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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 19 – February 18, 2015 822 stories · Vol. 15 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 49 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 46 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. An Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding the App Store 70/30 Revenue Split

  4. “A spambot barfed its post recipe on my blog”

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

  6. Valve Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Finance Minister of Greece

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

  8. How startup Fab died

  9. Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware

  10. Reddit has shut down its nascent cryptocurrency project

Sports 36 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 642 stories

  1. Tesla Motors Announces a New Home Battery

  2. WhatsApp doesn't understand the web

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

Show 9 more
  1. Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke

  2. What should I do about YouTube?

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

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

  5. YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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

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

  8. Firefox Hello

  9. CoreCLR is now open source

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Deleting any Facebook album

  2. Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets

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  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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