SearchYC.com

That's the strategy I use while playing against jsomers, but while playing against chengmi, I always use (seconds+2)%3. (Unfortunately, chengmi's watch is 2 seconds fast (or 1 second slow), so he still ends up winning...)

Based on my searches (for venture hacks of course), searchyc has many more results.

chengmi, this is a really nice utility.

http://ask.searchyc.com

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

Courtesy of chengmi, alaskamiller and epi0Bauqu

This is why we need Search.YC. So much good, old information on the site falls into oblivion after two or three days.

[searchyc.com by chengmi and alaskamiller is a great tool]

You are talking about different things: chengmi talks about 'hotness' ranking numbers at the left of the links, while rwebb talks about the 'votes' ranking letters at the right.

I myself was confused by this AA BBB thing, but I suppose your target audience knows better?

I've always wanted to read HN commentary of a page within the page itself, instead of flipping back and forth to HN.

So I wrote this greasemonkey script that embeds HN comments on top of any HN-submitted page.

http://share.shmichael.com/hn_comment_embed.user.js

I'd like to thank Michael Cheng (chengmi) for extending the searchYC API.

Edit: For the time being, it won't work on the newest submitted posts. searchYC should cache the page about an hour after submission. In the future I'll parse the HN newest page as well.

As much as I love this community, it's even better when you get a chance to meet your on-line friends in person.

After talking iamelgringo and Xichekolas for 30 seconds, I felt as if I knew them for years.

I enjoyed debating browsers and screen resolutions with dcurtis. No one ever wins a debate like that, you just laugh and have another beer.

I learned more about 27 new things from kirubakaran is 1 day than in the past year.

Of course, it's always cool to hang out with wizards like alaskamiller, chengmi, and rms.

dfranke is brilliant. He can discuss the pros and cons of 3rd and 4th normal form in one minute and laugh like Albert Einstein the next. I have a feeling there'll be threads like this about him before too long.

My advice to noobs: Make friends here. And find a way to meet them in person (Startup School or even something local). This is not your usual crowd. (We're all notable in some way.) And who knows, you may even make friends for life.