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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 6 – June 5, 2009 785 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 23 · Issue 156 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Profit per employee for some large tech companies

What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Bringing Traffic with Google Adwords

    7 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Ask HN: Please review my site - PickFu.com

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    Teaching functional programming to kids

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. Profit per employee for some large tech companies

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

  3. You are the problem: the reason why so many startups don't get venture funding

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

Show 10 more
  1. Mapping Out Your Web Startup

  2. How To Put Invite Codes on Business Cards

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

  4. Nate Lawson Breaks Google Keyczar's HMAC Crypto Signatures

  5. Ron Conway To Focus On Real Time Data Startups: 40-50 New Investments

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

  7. Interview with CEO Peldi Guilizzoni about the growth of Balsamiq

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

  9. Idiot CEOs

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

Sports 22 stories

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

  2. What I learned from screwing up my first ebook launch

Show 6 more
  1. Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed for Bias

  2. Creative anti-debugger technique in Spotify for Windows

  3. Simple wins

  4. Is Science As Important As Football?

  5. Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round With USV (YC W09)

  6. Lean movie-making: Zombie flick wowing Cannes made for $70

Technology 618 stories

  1. Wolfram Alpha API (Google Cache)

  2. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1

  3. Deny This, Last.fm

Show 9 more
  1. The speed, size and dependability of programming languages

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

  3. Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong

  4. My $3.3M Mistake

  5. How to Teach a Child to Argue

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

  7. My Personal Credit Crisis

  8. Why it's expensive to be poor

  9. Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005)

Entertainment 17 stories

  1. A brazen ripoff of Twitvid

  2. Netflix Prize - One Team's Account

Show 6 more
  1. MS just announced some pretty awesome stuff for the Xbox

  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. Farmers Didn't Invent Tractors. They Were Busy Farming.

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

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