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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 22 – August 29, 2016 190 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 242 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 2

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Business 10 stories

  1. Startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 2

  2. Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

  3. GitHub Code Search – Programmers' Goldmine

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  1. How Startup Options and Ownership Work

  2. ITT is no longer allowed to enroll students who rely on federal loans and grants

  3. Deutsche Bank’s $10B Scandal

  4. Short-selling as a way to profit from security vulnerabilities

Sports 11 stories

  1. Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money

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  1. GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

  2. Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014)

  3. Plasma wings could change the way airplanes are designed and flown

Technology 154 stories

  1. Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star

  2. NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender

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  1. Web Scraping in 2016

  2. “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)

  3. WhatsApp is going to share your phone number with Facebook

  4. Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958)

  5. A few HTML tips

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment

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  1. Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News

  2. Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour

  3. Breaking a myth: Data shows you don’t actually need a co-founder

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