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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 2 – May 2, 2016 812 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 123 Get it by email ↓
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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    A Deep Learning USB Stick

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Being a “dumb” girl in Computer Science

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    When Free Software Depends on Nonfree

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. US government commits to publish publicly financed software under FOSS licenses

  2. Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True

  3. Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases

  4. Hack-petya mission accomplished – Petya ransomware decryptor

Show 10 more
  1. Rube Goldberg machine in HTML forms

  2. What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?

  3. Why the S.E.C. didn't hit Goldman Sachs harder

  4. How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub

  5. SSH for Fun and Profit

  6. Bitcoin's $137k Jackpot

  7. 9/14/14: Sold 500 edu copies of Air Display 2. 4/25/16: All 500 refunded

  8. If You Can’t Break Crypto, Break the Client: Recovery of Plaintext iMessage Data

  9. How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit

  10. How a federal spy case turned into a child pornography prosecution

Sports 28 stories

  1. Bash on Ubuntu on Windows

  2. Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone

Show 6 more
  1. Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching from Above

  2. Over $700k selling a premium mobile game

  3. I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch

  4. Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight

  5. Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows

  6. React Native on the Universal Windows Platform

Technology 633 stories

  1. Panama Papers - 2.6TB leak on offshore tax havens

  2. TTIP Leaks

  3. Introducing Kindle Oasis

Show 9 more
  1. A Protocol for Dying

  2. My Biggest Regret as a Programmer

  3. Kite – Programming Copilot

  4. Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone

  5. WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete

  6. Visual Studio Code 1.0

  7. Leaving Beta, New Sponsors

  8. How I Hacked Facebook and Found Someone's Backdoor Script

  9. The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. Show HN: I made a Hacker News for podcasts

  2. Save Netflix

Show 6 more
  1. Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using motors

  2. Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks

  3. Show HN: Barnacl.es, a community news site for never-funded bootstrappers

  4. WebTorrent Desktop – Open source streaming torrent client

  5. Show HN: The first issue of Compelling Science Fiction

  6. Show HN: Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS selectors

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