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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 17 – April 16, 2018 799 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 106 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Building a fast Electron app with Rust

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Facebook’s Surveillance Machine

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 54 stories

  1. I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet

  2. Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative

  3. Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is

  4. What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

Show 10 more
  1. Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally

  2. The Nightmare Letter: A Subject Access Request Under GDPR

  3. Rent out GPUs to AI researchers and make ~2x more than mining cryptocurrencies

  4. Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality

  5. Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sustainable business model

  6. Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting

  7. Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes

  8. SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round

  9. Hackers Are So Fed Up with Twitter Bots They’re Hunting Them Down Themselves

  10. Cryptographic Right Answers

Sports 33 stories

  1. Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case

  2. The End of Windows

Show 6 more
  1. Epic Games releases $12M worth of Paragon assets for free

  2. Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory

  3. Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)

  4. OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS

  5. Hennessy and Patterson win Turing Award

  6. We might be swinging away from the newsfeed

Technology 555 stories

  1. How Facebook handles account deletions

  2. Before cancer kills, it cheats

  3. Towards a world without Facebook

Show 9 more
  1. Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress

  2. Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

  3. Building a fast Electron app with Rust

  4. Congrats Dropbox

  5. It's time to head back to RSS?

  6. Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook

  7. Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing

  8. Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

  9. Productivity

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

  2. My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app

Show 6 more
  1. Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant

  2. Logs in High Sierra Show Plaintext Password for APFS Encrypted External Volumes

  3. Netflix FlameScope

  4. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters

  5. Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

  6. Apple is making a show based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ books

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