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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 16 – December 16, 2014 833 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 350 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Microsoft accepting Bitcoin

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Spider Programming Language

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Why the data center needs an operating system

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The Pirate Bay down, forever?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. Microsoft accepting Bitcoin

  2. Hard-won lessons about money and investing

  3. Open Sourcing a Failed Startup

  4. Map the Banks

Show 10 more
  1. My Adventures with “4K” 2160p and Linux

  2. Apple Deleted Rivals’ Songs from Users’ iPods

  3. For Sale: 50,000 Bitcoins

  4. Lecture 18: Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups

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

  6. What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers?

  7. Why you should move your startup to a small fishing town

  8. Japan Falls into Recession

  9. How to Get a Quant Job in Finance

  10. The Startup That Built Google’s First Self-Driving Car

Sports 27 stories

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

  2. Monkey Island – Insult Swordfighting Game

Show 6 more
  1. Classic arcade game TRON on a cloth modelling grid

  2. Google to close engineering office in Russia

  3. Post mortem of my one game a month

  4. Magnus Carlsen Repeats at World Chess Championship

  5. Why I’m Giving Up My Passport

  6. You can't win the game, it exists only to destroy your mind

Technology 660 stories

  1. Orion Flight Test Live Launch

  2. Future of Programming Languages

  3. Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web

Show 9 more
  1. NASA: We're sending humans to Mars

  2. “Was isolated from 1999 to 2006 with a 486. Built my own late 80s OS”

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

  4. Nature makes all articles free to view

  5. Unicode Text Converter

  6. CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket

  7. God's Lonely Programmer

  8. US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program

  9. The Case for Slow Programming

Entertainment 33 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: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon

  3. Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress (2011)

  4. Show HN: PSequel – a free PostgreSQL GUI Tool for Mac OS X

  5. Show HN: Artful for Mac

  6. Show HN: Phantom JS interactive editor

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