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July 6, 2007 (19y ago)
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  1. After Cyprus Bank Bailout, Depositors Race to Withdraw Their Cash (thedailybeast.com)
    3 points 0
  2. Ask HN: How can I estimate traffic for a future event?

    I run a website that, to date, has had very low traffic, fewer than 1k uniques / day. I expect a Fortune 500 company to link to the site via their Facebook page within a day or two. How can I estimate how much traffic…

    10 points 6
  3. Preserve field order with Unix cut (github.com)
    3 points 0
  4. In 1950, 15 workers supported each SS retiree. By 2025, it'll be only 2. (zerohedge.com)
    1 points -1
  5. Ask HN: Experience with Protocol Buffers

    Does anyone here have experience with protocol buffers? http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ I need to move some data faster and with less parsing on either side of the transmission, and these seem like a good choice.

    15 points 10
  6. Big (and non-computable) Numbers (scottaaronson.com)
    9 points 1
  7. CoralCDN: positive experiences?

    Have you ever used CoralCDN (http://www.coralcdn.org/)? Did you like it?

    1 points 0
  8. C.A.R. Hoare's Turing Award Speech (web.archive.org)
    3 points 0
  9. To the TracksRuns guy

    To all others reading this, I don't have the right contact info to send this request through the proper channels. Sorry to take up valuable electrons. Could you add a comments field to the site? It would be a really…

    1 points 0
  10. Ask YC: Which web host do you use?

    I currently use 1&1, but they have given me tremendous headaches over the last few days, including currently being unavailable.

    27 points 45
  11. Ask YC: Is there a solution better than advertising?

    I need a bit of money for a web project I'm working on while I get it up and running. I have ~2k users right now, and I get enough hits to fund hosting if I put up ads. Is it "wrong" to put up ads after so many users…

    4 points 5
  12. Ask YC: How do you handle security?

    I have a site with the usual username/password login hooked to a MySQL backend. What's the best way to handle signup (sending the username/password) and logging in (same)? In particular, can you avoid using a POST and…

    3 points 3
  13. Ask YC: What Language Do You Use for Multiple CPUs?
    5 points 23
  14. Ask YC: Anyone use LaTeX? (scripts.mit.edu)

    I use LaTeX a lot, but I couldn't find an online version, so I wrote this one. It's very rough in terms of styling, but basic functionality is there. What else would you like to see it do?

    19 points 27
  15. How do you make a great video demo?

    What should you do? What should you not do?

    3 points 3