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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 1 – January 31, 2021 816 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 31 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Sanjay Gupta's prescription for fighting off dementia

The neurosurgeon, CNN commentator and author of "Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age" has long studied the brain and the onset of Alzheimer's. He talks with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about the recommended steps to a healthier brain, from diet and exercise to the value of sleep and soc…

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Great Software Stagnation

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup

  2. GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

  3. I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

  4. New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects

Show 10 more
  1. Robinhood is said to draw on bank credit lines amid tumult

  2. Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors

  3. Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business

  4. Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block

  5. Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him

  6. Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility

  7. Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account

  8. Simple Bank Is Closing

  9. Businesses should try to be the best, not the biggest

  10. High Short Interest Stocks

Sports 40 stories

  1. Robinhood blocks purchases of Gamespot, AMC

  2. GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine

Show 6 more
  1. Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop frenzy

  2. Rust for Windows

  3. WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update

  4. Robinhood denies claims that it sold GameStop shares out from under its traders

  5. u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania

  6. Robinhood Hit with Class Action Lawsuit After Halting GameStop Stock

Technology 587 stories

  1. Linux Running on Apple M1

  2. Apple Removes Parler from App Store

  3. We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers

Show 9 more
  1. Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood

  2. DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspiracy

  3. Slack is down

  4. Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS

  5. Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach

  6. Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

  7. Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

  8. U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

  9. Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App

  2. Show HN: I made an alarm clock

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads

  2. Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

  3. Show HN: Rysolv – Fix open source issues, get paid

  4. My 90s TV: Browse 90s Television

  5. Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men

  6. Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data

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