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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 17 – June 16, 2009 796 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 25 · Issue 167 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

User gets fed up with bug; cracks program to fix it himself.

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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Ask HN: Please review my app

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Wave “is anti-Web”

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Business

    Ask HN: Review my startup

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. User gets fed up with bug; cracks program to fix it himself.

  2. Cryptographic Right Answers

  3. Rajeev Motwani, Google founders' professor and early investor, dies

  4. "Pizza profitable" Airbnb now in 1,000 cities worldwide

Show 10 more
  1. Too small to fail: How startups can grow in recessions

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

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

  4. Ask HN: Review my startup

  5. How To Put Invite Codes on Business Cards

  6. Bullion and Bandits: The Improbable Rise and Fall of E-Gold

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

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

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

  10. 5 Things I Learned From Year One In My Startup

Sports 28 stories

  1. Pirate Party wins a seat at the European Parliament

  2. Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course

Show 6 more
  1. Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang

  2. The creator of Monkey Island plays and narrates his game, 20 years later.

  3. Why "next-gen games" went gray, brown, and grey.

  4. The Two-Party Swindle

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

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

Technology 626 stories

  1. Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search?

  2. Text of Y Combinator article in Inc Magazine

  3. Larry Page on Real Time Google: We Have To Do It

Show 9 more
  1. Deny This, Last.fm

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

  3. My $3.3M Mistake

  4. The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection

  5. Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers

  6. How to Teach a Child to Argue

  7. Why Google Bothered to Appeal a $761 Small Claims Case (and Won)

  8. Why it's expensive to be poor

  9. Apple adds closures to C family of programming languages

Entertainment 16 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. Home 2009 - movie about humanity

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

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

  6. Hulu Desktop (Mac and PC clients)

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