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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 19 – December 19, 2011 823 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 353 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Feds Mistakenly Shut Down Popular Blog For Over A Year

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Harvard University Free Lectures

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    An interview with Derek Sivers

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    A Python-based CLI for working with Hacker News.

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Feds Mistakenly Shut Down Popular Blog For Over A Year

  2. Zendesk CEO calls Freshdesk a freaking rip off - Freshdesk responds

  3. Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels

  4. Rand Fishkin: Inbound Marketing for Startups

Show 10 more
  1. The Hushed Dangers of Startup Depression

  2. Obama Announces $2B Fund for Startups

  3. New Stanford class on Cryptography

  4. EU Court of Justice: Censorship in Name of Copyright Violates Fundamental Rights

  5. Clayton Christensen: How MBA-driven Profit focus is Killing the U.S. Economy

  6. Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

  7. Stop Telling Women To Do Startups

  8. Bitcoin

  9. Hacking Google for Fun and Profit

  10. Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubator

Sports 36 stories

  1. Redis for win32 and the Microsoft patch

  2. Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses

Show 6 more
  1. The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia

  2. Facebook security hole allows viewing of private photos

  3. Bfxr. Make sound effects for your games.

  4. Why is Windows so slow?

  5. 17-year-old wins 100k for creating cancer-killing nanoparticle

  6. Amazon.com just closed my seller account. No warning, no details.

Technology 620 stories

  1. I'm turning 30 and I've produced no amazing art.

  2. Follow up to “Android graphics true facts”, or The Reason Android is Laggy

  3. The Command Line Crash Course Controlling Your Computer From The Terminal

Show 9 more
  1. Watch a VC use my name to sell a con

  2. Suicide

  3. More Paypal nonsense

  4. Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days

  5. What really happened aboard Air France 447

  6. Facebook settles with FTC, under privacy watch for 20 years

  7. Don't Be A Free User

  8. HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source

  9. Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps

Entertainment 31 stories

  1. Show HN: Entire concerts algorithmically "reconstructed" from YouTube videos

  2. Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal

Show 6 more
  1. SOPA creator received half a million dollars from the TV/Film/Music lobby

  2. Twelve Factors of Web Application Development

  3. Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent

  4. Louis C.K. "I've never seen a check from a [TV] comedy special"

  5. 'I'm Retiring,' Nintendo's Miyamoto Tells His Staff

  6. Researcher shows how to "friend" anyone on Facebook within 24 hours

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