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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 7 – March 8, 2020 794 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 10 · Issue 68 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Why we need a book about naming

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    A half-hour to learn Rust

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Fuchsia Programming Language Policy

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 50 stories

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

  2. A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools

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

  4. Hard Startups

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

  2. How to brainstorm great business ideas

  3. Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle

  4. Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

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

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

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

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

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

  10. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

Sports 32 stories

  1. Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default

  2. Tailwind UI

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  1. To get good, go after the metagame

  2. Windows93

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

  4. Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020

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

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

Technology 590 stories

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

  2. Kickstarter Workers Vote to Unionize

  3. Gears

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

  2. The file Clearview AI has been keeping on me

  3. Larry Tesler Has Died

  4. Freeman Dyson Has Died

  5. Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner

  6. Atrium shuts down, laying off 100

  7. Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates

  8. DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

  9. Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain

Entertainment 52 stories

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

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

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

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

  3. Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

  4. Show HN: HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace

  5. Show HN: Helium – Lighter web automation based on Selenium

  6. Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering

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