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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 28 – April 27, 2020 789 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 118 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

    What end-to-end encryption should look like

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Debugging Distributed Systems

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 50 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 25 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. 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 583 stories

  1. Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform

  2. National Emergency Library

  3. Rust Survey 2019 Results

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  1. In Pursuit of PPE

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

  3. Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

  4. GitHub is now free for teams

  5. IBM will offer free COBOL training

  6. Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

  7. It’s Time to Build

  8. Shirt Without Stripes

  9. New iPhone SE

Entertainment 49 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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