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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 16 – May 16, 2019 833 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 136 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

smartcar.com · 1 sources

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Are the dead taking over Facebook?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    What to Expect from Marzipan

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    NPM staff fired after trying to unionize – complaints

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 56 stories

  1. Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

    smartcar.com · 1 outlets

  2. We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

    blog.niteo.co · 1 outlets

  3. I turned my interview task for Google into a startup

    uxdesign.cc · 2 outlets

  4. Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle

    csail.mit.edu · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

    citylab.com · 1 outlets

  2. Third-Biggest U.S. Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy

    flatheadbeacon.com · 1 outlets

  3. Guardian records first operating profit since 1998

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  5. Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. Golden: Mapping human knowledge

    golden.com · 1 outlets

  7. John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (1996)

    raw.githubusercontent. · 1 outlets

  8. U.S. regulators approve the Long-Term Stock Exchange

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  9. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  10. Amazon Quits China Market

    pandaily.com · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows

    theverge.com · 4 outlets

  2. Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

    github.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

    harvardmagazine.com · 1 outlets

  2. Windows gets a new terminal

    techcrunch.com · 3 outlets

  3. Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords

    cnet.com · 1 outlets

  4. Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. 3D Game Shaders for Beginners

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history

    rockpapershotgun.com · 1 outlets

Technology 628 stories

  1. Phone and laptop searches at US border 'quadruple'

    cbc.ca · 2 outlets

  2. GitHub Package Registry

    github.com · 2 outlets

  3. I Sell Onions on the Internet

    deepsouthventures.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

    blog.chriszacharias.co · 1 outlets

  2. Google Is Eating Our Mail

    tablix.org · 1 outlets

  3. Joe Armstrong has died

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. I made a smart watch from scratch

    m.imgur.com · 1 outlets

  5. All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

    bugzilla.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  6. We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage

    resumeskills.us · 1 outlets

  7. I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page

    idiallo.com · 1 outlets

  8. Common mistakes in PostgreSQL

    wiki.postgresql.org · 1 outlets

  9. The inception bar: a new phishing method

    jameshfisher.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

    picsum.photos · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

    1mb.site · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

    localbabysitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects

    cssfx.dev · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: 30 Hour Jobs – a job board for shorter work weeks

    30hourjobs.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

    benhoyt.com · 1 outlets

  5. U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. Python at Netflix

    medium.com · 1 outlets

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