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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 18 – February 17, 2015 816 stories · Vol. 15 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 48 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A Hollywood romance-turned-horror story

A brutal divorce led millionaire Dino Guglielmelli to hire an alleged hit man to murder his model wife, Monica Olsen -- the story behind the hit has more twists and turns than a Hollywood thriller

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What should I do about YouTube?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Introducing React Native [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What Color Is Your Function?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. The Bitcoin Piñata

  2. Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX

  3. Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen

  4. A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics

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  1. At some startups, Friday is so casual that it’s not even a workday

  2. $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

  3. Apple CEO Tim Cook challenges Obama with impassioned stand on privacy

  4. Valve Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Finance Minister of Greece

  5. Life in a post-database world: Using crypto to avoid database writes

  6. How startup Fab died

  7. Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware

  8. Reddit has shut down its nascent cryptocurrency project

  9. I Visit Libraries to Sell Bitcoins to Random People from the Internet

  10. Feds found Silk Road 2 servers after a six-month attack on Tor?

Sports 35 stories

  1. Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2

  2. EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance

Show 6 more
  1. EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying

  2. Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game

  3. ‘Braid’ creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game

  4. Bypassing Windows 10's Protections Using a Single Bit

  5. Google discloses three severe vulnerabilities in Apple OS X

  6. Emacs Is My New Window Manager

Technology 641 stories

  1. WhatsApp doesn't understand the web

  2. New services expand IBM Watson capabilities to images, speech, and more

  3. Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke

Show 9 more
  1. What should I do about YouTube?

  2. FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality

  3. Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

  4. YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

  5. Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles

  6. “Equation Group” ran the most advanced hacking operation ever uncovered

  7. Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster

  8. Firefox Hello

  9. CoreCLR is now open source

Entertainment 41 stories

  1. Deleting any Facebook album

  2. Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams

  2. Working at Netflix

  3. Show HN: Matterhorn – Your new project manager

  4. Show HN: Using SVG to Shrink Your PNGs

  5. Samsung's smart TVs are inserting unwanted ads into users' own movies

  6. Show HN: A Global Co-Living Subscription for Nomads

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