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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 19 – December 19, 2010 789 stories · Vol. 10 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 353 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition

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1Articles

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Editing Google Docs in Emacs

    8 of 30 days · 11 articles

  2. Technology

    Goodbye, Google App Engine

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Hacker News' Reading Level

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition

  2. Allegations of FBI crypto backdoors in OpenBSD IPSEC

  3. Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)

  4. BankSimple Launches Preview Site

Show 10 more
  1. How I Incorporated My Startup

  2. The best investment advice you'll never get

  3. Small startup hits Google paydirt

  4. Startup Lessons, Courtesy of United Airlines’ Crappy Customer Service

  5. How being a bully fuels this trader's profits because of Google

  6. How much startup stock options are worth

  7. Apple’s iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch

  8. How to destroy your business with one email

  9. WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal in Early 2011

  10. Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users

Sports 28 stories

  1. Winning Isn't Normal

  2. Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees

Show 6 more
  1. Close the Washington Monument

  2. A Google Interviewing Story

  3. Beekeeper Who Leaked EPA Documents: "I Don't Think We Can Survive This Winter"

  4. The MacGyver Approach to Winter Biking (Zip Ties)

  5. Google AI Challenge Winner Post-Mortem

  6. Today's Coding Interview Game

Technology 582 stories

  1. Navy Sets World Record With Rail Gun

  2. The Ruby Stdlib is a Ghetto

  3. Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out

Show 9 more
  1. Lisp compiler in 89 lines of Python

  2. Amazon no longer hosts wikileaks

  3. Introducing Word Lens

  4. Today you, tomorrow me

  5. Google Beatbox

  6. Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash

  7. Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem So Readable?

  8. Everest is littered with dead, exposed bodies

  9. Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

Entertainment 22 stories

  1. Comcast demands Level 3 pay fee to deliver online movies to their subscribers

  2. Netflix: Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS

Show 6 more
  1. Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate

  2. Mathematical explanation of music and white/black notes in a piano

  3. What kind of traffic is driven by a single mention of a domain on network TV?

  4. Judge in Xbox modding trial berates prosecution, halts trial

  5. Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

  6. Minecraft developer streaming live while coding

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