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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 16 – February 15, 2020 797 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 46 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

    Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    The Odin Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Why are we so bad at software engineering?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 35 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. Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

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

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  1. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

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

  3. ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse

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

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

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

  7. Startup Ideas 2020

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

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

  10. Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste

Sports 37 stories

  1. Wine 5.0

  2. Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

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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 595 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. Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

  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. I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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

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

Entertainment 45 stories

  1. Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz

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

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

  2. Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet

  3. Show HN: OneDev – A Lightweight GitLab Alternative

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

  5. TV Backlight Compensation

  6. Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings

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