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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 17 – May 17, 2010 790 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 137 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Case for Working With Your Hands

    10 of 30 days · 13 articles

  2. Technology

    What it feels like to fail

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    How will memristors change everything?

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 53 stories

  1. Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour

  2. Dropbox: Startup Lessons Learned [ppt]

  3. Work at a Startup

  4. Distributed Facebook replacement Diaspora pledged 2x the funding it requested

Show 10 more
  1. Rate my new startup, Appointment Reminder

  2. What if you had bought Apple stock instead of that iPod?

  3. $10 Million Round For Ruby On Rails Startup Heroku (YC W08)

  4. Apple is just Microsoft with better marketing

  5. Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startupland

  6. The Life of a Startup Founder’s Significant Other

  7. The Startup Racket

  8. Will Wall Street require Python?

  9. How to bootstrap your company to profitability

  10. The Weaver, the Princess and Goldman Sachs

Sports 30 stories

  1. An NBA Superstar with No Stats (2009)

  2. McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machines worldwide

Show 6 more
  1. The Humble Indie Game Bundle

  2. HTML5 Game Engine

  3. The secret to Farmville isn't gameplay or aesthetics

  4. Why Teenagers Are Growing Up So Slowly Today

  5. The Big Game, Zuckerberg and Overplaying your Hand

  6. Genius redditor created a multiplayer 2d game, where everybody edits the world

Technology 577 stories

  1. Learn Python The Hard Way: a new book by Zed Shaw

  2. Doc Searls on Steve Jobs (1997)

  3. Scribd Will Abandon Flash

Show 9 more
  1. Android 2.2 (Froyo) features

  2. Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers

  3. Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking

  4. Ex-Adobe Engineers on Thoughts on Flash

  5. The case of the 500-mile email

  6. _why: A Tale Of A Post-Modern Genius

  7. An apology...

  8. REST isn't what you think it is, and that's OK

  9. Arrington : "You’re Welcome, You Bastards"

Entertainment 14 stories

  1. As Facebook Takes a Beating, a Brutal Movie Is Set to Make Things Much Worse

  2. This year, Mac apps are no longer eligible for the Apple Design awards

Show 6 more
  1. Music Notation with HTML5 Canvas

  2. Show HN: iPad port of my sheet music app Etude

  3. Show HN: CanvasMol molecule viewer (JS + canvas demo)

  4. What happens after dark in Disney's theme park

  5. The state of Mac and Linux gaming

  6. Obama bemoans 'diversions' of IPod, Xbox era

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