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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 12 – May 12, 2020 799 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 133 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Seinfeld Adventure

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Your mobile data sold, without your knowledge

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    What does a Director of Engineering do?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What I wish I knew about React

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. Seinfeld Adventure

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

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. Startup financial models – Templates compared for SaaS

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

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

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

  5. Bitcoin Halving Just Occured

  6. Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?

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

  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 25 stories

  1. My robotic basketball hoop won't let you miss [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 594 stories

  1. Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps

  2. Rust Survey 2019 Results

  3. In Pursuit of PPE

Show 9 more
  1. MS Flight Simulator vs. Real Life

  2. Gig workers are organising in tech-savvy ways

  3. Bye, Amazon

  4. GitHub is now free for teams

  5. Zoom Acquires Keybase

  6. It’s Time to Build

  7. GitHub Codespaces

  8. Shirt Without Stripes

  9. New iPhone SE

Entertainment 59 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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Plotting 3 years of hourly data in 150ms

  2. Show HN: Caddy 2

  3. Show HN: Rendering One Million Datapoints with D3 and WebGL

  4. Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor

  5. Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order

  6. Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

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