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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 19 – October 19, 2011 834 stories · Vol. 11 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 292 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

A First Look at BankSimple

banksimple.com · 1 sources

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Shen programming language

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Commit logs from last night

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The Rust Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 65 stories

  1. A First Look at BankSimple

    banksimple.com · 1 outlets

  2. Businessweek Magazine's Classy Tribute to Steve Jobs

    socialcustomer.com · 1 outlets

  3. TakeThisLollipop - really clever/creepy use of the Facebook API

    takethislollipop.com · 1 outlets

  4. Pre-branded domain names for startups

    stylate.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  2. Zynga's Profits Down by 95%

    gamepro.com · 1 outlets

  3. VC Decries Airbnb’s Recent Funding for Founder Control and Cashout

    allthingsd.com · 1 outlets

  4. It takes three years to build a business

    jacquesmattheij.com · 1 outlets

  5. SSL broken. (TLS 1.0 cryptographic attack that works. Not just fake certs.)

    theregister.co.uk · 1 outlets

  6. Why Startup Hubs Work

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  7. Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6

    paulirish.com · 1 outlets

  8. OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location For Profit

    zdziarski.com · 1 outlets

  9. How 1 HN post compelled me to leave Intuit and create a new startup for startups

    copyhackers.com · 1 outlets

  10. Groupon Restates Revenue, Revenue Fell In Half, COO Exits

    online.wsj.com · 1 outlets

Sports 28 stories

  1. FeeFighters Loses BBB Accreditation Over Investigative Blog Post

    feefighters.com · 1 outlets

  2. Flash Game Simulates Living on $9/hr.

    playspent.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Plink, a multiplayer HTML5 music game

    labs.dinahmoe.com · 1 outlets

  2. Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction?

    blogs.msdn.com · 1 outlets

  3. Who killed videogames?

    insertcredit.com · 1 outlets

  4. Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting

    itworld.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël

    type.method.ac · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: my 4-y-o son drew a video game. He drew then we hacked together.

    audenneedham.com · 1 outlets

Technology 545 stories

  1. Bill Gates on Steve Jobs

    thegatesnotes.com · 48 outlets

  2. Dennis Ritchie, Trailblazer in Digital Era, Dies at 70

    blog.tagxedo.com · 14 outlets

  3. Amazon kindle source code

    bloomberg.com · 6 outlets

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  1. White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit

    technologyreview.com · 2 outlets

  2. Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online

    dss.collections.imj.or · 2 outlets

  3. Stanford AI Class Lecture Notes

    ml-class.org · 4 outlets

  4. Adobe acquires Nitobi (Founders of Phonegap)

    blog.typekit.com · 3 outlets

  5. Root access to MySQL.com sold for $3k - now serving malware

    krebsonsecurity.com · 2 outlets

  6. I was once a Facebook fool

    public.numair.com · 1 outlets

  7. Payment processing for Django

    stripe.com · 2 outlets

  8. Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  9. Bring a stick man to life.

    drawastickman.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 28 stories

  1. Netflix reverts from Qwikster split

    allthingsd.com · 2 outlets

  2. What Netflix Could Have Said This Week

    appleoutsider.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: HackerThings - Products for hackers

    hackerthings.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Write a sort, watch it go

    visualsort.appspot.com · 1 outlets

  3. No TV for children under 2, urge doctors

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Who's Hiring? (postings mined from Twitter)

    jobstractor.com · 1 outlets

  5. Guys buy island on Craigslist, use Kickstarter to turn it into artist community

    coldsplinters.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

    hnwho.com · 1 outlets

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