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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 21 – April 20, 2022 791 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 110 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (2020)

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: Search Engine for Blogs

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The United States Digital Corps

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Terrible things I'd do with your money

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 26 stories

  1. I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (2020)

  2. Europe is investing heavily in trains

  3. Our fundamental right to shame and shun the New York Times

  4. US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation

Show 10 more
  1. Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an eyeball scan

  2. The Edited Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto

  3. The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today

  4. “This shouldn’t happen”: Inside the virus-hunting nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance

  5. Wikipedia RFC to stop accepting cryptocurrencies passes by majority vote

  6. Ten members of international stock manipulation ring charged in Manhattan

  7. Okta’s Investigation of the January 2022 Compromise

  8. US Justice Department accuses Google of hiding business communications

  9. Ken and Roberta Williams Working on Colossal Cave Adventure Remake for VR and PC

  10. Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses

Sports 41 stories

  1. Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers

  2. Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV

Show 6 more
  1. Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses (2020)

  2. Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C

  3. What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows

  4. The endgames of bad faith communication

  5. Insider Trading at Coinbase

  6. ‘This game is so realistic it feels just like working overtime’

Technology 603 stories

  1. My take on Elon's offer for Twitter

  2. Why income share agreements did not work out

  3. TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing

Show 9 more
  1. We lost 54k GitHub stars

  2. Dall-E 2

  3. But life had other plans

  4. A few things to know before stealing my 914

  5. One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine

  6. Inside the longest Atlassian outage

  7. Jd

  8. Mourning loss as a remote team

  9. Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

  2. Show HN: I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser

  2. Horrible edge cases when dealing with music

  3. Show HN: Multiplayer Demo Built with Elixir

  4. Show HN: Search Engine for Blogs

  5. Drone footage of Tesla factory

  6. The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)

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