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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 22 – May 22, 2016 820 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 143 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases

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1Articles

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    A Deep Learning USB Stick

    8 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Announcing the Journal of Open Source Software

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    If you care about privacy, you should not use Google Allo

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases

  2. The Startup Zeitgeist

  3. Rube Goldberg machine in HTML forms

  4. Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'

Show 10 more
  1. Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time

  2. SSH for Fun and Profit

  3. A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming

  4. Introducing TAuth: Why OAuth 2.0 is bad for banking APIs and how we're fixing it

  5. Apple invests $1B in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing

  6. Bitcoin's $137k Jackpot

  7. Gavin Andresen's commit access to Bitcoin revoked, hacking suspected

  8. How Intel missed the smartphone market

  9. 9/14/14: Sold 500 edu copies of Air Display 2. 4/25/16: All 500 refunded

  10. Zenefits Was the Perfect Startup, Then It Self-Disrupted

Sports 23 stories

  1. Did I just win?

  2. High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”

Show 6 more
  1. Concerns for global spread of Zika mean Rio de Janeiro Olympics must not proceed

  2. Why Wind Turbines Have Three Blades

  3. A language that compiles to Bash and Windows Batch

  4. Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone

  5. Fox 'uses' a gameplay video from YouTube, and removes the original with DMCA

  6. After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight

Technology 642 stories

  1. Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software

  2. Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto

  3. TTIP Leaks

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  1. How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds

  2. Introducing unlimited private repositories

  3. Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel

  4. Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone

  5. A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript

  6. WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge

  7. A cave in Romania that was sealed for 5.5M years

  8. The NYPD Was Ticketing Legally Parked Cars; Open Data Put an End to It

  9. The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Apple Stole My Music

  2. Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source

  2. Show HN: Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS selectors

  3. Tesla crash after flying 82 feet in the air shows importance of a crumple zone

  4. Stoned drivers are safer than drunk ones, new federal data show

  5. Show HN: QBE – a new compiler back end

  6. ACM 2015 Technical Award Recipients

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