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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 5 – June 4, 2018 789 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 23 · Issue 155 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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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Dissecting Reinforcement Learning

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Dagoba: an in-memory graph database (2016)

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Deep learning: a critical appraisal

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 60 stories

  1. How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas

  2. GDPR: Don't Panic

  3. GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers

  4. GDPR will pop the adtech bubble

Show 10 more
  1. How a domain registrar can kill your business

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

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

  4. GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB

  5. American tech giants are making life tough for startups

  6. I Write Letters to CEOs

  7. Things to know about the GDPR, Mozilla and Firefox

  8. Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

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

  10. GDPR: Programmatic ad buying plummets in Europe

Sports 37 stories

  1. AI winter is well on its way

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

Show 6 more
  1. Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)

  2. Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

  3. Game Boy Camera Canon EF Lens Mount

  4. Estonia plans to become a free public transport nation

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

  6. OpenDUNE – An open-source recreation of the game Dune II

Technology 578 stories

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

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

  3. Don't let Google take over Berlin

Show 9 more
  1. What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub

  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. GitLab sees huge spike in project imports

  5. Why Is Location Data No Longer Private?

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

  7. Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US

  8. Deep learning: a critical appraisal

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

Entertainment 44 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Study Shows a Productivity Boost of Working From Home

  2. Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies

  3. Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially

  4. The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now

  5. Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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

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