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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 11 – May 11, 2022 791 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 131 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

We need a middle class for startups

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Learning to think critically about machine learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    “YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What are your most used self-hosted applications?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. We need a middle class for startups

  2. Column – a chartered bank for developers

  3. Apple is discontinuing the iPod

  4. Europe is investing heavily in trains

Show 10 more
  1. The strange business of hole-in-one insurance

  2. Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy

  3. U.S. interest rates have soared everywhere but savings accounts

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

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

  6. Deutsche Bank whistleblower found dead in LA's Lincoln Park

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

  8. El Salvador expected to default as Bitcoin plummets

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

  10. Rocket Mortgage to trim 8% of workforce as home-loan market shrinks

Sports 42 stories

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

  2. PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

Show 6 more
  1. Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old

  2. UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg

  3. When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"

  4. Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it

  5. The endgames of bad faith communication

  6. Insider Trading at Coinbase

Technology 582 stories

  1. My take on Elon's offer for Twitter

  2. Eve Online is getting Microsoft Excel support

  3. Heroku Security Notification

Show 9 more
  1. Mechanical Watch

  2. We lost 54k GitHub stars

  3. Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

  4. Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year

  5. I'm all-in on server-side SQLite

  6. Why do you waste so much time on the internet?

  7. Inside the longest Atlassian outage

  8. Etsy Strike

  9. Bits of advice I wish I had known

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code

  2. Show HN: I Made a Magic Trick

Show 6 more
  1. The bottom is dropping out of Netflix

  2. Show HN: I built a simulator for personal finance

  3. Show HN: PostgresML, now with analytics and project management

  4. Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist

  5. A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV

  6. Show HN: Tetris, but silly

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