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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 17 – December 17, 2013 819 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 351 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Government Chemist Tampered With 40,000 Cases

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Silicon Valley Isn’t a Meritocracy

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Kano: A computer anyone can make

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 69 stories

  1. NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules

  2. An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options

  3. Someone just made a $147,239,214 Bitcoin transfer

  4. Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers

Show 10 more
  1. How the Bitcoin protocol actually works

  2. How Money Moves Around The Banking System

  3. Robinhood: $0 commission stock brokerage

  4. The first Bitcoin post on HN

  5. Why I don't trade stocks and (probably) neither should you

  6. “We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say

  7. Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch

  8. Kawasaki on Why Your Startup is Dead if You Can’t Enchant

  9. Visual Cryptography

  10. Senate hearing on Bitcoin [video]

Sports 36 stories

  1. Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013

  2. A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack

Show 6 more
  1. Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion

  2. HTML5 game written in 0 lines of JS

  3. Sheerwind

  4. LG Smart TVs log USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers

  5. Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL

  6. Mathematicians Team Up on Twin Primes Conjecture

Technology 587 stories

  1. Google is the new Bell Labs

  2. Falcon 9 GEO Transfer Mission

  3. Amazon Drones - 60 Minutes [video]

Show 9 more
  1. Kano: A computer anyone can make

  2. Amazon Prime Air

  3. South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies

  4. Pencil

  5. SteamOS: What we know so far and what to expect

  6. Google Acquires Boston Dynamics

  7. Jolla

  8. I found Prezi's source code

  9. My Roommate's a Genius

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles

  2. NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles

  2. Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry

  3. David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'

  4. Why are software development estimates regularly off by a factor of 2-3?

  5. Show HN: Minecraft clone in 2500 lines of C - even supports multiplayer online

  6. LG TV logging filenames from network folders

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