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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close March 18 – March 25, 2020 185 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 85 Get it by email ↓
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GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization

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Business 11 stories

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

  2. GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions

  3. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

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  1. Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

  2. Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides]

  3. The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (2014)

  4. The Longest Record Broken: Gold/Silver Ratio Hits Highest in Over 5,000 Years

Sports 8 stories

  1. Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races

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  1. Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns

  2. Stock Jump – a ski-jumping game with real stock data

  3. Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award

Technology 150 stories

  1. Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

  2. Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang

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  1. I got my file from Clearview AI

  2. Things you can do with a browser in 2020

  3. Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management

  4. New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support

  5. Learn D3

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

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  1. Show HN: MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements

  2. Show HN: Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenhero

  3. Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model

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