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Sunday, April 26, 2009
- Ask PG: Can you paste paperwork used to get YC startups incorporated? (newbcoder, 59 points, 16 comments)
- Ask Entrepreneurs: Productivity tips for a chronic procrastinator? (GeneralMaximus, 63 points, 62 comments)
- Ask HN: Best Python graphing and reporting libraries for web app (TJensen, 44 points, 10 comments)
- Are your "peers" in academia worse than your boss in industry? (amichail, 23 points, 16 comments)
- Ask HN: sound - electricity? (jibiki, 9 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Learning C (FiveFiftyOne, 52 points, 65 comments)
- Ask HN: Need a TI-85 calculator? (zacharye, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Can software qa skills translate to telecommuting gigs? (Allocator2008, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Tell YC: SoCal YC Facebook Group (kyro, 15 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: How to sync up the experience for large number of users of a web app? (staunch, 4 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Where to look for a job in Cincinnati? (nuclear_eclipse, 16 points, 19 comments)
- Ask HN: Portable Shell Scripting resources? (xenoterracide, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Rate My App: Build Time = 342 Minutes (nick007, 17 points, 42 comments)
- How do people working at twitter feel about benefiting from swine flu? (amichail, 1 point, 1 comment)
- HackerDojo: Bay Area Hackers Unite (catch23, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Does a company have right to spam in India? (Vipsy, 5 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: A Vesting-Over-Time Scheme for Startups (dryicerx, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: What software do you use for real time remote collaboration? (kingnothing, 19 points, 12 comments)
Monday, April 27, 2009
- Ask HN: University of Michigan or Washington University in St. Louis? (adam_feldman, 7 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Selling the software without the business (micst, 11 points, 14 comments)
- Ask HN: CSS framework that works with mobile phone browsers too? (davidw, 16 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: How much % for the Idea/Concepts behind a Startup (dryicerx, 5 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: How do I automatically write to DB when App Engine memcached is about to expire? (noaharc, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: How do you post a job on News.YCombinator.com/jobs (mannylee1, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Open Source Text Editor (program101, 3 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Any way to see a dead thread? (Raplh, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Any programmers here that are able to make a living selling their own programs? (doubleyooexwhy, 83 points, 57 comments)
- Ask HN: Overcoming the GIL in Python (jncraton, 1 point, 9 comments)
- Entrepreneurship classes should be mandatory in K-12 to combat teacher bias. (amichail, 3 points, 7 comments)
- Why not build a knowledge base whose content comes from phone conversations? (amichail, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Has HN had a facelift or is it just me? (zxcvb, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Twiggler: Awesome AJAX Twitter Client-Drag&Drop, Folders, multi a/c, the lot.. (hymanroth, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Best practices for ASPs handling Enterprise customer data? (mooneater, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: What kind of CPMs are you getting for your ad-supported site? (shafqat, 15 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: Presenting a company at TechCrunch50. Virtue/Vice? (agrinshtein, 6 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Getting a CS job in a country other than the US (danejensen, 7 points, 9 comments)
- Chicago Hacker News Meetup: 8pm 4/30 @ New Wave Coffee (ziadbc, 8 points, 12 comments)
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
- Are iPhone apps the new gold rush? (jteo, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Job: Web developer for a new project by the guys who made Facebook Graffiti (RoboTeddy, 12 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN : Shall I continue writing? (csomar, 1 point, 3 comments)
- HN Is this forum Software available? (DaFresco, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Twitter applications (medianama, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Review my new single service website (lennysan, 16 points, 49 comments)
- Ask HN: I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions? (anonymous1618, 62 points, 140 comments)
- "I never said she stole my money" has 7 different meanings depending on the stressed word (sama, 152 points, 62 comments)
- Looking for hacker on YC funded startup this summer (catch23, 10 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Help a dev move to the Bay Area (alex_c, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: On Cities, Ambition, Centralization and Being Relentlessly Resourceful (roschdal, 5 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Best way to track usage of js widgets and buttons? (brandnewlow, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: How does facebook round corners on users' pictures? (ashishk, 17 points, 6 comments)
- Poll: How many homeschoolers/unschoolers here? When did you start? (niels_olson, 18 points, 37 comments)
- Ask HN: changing my site's domain name (raghus, 12 points, 14 comments)
- A dispatch from the "programmers liberation front" (alphazero, 5 points, 5 comments)
- Working remotely... from China. Advice? (gaoshan, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Legal Blurbs (terms/privacy policy) - backed by formal entity? (blizkreeg, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Should I register my business (ubern00b, 2 points, 1 comment)
- My app is now in the iTunes store. Besides submitting a lite version, what else should I do? (amichail, 4 points, 5 comments)
- Ask YC/PG: Quantitative success of YC so far? (ryanwaggoner, 27 points, 10 comments)
- Are famous people super conservative when it comes to the latest Web 2.0 phenomenon? (amichail, 1 point, 7 comments)
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
- Looking for hacker room mates in SF (anon87, 5 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN : How can I estimate my market? (csomar, 32 points, 9 comments)
- To MySQL gurus: how to get InnoDB to release space? (bemmu, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Path to enlightenment (caissyd, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Imposing a proprietary Operating System to the students (RenardP, 8 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN: How to convince my parents to buy me a good chair? (burnedouthacker, 1 point, 7 comments)
- Ask YC: Cheap alternatives to Aeron chairs? (ashishk, 47 points, 69 comments)
- Ask HN: How to get a decent paying job, as a college student in Mexico? (burnedouthacker, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: where are your favorite places? (RiderOfGiraffes, 7 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Early Stage Startup Accounting? (aikiai, 11 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: What book would you recommend for learning CSS? (doronrotem, 1 point, 1 comment)
- An idea for an iphone app to combat the swine flu. (amichail, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead? (raganwald, 163 points, 102 comments)
- What kind of people are startups (and big companies) hiring? (vlad, 5 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: If anyone could help me here, I cant find and article I read here (burnedouthacker, 2 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Technology for Video Streaming site (maheshsingh, 7 points, 7 comments)
Thursday, April 30, 2009
- Ask HN: I have a great idea for an iphone app, where can I get it developed? (si2, 4 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Review my free iphone app which helps you to commit to your startup (cl3m, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Rate my Startup: inamoon.com (mankins, 4 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: CPM - Eyeballs vs Impressions (rumpelstiltskin, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Share your thoughts on this startup idea (ashishk, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Can I write a recommendation engine for HN? (kvh, 3 points, 8 comments)
- Can you get sued for software that some people think encourages users to do bad things? (amichail, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask PG: What if I forget my password? (csomar, 24 points, 45 comments)
- YC on CNBC (imdane, 12 points, 3 comments)
- Invite HN: New York City HN Meetup next Wednesday, May 6th (shafqat, 22 points, 17 comments)
- Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recruitment, employee database etc) (frosty, 20 points, 15 comments)
- Ask HN: What are your favorite iPhone apps? (ca98am79, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Hackers' alternatives to spreadsheets? (kulkarnic, 6 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: Where can I find the uncensored "How to Win Friends and Influence People"? (asciilifeform, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Is swine flu panic caused primarily by people who are not egocentric? (amichail, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: how to manage golden handcuffs when changing jobs? (anon120, 6 points, 4 comments)
- Is there a YC equivalent in Canada, China, India, Israel or UK? (fnazeeri, 7 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Zillow is trying to acquire my app + domain for "a couple hundred bucks", advice? (auston, 142 points, 119 comments)
- Tell HN: They Might Be Giants looking for iphone developer help (thorax, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Hackers With Disabilities (3dFlatLander, 9 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Startup on the side (secretalias, 6 points, 2 comments)
- Web System to Handle Membership-Site Adjustable Recurring Billing (mstefff, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: What's the best way to incorporate a startup? (jlm382, 12 points, 5 comments)
Friday, May 01, 2009
- Ask HN: Clickable Prototypes (tdonia, 14 points, 15 comments)
- Ask HN: Apple TV or Mac Mini? (winanga, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Are there any startups founded by Indonesians (esp. in Bay Area)? (hwijaya, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Which CSS grid system do you prefer? (neovive, 6 points, 10 comments)
- Ask PG: What was the topic of your Ph.D. dissertation? (rdr, 18 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Ad Networks you have had success with as an advertiser. (rokhayakebe, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: Hands on learning options? (javascript, web frameworks) (gsiener, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: Any suggestion on a good bug tracking and project management open source software (omfut, 3 points, 6 comments)
- Ask YC: Anybody used Rhomobile? "Build once, deploy on any smartphone" (adammichaelc, 2 points, 1 comment)
- HN: If your CEO can't use your product, your company is doomed (jeremychone, 2 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Anyone Use Affiliate Networks to Acquire Customers? (mstefff, 19 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: What are your must-have apps? (PostOnce, 26 points, 46 comments)
- Ask HN: Switching my site's SMS capabilities over to Twitter. Good or bad idea? (bazookaaa, 4 points, 6 comments)
Saturday, May 02, 2009
- Ask HN: Multiple Browsers to manage multiple sites (rumpelstiltskin, 3 points, 15 comments)
- Ask YC: good service/api to send emails? (petervandijck, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Inform HN: Read comment pages having pre tag without horizontal scolling with Fx extension (sundarurfriend, 5 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Feedback on a project (jayb, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Are internships mainly for college grads? (0xdefec8, 5 points, 9 comments)
- In the computer age, why are people still asked to do their own taxes? (amichail, 30 points, 51 comments)
- Using YQL to grab HN links (chaosmachine, 52 points, 20 comments)
- Ask HN: Tomato or DD-WRT for my router? (weaksauce, 14 points, 24 comments)
- Ask HN: Setting up a home media server, recommendations on hardware/apps? (dmix, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Coding Quickly; How? (apsurd, 36 points, 51 comments)
- Ask HN: Programming and Shaping Minds? (donniefitz2, 14 points, 24 comments)
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