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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 14 – December 14, 2008 761 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 349 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ask HN: Review my startup

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Java is Dead; Long Live Python

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Google To Take Chrome Out Of Beta

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Print this file, your printer will jam

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 66 stories

  1. Ask HN: Review my startup

  2. Profitable Until Deemed Illegal

  3. Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue

  4. Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

Show 10 more
  1. Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

  2. How To Spot a Breakthrough: Tips from Early Amazon Investor Nick Hanauer

  3. Lesson learned from my biggest business mistake

  4. Using an automated day trader to generate income

  5. Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO

  6. Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath

  7. Prosper.com, P2P Lending Startup, Shut Down by SEC [pdf]

  8. Obscene Losses: How YouPorn is Killing the Adult Entertainment Business

  9. Michael Lewis: A Wall Street Job Can’t Match a Calling in Life

  10. The world’s most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain

Sports 21 stories

  1. The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct

  2. The BaseShield App Store for Windows launches (YC Winter 08)

Show 6 more
  1. A Costly Parade, by Why the Lucky Stiff, and that NodeBox pong game -- in Shoes

  2. Physics Nobel Prize Winner Steven Chu Nominated to be Secretary of Energy

  3. Official Gmail Blog: Fast PDF viewing right in your browser

  4. Ender's Game Review

  5. Ticketstumbler (YC summer 08) "growing 50 percent a month"

  6. Fed refuses to disclose recipients of $2 trillion

Technology 567 stories

  1. Genetic A/B Testing with JavaScript

  2. Auto bailout bill dies in Senate

  3. Google's Secret Weapon: MapReduce

Show 9 more
  1. Insider Trading, or Political Persecution?

  2. Love, Internet Style

  3. Freezing cold, no Internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference

  4. The High-Res Society

  5. Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000

  6. Ever wondered what the 'Free Public WiFi' networks you see everywhere are?

  7. Python 3.0 Released

  8. The IT Contract from Hell

  9. RubyGem is from Mars, AptGet is from Venus

Entertainment 15 stories

  1. The other half of "Artists Ship"

  2. 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv

Show 6 more
  1. Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

  2. Why thinking in the shower may be an ideal model for "creative pause"

  3. Netflix Progress Prize Awarded

  4. Roger Ebert: Celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think.

  5. Hulu already making more money than YouTube

  6. Unhappy people watch TV, happy people read/socialize

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