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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 28 – March 30, 2019 824 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 89 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

    What causes Ruby memory bloat?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 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. Google terminated our startup's developer account – what do we do?

  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. Lyft prices IPO at top of range

Sports 41 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 618 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. Thinkpad X210

  9. Why Bother with What Three Words?

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music

  2. Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

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  1. Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service

  2. Show HN: A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets

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

  4. Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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

  6. Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015

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