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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 26 – October 26, 2012 836 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 300 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

48 Hours Preview: 5 years following a double murder

48 Hours producer Sara Ely Hulse on the last chapter in a cold case that haunted Topeka, Kansas

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Python for Data Analysis

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    XKCD-style charts with D3

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    The math of faster-than-sound freefall

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 36 stories

  1. Startup School 2012 Videos

  2. Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups

  3. Zynga stock plummets below value of its cash and real estate

  4. IBM: The cost difference is too great for business not to look for H1B workers

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  1. Making Yourself a CEO

  2. Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, and what I learned.

  3. Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Startup Rap Genius

  4. Get Your Startup Covered by Any Blog

  5. Drupal's Golden Handcuffs

  6. Federal Circuit reexamining whether software is patentable

  7. Startup work-life balance

  8. How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

  9. After a spectacular crash, Bitcoin makes a surprising comeback

  10. Build a Business, Not an Exit Strategy

Sports 53 stories

  1. Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers

  2. Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game

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  1. Googling for "conway's game of life" gives a simulation in the results page

  2. The game of life emulated in the game of life

  3. How to Build a Windmill, Part 2: Parts, Nuts, Bolts and Blades

  4. “I am calling you from Windows”: A tech support scammer

  5. Windows 8 Arrives

  6. Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing

Technology 616 stories

  1. Help find a bright object on Mars

  2. Some advice from Jeff Bezos

  3. One of the SpaceX engines came apart during launch

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  1. AWS issues, affecting Heroku and others

  2. TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development

  3. Free Textbooks on Machine Learning

  4. Outlawed by Amazon DRM

  5. Bret Victor: Learnable Programming

  6. The Future of Markdown

  7. HN Spoof

  8. A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps

  9. The math of faster-than-sound freefall

Entertainment 25 stories

  1. Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app

  2. Racism at a gaming company

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  1. What Pandora Pays Top Artists

  2. Show HN: Meet your cardboard buddy.

  3. How A $19 Million Movie Makes $150 Million - And Still Isn't Profitable

  4. Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

  5. Show HN: UrbanDesk - Combination Full Size Bed and Desk

  6. Show HN: my weekend project, Quotably

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