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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close March 19 – March 26, 2020 188 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 86 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions

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Business 10 stories

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

  2. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

  3. Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

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

  2. What the last few weeks have been like for the CEO of Slack

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

  4. Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rental market were right

Sports 9 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. Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

Technology 150 stories

  1. Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible

  2. Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom

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

  2. I got my file from Clearview AI

  3. WebKit will delete all local storage after 7 days

  4. Things you can do with a browser in 2020

  5. Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent

Entertainment 12 stories

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

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  1. Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

  2. Show HN: Skynet Simulator

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

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