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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 25 – February 24, 2020 774 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 55 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

washingtonpost.com · 1 sources

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Why are we so bad at software engineering?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Why we need a book about naming

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    The Odin Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 37 stories

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

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  2. Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him

    petapixel.com · 1 outlets

  3. Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle

    joisig.com · 1 outlets

  4. Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

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  1. DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland

    foxbusiness.com · 1 outlets

  3. The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software

    a16z.com · 1 outlets

  4. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

    daily.patwalls.co · 1 outlets

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

    nature.com · 1 outlets

  6. ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse

    homehack.nl · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    sciencemag.org · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  10. Stripe refunds: fees from the original charge are not returned

    stripe.com · 1 outlets

Sports 28 stories

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

    news.softpedia.com · 1 outlets

  2. Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Game AI Pro

    gameaipro.com · 1 outlets

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

    ft.com · 1 outlets

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

    piqnt.com · 1 outlets

  4. Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8

    lexaloffle.com · 1 outlets

  5. Google users in UK to lose EU data protection – sources

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  6. The outsize influence of middle-school friends

    theatlantic.com · 1 outlets

Technology 579 stories

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

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  2. Kickstarter Workers Vote to Unionize

    vice.com · 2 outlets

  3. Gears

    ciechanow.ski · 1 outlets

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  1. Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

    github.com · 2 outlets

  2. Wacom tablets track every app you open

    robertheaton.com · 1 outlets

  3. Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

    blog.discordapp.com · 1 outlets

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

    howonlee.github.io · 1 outlets

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

    jeffhuang.com · 2 outlets

  6. Google Maps Hacks

    simonweckert.com · 1 outlets

  7. Larry Tesler Has Died

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  8. Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner

    neilwithdata.com · 1 outlets

  9. Not everyone has an internal monologue

    ryanandrewlangdon.word · 1 outlets

Entertainment 48 stories

  1. Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)

    cutle.fish · 1 outlets

  2. Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?

    newatlas.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions

    grep.app · 1 outlets

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

    usb-hubs.org · 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: Regex Cheatsheet

    ihateregex.io · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 2 outlets

  6. TV Backlight Compensation

    lofibucket.com · 1 outlets

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