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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 28 – December 28, 2018 818 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 362 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

netmarketshare.com · 1 sources

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    China Cracks Down on Churches

    8 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Machine Learning for .NET

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: An open-source collaborative whiteboard

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

    netmarketshare.com · 1 outlets

  2. Lyft Files for IPO

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  3. Changes to U.S. federal authorities relating to production and marketing of hemp

    fda.gov · 1 outlets

  4. Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over

    buzzfeednews.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Internet of Unprofitable Things

    strugglers.net · 1 outlets

  3. China’s Economy Slows Sharply

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. How the 0.001% invest

    economist.com · 1 outlets

  5. Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs

    reuters.com · 2 outlets

  6. Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  7. After landing a lucrative job at a tech startup, I had made a terrible mistake

    torontolife.com · 1 outlets

  8. Crypto Market Crash Leaving Bankrupt Startups in Its Wake

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  9. Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  10. Starting a Business in Silicon Valley

    tlalexander.com · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

  1. Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL

    sandspiel.club · 1 outlets

  2. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (1989) [pdf]

    windowscentral.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

    blogs.windows.com · 1 outlets

  3. Windows Sandbox

    techcommunity.microsof · 1 outlets

  4. Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

    blogs.windows.com · 1 outlets

  6. The Game Engine Black Book: Doom

    fabiensanglard.net · 1 outlets

Technology 617 stories

  1. Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

    rkevingibson.github.io · 3 outlets

  2. Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  3. The Friendship That Made Google Huge

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. China Cracks Down on Churches

    patentpandas.org · 8 outlets

  2. Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  3. Please do not attempt to simplify this code

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Quora User Data Compromised

    blog.quora.com · 4 outlets

  5. Goodbye, EdgeHTML

    blog.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  6. Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States

    e-pluribusunum.org · 1 outlets

  7. Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver

    theglobeandmail.com · 1 outlets

  8. Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

    namepros.com · 1 outlets

  9. JIRA is an antipattern

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 27 stories

  1. Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool

    remove.bg · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

    visalist.io · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: An open-source collaborative whiteboard

    github.com · 5 outlets

  2. Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix

    vanityfair.com · 1 outlets

  3. Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: AlphaZero Science paper

    jeffhuang.com · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: A new spline

    raphlinus.github.io · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts

    letstalkalgorithms.com · 1 outlets

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