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1.HN Members' Workspaces (pathdependent.com)
170 points by chasingsparks on May 2, 2010 | 201 comments
2.Zero Zero (rafaelcorrales.com)
148 points by rafaelc on May 2, 2010 | 18 comments
3.If you code HTML, Zen Coding will change your life (downloadsquad.com)
136 points by michaelfairley on May 2, 2010 | 42 comments
4.Why I Canceled My Facebook Account (primevector.wordpress.com)
133 points by imperator on May 2, 2010 | 82 comments
5.Reasons You Should Quit Facebook (rocket.ly)
132 points by rwolf on May 2, 2010 | 59 comments
6.Relocating from San Francisco to Seattle: cost comparison (wolframalpha.com)
120 points by vtail on May 2, 2010 | 75 comments
7.Lead OGG Dev Responds to Jobs Jibes (ibeentoubuntu.com)
111 points by alexkay on May 2, 2010 | 18 comments
8.Steve Jobs, circa 2020: "Thoughts on country roads" (startuptrekking.com)
97 points by sendos on May 2, 2010 | 86 comments
9.Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA (osnews.com)
85 points by hernan7 on May 2, 2010 | 32 comments

No, I'm really happy with the service that they provide. If there's something that's actually private, I'm not going to be posting it on the Internet in the first place.
11.Focus (mtu.edu)
77 points by PieSquared on May 2, 2010 | 15 comments
12.If you're looking for startup ideas this might help (querycell.com)
64 points by samh on May 2, 2010 | 14 comments
13.Ways to get 100 potential customers for $5 a day (gabrielweinberg.com)
65 points by michaelfairley on May 2, 2010 | 10 comments
14.Happy 1st Birthday, Wolfram Alpha (wolframalpha.com)
63 points by shawndumas on May 2, 2010 | 34 comments
15.Bumptop acquired by Google (bumptop.com)
63 points by thehodge on May 2, 2010 | 37 comments
16.Roll your own computer science masters (philcrissman.com)
53 points by bjhess on May 2, 2010 | 24 comments
17.The Pink Floyd Night School (nytimes.com)
51 points by robg on May 2, 2010 | 9 comments
18.Why Your Facebook Ads ‘Don’t Work’. (oonwoye.com)
51 points by OoTheNigerian on May 2, 2010 | 28 comments
19.Understand The Web by Ben Ward (benward.me)
49 points by mikecane on May 2, 2010 | 7 comments

It's safe, secure and reliable.

You will seriously need to expand on these points to get customers. Looking at the idea blind, I can't see how it can be any of these things. No pretty UI stuff will be needed until it's a viable business, and addressing these three concerns strikes me as paramount.


That's a seriously exaggerated title.
22.Testing the Limits of Credit Card Signatures (Part 1) (zug.com)
48 points by chaosmachine on May 2, 2010 | 36 comments

The only bad experiences I've had after sharing my idea are:

1) realizing that my original idea sucks and that it needed to evolve or completely change

2) realizing that even if my idea is good, most people are either indifferent to it or they hate it. Which makes me think of this quote, "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."

Neither experience is pleasant. Both are morale killers.

Ideas are cheap.

24.The iPad’s Dirty Secret (codesketch.com)
47 points by g0atbutt on May 2, 2010 | 58 comments

I didn't sign up with Facebook expecting them to be good at any of these things. I don't care about Facebook privacy: I didn't give them any private data. I don't care if applications can see my private data: my data isn't private and, more importantly, I don't sign up for applications. I don't plan on going into business with Facebook. I don't care how they treat their developer partners. None of this stuff matters to me.

Why am I pointing this out? Because I think my attitude represents a huge chunk of Facebook's users, and I think most of what's left over after you subtract that chunk consists of people who don't care about privacy period.

I use LinkedIn for business. I use Twitter for geeky stuff. I use Facebook for non-geeky stuff and to post pictures of my kids in their halloween costumes. It all seems to be working out OK for me.

26.Ask HN: Bad experiences after sharing your idea?
42 points by tom_ilsinszki on May 2, 2010 | 40 comments
27.The Rise of Content Farms (economist.com)
41 points by J3L2404 on May 2, 2010 | 15 comments
28.A Russian Star Rises in Silicon Valley (businessweek.com)
39 points by jasonlbaptiste on May 2, 2010 | 6 comments
29.PG's Binary Search Trees in Clojure (lisp.org)
38 points by nkh on May 2, 2010 | 5 comments
30.Matthieu Ricard shows results of recent experiments with experienced meditators (youtube.com)
38 points by ulvund on May 2, 2010 | 3 comments

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