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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 26 – May 26, 2021 835 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 146 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Privacy Update: Third-party Tracking

    7 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Catala: A Programming Language for the Law

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. My Current HTML Boilerplate

  2. DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized

  3. Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards

  4. Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally

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  1. Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue

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

  3. CEO behind Japan’s best-performing stock says his secret is raising salaries

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

  5. Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

  6. Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin

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

  8. Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production

  9. Starting a crypto project

  10. Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip

Sports 34 stories

  1. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

  2. The Ultimate Guide to Inflation

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  1. Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"

  2. Terms and Conditions Game

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

  4. Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua

  5. How Tech Loses Out

  6. Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed

Technology 640 stories

  1. China lands rover on Mars

  2. Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist

  3. Umami – An alternative to Google Analytics

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  1. Internal Combustion Engine

  2. GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages

  3. Merge tag 'arm-Apple-M1-5.13' of Linux

  4. A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work

  5. Sublime Text 4

  6. Welcome to Libera Chat

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

  8. Why People Feel Like Victims

  9. One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

  2. Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

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  1. Show HN: I built Grafar, a visualization library

  2. Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance

  3. Show HN: Second-Chance Pool

  4. Show your costs to boost sales

  5. TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter

  6. Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]

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