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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 27 – March 29, 2017 806 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 88 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Deep Learning without Backpropagation

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Failures of Deep Learning

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: A new hobby OS from “scratch” in C#

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

  2. SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund [pdf]

  3. Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business jet upside down

  4. Startup School – YC’s Online Class

Show 10 more
  1. In Video, Uber CEO Argues with Driver Over Falling Fares

  2. Snap Tumbles Below IPO Opening Price as Analysts Say Sell

  3. Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in 2016

  4. Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in an alternate reality

  5. The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

  6. Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles

  7. Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab

  8. Software Engineer Starts Unlikely Business: A Weekly Newspaper

  9. ConvertKit: How Nathan Barry Bootstrapped an Email Marketing Business

  10. Golden powers are nearly integers

Sports 32 stories

  1. Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

  2. Images and video showing extent of Oroville dam damage

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  1. Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

  2. Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising

  3. Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms

  4. We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen

  5. Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions”

  6. How the Instant Pot cooker developed a cult following

Technology 628 stories

  1. React Native Navigation Library

  2. Google Cloud SQL for Postgres

  3. How to never complete anything

Show 9 more
  1. “Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US

  2. Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

  3. CIA malware and hacking tools

  4. I am an Uber survivor

  5. GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources

  6. SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year

  7. They Used To Last 50 Years

  8. Teach Yourself Computer Science

  9. Reverse Engineering Malware 101

Entertainment 31 stories

  1. Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers

  2. An animated GIF that shows its own MD5

Show 6 more
  1. Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix

  2. Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquired programming in 2017

  3. Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

  4. Weapon physicist declassifies rescued nuclear test films

  5. The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking

  6. YouTube TV

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