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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 7 – February 6, 2013 831 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 37 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Getting Started with Django

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    How I Read Programming Books

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Your Mac Keeps A Log Of Your Downloads

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit

  2. Petition: require free access to publicly-funded research

  3. Bad Startup Idea - Your next weekend project

  4. Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe

Show 10 more
  1. Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate WikiLeaks

  2. Steve Jobs' exchange with Palm CEO Ed Colligan

  3. California To Hit Startup Founders with Big Retroactive Tax Bills

  4. Feds go overboard in prosecuting information activist (2012)

  5. A Sad Irony: The Federal Judiciary's PACER Pricing Is Illegal

  6. Swartz didn't face prison until feds took over case, report says

  7. Mojang's Monster Profits

  8. Bitcoin exchange hacked via Rails exploit, funds stolen

  9. New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering"

  10. Three Felonies A Day - How The Feds Target The Innocent

Sports 31 stories

  1. Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows

  2. A close look at how Oracle installs deceptive software with Java updates

Show 6 more
  1. Group of Men Have Played Game of Tag for 23 Years

  2. Blowing the Whistle on the Mortgage Bubble

  3. Valve starts promoting Steam for Linux to Windows users

  4. Make Patent Trolls Pay All Costs If They Lose

  5. On the state of Windows on the desktop

  6. ML researcher replies to request to review paper for closed journal

Technology 555 stories

  1. Carmen Ortiz Strikes Out

  2. MIT website hacked by Lulzsec

  3. Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling

Show 9 more
  1. Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers

  2. What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs

  3. Prosecutor as bully

  4. Turn your browser into a notepad with one line

  5. Why the Fuck?

  6. I want the world to scroll this way

  7. No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app

  8. Pixels don’t care

  9. Megafail

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. A Mysterious Patch Of Light Shows Up In The North Dakota Dark

  2. That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer

Show 6 more
  1. Thorium Reactors

  2. Show HN: Hacky – Hacker News app for Mac

  3. Show HN: My Weekend Hack - Stack-Ed: Learn from the best on StackOverflow

  4. Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

  5. Show HN: hint.css – a tooltip library in CSS

  6. Show HN: Our alternative to recruiter spam

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