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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 5 – May 5, 2020 801 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 126 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Debugging Distributed Systems

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    What happens when, Kubernetes edition

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 53 stories

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

  2. Seinfeld Adventure

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

  4. “Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”

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  1. Senate Stock Watcher

  2. Startup financial models – Templates compared for SaaS

  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. U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession

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

  10. Good writing is a business advantage

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

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

  2. Rust/WinRT Public Preview

  3. Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020

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

  5. X410 – X Server for Windows 10

  6. Custom Game Engines: A Small Study

Technology 585 stories

  1. Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps

  2. Rust Survey 2019 Results

  3. In Pursuit of PPE

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

  2. Bye, Amazon

  3. GitHub is now free for teams

  4. IBM will offer free COBOL training

  5. It’s Time to Build

  6. Shirt Without Stripes

  7. New iPhone SE

  8. Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help

  9. ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry

Entertainment 52 stories

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

  2. Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use

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  1. Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms

  2. Show HN: Caddy 2

  3. Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

  4. Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

  5. Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving crimes

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

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