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2014-04-18
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close April 11 – April 18, 2014 191 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 108 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldman Sachs

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Business 7 stories

  1. Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldman Sachs

  2. Practical Cryptography With Go

  3. Boring Systems Build Badass Businesses

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  1. Apple declines to join Microsoft in funding patent troll Intellectual Ventures

  2. 900 social insurance numbers stolen from Revenue Canada via Heartbleed

  3. AngelList’s Newest Experiment: a $25M Fund to Invest in Angel Investors

  4. FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, January-March 2014

Sports 6 stories

  1. The Guardian and Washington Post win the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

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  1. The Truth About Google X: A Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors

  2. Improve developer habits by showing time cost of DB queries

  3. Google, once disdainful of lobbying, now a master of Washington influence

Technology 166 stories

  1. The Heartbleed Challenge

  2. Tesla Model S – Cost of Ownership vs. Honda Odyssey

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  1. SF’s Housing Crisis Explained

  2. Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

  3. The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]

  4. The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

  5. New axe design uses lever action to make splitting wood easier

Entertainment 5 stories

  1. Show HN: Super Planet Crash

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  1. British Pathé Puts Over 85,000 Historical Films on YouTube

  2. Show HN: Trianglify – low poly style background generator with D3.js

  3. Streem (YC S12) Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage and Streaming for $20/Month

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