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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 3 – February 2, 2020 809 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 33 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

When good ideas make bad business

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Case for Bayesian Deep Learning

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. When good ideas make bad business

  2. How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study

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

  4. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

Show 10 more
  1. The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis

  2. How to Invest in Startups

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

  4. How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy

  5. Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

  6. Startup Ideas 2020

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

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

  9. Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste

  10. Machine learning is fundamentally conservative

Sports 31 stories

  1. Wine 5.0

  2. Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf]

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games

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

  3. WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10

  4. Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

  5. Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders

  6. Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant structures (2019)

Technology 616 stories

  1. Tesla Financial Results 2019 Q4

  2. Every Google result now looks like an ad

  3. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained

Show 9 more
  1. Goodbye, Clean Code

  2. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

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

  4. Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

  5. A Sad Day for Rust

  6. Not everyone has an internal monologue

  7. How to Exit Vim

  8. My Second Year as a Solo Developer

  9. Monoliths Are the Future

Entertainment 43 stories

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

  2. Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and makers

Show 6 more
  1. In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average

  2. Show HN: Train a language model to talk like you

  3. Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

  4. Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL

  5. Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet

  6. Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative

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