maximumwage

Hi, does anyone know how I could get a list of all the submissions ever posted to Hacker News or how I would go about crawling ycombinator.com? I have some time on my hands and would like to expand my skills, and the HN archives seem like a good place to start.

Hi everyone- I am currently working as a software tester in a big company but am interested in entrepreneurship. I have studied thousands of startups and have some ideas for potential businesses that I could execute on.

Unfortunately, my brain seems to be less resilient to stress and frustration than the average person. I wrote about some of my experiences in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1545808

I am currently taking Lexapro, exercising, eating a paleo diet, and practicing mindfulness meditation. However, there are still some constraints on my decision-making capabilities: I am able to understand system administration, database administration, and many other aspects of IT, but coding has been difficult for me to grok the 100+ times I've tried to learn it. Also, I am afraid of people in general, which would have a huge impact on customer development and sales. One approach I have taken is to pretend that other people aren't real - like they are holograms - and as such I'm not worried about them judging me. I'm not sure if that approach is sustainable though.

If you have any advice, experiences, or stories about succeeding in business while having mental problems I would be really interested in hearing them.