Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | 2008-08-07 login
Stories from August 7, 2008
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.
1. Tiny open source computer made from six ICs (hardware startup) (linuxdevices.com)
63 points by toni on Aug 7, 2008 | 17 comments
2. People buy the $999 iPhone app (tinypic.com)
60 points by st3fan on Aug 7, 2008 | 68 comments
3. Hackers' Screenshots
59 points by mqt on Aug 7, 2008 | 98 comments
4. Popcuts (YC summer 08) Pays You To Find Good New Music (techcrunch.com)
47 points by auston on Aug 7, 2008 | 18 comments
5. Pitching VCs? Better know about IBM's latest OS/2 (ricksegal.typepad.com)
44 points by danielharan on Aug 7, 2008 | 35 comments
6. Terry Tao (Fields medalist) on time management (terrytao.wordpress.com)
43 points by hhm on Aug 7, 2008 | 19 comments
7. What early Google employees are doing now. (sfgate.com)
42 points by shafqat on Aug 7, 2008 | 4 comments
8. Schroedinger-like PageRank wave equation could revolutionise web rankings (arxivblog.com)
36 points by hhm on Aug 7, 2008 | 9 comments
9. Parasites That Brainwash Their Host (scienceblogs.com)
33 points by mark-t on Aug 7, 2008 | 20 comments
10. Don't be so quick to embrace your own ignorance. (37signals.com)
32 points by ph0rque on Aug 7, 2008 | 13 comments
11. Contagious cancer: The evolution of a killer (harpers.org)
31 points by herdrick on Aug 7, 2008 | 2 comments
12. Markov Chains using CouchDB's Group Reduce (mfdz.com)
28 points by iamwil on Aug 7, 2008 | 2 comments
13. Thinking About Starting a Business? Try a Sales Job (wsj.com)
26 points by utnick on Aug 7, 2008 | 28 comments
14. Balsamiq Mockups Makes Big Impression on Hacker Community (thenextweb.org)
25 points by agentbleu on Aug 7, 2008 | 13 comments
15. The Web Developer and His Wife (A Fairy Tale) (blogoscoped.com)
23 points by ajbatac on Aug 7, 2008 | 22 comments
16. Former Apple employee sues for violation of labor code (macworld.com)
22 points by nickb on Aug 7, 2008 | 13 comments
17. I Would Rather Be A Jazz Programmer (deadprogrammersociety.blogspot.com)
21 points by parenthesis on Aug 7, 2008 | 4 comments
18. Writing Testable Code (googletesting.blogspot.com)
19 points by haasted on Aug 7, 2008 | 8 comments
19. YouNoodle Startup Predictor now live to try it for yourself. (younoodle.com)
20 points by babul on Aug 7, 2008 | 35 comments
20. Y Combinator Challenge #14 - Tools for Measurement (astartupaday.wordpress.com)
18 points by inglorian on Aug 7, 2008 | 16 comments
21. How Not To Sell Out: Talk by Matt Haughey of MeFi on growing a site into a small business (metafilter.com)
16 points by halo on Aug 7, 2008 | 4 comments
22. SEO optimization - Some best practices (searchistheos.com)
16 points by senthil_rajasek on Aug 7, 2008 | 9 comments
23. Carolina to Canada to California by car: days 1-5 (samsanders.net)
13 points by ssanders82 on Aug 7, 2008 | 2 comments
24. 'Hell Week' for U.S. Teen Scientists (businessweek.com)
12 points by altay on Aug 7, 2008 | 11 comments
25. Ronco Spray-On Usability (2004) (daringfireball.net)
12 points by ksvs on Aug 7, 2008 | 9 comments
26. Schneier: Hacking Mifare Transport Cards (schneier.com)
11 points by dominik on Aug 7, 2008 | 7 comments
27. The need for speed: Making Basecamp faster (37signals.com)
10 points by johns on Aug 7, 2008 | 8 comments
28. Josh Harris: "Pseudo was a fake company." (boingboing.net)
9 points by nir on Aug 7, 2008 | 2 comments
29. Stupid PHP tricks: (true == false) (otton.org)
9 points by arthurk on Aug 7, 2008 | 15 comments
30. Y Combinator Challenge #13 - Online Learning (astartupaday.wordpress.com)
9 points by crocus on Aug 7, 2008 | 19 comments

Consider applying for YC's W25 batch! Applications are open till Nov 12.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: