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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 22 – February 21, 2015 823 stories · Vol. 15 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 52 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

    Start your small operating system in Assembly

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    What should I do about YouTube?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Introducing React Native [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 stories

  1. Stripe: Bitcoin

  2. Startup advice, briefly

  3. The Bitcoin Piñata

  4. Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen

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  1. A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics

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

  3. $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

  4. An Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding the App Store 70/30 Revenue Split

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

  6. Hacker Claims Feds Hit Him with 44 Felonies When He Refused to Be an FBI Spy

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

  8. Too much finance is bad for the economy

  9. Valve Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Finance Minister of Greece

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

Sports 31 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. 0h n0 – A new game from the makers of 0h h1

Technology 636 stories

  1. Tesla Motors Announces a New Home Battery

  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. Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers

  5. YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

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

  7. Extracting the SuperFish certificate

  8. Whiteboard Clock

  9. Firefox Hello

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. Netflix Long Term View

  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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