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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 10 – June 9, 2009 782 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 24 · Issue 160 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profit per employee for some large tech companies

What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Wave “is anti-Web”

    7 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Ask HN: Review my project: SitesInCommon

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    Teaching functional programming to kids

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. Profit per employee for some large tech companies

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

  3. Rajeev Motwani, Google founders' professor and early investor, dies

  4. Too small to fail: How startups can grow in recessions

Show 10 more
  1. You are the problem: the reason why so many startups don't get venture funding

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

  3. Ask HN: Review my startup

  4. How To Put Invite Codes on Business Cards

  5. Bullion and Bandits: The Improbable Rise and Fall of E-Gold

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

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

  8. Ron Conway To Focus On Real Time Data Startups: 40-50 New Investments

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

  10. Interview with CEO Peldi Guilizzoni about the growth of Balsamiq

Sports 27 stories

  1. Pirate Party wins a seat at the European Parliament

  2. Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang

Show 6 more
  1. The creator of Monkey Island plays and narrates his game, 20 years later.

  2. What I learned from screwing up my first ebook launch

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

  4. Creative anti-debugger technique in Spotify for Windows

  5. AT&T Is Screwing Over US iPhone Users

  6. Simple wins

Technology 604 stories

  1. Wolfram Alpha API (Google Cache)

  2. Clojure on the Google App Engine

  3. Text of Y Combinator article in Inc Magazine

Show 9 more
  1. Deny This, Last.fm

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

  3. Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong

  4. My $3.3M Mistake

  5. How to Teach a Child to Argue

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

  7. My Personal Credit Crisis

  8. Why it's expensive to be poor

  9. The speed, size and dependability of programming languages

Entertainment 20 stories

  1. A brazen ripoff of Twitvid

  2. Netflix Prize - One Team's Account

Show 6 more
  1. MS just announced some pretty awesome stuff for the Xbox

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

  3. The radioactive boy scout: the teenager who attempted to build a breeder reactor

  4. Home 2009 - movie about humanity

  5. Wolfram Alpha to Launch Live on Justin.TV

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

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