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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 31 – April 30, 2009 795 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 120 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Thoughts on the Y Combinator interview process

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Zappos

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Google Code now supports Mercurial

    3 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 55 stories

  1. Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)

  2. The Banker Who Said No

  3. Lessons from a failed startup

  4. Water Front Apt. in San Mateo will trade for equity in Y Combinator startup

Show 10 more
  1. Hacking for fun and profit with Mathematica and the Google Analytics API

  2. American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all

  3. Teach Yourself Fundamentals of Math (Reasoning, Logic, Sets, Induction, Complex Numbers)

  4. Followup on the $18000 StockArt.com story

  5. Obama Unveils Plan to Fund High-Speed Passenger Rail

  6. Silicon Graphics Declares Bankruptcy and Sells Itself For $25 Million

  7. Underbelly: What haughty startup bloggers don't tell you

  8. Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss talk about Startups, Angel Investing, YC and Traffic/Conversions

  9. Fred Wilson on investing in Geocities

  10. Apple Posts Its Best Second Quarter Earnings Ever

Sports 33 stories

  1. Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"

  2. Pirate Bay officially loses case

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  1. How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll

  2. Ron Garret: How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career.

  3. We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (2004)

  4. Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down.

  5. Microsoft's Windows 7 Starter is a gift to Google

  6. A few comments on pandemic influenza

Technology 593 stories

  1. Functional programming with python

  2. Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala

  3. Wolfram Alpha: Our First Impressions

Show 9 more
  1. Google Code now supports Mercurial

  2. Oracle to buy Sun

  3. Google uncloaks once-secret server

  4. Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000

  5. Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations.

  6. Support The Founder Visa at Whitehouse2.org

  7. It’s very easy to underprice your product

  8. Five Founders

  9. Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise

Entertainment 21 stories

  1. Just in case anyone is still using YouTube for music

  2. How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job

Show 6 more
  1. Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong

  2. Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation

  3. "Nothing like this will be built again" - A Nuclear Reactor Tour

  4. Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music

  5. Reddit.TV launches - what do you think, Hacker News?

  6. A movie recommendation service that actually works

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