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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 2 – April 1, 2021 818 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 91 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Repealing Section 230 won’t do what anyone wants

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Shitty Software Kills People

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What We Can Learn from Japanese Prefab Homes

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”

  2. Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet

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

  4. EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document

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  1. My bank sent me 64 copies of the same debit card

  2. UK to depart from GDPR

  3. Bitcoin Is Time

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

  5. Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?

  6. UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews

  7. PayPal launches crypto checkout service

  8. Why in the world would you own bonds?

  9. Bitcoin is not a Battery – it is a Sink

  10. Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding

Sports 35 stories

  1. Kinto: Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux and Windows

  2. Show HN: Video Game in a Font

Show 6 more
  1. Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes

  2. Cookie Consent Speed Running Game

  3. Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life

  4. Out of the top fifty games on Steam, 70% work on Linux

  5. 0 A.D A free, open-source game of ancient warfare

  6. Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal

Technology 620 stories

  1. Rockstar pays $10k to modder who fixed GTA Online loading times

  2. Honda's now selling the first production car with level 3 self-driving

  3. Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B

Show 9 more
  1. GitHub, fuck your name change

  2. Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

  3. I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service

  4. It Can Happen to You

  5. Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch

  6. Is that ship still stuck?

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

  8. Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

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

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

  2. Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it

Show 6 more
  1. Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed

  2. Show HN: Svelte NodeGUI, a lightweight Electron alternative with native UI

  3. Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation

  4. Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way

  5. Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust

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

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