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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 3 – January 2, 2019 801 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 01 · Issue 2 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Machine Learning for .NET

    10 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Technology

    Quora User Data Compromised

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

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

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 48 stories

  1. Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

  2. Lyft Files for IPO

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

  4. Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

Show 10 more
  1. EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects

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

  3. Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over

  4. The Internet of Unprofitable Things

  5. China’s Economy Slows Sharply

  6. How the 0.001% invest

  7. Federal judge finds state law governing who is an engineer violates free speech

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

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

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

Sports 38 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

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

  3. Windows Sandbox

  4. Windows file access performance compared to Linux

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

  6. Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

Technology 600 stories

  1. Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

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

  3. The Friendship That Made Google Huge

Show 9 more
  1. Larry Ellison now on Tesla's board of directors

  2. Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

  3. Please do not attempt to simplify this code

  4. Quora User Data Compromised

  5. Goodbye, EdgeHTML

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

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

  8. Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

  9. JIRA is an antipattern

Entertainment 30 stories

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

  2. Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

  2. Lessons from Running a Small-Scale Electronics Factory in My Guest Bedroom

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

  4. Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website

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

  6. Show HN: AlphaZero Science paper

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