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"hacker newsletter is not affiliated with y combinator in any way" Glad that this is stated on the website. Given the colours and name you may think they are affiliated?

Ikea are absolutely brilliant. Some may have issues with their style or perceived quality however for price and flexibility they dominate. Other companies are trying to mimic the f…

This is fantastic. For most people, this type of stuff goes unnoticed. However this is great. I think we should start compiling a list of similar alignments around the world?

Unlucky you have been curtailed by Apple for now but sure you can rework your model to fit within what is allowable. Keep persevering as you seem to have built a useful application…

HP announced 27k last week. Ericsson proposing 1.7k. Unsurprising those no longer at the top have to reduce their workforce. RIM has dropped the ball recently (two significant publ…

You really need a large existing online presence to make Twitter work effectively. We have found Twitter extremely difficult to create any real traffic or interest [1]. We have tri…

Microsoft's new venture So.cl http://www.so.cl/&#62 ; has two log in options - Live and Facebook. Unless Microsoft are using this as an opportunity to leverage Facebook user info o…

Funny this blog post is from 2005. I use to have the THX sound play when logging into Windows (sad times). The Music Thing blog has some other great posts about music and instrumen…

For the past week all my submitted links have automatically been marked as dead. I suspect a weekend project to auto submit to HN has ended up with some form of suspension. Is it p…

What are twitter and the book makers predicting?

Never heard of towel day. This may explain the guy on the bus who got on, towel only. Respect.

Really like duck duck go and was impressed when I first heard about it on an interview podcast with the founder. Unsure why anyone would hold negative comments about a free tool th…

Cannot attend but are many German meetups held in German/English? Ie could you get by with speaking English only?

Was google or Facebook first? If you're passionate about the concept then push ahead. The fact you have one competitor (or more) just validates you have a market.

Checkout the usual Meetup type sites and google but not sure how big the scene is in a Adelaide. Maybe you need to start your own? Startup or Hackathon Adelaide?

Really interesting interview and product. Like how you can take various media types and compile them all smartly on a web page.

Nice app. Who is the target market? Is this app backed up by any research?

That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.

The author makes some easy to implement suggestions. However perfecting these methods takes time and skill. Growing traffic organically through SEO alone is tough. Kudos to those t…

Remarkable. Three days after launch and they're about to hook up with a space station. One small step...

So if we apply industry standard valuation techniques, tested against an existing listed tech company Facebook is valued at $13.80. Why did everyone buy it at more than double the …

"Overall, Google received 1.24 million requests from 1,296 copyright owners for removal the past month. They targeted 24,129 domains." Must be a full time job to fill out all those…

Really great image however I was confused by one comment on the page suggesting there are more than 892 variations. "I was confused at first because so many partitions are not on t…