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Build a blog. Keep it simple: Have a homepage with 10 most recent posts - Post can have many comments - Only users can comment - Users must be logged in to comment - Only you (an a…

Heroku does this - they have a nice console interface for pulling down the logs from your deployed app. Granted, it is not quite the same as Gmail, but it's always a start. Maybe i…

This is great news! Have been missing this feature for a while now.

Putting aside all discussion on the validity of software patents, Apple really has an obligation to step in and muscle Lodsys to the ground. And I expect that is exactly what they …

I think it goes back to the learnings from the original tech bubble: companies with a real business plan survive, those with a nebulous product don't make it. For example: Amazon w…

Agree! Another example of this that my old music teacher used to give all the time was John Coltrane. Everybody agrees that he was a great player, but he wasn't a prodigy. He was n…

How about a rotating group of admin users? Every 30 days a new batch of X users with greater than N karma get to bury/downvote/ban poor quality submissions/comments. This group wou…

If I were to rephrase the question on this thread, it seems to me that it could also be stated as "how do you keep HN comments from turning into Slashdot comments"? I don't say tha…

A good friend of mine started programming in the 1980s and was a heavy user of IDMS at the beginning of their career. As relational systems got more popular (read: Oracle showed up…

An underrated game I've never been able to find again was Hyperspeed by Microprose. Super awesome. Anyone know where to find a copy?

Isn't it more in the ear?

Amen - I forget the interview, but there was a great interview with Steve Jobs where he said that to make great things happen, you need a broad range of life experience. That tends…

My browser is giving me a phishing warning for this link?

For web folks, RFC 2616 could/should be considered required reading. I'm wondering which RFCs gave you the most "a-ha" moments and why? And, which RFCs do you think everyone should…

Hi HN, I have a friend who is starting to blog and who blogs from many different blogging engines. Keeping track of passwords/email/accounts/etc. is turning into the usual headache…

At the risk of starting a religious war... zsh is a little snappier than bash and offers some neat options which are not present in bash (at least not out of the box AFAIK - e.g. s…

Slashdot? I read HN.

Will become? Is.

I would have paid attention to this article but I'm too busy streaming "Robin Hood: Men in Tights".

A programming language that does exactly what you want, exactly how you want it, exactly when you need it.

Why not create a "Bay Area" HN? :P

Heh...some of these things are "intro to IP networks and UNIX".

YES!!!