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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 26 – March 28, 2019 815 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 87 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Best of Machine Learning

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Amazon makes 14 cents from every Lyft ride

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)

    3 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

  2. Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

  3. Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw

  4. Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

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  1. Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake

  2. Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM Registry

  3. What you need to know before you join a startup

  4. Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission

  5. CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows

  6. The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO

  7. China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do

  8. Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B investment in Apple

  9. How to earn your macroeconomics and finance white belt as a software developer

  10. Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In, No Customers

Sports 42 stories

  1. Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time

  2. Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award

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  1. EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others

  2. Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox

  3. Winding down my Debian involvement

  4. Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track

  5. DTrace on Windows

  6. 8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship

Technology 612 stories

  1. Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number

  2. Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%

  3. Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”

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  1. Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

  2. Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

  3. A guide to difficult conversations

  4. UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access

  5. Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

  6. Kroki – Convert plain text diagrams to images

  7. Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

  8. We Need Chrome No More

  9. Thinkpad X210

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music

  2. Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

Show 6 more
  1. Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service

  2. Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, Markdown

  3. Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

  4. Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Through a Secret Database

  5. Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

  6. Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

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