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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 4 – May 4, 2018 826 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 124 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

theguardian.com · 1 sources

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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

    Inside the Linux boot process (2006)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Problems with CSVs (2016)

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 54 stories

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

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  2. StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations

    streetlend.com · 1 outlets

  3. Python startup time: milliseconds matter

    mail.python.org · 1 outlets

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

    baekdal.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

    sapiens.org · 1 outlets

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

    theregister.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

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

    nymag.com · 1 outlets

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

    sciencealert.com · 1 outlets

  6. Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  8. Bulldoze the business school

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

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

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  10. A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Sports 26 stories

  1. Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    affordanything.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  2. Brutalist Design Is the Bad Influence We All Need

    imaginarycloud.com · 1 outlets

  3. Coinbase acquires Earn.com

    news.earn.com · 1 outlets

  4. I miss Windows Phone

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  5. Original Windows File Manager with enhancements

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    tomanthony.co.uk · 1 outlets

Technology 618 stories

  1. Yes, You Should Delete Facebook

    theguardian.com · 13 outlets

  2. Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS

    blog.github.com · 2 outlets

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

    freedom-to-tinker.com · 11 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Apple open-sources FoundationDB

    foundationdb.org · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Facebook Container for Firefox

    mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  4. Productivity

    blog.samaltman.com · 1 outlets

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

    signal.org · 1 outlets

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

    threadreaderapp.com · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  8. I wandered off and built an IDE

    blog.querystorm.com · 1 outlets

  9. Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours

    doublepulsar.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award

    blog.jupyter.org · 1 outlets

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

    batteryfreevideo.cs.wa · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    intuitive-math.club · 1 outlets

  2. Netflix FlameScope

    medium.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together

    classroomies.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    bcarrigan.com · 1 outlets

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