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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 30 – April 29, 2021 810 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 119 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

    Nobody is joining Google's FLoC

    10 of 30 days · 15 articles

  2. Technology

    Rust in the Android Platform

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Merge tag 'arm-Apple-M1-5.13' of Linux

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

Business 48 stories

  1. Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

  2. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

  3. The architecture behind a one-person tech startup

  4. My Current HTML Boilerplate

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  1. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

  2. LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

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

  4. Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes

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

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

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

  8. Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

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

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

Sports 34 stories

  1. Coinbase from YC to DPO

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

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

  2. Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands

  3. Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?

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

  5. Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better Wine performance

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

Technology 591 stories

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

  2. Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared

  3. Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

Show 9 more
  1. Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report

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

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

  4. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

  5. Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

  6. UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research

  7. Just Be Rich

  8. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

  9. Microsoft Coffee

Entertainment 47 stories

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

  2. Show HN: Lofi.cafe

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

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

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

  4. Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard

  5. Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman

  6. Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python

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