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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 20 – October 20, 2015 833 stories · Vol. 15 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 293 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How is NSA breaking so much crypto?

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1Articles

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Volkswagen and Cheating Software

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard?

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Redox: A Rust Operating System

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. How is NSA breaking so much crypto?

  2. When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup

  3. Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached

  4. Guide to Your Equity

Show 10 more
  1. Amazon Building a Tech Business for the Long Haul

  2. Square files for IPO

  3. Startup NASA

  4. One founder, zero staff, making $1.2M in monthly recurring revenue

  5. How We Uncovered the Real Identity Behind “Startup L. Jackson”

  6. Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'

  7. Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Baidu Announce Joint Investment in CloudFlare

  8. The drug industry wants us to think Martin Shkreli is a rogue CEO, but he isn't

  9. Why Do High-Frequency Traders Cancel So Many Orders?

  10. AngelList Announces $400M Early-Stage Fund

Sports 27 stories

  1. New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

  2. Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: %%30%30: A Game

  2. Ogo, a new take on personal transportation

  3. OpenSSH for Windows update

  4. Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project

  5. Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision

  6. Show HN: Download any song without knowing its name

Technology 659 stories

  1. YC Research

  2. Let's Encrypt is Trusted

  3. Free Lossless Image Format

Show 9 more
  1. Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says

  2. 'Happy Birthday' song copyright is not valid, judge rules

  3. Drug Goes from $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight

  4. Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0

  5. Otto, the successor to Vagrant

  6. Mercury Spill

  7. Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip

  8. What Happens Next Will Amaze You

  9. Two HN Announcements

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices

  2. Show HN: SVG Triangulation for WebGL

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Hacker News Simulator

  2. Show HN: Wriber – Idea Generator

  3. Netflix Switch – dim lights, turn on the TV, order food, and silence your phone

  4. Show HN: Cancel your Comcast in 5 minutes

  5. Show HN: Turn a Google Spreadsheet into an API

  6. John Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculus

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