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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN

Top stories

1

Why to Not Not Start a Startup

99

2

Paul Graham convinced me to drop out of school / quit my job [Vote up if true]

98

3

y combinator news bookmarklet

85

4

Kiko guys back as reality tv stars

75

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Scaling Y Combinator: the Grahambot [PNG]

58

6

Moonlighter's Dilemma: Guide to Starting a Startup PartTime

45

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The 53,651 meme

45

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The lessons I've learnt during Y Combinator

40

9

Search News YC (unofficial)

39

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The Architecture of Mailinator - averaging 4.5million emails a day on a single 2Ghz machine

37

Top Ask HN

Top Show HN

News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more

Tech news [?]

1

Kiko guys back as reality tv stars

75

2

Demo Day: Y Combinator's Spring Chicks

36

3

Y Combinator Backed Search Engine For Gadget Parts

28

4

Xobni raises $4.26M to let you improve your email habits

19

5

John Doerr's Startup Manual

17

6

Great Summary of the Highlights of StartupSchool

17

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"Come back with an idea that you can do quickly and that you can take public or get acquired within 12 to 18 months."

14

8

PowerPoint is Evil - Lessons from Edward Tufte

13

9

Scribd "YouTube for Text" Gets $300K

12

10

TechCrunch: Is Spotplex a better Digg?

11

News [?]

1

Success Is All in a Day's Work

14

2

SF Chronicle article about new search startups

13

3

Man with a Cam: SFGate on Justin

11

4

Viacom slaps Google with $1 billion lawsuit

9

5

Viral Marketing can go too far: How long until people stop trying to care?

8

6

It's Justin, Live! (SF Chronicle story on Justin.tv)

7

7

Craig Newmark on net neutrality

7

8

Marc Andreessen's latest startup - allows users to create social networks

6

9

Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching

6

10

The rise and fall of corporate R&D

6

Scientific publications [?]

Dev Blogs [?]

Tech blogs [?]

FAANG+ [?]

1

"Good to Great" is NOT? The Halo Effect and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers

1

Misc and Hobbies [?]

1

15

2

Y-Combinator-company heysan! looking for software developer. Meet us at startup school!

13

3

2007 Startup School Notes: A rough transcript

12

4

Viaweb Subscription Pricing Page from 1996

1

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Stem cell transplant lets blind entrepeneur see. I'm incredibly cynical and this is truly the only inspirational thing I have ever read

1

Science News [?]

1

New Technique Stores Data in Bacteria DNA

3

2

Most Scientific research papers are probably wrong

3

Social [?]

1

Twitter: What are you doing?

15

2

YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth, a presentation by YouTube cofounder

10

3

Video: Trevor Blackwell's Robot At Y Combinator

7

4

Steve Jobs at Next documentary - Old but very interesting

7

5

At 8AM Central 3/1/2007 Reddit is still down. I'm switching to Newsy!

6

6

Steve Jobs - Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 - "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish"

6

7

intelliContact VC Pitch

2

8

Twitter - What are you doing?

2

9

Using twitter to chronicle the experiences of building a web business (both technology and business side to be examined).

2

10

Comment thread on reddit about revenue sources for popular websites

2

Github repos and gists [?]

Wikipedia [?]

1

The God of Startups

8

2

List of acquisitions by Google since 2001

5

3

The mathematical explanation behind "Y Combinator" function

2

4

List of acquisitions by Yahoo since 1997

2

5

Cross-site request forgery

1

6

Just for fun: Wikipedia entry about Ron Conway

1

7

John W. Backus - inventor of FORTRAN, BNF (12/03/24 - 03/17/07)

1

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I was reading about salt, ended up in key derivation function, then to Robert "Bob" Morris, then to R. Tappan M., then to "Morris Worm"

1

9

The Tragedy of the Commons

1

Blogs [?]

1

Why to Not Not Start a Startup

99

2

Want a succesful startup? Just stay away from these...

17

3

How to Fund a Startup

5

4

How to Make Wealth

4

5

Why are there so few startups outside of the US?

4

6

Need a startup idea?

4

7

The 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups

3

8

How to be Silicon Valley

3

9

A student's guide to startups

2

10

Is it worth being wise?

1

Stackoverflow [?]

Substack [?]