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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 3 – June 2, 2020 797 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 23 · Issue 154 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 June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Why does writing matter in remote work?

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Every software system used at Gitlab

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 39 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. Google gave our business listing to a competitor

  2. Bitcoin Halving Just Occured

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

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

  5. Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash

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

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

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

  9. Why is AI so useless for business?

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

Sports 32 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. Making a SNES game in 2020 using modern tools

  5. Windows Package Manager Preview

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

Technology 592 stories

  1. Surveillance tools used by the Minneapolis Police Department

  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. SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit

  4. Deno 1.0

  5. MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

  6. The Day AppGet Died

  7. Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

  8. Zoom Acquires Keybase

  9. YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments

Entertainment 53 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: Caddy 2

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

  4. Netflix stops charging customers who never watch

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

  6. Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

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