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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 3 – May 3, 2018 822 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 123 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

    Inside the Linux boot process (2006)

    4 of 30 days · 4 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. Python startup time: milliseconds matter

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

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

  2. Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

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

  4. Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation

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

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

  7. Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry

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

  9. Bulldoze the business school

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

Sports 25 stories

  1. Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case

  2. Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)

Show 6 more
  1. E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve prison term

  2. Brutalist Design Is the Bad Influence We All Need

  3. Coinbase acquires Earn.com

  4. I miss Windows Phone

  5. Original Windows File Manager with enhancements

  6. Google bug bounty for security exploit that influences search results

Technology 611 stories

  1. Yes, You Should Delete Facebook

  2. Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS

  3. Don't Get Your Coworker to Agree with You

Show 9 more
  1. Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

  2. Apple open-sources FoundationDB

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

  4. Facebook Container for Firefox

  5. Productivity

  6. Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention

  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 38 stories

  1. Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award

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

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: ReLaXed – High-quality PDFs using web technologies

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

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