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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 2 – May 2, 2011 798 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 122 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Crash Course: Design for Startups

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Why GitHub Hacks on Side Projects

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Georgify: Hacker News meets beautiful typography

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Larry Page's first blunder

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. Crash Course: Design for Startups

  2. Joel Spolsky on allocating ownership in your startup

  3. Bose founder makes big stock donation to MIT

  4. How to find startup ideas that make money

Show 10 more
  1. Online Cash Bitcoin could Challenge Governments, Banks

  2. The scoop on reCAPTCHA founder's new startup Duolingo.

  3. Collection of documents that startups commonly need: Privacy Policy, NDA, etc...

  4. What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

  5. A death sentence for a young Chinese businesswoman chills entrepreneurs

  6. My startup story: from big idea to thriving business in 8 short years

  7. Things You Must Do Every Week As Startup CEO

  8. Pure python bitcoin miner to understand how it works

  9. Bitcoin hits US$ 4, after being mentioned on CNN yesterday

  10. The investment that didn't happen

Sports 22 stories

  1. Guy unknowingly live tweets the Osama raid in Abbottabad

  2. Hacking The Status Game

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: made a html5 game, polished it many many times

  2. Show HN: CSS3 Animated Glowing Forms

  3. IOS games using JavaScriptCore without WebKit

  4. Interviewing with YC? Don't overstep the limits like us (but be close)

  5. Withdrawing from Hacker News

  6. The developer of the indie-game Minecraft is doing an AMA on reddit

Technology 587 stories

  1. Predator Object Tracking Algorithm

  2. India Graduates Millions, But Too Few Are Fit to Hire

  3. Learn You Some Erlang: Building an Application With OTP

Show 9 more
  1. Peter Thiel: We’re in a Higher Education Bubble

  2. Followup on the star torn apart by a black hole: Hubble picture

  3. YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious

  4. Self-Taught Programmers vs CS-Educated Programmers

  5. The myth of the Lisp genius

  6. Vico Editor (Mac text editor)

  7. Why we need an Open Wireless movement

  8. Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN

  9. Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Showoff

  2. Show HN: my weekend project, Gumroad

Show 6 more
  1. 7% of Americans Subscribe to Netflix, Now Larger than any Cable Company

  2. Cellular Automaton Music Generator

  3. Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo

  4. Wikileaks: Police Arrested Movie Pirate As “A Personal Favor” To Movie Official

  5. Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage

  6. Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US

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