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Sunday, January 03, 2010
- Ask HN: How good are freelance programming sites? (gnosis, 31 points, 16 comments)
- Martial Arts for Geeks? (weak-geek, 6 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Where is the Tivo social network? (conquest, 2 points, 2 comments)
- HN Request: Please add links to comment threads to @newsycombinator posts (kortina, 22 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Seeking a cofounder (chrischen, 19 points, 43 comments)
- Can you private message peeps on Hacker News? (trixjo, 13 points, 23 comments)
- Ask HN: Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to? (sunir, 26 points, 49 comments)
- Ask HN: I have the domain hackerbrain - what would you like to see on it? (adrianwaj, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Suggest HN: Standard file locations for website info (fnid, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Poll: How Much Time per Week on Hacking/Programming Related Stuff? (alanthonyc, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Publish Startup Revenue Numbers? (blantonl, 8 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Too kool for school, but nowhere else to go (Jebdm, 14 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Book recommendations on strong AI (olalonde, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Tell HN: make HN comments display on blogs via trackbacks? (scrollinondubs, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Distribute visualizations of code to increase sales? (amichail, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Tools for making writing markup less painful (skullsplitter, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Gateway and Merchant account (j1477, 3 points, 9 comments)
Monday, January 04, 2010
- Ask HN: Hacker News for electronics enthusiast? (rick_2047, 2 points, 3 comments)
- HN Meet-up Netherlands (wed-27-jan) (beeker, 7 points, 1 comment)
- HN Meetup Tel-Aviv (Murkin, 42 points, 8 comments)
- Anyone sell stuff on ebay? I have an app idea. (kapauldo, 9 points, 16 comments)
- Ask HN: What's a math major to do? (jmckib, 6 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: How many tech IPOs this year? (slapshot, 3 points, 1 comment)
- If most of us won't escape wage slavery, how is humanity still a good idea? (exit, 2 points, 5 comments)
- TellHN : This is my new app, AzankaLyrics (dan_sim, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Copy protection for desktop software? (qeorge, 4 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Hacker houses in Seattle? (dnsworks, 7 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Make Money From Home....? (staunch, 11 points, 3 comments)
- Are we "software engineers", "software developers", "programmers", or other? (benhoyt, 3 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Is AppStore getting better? (mantas, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: What does everyone use to send out newsletters, email campaigns? (ujjwalg, 19 points, 17 comments)
- CEO/PhD founder (CoupleKare, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Pre-Beta seed funding sources? (coupleCare, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Has anyone ever set up a free conference call system? (matthewer, 5 points, 5 comments)
- Tell HN: FamilyLink is hiring a Flex/Flash guru (adammichaelc, 6 points, 3 comments)
- Price quotes of Braintree (j1477, 1 point, 1 comment)
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
- Ask HN: Best way to outsource web design and development? (deltapoint, 5 points, 2 comments)
- Have you updated the year in your site's copyright footer? (dugmartin, 4 points, 5 comments)
- CoffeeScript 0.2.1: Significant Whitespace, Splats, Existence, Object Compre... (jashkenas, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Latest thinking in best type of Corp and what State? (zinxq, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Computer Vision and AR project ideas (SandB0x, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (jellisjapan, 111 points, 249 comments)
- Ask HN: What CRM/PM/DM/TT application do you use? (blender, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Best scalable way of storing sessions? (aliasaria, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Intro to SharePoint/SharePoint Designer books (jrwoodruff, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Guitar tabs online (k0ban, 14 points, 23 comments)
- Ask HN: Most applicable functional language to learn? (alttab, 12 points, 15 comments)
- Moonlighting to Full-time venture. How successful have you been? (blizkreeg, 7 points, 2 comments)
- How to get Apple/ATT to let our iPhone app run in the background like Loopt? (bfasching, 2 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: What was that programming language based on creating new grammar rules? (Miky, 6 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Office share in SOMA? (dnsworks, 6 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: What lead developers look for (wallacrw, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Recommendation for book related to ethics and hacking/computers? (ciscoriordan, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask PG: Can we have an [old] flag? (cjoh, 11 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Who's the Best Domain Registrar? (quinto42, 6 points, 8 comments)
- Tell HN: MIT Team that won the Red Balloon Contest on Colbert Report Tonight (breck, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Please write the year or 'old' in non recent submissions (imajes, 7 points, 2 comments)
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
- Ask HN: Should I trust online password management services like passpack.com? (nomatteus, 5 points, 7 comments)
- To what degree can my open source software be inspired by this patent? (ilaksh, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Celestial Mechanics Book Recommendations (euroclydon, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Weird HN caching bug: I appear logged in as other HN users sometimes (benhoyt, 49 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Get in touch with low latency people from Sun, IBM or RedHat? (HockeyPlayer, 5 points, 23 comments)
- Mongodb vs couchdb (nickaugust, 16 points, 15 comments)
- Is Nexus One a proof that the free model does not work for mobile applications? (jagjit, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Prerequisite for learning assembly (pencil, 3 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Review my startup - YakGroups (cadwag, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: What do you do for health insurance? (kadavy, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Poll: Do you think it's better to have subsites on their own domains? (vaksel, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Is asking your friends to vote your HN postings to the front page ok? (jacquesm, 55 points, 111 comments)
- Ask HN: What would you build with real-time data (doctorosdeck, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Tell HN : SparkFun Electronics $100 Give Away Tomorrow (kqr2, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Y Combinator-esque program in Chicago (tboxer854, 5 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Good recruiter/job agency in NYC? (coriander, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: What would YOU do with a massive amount of computing power? (bhiggins, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Feedback and beta test my startup, SocialBlaze (rksprst, 9 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: am I too old to learn the guitar/music? (callmeed, 8 points, 13 comments)
- Ask HN: Any Open Source Projects Looking for help from College Students? (alexgartrell, 23 points, 14 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you vet the startups behind the job postings on Startuply? (coriander, 4 points, 1 comment)
- A Simple Hacker Riddle (AdmiralBeotch, 3 points, 7 comments)
- Still can't decide on a Payment System. Please HELP (j1477, 16 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: When data is code, what is the meaning of a config script? (phaedrus, 7 points, 3 comments)
Thursday, January 07, 2010
- Poll: Operator Precedence (daeken, 14 points, 19 comments)
- Ask YC:Best web hosting provider for sites similar to Flickr? (happysteve, 2 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: What are the good alternatives to Google Groups? (niyazpk, 13 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: Why are there so many NoSQL databases? (kez, 18 points, 15 comments)
- Ask HN: What is the role of an Engineering Manager? (zaph0d, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Standup desk (drahcir, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Other startup got there before me. Stop or continue? (uptownben, 28 points, 72 comments)
- Ask HN: The best way to put technical skills to the greater good? (slapshot, 35 points, 46 comments)
- Poll: Tablet? Why? (axod, 6 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: Am I the only one having problems with SparkFun's website? (marcamillion, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: List your Etherpad alternatives (DTrejo, 12 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: Insights into securely distributing binaries (call home)? (keefe, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Simple, fast JavaScript Framework? (Slashed, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Hacker News Los Angeles Meetup? (iseff, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Have you used Appcelerator Titanium for mobile or desktop dev? (BjornW, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: which features shall we charge for? (alexdong, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Why are video games violent? (morphir, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Framework or no framework (zeynel1, 1 point, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: How to apply for positions that require government clearance? (manvsmachine, 3 points, 7 comments)
- Tell HN: Co-Founders MeetUp has startups, needs co-founders ;-) (alain94040, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How do you organize your git branches? (awt, 7 points, 5 comments)
- Facebook for iPhone 3.1 Is Good, But Not Good Enough For iPhone Battery (woork, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Why has humanity failed to innovate in the past decade? (dnsworks, 15 points, 54 comments)
- Ask YC: Fair founding vesting (ashishk, 6 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Git Hosting (weaksauce, 5 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you keep track of your service ? (sr, 3 points, 3 comments)
Friday, January 08, 2010
- Ask HN: When is the best time of day to post? (marcamillion, 6 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Anybody here got use for micropayments? (ulf, 6 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Why I can't upvote on a comment? (Slashed, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Trading compute? The future of computing?? (justinpirie, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Poll: How is your backed-up state doing ? (jacquesm, 2 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: What would be a proper Boing ball demo for a current Amiga (rbanffy, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Does anybody know of a node.js hosting provider? (megamark16, 3 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: I've got a sleep problem, I always wake up at night (snitko, 4 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Requesting code sample from potential employer? (bwh2, 4 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Where to get data for a Web/iPhone app idea? (bioweek, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How might the most compact programming language in the world look like? (nadam, 5 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: iPhone app like BB messenger? (dawie, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN/PG: How long does it take a social news site to live on it's own? (iamelgringo, 22 points, 22 comments)
- Ask HN: What makes things/memes "trend" on twitter? (jasonlbaptiste, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Open source software liability? (huangm, 6 points, 5 comments)
- Would you click on a link that contains Punycode? (adamo, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: What made you decide to pursue a startup? (yosho, 12 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Coming soon pages worth it? (d4ft, 5 points, 6 comments)
- Recommendations for business bank account (danbmil99, 3 points, 2 comments)
- The Consequences of No Regard for Privacy (andrewljohnson, 2 points, 1 comment)
Saturday, January 09, 2010
- Ask News.YC: What features would you want in a news aggregator? (zitterbewegung, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Donation based app? (eberfreitas, 11 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Could celebrity only leaderboard(s) make an iPhone game more popular? (amichail, 2 points, 10 comments)
- Linux on the desktop 2010, your honest thoughts? (berlinbrown, 23 points, 73 comments)
- Ask HN: Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you upto? (sunir, 7 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Are we too lenient on Google and Apple? (dnsworks, 27 points, 56 comments)
- Ask HN: What languages used to write computer languages? (gvb, 43 points, 53 comments)
- Ask HN: Does your lawyer attend your Board meetings? (jack7890, 7 points, 6 comments)
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