Zen curtain' saves birds from hitting glass windows

  6. German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nuclear, last half as long

Technology 614 stories

  1. Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

  2. Google Kills Cloud Print

  3. Facebook iOS app has camera active during use

Show 9 more
  1. Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems [pdf]

  2. Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

  3. WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

  4. Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook

  5. Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

  6. Twitter to ban political advertising

  7. Save .org

  8. Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional

  9. 16-inch MacBook Pro

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track

  2. Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

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  1. Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

  2. Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced

  3. U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

  4. Show HN: Hacker News Title Edit Tracker

  5. The Power of Shower Thoughts

  6. Show HN: Turn any device with a browser into a security camera

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