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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 23 – August 30, 2013 186 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 242 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

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Business 13 stories

  1. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

  2. A horrifying startup accelerator story

  3. The one HR benefit every startup should add

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  1. The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy (2012)

  2. New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' NSA Crypto-Cracking

  3. Vasili Arkhipov

  4. No federal challenge to marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington

Sports 6 stories

  1. Let me tell you about a game I made with the sole intention of watching it die

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  1. Showing stored passwords – Tim Berners-Lee

  2. What Programming a Game in 48 Hours Taught Me About Programming Games

  3. Process your first $1,000,000 of Bitcoin payments for free with Coinbase

Technology 152 stories

  1. New Zealand bans some software patents

  2. He got 1%, we can't hire him

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  1. Defeated

  2. Why You’ve Never Read “I Have A Dream”

  3. What Happens to the Brain When You Meditate

  4. Google has lowered the price of the Nexus 4 by $100

  5. What would you like to see most in minix? (1991)

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. NSA hacked into encrypted UN communications, leaked documents show

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  1. Show HN: Easy to use Wikipedia API for Python

  2. Show HN: Highlighting Efforts of Creation from Hacker News

  3. Show HN: We built a fast substring search engine in Go

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