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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 23 – March 24, 2020 809 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 84 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Has the bidet's time in North America finally arrived?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Securing Firefox with WebAssembly

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Implement with types, not your brain (2019)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 56 stories

  1. A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools

  2. GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization

  3. Hard Startups

  4. Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height

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  1. Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet

  2. How to brainstorm great business ideas

  3. Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

  4. GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions

  5. Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs

  6. Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market

  7. S&P 500 Plunges 7%, Triggering Market-Wide Stock Trading Halt

  8. Funding for Covid-19 Projects

  9. Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus

  10. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

Sports 32 stories

  1. Tailwind UI

  2. Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default

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  1. To get good, go after the metagame

  2. Windows93

  3. Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

  4. Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races

  5. Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns

  6. Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020

Technology 601 stories

  1. Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who printed a valve

  2. NPM Is Joining GitHub

  3. Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

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  1. Freeman Dyson Has Died

  2. Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner

  3. Atrium shuts down, laying off 100

  4. Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates

  5. DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

  6. Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain

  7. Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community

  8. MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester

  9. “We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it”

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19

  2. Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

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  1. Show HN: Fraidycat

  2. Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

  3. Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions

  4. Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi

  5. Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

  6. Show HN: InventHub – Visual version control for electronics design

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