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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 26 – January 25, 2020 824 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 25 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

When good ideas make bad business

What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science?

    8 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    The Case for Bayesian Deep Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    My C code works with -O3 but not with -O0

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. When good ideas make bad business

  2. How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study

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

  4. Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy

Show 10 more
  1. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

  2. The McDonnell Douglas-Boeing merger led to the 737 Max crisis

  3. How to Invest in Startups

  4. Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives [pdf]

  5. Electric Cars Threaten the Heart of Germany’s Economy

  6. Startup Ideas 2020

  7. Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation

  8. Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste

  9. Machine learning is fundamentally conservative

  10. A list of places to post about your startup/launch

Sports 33 stories

  1. Which Emoji Scissors Close?

  2. Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Tired of mobile games with IAP and ads, I made No-Bullshit Games

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

  3. Gandi loses data, customers told to use their own backups

  4. WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10

  5. Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

  6. Show HN: Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper

Technology 620 stories

  1. Google Cloud’s Secrets Manager

  2. Every Google result now looks like an ad

  3. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained

Show 9 more
  1. IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax

  2. Goodbye, Clean Code

  3. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

  4. Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees

  5. Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

  6. A Sad Day for Rust

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

  8. How to Exit Vim

  9. Software Disenchantment (2018)

Entertainment 45 stories

  1. Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

  2. For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity

Show 6 more
  1. Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]

  2. Show HN: Simple 2D car physics with JavaScript

  3. Show HN: Train a language model to talk like you

  4. Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

  5. Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

  6. Show HN: ESQLate – Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL

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