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“I have a few qualms with this app:” (comment) |
| recommended by 325 users | 2007 | BrandonM on: My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive | aged poorly | original thread | |
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My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive (getdropbox.com) |
| recommended by 162 users | 2007 | 104 points by dhouston | original thread |
also from this thread: “re: the first part, many people want something plug and play.” · “You are correct that this presents a very good, easy-to-install… |
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“Did you win the Putnam?” (comment) |
| recommended by 50 users | 2007 | sanj on: The Equity Equation | original thread | |
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“It is close to 25 million lines of C code.” (comment) |
| recommended by 16 users | 2018 | oraguy on: Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever… | original thread | |
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How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory) |
| recommended by 11 users | 2009 | 928 points by dfranke | original thread | |
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“There's a third direction you can go, I call it ‘going deep’.” (comment) |
| recommended by 8 users | 2015 | bane on: The Cost of Scalability in Graph Processing | original thread | |
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“Former Uber engineer/EM here: I worked on the Rider app.” (comment) |
| recommended by 8 users | 2020 | gregdoesit on: A former Uber engineer's disaster story | original thread | |
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Does my company have IP rights to the stuff I do in my spare time? (answers.onstartups.com) |
| recommended by 8 users | 2011 | 167 points by SandB0x | original thread | |
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I Sell Onions on the Internet (deepsouthventures.com) |
| recommended by 7 users | 2019 | 3015 points by eightturn | original thread | |
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Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster (phiresky.github.io) |
| recommended by 7 users | 2021 | 1812 points by phiresky | original thread | |
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Mechanical Watch (ciechanow.ski) |
| recommended by 6 users | 2022 | 4298 points by todsacerdoti | original thread | |
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Bitcoin: peer-to-peer network based anonymous digital currency (bitcoin.sourceforge.net) |
| recommended by 6 users | 2009 | 5 points by chaostheory | original thread | |
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“I have intimate personal experience with the FCRA.” (comment) |
| recommended by 6 users | 2014 | patio11 on: Square thinks I don’t exist | original thread | |
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“What if ‘data’ is a really bad idea?” (comment) |
| recommended by 6 users | 2016 | alankay on: Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today | original thread | |
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“git init --bare $HOME/.myconf” (comment) |
| recommended by 6 users | 2016 | StreakyCobra on: Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles? | original thread | |
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The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf] (archive.org) |
| recommended by 6 users | 2017 | 415 points by dang | original thread | |
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Ask HN: How do I start being a consultant? |
| recommended by 5 users | 2012 | 43 points by ajushi | original thread | |
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Four kinds of documentation (divio.com) |
| recommended by 5 users | 2019 | 717 points by arnsholt | original thread | |
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The Equity Equation (paulgraham.com) |
| recommended by 5 users | 2007 | 72 points by rams | original thread |
also from this thread: “‘Did you win the Putnam?’ Yes, I did.” · “That is my startup idea.” · “I don't think my probability of failure is 90%. :-)” · “Of course it's a bold statement. But if I wasn't bold, I wouldn't… |
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“Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.” (comment) |
| recommended by 5 users | 2017 | notacoward on: Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Rich… | original thread | |
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Facebook acquires Instagram (facebook.com) |
| recommended by 5 users | 2012 | 837 points by hunterowens | original thread | |
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Facebook is not worth $33 billion (37signals.com) |
| recommended by 5 users | 2010 | 315 points by malbiniak | original thread | |
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The FedEx Problem (arxiv.org) |
| recommended by 5 users | 2015 | 229 points by subnaught | original thread | |
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Peter Naur – Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf] (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| recommended by 5 users | 2016 | 225 points by vog | original thread | |
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Theranos (theranos.com) |
| recommended by 5 users | 2013 | 211 points by car | original thread | |
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“We don’t block archive.is or any other domain via 1.1.1.1.” (comment) |
| recommended by 5 users | 2019 | eastdakota on: Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS… | original thread | |
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Google Maps' Moat (justinobeirne.com) |
| recommended by 4 users | 2017 | 1960 points by rafaelc | original thread | |
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Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today |
| recommended by 4 users | 2016 | 1401 points by alankay | original thread | |
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“This guy has gone to the zoo and interviewed all the animals.” (comment) |
| recommended by 4 users | 2009 | mechanical_fish on: Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog Creek | original thread | |
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“Start a freelance practice.” (comment) |
| recommended by 4 users | 2012 | tptacek on: Ask HN: How do I start being a consultant? | original thread | |
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