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2021-05-06
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close April 29 – May 6, 2021 190 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 126 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions

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Business 9 stories

  1. How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions

  2. Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada

  3. Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers

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  1. Stock Market Returns Are Anything but Average

  2. Intent to issue €2.5M fine to Disqus over GDPR breaches

  3. Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstream supermarket shelves

  4. What nobody says about startup moms

Sports 6 stories

  1. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

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  1. How Tech Loses Out

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

  3. Tiny Wins

Technology 158 stories

  1. Internal Combustion Engine

  2. Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster

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  1. “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

  2. Yayagram

  3. LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

  4. Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

  5. Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

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  1. Show HN: Second-Chance Pool

  2. Show your costs to boost sales

  3. Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale

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