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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 19 – April 18, 2017 808 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 108 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

"Easy fix" to curb dangers of containers holding flammable fuel?

A proposed bill in Congress aims to cut the number of Americans burned in so-called “flame jetting” incidents

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Drupal Confessions – An Open Letter

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Build Your Own Text Editor

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  2. How Bank of America Gave Away My Money

    soraven.com · 1 outlets

  3. Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

    zeronet.io · 1 outlets

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  1. Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  2. Nginx reaches 33.3% web server market share while Apache falls below 50%

    w3techs.com · 1 outlets

  3. Twitter Sues Federal Government

    documentcloud.org · 1 outlets

  4. Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  5. Open Source License Business Perception Report

    writing.kemitchell.com · 1 outlets

  6. The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

    newyorker.com · 1 outlets

  7. Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  8. How Braintree destroyed a successful taxi startup from Serbia

    facebook.com · 1 outlets

  9. Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  10. Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”

    blogs.gnome.org · 1 outlets

Sports 34 stories

  1. Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award

    news.mit.edu · 1 outlets

  2. Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux

    answers.microsoft.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  2. Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

    insights.ubuntu.com · 1 outlets

  3. Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  4. Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  5. Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid

    cssgridgarden.com · 1 outlets

Technology 613 stories

  1. SpaceX set to launch ‘used rocket’

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

  2. VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem

    journal.standardnotes. · 2 outlets

  3. Deep Learning without Backpropagation

    qz.com · 3 outlets

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  1. Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

    josephg.com · 1 outlets

  2. We’re dropping Google Ads

    groundup.org.za · 1 outlets

  3. They Used To Last 50 Years

    recraigslist.com · 1 outlets

  4. Build Your Own Text Editor

    viewsourcecode.org · 3 outlets

  5. How We Built r/Place

    redditblog.com · 1 outlets

  6. Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  7. A Competitive Programmer's Handbook

    cses.fi · 1 outlets

  8. SES-10 Mission

    spacex.com · 1 outlets

  9. Deep Photo Style Transfer

    github.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 32 stories

  1. Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

    kite.com · 2 outlets

  2. Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix

    techblog.netflix.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    business-standard.com · 1 outlets

  2. Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks

    npr.org · 1 outlets

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

    colormind.io · 1 outlets

  4. The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking

    motherboard.vice.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser

    craftinginterpreters.c · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: React-data sheet, Excel-like spreadsheet component

    nadbm.github.io · 1 outlets

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