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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 11 – April 10, 2017 798 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 15 · Issue 100 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 45 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. Enroute Airbus A380 wake flips Challenger business jet upside down

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

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

  3. Twitter Sues Federal Government

  4. Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options

  5. Open Source License Business Perception Report

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

  7. The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

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

  9. Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab

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

Sports 31 stories

  1. Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award

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

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

  6. Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid

Technology 620 stories

  1. React Native Navigation Library

  2. SpaceX set to launch ‘used rocket’

  3. VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem

Show 9 more
  1. “Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US

  2. Deep Learning without Backpropagation

  3. They Used To Last 50 Years

  4. Teach Yourself Computer Science

  5. Build Your Own Text Editor

  6. Reverse Engineering Malware 101

  7. SES-10 Mission

  8. The Uber Bombshell About to Drop

  9. Deep Photo Style Transfer

Entertainment 31 stories

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

  2. Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix

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

  2. Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks

  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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