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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 26 – April 25, 2020 798 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 116 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. Entertainment

    Show HN: A simple storage pricing calculator for AWS

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    How is the Linux kernel tested?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 52 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. Seinfeld Adventure

Show 10 more
  1. After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife

  2. Senate Stock Watcher

  3. Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report

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

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

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

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

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

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

  10. Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops

Sports 27 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

Show 6 more
  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. X410 – X Server for Windows 10

  5. Custom Game Engines: A Small Study

  6. A music discovery site used in over 1M videos and games

Technology 577 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 47 stories

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

  2. If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability

  2. Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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

  4. Show HN: From Markdown to Video

  5. Phoenix LiveDashboard

  6. Show HN: 33 line React

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