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Stumbling many sites, you'll find many articles about 'how to get featured or on main page of Digg, Stumble Upon and may be Reddit".
However you won't find that kind of posts about Ycombinator (The special part of news for Hackers and people interested on start ups). So I'm writing that one!

The Difference between News.Ycombinator and other social bookmarking sites
While other and most social bookmarking sites are based on the number of connection a user have (number of friends, fans, submission, ratio of activity..) it's different on News.ycombinator! There's no friends, no fans, no shouts and no other things. So it's all on the title?
Let's focus on the main page!
If you focus on the main page of news.ycombinator which means the hot news, you'll notice that you can read just near each news, the domain of the website you'll be redirected to.

This is the first important part! Submission from sites like TechCrunch, Coding Horror and other famous news sites, have more probabilty to get a thumb up and reach the main page.
But this don't mean connections aren't important on YC! If you think so, then why does YC have a Karma for each user. This shows the activity, the success... or something else.

However, this won't make a difference! I was watching a submission by brfox, whose Karma is only 2 and got his story on main page! (But the domain is Ycombinator!!)

So if you are submitting to Ycombinator, take care of!

• The domain name you are submitting
• The title of your story
• The user name Karma and name
• The time of submission

Finally when you are with YC it all depends on the story!

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I was coming through an article on coding horror: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninjas. It really rocks.. but really don't!
I liked the content, what it gaves me as a result, the language is great but the presentation isn't!
Never mind, I found what I'm searching for 'Ext JS', yet another Javascript Frame Work.
Yes, but what's good on using Java Script Frame Work.

Yet, I stumbled upon a cool Javascript Framework called Vegui, the name is strange, the person himself is strange, all things are odd, a great Open Source work like that on the web. I gave him a try but that didn't really worked for me, I try, try.. and finally get bored from the 'Javascript FrameWork!'On the few projects before, I was loyal to a website called 'Dynamic Drive', I has even downloaded all the pages and tried almost of the Javascript snippets on that site. It's really my source number one for Javascript.

Now I come across another great Frame Work, the greater I have seen, the one who worked and is completly complete!
Ext Js, is for me the best Javascript Framework ever. Why I say so? Hey, coder what do you want more than that?

I like the advanced tabs with the slide and the close "button"!

I like the window, the message boxes..
Ajax! I love!
I'm also addicted to loading bars!

All that is nice no? So I may change my vision about the WEB 2.0!

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I had seen Widget Bucks on many blogs side bar. I was really attracted by "Ads sucks ours don't!" and the $25 that they'll give once you sign up. This is really great no? But will they really give you $25 just for signing in?
I'm not sure, so I'll try, but do I have really to waste my time on something that don't worth. (Even to write an article about that!)
Never mind one thing attracted me on widget bucks!

First, I'm not used to...
I watch TV and sure millions (yet billions) of other people do. In TV there's Ads. Yeah what's the problem? Ok, When I watch an ad for example about cleaning products, they don't show the alternatives product name but just 'other products'.

And then?
That Widget Bucks really do!
Here's the affiliates!

Do you think this is legal and if it is. Is it good to do so?

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