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2009-05-26
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 26 – May 26, 2009 780 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 146 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profit per employee for some large tech companies

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Slicehost Pro iPhone App now free

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    How Scala Changed My Programming Style

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Dear News.YC: please review my Mac app, Evom

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. Profit per employee for some large tech companies

  2. The First Digg Developer Dispels the Myths Surrounding Digg & Startups in General

  3. Lessons from a failed startup

  4. The huge-scale real-time auctions that power the Google profit machine

Show 10 more
  1. American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all

  2. Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say

  3. Obama proposes no capital gains tax on qualified small business stock

  4. How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step

  5. Interview With Eric Reis On Lean Startups

  6. Why there's nothing special about the business of software

  7. Idiot CEOs

  8. EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on par with freedom of expression

  9. Fred Wilson: The End of the IPO Drought is Coming

  10. The App Store Is a Classic Example Of A Broken Business Process

Sports 26 stories

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

  2. Google: Mowing lawn with goats

Show 6 more
  1. How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.

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

  3. Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias

  4. Simple wins

  5. Mini Mario Game as Resignation Letter

  6. Flight Control (#1 paid app) iPhone Game Sales Numbers

Technology 611 stories

  1. Wolfram Alpha API (Google Cache)

  2. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1

  3. Deny This, Last.fm

Show 9 more
  1. A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages

  2. HN Frontpage ranked using only votes from accounts over a year old

  3. Is There Anything Good About Men?

  4. Much of the established news industry is being blown away. Yet news is thriving

  5. Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

  6. The Case For Working With Your Hands

  7. Don’t! The secret of self-control

  8. My Personal Credit Crisis

  9. Spolsky: Why Circuit City Failed, and Why B&H Thrives

Entertainment 24 stories

  1. Netflix Prize - One Team's Account

  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. Use RunPee.com to know when to go to the bathroom during a movie

  3. The radioactive boy scout: the teenager who attempted to build a breeder reactor

  4. Wolfram Alpha to Launch Live on Justin.TV

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

  6. Fliggo (YC S08) launches TwitVid - the TwitPic of video

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