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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 8 – April 7, 2017 818 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 14 · Issue 97 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

"Easy fix" to curb dangers of containers holding flammable fuel?

A proposed bill in Congress aims to cut the number of Americans burned in so-called “flame jetting” incidents

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Reverse Engineering Malware 101

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Failures of Deep Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Build Your Own Text Editor

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value

  2. How Bank of America Gave Away My Money

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

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

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

  2. Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power

  3. ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

  4. Twitter Sues Federal Government

  5. Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options

  6. Open Source License Business Perception Report

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

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

  9. The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

  10. Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space

Sports 32 stories

  1. Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award

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

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  1. Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account

  2. Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

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

  4. Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system

  5. Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising

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

Technology 635 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. Deep Learning without Backpropagation

  5. They Used To Last 50 Years

  6. Teach Yourself Computer Science

  7. Build Your Own Text Editor

  8. Reverse Engineering Malware 101

  9. YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas

Entertainment 29 stories

  1. Show HN: Aeneas – a Python audio/text aligner

  2. An animated GIF that shows its own MD5

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  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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