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Ask HN: Best HN threads in '08?
104 points by iloveyouocean on Jan 2, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 16 comments
There was a ton of hacker news in 08. What were your favorite threads?


Who's Hiring? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375410

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250704

How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338286

I'm out, baby http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=300960

Start a side project, says GitHub founder http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=282158

Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=364254


Sell Your Web App: Lessons I Learned From Selling DropSend http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=347381

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=246606

How to go down with style http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=330689

Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and Good Luck http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=335815

Cities and Ambition http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201373

Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=345531


Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=376238

I don't want to work very hard: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=394609


Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138)

Ask YC: What would you tell your younger self? (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372573)


There are at least twice as many i could pick, but here are some of my favorites.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=219804 - Poor people consume more conspicuously than rich people, wealth measured relative to peer group

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133282 - Story about SR-71 Blackbird crash

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=303666 - The "Luke Arm" for amputees

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=318827 - How to bribe your way into expensive restaurants


All great stories, but unremarkable comment threads. What I want to know is, did anyone here actually try to bribe their way into a restaurant after reading that article?


Not a restaurant, but I've used the $20 Theory of the Universe for concerts, tickets, bars and other treats.

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0303-MAR_20DOLLARS


How Porsche fleeced hedge funds and roiled the world’s financial markets ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=350332


Evolution of Mona Lisa in JavaScript & Canvas http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392036


"Ask HN : How do big websites roll out new versions?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411282

Lots of interesting replies to that one.


Unfortunately my favourite one missed the '08 deadline: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=417782


Thanks for sharing these links. I am commenting to visit this thread later. Is there another way to mark a thread to be visited later from my profile?


Upvote the thread, then click here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=mad44


Thank you, that is helpful. I wish there was a button for it on the top bar at HN.


Not that I know of from your profile, but you can always bookmark the page, email yourself a link, or use something like Read It Later (http://www.ideashower.com/ideas/launched/read-it-later/), which saves you from cluttering up the comments.


Human Beautification Algorithm: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328377




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