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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 21 – December 21, 2008 760 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 356 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

    Free Five Second User Testing

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Java is Dead; Long Live Python

    6 of 30 days · 6 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. Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

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

Show 10 more
  1. Join reddit, xkcd, dtoid, ars technica & more - donate your hacker skills to non-profits

  2. Using an automated day trader to generate income

  3. Diary of a Failed Startup: Aftermath

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

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

  6. Lawrence Lessig: The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal

  7. 588 Kleiner Perkins iFund Applications Accidentally Published To Web

  8. Video of Investor Morten Lund at LeWeb. This guys is crazy/awesome.

  9. 10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas That Made Someone Rich

  10. Markopolous' (ignored) complaint to SEC describing Madoff's fund as Ponzi scheme

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. Introducing the Picwing Smart Frame (YC S08)

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

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

  5. Ender's Game Review

  6. Fed refuses to disclose recipients of $2 trillion

Technology 572 stories

  1. Genetic A/B Testing with JavaScript

  2. Auto bailout bill dies in Senate

  3. Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld

Show 9 more
  1. Love, Internet Style

  2. After Credentials

  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. Free Five Second User Testing

  8. Python 3.0 Released

  9. Five Strangest Programming Languages

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. The other half of "Artists Ship"

  2. Netflix Progress Prize Awarded

Show 6 more
  1. Roger Ebert: Celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think.

  2. Auditorium: Gaming via the process of discovery and play

  3. Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits

  4. Idiomag Pushes the Envelope With Big New Music API

  5. MusicBox: a truly powerful visualization of your music library

  6. Hidden API features turn iPhone into "gaming device."

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