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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 6 – December 6, 2008 781 stories · Vol. 08 · Catalogue 49 · Issue 341 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ask HN: Review my startup

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    IBM to build brain-like computers

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Geek Pop Star (Malcolm Gladwell)

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Compile C/C++ to Flash - Adobe Alchemy

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 67 stories

  1. Ask HN: Review my startup

  2. Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue

  3. Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

  4. Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

Show 10 more
  1. The End of Wall Street's Boom

  2. How To Spot a Breakthrough: Tips from Early Amazon Investor Nick Hanauer

  3. Lessons learned from a failed poker software business

  4. Let G.M. go bankrupt

  5. Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO

  6. Prosper.com, P2P Lending Startup, Shut Down by SEC [pdf]

  7. The world’s most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain

  8. Textbook Rentals Big Business - Kleiner Perkins Goes After Chegg

  9. Startup founder evolution (or, the biz guy *is* valuable, just not at first)

  10. 10 Totally Stupid Online Business Ideas That Made Someone Rich

Sports 22 stories

  1. The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct

  2. The BaseShield App Store for Windows launches (YC Winter 08)

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  1. A Costly Parade, by Why the Lucky Stiff, and that NodeBox pong game -- in Shoes

  2. Baseball statistician tries politics and bats almost one thousand

  3. Ender's Game Review

  4. Ticketstumbler (YC summer 08) "growing 50 percent a month"

  5. Developer strikes it rich with iPhone game: Makes $250K profit in two months.

  6. "LoseThos" 64-bit Open Source OS: For Programming as Entertainment

Technology 576 stories

  1. RubyGem is from Mars, AptGet is from Venus

  2. Insider Trading, or Political Persecution?

  3. “Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape

Show 9 more
  1. Let's End Adolescence

  2. The High-Res Society

  3. Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000

  4. Ever wondered what the 'Free Public WiFi' networks you see everywhere are?

  5. How people really use the iPhone

  6. Python 3.0 Released

  7. The IT Contract from Hell

  8. Is it going to rain?

  9. Joel on Software: Anecdotes

Entertainment 18 stories

  1. The other half of "Artists Ship"

  2. 19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv

Show 6 more
  1. Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done (By AppJet)

  2. Why thinking in the shower may be an ideal model for "creative pause"

  3. Roger Ebert: Celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think.

  4. Hulu already making more money than YouTube

  5. Unhappy people watch TV, happy people read/socialize

  6. Loopt (YC 2005) featured in iPhone TV ad

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