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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 22 – May 22, 2020 810 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 143 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 I wish I knew about React

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Why does writing matter in remote work?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 46 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. Bitcoin Halving Just Occured

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

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

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

  6. Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash

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

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

  9. Good writing is a business advantage

  10. Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops

Sports 35 stories

  1. Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices

  2. Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More

Show 6 more
  1. React Native for Windows and Mac

  2. DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

  3. Rust/WinRT Public Preview

  4. Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020

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

  6. Windows Package Manager Preview

Technology 603 stories

  1. Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps

  2. MS Flight Simulator vs. Real Life

  3. Bye, Amazon

Show 9 more
  1. Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance

  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. Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help

  9. Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content

Entertainment 51 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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