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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 11 – April 10, 2019 825 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 15 · Issue 100 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Cohen says he has 14 million files of "significant value"

Cohen's lawyers said their client was able to access a hard drive with information that could have "significant value" to congressional investigators

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Kroki – Convert plain text diagrams to images

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    The V Programming Language

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Everything I know about freelancing

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 41 stories

  1. Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it

  2. Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

  3. Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta

  4. Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw

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  1. Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake

  2. Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM Registry

  3. Google terminated our startup's developer account – what do we do?

  4. Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner

  5. Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission

  6. CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows

  7. An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)

  8. China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do

  9. Different ways to build a $100M business (2014)

  10. China says it wants to eliminate Bitcoin mining

Sports 38 stories

  1. Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time

  2. CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust

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  1. Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award

  2. EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others

  3. Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job

  4. Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox

  5. Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track

  6. DTrace on Windows

Technology 615 stories

  1. Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing

  2. Moving from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine

  3. Developer Survey Results 2019

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  1. Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

  2. I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me

  3. Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

  4. A guide to difficult conversations

  5. Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display

  6. Kroki – Convert plain text diagrams to images

  7. Warp – Mobile VPN

  8. It seems that Google is forgetting the old web

  9. Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music

  2. Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

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  1. Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service

  2. Show HN: A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets

  3. Show HN: Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer

  4. 2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail

  5. Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

  6. Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show

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