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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 29 – March 30, 2020 795 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 14 · Issue 90 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

bloomberg.com · 1 sources

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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

    Ten-Minute Coronavirus Test for $1

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: From Markdown to Video

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 56 stories

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  2. Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  3. Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

    qz.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    abe-winter.github.io · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 2 outlets

  3. Funding for Covid-19 Projects

    blog.samaltman.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  5. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

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

    marketwatch.com · 1 outlets

  7. Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all

    brave.com · 1 outlets

  8. Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

    interconnected.blog · 1 outlets

  9. Stock buybacks are dangerous for the economy

    feeds.hbr.org · 1 outlets

  10. $800M to support small businesses and crisis response

    docs.google.com · 2 outlets

Sports 32 stories

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

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  2. Windows93

    windows93.net · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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

    stockjump.sos.gd · 1 outlets

  4. Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

    hillelwayne.com · 1 outlets

  6. Social distancing slowing not only Covid-19, but other diseases too

    qz.com · 1 outlets

Technology 581 stories

  1. Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who printed a valve

    techdirt.com · 2 outlets

  2. NPM Is Joining GitHub

    github.blog · 1 outlets

  3. Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

    blogs.harvard.edu · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

    vice.com · 3 outlets

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

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  3. Atrium shuts down, laying off 100

    bleepingcomputer.com · 3 outlets

  4. DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

    bitlog.com · 1 outlets

  5. Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community

    left.it · 1 outlets

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

    web.mit.edu · 2 outlets

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

    andregarzia.com · 1 outlets

  8. WebKit will delete all local storage after 7 days

    nbcnews.com · 2 outlets

  9. Using Anki to remember what you read

    superorganizers.substa · 2 outlets

Entertainment 41 stories

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

    jstage.jst.go.jp · 2 outlets

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

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Fraidycat

    fraidyc.at · 1 outlets

  2. Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

    staatsoperlive.com · 1 outlets

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

    bingetogether.com · 3 outlets

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

    chartio.com · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: Skynet Simulator

    skynetsimulator.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder

    github.com · 2 outlets

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