Best of 2012

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2012. 257 posts.

Startups
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Why Startups Die

Startups die due to a variety of causes. Over the course of the last three years, I've watched many of my friends pour their hearts and souls into companies that, for one reason or another, just fizzled out of existence. In 2007, Paul Graham gave a variety of causes for…