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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 3 – January 2, 2020 791 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 01 · Issue 2 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 January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Building a Search Engine from Scratch

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    GCC-Rust: Rust frontend for GCC

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    How I made a website with Svelte

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 45 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. Shopify CEO says long hours aren't necessary for success

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Takeaways from coaching CEOs, founders and VCs

    leowid.com · 1 outlets

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

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

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

    thesoundingline.com · 1 outlets

  7. Operations for Effective CEOs

    sametab.com · 1 outlets

  8. An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  9. LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  10. Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up

    about.bnef.com · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

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

    yeokhengmeng.com · 3 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?

    gamasutra.com · 1 outlets

  2. Windows 95 UI Design

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    randomascii.wordpress. · 1 outlets

  4. Happy Public Domain Day: Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” Is Copyright Free

    hyperallergic.com · 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 589 stories

  1. The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

    9to5mac.com · 2 outlets

  2. Firefox 71

    hacks.mozilla.org · 2 outlets

  3. Having Kids

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Generating a Java program with 90% less code

    propublica.org · 3 outlets

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

    sloanreview.mit.edu · 2 outlets

  3. Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

    uspirg.org · 1 outlets

  4. Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

    modsandmembersblog.wor · 2 outlets

  5. The Lesson to Unlearn

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  6. This Page is Designed to Last

    jeffhuang.com · 1 outlets

  7. Fast

    patrickcollison.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  9. How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer

    markosaric.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

    samsung.com · 1 outlets

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

    mattstoller.substack.c · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C

    selfhostedsource.tech · 4 outlets

  3. Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]

    media.ccc.de · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: A tiny isometric city builder in JavaScript

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    aidungeon.io · 2 outlets

  6. Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

    davebakker.io · 1 outlets

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