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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 8 – February 15, 2020 195 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 46 Get it by email ↓
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

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Business 11 stories

  1. How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

  2. Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

  3. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

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  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

  2. ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse

  3. The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church

  4. GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups

Sports 11 stories

  1. Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

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  1. Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine

  2. The outsize influence of middle-school friends

  3. Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests

Technology 151 stories

  1. U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks

  2. Gears

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  1. I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

  2. A bestiary of single-file implementations of programming languages

  3. Why are we so bad at software engineering?

  4. Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety

  5. Reasons not to become famous

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings

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  1. The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism”

  2. Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)

  3. Show HN: Autocode – Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps

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