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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 16 – January 15, 2020 807 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 03 · Issue 15 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

My Business Card Runs Linux

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Build Your Own WebAssembly Compiler

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    The Case for Bayesian Deep Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Simpler UI Logic With Finite State Machines

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. My Business Card Runs Linux

  2. When good ideas make bad business

  3. Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens

  4. Working for a startup makes less sense

Show 10 more
  1. Shopify CEO says long hours aren't necessary for success

  2. Takeaways from coaching CEOs, founders and VCs

  3. Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy

  4. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

  5. How to Invest in Startups

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

  7. An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry

  8. LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

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

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

Sports 28 stories

  1. Which Emoji Scissors Close?

  2. Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

Show 6 more
  1. Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client

  2. How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?

  3. Windows 95 UI Design

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

  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 614 stories

  1. IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax

  2. Goodbye, Clean Code

  3. Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

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

  2. This Page is Designed to Last

  3. Fast

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

  5. How to Exit Vim

  6. Software Disenchantment (2018)

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

  8. VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary jam happening now

  9. SMS is not 2FA-secure

Entertainment 43 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: Write a private diary using good old email

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