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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 25 – April 24, 2019 828 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 114 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

    Facebook Asking for Some New Users' Email Passwords

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    OpenShot – Open-Source Video Editor

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

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

  3. Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad

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

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  1. Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private Data

  2. Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire

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

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

  5. America's Seed Fund: Up to $1.5M for Zero Equity

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

  7. Amazon Quits China Market

  8. Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars

  9. As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned a Blind Eye

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

Sports 38 stories

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

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

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  1. Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

  2. Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job

  3. LeBron James school that was considered an experiment is showing promise

  4. Aphex Twin Speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)

  5. A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla

  6. Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other transportation modes

Technology 628 stories

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

  2. Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”

  3. A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a moon landing Thursday

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  1. Developer Survey Results 2019

  2. Apple announces Apple Card credit card

  3. I Sell Onions on the Internet

  4. Julian Assange arrested in London

  5. Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole?

  6. Joe Armstrong has died

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

  8. A guide to difficult conversations

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

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking

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

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  1. Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life

  2. 2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail

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

  4. Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

  5. Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absolute no control over it

  6. From Show HN to Series D

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