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Sunday, May 24, 2009
- Poll: What enterpreneur stage are you in? (vaksel, 10 points, 6 comments)
Monday, May 25, 2009
- Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch? (andr, 80 points, 129 comments)
- Here's a Hacker News Feed with the main link being the comments (AndrewDucker, 14 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: A site like Hacker News, but about art? (nahumfarchi, 21 points, 17 comments)
- Ask HN: FAQ Pages useful? (kineticac, 7 points, 14 comments)
- Ask HN: Free Software in the Cloud? (zacharypinter, 1 point, 2 comments)
- PubMail, a newsletter app for messagepub.com (lux, 5 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How to keep my data, apps, config movable between computers (bk, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: how to monetize email list? (ryanwaggoner, 8 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: mass-manufacture plastic (dobloon, 8 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: Do you think the whois rules need to be modified? (vaksel, 4 points, 4 comments)
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
- Ask HN: Outdoor jobs for geeks? (Tichy, 48 points, 39 comments)
- Ask HN: best languages to learn as a newcomer (stevejalim, 15 points, 40 comments)
- Ask HN: Outsourced SQL Providers? (SamAtt, 3 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: article about travelling for programmers (u296, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Which persistent in-memory database to use? (paraschopra, 27 points, 24 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you prefer to run background jobs for a website/service? (billymeltdown, 5 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Proper way to report an error in a paper (__tmpid, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Facebook valued at $10bn (RiderOfGiraffes, 2 points, 3 comments)
- A vertical web in a widescreen world (DLarsen, 2 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: What is the best way to protect your website from hackers? (ujjwalg, 3 points, 8 comments)
- Ask PG: Could YC admissions be replaced with a very small shell script? (dfranke, 16 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: Rails Searching Ferret or Sphinx? (dawie, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Is my corporation protected? (Anon123123, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: What would happen if public libraries only had ebooks? (amichail, 3 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: C vs C++ (rumpelstiltskin, 8 points, 22 comments)
- Ask HN: Who's going to Google I/O? (dannyr, 5 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: What big discoveries can be attributed to Elite schools? (physcab, 4 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: If you have access to an IDE, why would anyone use a text editor? (kamehameha, 9 points, 24 comments)
- Ask HN: business guy tries to build a website - qrisper.com (junglee, 21 points, 41 comments)
- Ask HN: IRC channel for Hacker News? (javert, 32 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: Anybody have experience with building hobby robots? (jamongkad, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: What determines whether the down-mod is enabled? (asciilifeform, 6 points, 11 comments)
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
- Ask HN: Statistics of mobile web use anyone? (jpirkola, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask Pg / HN Community: Problem with HN submission/comments ... OR is it me? (newacc, 3 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: How does twitter allow multi-byte messages (worldhello, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Is Twitter non-existent among my age group? (Scriptor, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ideas I would like to see funded. What about you HN? (rokhayakebe, 4 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: I want to pay people, not just accept payment. What are my options? (mr_luc, 4 points, 5 comments)
- Poll: Would you try this brainstorming search engine if it were built? (amichail, 9 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise. (TiredOfCoding, 72 points, 110 comments)
- Ask HN: Startup, Project, or something else ... (RiderOfGiraffes, 4 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Python cloud hosting? (bravura, 5 points, 5 comments)
- HN menu bar too bright: I see a green bar above all other text. (Goose90053, 1 point, 5 comments)
- Trading coding for designing (okouam, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: New Web Customers and Ballpark Estimates (matttah, 5 points, 2 comments)
- Ask YC: best ISP in Bay Area? (myoung8, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Do you write comments, and then not submit them? (wooby, 60 points, 50 comments)
- Ask HN: how to unit/integration test app that sends email? (tapostrophemo, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Why does TweetDeck consume as much RAM as my web browser? (jganetsk, 5 points, 3 comments)
- How to get our app to market? (mackeeeavelli, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Poll: How often do you write comments, and then not submit them? (Sephr, 25 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN math nerds: How to rollup lots of data points into a 0-100 score? (ryanwaggoner, 5 points, 7 comments)
- Poll: Do you upvote stories on the new submissions page? (vaksel, 17 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN: Would you pay for these services I'm thinking of building? (zackattack, 13 points, 11 comments)
- WikiFieldtrip: For geography nerds (or travelers) (mmmurf, 4 points, 2 comments)
Thursday, May 28, 2009
- Ask HN: Help me to chose a mobile plattform for development (bbhacker, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Do you use PHPMyAdmin as an alternative to your app admin? (paraschopra, 4 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: What's up with Red Bull's pricing strategy? (mannicken, 4 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: How to pull off an early acquisition for several million? (selltoday, 15 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Banking for startups? (kynikos, 1 point, 1 comment)
- TechStars company seeks cofounder (saroka, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Home Automation businesses? (herval, 7 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN: Feedback on my app - SongTwit, it's TwitPic for music (danhak, 7 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Giving Equity to Early Employees/Late Cofounders (jalammar, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Beyond Bing: Applying Intentional Programming to Web Search (amichail, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: How does Pandora's rating system work? (physcab, 1 point, 3 comments)
- A Solution to the Fundamental Problem of Micropayments. (asciilifeform, 4 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Signing an NDA online? (grinich, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Econometrics, Bioinformatics, Game Theory. Python or R? (barry-cotter, 4 points, 5 comments)
- Our startup, OpenHallway: simple usability testing (dbolson, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Programming Clojure (book by Stuart Halloway) is out of beta (here's a review) (lhorie, 22 points, 8 comments)
- Is Flash the best choice to make interactive content spreadable? (andresmh, 3 points, 2 comments)
- How do you build an aggregator? (mg1313, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: reliable domain registration (something, 6 points, 8 comments)
- Why do Chicago VC's lag so far behind others? (tboxer854, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: What to do about distracting mental chatter? (jpeterson, 42 points, 49 comments)
- Please review my web application: http://safe.mn/ (jusob, 16 points, 5 comments)
Friday, May 29, 2009
- Ask HN: please review my technology. (casta, 23 points, 25 comments)
- Seeking tech cofounder/collaborator-Adventure travel startup (colellm, 4 points, 8 comments)
- Do you find WolframAlpha inflexible and unhelpful re: question phrasing? (CalmQuiet, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Any startups hiring in the UK (uk_worker, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Running a car on water. Plausible or just more bad internet science? (cubicle67, 2 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN:When to expect reply to emails? (yearsinrock, 3 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Review my POC to detect spam accounts on twitter (sucuri2, 3 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Link for the new Text Replacement Technology posted the other day? (mannylee1, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Can Apple manage without Steve Jobs? (jacek, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask YC: Anyone at WWDC this year? (yan, 5 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: How would you define Hyper Local Advertising? (keltecp11, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ok HN, You Were Right. Unpaid Internships Are Wrong (physcab, 7 points, 14 comments)
- Ask HN: No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage (kineticac, 30 points, 63 comments)
- NDAs are a pain. Can we fix this? (cmos, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: I'm doing a series of lectures on entrepreneurship - what should i say? (mixmax, 4 points, 12 comments)
- Announcing Alchitect (Zelphyr, 4 points, 5 comments)
- How is the HN community as a whole different from your social circle? (amichail, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How do background check sites get their data? (ashishk, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: In which modern language/environment/framework is programming a joy? (reedlaw, 47 points, 92 comments)
Saturday, May 30, 2009
- Terabyte laptop hard drives? (geuis, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Poll: Were/Are you a cheater? (kyro, 24 points, 76 comments)
- Ask HN: Present Value of Knowing Math Well? (tokenadult, 11 points, 15 comments)
- Ask HN: Sleeping/living in the office? (mannicken, 5 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Which one is better for writing a SQL parser? (liuliu, 10 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: Is Free Dead? (Ardit20, 11 points, 15 comments)
- Ask HN: How should I get started with Linux application programming? (windsurfer, 15 points, 16 comments)
- 55000 pieces of wolfram alpha feedback first mover advantage (iterationx, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Is Twitter lost on me? (stijnm, 38 points, 44 comments)
- Ask HN: Does HN need to have a delete account feature? (socratees, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Graphics creation for games? (SingAlong, 29 points, 16 comments)
- Ask HN: Evolution writes very poor code. So why is biology research rewarding? (amichail, 9 points, 22 comments)
- Ask HN: OpenFace - Facebook without privacy? (oldgregg, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: your favorite obscure Firefox extensions? (Herring, 17 points, 29 comments)
- Ask HN: How to create your own Wave server? (invisible, 8 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: eliminating cable TV - how should I set up my media center? (fidgross, 8 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Recommend solution for scanning forms? (dxjones, 3 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you learn about the business aspects of running a startup? (matt1, 22 points, 22 comments)
- Ask HN: Is mobile internet a threat to creativity? (amichail, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask PG - What is the worst and best score of a submission/comment? (Banzai10, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Plain English ToS - Is This Legal? (andrewljohnson, 4 points, 8 comments)
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