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How To Be Creative

gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html

85
19
Creating a rogue CA certificate with MD5 hash collisions

phreedom.org/research/rogue-ca

107
55
Wow, check out this guy's comment

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=412785

233
101
So you want to be a consultant?

unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html

193
26
Ask HN: How do big web sites roll out new versions?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411282

110
44
Hackerspaces

hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hacker_Spaces

69
46
Dear Reddit, Hacker News...

zedshaw.com/blog/2008-12-25.html

133
82
Zed Shaw: Ruby Is So Nice

zedshaw.com/blog/2008-12-24.html

78
70
Rails and Merb Merge

yehudakatz.com/2008/12/23/rails-and-merb-merge

155
52
The nicest math book I own

math-blog.com/2008/12/22/the-nicest-math-book-i-own

175
56
11th grade

xkcd.org/519

117
140
Be Yourself

blog.twitpic.com/2008/12/be-yourself

87
23
Clickpass (YC S07) is being acquired

blog.clickpass.com/2008/12/19/clickpass-is-being-acquired

84
22
GitHub Launches Pages: Static Project and Personal Hosting

github.com/blog/272-github-pages

106
35
Join reddit, xkcd, dtoid, ars technica & more - donate your hacker skills to non-profits

feedaneed.org

102
29
After Credentials

paulgraham.com/credentials.html

186
201
Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs

smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/15/10-useful-techniques-to-improve-your-user-interface-designs

153
44
The memristor—the functional equivalent of a synapse—could revolutionize circuit design

spectrum.ieee.org/print/7024

64
15
Scott Adams explains CDOs

dilbert.com/fast/2008-12-13

102
14
Love, Internet Style

youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1TZaElTAs

242
43
I don't want to work very hard

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=394609

224
193
Freezing cold, no Internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference

guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/10/startups-internet

171
69
News.YC Growth

ycombinator.com/newsnews.html

114
63
Genetic Algorithm building a little car

wreck.devisland.net/ga

126
54
Burning out on Capistrano (Jamis Buck)

groups.google.com/group/capistrano/msg/f5213577eaeadc47

101
37
How do you generate passive income?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387789

151
146
Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

paulgraham.com/divergence.html

160
139
Ever wondered what the 'Free Public WiFi' networks you see everywhere are?

jstn.cc/post/63070826

155
34
The High-Res Society

paulgraham.com/highres.html

168
127
Reason: Why poor countries are poor.

reason.com/news/show/33258.html

97
119
Six Apart acquires and shuts down Pownce

venturebeat.com/2008/12/01/six-apart-acquires-and-shuts-down-pownce

100
148
The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell

theregister.co.uk/2008/11/30/malcolm_gladwell_no

71
54
Ask HN: Clients are gone, lots of debt, what would you do?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=380377

87
65
Quality Alternative to the Silk Icon Set (CC 3.0)

pinvoke.com

87
22
The other half of "Artists Ship"

paulgraham.com/artistsship.html

182
125
Is it going to rain?

goingtorain.com

114
70
Announcing my free book on Vim

swaroopch.com/blog/a-free-book-on-vim

101
27
Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000

getacoder.com/projects/bug_finder_92913.html

166
83
Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375410

163
208
The 'broken windows' theory of crime is tested and seems correct

economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?CFID=31056247&CFTOKEN=41038121&story_id=12630201

108
35
Hans Rosling: Debunking 3rd world myths with the best stats you've ever seen

ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

95
19
My Public Apology

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=371638

151
108
How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html

128
28
Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html?_r=2&rss=

158
188
The IT Contract from Hell

itcontractor.com/Articles_IR35_News_Advice/view_article.asp?id_no=4842

133
27
SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Insider Trading

online.wsj.com/article/SB122693827604333637.html

84
77
The Shallowest Generation

ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/the-shallowest-generation

49
52
Why thinking in the shower may be an ideal model for "creative pause"

cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/11/showering_and_thinking

66
35
Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue

balsamiq.com/blog?p=424

168
72
Major Breakthrough: First Photos of Planets Around Other Stars

space.com/scienceastronomy/081113-hubble-exoplanet.html

96
41
The End of Wall Street's Boom

portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom

123
21
Tell Hacker News: Throwaway accounts

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=360128

149
58
How people really use the iPhone

slideshare.net/createwithcontext/how-people-really-use-the-iphone-presentation

155
60
Let's End Adolescence

businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/08_45/b4107085289974.htm

172
162
Let G.M. go bankrupt

blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2008/11/08/let-gm-go-bankrupt

95
71
Android: Worst. Bug. Ever.

blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette?p=680

90
24
“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape

themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2008/11/06/single-lawn-signs-conquer-the-american-landscape

228
26
CNN/Fox Projection: Obama wins presidential election.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=354165

145
137
Tell HN: Vote.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=352800

184
289
Amazon Moving To Frustration-Free Packaging

amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200285450

147
46
Secret message in source code of Digg

hyperevo.com/new%20site/index.php?archive=&id=1225400358&start_from=&subaction=showfull&ucat=5

98
36
ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=350968

70
55
How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets

economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12523898

93
32
Follow Stanford’s iPhone Programming Class For Free

stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php

120
23
A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish

steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/programmers-view-of-universe-part-1.html

177
66
Codeweavers offer their software free today

down.codeweavers.com

60
23
Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (CSS Guide)

betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169

172
42
Apple now has more cash than Microsoft

appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/25/apple_earnings_profits_and_cash_embarrass_microsoft.html

62
67
Arc: Where are we going?

arclanguage.org/item?id=8462

69
27
Don’t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement

mattmaroon.com/?p=573

174
169
Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138

113
25
Rackspace acquire Slicehost

slicehost.com/articles/2008/10/22/big-news-today

121
54
Why Talent Is Overrated

money.cnn.com/2008/10/21/magazines/fortune/talent_colvin.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008102116

66
56
How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub

tom.preston-werner.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-300k.html

224
68
Bernanke Is Fighting the Last War

online.wsj.com/article/SB122428279231046053.html

72
20
YC got a record number of applications this cycle

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=336635

79
60
Clever hack by small Bay Area high school team transforms football

nytimes.com/2008/10/17/sports/football/17offense.html?_r=1&em=&oref=slogin

79
27
Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck

portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2008/10/17/hedge-fund-manager-goodbye-and-f-you

158
67
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html

254
195
Elastic Tab Stops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code

nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops

82
40
Paul Krugman: How I work

princeton.edu/~pkrugman/howiwork.html?pagewanted=all

135
47
The genius of late bloomers - Gladwell

newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all

150
40
Reflections of a YC Dropout

orianmarx.com/2008/10/02/reflections-of-a-y-combinator-dropout-introduction

155
161
Techcrunchywag

mattmaroon.com/?p=536

66
43
Obama to eliminate all cap gains taxes for VCs and entrepreneurs

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328841

82
91
A CEO's Sequoia Meeting Notes

blog.weatherby.net/2008/10/a-ceos-sequoia.html

123
61
Is effort a myth?

sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/10/is-effort-a-myt.html

96
37
Make an Extraordinary Effort

overcomingbias.com/2008/10/isshokenmei.html

63
31
Demotivating a (Good) Programmer

lbrandy.com/blog/2008/10/demotivating-a-good-programmer

105
47
Edward O. Wilson: Marx was right, he had the wrong species

froes.dds.nl/WILSON.htm

66
40
Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich

blogmaverick.com/2008/10/04/how-to-get-rich

108
63
Story of Phil Katz (PKZip)

www2.jsonline.com/news/state/may00/katz21052000a.asp

89
29
Python 2.6 Released

python.org/download/releases/2.6

130
31
IPhone NDA officially dropped

developer.apple.com/iphone/program

145
52
Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer

cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/29/miron.bailout/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

139
84
$700bn Bailout is shot down by House of Rep Vote (205-228), US stock market plummets

msnbc.msn.com/id/26884523

130
189
Carbon nanotechnology in a 17th century Damascus sword

scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2008/09/carbon_nanotechnology_in_an_17th_century_damascus_sword.php

67
20
Google backs gay marriage

googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/our-position-on-californias-no-on-8.html

85
135
WaMu Fails. First major comercial bank to go.

online.wsj.com/article/SB122238415586576687.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop

62
72
Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

duckduckgo.com

186
138
10,000 Mechanical Turkers work separately to draw a 100 dollar bill.

tenthousandcents.com/index.html

115
48
Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week

sidsavara.com/personal-productivity/the-price-of-my-dreams-60-a-week

135
73
Is your Rails application safe?

railspikes.com/2008/9/22/is-your-rails-application-safe-from-mass-assignment

56
33
Failure must always be an option

rondam.blogspot.com/2008/09/failure-must-always-be-option.html

63
23
Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880)

fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/moneygetting.html

227
56
Webkit - Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme

webkit.org/blog/214/introducing-squirrelfish-extreme

86
24
The story behind the Palin e-mail hacking

michellemalkin.com/2008/09/17/the-story-behind-the-palin-e-mail-hacking

95
30
Jason Fried - 10 Things We've Learned at 37Signals

krisjordan.com/2008/09/17/jason-fried-10-things-weve-learned-at-37signals

102
28
"Why I Hate Django" - DjangoCon 2008 Keynote by Cal Henderson [vid]

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk

107
24
Stack Overflow Launches

joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html

91
62
How My Start-Up Failed

stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1999/julaug/articles/condoms.html

128
61
App Store: I'm out

speirs.org/2008/09/12/app-store-im-out

123
78
The second Seinfeld and Gates Microsoft ad

youtube.com/watch?v=gBWPf1BWtkw

57
82
I'm out, baby

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=300960

164
99
Text-Messaging Rates Come Under Scrutiny

online.wsj.com/article/SB122100918492217655.html

70
52
Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299451

140
120
Obama is RESTful

idolhands.com/personal/obama-is-restful

127
48
Sister of Python Hacker arrested for protest - His essay on protest and change

blog.ianbicking.org/2008/09/02/on-the-rnc-monica-bicking-eryn-trimmer-and-protest

62
58
Startups: your web site sucks

scobleizer.com/2008/09/06/startups-your-web-site-sucks

45
50
Hi, I'm a Mac… Beep, beep

fishbowl.pastiche.org/2008/09/06/hi_im_a_mac_beep_beep

45
14
The most thorough task execution I've ever seen (dude polishes car)

detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=79859

127
37
Cappuccino (YC Winter 08) Brings Cocoa-Like Programming To The Web

techcrunch.com/2008/09/04/cappuccino-brings-cocoa-like-programming-to-the-web

85
58
Founder Stories

trevorblackwell.com/founderstories.html

85
14
Django 1.0 is finally here

code.djangoproject.com/changeset/8961

132
20
The Google Chrome download link is live.

google.com/chrome

153
177
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html

173
108
Impossible fractals

cameronius.com/graphics/impossible-fractals-figures

64
10
Hacking the Nobel Prize Medals

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=290969

85
24
A Newbie’s Guide to Startup Compensation (or “Stock Options will Make Me Rich”)

tonywright.com/2008/a-newbies-guide-to-startup-compensation-or-stock-options-will-make-me-rich

77
42
JParallax - Javascript parallax effect

webdev.stephband.info/parallax.html

91
20
One Inviolable Rule

mattmaroon.com/?p=439

94
105
So, you're gonna code the whole thing, do the servers and work for sweat equity...

whatmightymousehaslearned.blogspot.com/2008/08/so-youre-gonna-code-whole-thing-and.html

80
20
Do you know any programmers who exhibit these personality traits?

lispy.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/do-you-know-any-programmers-that-exhibit-these-personality-traits

95
67
Git: the minimum you need to know (sorta like a cheat or nutshell)

kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html

69
26
Indie game designer spent three years and $180,000 making a masterpiece

msnbc.msn.com/id/26336877

110
18
Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software

aaronsw.com/weblog/howtolaunch

148
48
Series AA Documents Back Online

ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html

130
23
Start a side project, says GitHub founder

gist.github.com/6443

210
40
Blockbuster CEO 'Confused by Fascination' With Netflix

blog.wired.com/business/2008/08/blockbuster-ceo.html

71
67
RIAA shuts down Muxtape

muxtape.com

77
28
Pandora: Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its 'Last Stand'

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503367.html

56
53
An Article About Startups That Wasn't Written By A Pretentious Asshole

teddziuba.com/2008/08/an-article-about-startups-that.html

52
71
REST, I just don't get it

damienkatz.net/2008/08/rest-i-just-dont-get-it.html

74
49
The Google black hole: What happens to startups when they're bought by Google?

slate.com/id/2197434/pagenum/all

103
55
Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

techcrunch.com/2008/08/13/y-combinator-to-offer-standardized-angel-funding-legal-docs

156
45
Business Requirements are Bullshit

steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/08/business-requirements-are-bullshit.html

116
84
Hadoop: When grownups do open source

theregister.co.uk/2008/08/11/hadoop_dziuba

61
42
The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue)

sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/08/the-secret-of-t.html

114
37
The Tech (MIT student newspaper) publishes the banned DEFCON slides

www-tech.mit.edu/V128/N30/subway/Defcon_Presentation.pdf

144
60
A Fundraising Survival Guide

paulgraham.com/fundraising.html

145
94
A New Frontier in Databases with AllegroCache

defmacro.org/ramblings/relational.html

73
12
A Coder in Courierland

kuro5hin.org/story/2005/3/19/133129/548

83
29
Startup Marketing Advice from Balsamiq Studios

balsamiq.com/blog?p=198

82
10
URL Rewriting for Beginners

addedbytes.com/apache/url-rewriting-for-beginners

82
13
Reddit vs Hacker News traffic

xach.com/moviecharts/reaction.html

84
20
Calvin and Jobs (comic)

farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/2723090810_6501c93ae2_o.png

132
28
How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy)

nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-hire-idiot.html

220
42
Pets.com CEO: The Five Big Mistakes That Changed My Life and How I Moved Past Them

smartnow.com/page/5991

90
34
Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

techcrunch.com/2008/07/30/google-acquires-omnisio-to-spice-up-youtube

168
45
YC is a cult

danielharan.com/2008/07/28/yc-is-a-cult

116
154
GitHub on applying Getting Real to their unfunded startup

37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/07/how-github-used.html

93
7
The Hydrogen Hoax

thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-hydrogen-hoax

48
46
Why S3 went down

status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html

144
36
Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer

post-gazette.com/pg/08207/899511-100.stm

187
57
You don't have to sell your company to have financial security

37signals.com/svn/posts/1159-you-dont-have-to-sell-your-company-to-have-financial-security-and-the-freedom-to-do-what-you-want

129
89
The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company

paulgraham.com/prcmc.html

107
83
A Brief History of Dangerous Ideas

weblog.raganwald.com/2008/07/brief-history-of-dangerous-ideas.html

123
32
We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet. Help Us Build It.

techcrunch.com/2008/07/21/we-want-a-dead-simple-web-tablet-help-us-build-it

86
101
Amazon S3+SQS are down, bringing down Scribd, Docstoc, Twitter, SmugMug, JungleDisk

search.twitter.com/search?q=s3

78
31
Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

ycombinator.com/ideas.html

532
381
Locksmiths Pissed Off At Geeks For Letting Out The Secret: Lockpicking Is Easy

theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080711.wlpicking11/EmailBNStory/lifeMain

86
37
Donate to help a MySQler

mysql.com/about/help-ivan.html

96
62
Profitable After 3 Weeks

balsamiq.com/blog?p=95

100
46
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

theatlantic.com/doc/200806/college

170
127
How to Write with Style (Kurt Vonnegut)

literature.sdsu.edu/onWRITING/vonnegutSTYLE.html

86
18
Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

stephfinch.com/2008/07/why-you-should-never-be-a-startup-girlfriend

92
70
Play this game for 20 minutes - learn about concurrency

scarybuggames.com/2008/05/chronotron

94
31
10 Incredibly Awesome Documents to Help You Start a Company

jasonnazar.com/2008/07/10/10-incredibly-awesome-documents-to-help-you-start-a-company

93
8
ITunes is Anti-Web

codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001149.html

72
74
Learning from "bad" UI (37signals on TripLog)

37signals.com/svn/posts/1128-learning-from-bad-ui

84
34
Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked

blog.karppinen.fi/2008/07/apple-just-gave-out-my-apple-i.html

86
27
Scaling on EC2 - WebMynd's experiences (YC Winter '08)

webmynd.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/scaling-on-ec2

80
15
Why are Black Nerds so Unpopular?

davidadewumi.com/2008/07/06/why-are-black-nerds-so-unpopular

109
65
JL: Why I Do YC

foundersatwork.com/1/post/2008/07/why-i-do-yc.html

130
42
Applications open for winter 2009 YC funding

ycombinator.com/w2009.html

74
39
37signals to Drop IE6 Support

37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/07/basecamp-phasin.html

77
74
Y Combinator’s Anyvite Takes On Evite, Keeps Things Simple

techcrunch.com/2008/07/01/y-combinators-anyvite-takes-on-evite-keeps-it-simple

81
38
We've been working really hard on our startup and now this

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=233166

86
74
Programmer Competency Matrix

indiangeek.net/wp-content/uploads/Programmer%20competency%20matrix.htm

77
33
Reddit's Ranking Algorithm

redflavor.com/reddit.cf.algorithm.png

97
34
Posterous (YC summer 08) Beats Tumblr In Simplicity

techcrunch.com/2008/06/28/posterous-beats-tumblr-in-simplicity

81
32
How to sell your software for $20,000

nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-sell-your-software-for-20000.html

125
55
How Hard Could it Be? Joel Spolsky recalls what it was like to work for Bill Gates

inc.com/magazine/20080701/how-hard-could-it-be-glory-days_Printer_Friendly.html

104
52
Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp

116
89
HN: New flag feature

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226400

64
88
Diary of a Failed Startup

diffle-history.blogspot.com

224
34
Who Needs a Computer Science Degree When There’s Wikipedia?

geeknews.net/2008/06/21/who-needs-a-computer-science-degree-when-theres-wikipedia

38
39
Never Before Seen Bill Gates Photos

money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/storysupplement/gates_microsoft/index.html

73
27
How not to approach an investor

ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2008/06/a-different-approach-to-getting-my-attention.html

61
18
17 Mistakes Start-Ups Make by John Osher (inventor of Crest Spinbrush)

cpd.ogi.edu/mst/capstone/17Mistakes.htm

108
21
Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from reddit.

blog.reddit.com/2008/06/reddit-goes-open-source.html

168
66
Done, and Gets Things Smart

steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things-smart.html

137
65
Robokill: Superb new Flash game from News.YC members

rocksolidarcade.com/games/robokill

115
82
India's SMS GupShup Has 3x The Usage Of Twitter And No Downtime

anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/06/indias-sms-gupshup-has-3x-the-usage-of-twitter-and-no-downtime.html

54
41
Can a Night Owl Become a Morning Person?

slate.com/id/2193208

48
45
Code_swarm. An experiment in organic software visualization.

vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm

86
19
Remind HN: Father's Day is Sunday

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=215605

63
29
It Doesn't Have To Be All Or Nothing With A Startup

37signals.com/svn/posts/1078-it-doesnt-have-to-be-all-or-nothing-with-a-startup

77
46
Alt.techcrunch.die.die.die

adnam.motd.org/Bored-Crunch-2008-06-10-12-37.html

52
62
Ask YC: Dealing with a major event like death?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=212479

62
54
JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard

youtube.com/watch?v=pucdJHjZaqs

70
29
Poll: Suggestions please, which JavaScript library?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=211630

37
61
Nassim Taleb's Top 10 Life Tips

ben.casnocha.com/2008/06/nassim-talebs-t.html

78
23
This is what your customers think of asking for their email password

codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001128.html

111
59
Scaling Fast

lukasbiewald.com/?p=153

107
16
8 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was 22

almostfearless.com/2008/05/21/8-things-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-was-22

71
47
Goosh - The Unofficial Google Shell

goosh.org

91
35
Congrats to PG on getting hitched

twitter.com/kn0thing/statuses/824631187

228
95
Why you shoud never use your favorite password on News.YCombinator.com

rafb.net/p/DpOfOD83.html

43
130
Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240

116
136
Ask YC: Feedback on early version of my startup, a digital whiteboard that doesn't suck

dabbleboard.com

122
129
Ask YC: Best book to learns statistics?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201913

80
17
Cities and Ambition

paulgraham.com/cities.html

156
306
This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix.

nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26link.html?ref=technology

61
14
Harvard discovers much faster way to adjust your sleep cycle

parentingsquad.com/easy-way-to-reset-your-sleep-cycle-stop-eating

89
27
VideoLectures.net - YouTube for hackers

videolectures.net

83
12
Want to see how efficient your code is? Have it refactored.

refactormycode.com

37
13
When did we forget our dreams?

xkcd.com/137

123
49
Essential Python Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

siafoo.net/article/52

90
25
Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too

discussionleader.hbsp.com/taylor/2008/05/wy_zappos_pays_new_employees_t.html

137
37
Breaking News: Girls don't become engineers because they don't want to

boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/18/the_freedom_to_say_no?page=full

51
104
Google Finds That Perks Can't Keep Some Employees From Leaving

dailytech.com/Google+Finds+That+Perks+Cant+Keep+Some+Employees+From+Leaving/article11794.htm

45
57
PG: Disconnecting Distraction

paulgraham.com/distraction.html

153
198
Ask HN: Subscription web sites: How did you get your first customer?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191899

70
50
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

norvig.com/21-days.html?foo=

70
19
My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain?

johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=1298

134
114
Google releases free, detailed, HTML/CSS/Javascript encyclopedia by Mark Pilgrim

code.google.com/doctype

111
23
Lies We Tell Kids

paulgraham.com/lies.html

188
418
Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=187977

103
120
Xobni: Our Path from ‘Wrong Product’ to Killer App

gigaom.com/2008/05/11/xobni-our-path-from-wrong-product-to-killer-app

51
29
Unix Command-Line Kung Fu

scribd.com/vacuum?url=http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/UnixCommandLineKungFu.pdf

75
21
Tell YC: Answers from John McCarthy

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185348

136
72
Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive

gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

198
25
Ask YC: Startup crisis. Out of money and tech co-founder has bailed.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=183535

129
232
The Coolest Business Plan Ever

ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2008/05/the-coolest-bus.html

104
11
Malcolm Gladwell: Who says big ideas are rare?

newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all

69
26
Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal

techcrunch.com/2008/05/03/breaking-microsoft-walks

78
58
Ask HN: What load balancing software do you use ?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=180311

47
37
Clickpass on how to get a visa for America

techcrunch.com/2008/05/02/coming-to-america-getting-visas-to-do-business-in-silicon-valley

55
16
Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor

37signals.com/svn/posts/1006-sleep-deprivation-is-not-a-badge-of-honor

133
43
Scientists Create First Memristor: Missing Fourth Electronic Circuit Element

blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/scientists-prov.html

79
40
Would you have answered this job ad?

groups.google.com/group/mi.jobs/msg/d81b6c1fa8f361fc

93
55
Pmarca: If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo

blog.pmarca.com/2008/04/if-microsoft-go.html

134
27
99designs: Need something designed (logo, ...)? Crowdsource it.

99designs.com

65
47
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html

153
55
Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL

techcrunch.com/2008/04/25/aol-acquires-fleaflicker

97
55
Hire Family People

37signals.com/svn/posts/996-hire-family-people

95
152
Quit your job

37signals.com/svn/posts/979-quit-your-job

66
46
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm

wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak

172
61
Ask YC: Best ways to become socially adept?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=169295

59
104
Be Good

paulgraham.com/good.html

182
202
Live video from startup school

justin.tv/hackertv

79
14
Solo founders: how do you stay emotionally efficient?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=166905

119
96
Facebook knows who you are, and that's worth more than you think

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2008/04/facebook-knows-who-you-are-and-thats.html

68
50
Sincere Apologies to Paul Graham and the Y Combinator Team (from the Seattle Founder's Co-op)

crashdev.blogspot.com/2008/04/sincere-apologies-to-paul-graham-and-y.html

70
49
Tumblr security hole (the gaping kind)

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164422

80
78
Why There Aren't More Googles

paulgraham.com/googles.html

152
154
Non-citizens can now work on a U.S. startup for ~2.5 years after graduation

dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1207334008610.shtm

56
9
Top Lessons I’ve Learned From Starting My Company (So Far)

firewatching.com/ambient/2008/04/12/top-lessons-ive-learned-from-starting-my-company-so-far

52
5
Poll: Ban Valleywag?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=160704

75
102
Facebook Is Not Really That Special

mattmaroon.com/?p=345

95
119
Zed Shaw: "rails-core ripped off the idea for Campfire from NextApp Echo2 ChatClient Demo"

zedshaw.com/blog/2008-04-09.html

67
34
Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine

techcrunch.com/2008/04/07/google-jumps-head-first-into-web-services-with-google-app-engine

139
113
How To: Getting Started with EC2 (for beginners)

paulstamatiou.com/2008/04/05/how-to-getting-started-with-amazon-ec2

63
5
Is poverty self-perpetuating?

boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/03/30/the_sting_of_poverty?page=full

61
72
Some Heroes

paulgraham.com/heroes.html

116
91
Free is Killing Us. Blame The VCs

whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/04/free-is-killing-us-blame-vcs.html

65
67
Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving

fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-putting-up-fence-and-gate-to.html

71
22
Lessons of Y Combinator: Things I’d do differently after 2 startups

foundread.com/2008/04/02/ycombinator

81
32
News.yc "user" nickb is actually a sockpuppet for Paul Graham?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152361

62
60
Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2008/03/ideas-vs-judgment-and-execution_9197.html

114
42
Dean Kamen's robotic "Luke" arm - How long before this can perform martial arts?

youtube.com/watch?v=R0_mLumx-6Y

46
8
How to Disagree

paulgraham.com/disagree.html

183
224
This talk puts the eccentric absent-minded professor stereotype to rest once and for all.

youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk

67
29
How to Lay Off Your Developers the Right Way

washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/web/620559733.html

118
21
Would this community prefer to be under the radar?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=146604

103
91
Sign Up Forms Must Die

alistapart.com/articles/signupforms

113
34
Take the Next Step, Paul

stubbleblog.com/index.php/2008/03/take-the-next-step-paul

65
44
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss: The Cliffs Notes

paulgraham.com/bossnotes.html

71
74
Coding Horror: Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism

codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001080.html

121
130
Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=142723

57
170
You weren't meant to have a boss

paulgraham.com/boss.html

239
298
Why Not To Do A Startup

mattmaroon.com/?p=340

136
83
The mortgage crisis, in cartoon form (has cursing, maybe NSFW?)

docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn&pli=1&skipauth=true

127
25
New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky

youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

192
91
Is it down for everyone or just me?

downforeveryoneorjustme.com

88
45
Ask YC: what is your favorite startup related quote?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=137797

45
72
Standing Still Predicts School Success Better Than IQ

npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19212514

75
38
Get that job at Google

steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-google.html

90
74
Snaptalent Launches (YC Winter 08)

techcrunch.com/2008/03/12/snaptalent-targets-job-candidates-where-they-work-and-spend-time-online

77
31
Dropbox launches (YC summer 07)

techcrunch.com/2008/03/11/dropbox-the-online-storage-solution-weve-been-waiting-for

133
65
Hacker News Site Guidelines

ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

177
35
Every Piece of Startup Advice is a Lie

tonywright.com/2008/every-piece-of-startup-advice-is-a-lie-including-mine

68
15
Fire the workaholics

37signals.com/svn/posts/902-fire-the-workaholics

64
23
Why Python Programmers Should Learn Python

wordaligned.org/articles/why-python-programmers-should-learn-python

56
13
Optimize for now!

37signals.com/svn/posts/896-optimize-for-now

72
34
Workplace Experiments at 37signals

37signals.com/svn/posts/893-workplace-experiments

128
46
Codepad.org, a pastebin that executes code

codepad.org

143
57
IBM building Blue Brain (full brain neuron simulator)

seedmagazine.com/news/2008/03/out_of_the_blue.php?p=y&page=all

71
55
Animated map of 5000 years of empires that controlled the Middle East

mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf

48
35
Poll: What would happen if News.YC had explicit support for polls?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126809

47
54
So You Hacked Our Site!?

thedailywtf.com/Articles/So-You-Hacked-Our-Site!.aspx

70
22
Joel: How Hard Could It Be?: Lessons I Learned in the Army

inc.com/magazine/20080301/how-hard-could-it-be-lessons-i-learned-in-the-army.html?partner=fogcreek

95
23
Ultra High Level Programming Language

mattmaroon.com/?p=337

36
25
The importance of launching early and staying alive

david.weebly.com/1/post/2008/02/the-importance-of-launching-early-and-staying-alive.html

92
29
News.YC open-sourced

arclanguage.org/item?id=3426

127
20
The Idea About Ideas

iggychaos.blogspot.com/2006/02/idea-about-ideas.html

49
17
Don't Become a Scientist.

wuphys.wustl.edu/~katz/scientist.html

83
91
Genius hack by PhD candidate (with source code): Turn any monitor into a 3D display using a Wiimote

blogs.zdnet.com/Ou?p=976

142
26
Facebook's fail is going to be epic

theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/fb_nielsen_fall

55
71
Why a School Banned Legos

rethinkingschools.org/archive/21_02/lego212.shtml

64
90
Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds)

joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html

60
20
Forget Cygwin or VMware, run coLinux

techanodyne.com/2007/03/forget-vmware-run-colinux.html

46
11
The most important thing to understand about new products and startups

paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2008/02/most-import-thing-to-understand-about.html

92
26
Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things

paulgraham.com/newthings.html

173
118
Y2 Combinator

y2combinator.com

50
25
New YC Company 8aweek To Help You Kick That Internet Time Wasting Addiction

techcrunch.com/2008/02/15/8aweek-to-help-you-kick-that-internet-time-wasting-addiction

50
59
Homeless: Can you build a life from $25?

csmonitor.com/2008/0211/p13s02-wmgn.html

59
60
Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry

nytimes.com/2008/02/12/health/12mimic.html?ei=5070&em=&en=6977e1190efad0c8&ex=1203051600

44
16
Hot or Not acquired for 20 million

techcrunch.com/2008/02/11/hotornot-apparently-very-hot-acquired-for-20-million

59
23
Portrait of a N00b

steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.html

63
30
TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)

techcrunch.com/2008/02/10/tipjoy-a-better-tip-jar-for-content

57
53
Yahoo Board To Reject Microsoft Offer

online.wsj.com/article/SB120257515426256541.html

58
44
Web applications suck and they’re not worth creating

metacircular.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/web-applications-suck-and-theyre-not-worth-creating

48
61
Smjörið er brætt og hveitið smátt og smátt hrært út í það, þangað til það er gengið upp í smjörið.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111100

125
154
Marriage turns genius off like a tap.

abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_898675.htm

54
62
How do you learn?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109802

79
54
PostgreSQL 8.3 Released

postgresql.org/about/news.918

34
20
Learning Math

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108723

122
74
Git is the next Unix

advogato.org/person/apenwarr/diary/371.html

79
19
Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080201/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_yahoo

82
80
PG: Clarification about Character Sets

arclanguage.org/item?id=391

52
11
David Heinemeier Hansson step aside, Paul Graham is next to be voted off the island

weblog.raganwald.com/2008/01/david-heinemeier-hansson-step-aside.html

53
28
Arc's Out

paulgraham.com/arc0.html

240
124
Anywhere.FM acquired by imeem

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=105557

70
27
Multitasking is Dumbing us Down and Driving us Crazy

theatlantic.com/doc/200711/multitasking

38
19
Applications now open for summer 2008 YC funding cycle

ycombinator.com/s2008.html

46
39
Surprisingly useful new page: Web Developer's Field Guide

webdevelopersfieldguide.com

71
16
UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-badunixhabits.html

64
17
What To Do if You're Laid Off

scobleizer.com/2008/01/23/what-to-do-if-youre-laid-off-in-2008-recession

39
7
Reddit Adds Ability to Create your own Reddits

techcrunch.com/2008/01/22/reddit-adds-ability-to-create-your-own-reddits

67
29
Rails is 100% magic with 0% design

groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/f2c33661b80ba302

39
33
Ask YComb: Should I quit to do a startup during a recession?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=101703

39
64
Interview with a Hedge Fund Manager: "I'm sure today I would never get hired."

nplusonemag.com/hedge-fund-interview.html

55
21
Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?

wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimystery?currentPage=all

82
53
Bram Cohen on great programmers

bramcohen.livejournal.com/4563.html

55
7
Absolutely Unbelievable: Richard Stallman Crankin' Dat Soulja Boy in front of the Green Building at MIT [video]

thenewfreedom.net/wp/2008/01/16/richard-stallman-cranking-dat-soulja-boy

82
41
Sun Buys MySQL

blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html

55
44
Theinfo.org - for people with large data sets

theinfo.org

44
9
PG: Arc Likely To Be Open-Sourced This Winter

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98297

118
88
Ask YC: how do you work for 8 hours straight?

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97829

49
63
A visual thank-you to the top submitters

ycombinator.com/newsnews.html?12jan08=

34
52
Twitter releases the code for the messaging system they use across their clusters

rubyforge.org/projects/starling

38
5
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone?currentPage=1

46
22
Every time you search for a domain on Network Solutions, they register it themselves.

networksolutionssucksballs.com

71
42
More advice for new Y Combinator founders

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95857

124
28
JavaScript lib to make IE behave like a standards-compliant browser

code.google.com/p/ie7-js

50
15
Mixed Feelings

wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html

49
11
Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong

scottaaronson.com/blog?p=304

38
4
Obama's Victory Speech

youtube.com/watch?v=yqoFwZUp5vc

50
86
Interview with Paul Graham at Imperial College London

uk.intruders.tv/Imperial-Entrepreneurs-Paul-Graham-on-YCombinator_a253.html

89
31
Followup: That cool ICU checklist cancelled by federal agency

nytimes.com/2007/12/30/opinion/30gawande.html?_r=1&ei=5090&emc=rss&en=8a0773d58d0dec11&ex=1356670800&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&partner=rssuserland

32
7
More than 100 scientists and thinkers discuss what they've changed their minds about

edge.org/q2008/q08_index.html

45
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