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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close March 20 – March 27, 2021 178 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 12 · Issue 86 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway

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Business 7 stories

  1. In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway

  2. SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme

  3. Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator

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  1. Funds for Open Source

  2. Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)

  3. A Brief History of the Hedge Fund

  4. The bank effect and the big boat blocking the Suez

Sports 6 stories

  1. 0 A.D A free, open-source game of ancient warfare

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  1. Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal

  2. An ancient method that keeps Afghanistan's grapes fresh all winter

  3. Closing web browser windows doesn't close connections

Technology 148 stories

  1. Is that ship still stuck?

  2. All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk

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  1. Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed

  2. Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany

  3. Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook

  4. Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

  5. SQLite is not a toy database

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

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  1. 'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video]

  2. Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone

  3. Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser

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