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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 20 – May 20, 2020 812 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 141 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What Peak Hello World Looks Like

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    What I wish I knew about React

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    What happens when scientists admit error

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 53 stories

  1. Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

  2. Seinfeld Adventure

  3. Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce

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

Show 10 more
  1. Startup financial models – Templates compared for SaaS

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

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

  4. Bitcoin Halving Just Occured

  5. Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?

  6. The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019)

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

  8. Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash

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

  10. Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU

Sports 34 stories

  1. Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices

  2. Show HN: XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs

Show 6 more
  1. Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More

  2. DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

  3. React Native for Windows and Mac

  4. Rust/WinRT Public Preview

  5. Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020

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

Technology 595 stories

  1. Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps

  2. MS Flight Simulator vs. Real Life

  3. Bye, Amazon

Show 9 more
  1. Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

  2. Deno 1.0

  3. What would you do if you lost your Google account?

  4. Zoom Acquires Keybase

  5. Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

  6. GitHub Codespaces

  7. A first look at Unreal Engine 5

  8. Shirt Without Stripes

  9. Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help

Entertainment 54 stories

  1. Show HN: SHA-256 Animation

  2. Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

Show 6 more
  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

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

  4. Show HN: Caddy 2

  5. Show HN: Rendering One Million Datapoints with D3 and WebGL

  6. Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned

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