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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 25 – April 24, 2017 803 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 114 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

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    What a stranger taught me about Japan

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Programmers are most likely to work from home

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?

  2. Twitter Sues Federal Government

  3. Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value

  4. How Bank of America Gave Away My Money

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  1. Uber CEO Plays with Fire

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

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

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

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

  6. Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options

  7. Open Source License Business Perception Report

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

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

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

Sports 34 stories

  1. Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award

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

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

  2. Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone

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

  4. Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux

  5. The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people

  6. Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined

Technology 599 stories

  1. SpaceX set to launch ‘used rocket’

  2. VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem

  3. Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

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  1. We’re dropping Google Ads

  2. Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone

  3. Build Your Own Text Editor

  4. How We Built r/Place

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

  6. A Competitive Programmer's Handbook

  7. SES-10 Mission

  8. Deep Photo Style Transfer

  9. Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

Entertainment 34 stories

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

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

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  1. Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks

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

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

  4. Show HN: Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere

  5. Show HN: Is It Snappy? – Measure latency with your iPhone's 240 Hz camera

  6. Show HN: Audioshop – Audio image editing

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