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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 29 – May 29, 2019 835 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 149 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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1Articles

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    I can see your local web servers

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    “Python's batteries are leaking”

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    I made a smart watch from scratch

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 53 stories

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

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

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending America's supermarkets

  2. Google suspends some business with Huawei

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

  4. Guardian records first operating profit since 1998

  5. Golden: Mapping human knowledge

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

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

  8. Three.js Fundamentals

  9. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

  10. Interview with DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg

Sports 33 stories

  1. Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows

  2. Apple removes game after Chinese company cloned, trademarked, requested takedown

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. Exxon knew that fossil fuels were influencing the climate in 1978

  5. New Game: Minecraft Earth

  6. Game Engine Black Books Update

Technology 635 stories

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

  2. GitHub Package Registry

  3. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

Show 9 more
  1. GitHub Sponsors

  2. I made a smart watch from scratch

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

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

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

  6. Common mistakes in PostgreSQL

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

  8. Css-only-chat: A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS on the front end

  9. Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects

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

  3. Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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

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

  6. Python at Netflix

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