Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Twitter releases the code for the messaging system they use across their clusters · 38 points · by pius · 5 comments
• How to recognise a good programmer · 29 points · by swombat · 21 comments
• How To Talk To Girls At Parties · 25 points · by kirubakaran · 6 comments
• Sim City is now GPL'd · 23 points · by iamelgringo · 8 comments
• Scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to pilot an F-22 jet simulator · 23 points · by seren6ipity · 10 comments
• Top Ten Myths of Entrepreneurship · 22 points · by mqt · 8 comments
• Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks? · 19 points · by nreece · 8 comments
• 6 reasons to develop your test first · 18 points · by mcxx · 8 comments
• Cringely: Apple to buy Adobe in bid to dominate digital content creation? · 18 points · by naish · 8 comments
• Ask YC: How do you monetize your website? · 16 points · by sharpshoot · 3 comments
• Benchmark Bets on Ruby on Rails With $3.5 Million Investment in Engine Yard · 14 points · by luccastera · 13 comments
• The laptop wars - Will charity or profit end the digital divide? · 14 points · by davidw · 22 comments
• Apple expected to unveil ultra-slim notebook at Macworld · 12 points · by nreece · 14 comments
• Top 4 Things To Never Do To Your Users · 12 points · by kirubakaran · 3 comments
• W00t! Amazon invests 4 million into Woot.com · 12 points · by alaskamiller · 1 comment
• 14 Year Old Kid Hacks Trolley System In Poland: Derails Trains and Injures Dozens · 10 points · by scipe · 2 comments
• Screw Winning The Lottery - Just Make a Facebook App and Get Your Millions Now · 10 points · by transburgh · 2 comments
• I thought this was supposed to avoid click fraud? Our Google AdWords PPA experiment · 9 points · by staunch · 2 comments
• High school dropout becomes Goldman Sachs chairman · 8 points · by terpua · 4 comments
• Startup mentors · 8 points · by amrithk · 8 comments
• GTD with Painter Chuck Close: "Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work." · 8 points · by toffer · 1 comment
• XHTML and CSS Embarrassment · 7 points · by akitaonrails · 2 comments
• Robert Stallman posts an ad on Craigslist · 7 points · by nickb · 10 comments
• Thai whiz kid launches location-aware Twitter-like service · 7 points · by terpua · 3 comments
• Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work · 7 points · by iamelgringo · 2 comments
• The Late Victorian Holocaust · 6 points · by rms · 4 comments
• Study confirms link between chemical in red wine and slowed aging in humans · 6 points · by theoneill · 6 comments
• On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study · 6 points · by iamelgringo · 1 comment
• Ask YC: What do you think of this NY Times feature · 6 points · by kashif · 20 comments
• Hubble finds double Einstein ring · 5 points · by nickb · no comments
• Rails sucks? · 5 points · by nickb · no comments
• How China loses the coming space War · 5 points · by wumi · no comments
• Sprinting to Start Up: How to Launch a Startup · 5 points · by cmer · no comments
• Ruby 1.9 - When Will It be Production Ready · 5 points · by maurycy · no comments
• Google Reveals New MapReduce Stats · 5 points · by luccastera · 1 comment
• What Ever Happened to Code Reviews? · 5 points · by carpal · 5 comments
• The Four Hour Rails Work Week · 4 points · by pius · no comments
• Top 20 Internet Millionaires Under 30 · 4 points · by nreece · no comments
• Why CNET Is In The Mess They Are In · 4 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Rubik's Cube Solver · 4 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Free Sex at Prague Brothel Tests Taboo as Reality Romps Hit Web · 4 points · by Alex3917 · no comments
• The Enduring Art of Computer Programming (on Donald Knuth) · 4 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Ask YC: Friday Morning pre-release testers for my web app. · 4 points · by izak30 · 8 comments
• Quick RESTful, authenticated API with ActiveResource and Rails · 4 points · by pius · no comments
• Priorities in India: First buy a car, then learn to drive · 4 points · by iamelgringo · 4 comments
• Steve Jobs' Video Dreams · 4 points · by shayan · 2 comments
• The 3 Levels of Programmers: Good, Lazy, and Bad · 4 points · by maurycy · 1 comment
• Is there anything developers won't do for a pizza? · 4 points · by estherschindler · 4 comments
• Software Developer Salaries: Ruby on Rails vs. Java · 3 points · by iamelgringo · 3 comments
• Sun's Goal: No In-House Data Centers by 2015 · 3 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Bebo's Platform Now Open for All Developers · 3 points · by shayan · no comments
• 9 Ways to Know When to Jump Ship at a Startup · 3 points · by engtech · no comments
• A Quick Dose of Ruby History · 3 points · by pius · no comments
• Coming Up: Solar Storm - Expect GPS and Cellphones To Act Up · 3 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Under pressure from EMI, RIAA could disappear · 3 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Kant, Chaitin and the absence of axioms in arithmetic · 2 points · by hhm · no comments
• Why Microsoft Must Control One Laptop Per Child · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• USB 3.0 in the flesh · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Top 10 Underhyped Webapps · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• The Mystery Box [video] · 2 points · by auferstehung · no comments
• My Funding Toolkit · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• Heroku - Instant, live Rails Applications · 2 points · by sol · no comments
• OmniTI Labs · 2 points · by ivan · no comments
• Sony to sell DRM free music on Amazon · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Where the Gaming Nerds work and play · 2 points · by alaskamiller · no comments
• Redeye VC: Old Half.com Commercials · 2 points · by jkopelman · 2 comments
• Why xml configuration files suck · 2 points · by Tichy · 9 comments
• The Rise of Mideast Sovereign Wealth Funds · 2 points · by rms · no comments
• ReadBurner - see what's shared on Google Reader · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• 70 Websites worth $1M · 1 points · by benn · no comments
• Mary Lou Jepsen, "My job is simply done." · 1 points · by auferstehung · no comments
• Windows.h must be the worst engineered header of all times · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Quality means never having to say you are sorry · 1 points · by nsimpson · no comments
• Any other bright ideas? No one likes compact fluorescents. · 1 points · by theoneill · no comments
• Who do you follow on twitter that helps keep you informed? · 1 points · by oppositionradio · 1 comment
• Needed:Sombody to help me customise Wikimedia · 1 points · by wturner · no comments
• The Ultimate Web Developer Setup · 1 points · by mudge · no comments
• What Really Kills Startups · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Server farm goes solar · 1 points · by eusman · no comments
• Whos going to buy your startup this year? · 1 points · by eusman · no comments
• The Craptaculous Web Framework · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Building a better virtual world, one tree (or millions) at a time · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Mahalo Changes Payment Plan and Yes, Jason Mahalo is an SEO Play - I've Got Charts · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Born After '64? You'll need Real ID. · 1 points · by pius · 1 comment
• Ajax View: Remotely Monitoring Web 2.0 Applications · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• 27 Tips to Conquer Your E-mail and Improve E-mail Productivity · 1 points · by jgoddard · no comments
• Turmoil at Tesla Motors · 1 points · by johnrob · no comments
• Google and Facebook to Join the Data Portability Debate · 1 points · by getp · no comments
• Questions Answered: How to Raise Capital? · 1 points · by Ztrain · no comments
• Ask YC: Do you know of any good free advertising exchange services? · 1 points · by amichail · no comments