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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 7 – May 7, 2019 844 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 127 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    A gentle introduction to symbolic execution

    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

    NPM staff fired after trying to unionize – complaints

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 56 stories

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

  2. Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

  2. Guardian records first operating profit since 1998

  3. Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

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

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

  6. Golden: Mapping human knowledge

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

  8. Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil

  9. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

  10. Amazon Quits China Market

Sports 34 stories

  1. Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows

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

Show 6 more
  1. Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

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

  3. Windows gets a new terminal

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

  5. Utah Bans Police from Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant, Closes Loophole

  6. GB Studio – Retro adventure game creator for Game Boy

Technology 636 stories

  1. TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat

  2. Phone and laptop searches at US border 'quadruple'

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

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  1. Developer Survey Results 2019

  2. Apple: Rotate tracking IDs on iPhone each month

  3. I Sell Onions on the Internet

  4. Julian Assange arrested in London

  5. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

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

  7. Google Is Eating Our Mail

  8. Joe Armstrong has died

  9. I made a smart watch from scratch

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

  2. Show HN: EdgeDB – Next generation database

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life

  2. Python at Netflix

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

  4. Show HN: ZFS Implementation in Python

  5. Show HN: Nextjournal – seamless data science for teams

  6. Show HN: CC Search – search engine for 300M CC-licensed images

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