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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 13 – January 12, 2020 787 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 02 · Issue 12 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

My Business Card Runs Linux

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Build Your Own WebAssembly Compiler

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Algorithm Removes Water from Underwater Images

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. My Business Card Runs Linux

  2. JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

  3. When good ideas make bad business

  4. Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens

Show 10 more
  1. Working for a startup makes less sense

  2. Shopify CEO says long hours aren't necessary for success

  3. Takeaways from coaching CEOs, founders and VCs

  4. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

  5. Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives [pdf]

  6. An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry

  7. LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

  8. Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation

  9. Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M

  10. Machine learning is fundamentally conservative

Sports 30 stories

  1. Which Emoji Scissors Close?

  2. Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client

Show 6 more
  1. How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?

  2. Windows 95 UI Design

  3. Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free

  4. Win32 on macOS

  5. Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups

  6. Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation

Technology 602 stories

  1. Having Kids

  2. AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide bad results

  3. Goodbye, Clean Code

Show 9 more
  1. Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

  2. Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees

  3. This Page is Designed to Last

  4. Fast

  5. Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused

  6. How to Exit Vim

  7. Software Disenchantment (2018)

  8. The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1

  9. Challenging projects every programmer should try

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

  2. For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity

Show 6 more
  1. Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV

  2. Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]

  3. Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C

  4. Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language

  5. Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

  6. Show HN: Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline

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