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Top of Year 2008

1. Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
   (19 Jul 2008 | 532 points | Comments)

2. Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
   (16 Oct 2008 | 254 points | Comments)

3. Love, Internet Style
   (12 Dec 2008 | 242 points | Comments)

4. Arc's Out
   (29 Jan 2008 | 240 points | Comments)

5. You weren't meant to have a boss
   (20 Mar 2008 | 239 points | Comments)

6. Wow, check out this guy's comment
   (29 Dec 2008 | 233 points | Comments)

7. Congrats to PG on getting hitched
   (1 Jun 2008 | 228 points | Comments)

8. “Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape
   (6 Nov 2008 | 228 points | Comments)

9. Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880)
   (20 Sep 2008 | 227 points | Comments)

10. Diary of a Failed Startup
    (23 Jun 2008 | 224 points | Comments)

11. How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub
    (20 Oct 2008 | 224 points | Comments)

12. I don't want to work very hard
    (11 Dec 2008 | 224 points | Comments)

13. How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy)
    (1 Aug 2008 | 220 points | Comments)

14. Start a side project, says GitHub founder
    (20 Aug 2008 | 210 points | Comments)

15. Startups Wiki: Ask YC Archive
    (8 May 2008 | 198 points | Comments)

16. So you want to be a consultant?
    (28 Dec 2008 | 193 points | Comments)

17. New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky
    (17 Mar 2008 | 192 points | Comments)

18. Lies We Tell Kids
    (13 May 2008 | 188 points | Comments)

19. Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer
    (25 Jul 2008 | 187 points | Comments)

20. Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
    (25 Sep 2008 | 186 points | Comments)

21. After Credentials
    (16 Dec 2008 | 186 points | Comments)

22. Tell HN: Vote.
    (4 Nov 2008 | 184 points | Comments)

23. How to Disagree
    (29 Mar 2008 | 183 points | Comments)

24. Be Good
    (20 Apr 2008 | 182 points | Comments)

25. The other half of "Artists Ship"
    (28 Nov 2008 | 182 points | Comments)

26. Hacker News Site Guidelines
    (10 Mar 2008 | 177 points | Comments)

27. A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
    (29 Oct 2008 | 177 points | Comments)

28. The nicest math book I own
    (22 Dec 2008 | 175 points | Comments)

29. Don’t Mistake Ambition for Entitlement
    (24 Oct 2008 | 174 points | Comments)

30. Profitable Until Deemed Illegal
    (12 Dec 2008 | 174 points | Comments)

31. Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things
    (16 Feb 2008 | 173 points | Comments)

32. Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project
    (1 Sep 2008 | 173 points | Comments)

33. Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
    (22 Apr 2008 | 172 points | Comments)

34. Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (CSS Guide)
    (27 Oct 2008 | 172 points | Comments)

35. Let's End Adolescence
    (9 Nov 2008 | 172 points | Comments)

36. Freezing cold, no Internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference
    (10 Dec 2008 | 171 points | Comments)

37. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
    (15 Jul 2008 | 170 points | Comments)

38. Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from reddit.
    (18 Jun 2008 | 168 points | Comments)

39. Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08)
    (30 Jul 2008 | 168 points | Comments)

40. Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue
    (14 Nov 2008 | 168 points | Comments)

41. The High-Res Society
    (3 Dec 2008 | 168 points | Comments)

42. Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000
    (25 Nov 2008 | 166 points | Comments)

43. I'm out, baby
    (11 Sep 2008 | 164 points | Comments)

44. Ask HN: Who's Hiring?
    (24 Nov 2008 | 163 points | Comments)

45. Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
    (5 Dec 2008 | 160 points | Comments)

46. Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck
    (17 Oct 2008 | 158 points | Comments)

47. Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
    (19 Nov 2008 | 158 points | Comments)

48. Cities and Ambition
    (27 May 2008 | 156 points | Comments)

49. Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Angel Funding Legal Docs
    (13 Aug 2008 | 156 points | Comments)

50. Reflections of a YC Dropout
    (12 Oct 2008 | 155 points | Comments)

51. How people really use the iPhone
    (10 Nov 2008 | 155 points | Comments)

52. Ever wondered what the 'Free Public WiFi' networks you see everywhere are?
    (4 Dec 2008 | 155 points | Comments)

53. Rails and Merb Merge
    (23 Dec 2008 | 155 points | Comments)

54. Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
    (26 Apr 2008 | 153 points | Comments)

55. PG: Disconnecting Distraction
    (17 May 2008 | 153 points | Comments)

56. The Google Chrome download link is live.
    (2 Sep 2008 | 153 points | Comments)

57. Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs
    (15 Dec 2008 | 153 points | Comments)

58. Why There Aren't More Googles
    (14 Apr 2008 | 152 points | Comments)

59. My Public Apology
    (21 Nov 2008 | 151 points | Comments)

60. How do you generate passive income?
    (6 Dec 2008 | 151 points | Comments)

61. The genius of late bloomers - Gladwell
    (13 Oct 2008 | 150 points | Comments)

62. Tell Hacker News: Throwaway accounts
    (11 Nov 2008 | 149 points | Comments)

63. Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software
    (22 Aug 2008 | 148 points | Comments)

64. Amazon Moving To Frustration-Free Packaging
    (3 Nov 2008 | 147 points | Comments)

65. Python 3.0 Released
    (4 Dec 2008 | 147 points | Comments)

66. A Fundraising Survival Guide
    (8 Aug 2008 | 145 points | Comments)

67. IPhone NDA officially dropped
    (1 Oct 2008 | 145 points | Comments)

68. CNN/Fox Projection: Obama wins presidential election.
    (5 Nov 2008 | 145 points | Comments)

69. Why S3 went down
    (26 Jul 2008 | 144 points | Comments)

70. The Tech (MIT student newspaper) publishes the banned DEFCON slides
    (9 Aug 2008 | 144 points | Comments)

71. Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07)
    (11 Sep 2008 | 144 points | Comments)

72. Codepad.org, a pastebin that executes code
    (4 Mar 2008 | 143 points | Comments)

73. Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic
    (27 Oct 2008 | 143 points | Comments)

74. Genius hack by PhD candidate (with source code): Turn any monitor into a 3D display using a Wiimote
    (22 Feb 2008 | 142 points | Comments)

75. Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C
    (9 Sep 2008 | 140 points | Comments)

76. Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine
    (8 Apr 2008 | 139 points | Comments)

77. Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer
    (30 Sep 2008 | 139 points | Comments)

78. PG on trolls
    (16 Feb 2008 | 137 points | Comments)

79. Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too
    (20 May 2008 | 137 points | Comments)

80. Done, and Gets Things Smart
    (17 Jun 2008 | 137 points | Comments)

81. Why Not To Do A Startup
    (19 Mar 2008 | 136 points | Comments)

82. Tell YC: Answers from John McCarthy
    (9 May 2008 | 136 points | Comments)

83. Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week
    (23 Sep 2008 | 135 points | Comments)

84. Paul Krugman: How I work
    (14 Oct 2008 | 135 points | Comments)

85. Pmarca: If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo
    (28 Apr 2008 | 134 points | Comments)

86. My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain?
    (15 May 2008 | 134 points | Comments)

87. Dropbox launches (YC summer 07)
    (11 Mar 2008 | 133 points | Comments)

88. Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor
    (1 May 2008 | 133 points | Comments)

89. The IT Contract from Hell
    (18 Nov 2008 | 133 points | Comments)

90. Dear Reddit, Hacker News...
    (25 Dec 2008 | 133 points | Comments)

91. Calvin and Jobs (comic)
    (2 Aug 2008 | 132 points | Comments)

92. Django 1.0 is finally here
    (3 Sep 2008 | 132 points | Comments)

93. Architecture astronauts take over
    (1 May 2008 | 131 points | Comments)

94. The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
    (23 Jun 2008 | 131 points | Comments)

95. If programming languages were religions
    (16 Dec 2008 | 131 points | Comments)

96. JL: Why I Do YC
    (5 Jul 2008 | 130 points | Comments)

97. Series AA Documents Back Online
    (21 Aug 2008 | 130 points | Comments)

98. $700bn Bailout is shot down by House of Rep Vote (205-228), US stock market plummets
    (29 Sep 2008 | 130 points | Comments)

99. Python 2.6 Released
    (2 Oct 2008 | 130 points | Comments)

100. Ask YC: Startup crisis. Out of money and tech co-founder has bailed.
     (7 May 2008 | 129 points | Comments)