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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 21 – May 21, 2019 825 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 141 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Are the dead taking over Facebook?

    5 of 30 days · 5 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 54 stories

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

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

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

  2. Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets

  3. Google suspends some business with Huawei

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

  5. Guardian records first operating profit since 1998

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

  7. Golden: Mapping human knowledge

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

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

  10. Three.js Fundamentals

Sports 28 stories

  1. Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows

  2. Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

Show 6 more
  1. Windows gets a new terminal

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

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

  4. New Game: Minecraft Earth

  5. Game Engine Black Books Update

  6. 3D Game Shaders for Beginners

Technology 626 stories

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

  2. GitHub Package Registry

  3. I Sell Onions on the Internet

Show 9 more
  1. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

  2. Google Is Eating Our Mail

  3. I made a smart watch from scratch

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

  5. Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard to delete

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

  7. Common mistakes in PostgreSQL

  8. DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

  9. The inception bar: a new phishing method

Entertainment 37 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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

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

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

  5. Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

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

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