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The month's top story

Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

nytimes.com · 2 sources

Also covering this cnn.comLawrence Lessig: What's really wrong with Goldman Sachs
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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Take Over The Galaxy with GitHub (DCPU16 support)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Seriously, what’s up with old media not crediting bloggers?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Maps TD - Google Maps-based Tower Defence.

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  2. Don’t Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup

    blog.hatchlings.com · 2 outlets

  3. OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to BitCoin

    developer.mintchipchal · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Bootstrapped startup saves over $100K by dropping IE

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. How To Get Media Coverage For Your Startup: A Complete Guide

    onstartups.com · 1 outlets

  3. Shitter: Toilet Paper of Tweets

    getshitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank

    projectorpm.com · 1 outlets

  5. Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail

    rollingstone.com · 1 outlets

  6. GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it.

    therwp.com · 1 outlets

  7. Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program

    apple.com · 1 outlets

  8. Yammer CEO won't hire anyone from Yahoo who doesn't quit in next 60 days

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  9. Frighteningly Unambitious Startup Ideas

    ardenthoughts.tumblr.c · 1 outlets

  10. Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter finishes at $3,335,250

    kickstarter.com · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Copyright wars heat up: US wins extradition of college kid from England

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  2. DuckDuckGo is blowing up

    duckduckgo.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Wind Map

    hint.fm · 1 outlets

  2. The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US

    blog.marksweep.com · 1 outlets

  3. Notch's next game is an MMO

    0x10c.com · 1 outlets

  4. A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure

    apenwarr.ca · 1 outlets

  5. SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork

    thenextweb.com · 1 outlets

  6. "I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost 'Just Because'"

    skattertech.com · 1 outlets

Technology 649 stories

  1. Google Announces Project Glass

    engadget.com · 4 outlets

  2. "Lighten up"

    therealkatie.net · 1 outlets

  3. I hereby resign

    raganwald.posterous.co · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Why I Left Google

    blogs.msdn.com · 1 outlets

  2. I am very real

    lettersofnote.com · 1 outlets

  3. Mosh: SSH for 2012

    mosh.mit.edu · 1 outlets

  4. Facebook acquires Instagram

    facebook.com · 3 outlets

  5. PHP: A fractal of bad design

    me.veekun.com · 1 outlets

  6. How Not To Sort By Average Rating

    evanmiller.org · 1 outlets

  7. A Woman’s Story

    raganwald.posterous.co · 1 outlets

  8. Sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5 from -20 to 20

    google.com · 1 outlets

  9. New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 27 stories

  1. Show HN: This up votes itself

    news.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework

    meteor.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Codename: Obtvse

    natewienert.com · 1 outlets

  2. This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"

    thisamericanlife.org · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Our Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

    kickstarter.com · 2 outlets

  4. Show HN: Ham, a fast PHP router/microframework I hacked up last night

    clutch.io · 2 outlets

  5. Think Hiring a Ruby Developer is Hard? Try Staffing a Nuclear Reactor Startup

    bostinno.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids

    mmoasteroids.com · 1 outlets

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