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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 18 – August 17, 2009 781 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 229 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ramen Profitable

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    '360 video camera played with flash

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What's Wrong With E=MC^2?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Ramen Profitable

  2. YC startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

  3. The third largest stock exchange in America is a startup

  4. YC-Funded HighlightCam Makes It Easy To Remotely Watch Babies, Pets And Burglars

Show 10 more
  1. Startup Tips from the Notorious BIG

  2. Apple Expects Google Voice App Developers To Pay Refunds Out Of Pocket

  3. Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research

  4. Springboard. A new incubator (in Cambridge, UK), takes no equity.

  5. Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July

  6. 2009 Startup School, October 24 at Berkeley

  7. On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study

  8. Icon Driven Development on the App Store- how we make $350/day without marketing

  9. This Isn't a Recession, It's a Collapse

  10. YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash Of Augmented Reality

Sports 24 stories

  1. Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault

  2. (chromium) Issue 18385: Head in place of close button

Show 6 more
  1. Calculator hackers crack OS signing key, opening a closed platform

  2. Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge

  3. Files Vanished, Young Chinese Lose the Future

  4. Google Wave is the new X-Windows

  5. The challenges of Creating a Civilization Web Game

  6. YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game

Technology 587 stories

  1. Daring Fireball: Pay Walls

  2. You can go to the bathroom whenever you want at Microsoft

  3. Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

Show 9 more
  1. Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms

  2. My students forged the notes. I turned them into a lesson plan.

  3. Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

  4. Did you mean recursion?

  5. Signs that you're a bad programmer

  6. Share HN: I wrote an app to help my paralyzed cousin type significantly faster.

  7. Linus: "Microsoft Hatred Is a Disease"

  8. Pro Git - CC licensed book on Git by Scott Chacon

  9. The Trouble with the Segway

Entertainment 22 stories

  1. Netflix Prize Update: New Team in First Place (deadline tomorrow)

  2. The Guide to the Freedom and Responsibility Culture at Netflix

Show 6 more
  1. Anybots is for real: Check out Trevor's robots on the Surrogates trailer

  2. Inside a Netflix Warehouse

  3. GraffitiGeo shows first augmented reality app for restaurant recommendations

  4. Justin.tv Opens Its API For Free, Hopes Live Video Will Explode

  5. What Movies Get Wrong About Time Travel

  6. Radiohead Says No More Albums

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