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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 8 – December 8, 2021 793 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 49 · Issue 342 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    When did computer science theory get so hard?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Are 14 people really looking at that product? (2020)

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

  2. FTC sues to block Nvidia-Arm merger

  3. Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs

  4. Business Essentials

Show 10 more
  1. Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX

  2. Crypto Wash Trading

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

  4. The Joy of Cryptography

  5. Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call

  6. The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger of Crypto

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

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

  9. Bank transfers as a payment method

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

Sports 38 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

Show 6 more
  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 623 stories

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

  2. What will enter the public domain in 2022

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

Show 9 more
  1. I resigned from Twitter

  2. AWS us-east-1 outage

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

  4. 100 years of whatever this will be

  5. Making the dislike count private across YouTube

  6. Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony

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

  8. Apple announces Self Service Repair

  9. Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware

Entertainment 38 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

  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: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence

  6. OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware

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