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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 1 – May 1, 2018 798 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 121 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Lessons learned from a failing local mall

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 54 stories

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

  2. StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations

  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 27 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 594 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. Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project

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

  5. Facebook Container for Firefox

  6. Productivity

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

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

  9. I wandered off and built an IDE

Entertainment 39 stories

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

  2. Show HN: Intuitive Linear Algebra and 3D Geometry

Show 6 more
  1. Netflix FlameScope

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

  3. Show HN: Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together

  4. Show HN: ReLaXed – High-quality PDFs using web technologies

  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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