Hacker News on 15 July 2008

• In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
• Things I learnt during, and about, my PhD
• Lessons of Y Combinator: Things I’d do differently after 2 startups
• Lucky to be a Programmer
• Y Combinator’s Slinkset Launches Hosted Reddits For The Masses
• It Takes a School, Not Missiles
• Defender of the Favicon - Playable Defender Clone in a Favicon
• 5 questions for Y Combinator's Paul Graham
• How to make a font of your handwriting with free software
• WordPress 2.6 released: "a more powerful CMS"