2007-04-19 front | Hacker News

Stories from April 19, 2007

Go back a day or month. Go forward a day, month, or year.

1.		Why Is Twitter Using A Database In The First Place? (mooseyard.com)
		21 points by mattjaynes on April 19, 2007 \| 23 comments
2.		Amazon sues Alexaholic, everyone loses (zdnet.com)
		14 points by pg on April 19, 2007 \| 12 comments
3.		Shared Virtual vs Dedicated vs Colocated server hosting - which do you use for your startup?
		15 points by nanott on April 19, 2007 \| 16 comments
4.		We have a winner (startup choosing RoR) (pretheory.com)
		12 points by mattculbreth on April 19, 2007 \| 12 comments
5.		Meeting OpenMoko (operationaldynamics.com)
		12 points by pg on April 19, 2007 \| 10 comments
6.		Twiddla: 1000 Signups on Day One (by Not Making People Register) (twiddla.blogspot.com)
		11 points by pg on April 19, 2007 \| 3 comments
7.		Better Than Rules: How Bayesian Theory Is The New If Statement (greggurevich.com)
		10 points by bkmrkr on April 19, 2007 \| 6 comments
8.		Joy of Victory OR Fear of Failure. What's driving you?
		11 points by dottertrotter on April 19, 2007 \| 11 comments
9.		Cofounders - how high a bar?
		9 points by anon on April 19, 2007 \| 20 comments
10.		My thoughts on my upcoming YCombinator interview (mattmaroon.com)
		9 points by mattmaroon on April 19, 2007 \| 8 comments
11.		Get vested for time served (venturehacks.com)
		9 points by kf on April 19, 2007 \| 9 comments
12.		Joe Kraus: Hiring. No False Positives (bnoopy.typepad.com)
		9 points by mattjaynes on April 19, 2007 \| 10 comments
13.		Outlook 2007--downgrade no longer (joelonsoftware.com)
		8 points by mattculbreth on April 19, 2007 \| 10 comments
14.		American Idol and Venture Capital (firstround.com)
		8 points by jkopelman on April 19, 2007 \| 5 comments
15.		First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users (useit.com)
		7 points by brlewis on April 19, 2007 \| 4 comments
16.		Best places to network with super geeks in the bay area
		7 points by waleedka on April 19, 2007 \| 6 comments
17.		35 Designers x 5 Questions - Interesting (smashingmagazine.com)
		8 points by dawie on April 19, 2007 \| 1 comment
18.		Headin' to California, with an aching in my heart...
		7 points by Prrometheus on April 19, 2007 \| 21 comments
19.		news.YC SF Weekend Meetup?
		6 points by blader on April 19, 2007 \| 9 comments
20.		Google Earnings Are Out (investor.google.com)
		5 points by yaacovtp on April 19, 2007 \| 4 comments
21.		The one thing wrong with sites like Digg (onstartups.com)
		6 points by mattculbreth on April 19, 2007 \| 2 comments
22.		100 million OpenIDs in service (readwriteweb.com)
		5 points by dawie on April 19, 2007 \| 8 comments
23.		Overnight success (sethgodin.typepad.com)
		5 points by zaidf on April 19, 2007 \| 5 comments
24.		Business Cards: Do you have them and what do you put on them?
		5 points by danw on April 19, 2007 \| 12 comments
25.		What is the best RoR book for beginners? Best online resources?
		4 points by ballred on April 19, 2007 \| 10 comments
26.		Linden open-sourcing Second Life "backend" (Mitch Kapor gets his wish?) (zdnet.com)
		4 points by __ on April 19, 2007
27.		37signals wants to charge their customers for the chance to give them customer feedback (37signals.com)
		4 points by brett on April 19, 2007 \| 9 comments
28.		The Blog is the New Resume (so true) (bokardo.com)
		4 points by blader on April 19, 2007
29.		I'm Hung Up on Main Memory Databases (oreillynet.com)
		4 points by bootload on April 19, 2007 \| 1 comment
30.		IdeaStorm Forces Dell Once Again, This Time to Bring Windows XP Back (startupmeme.com)
		4 points by usablecontent on April 19, 2007 \| 1 comment
		More

HN For You