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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 20 – February 19, 2013 821 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 50 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Bill Gates 2013 Annual Letter

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Getting Started with Django

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    What it's like to uncover a $1 billion fraud

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit

  2. Python trademark at risk in Europe

  3. Bad Startup Idea - Your next weekend project

  4. Elon Musk: Boeing 787 battery fundamentally unsafe

Show 10 more
  1. Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate WikiLeaks

  2. Steve Jobs' exchange with Palm CEO Ed Colligan

  3. Bankers now Too Big to Jail

  4. Bitcoins can now be used to pay for Domino’s Pizza

  5. Swartz didn't face prison until feds took over case, report says

  6. Applications open for summer 2013 YC funding

  7. Mojang's Monster Profits

  8. New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering"

  9. The Firefox OS marketplace is brilliant

  10. Mega update: Dotcom's service now accepts Bitcoin

Sports 34 stories

  1. A close look at how Oracle installs deceptive software with Java updates

  2. Group of Men Have Played Game of Tag for 23 Years

Show 6 more
  1. Realtime Responsive Typography Based on Viewing Distance via Webcam

  2. Blowing the Whistle on the Mortgage Bubble

  3. Valve starts promoting Steam for Linux to Windows users

  4. At Facebook, zero-day exploits, backdoor code bring war games drill to life

  5. DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches a Day and Growing

  6. When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?

Technology 620 stories

  1. MIT website hacked by Lulzsec

  2. Heroku - Bamboo Routing Performance

  3. Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling

Show 9 more
  1. Star Wars Traceroute - How I did it

  2. Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers

  3. A Most Peculiar Test Drive

  4. Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails

  5. What it's like to uncover a $1 billion fraud

  6. Improve your REPLs with rlwrap

  7. Opera moves to WebKit

  8. Why the Fuck?

  9. I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

Entertainment 41 stories

  1. Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

  2. That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer

Show 6 more
  1. Stupid, Stupid xBox

  2. Show HN: Hacky – Hacker News app for Mac

  3. Show HN: My Weekend Hack - Stack-Ed: Learn from the best on StackOverflow

  4. Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

  5. Psilocybin shows success in medical trials

  6. Show HN: hint.css – a tooltip library in CSS

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