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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 5 – May 5, 2012 834 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 126 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Before naming your startup, read this.

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    I have no idea what I'm doing

    9 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Technology

    Rethinking Programming Language Tutorials

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    Secret Computer Code Threatens Science

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. Before naming your startup, read this.

  2. A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2

  3. How the medical supply industry blocks device startups from selling to hospitals

  4. Asteroid Mining Venture Backed by Google Execs, James Cameron Unveiled

Show 10 more
  1. Feds Seized Hip-Hop Site for a Year, Waiting for Proof of Infringement

  2. Yahoo CEO might have lied about having CS degree

  3. Backbone.js Fundamentals

  4. Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity

  5. A $20 Trillion Rock That Could Turn a Startup Into Earth’s Richest Company

  6. The JOBS Act will very nearly legalize fraud in the stock market

  7. Hacking The iPod: How I Earned $65K In High School

  8. Startups Are Bands for Hackers

  9. AWS Marketplace

  10. A Guided Tour through the Fundamentals of Git

Sports 28 stories

  1. The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US

  2. Learning VIM while playing a game

Show 6 more
  1. Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize

  2. Unemployed game designer creates mind-blowing solar system explorer app

  3. Getting the closest string match

  4. The Most Dangerous Gamer

  5. Reed Hastings: Comcast no longer following net neutrality principles

  6. EA Killing Rock Band For iPhone, Game Will Be Unplayable For Current Owners

Technology 618 stories

  1. Pebble E-Paper Watch Raises $1M In 28 Hours

  2. Sergey Brin's Clarification On Guardian article

  3. Obama Administration Threatens To Veto CISPA

Show 9 more
  1. Light Table Is On Kickstarter

  2. "That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends."

  3. Mosh: SSH for 2012

  4. Facebook acquires Instagram

  5. How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill

  6. PHP: A fractal of bad design

  7. Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox

  8. The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget

  9. The Top Of My Todo List

Entertainment 31 stories

  1. Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework

  2. Programming Music with Overtone

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

  2. Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids

  3. Show HN: Our Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

  4. Show HN: iPG - YC Interview Simulator

  5. HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows

  6. At 92, Movie Bootlegger Is Soldiers’ Hero

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