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Sunday, May 17, 2009
- Ask HN: Website to give to charity anonymously, useful to you? (ljlolel, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Hire HN: experienced guy in symbian (c++ and j2me) is needed (tzury, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Making money from ebooks - non scam (jteo, 5 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac? (phn1x, 79 points, 142 comments)
- Ask HN: "Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? (ilitirit, 71 points, 111 comments)
- Ask HN: start on my own or negotiate with the employer? (caustic, 11 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: What Web frameworks exist around Python? (deane, 27 points, 30 comments)
- Ask HN:Help, Looking for Rental house in SV (jdileo, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Building a simple utility site to build pre-launch traffic? (dugmartin, 6 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: How do I customize code coloring in emacs? (andrewljohnson, 11 points, 8 comments)
- Poll: What percentage of Hacker News users are programmers/hackers? (jmonegro, 17 points, 11 comments)
Monday, May 18, 2009
- Ask HN: Is email "modern" technology? (alanthonyc, 2 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: How much time do you spend on the work vs. the rest of your life? (zeedotme, 14 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: Best way for a small (3 person) team to collaborate with source code? (billclerico, 19 points, 24 comments)
- Poll: How many HN readers are working on a Startup? (minus, 48 points, 60 comments)
- Ask HN: Your Hacker Workspace (dryicerx, 60 points, 86 comments)
- Ask HN: Best working file format for writing open source books? (compay, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: I've Got a Project, You Tell Me The Language (physcab, 10 points, 32 comments)
- Ask HN: How much time of his time should a CEO in a 5 man team spend managing? (mingyeow, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Linux as desktop OS for trashware? (beeker, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN : Open source hardware rising up What do you think? (madaerodog, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: where do you draw the patent research line? (stevejalim, 15 points, 15 comments)
- Ask PG: Why when I go to /CLASSIC does it show "Unknown"? (ScottWhigham, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones (yearsinrock, 11 points, 16 comments)
- Wolfram Alpha - Am I doing it wrong? (tocomment, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: alternative for paypal (csomar, 10 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: Gut feeling on name change? bug.gd renaming to errorhelp.com (thorax, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: With DocStoc's Paid Upload Release, When Will Scribd Respond? (sscheper, 2 points, 1 comment)
- What's new in web2py 1.62.1 (mdipierro, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Must-attend events for a tech startup? (jlees, 5 points, 1 comment)
- Summer Work for a College Student Hacker (Oompa, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Review our startup - www.webnotes.net (peterlai, 37 points, 27 comments)
- Small steps leading to a small step for a man ... (RiderOfGiraffes, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: the best way to protect IP for a startup? (pookleblinky, 5 points, 2 comments)
- IPhone Accessory Development (tritchey, 8 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Thoughts on OpenID? (aichcon, 11 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: What is the big idea with algorithms? (mlLK, 10 points, 25 comments)
- Utilize Tech Conferences for Launching Startups? (kineticac, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: best time to submit a story? (davidbnewquist, 13 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Blog on blog.domain.com or domain.com/blog (dawie, 14 points, 10 comments)
- Duplicates appearing in HN top? (nopassrecover, 21 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN: Getting published in an academic journal without holding or seeking a PhD? (noblethrasher, 44 points, 30 comments)
- Ask HN: Is pseudocode copyrightable? (amichail, 5 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Can Google be replaced? (jmonegro, 3 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: upd to http (jo, 1 point, 4 comments)
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
- Ask HN: Infrastructure for provisioning, billing & supporting webapps? Buy or build? (bengtan, 20 points, 21 comments)
- Ask HN: Math behind Algorithms (rumpelstiltskin, 20 points, 20 comments)
- Ask HN: If Google is a monopoly, should we be doing anything about it? (stijnm, 18 points, 38 comments)
- Ask HN: Layoff split startup advice? (jdoe, 5 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Please give feedback on simple weather site: weatherfinder.info (JeremyChase, 18 points, 44 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you process credit card payments? (mlLK, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Review our startup's relaunch, Browseology.com (kineticac, 7 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Fake it till you make it - Do you use it? What did you do? (vaksel, 4 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: How many servers do I need to handle 100 mln hits per month? (adserverboy, 3 points, 9 comments)
- How is CarsForAGrand monetized? (ivanstojic, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Marriage (buggy_code, 37 points, 102 comments)
- Ask HN: Video conferencing solutions for startups? (raheemm, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you learn a web framework? (kulkarnic, 7 points, 4 comments)
- Ask Mac Users: What Do You Keep In Your Dock? (si2, 5 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: What Netbook Should I Buy? (dell9000, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Best way to rearrange elements in an existing RSS feed? (brandnewlow, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How do you define "real-time" (kineticac, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Cloudera Intern - Looking for Room in SF Bay for Summer (DoQrs, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask PG: Generating press for YC startups (joepestro, 7 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Idea for a mashup - now, to make it happen... (stijnm, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Web testing is killing us - best practice? (yeti, 1 point, 4 comments)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
- Aak HN: Choosing clone of existing product as a startup (maheshsingh, 3 points, 8 comments)
- Requested change to the Hacker News RSS feed - items should link to the comments (AndrewDucker, 25 points, 20 comments)
- Poll: Do you use RSS reader? (p47, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Do "Lite" versions "work"? (jasongullickson, 4 points, 10 comments)
- Why do you use 37Signals products? Simplicity, UI, Hype? (rmalik, 17 points, 25 comments)
- Ask HN: Personality Assessments in the Workplace? (AndrewO, 5 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: best programming language for a programming book? (Tichy, 2 points, 10 comments)
- TwitterSpam (axod, 15 points, 23 comments)
- Has the internet made you a jerk? (Pfiffer, 2 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Bank suggestions. (kyro, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: How to make smalltalk? (buggy_code, 43 points, 59 comments)
- Ask HN: Where can I get cheap die cut business cards? (indexzero, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Another requested change to RSS feed (noaharc, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: A new way of pricing financial software (zxcvb, 5 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: What would you do with a Google Mini? (subpixel, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Free/cheap analytics package that does log processing (not JS tracker)? (staunch, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: IEEE membership. Is it worth it? (Jakob, 6 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Classifieds VS Realtor: Whats the best way to find a home? (si2, 2 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: New car or used? (sethjohn, 3 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Recommendations for a good immigration lawyer in the Bay Area? (anon0520, 7 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Do you workout? Review my startup (bgnm2000, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Ask Hacker News: Looking for CS Learning Buddies (darkxanthos, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: How to calculate if a box will fit through a hallway with a 90 degree turn (tocomment, 21 points, 30 comments)
Thursday, May 21, 2009
- Ask HN: PDF Signatures (quellhorst, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you use A/B testing? (yeti, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Mosso or EC2? (oomkiller, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: I am bored. What programming language should I learn ? (vorador, 2 points, 12 comments)
- Startups are easier in a country with welfare. (jteo, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: I need a license for an open source project allowing commercial reuse (ivankirigin, 10 points, 19 comments)
- Ask HN: Describe Yourself using your Tools/Frameworks/Languages (dryicerx, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Any Bay Area Hackers into running, cycling, triathlon, etc? (dannyr, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Help with updating old submissions on HN (messel, 1 point, 7 comments)
- Open letter to a Microsoft Evangelist (MichaelApproved, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Opportunity to earn a cut on every transaction. How big should my cut be? (alrex021, 36 points, 22 comments)
- Tsutomu Shimomura of Kevin Mitnick Fame (e4m, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Who is your role model for startups besides Paul Graham? (amichail, 8 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: Favorite true story tech book? (amilr, 30 points, 55 comments)
- Ask YC/HN: What Should I Ask Dr. Wolfram? (Mystalic, 38 points, 25 comments)
- Any developers interested in a building a simple app to change how banks works? (moonsideafirm, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: How hard should engineers work? (earlystage, 4 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: How should we seek a funding partner? (anigbrowl, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: What % of friends on Facebook are friends? (fishspin, 4 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: To Intern or Not To Intern? Share your experiences. (intern, 5 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Most successful startups launched during tech conferences? (boju1, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Please show me cool career sections of tech companies (TheBuddy, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you get feedback from potential users? (yeti, 1 point, 2 comments)
Friday, May 22, 2009
- Ask YC: what happened to Flowplayer? (caludio, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Why do dead posts contribute to karma? (mojuba, 6 points, 16 comments)
- Should I sign over my site for a small stake in a company that does not yet exist? (kjf, 4 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Please review LM, an experimental ajax framework (hymanroth, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Customer acquisition for online stores (bgnm2000, 5 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: What (do you think) Scribd / DocStoc uses to convert pdf/docs into swf? (buggy_code, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Tools for recording product ideas (subhash, 14 points, 23 comments)
- What services are using Gnip? (geuis, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How can the changing industrial manufacturing world be applied to hacking? (sbenitoj, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Flag spammers accounts ? (habs, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: check out our upcoming web stats dashboard app - MightyReach.com (ryanwaggoner, 23 points, 21 comments)
- Ask HN: What software do you install on a clean windows install (thexa4, 7 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Do you know of any time travel combinatorial puzzles? (amichail, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Tell HN: San Francisco Amazon Mechanical Turk Meetup (lukas, 13 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Good idea to save journalism? (pj, 10 points, 25 comments)
- Ask HN: The most fun and beautiful code you know of? (pookleblinky, 24 points, 21 comments)
Saturday, May 23, 2009
- Ask YC: why doesn't Microsoft have a Windows App Store? (petervandijck, 22 points, 25 comments)
- ASK PG: Why can't you bury or downvote submissions? (quellhorst, 1 point, 6 comments)
- Things I Think PG Monitors, But Probably Doesn't (tsally, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Testing the market before manufacturing the product? (bravura, 5 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Which bloggers are blatant plagiarists? (tokenadult, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: do you know of any commandline usability / improvement research? (viraptor, 28 points, 10 comments)
- Collaborative web development (ilSignorCarlo, 3 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Please (re)review my new social learning site (bdmac97, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Q about ACL: Chapter 13: Exercise 3b (paulreiners, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Taxes for employee stock purchase in a startup - Advice? (joshhart, 11 points, 21 comments)
- What do you think of chess with "undo" as a limited resource? (amichail, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Does anyone use LXR? (RiderOfGiraffes, 3 points, 1 comment)
- ‘09 FbFund Finalist Looking for Facebook Developer (crhulls, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Does anyone know a site that let's you search for a co founder? (mat3, 13 points, 22 comments)
- Ask HN: How to use Amazon Mechanical Turk from Canada? (dxjones, 6 points, 1 comment)
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