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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 27 – January 26, 2020 815 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 26 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

2 killed in massive warehouse explosion in Houston

The explosion at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing was felt across the city around 4:30 a.m. local time.

CBS · 1 sources

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science?

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Software Disenchantment (2018)

    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 37 stories

  1. When good ideas make bad business

    tjcx.me · 2 outlets

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

    psl.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    finance.yahoo.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography

    crypto.stanford.edu · 1 outlets

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

    qz.com · 1 outlets

  3. How to Invest in Startups

    blog.samaltman.com · 1 outlets

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

    scholar.princeton.edu · 1 outlets

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

    conradbastable.com · 2 outlets

  6. Startup Ideas 2020

    dcgross.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  8. Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste

    rollingstone.com · 1 outlets

  9. Machine learning is fundamentally conservative

    blog.lareviewofbooks.o · 1 outlets

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

    sizle.io · 1 outlets

Sports 34 stories

  1. Which Emoji Scissors Close?

    wh0.github.io · 1 outlets

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

    media.defense.gov · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    nobsgames.stavros.io · 2 outlets

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

    hyperallergic.com · 1 outlets

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

    status.gandi.net · 1 outlets

  4. WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10

    winaero.com · 1 outlets

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

    latimes.com · 1 outlets

  6. Wine 5.0

    source.winehq.org · 1 outlets

Technology 611 stories

  1. Google Cloud’s Secrets Manager

    techcrunch.com · 7 outlets

  2. Every Google result now looks like an ad

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  2. Goodbye, Clean Code

    overreacted.io · 1 outlets

  3. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

    deprocrastination.co · 1 outlets

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

    dystroy.org · 1 outlets

  5. Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  6. A Sad Day for Rust

    words.steveklabnik.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. How to Exit Vim

    github.com · 1 outlets

  9. Software Disenchantment (2018)

    tonsky.me · 4 outlets

Entertainment 44 stories

  1. Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

    samsung.com · 1 outlets

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

    startribune.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    media.ccc.de · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 2 outlets

  3. In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average

    news.gallup.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: One Page Calendar 2020

    davebakker.io · 1 outlets

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

    diaryemail.com · 1 outlets

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