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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 27 – April 26, 2021 793 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 116 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Medal of Honor recipient, and the battle that stays forever

Combat Outpost Keating was a remote U.S. Army position in Afghanistan that attracted a Taliban attack nearly seven years ago. The medal that one of its defenders received for his actions that day still weighs heavily on Sgt. Clint Romesha, as David Martin now tells us.

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Rust in the Android Platform

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    My collection of machine learning paper notes

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: My personal website is a shell

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Man billed $1.7 million by government for life-saving burn treatment

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 46 stories

  1. Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

    wired.com · 2 outlets

  2. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

    signal.org · 1 outlets

  3. The architecture behind a one-person tech startup

    anthonynsimon.com · 2 outlets

  4. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

    unusualwhales.com · 1 outlets

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  1. LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

    extremetech.com · 1 outlets

  3. EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  4. Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

    cfenollosa.com · 1 outlets

  5. My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable

    davesullivan.is · 1 outlets

  6. Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme

    digesttime.com · 1 outlets

  7. Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

    nysfocus.com · 1 outlets

  8. Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention

    gov.uk · 1 outlets

  9. Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

  10. Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director

    decrypt.co · 1 outlets

Sports 29 stories

  1. Coinbase from YC to DPO

    blog.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  2. Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

    devblogs.microsoft.com · 2 outlets

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  1. SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  2. Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?

    dmitryelj.medium.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

    simulator.money · 1 outlets

  4. Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go · 1 outlets

  5. The Story of the SolarWinds Hack

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  6. Boxedwine is an emulator that can run Windows applications in the browser

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 589 stories

  1. Clubhouse data leak: 1.3M user records leaked online for free

    businessinsider.com · 6 outlets

  2. Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared

    bbc.co.uk · 3 outlets

  3. Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

    thewire.in · 2 outlets

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  1. Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report

    nltimes.nl · 1 outlets

  2. OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC)

    marc.info · 1 outlets

  3. Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]

    supremecourt.gov · 1 outlets

  4. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

    lore.kernel.org · 1 outlets

  5. Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

  6. UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research

    neowin.net · 2 outlets

  7. Just Be Rich

    keenen.xyz · 1 outlets

  8. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

    github.com · 1 outlets

  9. Microsoft Coffee

    microsoftcoffee.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 45 stories

  1. YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself

    newsweek.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Lofi.cafe

    lofi.cafe · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

    vitling.xyz · 1 outlets

  2. Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies

    nofilmschool.com · 1 outlets

  3. Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust

    grenzwissenschaft-aktu · 1 outlets

  4. Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python

    mvanga.com · 1 outlets

  6. Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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