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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 27 – April 26, 2012 830 stories · Vol. 12 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 117 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Before naming your startup, read this.

What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    I have no idea what I'm doing

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    The Rust Programming Language

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 39 stories

  1. Before naming your startup, read this.

  2. A High Frequency Trader's Apologia, Part 1

  3. OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

  4. The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to BitCoin

Show 10 more
  1. How the medical supply industry blocks device startups from selling to hospitals

  2. Asteroid Mining Venture Backed by Google Execs, James Cameron Unveiled

  3. Bootstrapped startup saves over $100K by dropping IE

  4. Shitter: Toilet Paper of Tweets

  5. Backbone.js Fundamentals

  6. Andreessen Horowitz to give half their earnings to charity

  7. Building a Product: One month later, $119.50 in the bank

  8. GoldenEye (N64) has a fully-functional ZX Spectrum 48x emulator built into it.

  9. The JOBS Act will very nearly legalize fraud in the stock market

  10. AWS Marketplace

Sports 30 stories

  1. DuckDuckGo is blowing up

  2. Wind Map

Show 6 more
  1. The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US

  2. Notch's next game is an MMO

  3. Learning VIM while playing a game

  4. SOPA is all fun and games until NBC rips off Apple's artwork

  5. Notch's Specification for the In-Game DCPU-16

  6. Matz wins the 2011 Free Software Award

Technology 625 stories

  1. Pebble E-Paper Watch Raises $1M In 28 Hours

  2. Google Announces Project Glass

  3. Obama Administration Threatens To Veto CISPA

Show 9 more
  1. Light Table Is On Kickstarter

  2. I hereby resign

  3. "That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends."

  4. I am very real

  5. Mosh: SSH for 2012

  6. Facebook acquires Instagram

  7. How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill

  8. PHP: A fractal of bad design

  9. How Not To Sort By Average Rating

Entertainment 25 stories

  1. Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework

  2. Show HN: We built real MMO Asteroids

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Our Hackable E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

  2. Show HN: Punch - A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites

  3. HBO Decides It Still Isn't Difficult Enough To Watch HBO Shows

  4. Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads

  5. The new Comcast Xbox Xfinity app is the first nail in net neutrality’s coffin

  6. Show HN: A Lisp-based in-browser toy operating system

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