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newsfeed for busy web developers

How To Be Creative

http://gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html

Creating a rogue CA certificate with MD5 hash collisions

http://www.phreedom.org/research/rogue-ca/

Wow, check out this guy's comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=412785

So you want to be a consultant?

http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411282

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hacker_Spaces

Dear Reddit, Hacker News...

http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/2008-12-25.html

Zed Shaw: Ruby Is So Nice

http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/2008-12-24.html

Rails and Merb Merge

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

The nicest math book I own

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

http://xkcd.org/519/

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

Clickpass (YC S07) is being acquired

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

GitHub Launches Pages: Static Project and Personal Hosting

http://github.com/blog/272-github-pages

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

http://feedaneed.org

After Credentials

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

Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs

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

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

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/7024

Scott Adams explains CDOs

http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2008-12-13/

Love, Internet Style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1TZaElTAs

I don't want to work very hard

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=394609

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

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

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html#8dec08

Genetic Algorithm building a little car

http://www.wreck.devisland.net/ga/

Burning out on Capistrano (Jamis Buck)

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

How do you generate passive income?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387789

Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

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

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

http://jstn.cc/post/63070826

The High-Res Society

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

Reason: Why poor countries are poor.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/33258.html

Six Apart acquires and shuts down Pownce

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

The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/30/malcolm_gladwell_no/

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=380377

The other half of "Artists Ship"

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

Is it going to rain?

http://goingtorain.com/

Announcing my free book on Vim

http://www.swaroopch.com/blog/a-free-book-on-vim/

Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000

http://www.getacoder.com/projects/bug_finder_92913.html

Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375410

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

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

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

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

My Public Apology

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=371638

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

http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt

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

The IT Contract from Hell

http://www.itcontractor.com/Articles_IR35_News_Advice/view_article.asp?id_no=4842

SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Insider Trading

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122693827604333637.html

The Shallowest Generation

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/the-shallowest-generation/

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

http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/11/showering_and_thinking/

Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue

http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=424

Major Breakthrough: First Photos of Planets Around Other Stars

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/081113-hubble-exoplanet.html

The End of Wall Street's Boom

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

Tell Hacker News: Throwaway accounts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=360128

How people really use the iPhone

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

Let's End Adolescence

http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/08_45/b4107085289974.htm

Let G.M. go bankrupt

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

Android: Worst. Bug. Ever.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=680

“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape

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

CNN/Fox Projection: Obama wins presidential election.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=354165

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=352800

Amazon Moving To Frustration-Free Packaging

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

Secret message in source code of Digg

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=350968

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

http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12523898

Follow Stanford’s iPhone Programming Class For Free

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php

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

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

Codeweavers offer their software free today

http://down.codeweavers.com/

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

http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169/

Apple now has more cash than Microsoft

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/25/apple_earnings_profits_and_cash_embarrass_microsoft.html

Arc: Where are we going?

http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=8462

Don’t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement

http://mattmaroon.com/?p=573

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138

Rackspace acquire Slicehost

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

Why Talent Is Overrated

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

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

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

Bernanke Is Fighting the Last War

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122428279231046053.html

Clever hack by small Bay Area high school team transforms football

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

Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck

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

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

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

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

http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/

Paul Krugman: How I work

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

The genius of late bloomers - Gladwell

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

Reflections of a YC Dropout

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

http://mattmaroon.com/?p=536

Obama to eliminate all cap gains taxes for VCs and entrepreneurs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328841

A CEO's Sequoia Meeting Notes

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

Is effort a myth?

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

Make an Extraordinary Effort

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/10/isshokenmei.html

Demotivating a (Good) Programmer

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

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

http://www.froes.dds.nl/WILSON.htm

Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich

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

Story of Phil Katz (PKZip)

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

Python 2.6 Released

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

IPhone NDA officially dropped

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/

Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer

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

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

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26884523/

Carbon nanotechnology in a 17th century Damascus sword

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

Google backs gay marriage

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

WaMu Fails. First major comercial bank to go.

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

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

http://duckduckgo.com/

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

http://www.tenthousandcents.com/index.html

Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week

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

Is your Rails application safe?

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

Failure must always be an option

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

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

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

Webkit - Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme

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

The story behind the Palin e-mail hacking

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

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

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

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

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk

Stack Overflow Launches

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html

How My Start-Up Failed

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1999/julaug/articles/condoms.html

App Store: I'm out

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

The second Seinfeld and Gates Microsoft ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWPf1BWtkw

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=300960

Text-Messaging Rates Come Under Scrutiny

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122100918492217655.html

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299451

Obama is RESTful

http://www.idolhands.com/personal/obama-is-restful/

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

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

Hi, I'm a Mac… Beep, beep

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

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

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

Founder Stories

http://www.trevorblackwell.com/founderstories.html

Django 1.0 is finally here

http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/8961

The Google Chrome download link is live.

http://www.google.com/chrome

Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project

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

Impossible fractals

http://www.cameronius.com/graphics/impossible-fractals-figures/

Hacking the Nobel Prize Medals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=290969

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

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

JParallax - Javascript parallax effect

http://webdev.stephband.info/parallax.html

One Inviolable Rule

http://mattmaroon.com/?p=439

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

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

Do you know any programmers who exhibit these personality traits?

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

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

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html

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

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26336877/

Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software

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

Series AA Documents Back Online

http://ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html?

Start a side project, says GitHub founder

http://gist.github.com/6443

Blockbuster CEO 'Confused by Fascination' With Netflix

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

RIAA shuts down Muxtape

http://muxtape.com/?

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

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

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

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

REST, I just don't get it

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

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

http://www.slate.com/id/2197434/pagenum/all

Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs

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

Business Requirements are Bullshit

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

Hadoop: When grownups do open source

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/11/hadoop_dziuba/

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

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

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

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

A Fundraising Survival Guide

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

A New Frontier in Databases with AllegroCache

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/relational.html

A Coder in Courierland

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/3/19/133129/548

Startup Marketing Advice from Balsamiq Studios

http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=198

URL Rewriting for Beginners

http://www.addedbytes.com/apache/url-rewriting-for-beginners/

Reddit vs Hacker News traffic

http://www.xach.com/moviecharts/reaction.html

Calvin and Jobs (comic)

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

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

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

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

http://www.smartnow.com/page/5991

Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)

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

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

GitHub on applying Getting Real to their unfunded startup

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

The Hydrogen Hoax

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-hydrogen-hoax

Why S3 went down

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

Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08207/899511-100.stm

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

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

The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company

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

A Brief History of Dangerous Ideas

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

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

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

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

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=s3

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

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

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080711.wlpicking11/EmailBNStory/lifeMain/

Donate to help a MySQler

http://www.mysql.com/about/help-ivan.html

Profitable After 3 Weeks

http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=95

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200806/college

How to Write with Style (Kurt Vonnegut)

http://literature.sdsu.edu/onWRITING/vonnegutSTYLE.html

Why you should never be a startup girlfriend

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

Play this game for 20 minutes - learn about concurrency

http://scarybuggames.com/2008/05/chronotron

10 Incredibly Awesome Documents to Help You Start a Company

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

ITunes is Anti-Web

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001149.html

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

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

Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked

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

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

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

Why are Black Nerds so Unpopular?

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

JL: Why I Do YC

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

Applications open for winter 2009 YC funding

http://ycombinator.com/w2009.html

37signals to Drop IE6 Support

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

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

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=233166

Programmer Competency Matrix

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

Reddit's Ranking Algorithm

http://redflavor.com/reddit.cf.algorithm.png

Posterous (YC summer 08) Beats Tumblr In Simplicity

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

How to sell your software for $20,000

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

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

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

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

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

HN: New flag feature

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=226400

Diary of a Failed Startup

http://diffle-history.blogspot.com/

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

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

Never Before Seen Bill Gates Photos

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

How not to approach an investor

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

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

http://www.cpd.ogi.edu/mst/capstone/17Mistakes.htm

Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from reddit.

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

Done, and Gets Things Smart

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

Robokill: Superb new Flash game from News.YC members

http://www.rocksolidarcade.com/games/robokill/

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

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

Can a Night Owl Become a Morning Person?

http://www.slate.com/id/2193208/

Code_swarm. An experiment in organic software visualization.

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

Remind HN: Father's Day is Sunday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=215605

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

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

Alt.techcrunch.die.die.die

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

Ask YC: Dealing with a major event like death?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=212479

JK Rowling's Commencement speech at Harvard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucdJHjZaqs

Poll: Suggestions please, which JavaScript library?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=211630

Nassim Taleb's Top 10 Life Tips

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

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

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001128.html

http://www.lukasbiewald.com/?p=153

8 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was 22

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

Goosh - The Unofficial Google Shell

http://goosh.org/

Congrats to PG on getting hitched

http://twitter.com/kn0thing/statuses/824631187

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

http://rafb.net/p/DpOfOD83.html

Poll: Hacker News (Myers-Briggs) Personality Types

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240

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

http://www.dabbleboard.com

Ask YC: Best book to learns statistics?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201913

Cities and Ambition

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

This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix.

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

Harvard discovers much faster way to adjust your sleep cycle

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

VideoLectures.net - YouTube for hackers

http://videolectures.net

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

http://refactormycode.com

When did we forget our dreams?

http://xkcd.com/137/

Essential Python Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

http://www.siafoo.net/article/52

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

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

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

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

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

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

PG: Disconnecting Distraction

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191899

My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain?

http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=1298

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

http://code.google.com/doctype/

Lies We Tell Kids

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=187977

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

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

Unix Command-Line Kung Fu

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

Tell YC: Answers from John McCarthy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185348

Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=183535

The Coolest Business Plan Ever

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

Malcolm Gladwell: Who says big ideas are rare?

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

Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid; Walks Away From Deal

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/03/breaking-microsoft-walks/

Ask HN: What load balancing software do you use ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=180311

Clickpass on how to get a visa for America

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/02/coming-to-america-getting-visas-to-do-business-in-silicon-valley/#more-17036

Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor

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

Scientists Create First Memristor: Missing Fourth Electronic Circuit Element

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

Would you have answered this job ad?

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

Pmarca: If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo

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

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

http://99designs.com/

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

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

Fleaflicker (solo founder) Acquired by AOL

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/25/aol-acquires-fleaflicker/

Hire Family People

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

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

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

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak

Ask YC: Best ways to become socially adept?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=169295

http://paulgraham.com/good.html

Live video from startup school

http://www.justin.tv/hackertv

Solo founders: how do you stay emotionally efficient?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=166905

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

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

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

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

Tumblr security hole (the gaping kind)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164422

Why There Aren't More Googles

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

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

http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1207334008610.shtm

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

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

Poll: Ban Valleywag?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=160704

Facebook Is Not Really That Special

http://mattmaroon.com/?p=345

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

http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/2008-04-09.html

Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine

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

How To: Getting Started with EC2 (for beginners)

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

Is poverty self-perpetuating?

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

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

Free is Killing Us. Blame The VCs

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

Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving

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

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

http://foundread.com/2008/04/02/ycombinator/

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

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152361

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

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

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

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

How to Disagree

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj8IA6xOpSk

How to Lay Off Your Developers the Right Way

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

Would this community prefer to be under the radar?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=146604

Sign Up Forms Must Die

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/signupforms

Take the Next Step, Paul

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

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

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

Coding Horror: Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001080.html

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=142723

You weren't meant to have a boss

http://paulgraham.com/boss.html

Why Not To Do A Startup

http://mattmaroon.com/?p=340

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

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

Is it down for everyone or just me?

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Ask YC: what is your favorite startup related quote?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=137797

Standing Still Predicts School Success Better Than IQ

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19212514

Get that job at Google

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

Snaptalent Launches (YC Winter 08)

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

Dropbox launches (YC summer 07)

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

Hacker News Site Guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Every Piece of Startup Advice is a Lie

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

Fire the workaholics

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

Why Python Programmers Should Learn Python

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

Optimize for now!

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

Workplace Experiments at 37signals

http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/893-workplace-experiments

Codepad.org, a pastebin that executes code

http://codepad.org/

IBM building Blue Brain (full brain neuron simulator)

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

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

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf?

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126809

So You Hacked Our Site!?

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

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

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

Ultra High Level Programming Language

http://mattmaroon.com/?p=337

The importance of launching early and staying alive

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

News.YC open-sourced

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=3426

The Idea About Ideas

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

Don't Become a Scientist.

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

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

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=976

Facebook's fail is going to be epic

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/fb_nielsen_fall/

Why a School Banned Legos

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/21_02/lego212.shtml

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

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html

Forget Cygwin or VMware, run coLinux

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

The most important thing to understand about new products and startups

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

Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things

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

http://y2combinator.com/

Homeless: Can you build a life from $25?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0211/p13s02-wmgn.html?

Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry

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

Hot or Not acquired for 20 million

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

Portrait of a N00b

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

TipJoy Launches (YC winter 08)

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

Yahoo Board To Reject Microsoft Offer

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120257515426256541.html

Web applications suck and they’re not worth creating

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111100

Marriage turns genius off like a tap.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_898675.htm

How do you learn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109802

PostgreSQL 8.3 Released

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.918

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108723

Git is the next Unix

http://www.advogato.org/person/apenwarr/diary/371.html

Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo

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

PG: Clarification about Character Sets

http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=391

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

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

http://paulgraham.com/arc0.html

Anywhere.FM acquired by imeem

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=105557

Multitasking is Dumbing us Down and Driving us Crazy

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200711/multitasking

Applications now open for summer 2008 YC funding cycle

http://www.ycombinator.com/s2008.html

Surprisingly useful new page: Web Developer's Field Guide

http://webdevelopersfieldguide.com/

UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-badunixhabits.html

What To Do if You're Laid Off

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

Reddit Adds Ability to Create your own Reddits

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=101703

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

http://nplusonemag.com/hedge-fund-interview.html

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

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

Bram Cohen on great programmers

http://bramcohen.livejournal.com/4563.html

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

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

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

Theinfo.org - for people with large data sets

http://theinfo.org/

PG: Arc Likely To Be Open-Sourced This Winter

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98297

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97829

A visual thank-you to the top submitters

http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html?12jan08

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

http://rubyforge.org/projects/starling/

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

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

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

http://www.networksolutionssucksballs.com/

More advice for new Y Combinator founders

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95857

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

http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp.html

Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong

http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304

Obama's Victory Speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqoFwZUp5vc

Interview with Paul Graham at Imperial College London

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

Followup: That cool ICU checklist cancelled by federal agency

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

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

http://www.edge.org/q2008/q08_index.html