Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Joel: Five Easy Ways to Fail (in a Software Project) · 51 points · by luccastera · 31 comments
• News.YC detrimental to hacking? · 26 points · by cstejerean · 22 comments
• Why Specialists are Grumpy and Generalists are Happy · 26 points · by byrneseyeview · 9 comments
• Programming Habits · 21 points · by baha_man · 1 comment
• The Blub Paradox also applies to editors/IDEs · 19 points · by wmf · 22 comments
• Using Lisp at Paragent · 17 points · by projectileboy · 26 comments
• AI winter · 16 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• The "$15 Billion" Nonsense · 14 points · by razorburn · 12 comments
• Has anyone formed an S Corp and then converted to a C Corp later · 13 points · by iamyoohoo · 13 comments
• Surprising Uses of the Pythagorean Theorem · 13 points · by brett · 11 comments
• American kids, dumber than dirt · 12 points · by nickb · 26 comments
• blog.pmarca.com: You have to love this industry · 12 points · by brlewis · 5 comments
• Pycha: A library for making charts with Python · 12 points · by nickb · 4 comments
• KnowledgeBid v2 - looking for feedback on new design · 11 points · by joefaron · 20 comments
• Win Your Startup Capital · 10 points · by kkim · no comments
• Perspective: Facebook Is Now 5th Most Valuable U.S. Internet Company · 9 points · by terpua · 2 comments
• Ranked Searches with SQL · 9 points · by danw · 15 comments
• Scientists should never be censored · 8 points · by nickb · 7 comments
• LOLCode.net - Now your LOLCats can use the CLR! · 8 points · by baha_man · 4 comments
• The Working Dead : People Who Waste Their Lives Away - One Day at a Time · 7 points · by vlad · 3 comments
• M&A Hacks · 7 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Quote of the Day. Give us (News.YC) your quote for Motivation. Must be your own. · 7 points · by rokhayakebe · 33 comments
• Apple Wireless Keyboard (invisible) LED - magnified 40X · 6 points · by nickb · 4 comments
• Congressman to Comcast: Stop interfering with BitTorrent · 6 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Future of science: 'We will have the power of the gods' · 5 points · by vlad · 4 comments
• Miniaturization of Venture Capital · 5 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Design Lesson - Don't try to be original, just try to be good. · 4 points · by majimojo · 1 comment
• Science courses nearly extinct in elementary grades, study finds · 4 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• Why Microsoft Needed Facebook & Google Didn't · 4 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Is Arrington About To Sell Out? · 4 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Ask YC: Help me out · 4 points · by Jaggu · 13 comments
• EBay: The Place for Microfinance · 4 points · by dpapathanasiou · 1 comment
• 10 things you can ask a co-founder but not an employee · 4 points · by jcwentz · 3 comments
• MSNBC: Radiohead's Experiment Rocks Music Industry · 4 points · by nickb · no comments
• CNET Networks Announces Sale of Webshots to American Greetings · 4 points · by moses1400 · no comments
• Poking the bear: It's not as hard to build a startup in New York City as you've heard.... · 3 points · by drm237 · 1 comment
• Web metrics are hard · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Reverse-Interviewing for CS Jobs · 3 points · by vlad · 1 comment
• China's Alibaba Unveils Its IPO · 3 points · by dpapathanasiou · no comments
• $500 million more for facebook? · 3 points · by agotterer · 4 comments
• Getting to launch! A step-by-step guide · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Whence the Force of F = ma? I: Culture Shock · 3 points · by byrneseyeview · no comments
• Don't update your Windows: Microsoft update brings PCs to a standstill · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• What is the best way to get customers who signup to actually use a product? · 3 points · by dawie · no comments
• Motorola: Apple won't open the iPhone · 3 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Usability Cookie - Did Hamilton lose the F1 Championship because of bad user interaction? · 2 points · by leovernazza · 2 comments
• What your startup can learn from...Wal-Mart? It's still okay to hate them, though. · 2 points · by eastsidegringo · 1 comment
• There are indications that Google is changing their PageRank... · 2 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Elcomsoft turns your PC into a password cracking supercomputer · 2 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Comcast shooting itself in the foot with traffic shaping "explanations" · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• ??? · 2 points · by ixbidie · 1 comment
• What I Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned From My Dad Who Taught Me How To Ride A Bicycle · 2 points · by gigamon · no comments
• Landsat Image Viewer · 2 points · by jkush · no comments
• HyperCard -- A Trip Down Memory Lane For Others, Too? · 2 points · by ecommercematt · 1 comment
• MySpace v. Facebook: Competing Addictions · 2 points · by gscott · no comments
• Interesting Tidbits/Notes from the Facebook/Microsoft Conference Call · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Nightmares offer clues to nature of dreams · 2 points · by kkim · no comments
• Radiohead disappoint (but not for the reason you might think!) · 2 points · by danw · 2 comments
• Mobile 2.0: Mobile Internet vs. Mobility · 2 points · by danw · no comments
• The Brand Called You · 2 points · by danw · no comments
• New iPhone Dev Center · 1 points · by reitzensteinm · no comments
• Get Symfony Installed in 20 Minutes on Vista · 1 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• Dot Com Deadpool Fund · 1 points · by dherman76 · no comments
• I can't get Roy Fielding OR Cake out of my head · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Birds good at adapting are found in a larger range of habitats than those which aren't · 1 points · by vlad · 1 comment
• Debugger Support Considered Harmful? · 1 points · by vlad · no comments
• Device driver updates are causing Vista to deactivate :( · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• The User Experience Flip Mode · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Demo of DivaScheme for DrScheme (vid) · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• MzScheme Renaming files: Competing with Perl, Python and Ruby · 1 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Seam Carving - Fast image enlargement through seam insertion in OCaml · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Microsoft exec: Desktop application software is not dead · 1 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• GIMP 2.4 preview (coming closer to Photoshop) · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• PodTech: RIP · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• 29 Nepalese orphans adopted by TorrentFreak and p2pnet · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• Oh snap! Faceberg raises another $500 million · 1 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Why it is Easier to be a Student Entrepreneur · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• MySpace Launches Its First Online TV Series · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Waking up to the important things · 1 points · by jkush · no comments
• It's Fun to Play With Stuff (or Why I'm Glad I Switched to the Mac) · 1 points · by rams · no comments
• Brain regions responsible for optimism located · 1 points · by muriithi · no comments
• Zoomomail : new french startup for image zooming · 1 points · by chmike · 1 comment
• Historia Matematica: How lambda functions (Lisp/Scheme) came to be · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• The state of Enterprise 2.0 · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Stress Mess in US - 48% can't sleep right · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Lisp NYC: Dinner with Roger Corman (of cormanlisp.com) · 1 points · by dpapathanasiou · no comments
• Hardware Assisted Brute Force Attacks: Still For Dummies · 1 points · by jcwentz · no comments
• Location, Location, Everywhere · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Where Are You Now? Design for the Location Revolution · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Facebook Feeding Frenzy · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Are we part of the most elitist business? · 1 points · by imasr · 3 comments
• ARPANet Co-Founder Predicts An Internet Crisis · 1 points · by Jaggu · no comments
• iPhone will attack Sony Ericsson but lose out to Nokia in Europe · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Charity day: Give away one idea. One that you love for good Karma · 1 points · by rokhayakebe · 1 comment
• The Snowblower Problem [pdf slides] · 1 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• Is it worth running in the rain? Enter your numbers here to find out! · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• Is the the time right for mobile web? · 1 points · by mcxx · no comments