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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 17 – June 16, 2021 828 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 24 · Issue 167 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender

Also covering this cnbc.comEl Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  2. Technology

    Blog about what you've struggled with

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender

  2. Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1

  3. It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

  4. If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund

Show 10 more
  1. Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards

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

  3. The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable

  4. Why we should end the data economy

  5. Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

  6. Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News

  7. Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app

  8. Pesticides are killing the world's soils

  9. Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip

  10. DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside

Sports 39 stories

  1. Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’

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

Show 6 more
  1. FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web

  2. Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++

  3. Terms and Conditions Game

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

  5. Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines

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

Technology 654 stories

  1. Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist

  2. The Google Nest Hub is first commercial Fuchsia device

  3. Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

Show 9 more
  1. An Unbelievable Demo

  2. Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

  3. There are no results for tank man

  4. The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

  5. Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge

  6. I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

  7. A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work

  8. Sublime Text 4

  9. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lab-Leak Theory

Entertainment 30 stories

  1. Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

  2. Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

Show 6 more
  1. Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors

  2. Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative

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

  4. Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

  5. Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

  6. Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

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