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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 15 – February 14, 2018 834 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 45 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ending Bitcoin Support

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1Articles

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Go accepts patches from GitHub pull requests now

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Some thoughts on Spectre and Meltdown

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 59 stories

  1. Ending Bitcoin Support

  2. Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000

  3. Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies

  4. AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018

Show 10 more
  1. U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether

  2. Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude

  3. Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS

  4. Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit

  5. Fed Up with Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own

  6. Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors

  7. Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominant market position

  8. Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

  9. Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2B

  10. US startups don’t want to go public anymore

Sports 36 stories

  1. Wine 3.0 Released

  2. Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing

Show 6 more
  1. A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

  2. Designing Windows 95’s User Interface

  3. Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal

  4. BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales

  5. Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest

  6. Phaser 3.0: HTML5 game framework

Technology 612 stories

  1. SpaceX successfully deploys the Star man

  2. MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning

  3. It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless

Show 9 more
  1. California has the highest poverty rate in the USA

  2. Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”

  3. John Perry Barlow has died

  4. Google Memory Loss

  5. Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

  6. Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

  7. AMP for email is a terrible idea

  8. Ursula Le Guin has died

  9. Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler

  2. Show HN: Observable Notebooks

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project

  2. Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator

  3. The Follower Factory

  4. Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly

  5. Netflix is now worth more than $100B

  6. Nintendo Labo Official Site

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