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Re:Samuel Colt's “YC app” for the Summer 1851 batch on Monday March 30, 2015 @12:05PM (#9290419)
Funny idea. Are there more examples of fictional YC applications of historical or modern companies?
Re:Ask HN: Studies on success vs. hours of work and sleep? on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @06:37AM (#8952531)
Piotr Wozniaks "Good sleep for good learning" is one of the most comprehensive articles about sleep out there. You might wanna check out the summary and the chapter about myths.

http://supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm

Re:Maths spying: the quandary of working for the spooks on Sunday April 27, 2014 @12:32PM (#7655701)
Good Will Hunting already took a shot at this question in 1997: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw
Back in 2008, the CCC even stole and published a fingerprint of Wolfgang Schäuble, who was the Minister of the Interior in Germany at that time.

http://www.h-online.com/newsticker/news/item/CCC-publishes-f...