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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 20 – August 19, 2012 830 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 232 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A Man Walks into a Bank

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What I Hate About Working At Facebook

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    IPhone caused "crisis of design" at Samsung

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Khan Academy: Computer Science

    3 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 41 stories

  1. A Man Walks into a Bank

  2. The real reason we’re upset about Sparrow’s acquisition

  3. Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous

  4. Lenovo CEO Gives His $3 Million Bonus to 10,000 Employees

Show 10 more
  1. Talent Acquisitions

  2. App.net funded with $500,000.

  3. Why Do Startups Do This?

  4. Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die.

  5. Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999

  6. Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model

  7. A Redditor about the problem with today's Silicon Valley startup community

  8. Entitlement and Acquisition

  9. How anti-competitive lawsuits by incumbents are killing early stage startups

  10. Peter Thiel’s startup class notes in PDF

Sports 30 stories

  1. Installing Linux on Windows 8 PCs: No easy answers

  2. Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

Show 6 more
  1. SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor

  2. American TV Neglected the Saddest Story in the Olympics

  3. Oculus Rift: Step Into the Game

  4. Sparrow for Windows was just a few weeks away

  5. This file's a Win Executable, PDF, Java executable (or Python script), and HTML

  6. Show HN: Brandseen - A logo coloring game built in 24h

Technology 606 stories

  1. Mars Curiosity's first images

  2. Amazon Career Choice Program

  3. OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As'

Show 9 more
  1. Khan Academy: Computer Science

  2. Google Fiber Plans & Pricing

  3. This is how Visa works

  4. This is a bit f'd, Quora

  5. Textmate2 Goes Open Source

  6. Design Tip: Never Use Black

  7. An Unexpected Ass Kicking

  8. Dear Mark Zuckerberg

  9. I Have 50 Dollars

Entertainment 47 stories

  1. Show HN: Convert online videos to .gif

  2. Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers

Show 6 more
  1. NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

  2. Distribution of colors in movie posters between 1914 and 2012

  3. Please turn on two-factor authentication

  4. Show HN: Music for Geeks and Nerds

  5. Show HN: Eligible API for 700+ Health Insurance Companies

  6. Show HN: We Use That. What startups use to get stuff done

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