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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 30 – April 29, 2018 788 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 119 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Lessons learned from a failing local mall

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 56 stories

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

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

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

  4. What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

Show 10 more
  1. Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

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

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

  4. ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

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

  6. Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry

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

  8. Bulldoze the business school

  9. High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up for University

  10. Cryptographic Right Answers

Sports 28 stories

  1. Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case

  2. The End of Windows

Show 6 more
  1. Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)

  2. We might be swinging away from the newsfeed

  3. E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve prison term

  4. Brutalist Design Is the Bad Influence We All Need

  5. Coinbase acquires Earn.com

  6. I miss Windows Phone

Technology 581 stories

  1. Yes, You Should Delete Facebook

  2. Unraveling rm: what happens when you run it?

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

Show 9 more
  1. Apple open-sources FoundationDB

  2. 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

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

  4. Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project

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

  6. Facebook Container for Firefox

  7. Productivity

  8. You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts

  9. Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video]

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Intuitive Linear Algebra and 3D Geometry

  2. Netflix FlameScope

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

  4. Show HN: Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together

  5. Show HN: Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves

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

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