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Sunday, January 17, 2010
- Ask HN: what is the difference between IPSP and ISO? (tupsi, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Domain hacking (flooha, 3 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: What history of economics and technology book would you recommend? (ptn, 23 points, 18 comments)
- Ask HN: Does windows mobile system has future? (digamber_kamat, 4 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: How to hold an online fundraiser? (sounddust, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Is Google's Go ready for serious projects? (olliesaunders, 6 points, 8 comments)
- Cofounder Google Doc-inspired app - in 24 hours (bullrico, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: What are the best links that we've missed? (whatusername, 25 points, 15 comments)
- Ask HN: What's your favorite scientific paper? (pc, 63 points, 40 comments)
Monday, January 18, 2010
- Ask HN: Where are the enterprise gurus? (Terry_B, 11 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Why do you hate your IT department? (alexk, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: I made $24k over the last month. Now what? (maxklein, 125 points, 199 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you juggle time spent on learning vs. time building things? (geeko, 40 points, 42 comments)
- Ask HN: Side Project Turned Turned Obsession - Please Review My Site (eli_s, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Tell HN: I created a Delicious+Hacker News Chrome Extension (prosa, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Tell HN: Embed HN Comments on Any HN-submitted Page (shmichael, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Can IP be shared on a custom software project? (jharrison, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Do you know of a road conditions data source? (adammichaelc, 5 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Can my GPL webapp be a paid iPhone app? (roschdal, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Review my App: Illuminator (www.goa41.com) (JacquesMoulin, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: What key question would you ask a software engineering hiring manager? (white_eskimo, 4 points, 8 comments)
- Hacker News Chicago meetup Thursday (1/21) at 7pm (harper, 23 points, 17 comments)
- Ask HN: SpoofCard Clone (tjoozeylabs, 1 point, 1 comment)
- What algorithm should I use for trending detection? (aazeemazhar, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Please review our web application (http://thecadmus.com) (jayair, 6 points, 11 comments)
- Startup Advice for New Social Media Startups? (startupgrrl, 3 points, 2 comments)
- [Ask HN] Is clojure really a modern lisp? (morphir, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Get together in Tokyo? (jbm, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: What should you do ? (blacklife, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Bad Ads? (cgherb911, 4 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Is it weird to ask users to pay via CC through a desktop app? (superic, 5 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Opinions on New Business Launch (eli_s, 7 points, 9 comments)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
- Ask YC: Where can I find list of AOL startups acquisitions in the last decade (tzury, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Resources for 3D solid modeling (amatheus, 5 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Any Books on Inspirational Computer Science Personalities ? (sree_nair, 13 points, 19 comments)
- Ask HN: Is a .net domain good enough? (klon, 40 points, 73 comments)
- Ask HN: Finding tech team (ikush, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: How viable is it for a programmer to switch to a DVORAK keyboard layout? (jrgnsd, 19 points, 51 comments)
- Ask HN: implications of using GPL'ed Ruby library inside a SAAS service ? (thibaut_barrere, 3 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Sit4.Us (megamark16, 5 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: At what time and how frequently do you visit HN? (hajrice, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: other mathematical link/discussion forums? (jmount, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Are splash pages history or preference? (jamesbressi, 3 points, 3 comments)
- Site Got Hacked. Want to know how. Ideas? (gaoshan, 2 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: how to tell my co-founder that I gonna leave for about 3 months? (anonyask, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Who wants a long-term intern? (speek, 5 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Developer/admin log software? (TrevorBurnham, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Review my rapid AJAX idea (olalonde, 6 points, 11 comments)
- Ask HN: Creative SaaS business models (tboxer854, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Idea Management App (ideahacker, 7 points, 17 comments)
- Ask HN: Handling Aggressive Competition (jcnnghm, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: [How] do you maintain a daily routine? (coffeemug, 7 points, 6 comments)
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
- Ask HN: Do you know of any basic android handset with only wifi, no cellular? (majaro, 8 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: what are you favorite/absolutely must have/niche Ruby gems? (dzlobin, 1 point, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: how do startups find designers that won't break the bank? (andrewstuart, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Are thoughts some kind of stochastic process (astroguy, 2 points, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: Does anyone have ideas for an independent study? (ahlatimer, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Tell HN: I've made Quotty.com for quoting articles (snitko, 4 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: Did Bill Gates took Twitter down? (eraad, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Google Adsense for Search Alternatives (jarsj, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: How to encourage entrepreneurship at a company? (spinoff, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN : How do Twitter verified accounts work? (dan_sim, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: What Kinds of Comments Should Be Upvoted? (tokenadult, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Do BillingCircle, Spreedly, Chargify, Cheddargetter need Authorize.net? (breck, 9 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: Is hiring a PR company a good investment for a startup? (charleyrock, 8 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Is lisp a language for a newbie? (nkh, 5 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: Anyone have experience using CrossBrowserTesting.com or similar? (breck, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Contracting out website design. (tmpk, 2 points, 8 comments)
- Ask HN: About choosing a job (mfalcon, 1 point, 3 comments)
- The best customer support software? (swany4, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Detecting prototype mobile browsers (ilamont, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Rate my android app: calltrack (not_feeling_it, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Ask HN: What day to launch, how to get press coverage? (rksprst, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Where can I find iPhone app sales information? (antothermike, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Tell HN: English isn't your native language? Get inside. (olalonde, 16 points, 23 comments)
- Ask HN: Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? (anoncto, 27 points, 21 comments)
Thursday, January 21, 2010
- Ask HN: best way to quicky prototype/pilot Stackoverflow kind of website? (paraschopra, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: API limitations for Web services (capablanca, 12 points, 7 comments)
- Use PuTTY as a superior command shell on Windows (nfnaaron, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Why is my submission dead? (dbz, 7 points, 12 comments)
- Ask HN: Book-project is a total failure, but what exactly can we learn from it? (ebook, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: What is the hierarchy of programming? (charleyrock, 2 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: Android development, revenue and compatibility (chrisb, 8 points, 5 comments)
- Build this Scheduling App, Please. (JoelMcCracken, 2 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: An app to organize business-cards ? (Murkin, 5 points, 8 comments)
- Social.com launches (BlueSkies, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Nice OS X app for recording a personal log (st3fan, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: what if it's not a tablet (jpwagner, 2 points, 4 comments)
- What features could the iPhone adopt to eliminate its competitors? (jasongullickson, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Weird IE Bug — no favicon for 404 page? (dw0rm, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: What is your shortlist for hot/popular/trendy Open Source Projects? (roder, 31 points, 52 comments)
- Ask HN: Further studies with maximum ROI? (luminary, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Warn HN: Flickr Photo ID is about to overflow a 32 bit unsigned int (edd, 5 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Where to go to find free images/icons to use on my project? (sucuri2, 6 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Any help with ideas for the college science fair? (ambiate, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: From where should I buy the first server and collocation? (sradu, 4 points, 5 comments)
- Advice wanted on finding Programmers in Colomiba or Venezuela (coupleCare, 3 points, 1 comment)
Friday, January 22, 2010
- Ask HN: can we have a standard quote format (pbhjpbhj, 2 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you come to HN? (Concours, 2 points, 13 comments)
- TELL HN: I just switched to Firefox 2.0 and it beats Firefox 3.x by far (fossguy, 1 point, 2 comments)
- Facebook privacy fail? (OmniLarry, 4 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: How would you make public transit profitable / create more value? (JayNeely, 35 points, 104 comments)
- Ask HN: What kind of businesses/sectors/occupations do the following? (amit_pradhan, 1 point, 3 comments)
- Tell HN: Eliminating voting on submissions to Hacker News. (amichail, 2 points, 10 comments)
- Ask HN: For user generated content, how do you deal with questionnable material? (matt1, 4 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: How do you manage passwords for a group/organization (tortilla, 1 point, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Review my project (zeynel1, 2 points, 1 comment)
- ThanksHN : Here is almost the only place where I get information (dan_sim, 2 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: How unique does a company name need to be? (gprisament, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Tell HN: San Diego Meetup (jacoblyles, 5 points, 3 comments)
- Tell HN: A Health Care Startup Idea. And a question to ponder. (quickpost, 7 points, 7 comments)
- Ask HN: Do musicians profit from RIAA lawsuits? (dnsworks, 5 points, 3 comments)
- How would you run your company? (senthilnambi, 1 point, 4 comments)
- Ask YC: Licensing your startup's code? (anonsellout, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Socializing or making friends without the internet? (punkrockgeekboy, 5 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Do you read newspaper/newspapers everyday? (kloc, 9 points, 16 comments)
Saturday, January 23, 2010
- Ask HN: Cheapest place to buy a .com domain (quizbiz, 5 points, 8 comments)
- Dealing with corruption (corruption, 3 points, 2 comments)
- Ask HN: Is email address the wrong choice for usernames? (dnsworks, 4 points, 4 comments)
- Are there any Online Communities for Web Dev / Entrepreneur Types? (trixjo, 5 points, 15 comments)
- A programming religion? (hackerboy, 6 points, 9 comments)
- Ask HN: offline billboard ads for online sites? (epi0Bauqu, 3 points, 1 comment)
- Why would a 3 days old site gets indexed and then de indexed by google (nll, 3 points, 6 comments)
- Geolocation, question (secretjudge, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: What makes you happy? (daveisconfused, 9 points, 5 comments)
- Deleted twitter names (fairy, 2 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: market size -- how to estimate? (sabat, 4 points, 1 comment)
- Ask HN: Anybody tried Ginkgo Biloba? (mattiss, 3 points, 5 comments)
- Ask HN: What do you do w/ a big idea, when you are working on something else? (vaksel, 13 points, 17 comments)
- Ask HN: Help a YC startup improve your mobile media experience (thomaspun, 37 points, 6 comments)
- Ask HN: I'm collecting learning resources - care to share some ? (thibaut_barrere, 2 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Is it unethical to sell scraped 'people data'? (coderdude, 3 points, 4 comments)
- Ask HN: Any hackers in Hong Kong? (lefstathiou, 4 points, 2 comments)
- Ask: How do you actually launch a beta? (benologist, 34 points, 17 comments)
- [Ask HN]: Clojure - why the optimism? (morphir, 4 points, 14 comments)
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