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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 27 – October 27, 2013 818 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 300 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startup School 2013 Notes

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Typed Clojure by Example

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    How to Make a $19 Police Scanner

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    My time with the Steam Controller

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 53 stories

  1. Startup School 2013 Notes

  2. FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

  3. Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code

  4. You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins

Show 10 more
  1. Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending Crypto and Cryptology Conferences

  2. Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence

  3. Manager.io – Free accounting software for small businesses

  4. Google shares hit $1,000 after strong earnings

  5. Mark Cuban makes Shark Tank remove equity clause in contract

  6. Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion

  7. Amazon and the "profitless business model" fallacy

  8. How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font

  9. I emailed the CEO of T-Mobile and he killed my contract

  10. Baidu now accepts Bitcoin

Sports 35 stories

  1. How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes

  2. Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life?

Show 6 more
  1. How I compiled TrueCrypt 7.1a for Win32 and matched the official binaries

  2. Full archives of Game Developer magazine

  3. Russian programmer fights Goldman Sachs and wins one round

  4. Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows

  5. U.S. Opposes Tech Companies’ Requests to Disclose Surveillance

  6. How I made an Android game from scratch in 23 days

Technology 630 stories

  1. Wikileaks internal memo on "The Fifth Estate"

  2. GoDaddy Buys Media Temple

  3. The Ocean is Broken

Show 9 more
  1. Google Web Designer

  2. HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla

  3. My time with the Steam Controller

  4. Square Cash

  5. Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”

  6. Scott Adams: How to Be Successful

  7. Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online anonymity

  8. Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult

  9. After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder

Entertainment 29 stories

  1. Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript

  2. Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show

Show 6 more
  1. No More Callbacks: 10,000 Actors, 10,000 Threads, 10,000 Spaceships

  2. Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs

  3. Show HN: "Who is hiring" mapped

  4. Show HN: govuptime.com

  5. Google breaks 2005 promise never to show banner ads on search results

  6. Show HN: Introducing Harp – A static web server with built in preprocessing

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