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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 27 – May 27, 2016 843 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 148 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

    Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases

  2. The Startup Zeitgeist

  3. Startup Employees Invoke Obscure Law to Open Up Books

  4. Rube Goldberg machine in HTML forms

Show 10 more
  1. Bitcoin 'creator' backs out of Satoshi coin move 'proof'

  2. Firefox tops Microsoft browser market share for first time

  3. SSH for Fun and Profit

  4. A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly programming

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

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

  7. Bitcoin's $137k Jackpot

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

  9. How Intel missed the smartphone market

  10. 9/14/14: Sold 500 edu copies of Air Display 2. 4/25/16: All 500 refunded

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. Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency

Technology 657 stories

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

  2. Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto

  3. TTIP Leaks

Show 9 more
  1. Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour

  2. How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds

  3. Introducing unlimited private repositories

  4. Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel

  5. Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone

  6. A cool way to use natural language in JavaScript

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

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

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

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Apple Stole My Music

  2. Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

  2. Netflix Will Be the Exclusive US TV Home of Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar

  3. Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source

  4. Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'

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

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

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