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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 14 – February 13, 2020 803 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 44 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Building WebGPU with Rust [video]

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The Odin Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    List of Twitter mute words for your timeline

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 30 stories

  1. How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

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

  3. How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy

  4. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

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  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

  2. China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen

  3. Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

  4. Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came alive after his death

  5. Startup Ideas 2020

  6. Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent

  7. The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church

  8. Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste

  9. PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's tactics before House committee

  10. New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market

Sports 34 stories

  1. Wine 5.0

  2. Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows [pdf]

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

  2. WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10

  3. Game AI Pro

  4. Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders

  5. Growing evidence that the universe is connected by giant structures (2019)

  6. Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine

Technology 604 stories

  1. Google Cloud’s Secrets Manager

  2. U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks

  3. Every Google result now looks like an ad

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  1. Gears

  2. Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75

  3. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained

  4. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

  5. Wacom tablets track every app you open

  6. Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

  7. A bestiary of single-file implementations of programming languages

  8. What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move?

  9. Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

Entertainment 47 stories

  1. Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and makers

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

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

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

  3. Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet

  4. Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative

  5. Show HN: Open-source, configurable HDMI output for FPGAs

  6. TV Backlight Compensation

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