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August 2008 Archive
1.
How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy) (nukemanbill.blogspot.com)
220 points by rob on Aug 1, 2008 | 42 comments
2.
Start a side project, says GitHub founder (gist.github.com)
210 points by aditya on Aug 20, 2008 | 40 comments
3.
Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs (techcrunch.com)
156 points by danielrhodes on Aug 13, 2008 | 45 comments
4.
Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software (aaronsw.com)
148 points by mqt on Aug 22, 2008 | 48 comments
5.
A Fundraising Survival Guide (paulgraham.com)
145 points by mqt on Aug 8, 2008 | 94 comments
6.
The Tech (MIT student newspaper) publishes the banned DEFCON slides (www-tech.mit.edu)
144 points by pius on Aug 9, 2008 | 60 comments
7.
Javascript injection on HN (move mouse to the [Y] menu bar on this user page) (news.ycombinator.com)
140 points by brfox on Aug 21, 2008 | 34 comments
8.
Calvin and Jobs (comic) (farm4.static.flickr.com)
132 points by nickb on Aug 2, 2008 | 28 comments
9.
Series AA Documents Back Online (ycombinator.com)
130 points by pg on Aug 21, 2008 | 23 comments
10.
Business Requirements are Bullshit (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
116 points by mqt on Aug 12, 2008 | 84 comments
11.
The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue) (sethgodin.typepad.com)
114 points by yangyang42 on Aug 10, 2008 | 37 comments
12.
For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time (online.wsj.com)
113 points by epi0Bauqu on Aug 13, 2008 | 139 comments
13.
What I Learned Buying a Rug in Turkey (academicbiz.typepad.com)
110 points by markbao on Aug 8, 2008 | 64 comments
14.
Indie game designer spent three years and $180,000 making a masterpiece (msnbc.msn.com)
110 points by nickb on Aug 23, 2008 | 18 comments
15.
The Google black hole: What happens to startups when they're bought by Google? (slate.com)
103 points by gabrielroth on Aug 14, 2008 | 55 comments
16.
Why the lucky stiff: when you don't create things... (twitter.com)
97 points by gaika on Aug 8, 2008 | 60 comments
17.
Do you know any programmers who exhibit these personality traits? (lispy.wordpress.com)
95 points by raganwald on Aug 25, 2008 | 67 comments
18.
One Inviolable Rule (mattmaroon.com)
94 points by marketer on Aug 27, 2008 | 105 comments
19.
Colorful programs for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows (shoooes.net)
91 points by alex_c on Aug 14, 2008 | 22 comments
20.
JParallax - Javascript parallax effect (webdev.stephband.info)
91 points by dhotson on Aug 28, 2008 | 20 comments
21.
Part-time apps developers getting rich (9to5mac.com)
90 points by asp742 on Aug 1, 2008 | 50 comments
22.
The Wrong Way to Get Noticed by YC (mattmazur.com)
90 points by matt1 on Aug 8, 2008 | 50 comments
23.
Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - persistent storage (amazon.com)
90 points by tortilla on Aug 21, 2008 | 34 comments
24.
Pretending to game the system: Fans hoax "Girlfriend" vid to the #1 spot on YouTube. (voltagecreative.com)
89 points by wmeredith on Aug 20, 2008 | 31 comments
25.
Hacking the Nobel Prize Medals
85 points by sanj on Aug 30, 2008 | 24 comments
26.
Last.fm Blog: Quality Control (blog.last.fm)
85 points by alex_c on Aug 1, 2008 | 18 comments
27.
Reddit vs Hacker News traffic (xach.com)
84 points by zachbeane on Aug 3, 2008 | 20 comments
28.
The Trolls Among Us (nytimes.com)
83 points by Alex3917 on Aug 1, 2008 | 98 comments
29.
Fuck the VCs (taptaptap.com)
83 points by tortilla on Aug 27, 2008 | 57 comments
30.
Bruce Schneier: The response to the "If you've got nothing to hide" argument (wired.com)
83 points by smanek on Aug 21, 2008 | 37 comments