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Sunday, May 11, 2008
- Ask YC: How do I send incoming email to a PHP script? (breck, 23 points, 16 comments)
- Site for submitting/viewing/reviewing and discussing business/operational plans/docs (bdouglas, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Groupproj - let's build a scalable web app (bdouglas, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Proving that ideas are not worth a lot. (shabda, 15 points, 20 comments)
- Ask YC: How to get more beta testers? (tak111, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: IPO requirements? (jyu, 1 point, 6 comments)
- Who want to invest another answers.google.com? (santacruz, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: Getting started with smartphone hacking (kurtosis, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: How do you avoid wasting too much time online? (bobp, 43 points, 52 comments)
- YC: Don't forget to call your mother. (iamelgringo, 37 points, 12 comments)
- Ask YC: If you could create the ultimate tech news site what would it look like? (bmaier, 15 points, 14 comments)
- Ask YC: Textile vs Markdown (sant0sk1, 13 points, 20 comments)
- What are News.YC analogues for other areas? (kcy, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Free (Quality) Financial/Stock Content/Widget? (mstefff, 2 points, 1 comment)
Monday, May 12, 2008
- Java Web Framework Tournament 2008 (systems, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: Cybersquatting (hny, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: SMS Application, any help? (aitoehigie, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: What Mobile programming tools do you use? (hafeez-bana, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Is Facebook worth $15 Billion? (ideas101, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask PG: What Marketing/PR strategies do you suggest to YC companies? (ideas101, 27 points, 17 comments)
- Ask YC: Automating jobs (sangguine, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Overwhelmed by the barrage of web services? (amrithk, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: Writing an open source software or using one (to write an application)? (tzury, 6 points, 14 comments)
- Ask YC: Open-Source User Management System (bporterfield, 1 point, 5 comments)
- An FAQ for Hacker News? (NewWorldOrder, 25 points, 18 comments)
- Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits? (cousin_it, 101 points, 120 comments)
- Ask YC: Transfer ownership of a domain name? (e1ven, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: Why is domain registration so cheap? (tx, 3 points, 8 comments)
- Novel pointing devices? (abstractbill, 5 points, 8 comments)
- Ask YC: How to avoid trademark infringement with domain names? (amichail, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: What (Natural) Language Should I Learn? (manvsmachine, 1 point, 7 comments)
- A brilliant! follow on to the Nigerian scam (osipov, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: What tool do you use for web page / ui mockups? (Mistone, 4 points, 6 comments)
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
- Ask YC: Share purchase reversal? (pistoriusp, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: PHP6? (jdavid, 8 points, 23 comments)
- Ask YC: Open Source Alternatives for Google Apps? (pierrefar, 2 points, 1 comment)
- What's your idea? (adrianwaj, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: "Staging" for startups? (dhyasama, 16 points, 17 comments)
- How technical does a start-up founder have to be? (ryanagraves, 27 points, 52 comments)
- How does the point works? (youyap, 1 point, 5 comments)
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
- Ask YC: What do you do about spam? (groovyone, 1 point, 6 comments)
- What's the best website prototyping/wireframe/greyscreening product(s) you have used? (babul, 2 points, 6 comments)
- Ask YC: How the heck does this site work? (stealthstartup, 4 points, 9 comments)
- Dividing equity (rjett, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN/YC: Early stage startup, equity for a non executive co-founder (obelix, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask PG: Correlation between frugality and startup success? (hooande, 48 points, 30 comments)
- Ask YC: How do you find manufacturers to outsource to? (noel_gomez, 26 points, 28 comments)
- Ask YC: Who's Your Role Model? (A-Merchant, 5 points, 2 comments)
- Quick question on Bootstrapping a web startup (ptahdunbar, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: Debt Financing for startups e.g.: Facebook, Blekko? (prakash, 1 point, 1 comment)
Thursday, May 15, 2008
- Volunteering opportunities (sangguine, 14 points, 14 comments)
- Ask YC: New twitter utility? (TrevorJ, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: Learning to hack... (rjett, 25 points, 51 comments)
- Why does the unknown/expired url page suck? (devicenull, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Net income, salaries deducted? (schtog, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: Email Invite System Etiquette (whycombo, 7 points, 10 comments)
- Ask YC: What should people want that they don't? (xlnt, 6 points, 14 comments)
- Ask YC: SEO/Google results (mrtron, 1 point, 5 comments)
- Ask YC: Getting Involved in Open Source (bobj, 21 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: Why be an option/futures/day trader when it is zero-sum? (hashtable, 27 points, 67 comments)
- Looking for a chat software to run on my site (shergill, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: "I would pay for that" (gizmo, 2 points, 7 comments)
- Ask YC: What to do with myself? (huh, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: "Can a 40 year old, married with 3 children, start a start-up?" (whiten, 27 points, 72 comments)
- Ask PG: What's your take on the Yahoo! situation? (stevenboudreau, 19 points, 35 comments)
- Ask YC:"Lawyers get paid so well, because you can't get decent answers from Google" - discuss! (whiten, 2 points, 7 comments)
- Ask YC: Best HTML Prototyper? (DanielBMarkham, 8 points, 15 comments)
- Amazon EC2 Latency (limeade, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: Transition from College to Work Advice (notdarkyet, 6 points, 21 comments)
- Ask YC: How do you achieve laser focus and concentration? (markbao, 25 points, 39 comments)
- Ask YC: Workplace experiments? (jdunck, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Why no filtering/interception of web traffic should be allowed... (jlujan, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: How many fair percentage for Hacker and Non Hacker? (fuad, 1 point, 8 comments)
- Ask YC: Best language/framework for comet intensive app (cwisecarver, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: What's the best site to register a domain name? (michjeanty, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: Coping with frustration a la setup/dependency/documentation hell? (whacked_new, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Can we save posts on Hacker news ... (mhidalgo, 1 point, 3 comments)
Friday, May 16, 2008
- Ask YC: Road trip. Which audio books would you recommend? (groovyone, 15 points, 44 comments)
- Ask YC: Do you love or hate software piracy? (ideas101, 9 points, 63 comments)
- Ask YC: Watch that doesn't frustrate while hacking? (asnyder, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Single founder, no programming knowledge just ideas....does he have a chance? (wotcorp, 1 point, 5 comments)
- Ideal age of a founder is irrelevant, why all the talk about it? (bgtony, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Subscription web sites: How did you get your first customer? (bkovitz, 69 points, 50 comments)
- Ask YC: Mac Text Editors (nomad, 14 points, 70 comments)
- Ask HN: How did you do on the Android Dev Challenge? (martythemaniak, 4 points, 5 comments)
- Ask YC: Anyone built/seen any cool Wikipedia apps? (e.g. WikiScanner) (colortone, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Where to find a good CTO for your startup? (babul, 8 points, 16 comments)
- Ask YC: How do you deal with potential legal issues? (symbiotic, 2 points, 2 comments)
- What is a hacker? (youyap, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: How do you keep your place cool in hot weather? (lyime, 17 points, 52 comments)
- Ask YC: What do you want? (sdurkin, 1 point, 6 comments)
- Ask YC: Recommendations on a good server? (iamdave, 6 points, 16 comments)
- I am looking for a Hacker. (youyap, 1 point, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Where to look for info on E-Commerce websites? (kp212, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Is Media Temple Nitro worth the price? (atlaunch, 1 point, 2 comments)
Saturday, May 17, 2008
- Ask YC: Average investment banker fee for an acquisition? (elsewhen, 28 points, 15 comments)
- Ask YC: Do anyone know a simple bash script to get the last modified file in a directory ? (laktek, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask PG: Please publish frequency data for karma-points (eru, 1 point, 9 comments)
- Ask YC: A startup blog or vlog? (eisokant, 9 points, 18 comments)
- Ask YC: How big of a failure is SOAP? (chriszf, 4 points, 30 comments)
- Getting Boxes of T-shirts printed up? (e1ven, 3 points, 17 comments)
- Which PHP Framework? (sangguine, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Is it possible to think well with noise? (asdflkj, 6 points, 20 comments)
- Ask YC: Technical Co-Founder and Non-Technical Co-Founder Equity Split (rockstar9, 1 point, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Have you used iptables to prevent procrastination? (b3eck, 6 points, 10 comments)
- How much equity did you give to first generation-hire engineers (non-founders)? (neo, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Is there a site that lists startups that are hiring? (adammichaelc, 37 points, 39 comments)
- Ask YC: How do we submit a job here? (bigtoga, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Is there a Hacker News embedd-able Button? (berecruited, 1 point, 6 comments)
- Ask YC: How do I store online contracts? (mwerty, 1 point, 5 comments)
- Ask YC: How do you handle development planning (brentr, 7 points, 7 comments)
- Ask PG: What is Your Main Motivation In The Startup World? (johnnygekko, 2 points, 1 comment)
- PG Essay Suggestion: an essay about each YC startup (xenoterracide, 3 points, 10 comments)
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