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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 7 – February 6, 2019 799 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 37 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Students learn from people they love

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Coolest Things I Learned in 2018

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Unprovability comes to machine learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source

  2. Feds Can't Force You to Unlock Your iPhone with Finger or Face, Judge Rules

  3. Startup Playbook (2015)

  4. WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork

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  1. EU and Japan create world's biggest free trade zone

  2. Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets

  3. Some Fundamental Theorems in Mathematics

  4. Startups Rejecting Venture Capital

  5. AT&T says it’ll stop selling location data amid calls for federal investigation

  6. More Google Employees Are Losing Faith in Their CEO's Vision

  7. Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue

  8. U.S. Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Defrauding Banks

  9. Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups (2015)

  10. Skirting U.S. sanctions, Europeans launch trade mechanism for Iran

Sports 36 stories

  1. Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week

  2. AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II

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  1. Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees

  2. Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test

  3. After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue

  4. Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)

  5. The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet

  6. Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize

Technology 605 stories

  1. Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps

  2. FoundationDB Record Layer

  3. Facebook Let Kids Rack Up Charges on Parents' Credit Cards

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  1. Announcing unlimited free private repos

  2. Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

  3. Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

  4. Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN

  5. Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

  6. Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

  7. Why are glasses so expensive? The eyewear industry prefers to keep that blurry

  8. Dotfile madness

  9. John C. Bogle Has Died

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (2017)

  2. Show HN: Learn React fundamentals

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  1. Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO

  2. Show HN: Open startups with their revenue, metrics, and stories

  3. Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018

  4. Show HN: A tool to find related subreddits

  5. Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work

  6. Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript

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