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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 12 – March 13, 2020 795 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 11 · Issue 73 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Why we need a book about naming

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    A half-hour to learn Rust

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Why are we so bad at software engineering?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 56 stories

  1. A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools

  2. Amazon let a fraudster keep my Sony A74 IV and refunded him

  3. Hard Startups

  4. Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height

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  1. Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet

  2. How to brainstorm great business ideas

  3. Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle

  4. Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

  5. Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

  6. DigitalOcean raises $100M in debt as it scales toward revenue of $300M

  7. Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs

  8. Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock market

  9. S&P 500 Plunges 7%, Triggering Market-Wide Stock Trading Halt

  10. IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland

Sports 32 stories

  1. Tailwind UI

  2. Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default

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  1. To get good, go after the metagame

  2. Windows93

  3. Tokyo Olympics “looking at a cancellation” if coronavirus not contained

  4. Google interviewing process for software developer role in 2020

  5. Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

  6. Japan's PM to ask all schools to temporarily close

Technology 591 stories

  1. Kickstarter Workers Vote to Unionize

  2. Gears

  3. I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

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  1. Larry Tesler Has Died

  2. Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

  3. Freeman Dyson Has Died

  4. Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner

  5. Atrium shuts down, laying off 100

  6. Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates

  7. DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

  8. Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain

  9. 1-on-1 meeting questions

Entertainment 47 stories

  1. Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)

  2. Show HN: Fraidycat

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  1. Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?

  2. Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions

  3. Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi

  4. Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

  5. Show HN: InventHub – Visual version control for electronics design

  6. Show HN: HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace

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