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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 12 – January 11, 2018 830 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 02 · Issue 11 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What We Get Wrong About Dying

    12 of 30 days · 14 articles

  2. Technology

    Building a Thermal Camera

    11 of 30 days · 12 articles

  3. Technology

    Rust in 2017: what we achieved

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 56 stories

  1. Universities spend millions on accessing results of publicly funded research

  2. Intel CEO’s Stock Sales May Warrant SEC Examination

  3. I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil

  4. Pineapple Fund: Donating $86M of Bitcoins to Charity

Show 10 more
  1. MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike

  2. Spotify files for its IPO

  3. Why Aren’t Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financial Crisis? (2016)

  4. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life

  5. US Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted

  6. Net Neutrality Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal Was Written by Comcast Attorney

  7. Bitcoin Cash deals frozen as insider trading is probed

  8. South Korea considers cryptocurrency tax

  9. Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning against municipal broadband

  10. Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer

Sports 36 stories

  1. The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds

  2. Boardgame.io: State management and more for turn-based games

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  1. Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access

  2. CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Epic Games

  3. Haemophilia A trial results 'mind-blowing'

  4. A plane flying over Germany drawing a Christmas tree

  5. Learn to Code Ethereum DApps by Building Your Own Game

  6. Gamers Want DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games

Technology 598 stories

  1. Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors

  2. What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

  3. Dude, you broke the future

Show 9 more
  1. What We Get Wrong About Dying

  2. Building a Thermal Camera

  3. Intel Analysis of Speculative Execution Side Channels [pdf]

  4. Full-Text Search in Django with PostgreSQL

  5. F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules

  6. Reading privileged memory with a side-channel

  7. Firefox is on a slippery slope

  8. Google Maps' Moat

  9. Machine Learning for Dummies

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year

  2. Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse

Show 6 more
  1. Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

  2. Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting

  3. Show HN: Byte Arena – Code Your Fighter Bot

  4. Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox

  5. Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?

  6. Show HN: Python library for functional programming

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