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Stories from February 2, 2008
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1. Take the Arc Challenge (paulgraham.com)
51 points by mqt on Feb 2, 2008 | 34 comments
2. Ask YC: Status of your startup
48 points by robmnl on Feb 2, 2008 | 91 comments
3. What are programming languages for? (rondam.blogspot.com)
31 points by lisper on Feb 2, 2008 | 20 comments
4. Stephen Fry introduces the open source platform that will see off Windows (guardian.co.uk)
24 points by polar on Feb 2, 2008 | 5 comments
5. The best advice you'll ever get about building a startup (sampasite.com)
23 points by drm237 on Feb 2, 2008 | 13 comments
6. Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch (pmarca.com)
20 points by drm237 on Feb 2, 2008 | 6 comments
7. A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is (nytimes.com)
19 points by __ on Feb 2, 2008 | 2 comments
8. News Corp. Scrambles To Bid For Yahoo (techcrunch.com)
15 points by davidw on Feb 2, 2008
9. "And, it turns out, Paul Graham's a phony" (xent.com)
13 points by nreece on Feb 2, 2008 | 18 comments
10. Yahoo sale could be bad for minnows (nytimes.com)
13 points by garbowza on Feb 2, 2008 | 9 comments
11. Flickr Rebellion Brews at Specter of M$ Acquisition (wired.com)
10 points by danielha on Feb 2, 2008 | 1 comment
12. Qi: An interesting Lisp with pattern matching (lambdassociates.org)
9 points by theanarcrist on Feb 2, 2008 | 2 comments
13. YC vs. Techstars, Launchbox, and DreamIT
9 points by wumi on Feb 2, 2008 | 16 comments
14. FlickrFS - access your Flickr database as a filesystem (googlepages.com)
7 points by nreece on Feb 2, 2008
15. CL learns from Arc (groups.google.com)
7 points by muriithi on Feb 2, 2008 | 4 comments
16. Richard Gabriel: The Art of Lisp & Writing (dreamsongs.com)
7 points by akkartik on Feb 2, 2008
17. Source: Yahoo employees say "there is no way in hell that we are going to work for Microsoft." (businessweek.com)
7 points by nickb on Feb 2, 2008 | 6 comments
18. My Secret Plan to take over the world
6 points by samwise on Feb 2, 2008 | 4 comments
19. Linux has better Windows compatibility than Vista (wastingtimewithmikeandari.wordpress.com)
6 points by Jaggu on Feb 2, 2008
20. Humans weren't made for scrolling and searching. We were made for zooming. (newsweek.com)
6 points by robg on Feb 2, 2008 | 2 comments
21. SF founder of Imbee web site for kids killed with son in jet crash (sfgate.com)
6 points by terpua on Feb 2, 2008 | 9 comments
22. For a hacker, the joy is in the journey (codeclimber.blogspot.com)
6 points by eVizitei on Feb 2, 2008
23. Yahoo Deal Is Big, but Is It the Next Big Thing? (nytimes.com)
6 points by neilc on Feb 2, 2008
24. Denture Hacks: How To Get Your Teeth Fixed in Mexico (kuro5hin.org)
5 points by pius on Feb 2, 2008
25. Lifehacker Australia interviews Linus Torvalds (lifehacker.com.au)
5 points by nreece on Feb 2, 2008
26. Inside the gPhone: What to expect from Google Android (eetimes.com)
5 points by bfioca on Feb 2, 2008 | 8 comments
27. Social Graph visibility akin to pain reflex (oreilly.com)
5 points by drm237 on Feb 2, 2008
28. Python Functional Programming HOWTO (python.org)
5 points by iamelgringo on Feb 2, 2008
29. When did web sites become "properties"?
5 points by davidw on Feb 2, 2008 | 4 comments
30. Everything you needed to know about human-created life forms but were afraid to ask (oreilly.com)
4 points by nreece on Feb 2, 2008

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