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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 5 – December 5, 2021 785 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 48 · Issue 339 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Your users will do what you make easy

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  2. Technology

    American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    When did computer science theory get so hard?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger

  2. Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs

  3. Business Essentials

  4. Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX

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  1. Crypto Wash Trading

  2. The OBS project has accused Streamlabs of copying their name and trademark

  3. The Joy of Cryptography

  4. The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto

  5. How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend

  6. The U.S. Treasury is buying private app data to target and investigate people

  7. Bank transfers as a payment method

  8. Low interest rates in advanced countries have pushed money into real estate

  9. Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit

  10. Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps

Sports 37 stories

  1. Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

  2. Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition

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  1. Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers

  2. Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money

  3. Firefox is the 45th result when searching for “Firefox” on Windows Store

  4. Winamp source code leak

  5. Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

  6. Google loses challenge against EU antitrust ruling, $2.8B fine

Technology 616 stories

  1. Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

  2. Rust-CUDA: Fast GPU code fully in Rust

  3. “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says

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  1. I resigned from Twitter

  2. Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community

  3. 100 years of whatever this will be

  4. Making the dislike count private across YouTube

  5. Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony

  6. I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old

  7. Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap

  8. What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?

  9. Your users will do what you make easy

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine

  2. Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org

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  1. Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare

  2. Show HN: Long Range E-Bike

  3. Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors

  4. Show HN: Emoji to Scale

  5. Show HN: Randomly create beautiful website layouts

  6. Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

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