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Title: As I write this, there are currently three Obama submissions in the top 5 and four in the top 20. I get it, people are excited. I get excited about things, too. Sometimes they involve computers or programming or business.<p>Come on guys, you've got four more years with the man. Maybe eight. You don't have t... | 42 |
Title: I can't seem to get any code written during the day, just too hectic.<p>My favorite time to code is between about 10pm and 3am when the world is asleep and there are few interuptions.<p>So, question: When do you code?
Extra Credit: What do you do to give yourself more time to code during other parts of the day... | 42 |
Title: Lately, I've noticed that some really good submissions aren't making it to the homepage.<p>Help bring back great articles -- once or twice a day, hit the new link at the top and see if there is anything worth upmodding!<p>It'll only take a minute and can really help what makes it to the homepage!
Upvote: | 157 |
Title: Just curious how you guys get your freelance jobs and contracts. Word of mouth? Advertising? Self marketing (i.e. blogs)? Job boards? Other?<p>Curious to hear what you guys out there do.
Upvote: | 61 |
Title: In the future I plan to let people put code in their profiles to customize various aspects of HN for themselves. What would you like to be able to customize?<p>(Note: This may not happen especially soon, and at first the options will be very limited.)
Upvote: | 70 |
Title: My current job is pissing me off. Most of the people I work with don't seem to have a clue as to what they are doing. I'm given a "must do next-day" priority, then the next day they change their mind and I'm off to work on whatever else they think is important today. We're a community-focused site and yet there'... | 42 |
Title: What web framework(s) do you guys (and girls) use? And why not their competitors?
Upvote: | 43 |
Title: What cities are good for hackers that don't require a car? Being a hacker I can be anywhere, but I'm tired of driving across country in a car.<p>It would be nice to fly somewhere that has good public transit. Good connectivity, inexpensive cost of living, and good people.
Upvote: | 46 |
Title: One of my favorite movies is the 2004 film Primer which was written, directed, scored, and stars a mathematician and software engineer. Aside from the obvious (gems like Wargames, King of Kong- stinkers like the Matrixes and Hackers) what other (good) tech films are there?
Upvote: | 94 |
Title: I'm nearing the end of my undergraduate Computer Science degree and I've been presented with the opportunity to read/study for a PhD fully funded by my University. The trouble is, I also hold job offers with two of the most prominent software vendors in the world. I'm at a cross roads as to which route to take a... | 42 |
Title: I am getting a lot of stress lately and have trouble focusing, so I'm looking to start meditating to help my case. I failed to find something useful on searchyc.com. My only experience with this are the 5-minute meditations a professor made us do in class. I am basically failing to see the difference between med... | 59 |
Title: The only books in that vein I know are "The Art Of War" by Sun Tzu and Clausewitz' "Vom Kriege". I suspect german book shops don't tend to stock as many books on war as some other countries (I remember seeing the "military" section of a bookstore for the first time in London).<p>Anyway, I would be interested in ... | 70 |
Title: I checked searchyc - doesn't look like there's ever been a discussion about this! What blogs do you love? Not even what blogs do you think are best, what ones do you love reading?<p>My favorites: The Big Contrarian (http://www.bigcontrarian.com/), which has incredible essays (one of the best is on something like... | 40 |
Title: Fantastic implementation.
Upvote: | 164 |
Title: This post is inspired by the "Wikipedia list of algorithms" submission at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=457579 . Props to soundsop.<p>On several different occasions I've brought up the Wikipedia page on discrete cosine transforms and hoped to understand it. This selection was made because DCTs are apparent... | 47 |
Title: There's been a big spike in new users the last couple days.
Unfortunately it's been visible not only in the traffic stats
but in the character of the comment threads.<p>New users: we'd appreciate it if you'd please read the site
guidelines before commenting. Most importantly, the principle
that you shouldn't sa... | 532 |
Title: Cornify is all about giving internet users choice of customization. MySpace is a great example of a successful company with a similar vision. Facebook with its Windows 3.1 look - not so much. Cornify provides a service that allows users to cover any website in a beautiful array of unicorn and rainbow imagery - t... | 61 |
Title: I was thinking about group think and how to keep it out of HN. And I ran into a fundamental problem/cause:<p>Psychologically, people naturally follow groupthink. No matter how much you stress not following it, they'll still be inclined to follow the herd.<p>So just saying "try not to follow groupthink" isn't goo... | 47 |
Title: Hello everyone,
Well, I have reached a crossroad and need to figure out how to proceed from here.
I am, like most of you a founder of a startup(s)... long story short I have lost my job that was funding my startups and currently have no income. my 2nd start up is about to launch any day now and all our hopes (5 ... | 60 |
Title: I need some help navigating the SSL cert oligopoly. What vendor has a reasonable price while delivering a no-scary-messages experience in virtually all browsers?<p>Personal experience with various vendors and any gotchas I haven't thought are especially welcome.
Upvote: | 45 |
Title: I'm slowly getting up to speed with Emacs, switching from TextMate. There are a lot of ways to use emacs on Mac, from Aquamacs to Carbon Emacs to the Cocoa port of GNU Emacs. I've dabbled in each a little bit.<p>I'm most interested to hear your thoughts on keybinding (and which Emacs distribution you use). I lik... | 73 |
Title: I ran a little experiment... in a popular story, I said basically the same thing three ways:<p>Angry sarcasm: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=465422 (current score: -5)<p>Definition of my scope of knowledge, followed by the same opinion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=465428 (current score: -4)<p>One-se... | 91 |
Title: Thanks to the immortal jellyfish and the mortal will smith for the recent jellyfish plugs...<p>My startup breeds jellyfish and makes specialized aquariums for displaying them.<p>www.jellyfishart.com<p>The first jellyfish exhibits opened in public aquariums in the 90s and scientists have been making achievements ... | 43 |
Title: My name, at the time of posting, is orange. It's kind of nice to be recognized for being upvoted on average, even if I don't make a huge number of comments and will never be on the leaderboard.<p>However, it just feels wrong. I've been unconsciously working on getting a high average for a while, and this will ... | 64 |
Title: http://www.commandlinefu.com (and related http://twitter.com/commandlinefu)<p>In short - it's a repository for unix/bash commands that you want to save for future
use, featuring autocomplete search, voting and commenting (very much inspired
by daily reading: HN, Programming Reddit, Stack Overflow ...). Kept as ... | 51 |
Title: I know what I am going to say is borderline hubris in this web 2.0 world we live in, but bear with me.<p>A lot of problems this site faces are due to the large influx of new, anonymous users. So I was wondering, how would this website be different if there was a small (say $5/yr) subscription needed, at least fo... | 101 |
Title: I didn't think that this new Orange Name feature, which is currently the talk of HN, was a big deal until I read this comment in a completely unrelated thread:<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467657<p><i>Without trying to be harsh, and given your 'orange' status I realize I'm walking on thin ice here ;)</i... | 44 |
Title: Self posts like this one have very low contrast when they use grey text and I find it impossible to read them.<p>In contrast, the comments which are in black text are easy to read.<p>Can something be done about this?
Upvote: | 47 |
Title: For the past month or so, HN has been getting slower and slower. Do you experience that? A few minutes ago it was not even responding.
Upvote: | 62 |
Title: Hey guys,<p>We're http://mobify.me - a hosted mobile transcoding service for existing websites. Launching our Open Beta today!<p>Pain: most sites look and work terrible on mobile. Latest devices (iPhone, Android) work OK as emergency web access tools, but don't provide a proper mobile experience (like http://iph... | 41 |
Title: I feel bad that I still haven't produced a variant of HN that works well on an iPhone. A helpful user just sent me what he says is the minimum I'd have to do.<p>http://www.archub.org/wohl.txt<p>But I've learned that code people send by email generally doesn't work. ("It doesn't work." "Oops, I forgot, you also... | 80 |
Title: I'm a freelance RoR and PHP developer with every other relevant skill set (XHTML, CSS, AJAX, SQL, et cetera), but I'm having a rather difficult time finding work.<p>I'm rushing Craigslist, writing on my blog, and asking everyone I know if they know anyone in need.<p>The economy has been treating me miserably lat... | 44 |
Title: I work from my laptop, and my laptop is constantly moving between my home, cafés, libraries, schools, etc. I have SSH windows open and I want them to simply stay open and work all the time. I want the session to automatically persist changes in wireless networks, temporary lack of network connectivity, putting... | 49 |
Title: After seeing the ticketmaster/livenation merger post, there's probably a long list of industries ripe for disruption. ie- ticketing, riaa/music,etc. I'd love to start putting together a list of other industries, so hence the reason for this post.<p><i>Please post reasons and/or a piece of information that provi... | 83 |
Title: Recently, I have been thinking about these two opposing styles: the hacker style ---rapid prototyping and incremental improvement---, and the Dijkstra (academic?) style ---think hard and get it right the first time---.<p>Given a problem, the hacker style is to:
1. Suggest a partial solution
2. Improve solution,... | 44 |
Title: After an incredible amount of complications and pushing the launch date back over a year, we've finally just made the site live.<p>This is blog post documenting the entire story. I'd love to get some feedback from the HN community.
Upvote: | 79 |
Title: We are planning to launch a new startup in the next few months but are having difficulty finding an available domain name. What process do you go through when trying to come up with a name for your startup?
Upvote: | 48 |
Title: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=388578
Upvote: | 72 |
Title: As a computer programmer, I've realized that one of the best way to improve myself is to read the code written by the masters of the art and try to emulate them. This is helped by the enormous amount of opensource code out there.<p>However, along the way, the very act of reading code has become a stumbling block... | 46 |
Title: The tinyurl goes to this article:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DEFD61538F934A3575AC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all<p>HN was bouncing me to some old NYTimes submission when trying to post that original link.
Upvote: | 52 |
Title: For me, learning how to sell was simply a matter of survival.<p>Twelve months ago is about when I started my company, and I now alternate between coding and selling. I consider "selling" anything related to marketing (I know there is a distinction), lead generation, sales calls, product demos, quotes, contract n... | 60 |
Title: I'm posting this from an anonymous account, for obvious reasons. I just sold my company and have 2 million dollars in the bank. What now? I basically have nobody to consult. It's a business I bought for 90k that just kind of swelled up really fast, and I'm really not set up to manage this kind of money. I'm cana... | 148 |
Title: Facebook just launched a comments widget powered by Facebook Connect.
Upvote: | 60 |
Title: I have recently exchanged Q&A emails with Ivan Kirigin, the founder of tipjoy.com, about his experiences being in the Y Combinator. I want to really thank Ivan and Abby for replying all these questions with depth. I've promised I would share these Q&A with the community so all YC applicants can have a ta... | 69 |
Title: Peter Norvig's new post on reporters, fact-checking, models and data.
Upvote: | 107 |
Title: Your startup's blog should have a link to your homepage.<p>It seems obvious, right? But three or four times now I've read a post at some startup's blog and got interested in what they do, but I couldn't quickly get to their homepage – there was no link!<p>Make your logo link to your main site. Don't make it link... | 47 |
Title: There's been a few cases recently where I found an interesting article to submit here and was unable to submit it. The site appears to accept the article, but the story remains invisible to everyone and to me appears to have no comment box. I've verified that this happens when other people submit those URLs. Her... | 79 |
Title: No need to install any applications on your computer. The simple interface allows you to save web page as a PDF file in 1 click without registration!
Upvote: | 47 |
Title: I've seen a ton of url shorteners (like tinyurl.com) out there but haven't seen any real business model behind them... but they seem to survive. Are they doing it from donations, advertising or do they have other techniques?
Upvote: | 54 |
Title: Note: I'm posting this under a different account than I normally use on HN because I want to remain anonymous.<p>For the last 2+ years I've been the CTO for a technically successful startup. I have successfully navigated the company around some very real disasters and have built a highly dedicated tech team tha... | 40 |
Title: With the recent public talk and growing awareness about marijuana and the failed policies against it, it occurred to me it would be interesting to get an idea of how many fellow programmers use marijuana and how it affects their work. I find it specially positive in my work, as an aid to better concentration and... | 70 |
Title: We've had a huge spike in traffic lately, from roughly 24k daily uniques to 33k. This is a result of being mentioned on more mainstream sites. I hope this spike will subside, like past ones have. In the meantime I may temporarily hack a few things to make the site faster, like putting fewer results on threads ... | 270 |
Title: This guy made a LISP syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler.
Upvote: | 78 |
Title: Hey all,<p>I'm trying to learn Erlang. I'd like to know if you had any sources on learning it. Thanks.
Upvote: | 73 |
Title: HN was down today for around 2 hours. Sorry about that.<p>The News server currently crashes a couple times a day when it runs out of memory. All the comments and stories no longer fit in the 2 GB we can get on a 32 bit machine. We'd been planning to upgrade to a new 64 bit server. In the meantime it was argu... | 74 |
Title: Just a thought about the recent surge of traffic from Coding Horror's link. It's true that things like this can threaten to swamp HN with an "Eternal September."<p>And making the front page boring is a very amusing defense against the random hit-and-run tire kickers. But let's not forget that 33,000 new visitors... | 59 |
Title: "We're down for (we hope) a few minutes while switching to a new server."<p>... and they are back.<p>Thank you pg, rtm and everyone who made this happen.
Upvote: | 41 |
Title: So, this article seems to have gotten traction on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516215<p>It's not a new idea. Tim Ferris has been preaching that since the Four Hour Work Week was published, and affiliate marketing programs are clearing houses for people doing this sort of thing.<p>Is anyone on HN do... | 74 |
Title: Do you need the UNION? and do you think "Business Is Killing The Art Of The Hack"?
Upvote: | 69 |
Title: It seems like you can change the about field under PG's account http://news.ycombinator.org/user?id=pg using this appjet app
http://notabank.appjet.net/
Upvote: | 107 |
Title: So, I think I'm quitting my job today. I've always valued the discussions that take place here, so I thought I would solicit your input (though my mind is pretty much made up).<p>See, if the economy were in any other state, I wouldn't even give it a second thought. I'm pretty well-qualified for many jobs, so I t... | 77 |
Title: The life is too short to be sleeping a major part of it. What do you do to getting up early, or do you think it is not really important at all?
Upvote: | 96 |
Title: Just finished reading Founders At Work. Amazing book!
I am curious, Paul, what were the first feelings you had when you knew for sure the Yahoo acquisition was for real? What did it feel like? Was it a big relief? Becoming rich? What were you first immediate thoughts?<p>Thank you for sharing with us.
Upvote: | 70 |
Title: If we woke up tomorrow and all technology had gone, assuming we could still make a fire, how long would it take to get back to where we are now?
Upvote: | 56 |
Title: I'm starting to research payment processing systems for my startup, and was hoping to get some feedback from some HN readers who have had some experience with some online merchant service providers.<p>Which payment processing provider do you use? And how would you describe the quality of your service?<p>Google,... | 95 |
Title: http://www.geotrust.com/ssl/wildcard-ssl-certificates/<p>This certificate costs $995 per year. If you think about it, there is very little that the issuer does, other than supposedly validate your ownership of the domain. They don't even need to maintain considerable server infrastructure.<p>So why isn't there n... | 41 |
Title: We made a big mistake in our server setup. We bought beefy as app and db servers but went for ultra reliable sun ultrasparks and openbsd for firewalls. This was fine until the DDOS started. After 3 days of many different attacks we now how much better firewall hardware installed thanks to our fantastic colocatio... | 40 |
Title: Note: I'm a regular HN reader/commenter, but posting this under an anonymous account for obvious reasons.<p>There has been some discussion here recently about the value of computer labs in universities. This is my experience with the university computing facilities as a CS graduate student at the University of T... | 53 |
Title: Article here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0004957
Upvote: | 59 |
Title: What are the Hacker-News for other domains?
Upvote: | 45 |
Title: "Whatever country you live in, whatever language you speak, you have the same access to the accumulated knowledge of the world as every other citizen of the planet Earth. I believe the rules are different for programmers. So much so that I'm going to ask the unthinkable: shouldn't every software developer under... | 79 |
Title: I just wanted to sing the praises of StackOverflow.com for a second. I wanted to put together a custom query to display a few key metrics for my social news site. The folks on IRC ignored a polite request and I found a few folks willing to help for $50/hour. Both of these were expected, sensible outcomes.<p>St... | 57 |
Title: It is that time of the year again. People who are not really as funny as they think they are will be flooding the net with "prank" sites, stupid fake rumors, and similar dumb links.<p>Can you please post the gag link to reddit, digg, or some other site and spare us all?
Upvote: | 111 |
Title: ...please review the submission guidelines definition of "on-topic" (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):<p><pre><code> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer
might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual
curiosity.</code></pre>
Upvote: | 53 |
Title: The exploding termsheets<p>http://ycombinator.com/exploding.html<p>have started to arrive. I just talked to a group who got one, and they hadn't realized we were willing to interview groups early when this happened.<p>So I should be more explicit: If you get an exploding offer, send us an email, and if we were ... | 83 |
Title: For your startup, what services do you use? I'm using Amazon AWS for hosting, Pivotal Tracker for project planning, GitHub, and a few others I can't think of right now.<p>What paid services do you find the most useful in running your startup?
Upvote: | 64 |
Title: You do some unpaid programming for interesting TechStars startups, in exchange for the ability to listen to other startups get advice about their startups. Can't wait to sign up!
Upvote: | 49 |
Title: Just curious. I'm seeing people get press on places like the NYT, Business Week, etc... For those of you that have gotten that type of press, how did you manage it? Any tips or tricks?
Upvote: | 55 |
Title: Just got an email informing me of my rejection to YC this summer. Bummer.<p>I'm still going to go on and develop my idea. It's just going to take a little longer than I expected without the money.
Upvote: | 61 |
Title: In the coming hours, and days, HN will be seeing submission after submission regarding their YC application decisions. It happens every application period and can become quite annoying. As such, I will address most of the issues many of you will be submitting threads about.<p>"Why did I get rejected?!??"<p>I don... | 171 |
Title: I’m not the type of person that you’ll hear commenting all the time here on Hacker News. Fact is, I couldn’t stop and see all these people feeling bad about them because YC rejected them.<p>I’m not interesting in applying to YC. Come on, you don’t need YC to succeed. You don’t need them. Many of you guys are jus... | 43 |
Title: I'd like to see where those people who got rejected by YC ended up. Did you finish your product? Abandoned the idea? Still working on it?
Upvote: | 61 |
Title: The April release of xpud brings a re-designed interface, called 'Plate', based on XUL and moblin patches integrated with the 2.6.28 kernel.
The distro is built off a build system that repackages Ubuntu debs.
Upvote: | 61 |
Title: <i>Hacker News Guidelines<p>What to Submit<p>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.</i><p>Good hackers do not find PHP bashing inte... | 54 |
Title: Google shows her quotes ALL over the web. But it does not (within my googling ability anyway) give a hint who or where she actually is. Since PG has her quotes on his website, I hoped it would be alright to ask here.
Upvote: | 75 |
Title: Linear algebra comes up in almost every area of modern research, but what applications have you made most often? Is it SVD for latent semantic analysis or computing eigenvector for PageRank or something else? Discuss.
Upvote: | 57 |
Title: My startup went down the pan due to lack of money (what's new?) I was always told the expereince you get from a failed startup is a good thing. Well, a certain large software company doesn't seem to think so. Apparently, "as an entrepeneur you are obviously a free spirit, not the kind of person that settles well... | 76 |
Title: Check this out: http://www.printgreener.com/news.html
WSJ, CNBC, Entreprenuer, ComputerWorld, CNN, Inc, ... How could they get so many coverages?<p>I've written a similar algorithm and sold it to a few companies, which you could find at http://purifyr.com/. I've also emailed all relevant bloggers for review. ... | 44 |
Title: More information about this here:
http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/04/miniapp-hacker-newspaper.html
Upvote: | 154 |
Title: Is he really correct about Microsoft creating that illusion? It just doesn't fit the idea of M$ I have.
Upvote: | 92 |
Title: In terms of <i>servers and hardware</i>, how much does it cost to keep hacker news up and running each month?<p>In terms of man hours, how much is needed to maintain and moderate hacker news?
Upvote: | 94 |
Title: So, I run the hackers and founders meetup here in Silicon Valley every couple of weeks. People really seem to like getting together and having a beer with fellow HN readers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=566583<p>I've noticed that it can be really hard to get something like that launched, unless you can g... | 42 |
Title: How much time do you spent making sure you are healthy?<p>What type of exercises do you do?
Upvote: | 47 |
Title: CAMPINAS, Brazil — On the night of March 8, cruising 22,000 miles above the Earth, U.S. Navy communications satellite FLTSAT-8 suddenly erupted with illicit activity. Jubilant voices and anthems crowded the channel on a junkyard's worth of homemade gear from across vast and silent stretches of the Amazon: Ronald... | 59 |
Title: jQuery plugin - ImageSwitch is an easy-to-use, simple and fast plug-in to create effect when you switch between images. Minimize the arguments you need to input and still give some beatiful effects.
Upvote: | 40 |
Title: I found http://www.senseboard.com/ a few years ago. It's a keyboard-substitute that clips over the back of your hand, and interprets the tendon movement as you "type" into text.<p>The device is elegant and compact, but better yet it's an elegant solution to the problem of mobile typing/data entry. It's the missi... | 42 |
Title: Google Labs' open source 3D rendering browser plugin.
Upvote: | 55 |
Title: This is a pretty amazing new development on the road towards open source law.
Upvote: | 53 |
Title: Is it just me or is any humor on hacker news down voted right away?
Upvote: | 64 |
Title: Maybe I will write a greasemonkey script to change the name to Erlang Innards
Upvote: | 64 |
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