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Middle of the page - "I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker," Obama said, according to a tweet from the Washington Post's David Nakamura. Russian president Vladimir Putin confirmed on Tuesday…

I'm working on some research and I've looked at most of the traditional sources (Angel List, industry chatter, etc.), I just wanted the opinions of people smarter than me, ;-). Specifically, products that a non-tech…

I genuinely enjoy reading TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Verge, Gizmodo, Engadget, just about any of them depending on the day, but I've grown pretty weary of the bloggers and personalities becoming THE story. I know they're…

Drew and Arash didn't know each other very well before applying and attending YC. I'm trying to come up with other similar examples. Please throw them in the comments if you can think of them.

It seems like Y-Combinator, TechStars and the like are focused on building innovative technology that scales with few people. But some of the fastest growing companies lately are essentially new-age marketing / lead-gen…

I've noticed many HN readers mentioning books of all sorts of varieties. I'm a member of the Domino Project Street Team. Seth Godin along with Amazon is trying to disrupt the publication and book distribution process in…

So I've noticed AirBnB has a job for customer support strategist and I'd like to get in contact with the people making decisions. (founders presumably at this stage) Let's face it, submitting a resume is great, but if…

Last night, I posted about finding a builder for my concept (that link is below). I was pleasantly surprised to see how mostly receptive HN was, but I wanted to ask the masses for some help. 1. How can I prove sincerity…