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 newsfeed for busy web developers
Rails is a Ghetto... [NSFW for Language]

http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/rails_is_a_ghetto.html

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

http://forecaster.ws

57
48
Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike

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

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

http://www.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

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

24
12
The world's most toxic value system

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/TOXICVAL.HTM

51
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Warning: GMail security failure

http://www.davidairey.co.uk/google-gmail-security-hijack/

33
11
Cheer YC: Happy Holidays!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92441

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

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

24
3
Reliable Script Generated Email Delivery Anyone?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92022

35
17
A Tour of Xerox PARC

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

32
5
Origin of the IMG tag

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

36
9
Code's Worst Enemy

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

125
43
Daily WTF: ITAPPMONROBOT

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ITAPPMONROBOT.aspx

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

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

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

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

48
21
"Facebook Business Solutions"

http://www.facebookbusinesssolutions.com/

35
15
Success [pic]

http://surreality.info/up/success_large.jpg

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ

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

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=88296

28
45
Paul Buchheit: Is there more to life than money?

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

54
54
An Offer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=87522

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

http://the-programmers-stone.com/about/

44
32
Rails 2.0 Released

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

50
14
The Dictatorship of Talent

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/opinion/04brooks.html?em&ex=1197003600&en=11676006ac944c4e&ei=5087%0A

59
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Please Don't Steal My Focus

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001011.html

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4fzvQ6I-o

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

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/12/03.html

73
36
Top 5 Contradictory Positions of Ron Paul Graham

http://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)

http://bc.tech.coop/blog/060304.html

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

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20071109_003391.html

29
12
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

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

53
9
xkcd - Network

http://xkcd.com/350/

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

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

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

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

63
8
Sharing what matters

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9249171

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

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

48
20
The Secret Strategies Behind Many "Viral" Videos

http://www.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."

http://hyperrealm.com/wtfd00d/shsp/

27
4
Parenscript- Compile Lisp to Javascript

http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/

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

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

53
11
Buffet: Saving Sex For Your Old Age

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

57
8
Flash Physics Engine

http://box2dflash.sourceforge.net/

33
7
Feynman's Letter to Wolfram

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

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

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/talks/ycombinatorschool/

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=79982

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The PayPal mafia

http://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

http://www.killerbeanforever.com/

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

http://code.google.com/android/adc.html

43
25
The Nerd Handbook

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html

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

http://heroku.com/

33
15
Exercise on the Brain

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

27
0
Number of founders - statistics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77525

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

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html

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

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

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Say NO by default

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/08/say_no_by_default.html

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

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

37
4
How to be a genius

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19125691.300

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

http://www.newsweek.com/id/62330?gt1=10547

34
17
Schneier: The War on the Unexpected

http://www.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)

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

55
16
I'm not young enough to know everything

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

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

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

58
19
A brief history of record industry suicide

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

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

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

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

http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/

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

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

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

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

53
14
Operations as a competitive advantage for startups

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

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

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

55
14
From Oxford to Silicon Valley (Auctomatic)

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

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

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

27
14
Rejection letter from summer 05

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70149

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

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20071014.html

30
10
YC: What No Means

http://www.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?

http://www.meangene.com/google/design_for_google.html

61
6
Zero to Riding the Rails in Four Months

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

55
27
Richard Stallman: My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs

http://www.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?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=67268

48
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Zombo.com - YC applicant - feedback wanted

http://zombo.com

58
55
Ryan Carson responds to Paul Graham on startup hubs

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

46
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Why to Move to a Startup Hub

http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html

63
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Why to Apply to YCombinator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=65327

113
36
Where do YC applicants host their projects?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64795

40
42
5 Myths About Sick Old Europe

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

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

http://aaronsw.jottit.com/howtoget

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California

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/05.html

59
49
The Future of Web Startups

http://paulgraham.com/webstartups.html

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

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

52
14
7 Person Year Application Rewritten in 2 Person Months

http://www.metromodemedia.com/blogs/posts/TMeloche2037.aspx

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

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61311

46
22
What I learned about women & business today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61006

56
22
Paul Graham Facts

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60357

53
27
How I can charge so much

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

53
19
Ten Tips For A Slightly Less Awful Resume

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

50
28
Love at First Byte

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/mayjun/features/knuth.html

54
6
The Genius is in the Details

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/smartabstractions

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

http://www.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

http://thepiratebay.org/blog/86

26
7
How to Do Philosophy

http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html

96
229
CMU professor gives his last lesson on life

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818671-85.stm

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

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

101
82
Startup idea list

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=55974

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=55556

39
35
Me and PG's Code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=55437

38
10
Aaron Swartz's Jottit has been officially released

http://jottit.com/

51
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ONLamp.com -- An Introduction to Erlang

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

25
9
10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead)

http://www.bnet.com/2403-13070_23-160571.html

40
20
Amazon Web Services $100,000 Startup Challenge

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=377634011

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

http://www.math.tamu.edu/~cyan/Rota/mitless.html

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

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.83

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52580

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

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

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

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

62
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Steve Jobs - To All iPhone Customers

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/openiphoneletter/

52
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Paul Graham: News from the Front

http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html

103
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The Muller Formula (or: Predictable Color Preferences)

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

35
16
Observations from 10 Months Working at a Small Startup

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

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

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

24
23
The Jessica Alba sexy walk story was a plant by a PR firm

http://www.badscience.net/?p=520

18
5
Aaron Swartz: Perfectionism (and his new startup, Jottit)

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/perfectionism

48
102
How Not to Die

http://paulgraham.com/die.html

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

http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/programmer_stats.html

68
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do not. I am just letting it out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232

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

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/118/girl-power.html

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656

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

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

34
18
iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity

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

36
16
Holding a program in one's head

http://www.paulgraham.com/head.html

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

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

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

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#20aug07

33
7
OwnTerms: Creative Commons-licensed stock legal documents

http://www.ownterms.org/

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

http://www.hackrtrackr.com

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

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43635

48
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Norvig: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

54
7
Norvig: How to write a spelling corrector

http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

63
7
Hacker News

http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

150
76
Founders at Work - Demo Day

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41716

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

http://blog.seedcamp.com/search/label/europe

29
25
First look at YC Demo Day

http://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

http://www.venturehacks.com/articles/adam-smith

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

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

40
24
The Fuzzwich Cartoon Maker (yc summer 07)

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39699

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39611

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

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

33
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Xobni's Facebook app replaces Facebook messaging with email

http://www.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

http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/please_build_me_something_useful_a_letter_to_web_20_developers.php

29
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The Netflix Prize: 300 Days Later

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

32
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Stuff - Paul Graham

http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37733

20
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Are you a Canadian YC News reader?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37384

24
47
What can you do with money?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37246

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905

30
33
Don't Break The Chain

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

43
16
Just sent my resignation letter and this is my plan.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36276

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

http://www.adpinion.com/

31
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Note to Founders: Have Vesting

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

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

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

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

http://www.foundread.com/view/the-secret

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

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

30
16
The Equity Equation

http://paulgraham.com/equity.html

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

http://duggmirror.com/apple/The_iPhone_is_a_piece_of_shit_and_so_is_your_face/?u=iphone

34
20
Why is raising money unproductive?

http://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)

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

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

http://www.bustaname.com

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34114

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

http://reddit.com/info/17844/comments/c50

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

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

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

http://mattmaroon.com/?p=247

54
21
Why you won't run out of money

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

31
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Real-Time 3D in Javascript using divs

http://www.uselesspickles.com/triangles/demo.html

28
6
New: Initial text in discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32933

22
16
New: Code in comments (plus a bit of Arc)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32766

36
7
How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart

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

19
10
DVD Jon Hacks iPhone: No Activation Required

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

12
2
On the Tenacity of Internet Explorer 6

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

27
2
Applications Open for Winter 2008 YC Funding

http://ycombinator.com/w2008.html

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101
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine

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

30
5
Implicit kicks explicit's ass

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

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

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/29.html

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

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

19
12
Stevey's Blog Rants: Rhino on Rails (straight from the horse's mouth)

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

32
14
Just Say No To Google: Internal Microsoft Email

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

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

http://www.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"

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

12
3
Paul Buchheit: Three types of ideas

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

37
18
Stevey's Blog Rants: Rich Programmer Food

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

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

http://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

http://www.foundersatwork.com/blog.html

50
13
It's official: Google buys Zenter

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

77
47
Thrown out of Ebay Live for wearing Google shirt

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

31
27
Life of a Chinese Gold Farmer

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

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

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

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

http://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?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28150

23
28
Co-founders wanted for TicketMaster killer.

http://zaptix.blogspot.com/

23
22
Finally, voting without refresh

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#12jun07

176
42
Safari on Windows

http://www.apple.com/safari/

37
22
Email blackmail is unnecessary

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

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

http://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

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

27
8
What Sequoia Looks For

http://www.sequoiacap.com/ideas/

25
13
A Tale of Two Legal Paths - Particletree Inc. versus Infinity Box Inc. (Wufoo)

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

15
3
The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity

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

25
2
Why Joel Spolsky's Crazy Schemes Never Paid Off

http://www.grid7.com/archives/143_faw-25-joel-spolsky-of-fog-creek-software.html

12
10
How a lone developer is making 6 figures in revenue from a viral game.

http://gigaom.com/2007/05/27/desktop-tower-defense/#more-9459

24
5
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

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

http://www.xobni.com/adayatxobni.php

15
20
How to Kill a Great Idea

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

24
8
Why getting acquired sucks by Steve Gedikian of Nullsoft

http://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

http://particletree.com/notebook/subdomains-development-sucks/

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

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

22
18
Amazingly Bad APIs

http://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

http://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!

http://www.techcrunch20.com/blog/2007/05/16/marissa-mayer-and-brad-garlinghouse-join-techcrunch20-expert-panel/#comment-36

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

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

19
13
Summer Vacation

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

25
20
The Only Way is the Wrong Way

http://waiterrant.net/?p=450

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

http://powazek.com/posts/534

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

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

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

http://www.scribd.com/doc/49575/Scaling-Rails-Presentation

26
13
A Boot Camp for the Next Tech Billionaires

http://www.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

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

25
15
14 rules for fast web pages

http://www.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

http://www.scribd.com/static/newsyc

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

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

21
0
Aaron Swartz explains why he left reddit

http://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."

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20050101/lucky-or-smart.html

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

http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/05/the_awesome_pow.html

17
3
New Y Combinator startup: overhear.us

http://overhear.us/

24
34
Paul Graham - The Record Label Executive

http://www.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

http://www.techpwn.com/?p=422

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18275

78
15
Reddit Case Study: How personality impacts success

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

20
11
The Hacker's Guide to Investors

http://paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html

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

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

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

http://dontevictjustin.weebly.com/

19
20
Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16972

21
78
Y2 Combinator launches: the startup starter starter.

http://y2combinator.com

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

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

33
32
The problem with conventional databases

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

33
38
Y Combinator Day, Pt. 1

http://mattmaroon.com/?p=183

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

http://www.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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14957

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14605

34
65
Finding jobs with startups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13968

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752

22
31
Two Kinds of Judgement

http://paulgraham.com/judgement.html

37
31
What I Expected from YC and What I Got

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

35
10
Fire and Motion

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html

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

http://instantdomainsearch.com/

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

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11551

50
62
From Google (Norvig): How to write a spelling check in 20 lines (very cool)

http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html

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

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

27
16
Y Combinator interview tips

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

32
9
Microsoft is Dead

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

77
445
Why Y Combinator is a waste of time

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

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

http://www.getdropbox.com/u/2/screencast.html

104
71
Seth's Blog: NOBS, the end of the MBA

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

18
16
Summer jobs at Parakey

http://parakey.com/jobs/summer.html

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

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

14
12
The Architecture of Mailinator - averaging 4.5million emails a day on a single 2Ghz machine

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

37
11
Scaling Y Combinator: the Grahambot [PNG]

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

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

http://gigaom.com/2007/03/28/iminlikewithyou/

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6918

98
58
Why to Not Not Start a Startup

http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html

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

http://www.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

http://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.

http://www.xobni.com/jobs.php

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

http://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.

http://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

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

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

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

19
5
Kiko guys back as reality tv stars

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

75
25
Mobile is a dud?

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

15
19
Search News YC (unofficial)

http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/

39
6
Tips for Startup Companies

http://philip.greenspun.com/business/startup-tips/

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

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001679

22
13
The 53,651 meme

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

45
17
Failing Cheaper

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

29
0
To win big, shrink a market.

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

37
7
The lessons I've learnt during Y Combinator

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

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

http://www.founderfinder.com/

23
29
Demo Day: Y Combinator's Spring Chicks

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

36
19
y combinator news bookmarklet

http://writewith.com/fun/bookmarklet

85
12
Paul Graham is Today's Prius

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

20
12
How to write a search engine

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

23
5
Y Combinator Backed Search Engine For Gadget Parts

http://www.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.."

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

23
8
New YC Startup: Buxfer

http://www.buxfer.com/index.php

32
22
Startups and the Stockdale Paradox

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

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

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

45
8
Brutal reality of startup life

http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html

39
10
Dexter Walks (first dynamically balancing biped robot)

http://www.paulgraham.com/anybots.html

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

http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=95

25
6
Inside Myspace.com - (great info on how they scaled)

http://www.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

http://www.veotag.com/player/?u=gwbrgolswx

17
1
Getting Real: Free Book by 37signals

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/

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

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

262
1590
Why we made this site

http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html

166
58
Seven steps to remarkable customer service

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html

83
8