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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 22 – June 21, 2009 791 stories · Vol. 09 · Catalogue 25 · Issue 172 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. Technology

    Dynamically create a type with Python

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 50 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. Revenue / Browser on mibbit

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

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

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

Sports 27 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. Indie games: Still Too Cheap. Getting Cheaper.

Technology 616 stories

  1. Did Bing Just Leapfrog Yahoo Search?

  2. Text of Y Combinator article in Inc Magazine

  3. Erik Naggum, 1965-2009 RIP

Show 9 more
  1. Google Native Client grows out of research phase

  2. Deny This, Last.fm

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

  4. Less, a leaner CSS

  5. My $3.3M Mistake

  6. The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection

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

  8. How to Teach a Child to Argue

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

Entertainment 17 stories

  1. A brazen ripoff of Twitvid

  2. Show success before asking for help

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. Hulu Desktop (Mac and PC clients)

  6. Loopt, Justin.tv, Xobni and Scribd in Top 50 Tech startups of 2009

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