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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 31 – November 7, 2019 190 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 45 · Issue 311 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Women shocked by "hidden" cost of mammograms

Health insurance covers mammograms every one to two years, but many women often need secondary tests that aren't covered

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Business 15 stories

  1. Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’

  2. Man Underpaid Property Tax by $8.41 County Seized Home, Sold It-Kept Profits

  3. “Is your startup idea taken?” and why we love X for Y startups

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  1. Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming

  2. Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil

  3. The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system and ACLU is suing

  4. DNA database that found Golden State Killer is potential national security leak

Sports 6 stories

  1. The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP

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  1. Show HN: Tailwind Builder – online editor for the Tailwind CSS framework

  2. A Study of Meditation Under the Influence of Psilocybin

  3. CRDT: Conflict-free replicated data type

Technology 153 stories

  1. Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

  2. Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems [pdf]

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  1. Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

  2. WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

  3. We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

  4. I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb

  5. Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B

Entertainment 6 stories

  1. Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track

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  1. Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

  2. U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

  3. Show HN: Turn any website into an API (for those who miss Kimono)

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