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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 24 – January 31, 2020 189 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 31 Get it by email ↓
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Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent

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Business 8 stories

  1. Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent

  2. Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste

  3. New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market

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  1. Porting Quake to the iPod Classic

  2. Medallion Fund “Stretches Explanation to the Limit,” Professor Claims

  3. IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO

  4. U.S. wants the EU to accept chemical-washed chicken as part of trade deal

Sports 7 stories

  1. Wine 5.0

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  1. Flashpoint: a webgame preservation project

  2. CalTech wins $1.1B jury verdict in patent case against Apple, Broadcom

  3. Show HN: R-cade, a simple arcade game engine for Racket

Technology 153 stories

  1. Google backtracks on search results design

  2. Not everyone has an internal monologue

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  1. Monoliths Are the Future

  2. Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)

  3. An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google

  4. WireGuard is now in Linus' tree

  5. Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon

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  1. In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average

  2. Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet

  3. Show HN: Text-to-speech and speech-to-text open-source software stack

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