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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 24 – February 23, 2015 812 stories · Vol. 15 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 54 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

    Introducing React Native [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Lenovo Statement on Superfish

    3 of 30 days · 3 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 28 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. ‘Braid’ creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game

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

  4. 0h n0 – A new game from the makers of 0h h1

  5. Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports

  6. Coinbase Exchange

Technology 634 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. Magic

  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 42 stories

  1. “Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014

  2. Deleting any Facebook album

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  1. Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets

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

  3. Netflix Long Term View

  4. “Just the Beginning of What We Can Do on Super Nintendo”

  5. Show HN: Matterhorn – Your new project manager

  6. Show HN: I rendered the Go gopher using Go

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