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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 12 – May 12, 2019 809 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 132 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

    What to Expect from Marzipan

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  2. Technology

    Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    NPM staff fired after trying to unionize – complaints

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 58 stories

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

  2. We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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

  4. Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

Show 10 more
  1. Guardian records first operating profit since 1998

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

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

  4. Golden: Mapping human knowledge

  5. U.S. regulators approve the Long-Term Stock Exchange

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

  7. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

  8. Amazon Quits China Market

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

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

Sports 30 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. Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords

  5. Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

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

Technology 611 stories

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

  2. GitHub Package Registry

  3. Apple: Rotate tracking IDs on iPhone each month

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  1. I Sell Onions on the Internet

  2. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

  3. Google Is Eating Our Mail

  4. Joe Armstrong has died

  5. I made a smart watch from scratch

  6. All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

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

  8. Common mistakes in PostgreSQL

  9. The inception bar: a new phishing method

Entertainment 33 stories

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

  2. Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects

  2. Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

  3. Python at Netflix

  4. Show HN: ZFS Implementation in Python

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

  6. Show HN: RSS Search Engine

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