The Mez Ledger
Menu
2021-04-15
Monthly Close

Monthly Close

The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 16 – April 15, 2021 811 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 15 · Issue 105 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.

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Tusky has been removed from the Play Store

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Rust in the Android Platform

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

  2. The architecture behind a one-person tech startup

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

  4. LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

Show 10 more
  1. In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway

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

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

  4. My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable

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

  6. Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director

  7. Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas

  8. PayPal launches crypto checkout service

  9. Why in the world would you own bonds?

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

Sports 27 stories

  1. Coinbase from YC to DPO

  2. Show HN: Video Game in a Font

Show 6 more
  1. Cookie Consent Speed Running Game

  2. Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?

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

  4. Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal

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

  6. Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning

Technology 613 stories

  1. Clubhouse data leak: 1.3M user records leaked online for free

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

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

Show 9 more
  1. GitHub, fuck your name change

  2. Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

  3. Just Be Rich

  4. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

  5. Microsoft Coffee

  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. I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put me on the no fly list

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Show HN: Lofi.cafe

  2. Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way

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

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

  4. Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman

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

  6. Show HN: My personal website is a shell

the Monthly Close

You just read a month of news in four minutes.

Every Monday we rank what the world actually covered — by how many outlets ran it and how many days it stayed up — and send you the top of the pile. No takes, no ads.

One email a week. We confirm your address first. Unsubscribe in one click. We never sell the list.