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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 24 – December 24, 2014 837 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 358 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Microsoft accepting Bitcoin

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Comments on the Sony Hack

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: Phantom JS interactive editor

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Microsoft accepting Bitcoin

  2. Hard-won lessons about money and investing

  3. Map the Banks

  4. My Adventures with “4K” 2160p and Linux

Show 10 more
  1. Apple Deleted Rivals’ Songs from Users’ iPods

  2. Update on Sony Investigation

  3. How to Send Email Like a Startup

  4. Bitcoin Developer Guide

  5. Federal Court Throws Out Six Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance

  6. HSBC, Goldman Rigged Metals’ Prices for Years, Suit Says

  7. New York Magazine's Boy Genius Investor Made It All Up

  8. Bad code isn’t technical debt, it’s an unhedged call option

  9. Why you should move your startup to a small fishing town

  10. How to Get a Quant Job in Finance

Sports 21 stories

  1. 3D.City – Game built with three.js and sea3d

  2. A tiling window manager written in Rust

Show 6 more
  1. Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid

  2. Google to close engineering office in Russia

  3. Post mortem of my one game a month

  4. Why I’m Giving Up My Passport

  5. You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind

  6. Narrowing the notion of a runtime in Rust

Technology 658 stories

  1. Orion Flight Test Live Launch

  2. Future of Programming Languages

  3. NASA: We're sending humans to Mars

Show 9 more
  1. “Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”

  2. Nature makes all articles free to view

  3. Farewell, Dr. Dobb's

  4. CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket

  5. “Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation”

  6. God's Lonely Programmer

  7. US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program

  8. The Case for Slow Programming

  9. BPG Image format

Entertainment 31 stories

  1. 24/192 music downloads are silly

  2. Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Front-end framework optimized for internal apps

  2. Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress (2011)

  3. Schwab password policies and two factor authentication

  4. Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Citing Threats

  5. Show HN: PSequel – a free PostgreSQL GUI Tool for Mac OS X

  6. Show HN: Artful for Mac

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