Ah, thanks for the info, and nice examples! The main title on the page is now "9 uses for cURL worth knowing" for any mods watching.. :)

In my opinion that's a much better title. Thanks for at least submitting it with an informative title.

Check out the guidelines here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

They suggest you drop the number and go with something like "Uses for cURL everyone should know" instead.