Hacker News on 26 August 2008

• So, you're gonna code the whole thing, do the servers and work for sweat equity...
• How I Learned to Love Middle Managers
• Entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel on liberty and scientific progress
• Secret blog published in robots.txt file
• 7 Teeth Gnashing Mistakes I Made With My Start Up
• Mob Wars, the million-dollar-a-month independent Facebook app, may legally belong to SGN
• Muxtape open source clone OpenTape
• Nice Gallery of Open Source PHP Apps
• Songbird beta launches (includes integration with Songkick for concert tickets)
• Ask HN: Legal timeline for a successful web startup?