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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 9 – May 9, 2009 786 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 129 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Evented Programming With jQuery

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    News News: Faster, Fewer Flamewars

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Thoughts on the Y Combinator interview process

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)

  2. Lessons from a failed startup

  3. Water Front Apt. in San Mateo will trade for equity in Y Combinator startup

  4. Hacking for fun and profit with Mathematica and the Google Analytics API

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  1. American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all

  2. Teach Yourself Fundamentals of Math (Reasoning, Logic, Sets, Induction, Complex Numbers)

  3. Obama Unveils Plan to Fund High-Speed Passenger Rail

  4. Underbelly: What haughty startup bloggers don't tell you

  5. Fred Wilson on investing in Geocities

  6. Apple Posts Its Best Second Quarter Earnings Ever

  7. The lifestyle business bullshit

  8. Startuptools

  9. Stop the Press: Building A Startup Presskit 101

  10. The Startup MBA

Sports 26 stories

  1. Pirate Bay officially loses case

  2. How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll

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  1. Google: Mowing lawn with goats

  2. We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (2004)

  3. How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.

  4. Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down.

  5. Microsoft's Windows 7 Starter is a gift to Google

  6. A few comments on pandemic influenza

Technology 605 stories

  1. Wolfram Alpha: Our First Impressions

  2. Google Code now supports Mercurial

  3. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1

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  1. A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages

  2. Oracle to buy Sun

  3. Is There Anything Good About Men?

  4. News News: Faster, Fewer Flamewars

  5. Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations.

  6. Support The Founder Visa at Whitehouse2.org

  7. Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

  8. Paul Graham revisits "Microsoft is Dead"

  9. Applications for your plug computer

Entertainment 20 stories

  1. How Dumping TV Allowed Me to Quit My Job

  2. Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong

Show 6 more
  1. Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation

  2. "Nothing like this will be built again" - A Nuclear Reactor Tour

  3. Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music

  4. Reddit.TV launches - what do you think, Hacker News?

  5. A movie recommendation service that actually works

  6. Update: DiggBar will only be shown to logged-in Digg users

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