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The month's top story

Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

nytimes.com · 2 sources

Also covering this thedailybeast.comBezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private Data
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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Kroki – Convert plain text diagrams to images

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    The V Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)

    3 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 39 stories

  1. Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

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

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

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

    dallasnews.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

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

    jatins.gitlab.io · 1 outlets

  5. CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows

    hanskamp.nl · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  7. Different ways to build a $100M business (2014)

    christophjanz.blogspot · 1 outlets

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

    notamonadtutorial.com · 1 outlets

  9. Lyft prices IPO at top of range

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  10. A random dungeon generator in C, small enough to fit on a business card

    gist.github.com · 1 outlets

Sports 41 stories

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

    internalregister.githu · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    theregister.co.uk · 1 outlets

  2. Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Winding down my Debian involvement

    michael.stapelberg.ch · 1 outlets

  4. Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  5. DTrace on Windows

    techcommunity.microsof · 1 outlets

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

    chess.com · 1 outlets

Technology 619 stories

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

    purpleleafsoftware.com · 2 outlets

  2. Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

    blog.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  3. I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me

    blog.samuelmaddock.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

    timetoplayfair.com · 1 outlets

  2. A guide to difficult conversations

    medium.dave-bailey.com · 1 outlets

  3. Kroki – Convert plain text diagrams to images

    marketplace.org · 7 outlets

  4. Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

    nsa.gov · 3 outlets

  5. Warp – Mobile VPN

    blog.cloudflare.com · 1 outlets

  6. Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

    nginx.com · 1 outlets

  7. Thinkpad X210

    geoff.greer.fm · 1 outlets

  8. Why Bother with What Three Words?

    shkspr.mobi · 3 outlets

  9. Productivity Is About Attention Management

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music

    generative.fm · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

    colorsupplyyy.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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

    hellogoodbye.app · 1 outlets

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

    nbcsandiego.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

    wiki.nikitavoloboev.xy · 1 outlets

  5. Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show

    gadgets.ndtv.com · 1 outlets

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

    txt.black · 1 outlets

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