Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Android developer challenge ($10 million in awards) · 43 points · by mcxx · 25 comments
• The Bipolar Lisp Programmer · 38 points · by muriithi · 32 comments
• Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals · 31 points · by hhm · 32 comments
• Everything I Learned at MIT · 29 points · by hhm · 3 comments
• Left-brain/right-brain -- the dancer illusion debunked · 27 points · by altay · 11 comments
• Rebuilding Hollywood in Silicon Valley's image · 23 points · by shayan · 6 comments
• Firefox: It's not memory leaks, but fragmentation · 22 points · by nickb · 7 comments
• "It's not that foreign students are any smarter, ... They just have relentless discipline." · 16 points · by amichail · 19 comments
• Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire · 16 points · by terpua · no comments
• Google Android SDK now available · 16 points · by davidw · 4 comments
• Great cartoon on what the customer wants...and what they get · 16 points · by transburgh · no comments
• NYT graph of historical price of gas since 1920 · 15 points · by charzom · 11 comments
• 7 Things No One Ever Tells You About Raising Venture Capital Financing · 15 points · by xutopia · 3 comments
• Ask news.YC: Good "day jobs" for hackers? · 14 points · by tkiley · 18 comments
• Al Gore joins Kleiner Perkins as a partner "to push green investments" · 12 points · by nickb · no comments
• Games that can educate: SimCity donated to OLPC project · 11 points · by trekker7 · 9 comments
• Ask YC: Will YC compete with YC? · 11 points · by shayan · 12 comments
• Glorious error messages (which IBM just paid $5 billion for) · 9 points · by gruseom · no comments
• Yahoo! Launches New Program to Advance Open-Source Software for Internet Computing · 9 points · by shayan · no comments
• Norvig - new world's longest palindrome · 8 points · by abstractbill · 4 comments
• Pattern Matching in Ruby · 7 points · by bhb · 2 comments
• Startup Weekend's Most Recent Startup: Skribit · 7 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Installing MySQL on Ubuntu (the NSFW way) · 6 points · by nickb · 4 comments
• Start-up working on organizing biological information · 6 points · by mkag · 2 comments
• IBM Buying Cognos · 6 points · by mattculbreth · 2 comments
• One Laptop Per Child - Give 1 Get 1 starts today · 6 points · by Readmore · 2 comments
• Why Are Founders and Execs Leaving Second Tier Social Networks? · 5 points · by rsa · no comments
• Reinteract - Better interactive Python · 5 points · by charzom · no comments
• Social Media By the Numbers: reddit · 4 points · by drm237 · 2 comments
• Coming Soon, Free Hosting for Facebook Apps · 4 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Ruby: Testing Private Methods by 'publicizing' them · 4 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Functional Javascript 1.0.2 released! · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Why are so many top terrorists engineers? · 3 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• Cellphone Straitjacket Is Inspiring a Rebellion · 3 points · by theoneill · 1 comment
• Meeting the man behind Moore's Law · 3 points · by theoneill · no comments
• The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci · 2 points · by hhm · no comments
• Google Options Put Masseuse in Crowd of Multimillionaires · 2 points · by maurycy · 1 comment
• Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox? · 2 points · by maurycy · no comments
• BBC - Horizon - Richard Feynman interview [video] · 2 points · by andres · no comments
• Why Personal Websites Matter · 2 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Home Page Instruction Manual · 2 points · by dpapathanasiou · no comments
• Glam: The success of the network · 2 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Technorati CEO Jalichandra: You Blew It · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Interview with Joe Hewitt on the new devphone.com · 2 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Open-source Java could result in port to iPhone · 2 points · by shayan · no comments
• Post bubble: Internet startups go low budget · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Is ycombinator news indexed by goolge/yahoo search engines? · 2 points · by mig · 3 comments
• Would it make sense to ask people to play thinking games during technical interviews (e.g., Portal)? · 2 points · by amichail · 2 comments
• Karto. Commercialization of SRI robotics research in mapping. · 2 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• Heroku's Cofounder Explains Why They Created It · 2 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• AOL Gets Into Q&A Business, Acquires Israel's Yedda · 2 points · by shayan · 2 comments
• Chumby... it's finally here! · 2 points · by eugenet · 1 comment
• Tools for spike traffic: what's out there? · 2 points · by Hexayurt · 1 comment
• Web 2.0 Manages to Sober Up · 2 points · by shayan · no comments
• What would happen to society if everyone learned to write simple programs in a high-level language? · 1 points · by amichail · 3 comments
• Today's Fun: Google Will Acquire ______ Quiz Question. Answer Starts With S And Ends In T · 1 points · by nickb · 2 comments
• No Choreography for REST? · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• From Metrics to KPIs · 1 points · by jimkonandreas · no comments
• The death of computing · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• Albert Einstein: "Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?" · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• Facebook: Marketers Are Your 'Friends' · 1 points · by maurycy · no comments
• Startup Weekend San Francisco next week -- any YCers going? · 1 points · by zain · no comments
• Shrinking chips use novel recipe · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Quitting Microsoft for Google? You'll be escorted off campus immediately! · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Intel Working on Chips for Improving Video Quality on the Web · 1 points · by theoneill · 1 comment
• The Next Google? How About Del.icio.us? · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Silicon Valley is just a state of mind · 1 points · by mcxx · 1 comment
• IBM to Acquire Cognos for 5 billion · 1 points · by ozzieg · no comments
• Confessions of a Failed CEO · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• www.canadiens.it: quando vedi l'inukshuk sulla tua strada, sai di essere arrivato · 1 points · by kleisranking · 2 comments
• California sues US over car fumes · 1 points · by muriithi · no comments
• Sound and Fury: Slow Down and Focus on the Message, Not Messaging · 1 points · by brlewis · no comments
• SocialAds Implications: Facebook will Acquire iLike and Flixster · 1 points · by shayan · 1 comment
• Al Gore joins Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers to bolster their green investment team · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• ILike connects across OpenSocial, Facebook, iTunes -- new music empire? · 1 points · by shayan · no comments
• The 10 Commandments of Fake Steve Jobs · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Last Batch of Tickets for TechCrunch Meetup 11 in Boston · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Loophole in Windows Random Number Generator · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Yahoo, Carnegie Mellon Switch On Supercomputer · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Engadget looks at Google's Android · 1 points · by Readmore · 1 comment
• Make Younger VCs Your Champions · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving VC · 1 points · by __ · no comments
• XP inventor talks about agile programming · 1 points · by shayan · no comments
• Intel launches power-efficient Penryn processors · 1 points · by shayan · no comments
• Hacker Faces 60 Years · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Google Calling: Inside Android, the gPhone SDK · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Live.com offers easy web translator you can add to any site · 1 points · by shayan · no comments
• $1 Million Developer Challenge: Sergey is Excited, You Just Can't See It! · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Modern-Day Tech Startups Tread Carefully · 1 points · by dpapathanasiou · 1 comment
• What Mark Cuban Taught Me About Blogging · 1 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• Marc Andreessen's 3 Truths about VC · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Windows 7 "top feature request list" leaked · 1 points · by blackswan · no comments
• Web 2.0 Filter · 1 points · by vladocar · no comments
• Twiistup 3: Enter Your Startup and Save 20% on Registration · 1 points · by shayan · no comments
• Carl Bernstein speaks out! · 1 points · by shafqat · no comments
• Do users generally demand transparent and simple algorithms in social software (e.g., social news)? · 1 points · by amichail · 2 comments
• Big sites are licensing niche content to drive traffic · 1 points · by jakewolf · no comments