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Sunday, August 29, 2010
- Rate My Startup: (Blurb.fm) Daily email of a non-fiction Blurb, Launched Today (taphangum, 1 point, 2 comments)
- The formulas for giant companies are the same (skowmunk, 2 points, 4 comments)
- What's your opinion on websites that "force" users to use modern browsers? (ergo14, 3 points, 14 comments)
- Why the angel/VC hype is bunk for most hackers (stevejobs, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask HN:Confused About Contest Rules (westy92, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Why are there no Slideshare competitors (petervandijck, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: recommendations for a mail client? (jackfoxy, 2 points, 6 comments)
- Http://www.codesounding.org/indexeng.html (ysorter78, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: back to math? (cageface, 9 points, 14 comments)
- Advice for a gap year (flojito, 6 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN: What technologies one should learn? (grep, 9 points, 8 comments)
- Python is exposed as main webdevelopment tool as it deserves (ergo14, 15 points, 23 comments)
- What if? Facebook was a non-profit org. (filmschool, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask Advice: Contractor or Disposable cofounder? (KevinMS, 1 point, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: How do people really test their code? (dsc, 45 points, 28 comments)
- Ask HN: How can I learn how to formally verify Haskell programs? (modmajgen, 2 points, 1 comment)
Monday, August 30, 2010
- Ask HN: I created something cool-- how do I get the word out? (matthodan, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Proper Way to Start a Hardware Tech Company? (AdrianRatliff, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: from zero to development (DeusExMachina, 11 points, 21 comments)
- Ask HN: Best analytics tools for SaaS? (gsiener, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Do you have to be a 'hacker' to do a startup? (ericseidelman, 4 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: Can I be sued for using patented algorithms for in-house stuff? (zatara, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Show HN: I took your advice and prldr is now a visual RSS reader (japetheape, 9 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Rails 2.3 or Rails 3.0? (yekmer, 6 points, 8 comments)
- Rate My Startup: HQ Scheduler, Enterprise Job Scheduling (hqdev, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: My cofounder disappeared. What should I do? (LostMyCofounder, 4 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: How does a hacker balance work/personal life? (mobl, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Start-up idea in existing company, what compensation should I expect? (kreek, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Tell HN: My rule of thumb for initial estimation (RiderOfGiraffes, 45 points, 20 comments)
- Ask YC: Recommendations for a Canadian-accessible merchant account provider? (egmike, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Build a HN website with the higher rated comments only (eande, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Please review the advertising page for an iPhone game I made w/ a friend (paulbaumgart, 5 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator (okayzedd, 41 points, 25 comments)
- Ask HN: HN comment-respond notifications, useful? (emanuer, 3 points, 1 comment)
- UI/UX design firms in Boston (sshah, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Is it possible to raise money without a working prototype? (code177, 7 points, 16 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you blog? (ecaradec, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Review my startup - DuringConstruction.com (sfreiberg, 2 points, 8 comments)
- Poll: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (barredo, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Backblaze on a LAN can backup the whole company? (poofyleek, 1 point, 5 comments)
- What % of a startup should i offer to technical co-founder? (hajiss, 5 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Cool intro videos for your startup's landing page? (fjabre, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: How to motivate a non-technical cofounder (dglassan, 5 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Any Python hackers want to make stuff? (swanson, 6 points, 1 comment)
- What is Hacker News? (blantonl, 61 points, 41 comments)
- Ask HN: Review our app, Gameplan (iamclovin, 16 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Digg vs Reddit vs HN (exdigger2, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Webapp free trials - CC required vs no CC needed (tnorthcutt, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How are you liking Gmail's new call feature? (fjabre, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Thinking of Moving to the Bay. Beach Areas? (iamtemporary, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Entrepreneurship for Non-US Citizens (tejaswiy, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask PG: Applying to YC (lachyg, 7 points, 4 comments)
- Today is the 1-year anniversary of my HN registration (marcamillion, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: When does programming start to make sense? (amorphid, 26 points, 49 comments)
- Ask HN: how do you decide when to quit, stick or pivot (bandhunt, 19 points, 18 comments)
- Ask HN: How to be successful online without SEO bullshittery? (rkalla, 141 points, 60 comments)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
- How often do you "Google" while programming? (zengr, 12 points, 18 comments)
- Ask HN: How is the avg in my HN profile calculated? (vijaydev, 5 points, 4 comments)
- My programming apps with one button on my Mac (harrys, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: The right way to learn how to program (cb33, 3 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Should I fire half of my team because their performance is terrible? (firingtest, 63 points, 91 comments)
- Getting customers, the Get Satisfaction way (liad, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: What CMS can do user management for thousands of users? (ericmeltzer, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Are there any good online communities for UX design? (mistrQ, 58 points, 27 comments)
- Ask HN: Does it help to have dedicated domain for non-web apps? (gaiusparx, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Does any transparent note-taking overlay program exist? (lionhearted, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: weekend project - printable PDF calendars (pbw, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: An email from god - technical issues (zeynel1, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Would like a 2nd set of eyes to look over some http traffic captures (jbz, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: What does your development environment look like? (rbranson, 41 points, 83 comments)
- Ask HN: Review our product Beacon - a hosted Comet push service with WebSockets (cgbystrom, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Cheap device for photographing demolition/construction site? (MichaelSalib, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Good Framework For GUI Design In Python? (todayiamme, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Simple company policies or guidelines that work well? (duck, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Review my idea - fix the way girls shop for jeans (dkokelley, 2 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Online website creator? (Aegean, 2 points, 6 comments)
- HN Idea: HN alerts Att PG (HNer, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Please review my Android game (ww520, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Rate My Startup: The Last Coder - Gamifying your IDE (tieTYT, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Show HN: VoiceForms 4000, my submission to the Wufoo API contest (Derferman, 21 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Investing in own startup counts as business expense? (DiaHacker, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Is anyone else using Oh Life? (rcavezza, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Best PHP hosting provider? (cme, 5 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Where to sell your profitable company (to_the_top, 38 points, 22 comments)
- Language for Unix command line utilities? (gn, 4 points, 10 comments)
- Uses of implicit differentiation (pencil, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Tech guy looking for business person co-founder (isalmon, 5 points, 15 comments)
- Ask HN: What is a good % of active users? (arturadib, 5 points, 3 comments)
- My first product (phatbyte, 6 points, 16 comments)
- Ask HN: Does hiring help? (anonymouscto, 4 points, 8 comments)
- Does anyone else have gmail auto-playing a hidden movie when they log in? (nfriedly, 2 points, 2 comments)
- AskHN: Should us youngins be taking a Java class as a first programming class? (telret, 7 points, 13 comments)
- Hire HN: Apache is crashing every hour. Seeking Drupal/Nginx-friendly sysadmin (brandnewlow, 30 points, 52 comments)
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
- Ask HN: Ignoring startup advice (suckerfish, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: Have you ever ignored Paul Graham? (suckerfish, 39 points, 38 comments)
- Need some legal advice on debt collection (help_with_debt, 9 points, 16 comments)
- ASK HN:What do you think about inserting affiliate link into free desktop app (umenline, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Destination Web (Yodash, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How to work your way down the career ladder? (Tyrannosaurs, 2 points, 4 comments)
- 1 year in seconds per Google is Not 60*60*24*365 (julien, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Writing a master thesis about freemium, need some ideas (kjbekkelund, 8 points, 6 comments)
- Thinking about making my table-top RPG an iPad app. Looking for advice. (JimmySwill, 6 points, 5 comments)
- Keep baby's medical record online (arsh, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Whatever happened to P = NP (ajaimk, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Why my posts do not show up on HN? (bigmac2010, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Moved to Columbus, Ohio - Help me connect with the startup scene (tibbon, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: When should we ask for credit card details? (lleger, 5 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: What are your non-programming hobbies? (j_baker, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Data Center Hardware - Start Up Idea (symkat, 4 points, 4 comments)
- Discuss/Remind HN: Apple Live Event On Right Now (samratjp, 7 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Any interest in a Salt Lake City or Provo, UT Hackers/Founders meetup? (adammichaelc, 22 points, 21 comments)
- What is the vesting period for co-founders in a start up? (hajiss, 2 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Apple Battery Technology? (todayiamme, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Examples of Django based applications (g9, 4 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN Emacs Users: What's in your .emacs file? (grizzydot, 97 points, 61 comments)
- Is the iPod Classic going away? (teilo, 2 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: looking for a tech cofounder, already have 13k users after 2 months (niccolop, 29 points, 19 comments)
- Ask HN: Make money w/o banner ads or subscriptions (pilom, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Is your site fast? (Stella beta launch) (delano, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Poll: Do you have Gmail Priority Inbox already? (myoung8, 6 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Do super smart people avoid entrepreneurship? (amichail, 13 points, 27 comments)
- Ask HN: Why is there still no facebook app for iPad? (AlexMuir, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Do all startups do SEO? (niico, 2 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: How do I teach myself better writing skills? (klbarry, 23 points, 39 comments)
- Ask HN: your feedback applied to blurrypeople.com. Is it better? (sssparkkk, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Alternative to BatchPCB (harrisonhjones, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Finding advisors for my start up. (cartab, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask: Is there a big book of neat algorithms? (sown, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Major challenges in recruitment? (AlphaEvolve, 3 points, 2 comments)
Thursday, September 02, 2010
- Ask HN: non invasive analytics tool? (loup-vaillant, 4 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Breakfree 101 for the Salaryman (momotomo, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: searching for mobile wireless POS printer (seven, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN:How do you cope with frustrations in single person startups. (vineet7kumar, 8 points, 13 comments)
- Lexical vs dynamic scoping in Lisp ... (RiderOfGiraffes, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: StackOverflow for projects (loewenskind, 3 points, 1 comment)
- I want to start a undergraduate college (nayan, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Is USA that bad when it comes to health insurance, etc? (dotslash, 13 points, 34 comments)
- Where to study abroad? (dotslash, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Ask: How does lolcats website work and if I can get a clone (code) for free? (Amanjeev, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Where to find co-founding developers? (ericseidelman, 2 points, 11 comments)
- Ask PG: Hiding Submitter (gsmaverick, 4 points, 7 comments)
- Hate scribd? Try Libboo (LibbooChris, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Where are all the iPad apps? (famousactress, 4 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: How to build a Crunchbase clone using Wordpress? (PatrikP, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Where can I find a Biomedical(Genetic) Engineer to interview? (Icemajor, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Why do you think Node.js is catching on? (howard_yeh, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: what Chrome extensions do you use? (blazamos, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: possible to get job in Melbourne, AU? (maxawaytoolong, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Your opinion on AGPL license (hippich, 10 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN: How to avoid double-post in HN? (mindblink, 5 points, 7 comments)
- Ponder a thought from Alain de Botton (philosopher) (auxbuss, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How do VCs behave when you fail? (mobl, 45 points, 24 comments)
- Ask HN: Did Apple create Ping to eventually compete with Facebook? (curtisspope, 4 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: How much time do you spend selling? (coryl, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: How long to wait between SEO tweaks? (paulsingh, 1 point, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: Best Legal Entity to Create for a Single Founder Non Profit? (maresca, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Share Your Blog (il, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Have $15k to invest. suggestions please. (investiser, 3 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Has anyone tried "burst" advertising on iPhone/iPad? (ektimo, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: recommendation for VPS/Dedicated Server (juanefren, 2 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Who here struck out on their own without a plan? (MrFoof, 46 points, 30 comments)
- Ask HN: Help me verify my news app (takrupp, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How can you "own" code without control over it's quality or design? (codeowner, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Hey HN, I'm trying to target tweens/teens in the iPhone app market. (buf, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Any OSS Node.js projects need more developers? (warfangle, 3 points, 2 comments)
Friday, September 03, 2010
- A tool to help you keep up with 1000+ sources in the tech startup space (bpang, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: open wifi? (houseabsolute, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: How to Find Experts? (hyung, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Some questions from an aspiring hacker about learning html (newsisan, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: has anyone coined the meme (b), for bragging right? (zemanel, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: What payment model should I adopt for my new site? (sw1205, 20 points, 19 comments)
- Ask HN: Does domain name affect success? (hinoglu, 4 points, 9 comments)
- Want to start a podcast? Need a co-host? Find them here. (hotmind, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010) (buro9, 58 points, 67 comments)
- Show HN: Google "hacker news", see one user's suggestion implemented. (SandB0x, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Why was my previous submission dead on arrival? (someone_here, 8 points, 7 comments)
- Show HN: ImpromptuDo.com the real time location based activity partner finder (djb_hackernews, 1 point, 1 comment)