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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 23 – March 25, 2019 795 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 84 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

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    SpaceX Crew Demo-1 Mission [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)

    3 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 41 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. CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows

  5. The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO

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

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

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

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

  10. Pixelfed – An alternative to centralized image sharing platforms

Sports 39 stories

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

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

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  1. Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox

  2. Winding down my Debian involvement

  3. DTrace on Windows

  4. 8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship

  5. Engineer refusing to file/disclose patents

  6. FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws

Technology 602 stories

  1. Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number

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

  3. Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

Show 9 more
  1. Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

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

  3. Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

  4. Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

  5. Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

  6. We Need Chrome No More

  7. Thinkpad X210

  8. Rudder issue that plagued the Boeing 737 throughout the 1990s

  9. HIV Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music

  2. Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Automatically synchronize subtitles with video

  2. Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service

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

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

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

  6. Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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