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Stories from January 23, 2008
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1. Ethan Herdrick (Biographicon): Running a startup on Scheme. (abstractstuff.livejournal.com)
34 points by abstractbill on Jan 23, 2008 | 24 comments
2. 10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong -- Our brains are terrible at assessing modern risks (psychologytoday.com)
33 points by lylia on Jan 23, 2008 | 15 comments
3. Last.fm makes music free to listen to (last.fm)
27 points by danw on Jan 23, 2008 | 6 comments
4. Apple stock plunges $30. Sky IS falling. (finance.google.com)
25 points by kirubakaran on Jan 23, 2008 | 35 comments
5. Donald Knuth's list of programs to read and study (stanford.edu)
22 points by nickb on Jan 23, 2008 | 6 comments
6. Max Levchin: How to successfully launch a social networking development platform. (maxlevchin.wordpress.com)
22 points by brett on Jan 23, 2008 | 3 comments
7. Drawings from an artist on LSD (cowboybooks.com.au)
19 points by vitaminj on Jan 23, 2008 | 8 comments
8. New RescueTime Goals and Alerts Helps Rescue Your News.YC Time (rescuetime.com)
15 points by bfioca on Jan 23, 2008 | 14 comments
9. Ruby is soooooo 2002 (raganwald.com)
14 points by nreece on Jan 23, 2008 | 1 comment
10. Steve Blank's Secret History of Silicon Valley (pmarca.com)
14 points by jmorin007 on Jan 23, 2008 | 1 comment
11. HTML5 differences from HTML4 (w3.org)
13 points by nickb on Jan 23, 2008 | 5 comments
12. Ask YC: Moving to SF, need advice
13 points by white on Jan 23, 2008 | 30 comments
13. How to balance a startup, family and a full time job (endorseyou.wordpress.com)
13 points by iamyoohoo on Jan 23, 2008 | 23 comments
14. Ask News.YC: iPhone development
13 points by allenbrunson on Jan 23, 2008 | 26 comments
15. Interview with the founders of 23andMe (pimm.wordpress.com)
11 points by jmorin007 on Jan 23, 2008 | 21 comments
16. Video Interview: The story of Pandora so far from founder Tim Westergren (intruders.tv)
11 points by immad on Jan 23, 2008
17. Jon Udell: Hacking the Noosphere (jonudell.net)
10 points by michael_nielsen on Jan 23, 2008 | 1 comment
18. Sub-Pixel Problems in CSS (ejohn.org)
10 points by nreece on Jan 23, 2008 | 2 comments
19. Ask YC: Are the terms Lower, Middle, Upper-middle and Upper class too subjective to mean anything?
10 points by falsestprophet on Jan 23, 2008 | 43 comments
20. Ask YC: Suggestions for a hash algorithm?
10 points by brianr on Jan 23, 2008 | 21 comments
21. Europe: Your I.P. Address Is Personal Information and Should be Protected (nytimes.com)
9 points by iamelgringo on Jan 23, 2008 | 2 comments
22. The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets (virtualhosting.com)
9 points by sagar13d on Jan 23, 2008
23. Palestinians blow hole in border wall... to go shopping. (yahoo.com)
9 points by iamelgringo on Jan 23, 2008 | 20 comments
24. What I admire about professions like Engineering and Medicine (raganwald.com)
9 points by hhm on Jan 23, 2008 | 3 comments
25. Gates vs. Jobs: Keynote text analysis, 2008 edition (nwsource.com)
8 points by ereldon on Jan 23, 2008 | 2 comments
26. World of Warcraft now has 10M paying subscribers (readwriteweb.com)
8 points by breck on Jan 23, 2008 | 20 comments
27. Startup Strategy: How Mature Is Your SaaS Architecture? (onstartups.com)
7 points by hhm on Jan 23, 2008
28. Teens form suicide pact on BeBo with seven victims so far (telegraph.co.uk)
7 points by Alex3917 on Jan 23, 2008 | 12 comments
29. Canada Needs to Realize The Technology Business is a Race (startupnorth.ca)
7 points by jmacd on Jan 23, 2008
30. Garlic Programmers for Silver Code? How your code base affects productivity (valuedlessons.com)
6 points by danw on Jan 23, 2008 | 1 comment

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