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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 30 – May 30, 2009 789 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 150 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profit per employee for some large tech companies

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Bringing Traffic with Google Adwords

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Applications for your plug computer

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Dear News.YC: please review my Mac app, Evom

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 36 stories

  1. Profit per employee for some large tech companies

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

  3. You are the problem: the reason why so many startups don't get venture funding

  4. Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say

Show 10 more
  1. How To Put Invite Codes on Business Cards

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

  3. Nate Lawson Breaks Google Keyczar's HMAC Crypto Signatures

  4. How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step

  5. Interview With Eric Reis On Lean Startups

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

  7. Idiot CEOs

  8. The huge-scale real-time auctions that power the Google profit machine

  9. EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on par with freedom of expression

  10. Fred Wilson: The End of the IPO Drought is Coming

Sports 23 stories

  1. Google: Mowing lawn with goats

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

Show 6 more
  1. What I learned from screwing up my first ebook launch

  2. Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias

  3. Creative anti-debugger technique in Spotify for Windows

  4. Simple wins

  5. Mini Mario Game as Resignation Letter

  6. Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round With USV (YC W09)

Technology 618 stories

  1. Wolfram Alpha API (Google Cache)

  2. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1

  3. Deny This, Last.fm

Show 9 more
  1. A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages

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

  3. My $3.3M Mistake

  4. Is There Anything Good About Men?

  5. How to Teach a Child to Argue

  6. Calling all Hacker News readers in the NOVA/DC metro area

  7. Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

  8. The Case For Working With Your Hands

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

Entertainment 20 stories

  1. Netflix Prize - One Team's Account

  2. Use RunPee.com to know when to go to the bathroom during a movie

Show 6 more
  1. The radioactive boy scout: the teenager who attempted to build a breeder reactor

  2. Wolfram Alpha to Launch Live on Justin.TV

  3. Farmers Didn't Invent Tractors. They Were Busy Farming.

  4. Fliggo (YC S08) launches TwitVid - the TwitPic of video

  5. Hulu Desktop (Mac and PC clients)

  6. Frogmetrics, OMGPOP, Posterous, Scribd, Inkling, Xobni, and Loopt nominated for TiE50 Awards

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