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Having spent the last couple years developing a bookmarking / archiving service which is somewhat similar to Kippt (as well as Historious and Pinboard + Archiving) I'd be intereste…

DuckDuckGo uses more than just Bing for it's search backend [1], however I wonder if their other sources are enough to compensate for the potential loss of Bing. [1] http://help.du…

I'm a developer at the company who makes Interstate53, and I have to say your comment made me smile. I assure you we're not logging any credentials and strive to keep our users hap…

Sounds a lot like me for a perfect use for a Mac Mini Server or Pogoplug.

It would be a great open source project. What is your plan for the site? What "niche" are you targeting and what is your goal with the site?

Freelancers of Hacker News (specifically those of you who are freelance web designers / developers), I'm just starting out however am having issues attempting to come up with somet…

I've got a month to start making around $1,000 a month online. I'm 17, and basically need this money to bootstrap my life. My skills include: HTML / CSS, Photoshop, Ruby / Rails, P…

Is there a way I can input burritos? I entered my address, and nothing came up. There's a great hole-in-the-wall not to far from here that'd be perfect.

I see what you're saying... So you are saying that because facts are so hard to find, and bias is all over, it would be helpful to point out bias for the sake of clarity? I like th…

What aren't I tricking myself into thinking?.. That I would like to make the news as non-biased as possible, that I'd like to use bullet points, or that I'd like to use facts?

I unfortunately don't live in the Bay Area. I live in Sacramento, and have had the pleasure of going to the Googleplex, but unfortunately couldn't make it there. Thanks for the lin…

I personally HATE social networking in my news. That is, for example, you going to the Huffington Post and seeing Facebook Connect buttons, as well as Twitter / Google / Yahoo! log…

Yes, my "how do I..." question was retaining to all of what you said. Support, attention, users, contributers. I know how to do the site, front and back. I know how to host. I know…

I like the sound of that. I have done PHP / MySQL, and learned Django before jumping ship to Ruby on Rails. I'm now exclusively Rails, but also have toyed with C# in the past. As f…

Yes. I want to use a news source that is built mainly around bullet points, short sweet facts. A news source that provides resources for it's users to do it's own research, but not…

Because I have ideas I feel could shake the news industry up, even if it's just for a small niche of people. I don't really want to be a "me too" site.

I think I can write, but I certainly don't know if I can in the form of reporting. The kind of information I'm interested in publishing is non-biased facts. I doubt a news site cou…

Hey there. I have a question: I want to start a news website, how do I do it? I can code (front end and backend), and I can study topics, learn them, and make them easy to understa…