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1.Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks (dropmocks.com)
241 points by gmurphy on Sept 17, 2010 | 106 comments
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4.Implementing Shazam with Java in a weekend (redcode.nl)
175 points by haasted on Sept 17, 2010 | 23 comments
5.Ask HN: What do you want to tell Microsoft?
164 points by pwatsonwailes on Sept 17, 2010 | 375 comments
6.Trouble with Diaspora (steveklabnik.com)
153 points by brettbender on Sept 17, 2010 | 161 comments
7.How To Go From Idea To Launching With Paying Customers In 8 Steps (jasonlbaptiste.com)
153 points by jasonlbaptiste on Sept 17, 2010 | 41 comments
8.Coding Horror: YouTube vs. Fair Use (codinghorror.com)
147 points by fogus on Sept 17, 2010 | 100 comments
9.Confirmed: Intel says HDCP 'master key' crack is real (engadget.com)
148 points by there on Sept 17, 2010 | 54 comments
10.Want To Be A Freelancer? Just Punch Yourself In The Face, Instead (terribleminds.com)
137 points by jamesbritt on Sept 17, 2010 | 61 comments
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12.What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (stackoverflow.com)
127 points by tszming on Sept 17, 2010 | 46 comments
13.6502 simulated at transistor level in Javascript (visual6502.org)
123 points by pnp on Sept 17, 2010 | 28 comments
14.Why most people don’t succeed – How you can be the exception (dontgetburnedblog.com)
119 points by KentHealy on Sept 17, 2010 | 37 comments
15.Making Posterous faster with Varnish page caching (technology.posterous.com)
104 points by rantfoil on Sept 17, 2010 | 20 comments
16.Patrick's greatest hits (kalzumeus.com)
99 points by px on Sept 17, 2010 | 20 comments
17.Logicly - the digital logic simulator (logic.ly)
98 points by shawndumas on Sept 17, 2010 | 45 comments
18."50% of firm founders [in Silicon Valley] are foreign born" (economist.com)
97 points by cwan on Sept 17, 2010 | 55 comments
19.Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust (readwriteweb.com)
94 points by malte on Sept 17, 2010 | 63 comments

I've got to admit to taking a certain guilty pleasure in these numbers after Posterous' last campaign to get switchers. They were pompous, arrogent, and unnecessarily slagged on their competition. I'm pleased to see that such nasty tactics (apparently) paid little dividends.
21.My Experience as a Single Founder
87 points by fotoblur on Sept 17, 2010 | 20 comments
22.Groupon Responds: Too much of a good thing? (groublogpon.com)
86 points by lid on Sept 17, 2010 | 53 comments
23.Chrome 7 Will Get 60 Times Faster (pcworld.com)
84 points by twymer on Sept 17, 2010 | 57 comments
24.Vaccines don't cause autism (kottke.org)
80 points by bkudria on Sept 17, 2010 | 109 comments
25.Then Welcome To Android (daringfireball.net)
79 points by mrshoe on Sept 17, 2010 | 69 comments
26.Why vertical farms are a crock. (monbiot.com)
74 points by jlangenauer on Sept 17, 2010 | 94 comments

What gives these foreigners the right to come over here and make American jobs? That leaves fewer jobs for native-born Americans to make!
28.Polymaps - A JavaScript Library for Image and Vector-tiled Maps (polymaps.org)
72 points by mgunes on Sept 17, 2010 | 25 comments
29.S3 glitch causes Tarsnap outage (daemonology.net)
71 points by cperciva on Sept 17, 2010 | 20 comments

And finally, they didn’t expect a cent back, telling us to give all the money back to our later investors. Not once in my whole time at YC did I believe that they valued their investment more than they valued us, and they were OK with us closing down. YC is a class act.

Personally I find this to be one of the best endorsements of YC that I've read. How people treat you when things don't work out is really, really important.


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