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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 14 – April 13, 2018 817 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 15 · Issue 103 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Building a fast Electron app with Rust

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Problems with CSVs (2016)

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 56 stories

  1. Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud

  2. I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet

  3. Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative

  4. Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is

Show 10 more
  1. What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

  2. Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally

  3. The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR

  4. Rent out GPUs to AI researchers and make ~2x more than mining cryptocurrencies

  5. Airtable gets $52M in funding

  6. Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality

  7. Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sustainable business model

  8. Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting

  9. Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes

  10. SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round

Sports 34 stories

  1. Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google

  2. The End of Windows

Show 6 more
  1. Epic Games releases $12M worth of Paragon assets for free

  2. The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization

  3. Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory

  4. Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)

  5. OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS

  6. Hennessy and Patterson win Turing Award

Technology 571 stories

  1. Our Interesting Call with CTS-Labs

  2. Before cancer kills, it cheats

  3. Towards a world without Facebook

Show 9 more
  1. Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress

  2. Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election

  3. Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

  4. Building a fast Electron app with Rust

  5. Congrats Dropbox

  6. It's time to head back to RSS?

  7. Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook

  8. Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing

  9. Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

  2. My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app

Show 6 more
  1. Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant

  2. Logs in High Sierra Show Plaintext Password for APFS Encrypted External Volumes

  3. Netflix FlameScope

  4. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters

  5. Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

  6. Apple is making a show based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ books

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