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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 25 – May 25, 2018 818 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 145 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Thousands of women say Essure birth control caused intense pain

The device is the subject of nearly 27,000 complaints to the FDA since its approval in 2002

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1Articles

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Lessons learned from a failing local mall

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The hell that is filename encoding (2016)

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Event Sourcing made Simple

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 53 stories

  1. How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas

  2. GDPR: Don't Panic

  3. StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations

  4. GDPR will pop the adtech bubble

Show 10 more
  1. Python startup time: milliseconds matter

  2. How a domain registrar can kill your business

  3. I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned

  4. Why it’s so hard to fix banking: An interview with Simple’s exiting CEO

  5. HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud

  6. GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

  7. GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over data protection rules

  8. Bulldoze the business school

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

  10. Salesforce CEO Benioff calls for national privacy law

Sports 31 stories

  1. Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions

  2. Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)

Show 6 more
  1. Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

  2. Estonia plans to become a free public transport nation

  3. Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5

  4. Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’

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

  6. How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance

Technology 608 stories

  1. California Votes to Require Rooftop Solar Power on New Homes

  2. Google is rebranding storage plans as “Google One”

  3. Custom domains on GitHub Pages gain support for HTTPS

Show 9 more
  1. Don't let Google take over Berlin

  2. Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming

  3. Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone

  4. US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data

  5. The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written

  6. Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact

  7. Google YOLO clickjacking

  8. Amazon Froze My Account and I Still Don’t Know Why

  9. Completely Silent Computer

Entertainment 46 stories

  1. Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award

  2. Emails Show FDA Chemists Have Been Finding Glyphosate in Food

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Wired-elements – UI web components with a hand drawn, sketchy look

  2. Study Shows a Productivity Boost of Working From Home

  3. The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now

  4. Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

  5. Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

  6. The fifth hyperfactorial: 5⁵×4⁴×3³×2²×1¹=86400000 milliseconds is exactly 1 day

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