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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 14 – May 14, 2013 829 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 134 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

    6 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    I Don't Want Your Fucking App

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 58 stories

  1. The Matasano Crypto Challenges

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

  3. Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is

  4. Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations

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

  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. CipherCloud used DMCA Takedown on StackExchange discussion of their cryptography

  6. The Freelancer's Guide to Recurring Revenue

  7. Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup

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

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

  10. Uber Stockholm throw a PR-tantrum when refused unfair advantages

Sports 24 stories

  1. Windows NT Kernel Contributor Explains Why Performance is Behind Other OS

  2. Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy

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  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 627 stories

  1. Google Glass kernel GPL source

  2. Why I'm Furious with Silicon Valley (2011)

  3. FBI Updates on Boston explosions

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  1. Government obtains wide AP phone records in probe

  2. Gitmo Is Killing Me

  3. Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM

  4. Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript

  5. Depression Part Two

  6. Here is today

  7. BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public

  8. Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

  9. What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

Entertainment 36 stories

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

  2. Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online

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  1. Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo

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

  3. Show HN: I'm building an open-source, high-frequency trading system

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

  5. Show HN: Sync – Realtime partials with Rails

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

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