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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 6 – May 6, 2013 819 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 126 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The Matasano Crypto Challenges

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    This is what a DDoS attack looks like

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    What is probabilistic programming?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 57 stories

  1. The Matasano Crypto Challenges

    blog.pinboard.in · 2 outlets

  2. How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy

    penny-arcade.com · 1 outlets

  3. Bitcoin falls from $266

    data.mtgox.com · 1 outlets

  4. Transcript of meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt

    wikileaks.org · 1 outlets

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  1. My Startup Failed. Fuck.

    nemrow.tumblr.com · 3 outlets

  2. The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator

    bitslog.wordpress.com · 1 outlets

  3. How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

    myclean.com · 1 outlets

  4. How to Choose a Profitable Niche

    trevormckendrick.com · 1 outlets

  5. How Dave Goldberg Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM

    firstround.com · 1 outlets

  6. CipherCloud used DMCA Takedown on StackExchange discussion of their cryptography

    meta.crypto.stackexcha · 1 outlets

  7. Why I am building a product with a tiny market

    debuggex.com · 1 outlets

  8. The exploding toilet

    askthepilot.com · 1 outlets

  9. Paypal President: We're thinking about adding Bitcoin (2:50) [video]

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  10. Realtime Bitcoin Stats

    realtimebitcoin.info · 1 outlets

Sports 24 stories

  1. Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy

    greenheartgames.com · 1 outlets

  2. Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men

    penny-arcade.com · 1 outlets

  2. Data journalism busts speeding cops, wins Pulitzer

    articles.sun-sentinel. · 1 outlets

  3. Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  4. Play an accordion recording by resizing your browser window

    artpolikarpov.github.i · 1 outlets

  5. How much usage can a Lego piece take before it loses its 'clutch power'?

    phillipecantin.blogspo · 1 outlets

  6. Transporting the CIA A-12 Blackbird to Area 51

    roadrunnersinternation · 1 outlets

Technology 601 stories

  1. Google Fiber coming to Austin

    arstechnica.com · 9 outlets

  2. Setting up Sublime Text 2

    mindmup.github.io · 5 outlets

  3. AT&T Pretends It, Too, Will Build A 1 Gigabit Network

    techdirt.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  2. FBI Updates on Boston explosions

    wcvb.com · 6 outlets

  3. Gitmo Is Killing Me

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM

    branded3.com · 1 outlets

  5. Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript

    codepen.io · 1 outlets

  6. Here is today

    hereistoday.com · 1 outlets

  7. BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  8. Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

    slashdot.org · 1 outlets

  9. Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

    eatthismuch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Disney have stolen my artwork

    katiewoodger.tumblr.co · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation

    hummingbirdnotation.co · 1 outlets

  2. I made an example app to show how Google map URLs should look

    nice-map-urls.herokuap · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Pinterest for text

    scarcecapital.com · 3 outlets

  4. Older Is Wiser: Study Shows Software Developers’ Skills Improve Over Time

    news.ncsu.edu · 1 outlets

  5. How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C

    toptal.com · 1 outlets

  6. Netflix now bigger than HBO

    qz.com · 1 outlets

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