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Rails is a Ghetto... [NSFW for Language]

zedshaw.com/rants/rails_is_a_ghetto.html

94
68
Man, weather.com really sucks. I bet I could make a better one in a day.

forecaster.ws

57
48
Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike

nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30know.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=cd7361b52335a9b7&ex=1356670800&partner=rssuserland

34
7
Ask 37signals: How do you process credit cards?

37signals.com/svn/posts/753-ask-37signals-how-do-you-process-credit-cards

61
10
5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber

andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/12/youre-not-avera.html

24
12
The world's most toxic value system

uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/TOXICVAL.HTM

51
76
Warning: GMail security failure

davidairey.co.uk/google-gmail-security-hijack

33
11
Cheer YC: Happy Holidays!

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92441

47
32
Three Language Features You Need To Understand Before You Dismiss Common Lisp

jfm3-repl.blogspot.com/2007/12/three-language-features-you-need-to.html

24
3
Reliable Script Generated Email Delivery Anyone?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92022

35
17
A Tour of Xerox PARC

blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/12/a-tour-of-xerox.html

32
5
How 2 people started Remember The Milk (simple todo list with 300K users)

blog.rememberthemilk.com/2007/08/introducing-remember-milk-pro.html

36
13
Origin of the IMG tag

1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html

36
9
Code's Worst Enemy

steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html

125
43
Daily WTF: ITAPPMONROBOT

thedailywtf.com/Articles/ITAPPMONROBOT.aspx

47
10
Evan Williams: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea

evhead.com/2007/12/how-to-evaluate-new-product-idea.asp

70
23
"The Most Complex Piece of Engineering Known to Man"

groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/52f04d4ab1121c9b

48
21
"Facebook Business Solutions"

facebookbusinesssolutions.com

35
15
Success [pic]

surreality.info/up/success_large.jpg

64
13
Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wii Remote

youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ

46
18
Randall Munroe talks xkcd at Google (astounding cameo at 21:30)

youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24

59
12
Ask YC: Is there a recession/depression coming?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=88296

28
45
What I've Learned From Sales, Part I: Don't Feed the Trolls

weblog.raganwald.com/2007/01/what-ive-learned-from-sales-part-i.html

28
1
Paul Buchheit: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-there-more-to-life-than-money.html

54
54
An Offer

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=87522

39
56
Stress impairs cognitive functions - The loss of those functions can explain why programming is hard

the-programmers-stone.com/about

44
32
Rails 2.0 Released

weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/12/7/rails-2-0-it-s-done

50
14
The Dictatorship of Talent

nytimes.com/2007/12/04/opinion/04brooks.html?ei=5087&em=&en=11676006ac944c4e&ex=1197003600

59
60
Please Don't Steal My Focus

codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001011.html

51
13
We didn't start the Fire (2.0)

youtube.com/watch?v=fi4fzvQ6I-o

103
57
Joel Spolsky's talk at Yale, part 1

joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/12/03.html

73
36
Top 5 Contradictory Positions of Ron Paul Graham

slightlynew.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-five-contradictory-positions-of-ron.html

47
16
Bill Clementson's Blog: Lisp is for Entrepreneurs - Part 2 (Amazon)

bc.tech.coop/blog/060304.html

37
20
Think you have a secret life? Think again.

pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20071109_003391.html

29
12
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids&print=true

53
9
xkcd - Network

xkcd.com/350

63
13
Doctorow: How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook

informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203573

48
28
It's not exponential, it's sigmoidal

radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/sigmoidal_not_exponential.html

63
8
Sharing what matters

economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9249171

32
2
Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't)

gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-i-program-in-ruby-and-maybe-why-you.html

48
20
The Secret Strategies Behind Many "Viral" Videos

techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-behind-many-viral-videos

42
18
"You, too, can build exciting dynamic Web content with Bourne Shell Server Pages."

hyperrealm.com/wtfd00d/shsp

27
4
Parenscript- Compile Lisp to Javascript

common-lisp.net/project/parenscript

27
15
The Future of Reading (a play in 6 acts)

diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/19/the-future-of-reading

53
11
Buffet: Saving Sex For Your Old Age

mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/clubs/investment/WarrenBuffett.html

57
8
Flash Physics Engine

box2dflash.sourceforge.net

33
7
Feynman's Letter to Wolfram

lostandcurious.blogspot.com/2007/04/feynmans-letter-to-wolfram.html

46
7
Stephen Wolfram: On Starting a Long-Term Company

stephenwolfram.com/publications/talks/ycombinatorschool

45
15
Is Aaron Swartz the Paris Hilton of Web 2.0?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79982

48
103
The PayPal mafia

money.cnn.com/2007/11/13/magazines/fortune/paypal_mafia.fortune/index.htm

61
18
Fruit of 4 years of 14 hours per day, 7 days a week

killerbeanforever.com

51
17
Android developer challenge ($10 million in awards)

code.google.com/android/adc.html

43
25
The Nerd Handbook

randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html

43
14
Innovative New Rails Host: Online IDE, Web Console, Instantly Live

heroku.com

33
15
Exercise on the Brain

nytimes.com/2007/11/08/opinion/08aamodt.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=f7a978d4b65fe790&ex=1352264400&partner=rssuserland

27
0
Number of founders - statistics

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77525

232
38
New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

ycombinator.com/newsnews.html

64
46
Warning: Software Startups are Not as Easy as Everyone Says

softwarebyrob.com/2007/11/06/why-starting-a-software-company-is-not-as-easy-as-everyone-tells-you-and-why-facebook-apps-are-crap

63
39
Say NO by default

oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/08/say_no_by_default.html

28
1
Google announces Open Handset Alliance - Techcrunch

techcrunch.com/2007/11/05/breaking-google-announces-android-and-open-handset-alliance

28
20
NYTimes uses Hadoop, S3, EC2, and some custom code to handle PDF generation for 4TB worth of data

open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/self-service-prorated-super-computing-fun

37
4
How to be a genius

newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19125691.300

77
37
Myspace founder lied about his age (-5 years) to make site seem cooler

newsweek.com/id/62330?gt1=10547

34
17
Schneier: The War on the Unexpected

schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_war_on_the.html

36
18
Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web (Marc Andreessen)

blog.pmarca.com/2007/10/open-social-a-n.html

55
16
I'm not young enough to know everything

weblog.raganwald.com/2005/10/im-not-young-enough-to-know-everything.html

33
8
taoyue.com: Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men

taoyue.com/stacks/articles/brilliant-men.html

58
19
A brief history of record industry suicide

demonbaby.com/blog/2007/10/when-pigs-fly-death-of-oink-birth-of.html

20
14
After First Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again

nytimes.com/2007/10/28/business/28invent.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=955d89f1af988cd4&ex=1351224000&partner=rssuserland

42
30
Prism, a new experiment from Mozilla Labs, lets users split web applications out of the browser

labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism

46
13
Joel: Five Easy Ways to Fail (in a Software Project)

inc.com/magazine/20071101/how-hard-could-it-be-five-easy-ways-to-fail.html?partner=fogcreek

51
31
Wolfram: The Simplest Universal Turing Machine is proven by 20 year old student

blog.wolfram.com/2007/10/the_prize_is_won_the_simplest.html

53
14
Operations as a competitive advantage for startups

radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/operations-advantage.html

29
4
Reddit lesson #3: fuck facebook, make real friends

reddit.blogspot.com/2007/10/what-reddit-taught-me-about-startups_22.html

55
14
From Oxford to Silicon Valley (Auctomatic)

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7048556.stm

23
3
Y Combinator interview advice (by Robby from Zenter)

robbywalker.name/1/post/2007/05/y-combinator-adviceinterview-tips.html

27
14
Rejection letter from summer 05

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70149

35
27
Dilbert: "I Found A Clever Way To Write My Application Code in One Hour"

dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20071014.html

30
10
YC: What No Means

foundersatwork.com/1/post/2007/10/what-no-means.html

61
14
What if Google had to design their user interface to rank high on Google?

meangene.com/google/design_for_google.html

61
6
Zero to Riding the Rails in Four Months

hackd.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/zero-to-riding-the-rails-in-four-months

55
27
3998-byte executable reduced to 45 bytes

muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html

55
10
Richard Stallman: My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs

gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html

25
3
Non-US Visa Applicants to the US - Don't You Think It's Time We Compared Notes?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=67268

48
24
Ask news YC: Your best sources to learn about design & usability

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66863

58
31
Zombo.com - YC applicant - feedback wanted

zombo.com

58
55
Ryan Carson responds to Paul Graham on startup hubs

carsonified.com/fowa/response-to-paul-graham-on-startup-hubs

46
51
Why to Move to a Startup Hub

paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html

63
95
Why to Apply to YCombinator

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65327

113
36
Where do YC applicants host their projects?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795

40
42
5 Myths About Sick Old Europe

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/05/AR2007100501041.html?sub=AR

31
25
Aaron Swartz: How to Get a Job Like Mine

aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget

78
40
California

joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/05.html

59
49
The Future of Web Startups

paulgraham.com/webstartups.html

107
169
Y Combinator co-founder Jessica Livingston shares advice on how to get accepted (audio interview)

grid7.com/archives/189_podcast-28-jessica-livingston-of-y-combinator.html

52
14
7 Person Year Application Rewritten in 2 Person Months

metromodemedia.com/blogs/posts/TMeloche2037.aspx

33
43
Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup

blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/10/financial-model.html

54
6
Ask YC Hackers: What's the best text for learning Javascript?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61311

46
22
What I learned about women & business today

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61006

56
22
Paul Graham Facts

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60357

53
27
How I can charge so much

eikonoklastes.org/articles/2007/09/26/how-i-can-charge-so-much

53
19
Ten Tips For A Slightly Less Awful Resume

steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/09/ten-tips-for-slightly-less-awful-resume.html

50
28
Love at First Byte

stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/mayjun/features/knuth.html

54
6
The Genius is in the Details

aaronsw.com/weblog/smartabstractions

43
15
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby

oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html

83
27
The Pirate Bay files suit against big media cos for DDoSing them

thepiratebay.org/blog/86

26
7
The robots.txt Adventure

nextthing.org/archives/2007/03/12/robotstxt-adventure

26
0
How to Do Philosophy

paulgraham.com/philosophy.html

96
229
CMU professor gives his last lesson on life

post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818671-85.stm

121
33
Joel explains how a new monopoly will emerge around AJAX

joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/18.html

101
82
Startup idea list

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=55974

54
167
Where and how to announce the launch of a website?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=55556

39
35
Me and PG's Code

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=55437

38
10
Aaron Swartz's Jottit has been officially released

jottit.com

51
88
ONLamp.com -- An Introduction to Erlang

onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/09/13/introduction-to-erlang.html

25
9
How a Millionaire's Brain Works

fortunewatch.com/how-a-millionaires-brain-works

40
24
10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead)

bnet.com/2403-13070_23-160571.html

40
20
Amazon Web Services $100,000 Startup Challenge

amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=377634011

47
29
"10 Lessons of an MIT Education" by Gian-Carlo Rota

math.tamu.edu/~cyan/Rota/mitless.html

61
14
Why PostgreSQL Instead of MySQL: Comparing Reliability and Speed in 2007

postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.83

33
18
OK, you've convinced me. I'm coming to join you.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52580

43
74
PG cites Ron Paul proliferation on Reddit as "evidence of design flaw in version 1 of social news"

reddit.com/info/2n2tu/comments/c2n5v8

26
73
C++ is a horrible language, says Linus Torvalds

thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643/focus=57918

62
60
Steve Jobs - To All iPhone Customers

apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter

52
46
Paul Graham: News from the Front

paulgraham.com/colleges.html

103
124
The Muller Formula (or: Predictable Color Preferences)

colourlovers.com/blog/2007/09/02/the-muller-formula-or-predictable-color-preferences

35
16
Observations from 10 Months Working at a Small Startup

tortoiseandachilles.com/2007/09/observations-from-10-months-at-startup_03.html

58
6
Rails creator, DHH, on Java and the other 'junk'

infoworld.com/article/07/08/31/Rails-creator-on-Java-and-other-junk_1.html

24
23
Stevey's Tech News, Issue #1

steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/09/steveys-tech-news-issue-1.html

24
2
The Jessica Alba sexy walk story was a plant by a PR firm

badscience.net/?p=520

18
5
Who Founded Facebook? A New Claim Emerges

nytimes.com/2007/09/01/technology/01facebook.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=5112bcf0c8a1c0d9&ex=1346299200&partner=rssuserland

18
14
Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

aaronsw.com/weblog/perfectionism

48
102
How Not to Die

paulgraham.com/die.html

169
143
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All - Zed Shaw

zedshaw.com/rants/programmer_stats.html

68
19
do not. I am just letting it out.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232

31
29
Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School

fastcompany.com/magazine/118/girl-power.html

88
34
So, if this is Hacker News shouldn't there be a category for jobs open to any company?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656

23
16
New Book from O'Reilly: Programming Collective Intelligence

radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/programming_col.html

34
18
iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity

engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007

36
16
Holding a program in one's head

paulgraham.com/head.html

142
131
Scaling a startup from 0 to 40 hits per second in 3 days

markmaunder.com/2007/scaling-from-0-to-40-hits-per-second-in-3-days

45
24
News.YC's half birthday (with stats)

ycombinator.com/newsnews.html

33
7
OwnTerms: Creative Commons-licensed stock legal documents

ownterms.org

35
3
A way to find other Y Combinator readers in your area

hackrtrackr.com

55
38
Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society, by Freeman Dyson

edge.org/3rd_culture/dysonf07/dysonf07_index.html

32
9
Goodbye, Hacker News. I'm going back to Reddit.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635

48
67
Norvig: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

norvig.com/21-days.html

54
7
Norvig: How to write a spelling corrector

norvig.com/spell-correct.html

63
7
Hacker News

ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

150
76
Founders at Work - Demo Day

foundersatwork.com/1/post/2007/08/demo-day.html

27
2
Am I the only one who doesn't care about Facebook?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41716

36
42
Knowledge is power, 30 books every young entrepreneur should read

blog.seedcamp.com/search/label/europe

29
25
First look at YC Demo Day

dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/08/boston-vcs-gets.html

25
12
VH to YC Founders: Ping us if you want additional help with your term sheets

venturehacks.com/articles/adam-smith

26
3
Age and the entrepreneur, part 1: Some data

blog.pmarca.com/2007/08/age-and-the-ent.html

40
24
The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)

techcrunch.com/2007/08/06/the-fuzzwich-cartoon-maker

29
23
How to Massively Increase Your Productivity and Happiness in 2 Hours Per Day

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39699

43
42
Nah Seriously! Who designs the YC startups websites? Loving it.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39611

26
29
In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don't Feel Rich

nytimes.com/2007/08/05/technology/05rich.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=37185230cd0560aa&ex=1343966400&partner=rssuserland

33
28
Xobni's Facebook app replaces Facebook messaging with email

xobni.com/blog/2007/08/02/email-me-instead-for-facebook

53
12
Please Build Me Something Useful: A Letter To Web 2.0 Developers

businesspundit.com/50226711/please_build_me_something_useful_a_letter_to_web_20_developers.php

29
11
The Netflix Prize: 300 Days Later

whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2007/07/the-limitations.html

32
4
Stuff - Paul Graham

paulgraham.com/stuff.html

105
92
What ideas have you implemented that have failed, and why?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37733

20
18
Are you a Canadian YC News reader?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37384

24
47
What can you do with money?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37246

26
83
How do you write a "terms of use" for a website?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112

22
13
PG: If starting Viaweb today, would you use Lisp?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905

30
33
Don't Break The Chain

lifehacker.com/software/motivation/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret-281626.php

43
16
Think you work hard? Think again.

markmaunder.com/2007/think-you-work-hard-think-again

23
20
Just sent my resignation letter and this is my plan.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36276

23
49
Ads on paulgraham.com -- Check the bottom of any PG essay

adpinion.com

31
58
Note to Founders: Have Vesting

foundersatwork.com/1/post/2007/07/note-to-founders-have-vesting.html

50
19
San Francisco news.yc Meetup - Friday, July 27th

up.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2449811475

19
13
The Secret...to talking to customers before you have a product -- or even a company

foundread.com/view/the-secret

30
5
Facebook acquires Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt's Parakey

venturebeat.com/2007/07/19/facebooks-first-acquisition-secretive-start-up-parakey

30
16
The Equity Equation

paulgraham.com/equity.html

72
156
The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face.

duggmirror.com/apple/The_iPhone_is_a_piece_of_shit_and_so_is_your_face?u=iphone

34
20
Never Use a Warning When You Mean Undo

alistapart.com/articles/neveruseawarning

34
10
Why is raising money unproductive?

david.weebly.com/1/post/2007/07/why-is-raising-money-unproductive.html

23
4
The 80-hour Myth (Your best work is in bursts, surrounded by periods of dullness and inactivity)

startupboy.com/journal/2005/11/29/the-80-hour-myth.html

37
12
Bust a Name - Great way to find available domain names

bustaname.com

24
10
If you are reading this you are not working on your startup.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34114

45
28
PG: What's your current take on reddit's comment system?

reddit.com/info/17844/comments/c50

21
64
Summer YC startup launches: Versionate's Wiki End Run Around Google Docs

techcrunch.com/2007/07/11/versionates-wiki-end-run-around-google-docs

26
31
Matt Maroon: Advice for Would-Be Y Combinator Founders

mattmaroon.com/?p=247

54
21
Why you won't run out of money

david.weebly.com/1/post/2007/07/why-you-wont-run-out-of-money.html

31
1
Real-Time 3D in Javascript using divs

uselesspickles.com/triangles/demo.html

28
6
New: Initial text in discussions

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32933

22
16
Don't Waste Your Time With Guy Kawasaki

mlyoung.wordpress.com/2007/07/07/dont-waste-your-time-with-guy-kawasaki

22
24
New: Code in comments (plus a bit of Arc)

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32766

36
7
How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart

nytimes.com/2005/07/17/business/yourmoney/17costco.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=8b3103305fea6d68&ex=1279252800&pagewanted=all&partner=rssuserland

19
10
DVD Jon Hacks iPhone: No Activation Required

blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/07/dvd-jon-hacks-i.html

12
2
On the Tenacity of Internet Explorer 6

particletree.com/features/on-the-tenacity-of-internet-explorer-6

27
2
Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding

ycombinator.com/w2008.html

60
101
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine

longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php?dupe=with_honor

30
5
Implicit kicks explicit's ass

breasy.com/blog/2007/07/01/implicit-kicks-explicits-ass

16
5
Joel Spolsky: Management, Doogie Howser and Y Combinator Kids

joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/29.html

21
5
Facebook has 'thrown the entire startup world for a loop'

valleywag.com/tech/hypebusting/facebook-has-thrown-the-entire-startup-world-for-a-loop-273359.php

19
12
Sun Microsystems Planning to Assign Several Full-time Engineers to Contribute to Memcached

lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2007-June/004496.html

19
1
Stevey's Blog Rants: Rhino on Rails (straight from the horse's mouth)

steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html

32
14
Just Say No To Google: Internal Microsoft Email

no2google.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/life-at-google-the-microsoftie-perspective

47
13
John Lam on Software: Steve Yegge ported Rails to JavaScript

iunknown.com/2007/06/steve-yegge-por.html

33
16
Andrew Chen: "Facebook app users are potentially worth about 1% of what users on your website are worth"

insidefacebook.com/2007/06/24/vc-perspectives-on-the-facebook-platform-andrew-chen-mdv-eir

12
3
Paul Buchheit: Three types of ideas

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/06/three-types-of-ideas.html

37
18
Stevey's Blog Rants: Rich Programmer Food

steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food.html

30
25
Zenter: How a six-month-old startup got bought by Google

blogs.business2.com/startups/2007/06/zenter_acquired.html

35
35
Jessica Livingston, Founders at Work author and YC partner, launches her new blog powered by Weebly

foundersatwork.com/blog.html

50
13
It's official: Google buys Zenter

googleblog.blogspot.com

77
47
Thrown out of Ebay Live for wearing Google shirt

mystorespace.blogspot.com/2007/06/mystorespace-launches-at-ebay-live-but.html

31
27
Life of a Chinese Gold Farmer

nytimes.com/2007/06/17/magazine/17lootfarmers-t.html?ei=5090&emc=rss&en=1676d344608cb590&ex=1339732800&partner=rssuserland

21
43
Fred Wilson: The Age Question (Why younger founders have an advantage)

avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/06/the_age_questio.html

16
24
How Justin.TV's Live Video System Was Born

gizmodo.com/gadgets/exclusive/how-justintvs-live-video-system-was-born-268672.php

31
7
How necessary is it to have a lawyer incorporate you?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150

23
28
Co-founders wanted for TicketMaster killer.

zaptix.blogspot.com

23
22
Finally, voting without refresh

ycombinator.com/newsnews.html

176
42
Safari on Windows

apple.com/safari

37
22
Email blackmail is unnecessary

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/06/email-blackmail-is-unnecessary.html

14
7
Marc Andreessen: The Truth About Venture Capitalists, Part 2

blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_truth_about_1.html

18
0
The Craigslist Secret - why no tech has ever quit Craigslist in 12 years

markevanstech.com/2007/06/06/the-craigslist-secret

27
8
What Sequoia Looks For

sequoiacap.com/ideas

25
13
Guerrilla Marketing Idea: "Amazon's Mechanical Turk converts 26% of surveys into solid leads"

pyxlin.wordpress.com/2007/06/06/amazons-mechanical-turk-converts-26-of-surveys-into-solid-leads

15
4
A Tale of Two Legal Paths - Particletree Inc. versus Infinity Box Inc. (Wufoo)

particletree.com/notebook/a-tale-of-two-legal-paths

15
3
Why there's no Rails Inc

loudthinking.com/posts/6-why-theres-no-rails-inc

15
9
The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity

blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the_pmarca_guid.html

25
2
How Guy Kawasaki Launched Truemors for $12,107.09

blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/06/by_the_numbers_.html

37
26
Java faster than C

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/06/java-is-faster-than-c.html

23
16
Why is Google spamming the web? (If you advertise on Google, this is a must read)

nichesoftware.org/2007/06/01

22
2
Why I don't want funding

breasy.com/blog/2007/05/26/why-i-dont-want-funding

32
9
How Ads Really Work: Superfans and Noobs -- Great post by creator of Metafilter

fortuito.us/2007/05/how_ads_really_work_superfans_1

28
5
YC's Xobni: Lessons learned in the last 14 months

xobni.com/blog/2007/05/29/and-then-there-were-four

32
28
does web.py have documentation and are you using webpy?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25280

18
28
How a lone developer is making 6 figures in revenue from a viral game.

gigaom.com/2007/05/27/desktop-tower-defense

24
5
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

16
1
Pics: A Day at Xobni [YC startup]

xobni.com/adayatxobni.php

15
20
How to Kill a Great Idea

scribd.com/doc/80907/How-to-Kill-a-Great-Idea

24
8
Why getting acquired sucks by Steve Gedikian of Nullsoft

gedikian.com/2004/10/i-havent-forgotten-and-we-will-never.html

28
2
Subdomains + Development = Sucks: A quick tip from Kevin Hale of Wufoo

particletree.com/notebook/subdomains-development-sucks

36
22
Michael Arrington: Silicon Valley Could Use A Downturn Right Now

techcrunch.com/2007/05/22/silicon-valley-could-use-a-downturn-right-about-now

22
18
Amazingly Bad APIs

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/05/amazingly-bad-apis.html

28
31
The (Bayesian) Advantage of Youth: Why our lack of experience is a good thing

many.corante.com/archives/2007/05/19/the_bayesian_advantage_of_youth.php

13
12
Are you thinking of submitting your company to TechCrunch20 conference? Think again!

techcrunch20.com/blog/2007/05/16/marissa-mayer-and-brad-garlinghouse-join-techcrunch20-expert-panel

17
6
The Day The Day Job Died - Celebrating the Plunge

promoterforce.com/blog/2007/05/18/the-day-the-day-job-died-celebrating-the-plunge

19
13
YC startup Auctomatic looking to hire

blog.auctomatic.com/?p=4

19
25
Summer Vacation

xichekolas.blogspot.com/2007/05/summer-vacation.html

25
20
The Only Way is the Wrong Way

waiterrant.net/?p=450

36
12
The Real Story of JPG Magazine - a cautionary tale for founders

powazek.com/posts/534

33
12
Virtualmin Founder Joe Cooper Explains Y Combinator to Slashdot Trolls

slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=19110535&sid=234583

32
29
How to scale your rails app, by Scribd (a YC startup)

scribd.com/doc/49575/Scaling-Rails-Presentation

26
13
A Boot Camp for the Next Tech Billionaires

msnbc.msn.com/id/18628572/site/newsweek

43
36
Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX all look nice, but what I really want is better file upload

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/05/flash-silverlight-and-javafx-all-look.html

25
15
14 rules for fast web pages

skrenta.com/2007/05/14_rules_for_fast_web_pages_by_1.html

27
4
Y Combinator startup Scribd raises VC and creates secret jobs page just for news.ycombinator readers

scribd.com/static/newsyc

35
7
The Underbelly of a Web App - Lessons learned from building wufoo

particletree.com/notebook/the-underbelly-of-a-web-app

21
0
Aaron Swartz explains why he left reddit

blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-07-n78.html

44
29
Inc Magazine: "Lucky things happen to entrepreneurs who start fundamentally innovative, morally compelling, and philosophically positive companies."

inc.com/magazine/20050101/lucky-or-smart.html

44
23
Importance of 'Spare Cycles' for Web 2.0 startups

longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/05/the_awesome_pow.html

17
3
New Y Combinator startup: overhear.us

overhear.us

24
34
Paul Graham - The Record Label Executive

maximusklein.com/2007/05/03/paul-graham-the-record-label-executive

26
17
Digg shuts down user submissions after every story on the front page is the HD-DVD key

techpwn.com/?p=422

20
25
Vote up if you want YC to remember your cookie for longer than a few hours

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18275

78
15
Double your userbase with two lines of code and a box of Modafinil

alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2007/04/double_your_use.html

20
22
Reddit Case Study: How personality impacts success

startup-review.com/blog/reddit-case-study-how-personality-impacts-product-success.php

20
11
The Hacker's Guide to Investors

paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html

59
46
Is this how news.ycombinator.com runs? (Ctrl+F for "Closures Simulate Subroutines")

lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt

29
20
YScraper not so friendly? - Justin.tv getting evicted, Auctomatic denied apartment

dontevictjustin.weebly.com

19
20
Y Combinator Day, Pt. 2

mattmaroon.com/?p=186

21
7
Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16972

21
78
Y2 Combinator launches: the startup starter starter.

y2combinator.com

74
31
Paul Buchheit: The secret to making things easy: avoid hard problems

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/secret-to-making-things-easy-avoid-hard.html

33
32
The problem with conventional databases

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/problem-with-conventional-databases.html

33
38
Y Combinator Day, Pt. 1

mattmaroon.com/?p=183

23
17
Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work talk at Google

youtube.com/watch?v=z6hoPw5hItY

36
8
Vote up if you would like news.Ycomb add a feature where users can save their favorite stories

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14957

54
24
What are the best non-database solutions you've seen? What did Viaweb use?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14605

34
65
Finding jobs with startups

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13968

17
26
Startup Company Form: LLC or S-Corp? Which is easier and which is better?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752

22
31
Two Kinds of Judgement

paulgraham.com/judgement.html

37
31
What I Expected from YC and What I Got

mealticket.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/what-i-expected-from-yc-and-what-i-got

35
10
Fire and Motion

joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html

23
4
The best domain name search tool I've used

instantdomainsearch.com

25
14
Paul Graham: Handling Investors (talk at Stanford 11 April 07)

blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/04/12/paul-graham-handling-investors

34
29
What is the best credit card processing setup for startups?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010

30
23
Vote up if you're rejected but will still proceed

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11551

50
62
Vote up if you're refreshing your email once a minute today

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11285

50
96
From Google (Norvig): How to write a spelling check in 20 lines (very cool)

norvig.com/spell-correct.html

46
4
There's food for thought at Justin.tv (Inside the YScraper)

sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/08/BUGKNP3USS1.DTL&hw=justin+tv&sc=1000&sn=001

27
16
Y Combinator interview tips

drraw.blogspot.com/2007/04/ycombinator-advice-interview-tips.html

32
9
Microsoft is Dead

paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

77
445
Why Y Combinator is a waste of time

scribd.com/doc/25132/Why-YCombinator-is-a-waste-of-time

61
68
My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive

getdropbox.com/u/2/screencast.html

104
71
Lisp is for Entrepreneurs

bc.tech.coop/blog/060118.html

18
15
Seth's Blog: NOBS, the end of the MBA

sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/04/nobs_the_end_of.html

18
16
Summer jobs at Parakey

parakey.com/jobs/summer.html

21
21
Magic Ink: "Pretty much the best software design paper ever written."

worrydream.com/MagicInk

21
1
Inkling guys re-writing their app in Lisp, job posting for an Arc developer

code.inklingmarkets.com/journal/2007/4/1/inklings-hiring.html

14
12
How many teams does YComb invite to Mountain View?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7950

14
7
Anybody using Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2) in their startup?

amazon.com/Why-Use-AWS%3F-home-page/b/ref=sc_fe_l_1/103-1678423-5846208?ie=UTF8&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA&no=3435361&node=15763371

14
20
The Architecture of Mailinator - averaging 4.5million emails a day on a single 2Ghz machine

mailinator.blogspot.com/2007/01/architecture-of-mailinator.html

37
11
Scaling Y Combinator: the Grahambot [PNG]

farm1.static.flickr.com/170/439422722_78e1cf0f93_o.png

58
12
Om Malik: Iminlikewithyou will be "as addictive and as powerful as Facebook"

gigaom.com/2007/03/28/iminlikewithyou

22
35
Paul Graham convinced me to drop out of school / quit my job [Vote up if true]

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6918

98
58
Why to Not Not Start a Startup

paulgraham.com/notnot.html

99
139
Xobni raises $4.26M to let you improve your email habits

venturebeat.com/wire/2007/03/26/xobni-raises-426m-to-let-you-improve-your-email-habits

19
15
Paul Graham's Talk at Startup School 2007

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8113251929727785438&hl=en

29
20
Xobni, Y Combinator startup seeking great hackers. We'll be wearing black shirts at startup school.

xobni.com/jobs.php

12
7
Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham's Gang For The Gifted?

onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/1319/Why-Combinator-Should-You-Join-Paul-Graham-s-Gang-For-The-Gifted.aspx

16
31
Paul Buchheit: How to be right 90% of the time, and why I'd rather be wrong.

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-be-right-90-of-time-and-why-id.html

24
7
Cops enter Justin's apartment with guns drawn. Internet pranksters are MESSED up

justin.tv/blog/list/2007-3-21T1:40:0

24
13
Paul Buchheit: Looking for a co-founder? Try attending the REAL startup school.

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/03/looking-for-co-founder-try-attending.html

19
5
Kiko guys back as reality tv stars

techcrunch.com/2007/03/19/kiko-guys-back-as-reality-tv-stars

75
25
Mobile is a dud?

elusiveconsumer.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/mobile-is-dud

15
19
Search News YC (unofficial)

nycs.bigheadlabs.com

39
6
Tips for Startup Companies

philip.greenspun.com/business/startup-tips

22
1
A Y Combinator Story - What's the interview like?

aaronsw.com/weblog/001679

22
13
The 53,651 meme

redeye.firstround.com/2006/05/53651.html

45
17
Failing Cheaper

redeye.firstround.com/2007/03/failing_cheaper.html

29
0
To win big, shrink a market.

redeye.firstround.com/2006/04/shrink_a_market.html

37
7
The lessons I've learnt during Y Combinator

mealticket.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/the-lessons-ive-learnt-during-y-combinator

40
9
Find a co-founder (inspired by news.yc threads)

founderfinder.com

23
29
Demo Day: Y Combinator's Spring Chicks

techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/demo-day-y-combinators-spring-chicks

36
19
y combinator news bookmarklet

writewith.com/fun/bookmarklet

85
12
Paul Graham is Today's Prius

p6.hostingprod.com/@www.ventureblog.com/articles/indiv/2006/001255.html

20
12
How to write a search engine

acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=143

23
5
Y Combinator Backed Search Engine For Gadget Parts

techcrunch.com/2007/03/05/octopart-vertical-product-search-electrical-engineers

28
5
Hedlund's startup ideas: "..find an old UNIX command that hasn't yet been implemented on the web.."

radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/sfearthquakes_o.html

23
8
New YC Startup: Buxfer

buxfer.com/index.php

32
22
Startups and the Stockdale Paradox

bnoopy.typepad.com/bnoopy/2005/01/startups_and_th.html

23
6
Moonlighter's Dilemma: Guide to Starting a Startup PartTime

blog.buzzoo.net/2007/03/01/moonlighters-dilema-guide-to-starting-a-startup-partime

45
8
Brutal reality of startup life

jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html

39
10
Dexter Walks (first dynamically balancing biped robot)

paulgraham.com/anybots.html

55
20
What the Web's most popular sites are running on

royal.pingdom.com/?p=95

25
6
Paul Kedrosky: The Best Book for Startups

paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/02/25/the_best_book_f.html

25
5
Inside Myspace.com - (great info on how they scaled)

baselinemag.com/article2/0,1397,2082921,00.asp

35
9
Startup Success 2006 [video] - Panel moderated by Guy Kawasaki featuring Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Joe Kraus (Excite, Jotspot), and others

veotag.com/player?u=gwbrgolswx

17
1
Getting Real: Free Book by 37signals

gettingreal.37signals.com

72
8
Notes from Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter

simon.incutio.com/notes/2006/summit/schachter.txt

61
14
Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

262
1590
Why we made this site

ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html

166
58
Seven steps to remarkable customer service

joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html

83
8