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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 5 – March 6, 2020 806 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 10 · Issue 66 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 March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Why we need a book about naming

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    A half-hour to learn Rust

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Why are we so bad at software engineering?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 49 stories

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

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  2. A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools

    acrossapp.com · 1 outlets

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

    petapixel.com · 1 outlets

  4. Hard Startups

    blog.samaltman.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height

    scottlocklin.wordpress · 1 outlets

  2. How to brainstorm great business ideas

    indiehackers.com · 1 outlets

  3. Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle

    joisig.com · 1 outlets

  4. Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

    qz.com · 1 outlets

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

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  7. Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    foxbusiness.com · 1 outlets

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

    a16z.com · 1 outlets

  10. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

    daily.patwalls.co · 1 outlets

Sports 30 stories

  1. Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default

    news.softpedia.com · 2 outlets

  2. Tailwind UI

    tailwindui.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. To get good, go after the metagame

    commoncog.com · 1 outlets

  2. Windows93

    windows93.net · 1 outlets

  3. Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  4. Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020

    habr.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  6. Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close

    www3.nhk.or.jp · 1 outlets

Technology 590 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

Show 9 more

  1. Wacom tablets track every app you open

    robertheaton.com · 1 outlets

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

    howonlee.github.io · 1 outlets

  3. The file Clearview AI has been keeping on me

    jeffhuang.com · 3 outlets

  4. Larry Tesler Has Died

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  5. Freeman Dyson Has Died

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  6. Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner

    neilwithdata.com · 1 outlets

  7. Atrium shuts down, laying off 100

    bleepingcomputer.com · 3 outlets

  8. Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates

    letsencrypt.org · 1 outlets

  9. Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain

    smithsonianmag.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 57 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. Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

    profithunt.co · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. TV Backlight Compensation

    lofibucket.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Building an open-source language-learning platform

    github.com · 2 outlets

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