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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 21 – February 20, 2016 819 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 51 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Parker Conrad Steps Down as Zenefits CEO

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google's Free Deep Learning Course

    9 of 30 days · 11 articles

  2. Technology

    Frinkiac: Simpsons quote search engine

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    A visit with Apple’s chief chipmaker

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 41 stories

  1. Parker Conrad Steps Down as Zenefits CEO

  2. Building a Startup in 45 Minutes per Day While Deployed in Iraq

  3. Investigate switching away from GitHub

  4. Yelp Posts Q4 Loss, CFO Resigns

Show 10 more
  1. Dear Startups: Here’s How to Stay Alive

  2. Tableau stock down almost 50%

  3. How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone

  4. Funding Django is not an act of charity, it's an investment

  5. Will Bond (Package Control) Joins Sublime HQ

  6. Goldman Sachs and the $580M Black Hole (2012)

  7. SourceForge Acquisition and Future Plans

  8. How to Survive an Acquisition

  9. The Rich Are Already Using Robo-Advisers, and That Scares Banks

  10. $250k of DigitalOcean credits for YC startups

Sports 30 stories

  1. Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion

  2. SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses

Show 6 more
  1. Jonathan Blow's new game, The Witness, is out

  2. Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS

  3. Why expat Americans are giving up their passports

  4. Wikileaks' Assange wins U.N. ruling on 'arbitrary detention“

  5. Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units

  6. Why a city should not build a stadium for an NFL team

Technology 615 stories

  1. Gravitational waves detected by LIGO

  2. Unikernel Systems Joins Docker

  3. A Message to Our Customers

Show 9 more
  1. Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right

  2. Request For Research: Basic Income

  3. Amazon's customer service backdoor

  4. Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake

  5. Apple’s declining software quality

  6. Marvin Minsky dies at 88

  7. Introducing the Keybase filesystem

  8. Facebook is closing Parse

  9. LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Show HN: An open-source ultrasound imaging dev kit side project

  2. Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year

Show 6 more
  1. Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show

  2. Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform

  3. Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email processing

  4. Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

  5. Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics

  6. Show HN: Simple and elegant Markdown-based resumes

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