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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 3 – May 3, 2014 826 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 123 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

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1Articles

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Parsing English with 500 lines of Python (2013)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Go back in time with Street View

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

  2. Results of the GitHub Investigation

  3. Stock Photos That Don’t Suck

  4. Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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  1. Employee Equity

  2. Web Fundamentals: A handbook for best practices

  3. How Zidisha (YC W14) Is Misleading the Public About Its Interest Rates

  4. What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing

  5. Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldman Sachs

  6. Announcing the MIT Bitcoin Project

  7. Reasons Not To Raise Venture Capital

  8. Practical Cryptography With Go

  9. It's Adventure Time

  10. CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired

Sports 20 stories

  1. How I wrote Game Programming Patterns

  2. Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source

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  1. The Guardian and Washington Post win the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

  2. Game Mechanic Explorer – examples for game mechanics, algorithms, and effects

  3. The Guilt of the Video-Game Millionaires

  4. HabitRpg: A habit building app that treats your life like a game

  5. Airbnb closes $500M round of funding at a $10B valuation, led By TPG

  6. The Truth About Google X: A Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors

Technology 674 stories

  1. The Heartbleed Challenge

  2. Tesla Model S – Cost of Ownership vs. Honda Odyssey

  3. A First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets

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  1. Drop Dropbox

  2. The Heartbleed Bug

  3. Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler

  4. How we got read access on Google’s production servers

  5. Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension for privacy

  6. Write Code Every Day

  7. The Absurdity of LinkedIn

  8. What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap

  9. SF’s Housing Crisis Explained

Entertainment 26 stories

  1. Show HN: GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown

  2. My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player

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  1. Show HN: Super Planet Crash

  2. Show HN: Turn sketches on paper into app prototypes

  3. When two-factor authentication is not enough

  4. British Pathé Puts Over 85,000 Historical Films on YouTube

  5. Show HN: InstaMotor – Taking the pain out of selling your car

  6. The New Aaron Swartz Documentary Looks Powerful. Here's the Trailer

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