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Sunday, June 21, 2009
- Lessons in incompetence (RiderOfGiraffes, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Where is USENET? (scscsc, 21 points, 17 comments)
- Ask HN: College Graduate, Job Prospects (cmpeters, 20 points, 20 comments)
- Ask HN: HN Timeouts Today? (avner, 5 points, 2 comments)
- Remind HN: Father's Day (spicyj, 72 points, 35 comments)
- HN: How does one get feedback on comments? (larryfreeman, 12 points, 21 comments)
- Ask HN: Why not use technology to find people to talk to at a conference? (amichail, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Simple, simple, simple editors for Linux. (RiderOfGiraffes, 5 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN: How did you get started with your first start-up? (quizbiz, 9 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Missing needed skills for startup (yalurker, 17 points, 23 comments)
- Ask HN: Review My Site - Studylance.com (pixpox3, 13 points, 21 comments)
- Ask HN: Good communities like HN (csomar, 7 points, 6 comments)
Monday, June 22, 2009
- Ask HN: Where to find socially conscious Startups? (pmichaud, 5 points, 7 comments)
- Ask YC: Anyone planning on submitting to TechCrunch50? (_pius, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: How bad is the decision to work as a co-founder without legal contracts? (log0, 4 points, 20 comments)
- Ask HN: Is it possible to turn this into a Viral Campaign? (keltecp11, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Anyone building (or have) a calendar suggestion tool? (wschroter, 4 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Investments for kids (off topic) (davidw, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Where to get promo stickers made? (callmeed, 20 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: Offshoring - At what point does cost trump productivity? (mingyeow, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Adding 2 + 2 on the Cloud ? (IgorCarron, 3 points, 9 comments)
- Ask YC: Whats the Best Shared Hosting around? (spoiledtechie, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: ISO of cofounder (ab_initio, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Is technology a neccessary and/or sufficient condition for development? (digamber_kamat, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Poll: Did you find Numbrosia iPhone app easy to understand? Was it fun? (amichail, 2 points, 6 comments)
- People looking for co-founders (heliodor, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Finding (and keeping) Woz (sargent, 3 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Online Shopping Carts? Is Satchmo any good? (weaksauce, 6 points, 2 comments)
- Ask PG: How hard would it be to implement a blacklist of domains for HN? (derwiki, 4 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: What are the killer use cases for key-value stores? (iamelgringo, 2 points, 2 comments)
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
- Poll: Which server monitoring tool do you use? (moe, 28 points, 29 comments)
- Ask HN: What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) (brandnewlow, 42 points, 44 comments)
- Is there an online multiuser environment for coding/interacting with widgets? (ilaksh, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Are you in Miami, FL? (elboheme, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Are there any good hacker mentors out there? (Rayzar, 39 points, 24 comments)
- Ask HN: Buying a Website on SitePoint; Good way to bring in Monthly Income? (tocomment, 7 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Learning From Failure and Iterating on Defunct Companies (tommusic, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: What level of traffic do you need for ad sales? (Readmore, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Twitter account compromised, no response from Twitter...what to do? (ryanwaggoner, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Rate my startup: Freshlog - Screenshot collaboration for agile development (freshlog, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Please review our startup Euraeka.com (haidut, 4 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: How to bulk transfer ~50 domains? (+ Registrar suggestions?) (catone, 15 points, 18 comments)
- Ask HN: Mobile Browser Issues with HN? (davidw, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Learning to write effectively - for programmers (teej, 6 points, 5 comments)
- Poll: Do you read HN because you want to see what hackers are really like? (amichail, 1 point, 5 comments)
- Core technology patented for mobile social networking (Shooter, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: What is your experience with Adwhirl as a publisher? (apollo, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Quiz HN: Test your biases (jibiki, 4 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: How to get started with making a twitter app? (quizbiz, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Do you use Wolfram Alpha? (raphar, 2 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Anyone have experience with FireHost? (rgrieselhuber, 1 point, 1 comment)
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
- Ask HN: Literate Programming (dimitar, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask PG: Any plans to make the YC talks public? (trickjarrett, 49 points, 16 comments)
- Request for API scripts & a dynamic advertising aggregator (messel, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Please comment on my new project infully.com (growt, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Math for hackers. (RiderOfGiraffes, 101 points, 56 comments)
- Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how do you get introductions from investors decline? (coopr, 5 points, 2 comments)
- China Disable all domain that end with "google.com" (lispython, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Games where the more random you are the higher you score? (amichail, 1 point, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Tool development as a job applicant filter? (absconditus, 13 points, 11 comments)
- Cheap way to make intro/how-to videos for a website? (justinchen, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Personal Bills Management (hosted) recommendation? (dotpavan, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Is there a key-time-value database? (yellowbkpk, 14 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: Script to collect iTune sales stats? (andrewljohnson, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How to build an app/service that makes all users feel equally smart? (amichail, 3 points, 17 comments)
- Ask HN: How To Add Video To Ramamia (Upload AND Webcam) (jasonlbaptiste, 6 points, 7 comments)
- Can a non-engineer start a tech company? (farmerwu, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Free or very cheap marketing suggestions for startups (ddbb, 2 points, 5 comments)
Thursday, June 25, 2009
- What is DoD using their supercomputers for? (cptrfsn, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: RSS feed of my comments/submissions (aj, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Alternatives to Rentacoder.com? (geuis, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you decide if you buy insurance on goods? (scscsc, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: What technology is used to build the Y Pipes Canvas (hariis, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: how to react to government borrowing billions? (Tichy, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Are there any good Internet marketing books? (kuvkir, 47 points, 12 comments)
- Hey PHP guys... OOP question (eintnohick, 7 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN: Would you replace your numeric pad with a trackpad? (TweedHeads, 9 points, 42 comments)
- Ask HN: How to disclose a phishing vulnerability (youngian, 5 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Formal education or self-taught? (talison, 4 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: The importance of heredoc (stcredzero, 1 point, 7 comments)
- Tell HN: Risk, Dan Gardner (ErrantX, 42 points, 18 comments)
- Ask HN: What percent of iPhone apps make less than $100? (ektimo, 6 points, 4 comments)
- Review my twitter app - twitpare.com (mrtron, 4 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: stats on phone calls from website visitors? (mmelin, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Where do you get your design inspiration? (Sam_Odio, 8 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: When you sell a server-based iPhone app, how long should it work for? (amichail, 10 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Feedback on my project (a5huynh, 10 points, 7 comments)
- Feature Suggestion: YC Comment Forwarding (awolf, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Feedback on my app engine project? (grandalf, 7 points, 2 comments)
- Do you have any suggestions on how to deliver a solid presentation? (emontero1, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you track time? (grinich, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you store credentials to external services? (YuriNiyazov, 3 points, 3 comments)
- India's Unique Citizen ID initiative - how would you build it using open source? (sandGorgon, 4 points, 1 comment)
Friday, June 26, 2009
- Ask HN: What's necessary re: server RAM? (zimbabwe, 17 points, 23 comments)
- Real-time Data Provider (Emilien, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Should I give up? (sui_generis80, 65 points, 69 comments)
- Where do I find cheap places to live for a month in New York? (koichirose, 2 points, 8 comments)
- I'll give away one of my startups to someone on HN (Sam_Odio, 37 points, 30 comments)
- Ask HN: Which blogging platform for startups? (annie_hall, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Why certify pilots but not journalists in their area of coverage? (amichail, 1 point, 14 comments)
- Ask HN: Review part of my startup (bgnm2000, 5 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: Best Job Posting Site for Hiring (NoBSWebDesign, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: How to deal with hagglers w/ future opportunities? (pj, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Honesty vs simplicity: how honest should you be to your users? (amichail, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: benefits of being successful (stm, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Palm just gave me early access to the Pre SDK. What should I build? (falsestprophet, 6 points, 5 comments)
- Work with Zenter guys on a mobile side project (rwalker, 11 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Please review launchly - The home of website launches (bdmac97, 4 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: Can we monetize Twitter with DMs? Review PubliciTweet (jmathai, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: What do you think of a "law advisor" that goes through your email? (amichail, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Performance hit for jQuery Download? (shiny, 4 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Making Wireless Work With Linux Mint/Ubuntu? (daveambrose, 2 points, 4 comments)
Saturday, June 27, 2009
- Ask HN: Why should we upvote or downvote a comment? (Ardit20, 7 points, 12 comments)
- HN Show & Tell: the WordPress Console (sant0sk1, 43 points, 19 comments)
- Ask HN: Work on Palm Mojo Application Framework (code_devil, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Can I continue to be a freelancer? For life? (mdmd, 16 points, 22 comments)
- Ask HN: Looking for in-browser programming tutorials like 'Try Ruby!' (jayro, 8 points, 5 comments)
- Twitter should automatically and quickly delete your tweet if it is bad. (amichail, 3 points, 17 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you determine your price point? (quizbiz, 8 points, 11 comments)
- Poll: Forcing smartest people on earth to do medical research would... (amichail, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Learning about machine vision? (tjr, 7 points, 2 comments)
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