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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 12 – May 12, 2014 808 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 132 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Results of the GitHub Investigation

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Parsing English with 500 lines of Python (2013)

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What Programming is Like

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Results of the GitHub Investigation

  2. Stock Photos That Don’t Suck

  3. Employee Equity

  4. Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days

Show 10 more
  1. Web Fundamentals: A handbook for best practices

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

  3. Announcing the MIT Bitcoin Project

  4. Practical Cryptography With Go

  5. It's Adventure Time

  6. Startup School is going global

  7. CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired

  8. Microsoft OneDrive for Business modifies files as it syncs

  9. Is the Toilet Free?

  10. The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business

Sports 22 stories

  1. How I wrote Game Programming Patterns

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

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

  2. How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux

  3. Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf]

  4. We'd lose our security certificate if we allowed pasting

  5. Why bad scientific code beats code following "best practices"

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

Technology 644 stories

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

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

  3. Chrome's experiment of hiding the URL is awful

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

  2. 2048, success and me

  3. Atom Is Now Open Source

  4. The future of Unreal Tournament begins today

  5. The Absurdity of LinkedIn

  6. The next version of DuckDuckGo

  7. SF’s Housing Crisis Explained

  8. Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

  9. The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]

Entertainment 28 stories

  1. Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award

  2. My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Super Planet Crash

  2. Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster

  3. Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

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

  5. The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDb

  6. Show HN: Hipster Domain Finder

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