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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 28 – April 27, 2017 822 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 117 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

    Ffffound is shutting down

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Interesting data structures: the BK-tree

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 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. Robinhood stock trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation

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

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

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

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

  7. Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options

  8. Open Source License Business Perception Report

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

  10. Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo

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. India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste

  5. Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux

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

Technology 604 stories

  1. Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders

  2. A response to “An experienced JavaScript dev’s account of learning React”

  3. SpaceX set to launch ‘used rocket’

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  1. VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem

  2. Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

  3. We’re dropping Google Ads

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

  5. Build Your Own Text Editor

  6. How We Built r/Place

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

  8. A Competitive Programmer's Handbook

  9. SES-10 Mission

Entertainment 35 stories

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

  2. Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks

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

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

  3. CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

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

  5. Show HN: Audioshop – Audio image editing

  6. Musical User Interfaces

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