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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 3 – April 2, 2017 796 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 92 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 April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Failures of Deep Learning

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Enabling Continual Learning in Neural Networks

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

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

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 37 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. Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab

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

  9. Software Engineer Starts Unlikely Business: A Weekly Newspaper

  10. ConvertKit: How Nathan Barry Bootstrapped an Email Marketing Business

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

  5. Thirteen Years of Bad Game Code

  6. Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions”

Technology 626 stories

  1. React Native Navigation Library

  2. Google Cloud SQL for Postgres

  3. How to never complete anything

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  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: Aeneas – a Python audio/text aligner

  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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