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2019-02-09
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 2 – February 9, 2019 181 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 40 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

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

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Business 9 stories

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

  2. Crunching 200 years of stock, bond, currency and commodity data

  3. Money Machines – An Interview with an Anonymous Algorithmic Trader

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  1. How to fight the surveillance economy

  2. Auditing Rust Crypto: The First Hours

  3. Nearly 60,000 Data Breaches Reported Since the Launch of GDPR

  4. Sweden's leave of absence system helps workers launch their own business

Sports 3 stories

  1. Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove screen recording code

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  1. Security Researcher Assaulted Following Vulnerability Disclosure

  2. The Soviet license plate game and Kolmogorov complexity

Technology 158 stories

  1. Germany Restricts Facebook’s Data Gathering

  2. No Thank You, Mr. Pecker

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  1. Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

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

  3. Dotfile madness

  4. MIT Hacker Tools: a lecture series on programmer tools

  5. Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

Entertainment 5 stories

  1. Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes

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  1. Show HN: Quickly browse the history of any GitHub file

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

  3. Show HN: The operating system I built as my high school project (2016)

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