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hornbaker

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October 16, 2011 (14y ago)
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I'm a serial tech entrepreneur. Have done a couple EIR stints at Sequoia and co-founded a YC company. Spent 9 years in the Valley and currently live in Austin, where I work from home on various projects.
  1. The Race to Make the NFL Draft an Exact Science (theringer.com)
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  2. Ask HN: Anyone else seeing an influx of Nigerian scammers in Facebook groups?

    I admin a niche FB group for golfers, more specifically for owners of a particular brand of launch monitor / golf sim software that runs around $3-5K to install in your home. A normal day usually sees around 25 legit…

    2 points 0
  3. Show HN: Butterfly Coins – a side project to track random acts of kindness (butterflycoins.org)
    8 points 0
  4. Fin (fin.com)
    1 points 2
  5. Grade – a flexbox grid for humans (grade.elvessousa.com.br)
    1 points 0
  6. Show HN: Battleweb, a game to play while you're working on or browsing the web (battleweb.net)
    6 points 1
  7. Show HN: Battleweb, a FPS MMOG played over the entire internet (Chrome ext) (chrome.google.com)
    3 points 2
  8. Show HN: BladeSearch (re-brand of Google Blade which launched yesterday) (bladesearch.com)
    5 points 5
  9. Show HN: Google Blade – discover, create, and share custom search engines (googleblade.com)
    88 points 62
  10. Font Awesome 5 Kickstarter approaching $500K (goal $30K) (kickstarter.com)
    2 points 0
  11. Comma.ai CEO cancels self-driving car project (futurism.com)
    1 points 1
  12. Microsoft launches Teams, a Slack competitor (producthunt.com)
    4 points 0
  13. Show HN: Wagstarter – just launched after 6 wks dev, feedback needed (wagstarter.org)
    9 points 10
  14. Yahoo announces plans to kill off Games, Livetext, Boss, and more regional sites (venturebeat.com)
    46 points 38
  15. A Yahoo Employee-Ranking System Is Challenged in Court (nytimes.com)
    2 points 0
  16. Fake Online Locksmiths May Be Out to Pick Your Pocket, Too (nytimes.com)
    6 points 0
  17. ​This Is How Bad Self-Driving Cars Suck in the Rain (jalopnik.com)
    1 points 0
  18. Scientists learn secret of how geckos cling to vertical walls (sciencerecorder.com)
    5 points 0
  19. Show HN: This one line of code will make HN usable on mobile devices

    Since the HN devs seem to be in dev-mode, I thought I'd put in one more little request. :) This one line of code, added to the head of HN's html, will make the site actually usable on mobile devices: <meta…

    12 points 4
  20. HTTP Trends: 2010 to Present (httparchive.org)
    15 points 3
  21. Feds approve Bitcoins for campaign contributions (usatoday.com)
    1 points 0
  22. Anonyfish – Chat Anonymously With Another Secret User (anonyfish.com)
    52 points 29
  23. Putting Tom Perkins Into Context (bothsidesofthetable.com)
    11 points 1
  24. The 360 Fly Can Capture Your Entire World (techcrunch.com)
    2 points 0
  25. Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80% (quantcast.com)
    107 points 174