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The month's top story

Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank

fdic.gov · 11 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Making Python faster with Rust

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank

    fdic.gov · 11 outlets

  2. Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

    home.treasury.gov · 1 outlets

  3. Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake

    goodreason.substack.co · 1 outlets

  4. CFTC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao [pdf]

    docdroid.net · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. My startup banking story

    mitchellh.com · 1 outlets

  2. CDC team studying East Palestine train derailment fell ill during investigation

    cbsnews.com · 1 outlets

  3. Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market

    dagster.io · 1 outlets

  4. Midjourney CEO Silencing Satire About Xi Jinping

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  5. SEC charges crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and his companies for fraud

    sec.gov · 1 outlets

  6. Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI

    blog.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  7. Banking in uncertain times

    bitsaboutmoney.com · 1 outlets

  8. Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  9. Starbucks CEO will work a shift at the company’s cafes once a month

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  10. Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

    riskybiznews.substack. · 1 outlets

Sports 38 stories

  1. Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

  2. The day Windows died

    thomasbandt.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Bob Metcalfe wins Turing Award

    amturing.acm.org · 1 outlets

  2. DPReview.com to close

    dpreview.com · 1 outlets

  3. UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years

    grocerygazette.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. Alpaca: A strong open-source instruction-following model

    crfm.stanford.edu · 1 outlets

  5. Lego violates GPL by keep Blender-based BrickLink Studio source closed (2021)

    devtalk.blender.org · 1 outlets

  6. Battery-free Game Boy (2020)

    freethegameboy.info · 1 outlets

Technology 591 stories

  1. LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

    cerebras.net · 2 outlets

  2. Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO

    nato.int · 2 outlets

  3. ChatGPT and Code Interpreter = Magic

    vicuna.lmsys.org · 7 outlets

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  1. Google reverses 5M file limit in Google Drive

    arstechnica.com · 4 outlets

  2. Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

  3. GPT-4

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  4. Bicycle

    ciechanow.ski · 1 outlets

  5. Gordon Moore has died

    moore.org · 1 outlets

  6. Secret ChatGPT plugins can be revealed by removing a parameter from an API call

    openai.com · 2 outlets

  7. Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

    blog.twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. What we know about the Apple Neural Engine

    blog.alexellis.io · 2 outlets

  9. Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

    sfgate.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 42 stories

  1. Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

    genmon.github.io · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux

    da.vidbuchanan.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Generate styled web pages with just Python

    pouria.dev · 2 outlets

  4. Apple Music Classical

    learn.applemusic.apple · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

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