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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 26 – March 27, 2020 811 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 87 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

    Has the bidet's time in North America finally arrived?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Using Anki to remember what you read

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Things you can do with a browser in 2020

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 55 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. Hard Startups

  4. Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet

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  1. How to brainstorm great business ideas

  2. Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

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

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

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

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

  7. Funding for Covid-19 Projects

  8. Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus

  9. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

  10. Mastercard investing in technology to identify commuters by gait, heartbeat

Sports 33 stories

  1. Tailwind UI

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

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  1. Windows93

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

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

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

  5. Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award

  6. Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

Technology 601 stories

  1. Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who printed a valve

  2. NPM Is Joining GitHub

  3. Facebook's Download-Your-Data Tool Is Incomplete

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

  2. Freeman Dyson Has Died

  3. Atrium shuts down, laying off 100

  4. Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates

  5. DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

  6. Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community

  7. MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester

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

  9. A half-hour to learn Rust

Entertainment 42 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Fraidycat

  2. Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

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

  4. Show HN: A “living” Linux process with no memory

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

  6. Show HN: Skynet Simulator

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