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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 4 – May 4, 2013 836 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 124 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The Matasano Crypto Challenges

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    This is what a DDoS attack looks like

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    What is probabilistic programming?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    FBI Updates on Boston explosions

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 60 stories

  1. The Matasano Crypto Challenges

  2. How a player with a “useless” item almost took down EVE Online’s entire economy

  3. Bitcoin falls from $266

  4. Transcript of meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Show 10 more
  1. My Startup Failed. Fuck.

  2. The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator

  3. How We Bootstrapped a $20K Website into a $4M/year Business

  4. How to Choose a Profitable Niche

  5. How Dave Goldberg Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM

  6. CipherCloud used DMCA Takedown on StackExchange discussion of their cryptography

  7. Why I am building a product with a tiny market

  8. Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance

  9. The exploding toilet

  10. Paypal President: We're thinking about adding Bitcoin (2:50) [video]

Sports 26 stories

  1. Coinbase Merchant Data Leak?

  2. Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy

Show 6 more
  1. Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games

  2. Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men

  3. Data journalism busts speeding cops, wins Pulitzer

  4. Girl Scouts to introduce game developer badge

  5. Play an accordion recording by resizing your browser window

  6. How much usage can a Lego piece take before it loses its 'clutch power'?

Technology 602 stories

  1. Google Fiber coming to Austin

  2. Our tiny jQuery/Bootstrap rich text editor is now open-source

  3. AT&T Pretends It, Too, Will Build A 1 Gigabit Network

Show 9 more
  1. Homeless in Silicon Valley

  2. FBI Updates on Boston explosions

  3. Gitmo Is Killing Me

  4. Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM

  5. Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript

  6. Here is today

  7. Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer

  8. BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

  9. Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

Entertainment 42 stories

  1. Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

  2. Disney have stolen my artwork

Show 6 more
  1. Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation

  2. I made an example app to show how Google map URLs should look

  3. Show HN: Pinterest for text

  4. Older Is Wiser: Study Shows Software Developers’ Skills Improve Over Time

  5. How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C

  6. My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie

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