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October 2008 Archive
31.
Joel is giving away his software to Y Combinator startups (fogcreek.com)
93 points by mhp on Oct 23, 2008 | 48 comments
32.
Rejected from YC last night... got anchor client this morning ()
93 points by chinup on Oct 30, 2008 | 45 comments
33.
How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets (economist.com)
93 points by dangoldin on Oct 31, 2008 | 32 comments
34.
Review my startup - Plura Processing: Web Traffic = Grid Computer (pluraprocessing.com)
91 points by westside1506 on Oct 29, 2008 | 57 comments
35.
Man hand-builds Lamborghini Countach, from scratch, in his own basement (carscoop.blogspot.com)
89 points by nickb on Oct 31, 2008 | 42 comments
36.
Story of Phil Katz (PKZip) (www2.jsonline.com)
89 points by axod on Oct 3, 2008 | 29 comments
37.
Ask YC: How to survive grad school? ()
86 points by grad_student_ on Oct 30, 2008 | 50 comments
38.
Horrible (randsinrepose.com)
86 points by llimllib on Oct 6, 2008 | 16 comments
39.
Frogmetrics: Handheld Surveys You Might Actually Want To Fill Out (YC Summer 08) (techcrunch.com)
84 points by dcurtis on Oct 24, 2008 | 13 comments
40.
Obama to eliminate all cap gains taxes for VCs and entrepreneurs
82 points by Alex3917 on Oct 10, 2008 | 91 comments
41.
Elastic Tab Stops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code (nickgravgaard.com)
82 points by mojombo on Oct 15, 2008 | 40 comments
42.
Unlimited Virtual Assistant Tasks for $59 a Month - TimeSvr.com, a Review, Versus My Single Assistant (sidsavara.com)
81 points by sidsavara on Oct 1, 2008 | 52 comments
43.
A new approach to the sign up form (huffduffer.com)
81 points by madmotive on Oct 30, 2008 | 46 comments
44.
How Steve Jobs pitches a startup (venturehacks.com)
81 points by paulsb on Oct 20, 2008 | 16 comments
45.
New Ubuntu is out (ubuntu.com)
80 points by bandris on Oct 30, 2008 | 50 comments
46.
YC got a record number of applications this cycle ()
79 points by pg on Oct 18, 2008 | 60 comments
47.
Sequoia Capital’s 56 Slide Presentation Of Doom (techcrunch.com)
79 points by jasonlbaptiste on Oct 10, 2008 | 36 comments
48.
Clever hack by small Bay Area high school team transforms football (nytimes.com)
79 points by theoneill on Oct 18, 2008 | 27 comments
49.
Be careful of who you work for (sethgodin.typepad.com)
76 points by bdfh42 on Oct 24, 2008 | 43 comments
50.
Ask HN: What if I don't have an idea?
75 points by bretthoerner on Oct 22, 2008 | 90 comments
51.
India successfully launches first mission to the Moon (news.bbc.co.uk)
75 points by henning on Oct 22, 2008 | 64 comments
52.
Do I Look Like a CEO? (businessweek.com)
75 points by epi0Bauqu on Oct 17, 2008 | 27 comments
53.
John Walker's Crisis Letter to Autodesk Employees (1983) (fourmilab.ch)
75 points by bigmac on Oct 31, 2008 | 17 comments
54.
What's your story? Why start Balsamiq? (balsamiq.com)
75 points by aditya on Oct 14, 2008 | 16 comments
55.
CSSHttpRequest (CHR) is a method for cross-domain AJAX using CSS for transport. (nb.io)
75 points by tzury on Oct 23, 2008 | 12 comments
56.
How to make money with free software... (pythonide.blogspot.com)
75 points by prakash on Oct 30, 2008 | 12 comments
57.
Python extension for Firefox (pyxpcomext.mozdev.org)
74 points by ii on Oct 13, 2008 | 14 comments
58.
Digital Equipment answers a user's complaint that the year 2000 should not be a leap year. (www-users.cs.york.ac.uk)
73 points by bdfh42 on Oct 29, 2008 | 19 comments
59.
Apple responds to "I'm a PC" (movies.apple.com)
72 points by andygeers on Oct 20, 2008 | 162 comments
60.
Lessons from the failure of Livejournal: when not to listen to your users (arvindn.livejournal.com)
72 points by randomwalker on Oct 4, 2008 | 24 comments