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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 22 – May 22, 2013 848 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 142 Get it by email ↓
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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

    I Don't Want Your Fucking App

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Evolution of Hacker News

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 58 stories

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

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

  3. Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations

  4. The biggest merger you didn't hear about today

Show 10 more
  1. How to Choose a Profitable Niche

  2. The Freelancer's Guide to Recurring Revenue

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

  4. Cancer and Startups

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

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

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

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

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

  10. Marketing Software, For People Who Would Rather Be Building It

Sports 26 stories

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

  2. Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy

Show 6 more
  1. Microsoft announces Windows 8.1

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

  3. New closure allows camping mattress to be inflated in seconds

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

  5. A hidden world, growing beyond control

  6. AWS Redshift: How Amazon Changed The Game

Technology 627 stories

  1. Google Glass kernel GPL source

  2. Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1B, All-Cash Deal for Tumblr

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

Show 9 more
  1. Government obtains wide AP phone records in probe

  2. Airbnb Stay Illegal In New York City, Rules Judge

  3. Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM

  4. Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript

  5. Depression Part Two

  6. Here is today

  7. Send money with Gmail

  8. Induction powered LED lit engagement ring

  9. BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Show HN: Weekend project - Magnific Popup

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

  2. Choosing Minecraft over Disney

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

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

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

  6. Show HN: Sync – Realtime partials with Rails

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