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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 18 – March 19, 2020 808 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 12 · Issue 79 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

    A half-hour to learn Rust

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    New COVID-19 cases reported across Japan

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Using Anki to remember what you read

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 57 stories

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

  2. GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization

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

  4. Hard Startups

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

  2. Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet

  3. How to brainstorm great business ideas

  4. Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

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

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

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

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

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

  10. Funding for Covid-19 Projects

Sports 28 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. Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award

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

Technology 610 stories

  1. Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who printed a valve

  2. Kickstarter Workers Vote to Unionize

  3. NPM Is Joining GitHub

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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. Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19

  2. Show HN: Fraidycat

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

  2. Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

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

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

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

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

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