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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 30 – May 30, 2020 794 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 151 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Why does writing matter in remote work?

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Free, open and collaborative routing service

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

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

  3. Product Marketing for Engineers

  4. Startup financial models – Templates compared for SaaS

Show 10 more
  1. Bitcoin Halving Just Occured

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

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

  4. Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash

  5. Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU

  6. Unimpressed by online classes, college students file lawsuits for refunds

  7. Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments

  8. Why is AI so useless for business?

  9. When SimCity Got Serious: Story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery

  10. I helped reposition a database product that went on to make $1B in revenue

Sports 33 stories

  1. Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices

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

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  1. React Native for Windows and Mac

  2. Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

  3. DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux

  4. Rust/WinRT Public Preview

  5. Windows Package Manager Preview

  6. US video game sales have record quarter as consumers stay at home

Technology 582 stories

  1. Me on Covid-19 contact tracing apps

  2. China signals plan to take full control of Hong Kong

  3. MS Flight Simulator vs. Real Life

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  1. Bye, Amazon

  2. Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance

  3. Deno 1.0

  4. MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

  5. The Day AppGet Died

  6. What would you do if you lost your Google account?

  7. Zoom Acquires Keybase

  8. YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments

  9. GitHub Codespaces

Entertainment 55 stories

  1. Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

  2. Show HN: SHA-256 Animation

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  1. Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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

  3. Show HN: Caddy 2

  4. Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

  5. Netflix stops charging customers who never watch

  6. Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page

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