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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 24 – April 23, 2020 795 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 114 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    How is the Linux kernel tested?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What end-to-end encryption should look like

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 stories

  1. Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing

  2. How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

  3. Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes

  4. After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife

Show 10 more
  1. Senate Stock Watcher

  2. Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report

  3. Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens

  4. Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight

  5. Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending

  6. Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China

  7. Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees

  8. SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb

  9. I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (2015)

  10. Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project

Sports 29 stories

  1. Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]

  2. 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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  1. Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

  2. Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows

  3. Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’

  4. Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

  5. X410 – X Server for Windows 10

  6. Social distancing slowing not only Covid-19, but other diseases too

Technology 572 stories

  1. Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform

  2. Free software tools for staying in touch

  3. National Emergency Library

Show 9 more
  1. Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

  2. Rust Survey 2019 Results

  3. In Pursuit of PPE

  4. Does Zoom use end-to-end encryption?

  5. Amazon fires two UX designers critical of warehouse working conditions

  6. GitHub is now free for teams

  7. IBM will offer free COBOL training

  8. Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

  9. It’s Time to Build

Entertainment 46 stories

  1. OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

  2. Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

  2. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing

  3. Show HN: Search your Twitter history with Algolia

  4. Show HN: Skynet Simulator

  5. Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder

  6. Show HN: From Markdown to Video

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