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The month's top story

No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation

bloomberg.com · 2 sources

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Neural network from scratch

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Solving Wordle in 3.64 guesses on average, 99.4% of the time

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    People don't work as much as they say

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation

    bloomberg.com · 2 outlets

  2. Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card

    alanany.com · 1 outlets

  3. New Year, New CEO

    signal.org · 1 outlets

  4. PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds

    engadget.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

    web.stanford.edu · 1 outlets

  2. I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to

    bastionzero.com · 1 outlets

  3. An anatomy of Bitcoin price manipulation

    singlelunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64

    thecentersquare.com · 1 outlets

  5. Norton is installing a Cryptocurrency miner called Norton Crypto (NCrypt.exe)

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  6. Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business

    prnewswire.com · 1 outlets

  7. Mozilla Foundation pausing cryptocurrency donations

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile

    military.com · 1 outlets

  9. GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts

    rewis.io · 1 outlets

  10. Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Sports 34 stories

  1. Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

    looptap.vasanthv.com · 2 outlets

  2. The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

    blog.haschek.at · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Burn My Windows

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Did I just lose half a million dollars?

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: BookStack – An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

    bookstackapp.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward

    pcworld.com · 1 outlets

  5. Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)

    polygon.com · 1 outlets

  6. Wine 7.0

    winehq.org · 1 outlets

Technology 595 stories

  1. Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?

    isgoogleanalyticsilleg · 3 outlets

  2. James Webb is fully deployed

    npr.org · 3 outlets

  3. Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’

    vice.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec

    seclists.org · 2 outlets

  2. My First Impressions of Web3

    moxie.org · 2 outlets

  3. GPS

    ciechanow.ski · 1 outlets

  4. Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  5. Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

    news.microsoft.com · 1 outlets

  6. Elizabeth Holmes found guilty

    axios.com · 2 outlets

  7. I got pwned by my cloud costs

    troyhunt.com · 1 outlets

  8. Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx

    nginx.com · 1 outlets

  9. Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous

    charm.sh · 2 outlets

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

    askamanager.org · 1 outlets

  2. Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire

    fahrrad-tools.de · 1 outlets

  2. The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

    cheapskatesguide.org · 1 outlets

  3. Why can’t I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU platform?

    cyberlink.com · 1 outlets

  4. Music industry is suing youtube-dl hosters

    news.i-n24.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: I bought and tested the filtration of every mask on Amazon

    armbrustusa.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension

    showcase.onlyrecipe.ap · 2 outlets

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