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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 31 – April 30, 2018 789 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 120 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

threadreaderapp.com · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Lessons learned from a failing local mall

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 58 stories

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

    threadreaderapp.com · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  3. StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations

    streetlend.com · 1 outlets

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

    baekdal.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

    sapiens.org · 1 outlets

  2. Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

    theregister.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally

    reuters.com · 2 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  5. ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

    nymag.com · 1 outlets

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

    sciencealert.com · 1 outlets

  7. Electric Buses Are Hurting the Oil Industry

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  9. Bulldoze the business school

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  10. High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up for University

    npr.org · 1 outlets

Sports 27 stories

  1. Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. The End of Windows

    stratechery.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)

    affordanything.com · 1 outlets

  2. We might be swinging away from the newsfeed

    ben-evans.com · 1 outlets

  3. E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve prison term

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  4. Brutalist Design Is the Bad Influence We All Need

    imaginarycloud.com · 1 outlets

  5. Coinbase acquires Earn.com

    news.earn.com · 1 outlets

  6. I miss Windows Phone

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

Technology 582 stories

  1. Yes, You Should Delete Facebook

    theguardian.com · 12 outlets

  2. Unraveling rm: what happens when you run it?

    freedom-to-tinker.com · 10 outlets

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

    nbcbayarea.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Apple open-sources FoundationDB

    foundationdb.org · 1 outlets

  2. 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

    blog.cloudflare.com · 1 outlets

  3. Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. Project

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  5. Facebook Container for Firefox

    mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  6. Productivity

    blog.samaltman.com · 1 outlets

  7. You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts

    threadreaderapp.com · 1 outlets

  8. Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance risk than Facebook

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  9. I wandered off and built an IDE

    blog.querystorm.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video]

    batteryfreevideo.cs.wa · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Intuitive Linear Algebra and 3D Geometry

    intuitive-math.club · 1 outlets

  2. Netflix FlameScope

    medium.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Watch Stanford CS Lectures Together

    classroomies.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves

    bcarrigan.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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