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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 4 – January 3, 2020 782 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 01 · Issue 3 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.

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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. Entertainment

    Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. My Business Card Runs Linux

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

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

  4. Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens

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  1. Working for a startup makes less sense

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

  3. Takeaways from coaching CEOs, founders and VCs

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

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

  6. Operations for Effective CEOs

  7. An investigation into the smartphone tracking industry

  8. LogMeIn Acquired by Private Equity

  9. Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up

  10. Counterfeits on Amazon cost Warren bird feeder business $1.5M

Sports 35 stories

  1. Which Emoji Scissors Close?

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

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

  2. How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?

  3. Windows 95 UI Design

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

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

  6. Win32 on macOS

Technology 589 stories

  1. Having Kids

  2. Generating a Java program with 90% less code

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

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  1. Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

  2. Human-Assisted Archival of Yahoo Groups

  3. The Lesson to Unlearn

  4. This Page is Designed to Last

  5. Fast

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

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

  8. Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused

  9. The Great Cannon has been deployed again

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

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

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

  2. Show HN: A simple garbage collector for C

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

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

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

  6. Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

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