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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 27 – September 3, 2016 181 stories · Vol. 16 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 247 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup

Business 10 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. Startups turning to a funding tactic used by oil and gas companies in the 1900s

Sports 6 stories

  1. A global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions

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

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

  3. Latest Intel, AMD chips won't support Windows versions earlier than Windows 10

Technology 148 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. An account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight

  3. Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

  4. How to steal a developer's local database

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

Entertainment 7 stories

  1. Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour

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

  2. SEC awards $22M to Monsanto whistleblower

  3. Show HN: Poor man's Google Docs

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