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martinomaon The Most Important Part of Your Hackathon? Your Sponsors.

I disagree. At a competition like PennApps or Disrupt, your odds of winning anything are really small. Most people I know know this, and just go to have a good time.

martinomaon The Most Important Part of Your Hackathon? Your Sponsors.

Why is this suddenly sliding off the front page?

martinomaon History of San Francisco Place Names

This is awesome. It would be cool to see neighborhood names, too, when they aren't linked directly to a street

martinomaon 250,000 English words currently available as Twitter handles

You might want to filter out words which are too long to actually be Twitter handles.

martinomaon Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago

I'm not affiliated with TC.

Admittedly, I did decide to submit quickly so that I (might) reap the upvotes--HN has been transfixed by Aaron Swartz, and reasonably so, and I thought that people might like a reminder of how the community reacted a few months ago.