Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Please Don't Steal My Focus · 51 points · by german · 13 comments
• xkcd - Python · 39 points · by nickb · 8 comments
• Project Euler - Fun Math and Programming Problems · 34 points · by Bluem00 · 10 comments
• Joel Spolsky's Talk at Yale, Part 3 · 30 points · by jkush · 12 comments
• Simon Willison: Comet works, and it's easier than you think (server push, instead of Ajax polling) · 24 points · by toffer · 2 comments
• Bruce Schneier Answers Freakonomics' Questions · 21 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Edsger Dijkstra - Discipline in Thought [video] · 19 points · by dood · 7 comments
• Loic Le Meur's Ten Rules For Startup Success · 19 points · by nickb · 5 comments
• Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out · 18 points · by mqt · 22 comments
• Bit Twiddling Hacks · 18 points · by hhm · 3 comments
• Thinkpad Accelerometer · 16 points · by superjared · no comments
• New hypothesis for origin of life proposed · 15 points · by nickb · 4 comments
• Antidiscrimination Law (or, the Dropout Anti-Employment Act) · 15 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• Ask YC: what laptop to buy? · 15 points · by shayan · 55 comments
• Fortune: RIP Facebook? "...watching it now is like watching an unattended child play with a pack of matches in a wooden house." · 14 points · by nickb · 4 comments
• Israel's Silicon Valley · 8 points · by chwolfe · 2 comments
• A Future So Bright You'll Need to Wear Sunglasses · 8 points · by vikram · no comments
• Microsoft is proud of IE7's first year (and many commenters are outraged) · 7 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• An Everywhere Continuous Nowhere Differentiable Function, interesting proof by John McCarthy · 7 points · by hhm · 2 comments
• "An Invitation to Algorithmic Information Theory" (using Lisp), by Greg Chaitin · 6 points · by hhm · no comments
• Xobni's goal is to "become the Google of personal information" · 6 points · by rms · 4 comments
• iPhone on Rails - Creating an iPhone optimised version of your Rails site using iUI and Rails 2 · 6 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Startups Tell VCs: Don't Show Me the Money (Yet) · 5 points · by mqt · no comments
• When cruft creeps in · 5 points · by terpua · no comments
• A copy of news.yc RSS that works with Google Reader · 5 points · by marketer · 2 comments
• PDF Is Now ISO 32000 · 5 points · by mqt · 2 comments
• The Seven Point Scale · 5 points · by jgrahamc · 2 comments
• Avast from the Pirate Lab · 5 points · by plusbryan · no comments
• Ask YC: What's your startup going to change? · 4 points · by robmnl · 1 comment
• Google Pre-Launches New iPhone Interface · 4 points · by nickb · no comments
• (Spammers) Take Advantage of Death in Boston · 4 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Continental Airlines Turns Mobile Phones Into Boarding Passes for Houston Travelers · 4 points · by AZA43 · no comments
• Edit your photos! On Flickr! · 3 points · by terpua · no comments
• ReDesignMe: Lets You Post Bad Design and Your Solution to It (Don't use Flash Ver) · 3 points · by chaostheory · 2 comments
• Spouse 2.0 Day: For Those That Give To Your Other Startup · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Lisp Club · 3 points · by mov · 1 comment
• Zuckerberg Saves Face, Apologies For Beacon · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Competitive brain training website · 3 points · by hhm · no comments
• Tips to Deal with Information Overload · 3 points · by hhm · no comments
• Google's Brian Grant discusses the problems of parallelism · 2 points · by hhm · no comments
• Why are so many charities ineffective? · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" -- Pablo Picasso(?) · 2 points · by adm · 1 comment
• Top Ten Search Terms on Yahoo & Google · 2 points · by Ztrain · 1 comment
• Facebook is the New Friendster · 2 points · by buckpost · no comments
• "The Humble Programmer", by Edsger W. Dijkstra · 2 points · by hhm · no comments
• The Portable Risk of High Capacity USB Drives · 2 points · by seren6ipity · no comments
• One Fourth of Internet Usage at Work is Spent on Personal Tasks; Would You Allow It? · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Seesmic: Blogging the launch of a company · 2 points · by shayan · 4 comments
• Lijit: search tools and stats for your blog · 2 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Starting cluster of Erlang nodes on EC2 · 2 points · by charzom · no comments
• Beacon Saga Comes to an End: Facebook Adds Global Opt-Out and Apologizes · 2 points · by makimaki · no comments
• It had to many functions · 2 points · by injesus · no comments
• Seven Ways to Avoid the Growth Traps · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Building Mashup-Friendly Sites in Rails · 1 points · by DocSavage · no comments
• Myths about the arrow of time · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• iPhone Gives Mobile a Badly Needed Kick in the Ass · 1 points · by Ztrain · no comments
• Gregory Chaitin's The limits of mathematics (full book online) · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• How to be a Mathematician: interview with Greg Chaitin · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• Increasing CS enrollment through deception on Facebook · 1 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• Pondering Exit Strategies · 1 points · by semigeek · no comments
• The creative process · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Killer robots from Silicon Valley could replace soldiers · 1 points · by neilc · no comments
• Patent Troll: $360M Patent Suit Over iPhone Voicemail · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Researchers Fighting fat Software · 1 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Visiting Twitter! · 1 points · by eusman · no comments
• Learn to Tango With D (Apress Book) · 1 points · by raju · 1 comment
• Debuting FoundWatch:"The Art of the Startlet" with Guy Kawasaki · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Michael Bay: Microsoft fueling HD wars · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• BlogNation Falling Apart? - Open Letter to Sam Sethi · 1 points · by cbetta · no comments
• 56 Geeks Poster · 1 points · by seren6ipity · no comments
• Blind Hacker Says He's No Friend of Convicted SWATters · 1 points · by shayan · no comments
• December's coolest gadgets · 1 points · by shayan · no comments
• An Introduction to the Theory of Computation · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• This Year's Best Open Source Gift · 1 points · by thomas · no comments
• Guarding Your Social Security Number · 1 points · by jkush · no comments
• Evolve · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Britney Spears iPhone Launched · 1 points · by Ztrain · no comments
• Google Mac Developer Playground · 1 points · by charzom · no comments
• Researchers discover why flu is more common in winter (virus thrives in cold, dry air) · 1 points · by jcwentz · no comments
• MIT launches web site for high school students · 1 points · by mattzitzmann · no comments
• Microsoft Live Labs : Volta · 1 points · by kilik · no comments
• The View from (Outside) Your Office · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• An Exceptionally Technical Discussion of AESToE (E8 & surfer stuff) · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• Memory, Cognitive Abilities and Executive Functions · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• NEC Develops World's Fastest MRAM · 1 points · by Jaggu · no comments
• Tax the Beautiful to Feed the Ugly? · 1 points · by Jaggu · 5 comments