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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 9 – May 9, 2021 801 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 129 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. Technology

    Live feed of Starship SN15 flight test [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: I made a 5-key keyboard

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

    signal.org · 1 outlets

  2. My Current HTML Boilerplate

    matuzo.at · 1 outlets

  3. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

    unusualwhales.com · 1 outlets

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

    extremetech.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay

    chrome.google.com · 1 outlets

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

    tglyn.ch · 1 outlets

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

    davesullivan.is · 1 outlets

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

    digesttime.com · 1 outlets

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

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  6. Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

    nysfocus.com · 1 outlets

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

    gov.uk · 1 outlets

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

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

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

    decrypt.co · 1 outlets

  10. Starting a crypto project

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Sports 37 stories

  1. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Coinbase from YC to DPO

    blog.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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

    devblogs.microsoft.com · 2 outlets

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

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

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

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  4. How Tech Loses Out

    berthub.eu · 1 outlets

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

    simulator.money · 1 outlets

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

    lkml.org · 1 outlets

Technology 598 stories

  1. Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared

    bbc.co.uk · 3 outlets

  2. Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

    thewire.in · 2 outlets

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

    nltimes.nl · 1 outlets

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  1. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

    lore.kernel.org · 1 outlets

  2. Internal Combustion Engine

    ciechanow.ski · 1 outlets

  3. UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research

    neowin.net · 3 outlets

  4. Just Be Rich

    keenen.xyz · 1 outlets

  5. GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages

    phiresky.github.io · 2 outlets

  6. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

    github.com · 1 outlets

  7. Why Lichess will always be free

    lichess.org · 1 outlets

  8. Dan Kaminsky has died

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 42 stories

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

    newsweek.com · 2 outlets

  2. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

    signal.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Lofi.cafe

    lofi.cafe · 1 outlets

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

    vitling.xyz · 1 outlets

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

    nofilmschool.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React

    portfolio.zxh.io · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Second-Chance Pool

    news.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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

    projectifi.io · 4 outlets

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