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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 5 – December 5, 2014 826 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 49 · Issue 339 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Doing Business in Japan

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Functional Programming Patterns

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    What We Learned From 40 Female YC Founders

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Running a South Pole data center

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Doing Business in Japan

  2. Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon

  3. Hard-won lessons about money and investing

  4. Federal law enforcement documents about Aaron Swartz, released under FOIA

Show 10 more
  1. Open Sourcing a Failed Startup

  2. Apple Deleted Rivals’ Songs from Users’ iPods

  3. Operator of Silk Road 2.0 Website Charged in Manhattan Federal Court

  4. For Sale: 50,000 Bitcoins

  5. Lecture 18: Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups

  6. Why Broken Sleep Is a Golden Time for Creativity

  7. Why I Walked Away From a $12M Acquisition Offer 18 Months After Our Launch

  8. HSBC, Goldman Rigged Metals’ Prices for Years, Suit Says

  9. What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers?

  10. Mozilla accepting Bitcoin donations

Sports 28 stories

  1. 3D.City – Game built with three.js and sea3d

  2. 0h h1 – A little logic game

Show 6 more
  1. Winamp 2 in HTML5

  2. Monkey Island – Insult Swordfighting Game

  3. Handmade Hero: C game from scratch

  4. Magnus Carlsen Repeats at World Chess Championship

  5. EFF asks for the right to revive “abandoned” online games

  6. The Unbalanced Design of Super Smash Bros

Technology 647 stories

  1. Police Can Seize and Sell Assets Even When the Owner Broke No Law

  2. Microsoft Open Sources .NET and Mono

  3. Object Oriented Programming is Inherently Harmful

Show 9 more
  1. Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web

  2. NASA: We're sending humans to Mars

  3. Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec

  4. WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation

  5. President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet

  6. Philae has landed

  7. Nature makes all articles free to view

  8. Firefox Developer Edition

  9. Amazon Echo

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. 24/192 music downloads are silly

  2. Wanderers: a short film of humanity's expansion into the Solar System [video]

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Front-end framework optimized for internal apps

  2. Show HN: Meet me, I'll buy you coffee

  3. Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

  4. Bringing SSD Performance to the DIMM form factor

  5. Study shows brain interface between humans

  6. Show HN: Explained Visually

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