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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 18 – May 18, 2013 842 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 138 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The Matasano Crypto Challenges

blog.pinboard.in · 2 sources

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    This is what a DDoS attack looks like

    6 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    I Don't Want Your Fucking App

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 60 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. Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is

    qz.com · 1 outlets

  4. Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    wikileaks.org · 1 outlets

  2. How to Choose a Profitable Niche

    trevormckendrick.com · 1 outlets

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

    meta.crypto.stackexcha · 1 outlets

  4. The Freelancer's Guide to Recurring Revenue

    planscope.io · 1 outlets

  5. Internet giants, you’re no longer startups, get some customer service

    glassbalcony.tumblr.co · 1 outlets

  6. Failed Startup's Final Income Statements Reveal Grave Error

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

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

    debuggex.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  9. When a Startup Sends a Passive-Aggressive Email Every Day

    minimaxir.com · 1 outlets

  10. Uber Stockholm throw a PR-tantrum when refused unfair advantages

    digitalmcgyver.com · 1 outlets

Sports 27 stories

  1. Windows NT Kernel Contributor Explains Why Performance is Behind Other OS

    blog.zorinaq.com · 1 outlets

  2. Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy

    greenheartgames.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Microsoft announces Windows 8.1

    wpcentral.com · 2 outlets

  2. Newegg nukes "corporate troll" Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year

    arstechnica.com · 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. Transporting the CIA A-12 Blackbird to Area 51

    roadrunnersinternation · 1 outlets

  6. A hidden world, growing beyond control

    projects.washingtonpos · 1 outlets

Technology 641 stories

  1. Google Glass kernel GPL source

    arstechnica.com · 9 outlets

  2. Why I'm Furious with Silicon Valley (2011)

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  3. Government obtains wide AP phone records in probe

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM

    branded3.com · 1 outlets

  2. Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript

    codepen.io · 1 outlets

  3. Depression Part Two

    hyperboleandahalf.blog · 1 outlets

  4. Here is today

    hereistoday.com · 1 outlets

  5. Send money with Gmail

    google.com · 1 outlets

  6. BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  7. What to expect in SEO in the coming months [video]

    boingboing.net · 4 outlets

  8. Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Georgia Tech

    blog.udacity.com · 1 outlets

  9. You are not Steve Jobs

    medium.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Show HN: Weekend project - Magnific Popup

    7-min.com · 4 outlets

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

    eatthismuch.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

    clippingmagic.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

    duetapp.com · 1 outlets

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

    nice-map-urls.herokuap · 1 outlets

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

    news.ncsu.edu · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Sync – Realtime partials with Rails

    ankane.github.io · 2 outlets

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

    toptal.com · 1 outlets

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