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Sunday, May 04, 2008
- Ask YC: Identifying a troll (js440, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: PhD, yes or no? (abless, 22 points, 41 comments)
- Ask YC: Masters in CS? Or no? (maneesh, 16 points, 27 comments)
- Ask YC: Site usage data for math modeling exercise? (nwinter, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server/site uptime? (shafqat, 16 points, 22 comments)
- Ask YC: Why doesn't Google use better technology to build its services (e.g., Flash)? (amichail, 10 points, 49 comments)
- Ask HN: Any users of SimpleCDN? (thorax, 13 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Best IP geolocation service? (tonyvt2005, 5 points, 6 comments)
- Please, Pretty Please, Lets Keep This Place Quasi-Quiet (motherwell, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: I have to iron. Where can I quickly find interesting non-fiction video besides ted.com (niels_olson, 56 points, 36 comments)
Monday, May 05, 2008
- From who would Microsoft have bought Yahoo? (god, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: Bayesian filter for NSFW content ? (ptm, 4 points, 5 comments)
- What are the best CRM for Web 2.0 sites ? (Belgo1, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: learning to draw (cousin_it, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Academic Exercise: Estimating Cost of Bandwith and Colocation Services for Startup (uniuniunium, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: What do you think of CakePHP? (ca98am79, 9 points, 13 comments)
- Ask YC: do you think yahoo share at 15-20% below friday price is a hot deal? (ideas101, 1 point, 1 comment)
- What do hackers think of PHP? (amrithk, 40 points, 87 comments)
- Ask PG: Shall we ban Techcrunch articles? (eugenejen, 32 points, 63 comments)
- Summer Internship in Seattle doing computational biology (brfox, 9 points, 5 comments)
- Super Sweet API's? (nextmoveone, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: Software developers at Apple? (pchristensen, 34 points, 27 comments)
- Ask YC: What do you spend on health insurance? (rrival, 11 points, 65 comments)
- Ask HN: Transitioning From PHP to Django (noelchurchill, 5 points, 8 comments)
- Ask YC: Taxes for selling user-generated content (lux, 5 points, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: Becoming a Hardware Retailer (iamdave, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask YC: How do you build a company with no or little politics (okeumeni, 5 points, 10 comments)
- Ask YC: Any readers from Switzerland/Geneva? (shafqat, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: Should computer books contain intentional technical errors to keep the reader's attention? (amichail, 6 points, 29 comments)
- Ask YC: finding hackers to help with charity work (ulfstein, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: To support Tiger or not to support Tiger? (whalesalad, 7 points, 14 comments)
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
- Ask YC: What is your favorite IDE? (yangyang42, 4 points, 9 comments)
- Sensationalism, over the top? (lux, 22 points, 17 comments)
- Ask YC: What should I ask John McCarthy? (mgummelt, 19 points, 33 comments)
- Ask YC: What are the going rates for consulting gigs? (iamelgringo, 71 points, 105 comments)
- Y Combinator Dataset Of Posts Version 1.1 (xirium, 13 points, 3 comments)
- What do you do for living? (sangguine, 5 points, 6 comments)
- Startups study (michjeanty, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Meetup with startups in the Bay Area (amrithk, 11 points, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: Unexplored Search Paradigms (pchristensen, 5 points, 10 comments)
- Ask YC: Does Net Neutrality Decision Threaten Your Startup? (justindz, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: Why should I care about Twitter? (the1pato, 16 points, 51 comments)
- Ask YC: Anyone else trying out zenbe's email? (jakewolf, 6 points, 8 comments)
- About my "Ask YC" posts: Follow me on twitter (@amichail) for more questions like that. (amichail, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: What is the best solution for managing user email lists? (jamescoops, 1 point, 6 comments)
- Ask YC: Been going to BarCamps? (BarCampBoston3 is May 17th & 18th!) (JayNeely, 18 points, 19 comments)
- Ask YC: All known sources of seed-stage funding, incubation, etc. for web startups? (walterk, 12 points, 6 comments)
- Seeking two Rails ninjas / the OC / funded (prakster, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: I have a twitter account with 1800+ followers, what do you think it is worth? (ca98am79, 1 point, 14 comments)
- Ask YC: What would you do with 50K (poppysan, 20 points, 31 comments)
- Google Reader Errors (mattmaroon, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: Concurrent vs. Registered User Ratio? (bsaunder, 11 points, 7 comments)
- Ask YC: Accepted YC and regret it? (nadim, 28 points, 10 comments)
- Snarfbot search (jluedke, 2 points, 4 comments)
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
- How would you promote your new site? (Ilia, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: How do you deal with external urls? (nurall, 5 points, 15 comments)
- Ask YC: Would you rather have 1,000 True Fans, or 1,000,000 casual users? (tomh, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: What do you use for automated testing? (es, 10 points, 9 comments)
- Ask YC: Thoughts on newest comments being obscure from start (jdroid, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Google Reader Down? (bjclark, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: Stats on Commenting before Reading (DaniFong, 5 points, 13 comments)
- Shameless self promotion (edwardbenson, 21 points, 16 comments)
- Ask YC: what would be your hourly rate for programming Cobol? (Tichy, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: Startup crisis. Out of money and tech co-founder has bailed. (drinko, 128 points, 232 comments)
- Ask YC: Launching gutmeet.com, need Critics. Thx in advance (maien, 13 points, 19 comments)
- Invite only Hacker News. (July2008, 2 points, 12 comments)
- Planet Startup - Community Aggregator for Startup Blogs (wheels, 16 points, 8 comments)
- Project Management (lakeeffect, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Y Combinator Dataset Of Users Version 1.1 (xirium, 19 points, 8 comments)
- Ask YC: living in Bay Area dorms? (jdavid, 5 points, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: When did we stop wanting useful software? (chriszf, 25 points, 35 comments)
- What are good user growth rates for your startup? (matthewer, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: In the hack of life, is it the people or the code? (cowmoo, 47 points, 59 comments)
- Ask YC : Do startups hire graduating students on F1 visas ? (arohann, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: What's the best advice you ever got? (edw519, 39 points, 95 comments)
- PostgreSQL vs MySQL (and to lesser extent also compared with MSSQL and Oracle) (babul, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask YC: How should outsourcing be structured? (andreyf, 9 points, 9 comments)
Thursday, May 08, 2008
- Ask YC: Which is the best book for Data Structures and Algorithms? (dmz, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Simple viral marketing with Twitter (Tichy, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: Morph Exchange / heroku for PHP? (wenbert, 1 point, 5 comments)
- Startup crisis. Dorm room style. (jfornear, 32 points, 85 comments)
- MySQL v PostgreSQL: Which have you used and why? (babul, 25 points, 43 comments)
- Find a partner (gilb, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: Do young people care about a nice visual designed websites? (carlos, 8 points, 20 comments)
- Ask YC: Ripping RealMedia streams (pchristensen, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: Who is using django and what has your experience been so far? (babul, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool) (vuknje, 15 points, 37 comments)
- How do users search your website? (martian, 8 points, 8 comments)
- Ask YC: Out-sourcing little boring jobs (pi3832, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Y Combinator Command Line Search Utility Version 1.2 Released (xirium, 4 points, 3 comments)
- How to prevent duplicate submissions-- a standard way to specify URL equivalency? (joshwa, 2 points, 3 comments)
- What if I want to build a device to run Android? (Readmore, 18 points, 10 comments)
- Ask YC: Leaving consulting to build a product. Is my consultancy worth anything? (tp, 4 points, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: How important are HN contribution to YC applications? (bkbleikamp, 10 points, 19 comments)
- Ask YC : Is Zend Framework good enough for a startup? (billy, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: Does anyone know of any good Cobol tutorials? (cao825, 9 points, 15 comments)
- Ask YC: "Getting Started" guide in app. What do you guys prefer? (whalesalad, 5 points, 6 comments)
- Ask YC: The art of invitation design? (prateekdayal, 5 points, 7 comments)
Friday, May 09, 2008
- Ask YC: Any hackers working on clean(brown)tech? (wumi, 5 points, 7 comments)
- How do you raise money for start up? (youyap, 8 points, 14 comments)
- Where do you look for startup cofounders? (santacruz, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Tell YC: Answers from John McCarthy (mgummelt, 133 points, 72 comments)
- Ask YC: Better to be a Specialist or a Generalist as a CEO? (mooders, 12 points, 13 comments)
- Does hacker news have a search facility or filters for finding/sorting threads. (babul, 2 points, 3 comments)
- YC: Tales From the Startup Crypt (angstrom, 9 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN: Amazon flexible web payments? (thorax, 16 points, 6 comments)
- Ask YC: How do you maintain motivation in face of boredom? (shabda, 13 points, 27 comments)
- Ask YC: What's the most hacker-friendly keyboard? (ComputerGuru, 23 points, 77 comments)
- Ask YC: Android Developer Challenge results are in. Did you win? What did you make? (aschobel, 16 points, 13 comments)
- Ask YC: What is a reasonable equity stake for a summer internship? (natrius, 3 points, 12 comments)
- Where can I find flash developers? (merrick33, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: CMS? opinions? (xenoterracide, 3 points, 19 comments)
- Ask YC: Mother's Day gifts? (johnrob, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: Activation on User Registration, important or a hurdle ? (teedex, 4 points, 8 comments)
- Ask YC: What precautions/steps does a site take before getting TechCrunched? (shafqat, 2 points, 2 comments)
- What is the minimum budget to promote a site? (Fuca, 41 points, 36 comments)
Saturday, May 10, 2008
- Is experience or skill more important when creating a web startup? (babul, 3 points, 13 comments)
- Ask YC: Tools for non-profit organizations (iamwil, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: What is a good (and cheap) domain name registrar? (sayhello, 11 points, 30 comments)
- Ask YC: Does web advertising really work? (kajecounterhack, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: Writing a business plan? (xenoterracide, 22 points, 27 comments)
- Ask YC: Can someone recommend a Ted.com-like video player platform? (PACSPA, 8 points, 9 comments)
- Ask YC: Project Management? (ykristiawan, 4 points, 14 comments)
- Ask HN: Which mobile platform is your favorite? (DenisM, 5 points, 18 comments)
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