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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 28 – April 27, 2019 825 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 117 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

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

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  2. Technology

    Moving from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Bad Habits Creeping into Your Writing?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 49 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. Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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

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

  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. Facebook's Email-Harvesting Practice Is Under Investigation in N.Y.

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

Sports 35 stories

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

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

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  1. Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

  2. Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job

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

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

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

  6. When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear too

Technology 620 stories

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

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

  3. Developer Survey Results 2019

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  1. Apple: Rotate tracking IDs on iPhone each month

  2. I Sell Onions on the Internet

  3. Julian Assange arrested in London

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

  5. Google Is Eating Our Mail

  6. Joe Armstrong has died

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

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

  9. We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage

Entertainment 41 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. Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absolute no control over it

  5. From Show HN to Series D

  6. Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out?

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