Hacker News on 28 July 2008

• GitHub on applying Getting Real to their unfunded startup
• Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search
• Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You
• Spreeder.com | read 300 words/minute instantly
• Google says there are now 10^12 unique URLs. I am proud to announce the 2nd trillion.
• How to Jumpstart the Economy - Tax Free Small Businesses
• When the 'Wisdom of Crowds' turns on itself: IMDB Edition
• How Skype gets around firewalls
• 42.zip: A single 42,374-byte zip file that uncompresses to one million 4.5GB files (4.5PB)
• Average environments beget average work