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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 16 – April 15, 2019 806 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 105 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Cohen says he has 14 million files of "significant value"

Cohen's lawyers said their client was able to access a hard drive with information that could have "significant value" to congressional investigators

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Kroki – Convert plain text diagrams to images

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The Lobster Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it

  2. Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad

  3. Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta

  4. Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private Data

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  1. Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake

  2. Google terminated our startup's developer account – what do we do?

  3. Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner

  4. Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission

  5. America's Seed Fund: Up to $1.5M for Zero Equity

  6. An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)

  7. China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do

  8. Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars

  9. As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned a Blind Eye

  10. Different ways to build a $100M business (2014)

Sports 37 stories

  1. CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust

  2. Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award

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  1. EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others

  2. Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job

  3. Aphex Twin Speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)

  4. A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla

  5. 8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship

  6. Engineer refusing to file/disclose patents

Technology 599 stories

  1. Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing

  2. Moving from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine

  3. A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a moon landing Thursday

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  1. Developer Survey Results 2019

  2. Julian Assange arrested in London

  3. Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole?

  4. I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me

  5. A guide to difficult conversations

  6. Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display

  7. Kroki – Convert plain text diagrams to images

  8. Warp – Mobile VPN

  9. It seems that Google is forgetting the old web

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

  2. Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service

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  1. Show HN: A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets

  2. Show HN: Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer

  3. Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life

  4. 2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail

  5. Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

  6. Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show

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