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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 25 – December 25, 2019 798 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 359 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Woman fighting with insurance for follow-up breast cancer tests

Mammograms can save lives, but in some cases, insurance companies are refusing to cover follow-up tests ordered by doctors.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Building a Search Engine from Scratch

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Machine Learning Crash Course

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Google Cloud Platform Security Best Practices

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. My Business Card Runs Linux

    thirtythreeforty.net · 1 outlets

  2. Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  3. JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  2. Working for a startup makes less sense

    zainamro.com · 1 outlets

  3. Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  5. S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in the US

    thesoundingline.com · 1 outlets

  6. Operations for Effective CEOs

    sametab.com · 1 outlets

  7. An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  8. LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  9. RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  10. Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up

    about.bnef.com · 1 outlets

Sports 38 stories

  1. Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client

    yeokhengmeng.com · 2 outlets

  2. The Outer Worlds: Fixing the “game thinks my companion is dead” bug

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players

    en.yna.co.kr · 1 outlets

  2. How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?

    gamasutra.com · 1 outlets

  3. Windows 95 UI Design

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation

    randomascii.wordpress. · 1 outlets

  5. Win32 on macOS

    winehq.org · 1 outlets

  6. Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation

    citylab.com · 1 outlets

Technology 609 stories

  1. Advent of Code 2019

    adventofcode.com · 1 outlets

  2. The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

    9to5mac.com · 2 outlets

  3. Firefox 71

    hacks.mozilla.org · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Having Kids

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  2. Learning at work is work, and we must make space for it

    sloanreview.mit.edu · 2 outlets

  3. Firefox Replay

    firefox-replay.com · 1 outlets

  4. Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

    uspirg.org · 1 outlets

  5. Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

    modsandmembersblog.wor · 2 outlets

  6. The Lesson to Unlearn

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  7. This Page is Designed to Last

    jeffhuang.com · 1 outlets

  8. Fast

    patrickcollison.com · 1 outlets

  9. Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

    github.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor

    mattstoller.substack.c · 1 outlets

  2. Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots

    selfhostedsource.tech · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info

    aidungeon.io · 2 outlets

  3. Metaflow, Netflix's Python framework for data science, is now open source

    metaflow.org · 1 outlets

  4. Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Space Invaders in C

    blog.loadzero.com · 1 outlets

  6. My Show HN Project got acquired after 6 months

    medium.com · 1 outlets

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