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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 12 – May 19, 2016 190 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 140 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time

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Business 11 stories

  1. Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time

  2. A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming

  3. Apple invests $1B in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing

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  1. How Intel missed the smartphone market

  2. Autonomous corporation “The DAO” has become the biggest crowdfunded project

  3. Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout

  4. Engineer and Investor in Spat About Wireless Charging Startup UBeam

Sports 4 stories

  1. Did I just win?

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  1. High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”

  2. Skin in the Game – chapter drafts by Nassim Taleb

  3. Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014)

Technology 160 stories

  1. A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript

  2. A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years

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  1. Setting Up a Deep Learning Machine from Scratch

  2. WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete

  3. Artem vs. Predator

  4. Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB

  5. Reason: A new interface to OCaml

Entertainment 7 stories

  1. Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test

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  1. Stoned drivers are safer than drunk ones, new federal data show

  2. Show HN: Kajero – Interactive JavaScript notebooks

  3. Show HN: I built an AI that recognizes food

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