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Sunday, May 03, 2009
- Ask HN: What happen with Friendfeed? (csomar, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: real world examples of numbers with 3 decimal places (u296, 18 points, 26 comments)
- Ask HN: Any tips for living cheaply in SF? (mannicken, 43 points, 77 comments)
- Ask HN: Are any companies integrating social networking with digital cameras? (corgan1003, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: "How-Tos" for Rolling Your Own Short URLs? (daveambrose, 19 points, 22 comments)
- What is your pie in the sky project? Mine is something like Wolfram Alpha but for ideas. (amichail, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Albums or songs? (noaharc, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Poll: Male or female? (noaharc, 112 points, 99 comments)
- Why is Microsoft helping OS X by encouraging people to buy game consoles? (amichail, 8 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN: What do I need to know before registering a 2 person LLC on Legal Zoom? (si2, 26 points, 15 comments)
- Poll: funded or not funded? (jmtame, 39 points, 28 comments)
- Ask HN: Nerd - Climbing; what mountains to start with (climber, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Unique usernames in educational software (cubicle67, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Best free SEO tools? (si2, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Did bit torrent really become popular by releasing porn? (climber, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Firefox plugin for reading Chinese websites? (climber, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Strange Firefox 3 bug/easter egg (noaharc, 1 point, 6 comments)
Monday, May 04, 2009
- Ask HN: How does a non-hacker get into a start-up? (wannabetechgeek, 18 points, 16 comments)
- Jaiku or Laconi.ca? (marnujra, 11 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: what do you think of my new blog (csomar, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Merchant account recommendations? (mp3jeep01, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: How to fix overwide pre text? (pg, 20 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: What do you need to communicate with a remote team? (timzon_dot_com, 6 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Is there a bias against hackers from 'name-brand' colleges? (rdr, 17 points, 18 comments)
- CRM for tracking web customers? (mshaw, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Wolfram has got to be a liar, right? Hand-curating trillions of pieces of data? (andrewljohnson, 2 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: What to do with a worthless law degree? (daftJD, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: Sites similar to News.YC (johng, 9 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: What can I do about someone wrongfully threatening trademark infringement against me? (kbrower, 1 point, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Feedback on my book proposal (BrandonWatson, 4 points, 6 comments)
- Tell HN: Chicago HN meetup Thursday, May 7 @Hopleaf (brandnewlow, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Formal Business Plan? (dryicerx, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Poll: Do you use Adblock Plus? (noaharc, 1 point, 5 comments)
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
- Ask HN: Will Twitter replace RSS feeds? (grinich, 1 point, 2 comments)
- What's the story behind the name of your startup/company ? (Stasyan, 24 points, 45 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you manage your news reading time? (syaz, 20 points, 22 comments)
- Ask HN: Need Realty Web Site (euroclydon, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Quitting your day job to make video games. (mparent61, 30 points, 19 comments)
- Has web 2.0 made lying to users acceptable? (amichail, 6 points, 9 comments)
- Immigration attorney recommendations (annoyed, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN/PG: Possible HN bug? (ajkirwin, 17 points, 14 comments)
- Ask HN: Has anyone here experienced tolerance with Modafinil? (burnedouthacker, 5 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Should I care to support IE6? (satyajit, 4 points, 6 comments)
- Do you really need $5k to bootstrap a business? (TJensen, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Searching for "install IE8" on MSFT vs GOOG (smwhreyebelong, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask PG: When I login via OpenID, why does HN look at my contacts? (noaharc, 6 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Explain AWS (gsmaverick, 48 points, 31 comments)
- We're looking for a graphic designer to help us win the Techcrunch50 (andrewstuart, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask Freelancers: How much do you charge? (grinich, 30 points, 24 comments)
- Ask HN: Moving to a New City (bkrausz, 24 points, 21 comments)
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
- Idea for HN: DiggBar functionality? (hwijaya, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Poll: What is your highest educational qualification? (naish, 57 points, 128 comments)
- Remind HN: New York City HN Meetup today at 6pm (free beers) (shafqat, 8 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Why no love for PHP? (ironkeith, 92 points, 145 comments)
- Poll: Which cloud host do you use? (merrick33, 39 points, 82 comments)
- Ask HN: Resources for learning HTML (gruseom, 2 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: ways to obtain critical mass? (tjit, 15 points, 15 comments)
- Poll: Do you smoke? (brandon272, 39 points, 155 comments)
- Ask HN: What would you be doing different if copyright/patent law didn't exist? (vaksel, 6 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: Why don't CPAN equivalents exist for every language/framework? (edb, 5 points, 5 comments)
- Poll: How do you get to work? (grinich, 7 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: sharing social data (jdavid, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Reasonable Java editor for heavily CLI-oriented UNIX types who hate bloat? (abalashov, 25 points, 51 comments)
- Ask HN: Home/Office Monitoring System (climber, 6 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: quickest way to earn some hacker news points? (si2, 7 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: Equivalent of CodeIgniter, but in Perl? (tapostrophemo, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Hey HN: I need a dead simple automatic way to backup my databases. (dot, 10 points, 10 comments)
Thursday, May 07, 2009
- Ask HN: Is Murdoch Right when he says "The current days of the Internet will soon be over"? (mildweed, 6 points, 7 comments)
- Why are scientists satisfied with studying existing artifacts rather than creating their own? (amichail, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask YC: Review My Website - XLHit: Translated Real-Time Search (buymorechuck, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Instead of a lite version, why not make your iphone app free every other week? (amichail, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: What language was Scribd built in? (sscheper, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Back problems (kyro, 30 points, 53 comments)
- Langolab.com (bezeichnung, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: How would you implement a threaded forum? (mixmax, 6 points, 7 comments)
- Don't get sued for libel in the UK ... (RiderOfGiraffes, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: "Founders at Work" of Gaming Startups (buggy_code, 4 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Do you have a "Home" link in your main navigation? (neovive, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: How Much Equity to Offer First Employee? (DJN, 6 points, 7 comments)
- Starting today, all app store submissions must run under iPhone OS 3.0 (jasongullickson, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: How many programming languages/development frameworks are you currently using? (dannyr, 15 points, 29 comments)
- Rails references (mechanician, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Merchant account and payment gateway for subscription-based web apps? (_pius, 33 points, 19 comments)
- What database would you use to store (min) 10 billion objects? (imajes, 61 points, 46 comments)
- Ask HN: Making money during college? (quizbiz, 11 points, 14 comments)
- Ask HN: What services are available for sending/receiving SMS/MMS messages? (kwamenum86, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Side projects: How do you find people to work with? (arfrank, 9 points, 5 comments)
- Poll: What kind of cell phone do you have? (ctingom, 10 points, 48 comments)
- Ask HN: Resource on Business Model for Web Startup (timothychung, 3 points, 1 comment)
Friday, May 08, 2009
- Ask HN: please review a new product InvisibleHand (shadchnev, 9 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: Why is there a disproportionate amount of interesting text vs. spoken content? (bemmu, 7 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: Please review my iPhone app AppCreator Database Manager (zin, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: RSS feed for all new posts submitted to Hacker News? (zeedotme, 9 points, 11 comments)
- Independent Contracting & Estimates (andrewbadera, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN : Use MySQL as a non-relational database (dan_sim, 20 points, 9 comments)
- How and where do you get beta testers ? (Stasyan, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: What are your favorite non-mainstream or as yet unpopular sites that you visit? (adrianwaj, 10 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: What questions should I ask a startup before joining? (stankal, 6 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Recruiters who request SSN over the phone (indiejade, 10 points, 15 comments)
- If the Rubik's Cube were invented today, would anyone care? (amichail, 5 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Examples of Excellent Python Code? (tsally, 15 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: open-source version of Drobo's BeyondRaid? (geuis, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: How to detect if app is pirated? (buggy_code, 12 points, 20 comments)
- Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live (anigbrowl, 32 points, 49 comments)
- Ask HN: Legal Packages for Startups (dryicerx, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Review my idea and free web app (for site monitoring) (sucuri2, 11 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: What web server do you use? (tdupree, 3 points, 12 comments)
- Ask YC: My school wants to shut down my app. How should I respond? (zaidf, 21 points, 43 comments)
- Ask HN: Is is possible to sync two atomic clocks via the Internet? (cool-RR, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How do you do your health insurance in your startup? (matttah, 14 points, 9 comments)
- Inquiry: Whats the most money you've won in a single grant? (si2, 4 points, 2 comments)
Saturday, May 09, 2009
- Social experiment - single thoughts on programming that made an impact (RiderOfGiraffes, 3 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Competitor Snooping and Stealing Our Designs. What Should I Do (DJN, 6 points, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: Google G1 Phone anyone? (aitoehigie, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: The Hacker News effect (piers, 7 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Good books on the nuts and bolts of starting up (ericb, 28 points, 21 comments)
- Ask HN: Hacker News Digest? (Tichy, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: can I transfer a $6,000 Kindle book onto PC, DRM-free? (old-gregg, 18 points, 52 comments)
- Is FriendFeed close to being twitter + reddit? (amichail, 10 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: How old were you when you got your first computer? (AlleyRow, 16 points, 56 comments)
- Ask HN: Selling software to local government? (bardolph, 7 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: What Laptop Should I Buy? (mrtwitter, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Facebook Easter Egg (breck, 17 points, 8 comments)
- Ask YC: best other hacker news sites? (anette, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Profit Sharing vs Equity (ieatpaste, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Is there any good open source IM project (based on C++/Windows) (schan, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: project ideas for a noob (kunqiana, 38 points, 40 comments)
- Why not build an iphone app to help people with OCD? (amichail, 3 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Charging for an application (TJensen, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Looking for comments on my new site release (sosuke, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Just lost my year long placement because they have no work. Begging for advice (Tarks, 18 points, 37 comments)
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