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2016-09-02
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 26 – September 2, 2016 181 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 246 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

Business 9 stories

  1. Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

  2. GitHub Code Search – Programmers' Goldmine

  3. Amazon Launchpad for Startups

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  1. Startup accused of scamming employees scrubs its online presence

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

  3. Former Sequoia partners: The Midwest is the future of startups

  4. Are Index Funds Eating the World?

Sports 5 stories

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

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

  2. What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7? (2010)

  3. Why cities keep growing, corporations and people die, and life gets faster

Technology 146 stories

  1. The Dropbox hack is real

  2. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral

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  1. Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes

  2. Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

  3. How to steal a developer's local database

  4. How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015)

  5. Tricks to Monetize Your Side Projects

Entertainment 10 stories

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

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  1. Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour

  2. Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks

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

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