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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 2 – May 2, 2021 800 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 122 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Medal of Honor recipient, and the battle that stays forever

Combat Outpost Keating was a remote U.S. Army position in Afghanistan that attracted a Taliban attack nearly seven years ago. The medal that one of its defenders received for his actions that day still weighs heavily on Sgt. Clint Romesha, as David Martin now tells us.

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Nobody is joining Google's FLoC

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 46 stories

  1. Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

    wired.com · 2 outlets

  2. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

    signal.org · 1 outlets

  3. The architecture behind a one-person tech startup

    anthonynsimon.com · 2 outlets

  4. My Current HTML Boilerplate

    matuzo.at · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

    unusualwhales.com · 1 outlets

  2. LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  3. Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

    extremetech.com · 1 outlets

  4. Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes

    tglyn.ch · 1 outlets

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

    cfenollosa.com · 1 outlets

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

    davesullivan.is · 1 outlets

  7. Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme

    digesttime.com · 1 outlets

  8. Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

    nysfocus.com · 1 outlets

  9. Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention

    gov.uk · 1 outlets

  10. Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

Sports 33 stories

  1. Coinbase from YC to DPO

    blog.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  2. Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

    devblogs.microsoft.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  2. Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  3. Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?

    dmitryelj.medium.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

    simulator.money · 1 outlets

  5. Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better Wine performance

    lkml.org · 1 outlets

  6. Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir

    fly.io · 1 outlets

Technology 596 stories

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

    businessinsider.com · 7 outlets

  2. Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared

    bbc.co.uk · 3 outlets

  3. Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

    thewire.in · 2 outlets

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  1. Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report

    nltimes.nl · 1 outlets

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

    supremecourt.gov · 1 outlets

  3. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

    lore.kernel.org · 1 outlets

  4. Internal Combustion Engine

    ciechanow.ski · 1 outlets

  5. UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research

    neowin.net · 2 outlets

  6. Just Be Rich

    keenen.xyz · 1 outlets

  7. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

    github.com · 1 outlets

  8. Microsoft Coffee

    microsoftcoffee.org · 1 outlets

  9. Why Lichess will always be free

    lichess.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 42 stories

  1. YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself

    newsweek.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Lofi.cafe

    lofi.cafe · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

    vitling.xyz · 1 outlets

  2. Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies

    nofilmschool.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Second-Chance Pool

    news.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard

    projectifi.io · 4 outlets

  5. Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python

    mvanga.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I'm working on a open-source, self-hosted alternative to Disqus

    cusdis.com · 1 outlets

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