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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 10 – May 10, 2018 809 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 130 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

    Things I’ve learned using serverless

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 55 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. Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

Show 10 more
  1. Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation

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

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

  4. Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry

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

  6. Bulldoze the business school

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

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

  9. Tesla beats expectations with $3.4B in revenue

  10. California Opens Investigation into Tesla Workplace Conditions

Sports 27 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. How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance

  3. Brutalist Design Is the Bad Influence We All Need

  4. Coinbase acquires Earn.com

  5. International Obfuscated C Code Contest – 2018 Winning Entries

  6. Researchers have developed a water-based battery to store solar and wind energy

Technology 604 stories

  1. California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes

  2. Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS

  3. Yes, You Should Delete Facebook

Show 9 more
  1. Apple open-sources FoundationDB

  2. Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones

  3. Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone

  4. Facebook Container for Firefox

  5. Productivity

  6. Amazon Froze My Account and I Still Don’t Know Why

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

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

  9. EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides

Entertainment 39 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. Show HN: Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together

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

  4. Show HN: How to Tune a Guitar

  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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