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1.Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness (theabyssgazes.blogspot.com)
314 points by mikecane on March 15, 2010 | 64 comments
2.VMware: the new Redis home (antirez.com)
196 points by davidw on March 15, 2010 | 39 comments
3.Care about search privacy? Duck Duck Go no longer logs IPs. (gabrielweinberg.com)
189 points by epi0Bauqu on March 15, 2010 | 95 comments
4.Why No Jobs (aaronsw.com)
112 points by stuntgoat on March 15, 2010 | 105 comments
5. Now A No-Evil Zone (tbray.org)
102 points by wglb on March 15, 2010 | 76 comments
6.Puppy (or, details on Joel Spolsky's retirement from blogging) (joelonsoftware.com)
102 points by 100k on March 15, 2010 | 49 comments
7.U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks [pdf] (wikileaks.org)
95 points by shrikant on March 15, 2010 | 24 comments
8.An open letter to Netflix from the authors of the de-anonymization paper (33bits.org)
89 points by randomwalker on March 15, 2010 | 65 comments
9.EventMachine: scalable non-blocking i/o in ruby (timetobleed.com)
82 points by tmm1 on March 15, 2010 | 37 comments
10.Gorbachev: Perestroika Lost (nytimes.com)
81 points by ph0rque on March 15, 2010 | 65 comments
11.Ask HN: Are you a single founder ?
82 points by jarsj on March 15, 2010 | 113 comments
12.Success of a Marriage in 15 Minutes? (slate.com)
79 points by JeffJenkins on March 15, 2010 | 35 comments
13.Greenspun applies a book of sales advice to his business (greenspun.com)
74 points by davi on March 15, 2010 | 8 comments
14.My Mega HN Dinner Party (32 people, 7 courses) (bumblebeelabs.com)
74 points by shalmanese on March 15, 2010 | 30 comments
15.The Largest Infrastructure Project in History: Chinese High-Speed Rail to Europe (cleantechnica.com)
68 points by limist on March 15, 2010 | 92 comments
16.How I develop Clojure with Vim (writequit.org)
67 points by swannodette on March 15, 2010 | 30 comments
17.Tips to reduce Amazon ec2 costs (aws-musings.com)
66 points by vpuranik on March 15, 2010 | 9 comments

Thank you guys! This is going to be another world for me. The latest months I worked an insane number of hours per day in order to do both Redis and my real work. Now I'll have more hours for Redis, in an environment where I'm more supported full of skilled techs, and not doing other works.
19.The Dropout Economy (time.com)
63 points by jlhamilton on March 15, 2010 | 70 comments
20.Math Books Organized by Area of Mathematics (math-blog.com)
64 points by acangiano on March 15, 2010 | 31 comments
21.Top Things That Annoy Programmers (kevinwilliampang.com)
63 points by superberliner on March 15, 2010 | 57 comments
22.The C Object System: Using C as a High-Level Object-Oriented Language (arxiv.org)
62 points by jedbrown on March 15, 2010 | 24 comments

It is probably not an accident that this is phrased in such an odd way, with the subjects of the sentences missing. It should read "we got in the second time, but I dropped out a week later." What happened is that Siqi and a cofounder started YC, then a week in Siqi bailed and left his cofounder in the lurch because a side project of his had unexpectedly taken off. We suggested making the side project be the focus of the startup they were doing, but Siqi didn't want to share it with his cofounder. His poor cofounder kept going and managed to recruit someone new, but the startup limped along without Siqi and didn't live much past demo day. It was probably the most treacherous thing one cofounder has done to another in YC so far.

I would never have said anything publicly about the matter, but I can't stand to hear it described in this misleading way.

24.Paul Graham speaking on SXSW panel today and YC meetup after (ycombinator.posterous.com)
64 points by Harj on March 15, 2010 | 15 comments

That's pretty disappointing. I'd love to hear an official explanation of why this choice was made.

> "Mr. Bernanke has a lot of money, as do the other bankers on the committee and the people who selected them. So they’ve decided to let millions and millions of people be unemployed and the rest of us experience the resulting recession rather than risk the chance that some of their money might be worth a little less."

Okay, I was with you until this part - that's a pretty serious claim to make without any substantiating evidence, or even something that kind of looks like evidence.

This seems like a gross oversimplification of a complex problem to me, and like most other gross oversimplifications of the recession, seems to just pin the blame on "greedy bankers".

27.Comparison of YC, TechStars, Founders Institute, and Fenwick Financing Documents (startupcompanylawyer.com)
56 points by skmurphy on March 15, 2010 | 7 comments
28.Descent into Darkness: Understanding your system’s ABI is the only way out (timetobleed.com)
54 points by ice799 on March 15, 2010 | 21 comments

As a photographer, this post is way full of crap - look at famous photographs, and you will see the exact same thing even before the days of Photoshop.

These colors are used because they work, and they project a certain effect on your images. Blaming this on the advent of computers is disingenuous - photographers have been shooting at Golden Hour for generations to capture the contrasty orangeness since God knows when.

30.Programming is the new literacy (edutopia.org)
51 points by Xichekolas on March 15, 2010 | 36 comments

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