Hacker News on 16 February 2008

• Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things
• PG on trolls
• Toshiba to give up on HD DVD, end format war
• Looking for a co-founder? post here (3 rules apply)
• How difficult is it for singles to get picked up by Y Combinator?
• John Cleese’s “Letter to America”
• 11 Things To Know About Semantic Web
• Why S3 went down
• It is scary how thin the startup layer really is
• Hacker News trends