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Sunday, August 17, 2008
- Ask HN: tips for starting as a freelance coder (vineet7kumar, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask Sama: Any advice for startups talking to big companies? (hooande, 6 points, 3 comments)
- Startup idea for you: A button to make websites readable (CatDancer, 8 points, 37 comments)
- Ask YC - Selling software to large companies (thisisnotmyname, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Questions For & About Startups (LukeG, 25 points, 24 comments)
- Ask HN: Need Mobile Beta App Testers (mstefff, 2 points, 8 comments)
- TicketsNow Circa 1999 (samataro, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Online routines and distractions? (ashleyw, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Poll: Would you like to see this site become CS/Startup related only? (mattmaroon, 40 points, 80 comments)
- Ask HN: do non-dev staff at your company use version control? (callmeed, 2 points, 5 comments)
Monday, August 18, 2008
- Ask YC: Non “camp” seed funding alternatives? (joeter, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Do it or document it? (bh, 21 points, 15 comments)
- Have Indian investigators been duped into using highly suspect brain-mapping technology? (ChaitanyaSai, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: What do you do when a small project keeps getting larger? (chez17, 13 points, 20 comments)
- Kindle Questions (ecommercematt, 5 points, 6 comments)
- What happened to the Techcrunch Web Tablet? (Readmore, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Co-founding (zalter, 15 points, 33 comments)
- WordPress or TypePad or....? (stevenboudreau, 9 points, 37 comments)
- Ask YC: Graduate funding going down? (Spyckie, 8 points, 14 comments)
- Ask YC: Learning Lisp (dmpayton, 25 points, 22 comments)
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
- Ask HN: how to get tough (rugoso, 3 points, 9 comments)
- Question for PG. (UandIblog, 8 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Feedback and CoFounder - privatetransit.org (mbuchanan, 7 points, 4 comments)
- Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris? (gasull, 23 points, 42 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you meet a hacker to start a startup with if you are not in college? (gasull, 33 points, 41 comments)
- Ask HN: What would you do with 4 lisp hackers and a designer somewhere in central europe? (nick_a, 11 points, 19 comments)
- Ask HN: Netbooks for hacking and development? (clay, 2 points, 1 comment)
- 1.36GB transferred in 1.2e+03 seconds (20min) across VPN - fast or slow? (merrick33, 2 points, 1 comment)
- What are folks using for AJAX functionality in PHP? (dshah, 3 points, 2 comments)
- We need a place to anonymously share site stats (jambajuicefan11, 6 points, 2 comments)
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
- Proposed HN Feature: The Cold Shoulder Button (mechanical_fish, 22 points, 15 comments)
- Ask HN: What would you put on the wall behind your desk? (aditya, 9 points, 44 comments)
- Ask YC: Why can't anyone compete with craigslist? (agotterer, 18 points, 67 comments)
- Should I open-source my old project? (geuis, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: Is Startup Ubiquity a Bad Thing? (iamdave, 12 points, 10 comments)
- How do i get the nbc olympics widget off my imac? (metaprinter, 1 point, 1 comment)
- What accounting software do startups use? (dguido, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Y Combinator Dataset Of Users Version 1.6 - 10,000 Posters (xirium, 8 points, 1 comment)
Thursday, August 21, 2008
- How important is code review? (aj, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: What is the corporate culture of typical YC startups? (timeformore, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: Salary comparison for WFH vs office-based? (andygeers, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Poll: How late do you stay up? (Raphael, 39 points, 68 comments)
- Ask HN: How would you handle this design dilemma? (edw519, 4 points, 8 comments)
- Startup idea: Password sharing site? (midnightmonster, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: legality of re-using publicly posted material (ulfstein, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Idea for startup: Comment Tracker (noor420, 3 points, 7 comments)
- What's in a [domain] name? Would a reddit by any other name smell as sweet? (sokoloff, 1 point, 3 comments)
- What is happening at reddit? I'm trying to log on but I can't (esdi, 2 points, 2 comments)
Friday, August 22, 2008
- Ask YC: Obama Saying "Developers" ? (babyshake, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: What does Ruby have that Python doesn't? (globalrev, 62 points, 221 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you organize your code? (arthurk, 8 points, 9 comments)
- How can the oil speculators be responsible? (falsestprophet, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? (zasz, 29 points, 38 comments)
- Ask HN: When to turn on advertisements? (pxlpshr, 10 points, 15 comments)
- Ask YC: Ask.com -- Why don't we use it? (kajecounterhack, 2 points, 3 comments)
Saturday, August 23, 2008
- Limit internet (magny, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Why does no one use google docs for presentations? (lbrandy, 4 points, 15 comments)
- ASK YC: DIY C Corporation (lisp_newb, 2 points, 5 comments)
- What to do in Seattle? (tectonic, 4 points, 4 comments)
- Has anyone else coded up some hot forums? (sil3ntmac, 3 points, 4 comments)
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