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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 31 – April 30, 2020 810 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 121 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

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1Articles

What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Debugging Distributed Systems

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    What end-to-end encryption should look like

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

  2. Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes

  3. Seinfeld Adventure

  4. After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife

Show 10 more
  1. “Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business”

  2. Senate Stock Watcher

  3. Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report

  4. Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens

  5. Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight

  6. Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending

  7. Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China

  8. Small business rescue earned banks $10B in fees

  9. U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Recession

  10. SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb

Sports 27 stories

  1. Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]

  2. 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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  1. Valve's Proton Has Brought 6000 Windows Games to Linux So Far

  2. Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020

  3. Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows

  4. Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’

  5. X410 – X Server for Windows 10

  6. Custom Game Engines: A Small Study

Technology 599 stories

  1. NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan

  2. Rust Survey 2019 Results

  3. In Pursuit of PPE

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  1. Does Zoom use end-to-end encryption?

  2. Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

  3. GitHub is now free for teams

  4. IBM will offer free COBOL training

  5. Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

  6. It’s Time to Build

  7. Shirt Without Stripes

  8. New iPhone SE

  9. Debugging Distributed Systems

Entertainment 49 stories

  1. OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

  2. If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right

Show 6 more
  1. Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use

  2. Show HN: InStock – like Waze, but for grocery availability

  3. Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

  4. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to stop mindless browsing

  5. Show HN: Editly – Declarative command-line video editing

  6. Phoenix LiveDashboard

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