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What almost everyone fails to realize is that Flash is already as open as it possibly can be. The SWF file specification and the player virtual machine are open and completely desc…

Strange thing just happened - About an hour ago I submitted a link to a friend's brother's project that he released tonight: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=827506 The post had…

This framework was developed by my friend's brother, and was released this evening. He's been working on it for over a year and quit his job to focus on it. I think he is the singl…

Clay's surfing is simply incredible. For a more visual example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZbUuwM4_w

As a surfer I already think waves are incredible...this just confirms it! Ocean waves are an amazing thing. Lots of untapped energy.

Not in my install, at least. I will admit the scanning is more obtrusive than I would like, but besides that there are no irregularities like that that make it an annoyance.

This is an old article. I also removed AVG after seeing this ridiculous behavior, but after updating it on a different machine I realized they had seen the error of their ways and …

I've always loved this one, great message and a really good speaker http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robert_ballard_on_explori... "NASA's 1 year budget would fund NOAA's budget t…

I've always loved this one, great message and a good speaker http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robert_ballard_on_explori... "NASA's 1 year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explo…

I've always loved this one, great message and a good speaker http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robert_ballard_on_explori... "NASA's 1 year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explo…

I've always loved this one, great message and a good speaker http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robert_ballard_on_explori... "NASA's 1 year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explo…

If you use iTunes, check out Genius. I only tried for the first time yesterday, but was amazed at the degree of interesting new music that matched my tastes.

edit: found your email in comments, so no need to contact! Again, great work. Think of how much you could accomplish for non-profits if half the visitors to this site spent 1 week …

I've literally been talking about the same idea with friends for almost a month now! We'd met with quite a few non-profits with the intentions of providing some unique contribution…

Nice, I'm in Santa Cruz but scored pretty decent OB the other day ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/bporterfield/3087430163/ ) Interestingly enough I was planning on emailing your com…

oh yea? Where?

Where were you surfing?

do you surf, by chance?

honeyman, is your group still waiting on a response? Am I the only one left that can't find a response email?

Ok, but all jokes aside, we're still waiting for an email :(. I might have made a mistake, but I'm pretty sure I triple-checked my email address in the application, and I also have…

I'm still waiting on a response too...maybe it's some kind of YC startup challenge; none of the undecideds get notified, and the team that handles the pressure the best gets the fi…

Interesting - thought i saw pg say only the main applicant would be contacted.

Only the main applicant will be contacted. I'm waiting on mine too! Is anyone else that applied still waiting for a response?