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811.
by matt1 17y ago
Hover over the lines -- click any of the points to go to the comments.
812.
by matt1 17y ago
The idea for HNTrends has been bouncing around in my head for about a year as one of those man-I-wish-I-had-more-free-time-type side projects. I recently decided to take up learning Flash and ActionScript and this seemed like the perfect op
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Tell HN: Check out HNTrends.com(hntrends.com)
126 points by matt1 17y ago|55 comments
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Cool Digg comments visualization(mattryall.net)
1 points by matt1 17y ago|0 comments
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What’s the most egregious pop culture perversion of programming?(stackoverflow.com)
4 points by matt1 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Extending the morning rush of ideas
2 points by matt1 17y ago|2 comments
817.
by matt1 17y ago
eHow kind of does that: http://www.ehow.com/search.aspx?s=hot+water&Options=0
818.
by matt1 17y ago
What's the series called?
819.
by matt1 17y ago
PowerSet comes to mind. How hard was it to do what they did? (I know nothing about semantic search with the exception of what it is.)
820.
by matt1 17y ago
To their credit, 80legs does make crawling the web much easier than starting from scratch so it does answer the question of how to begin.
821.
by matt1 17y ago
I just read through everything on your site with the exception of the wiki -- pretty amazing stuff you guys are doing. There are so many possibilities... just wow. Nice work.
822.
by matt1 17y ago
That's cheating :)
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Ask HN: What strategy would you take to build a search engine today?
30 points by matt1 17y ago|44 comments
824.
by matt1 17y ago
I'd like to go (central Jersey is kind of dead as far as startups go), but it's quite a commute for after work on a Thursday evening. Any chance of doing these on Fridays or Saturdays in the future? You might get people from the region that
825.
by matt1 17y ago
Does anyone else get the feeling this is some kind of experiment like the 'Follow me on Twitter' tests?
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E3 2009: Project Natal Xbox 360 Announcement(youtube.com)
1 points by matt1 17y ago|0 comments
827.
by matt1 17y ago
Great article. I built a poker bot (see my submissions for more info) and can safely say that if your original intent was to build one too, you would have been way better off screen scraping. It's not nearly as elegant or as cool, but it ge
828.
by matt1 17y ago
Is there a video of demo day online? I'd love to watch it--previous ones too if possible.
829.
by matt1 17y ago
Why does it have to be one or the other? :P
830.
by matt1 17y ago
If its a choice between buying the ticket now for $89 or later for several hundred, you're probably off better buying now even if you think your chances of getting selected are slim.
831.
by matt1 17y ago
I've been looking forward to this year's startup school for some time and hope I get the opportunity to go. If accepted, I'd be flying in from the east coast. Since no one finds out before the submission deadline, I'm stuck making travel ar
832.
by matt1 17y ago
Founders at Work details HotOrNot's launch. If I remember correctly, they worked out a deal with Rackspace where Rackspace would provide hosting and HotOrNot would promote the fledgling hosting company whenever they could.
833.
by matt1 17y ago
Given that Facebook launched their realtime search today, that would be a pretty amazing integration time... http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-flips-the-swit...
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by matt1 17y ago
Any guestimates on the acquisition price? It'll be fun to point back here if we ever find out.
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by matt1 17y ago
Is there a consolidated list of business models being used on the internet?
836.
by matt1 17y ago
New Jersey :(
837.
by matt1 17y ago
Any guesses on how much it costs to keep one of these running in terms of money or effort?
838.
by matt1 17y ago
In the past some of my search results took me to Scribd pages where the only relevant result was a previous search query of mine that they took and listed on the right as part of the related sarches section. If they are moving away from thi
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by matt1 17y ago
I burst out laughing when I read that in the article. This is good too: "Never-opened small bottle of spring water. We observed the street corner box surreptitiously the following day upon mail collection. After puzzling briefly over this i
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by matt1 17y ago
From the article: Treasury’s position is that if it doesn’t drag VC firms into the bureaucratic swamp, then high-rolling hedge funds playing with borrowed money will present themselves as venture funds to avoid regulation. How does this w

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