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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 8 – February 7, 2022 790 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 38 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    SimpleDB: A Basic RDBMS Built from Scratch

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Play Wordle from Your Terminal

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Jo – a shell command to create JSON (2016)

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation

  2. Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card

  3. New Year, New CEO

  4. PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds

Show 10 more
  1. I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

  2. I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to

  3. An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation

  4. Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook

  5. GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

  6. J&J tried to get federal judge to block publication of Reuters story

  7. Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile

  8. GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts

  9. Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list

  10. Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators

Sports 35 stories

  1. Facebook loses users for the first time

  2. Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

Show 6 more
  1. The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

  2. Did I just lose half a million dollars?

  3. In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether

  4. Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

  5. The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward

  6. Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)

Technology 615 stories

  1. Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?

  2. James Webb is fully deployed

  3. Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’

Show 9 more
  1. Pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec

  2. GPS

  3. Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

  4. Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract

  5. I got pwned by my cloud costs

  6. Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

  7. The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever

  8. Jo – a shell command to create JSON (2016)

  9. Open-Sourcing our Firmware

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

  2. Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims

Show 6 more
  1. Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant

  2. Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire

  3. The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

  4. Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?

  5. Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters

  6. Show HN: I bought and tested the filtration of every mask on Amazon

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