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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 8 – May 8, 2020 806 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 129 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What does a Director of Engineering do?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Medium-hard SQL interview questions

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    What I wish I knew about React

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 52 stories

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

  2. Seinfeld Adventure

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

  4. Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce

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

  2. Senate Stock Watcher

  3. Startup financial models – Templates compared for SaaS

  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. The Original Cookie specification from 1997 was GDPR compliant (2019)

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

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

Sports 26 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. Facebook iOS SDK Remotely Crashing Spotify, TikTok, Pinterest, Winno and More

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

  3. Rust/WinRT Public Preview

  4. Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020

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

  6. X410 – X Server for Windows 10

Technology 589 stories

  1. Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps

  2. Rust Survey 2019 Results

  3. In Pursuit of PPE

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  1. Gig workers are organising in tech-savvy ways

  2. Bye, Amazon

  3. GitHub is now free for teams

  4. IBM will offer free COBOL training

  5. Zoom Acquires Keybase

  6. It’s Time to Build

  7. GitHub Codespaces

  8. Shirt Without Stripes

  9. New iPhone SE

Entertainment 56 stories

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

  2. Disney claims anyone using a Twitter hashtag is agreeing to their terms of use

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  1. Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms

  2. Show HN: Caddy 2

  3. Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned

  4. Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

  5. Show HN: SQL Police Department – Learn SQL while solving crimes

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

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