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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 23 – December 30, 2018 175 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 364 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

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Business 13 stories

  1. Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

  2. EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects

  3. The Internet of Unprofitable Things

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  1. Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015)

  2. PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold funds for 180 days

  3. As Bitcoin Sinks, Industry Startups Are Forced to Cut Back

  4. Why don't I take military funding? (2004)

Sports 11 stories

  1. Windows file access performance compared to Linux

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  1. What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars

  2. Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018

  3. How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games

Technology 138 stories

  1. Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

  2. Please do not attempt to simplify this code

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

  2. Things I Don’t Know as of 2018

  3. DOOMBA

  4. Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces

  5. How DOOM fire was done

Entertainment 9 stories

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

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  1. Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996

  2. Show HN: Wiv.js – A library for a more wiggly div

  3. Show HN: Pg-extend-rs – Easy Postgres extensions in Rust

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