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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 15 – May 15, 2009 793 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 135 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

hnstartups.com · 1 sources

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Build an Ncurses UI with Python

    10 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Technology

    Thoughts on the Y Combinator interview process

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Evented Programming With jQuery

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 45 stories

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

    hnstartups.com · 1 outlets

  2. The First Digg Developer Dispels the Myths Surrounding Digg & Startups in General

    blog.mixergy.com · 1 outlets

  3. Lessons from a failed startup

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

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

    sfbay.craigslist.org · 1 outlets

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

    collison.ie · 1 outlets

  2. American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all

    independent.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. Profit per employee for some large tech companies

    royal.pingdom.com · 1 outlets

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

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

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

    blog.asmartbear.com · 2 outlets

  6. Obama proposes no capital gains tax on qualified small business stock

    startupcompanylawyer.c · 1 outlets

  7. Fred Wilson on investing in Geocities

    avc.com · 1 outlets

  8. Why there's nothing special about the business of software

    chrisashworth.org · 2 outlets

  9. Idiot CEOs

    venturecompany.com · 1 outlets

  10. Apple Posts Its Best Second Quarter Earnings Ever

    thestandard.com · 2 outlets

Sports 28 stories

  1. Pirate Bay officially loses case

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

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

    musicmachinery.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Google: Mowing lawn with goats

    googleblog.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

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

    kuro5hin.org · 1 outlets

  3. How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.

    shamusyoung.com · 1 outlets

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

    chronicle.com · 1 outlets

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

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

  6. A few comments on pandemic influenza

    fluidinfo.com · 1 outlets

Technology 604 stories

  1. Wolfram Alpha: Our First Impressions

    cyber.law.harvard.edu · 4 outlets

  2. Clojure on the Google App Engine

    google-code-updates.bl · 5 outlets

  3. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1

    tuxradar.com · 1 outlets

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  1. A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages

    james-iry.blogspot.com · 1 outlets

  2. HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old

    news.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  3. Oracle to buy Sun

    sun.com · 1 outlets

  4. Is There Anything Good About Men?

    denisdutton.com · 1 outlets

  5. Hacker News meetup in San Francisco (Wed Apr 22nd 6:00pm Revolution Cafe)

    mattmaroon.com · 3 outlets

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

    thelocal.se · 1 outlets

  7. Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

    miltonglaser.com · 1 outlets

  8. Can you trust 37signals with your password?

    jgc.org · 3 outlets

  9. Don’t! The secret of self-control

    newyorker.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 22 stories

  1. How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job

    savingadvice.com · 1 outlets

  2. Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong

    steveblank.com · 1 outlets

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

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

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

    antipope.org · 1 outlets

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

    guardian.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. Wolfram Alpha to Launch Live on Justin.TV

    technologyreview.com · 1 outlets

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

    reddit.tv · 1 outlets

  6. Update: DiggBar will only be shown to logged-in Digg users

    blog.digg.com · 1 outlets

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