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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 1 – March 31, 2017 805 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 90 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Deep Learning without Backpropagation

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Failures of Deep Learning

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: A new hobby OS from “scratch” in C#

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

  2. SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund [pdf]

  3. Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business jet upside down

  4. Startup School – YC’s Online Class

Show 10 more
  1. Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power

  2. Open Source License Business Perception Report

  3. Snap Tumbles Below IPO Opening Price as Analysts Say Sell

  4. Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in 2016

  5. Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in an alternate reality

  6. The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

  7. Lyft Is Said to Seek New Funding as Its Rival Uber Stumbles

  8. Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab

  9. Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO

  10. Software Engineer Starts Unlikely Business: A Weekly Newspaper

Sports 31 stories

  1. Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)

  2. Images and video showing extent of Oroville dam damage

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  1. Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process

  2. Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

  3. Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising

  4. Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms

  5. We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen

  6. Thirteen Years of Bad Game Code

Technology 629 stories

  1. React Native Navigation Library

  2. Google Cloud SQL for Postgres

  3. How to never complete anything

Show 9 more
  1. SpaceX set to launch ‘used rocket’

  2. VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem

  3. “Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US

  4. Visual Studio 2017 Launch [video]

  5. CIA malware and hacking tools

  6. GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources

  7. They Used To Last 50 Years

  8. Teach Yourself Computer Science

  9. Reverse Engineering Malware 101

Entertainment 28 stories

  1. Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers

  2. An animated GIF that shows its own MD5

Show 6 more
  1. Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix

  2. Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquired programming in 2017

  3. Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

  4. Weapon physicist declassifies rescued nuclear test films

  5. The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking

  6. Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser

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