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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 14 – October 14, 2014 829 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 287 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Lecture 2: How to Start a Startup

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Why Apple's iPhone encryption won't stop NSA

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    XOS: Build your own operating system

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 41 stories

  1. Lecture 2: How to Start a Startup

  2. The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'

  3. Before the Startup

  4. Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

Show 10 more
  1. Why I Love Startup School

  2. MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code

  3. The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada

  4. Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit

  5. Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012)

  6. Peter Thiel's Zero to One Might Be the Best Business Book I've Read

  7. Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO

  8. The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes

  9. Reddit Plans Cryptocurrency to Give Back to Its Users After $50M Raise

  10. Bad Notes on Venture Capital

Sports 34 stories

  1. Chromeos-apk – Run Android APKs on Chrome OS, OS X, Linux and Windows

  2. Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose surveillance orders

Show 6 more
  1. Rust means never having to close a socket

  2. Show HN: Sail boat simulation – try to sail into the wind

  3. if (osName.startsWith("windows 9"))

  4. Why no one wants to host the 2022 olympics

  5. Unfinished game – learn by practice

  6. The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics

Technology 614 stories

  1. Bash 'shellshock' bug is wormable

  2. The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014

  3. John Carmack on Inlined Code

Show 9 more
  1. Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich

  2. The Quality, Popularity, and Negativity of 5.6M Hacker News Comments

  3. I'm Leaving Mojang

  4. GitHub Student Developer Pack

  5. India's Mars mission: Picture that spoke 1,000 words

  6. TXT Record XSS

  7. I was asked to crack a program in a job interview

  8. Reddit

  9. Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: Moo.do – Simple, Powerful Organizational Tool

  2. Show HN: Javelin Browser

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Airtable, a real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid

  2. Show HN: Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution

  3. Show HN: CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I always wanted

  4. Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana – The Great Knowledge Box Showdown

  5. Show HN: ReadMe.io – Beautiful Documentation Made Easy

  6. Google to Make Security Guards Employees, Rather Than Contractors

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