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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 11 – April 10, 2021 806 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 14 · Issue 100 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Man billed $1.7 million by government for life-saving burn treatment

"I never expected, never in my life to live through something like this," Alexis Hernandez told CBS News' Anna Werner.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    A woman who took on Google and won

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    EBPFSnitch: An eBPF based Linux Application Firewall

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

    wired.com · 2 outlets

  2. The architecture behind a one-person tech startup

    anthonynsimon.com · 1 outlets

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

    console.dev · 1 outlets

  4. LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

    axios.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  3. Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

    cfenollosa.com · 1 outlets

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

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

  5. UK to depart from GDPR

    lawgazette.co.uk · 1 outlets

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

    sfgate.com · 1 outlets

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

    iism.org · 1 outlets

  8. PayPal launches crypto checkout service

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  9. Why in the world would you own bonds?

    bridgewater.com · 1 outlets

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

    elad-verbin.medium.com · 1 outlets

Sports 27 stories

  1. Show HN: Video Game in a Font

    coderelay.io · 1 outlets

  2. Cookie Consent Speed Running Game

    cookieconsentspeed.run · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?

    dmitryelj.medium.com · 1 outlets

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

    boilingsteam.com · 1 outlets

  3. 0 A.D A free, open-source game of ancient warfare

    play0ad.com · 1 outlets

  4. Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal

    quantamagazine.org · 1 outlets

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

    atlasobscura.com · 1 outlets

  6. Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning

    kwokchain.com · 1 outlets

Technology 610 stories

  1. Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

    businessinsider.com · 5 outlets

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

    pcgamer.com · 2 outlets

  3. OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC)

    marc.info · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]

    supremecourt.gov · 1 outlets

  2. GitHub, fuck your name change

    mooseyanon.medium.com · 3 outlets

  3. Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

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

    tinyprojects.dev · 1 outlets

  5. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Microsoft Coffee

    microsoftcoffee.org · 1 outlets

  7. Is that ship still stuck?

    istheshipstillstuck.co · 2 outlets

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

    brianschrader.com · 1 outlets

  9. Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

    github.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 42 stories

  1. Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

    practical-go-lessons.c · 2 outlets

  2. Satellite imagery shows Northern California kelp forests have collapsed

    smithsonianmag.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation

    juliacomputing.com · 1 outlets

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

    enes.in · 1 outlets

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

    grenzwissenschaft-aktu · 1 outlets

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

    fieldofvision.org · 1 outlets

  5. Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  6. Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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