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The month's top story

White House Petitioned to Investigate MPAA Bribery

wh.gov · 2 sources

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google's "free food" is not free

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Machine Learning for Hackers

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    ACTA is being signed right now in the EU

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

Business 48 stories

  1. White House Petitioned to Investigate MPAA Bribery

    wh.gov · 2 outlets

  2. Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  3. Books for people in the software business

    kentnguyen.com · 2 outlets

  4. Google's Kenyan ripoff?

    boingboing.net · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Why the feds smashed Megaupload

    torrentfreak.com · 2 outlets

  2. Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood

    bits.blogs.nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

    theappifier.com · 1 outlets

  4. The 'Startup Boom' is a disguised jobs fair for big corporations

    answers.onstartups.com · 2 outlets

  5. Applications open for Y Combinator's summer 2012 funding cycle

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  6. YC and 500 Startups company Curebit caught stealing from 37 Signals

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  7. Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit

    apple.com · 1 outlets

  8. Facebook to File for IPO Next Week

    mashable.com · 1 outlets

  9. The anatomy of a ripoff

    nydailynews.com · 1 outlets

  10. Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable

    wildbit.com · 1 outlets

Sports 18 stories

  1. I'm Pirating the Next Version of Windows

    littlebitofcode.com · 1 outlets

  2. Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Command and Conquer – Programming an RTS game in HTML5 and Javascript

    adityaravishankar.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Humble Bundle for Android (and Mac / Windows / Linux)

    humblebundle.com · 2 outlets

  3. Color: a color matching game done in d3.js and Raphael

    color.method.ac · 1 outlets

  4. This game was made entirely in css (no javascript)

    jsrun.it · 1 outlets

  5. It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web

    scobleizer.com · 1 outlets

  6. Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS

    blogs.msdn.com · 1 outlets

Technology 577 stories

  1. Impressive SOPA blackout

    blog.reddit.com · 58 outlets

  2. Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers

    mclov.in · 2 outlets

  3. How Google Code Search Worked

    thesash.me · 9 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. ACTA is being signed right now in the EU

    techdirt.com · 7 outlets

  2. Google's "free food" is not free

    nltk.org · 7 outlets

  3. Why UEFI secure boot is difficult for Linux

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  4. $50,000 to keep Symantec source code private

    thepiratebay.se · 2 outlets

  5. Farewell Stack Exchange

    codinghorror.com · 1 outlets

  6. Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor

    tumblr.amitgupta.com · 1 outlets

  7. Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

    lists.busybox.net · 1 outlets

  8. Why I'm a Pirate

    ploum.net · 1 outlets

  9. Building Twitter bootstrap

    twitter.github.com · 6 outlets

Entertainment 29 stories

  1. What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?

    aaronklein.com · 1 outlets

  2. MusicForProgramming();

    musicforprogramming.ne · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

    screenleap.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

    mongout.com · 2 outlets

  3. Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal Music

    rt.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: my database engine for GPU

    sourceforge.net · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this

    politicianmarket.com · 2 outlets

  6. Show HN: Favicon alert bubbles

    tommoor.github.com · 1 outlets

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