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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 7 – February 6, 2012 816 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 37 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

White House Petitioned to Investigate MPAA Bribery

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Building Twitter bootstrap

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Machine Learning on the Cheap and Easy

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Bill Gates on his last visit with Steve Jobs

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. White House Petitioned to Investigate MPAA Bribery

  2. Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.

  3. Books for people in the software business

  4. Google's Kenyan ripoff?

Show 10 more
  1. Why the feds smashed Megaupload

  2. Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood

  3. I quit my high-paying job to follow my dream of launching a startup. Here it is.

  4. The 'Startup Boom' is a disguised jobs fair for big corporations

  5. Applications open for Y Combinator's summer 2012 funding cycle

  6. YC and 500 Startups company Curebit caught stealing from 37 Signals

  7. Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit

  8. Facebook to File for IPO Next Week

  9. The anatomy of a ripoff

  10. Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable

Sports 17 stories

  1. I'm Pirating the Next Version of Windows

  2. Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game

Show 6 more
  1. Command and Conquer – Programming an RTS game in HTML5 and Javascript

  2. The Humble Bundle for Android (and Mac / Windows / Linux)

  3. Color: a color matching game done in d3.js and Raphael

  4. This game was made entirely in css (no javascript)

  5. It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web

  6. Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS

Technology 561 stories

  1. Impressive SOPA blackout

  2. How Google Code Search Worked

  3. Google's "free food" is not free

Show 9 more
  1. Why UEFI secure boot is difficult for Linux

  2. Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor

  3. Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split

  4. Why I'm a Pirate

  5. Building Twitter bootstrap

  6. Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

  7. Google, what were you thinking?

  8. The Five Stages of Hosting

  9. Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours

Entertainment 28 stories

  1. What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies?

  2. MusicForProgramming();

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

  2. Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

  3. Anonymous takes down Department of Justice and Universal Music

  4. Show HN: my database engine for GPU

  5. Show HN: I've created a site about Bone Marrow Donation

  6. The New French Hacker-Artist Underground

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