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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 16 – October 16, 2014 835 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 289 Get it by email ↓
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Why I Love Startup School

startupclass.samaltman · 5 sources

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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 42 stories

  1. Why I Love Startup School

    startupclass.samaltman · 5 outlets

  2. The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'

    keybase.io · 1 outlets

  3. Before the Startup

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

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

    righto.com · 1 outlets

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

    wired.com · 1 outlets

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

    priceonomics.com · 1 outlets

  3. Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit

    np.reddit.com · 1 outlets

  4. Android 5.0 Lollipop

    googleblog.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

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

    blog.garrytan.com · 1 outlets

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

    theatlantic.com · 1 outlets

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

    recode.net · 1 outlets

  8. The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes

    bloombergview.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  10. Bad Notes on Venture Capital

    bothsidesofthetable.co · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Rust means never having to close a socket

    blog.skylight.io · 1 outlets

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

    imakesnowflakes.com · 1 outlets

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

    searchcode.com · 1 outlets

  4. Why no one wants to host the 2022 olympics

    sports.yahoo.com · 1 outlets

  5. Unfinished game – learn by practice

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics

    acko.net · 1 outlets

Technology 613 stories

  1. Bash 'shellshock' bug is wormable

    trustedsec.com · 5 outlets

  2. The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014

    nobelprize.org · 2 outlets

  3. John Carmack on Inlined Code

    youtube.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich

    youtube.com · 2 outlets

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

    blog.ycombinator.com · 2 outlets

  3. GitHub Student Developer Pack

    education.github.com · 1 outlets

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

    isro.gov.in · 2 outlets

  5. Nexus 6

    google.com · 1 outlets

  6. TXT Record XSS

    who.is · 1 outlets

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

    erenyagdiran.github.io · 2 outlets

  8. Reddit

    blog.samaltman.com · 1 outlets

  9. Trouble at the Koolaid Point

    seriouspony.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 42 stories

  1. Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details

    aviationweek.com · 1 outlets

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

    taiga.io · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Javelin Browser

    nightmarejs.org · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: Airtable, a real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid

    airtable.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    cleverdeck.com · 1 outlets

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

    stonetemple.com · 1 outlets

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

    readme.io · 1 outlets

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