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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 28 – February 27, 2020 794 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 58 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

washingtonpost.com · 1 sources

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Why we need a book about naming

    9 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Why are we so bad at software engineering?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    How to Design Mobile Apps for One-Hand Usage

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 40 stories

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

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  2. Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him

    petapixel.com · 1 outlets

  3. Hard Startups

    blog.samaltman.com · 1 outlets

  4. Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height

    scottlocklin.wordpress · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle

    joisig.com · 1 outlets

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

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  3. DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  5. IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland

    foxbusiness.com · 1 outlets

  6. The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software

    a16z.com · 1 outlets

  7. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

    daily.patwalls.co · 1 outlets

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

    nature.com · 1 outlets

  9. ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse

    homehack.nl · 1 outlets

  10. China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Sports 29 stories

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

    news.softpedia.com · 1 outlets

  2. Tailwind UI

    tailwindui.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. To get good, go after the metagame

    commoncog.com · 1 outlets

  2. Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  3. Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020

    habr.com · 1 outlets

  4. Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. Game AI Pro

    gameaipro.com · 1 outlets

  6. Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close

    www3.nhk.or.jp · 1 outlets

Technology 590 stories

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

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  2. Kickstarter Workers Vote to Unionize

    vice.com · 2 outlets

  3. Gears

    ciechanow.ski · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75

    github.com · 2 outlets

  2. Wacom tablets track every app you open

    robertheaton.com · 1 outlets

  3. Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

    blog.discordapp.com · 1 outlets

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

    howonlee.github.io · 1 outlets

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

    jeffhuang.com · 2 outlets

  6. Google Maps Hacks

    simonweckert.com · 1 outlets

  7. Larry Tesler Has Died

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  8. Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner

    neilwithdata.com · 1 outlets

  9. Not everyone has an internal monologue

    ryanandrewlangdon.word · 1 outlets

Entertainment 48 stories

  1. Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)

    cutle.fish · 1 outlets

  2. Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?

    newatlas.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions

    grep.app · 1 outlets

  2. Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet

    ihateregex.io · 1 outlets

  4. TV Backlight Compensation

    lofibucket.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Building an open-source language-learning platform

    github.com · 2 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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