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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 28 – May 28, 2014 833 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 148 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Follow up to the investigation results

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What’s So Scary About Smart Girls?

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Common LibreSSL porting mistakes

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What Programming is Like

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 39 stories

  1. Follow up to the investigation results

  2. Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days

  3. Web Fundamentals: A handbook for best practices

  4. Announcing the MIT Bitcoin Project

Show 10 more
  1. Big Cable says investment is flourishing, but their data says it's falling

  2. When AES(☢) = ☠ – a crypto-binary trick

  3. Startup School is going global

  4. The Trade of the Century: When George Soros Broke the British Pound

  5. The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business

  6. With IPO Hopes Fading, Square and Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products

  7. Zombies once destroyed Japan's economy, now they're infecting China's

  8. How I Feel as Young Father Involved in Early-stage Startup

  9. Talk of an Internet Fast Lane Is Already Hurting Some Startups

  10. We scraped the World Bank's website

Sports 27 stories

  1. YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?

  2. How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux

Show 6 more
  1. Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose

  2. “A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines”

  3. The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win

  4. China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers

  5. Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf]

  6. New York City photographed with the Game Boy Camera in 2000

Technology 645 stories

  1. Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane

  2. Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle

  3. Chrome's experiment of hiding the URL is awful

Show 9 more
  1. Don't mess with Newegg

  2. 2048, success and me

  3. Atom Is Now Open Source

  4. Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit

  5. The future of Unreal Tournament begins today

  6. The Absurdity of LinkedIn

  7. The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)

  8. Level3 is without peer, now what to do?

  9. The next version of DuckDuckGo

Entertainment 30 stories

  1. Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award

  2. How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn

Show 6 more
  1. Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster

  2. Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

  3. The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDb

  4. Show HN: Hipster Domain Finder

  5. AT&T to Buy DirecTV for $48.5 Billion

  6. The New Aaron Swartz Documentary Looks Powerful. Here's the Trailer

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