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Sunday, May 10, 2009
- Ask HN: Fictional books related to startups? (mh77, 22 points, 29 comments)
- Having Lots of Ideas; Work on All or Few and How to Know? (travisjeffery, 10 points, 5 comments)
- Remind HN: Call your mother (iamelgringo, 94 points, 18 comments)
- Ask HN: Review my startup - findAlong.com (usaif, 21 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Good C++ Numerical Libraries (brentr, 16 points, 13 comments)
- Which iPhone app(s) did you make? (amichail, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Review my App: Phone Analytics for your BlackBerry (martythemaniak, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Are social networks a replacement for religion? (amichail, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: What startup news stories should I talk about on Calacanis's show? (AndrewWarner, 18 points, 14 comments)
- Ask HN: A Local Media Company Wants to Use My Content, What Should I Charge Them? (starnix17, 7 points, 11 comments)
- Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool (dryicerx, 84 points, 203 comments)
- Ask HN: Do anti-aliased fonts promote better eye health? (luckyland, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Simple service to save my stuff? (geuis, 3 points, 9 comments)
- Summer hacker housing in Silicon Valley? (vlad, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: legally start a Bay Area startup without being American? (klein_waffle, 27 points, 16 comments)
- Ask HN: Free Monitoring tools other than Pingdom? (dawie, 24 points, 14 comments)
- Ask HN: Just me, or are there more [dead] submissions on Hacker News lately? (thesethings, 1 point, 5 comments)
Monday, May 11, 2009
- Ask HN: Which versioning system to learn on? (tertius, 5 points, 8 comments)
- An Idea for Good Procrastination (fluffster, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Best way to set up family webapp? (edw519, 13 points, 14 comments)
- Ask HN: What's the most easy-to-learn framework? (zaidf, 8 points, 32 comments)
- Ask HN: Review my startup - UsabilityTest.com (forcer, 4 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Cheapest way to do 2,000 concurrent rtmp video streams? (kbrower, 6 points, 2 comments)
- Will the success of games on the iPhone encourage ports to the Mac? (amichail, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you design your web pages? (JeremyChase, 15 points, 39 comments)
- Ask HN: Listing customer logo on "Who uses this site" page (Travis, 4 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Review our startup, Browseology (joepestro, 10 points, 16 comments)
- Ask HN: Is this the end of geek? (exgeek, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask YC:If you could work/intern for any company, which company would you choose? (deltapoint, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask PG: What's The Most Points One Submission Has Ever Received? (si2, 2 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: review Feedspike (AlexRodriguez, 1 point, 6 comments)
- Ask YC: How do I admin my own (windows) server? (rksprst, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Seattle Hacker News Meet-up? (darkxanthos, 5 points, 3 comments)
- What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (nathanwdavis, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Stark Trek - How far are we? (kyro, 37 points, 55 comments)
- Does Time Machine work with cheap external drive enclosures? (amichail, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Mathematical symbols editor plugin for Rails? (satyajit, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Review our startup, Philtro (paulsingh, 11 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: Any good housing sites? (geuis, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Is a hacker by nature pre-disposed towards Objectivism? (Allocator2008, 4 points, 9 comments)
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
- Ask HN: Hacking Learning Chinese (buggy_code, 6 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Trusted Computing, iPhone, and unique identifiers (buggy_code, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: help needed on VM placement algorithm (kuvkir, 8 points, 19 comments)
- Ask HN: What is the best way to revise an old language/technology? (surya, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Any web app suggestions for project management? (sidmitra, 23 points, 16 comments)
- Outsouce testing of hard to find bugs (tweiler, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Please review Numbrosia puzzle iPhone/iPod touch app (it is free for a limited time) (amichail, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Are there better options than PR Web out there? (AdilD, 13 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: What's the best way to register a foreign domain name? (jayro, 14 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: forming online-based LLC while not having stable physical location? (Poleris, 5 points, 9 comments)
- Ask PG: reply delays? (ErrantX, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: What's a good job for someone who likes "making order out of chaos?" (Mouseover, 2 points, 2 comments)
- What's common about the hackers? (ajayjetti, 2 points, 10 comments)
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
- New Steps Towards A Real Invisibility Cloak (inglorian, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: help me to choose laptop for programming study (irna, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Keeping track of stuff on the net (mtpark, 1 point, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: Why isn't Markdown working? (Sephr, 3 points, 6 comments)
- Lost password to my HN account - how do I reset/where is forgot password? (needsomehelp, 17 points, 17 comments)
- Ask HN: The Essential Silicon Valley? (rjurney, 15 points, 22 comments)
- Ask HN: User Satisfaction Services (mildweed, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How do you deal with a sister that asks for help very often? (burnedouthacker, 9 points, 17 comments)
- Getting controversial iPhone app rejected an easy way to promote your accepted apps? (amichail, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Should I create an API for iTunes apps? (MichaelApproved, 7 points, 11 comments)
- Hire HN: Web Developer Needed in Columbus, OH (jbenz, 21 points, 9 comments)
- What do you think about Wolfram's teaser strategy? (fb, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Anyone know what to do with a failed external hard drive? (villageidiot, 2 points, 14 comments)
- Ask HN: Free or cheap Flight Data? (tocomment, 2 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN : HN opensource implementation . (vp001, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Do you relate to the masses? (aswanson, 8 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: flirt140, how are they determining the gender? (vijayr, 27 points, 36 comments)
- Ask HN: Why can't you "put" files through ssh? (noaharc, 3 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Can you live w/o hackernews or w/o google? (mingyeow, 2 points, 4 comments)
- HN Top Stories RSS (frosty, 6 points, 1 comment)
Thursday, May 14, 2009
- Advice from HackerNews on my Facebook app and website? (shenanigans, 2 points, 2 comments)
- So I've made this iPhone game.. (innernode, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Recommendation for FL/OSS software to bootstrap a project (jgrahamc, 4 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Which of those services would you pay $5/mo to use? (andr, 45 points, 72 comments)
- Ask HN: Ever run a conference? What's the best software to use? (jsdalton, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: How does free compete with paid? (ecaron, 7 points, 16 comments)
- Ask HN: Working through SICP. Did you make it? (simonista, 5 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just for me?) (tocomment, 53 points, 62 comments)
- Ask HN: Video Screenshot Software for Documentation Purposes? (chwolfe, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask PG: Leader board ranked my comment karma (kyro, 10 points, 11 comments)
- Ask YC: How do sites like Compete, Alexa collect traffic estimates? (ashishk, 9 points, 9 comments)
- Ask PG: What is the running-total (summation) of all our Karma as users of HN? (mlLK, 23 points, 21 comments)
- Ask HN: Good examples of user notifications in a client-side application? (icey, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Mixcloud invites for Hacker News (nicoperez, 6 points, 2 comments)
- Why is it that a single vote can make a huge difference in social news sites? (amichail, 1 point, 7 comments)
- A simple way for NASA to get massive news coverage in this mission. (amichail, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: Real time web app updates (aitoehigie, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: What do you use to track bugs? (mace, 3 points, 9 comments)
- New [scribd] links? (randallsquared, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Why don't more blog widgets use AJAX? (jack7890, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: I have been experimenting sleep maintenance insomnia. Any recommendations? (burnedouthacker, 5 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: Do you C++ for Web App Dev? (dryicerx, 5 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN - Chinese localization/internationalization (pageman, 6 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Best material/sites to teach my father basic computer literacy? (dmix, 7 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: How can I stop scammers from targeting my local classifieds site? (AdilD, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: Can this work? (aitoehigie, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Today My US Investor Visa Application Was Denied (jerryji, 58 points, 67 comments)
- Poll: How Long Did You Lurk Before Signing Up On HN (TomOfTTB, 5 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Help me create my own feelSpace belt (adk, 5 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: NoScript worth it? (TJensen, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Who are you on Twitter? (quizbiz, 3 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: What is your opinion of Crypto-anarchism and anarcho-capitalism? (mlLK, 4 points, 13 comments)
Friday, May 15, 2009
- Ask HN: Glueing C/C++ with Perl/Python/Ruby (adm, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How do you delete a post? (jkuria, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Meta: [dead] users? (alex_c, 19 points, 14 comments)
- Telling HN: Having up arrow on right hand side is comfortable to vote. (known, 2 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: An E-book that is also a PDF reader ? (IgorCarron, 1 point, 8 comments)
- Poll: What did you think of this article? (RiderOfGiraffes, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Do you have a robust GreaseMonkey script for submitting resumes? (mlLK, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Legality of using artwork from GPL-ed games (buggy_code, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: After SICP, what next? (plinkplonk, 72 points, 35 comments)
- Ask HN: do we need a pusher/seller/rainmaker? (mattjung, 3 points, 6 comments)
- Finding a new partner (parkern, 1 point, 2 comments)
- My iPhone app has mostly very positive and very negative ratings. What to do? (amichail, 3 points, 9 comments)
- Accepting an offer Monday, startup versus traditional... what should I be looking for (lief79, 4 points, 22 comments)
- Ask HN: What Ad network do you use to buy traffic to your site? (ucla_jatt, 8 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Are Sports Sites Outdated or Am I Not the Audience? (alanthonyc, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Great design without designer on-board? (mannicken, 11 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Google App Engine (GAE) Authentication (wolf3d, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Wolfram Alpha will teach the masses about precision and recall. (amichail, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Wolfram Alpha: Why didn't you plan for a lot of traffic? (sport, 1 point, 5 comments)
Saturday, May 16, 2009
- Can HN make the leaders page more useful by showing average karma per comment? (mojuba, 4 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: Contextual ads for web-apps like todo-lists or mail? (mannicken, 1 point, 1 comment)
- An idea - Domain name used as postal address? (stijnm, 6 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: A good open-source implementation of multi-key-value db? (liuliu, 11 points, 24 comments)
- Ask HN: Graphical Languages / IDE (jdavid, 8 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Using personal code at work (jskopek, 20 points, 21 comments)
- San Mateo Apt Valley Startup Hostel (freemanindia, 9 points, 4 comments)
- iPhone development tip: pick a name starting with an early letter in the alphabet. (amichail, 2 points, 2 comments)
- HowTo: Vista: Use NETSH to Run IIS7 & Apache on port 80 (jdavid, 9 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Product images for e-commerce startup (burnout1540, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Wolfram gets the correct answer to a simple maths question (vinnyg, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ever notice how the page refreshes every time you highlight something on posterous? (myoung8, 17 points, 7 comments)
- Tell HN: PG's 6 Unexpected Advantages of "Cheapness" in a Startup (dwynings, 51 points, 45 comments)
- Ask HN: What do you eat? (pj, 48 points, 109 comments)
- Ask HN: Why is WolframAlpha serving rendered text images instead of plain text? (esonica, 14 points, 35 comments)
- Ask HN: iPhone button - email friend (climber, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: The HN karma paradox (johnnybgoode, 23 points, 40 comments)
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