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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 20 – October 20, 2011 832 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 293 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A First Look at BankSimple

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1Articles

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Rust Programming Language

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The Shen programming language

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    OpenVim: Learn Vim in Your Browser

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 64 stories

  1. A First Look at BankSimple

  2. Businessweek Magazine's Classy Tribute to Steve Jobs

  3. TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API

  4. Pre-branded domain names for startups

Show 10 more
  1. Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup

  2. Zynga's Profits Down by 95%

  3. VC Decries Airbnb’s Recent Funding for Founder Control and Cashout

  4. It takes three years to build a business

  5. Why Startup Hubs Work

  6. Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6

  7. OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location For Profit

  8. How 1 HN post compelled me to leave Intuit and create a new startup for startups

  9. Groupon Restates Revenue, Revenue Fell In Half, COO Exits

  10. Apple's stock under Jobs: from $10 to $400

Sports 27 stories

  1. FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post

  2. Flash Game Simulates Living on $9/hr.

Show 6 more
  1. Plink, a multiplayer HTML5 music game

  2. Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction?

  3. Who killed videogames?

  4. Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting

  5. Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël

  6. Show HN: my 4-y-o son drew a video game. He drew then we hacked together.

Technology 540 stories

  1. Bill Gates on Steve Jobs

  2. Dennis Ritchie, Trailblazer in Digital Era, Dies at 70

  3. Amazon kindle source code

Show 9 more
  1. White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit

  2. Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online

  3. Stanford AI Class Lecture Notes

  4. Adobe acquires Nitobi (Founders of Phonegap)

  5. Root access to MySQL.com sold for $3k - now serving malware

  6. I was once a Facebook fool

  7. Payment processing for Django

  8. Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC

  9. Bring a stick man to life.

Entertainment 28 stories

  1. Netflix reverts from Qwikster split

  2. What Netflix Could Have Said This Week

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: HackerThings - Products for hackers

  2. Show HN: Write a sort, watch it go

  3. No TV for children under 2, urge doctors

  4. Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

  5. Guys buy island on Craigslist, use Kickstarter to turn it into artist community

  6. Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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