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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 1 – May 1, 2009 792 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 121 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 May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Hacker News RSS Feed + Readability

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Thoughts on the Y Combinator interview process

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Zappos

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 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

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  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. Fred Wilson on investing in Geocities

  9. Apple Posts Its Best Second Quarter Earnings Ever

  10. The lifestyle business bullshit

Sports 33 stories

  1. Pirate Bay officially loses case

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

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

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

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

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

  5. A few comments on pandemic influenza

  6. Atlassian Confluence $5 for 5 users

Technology 595 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 24 stories

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

  2. How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job

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  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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