Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Web applications suck and they’re not worth creating · 48 points · by iamelgringo · 61 comments
• Arc's Unicode support (by the news.yc patch writer) · 39 points · by kul · 14 comments
• Ask Hackers: Opinions on OCaml? · 35 points · by yters · 41 comments
• The Years of Experience Myth · 27 points · by getp · 14 comments
• Teaching, Playing, and Programming: Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures · 22 points · by apgwoz · 2 comments
• The Erlang Challenge · 21 points · by tb · 22 comments
• Cringely on Microsoft-Yahoo: Yahoo Needs Courage, Microsoft Needs a Heart · 17 points · by sutro · 1 comment
• Martin Fowler: Cheaper Talent Hypothesis · 16 points · by luccastera · 4 comments
• Ask YC: Scaling questions. · 15 points · by izak30 · 24 comments
• Microsoft to acquire Ustream.tv for $50 million? · 15 points · by kevTheDev · 3 comments
• Guitar Hero Game... Using Real Guitars · 14 points · by chaostheory · 3 comments
• Yahoo Board To Determine Fate Of Company Today · 14 points · by jmorin007 · 5 comments
• Automatic writing · 14 points · by edu · 7 comments
• "Many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley. This one is actually doing it." · 14 points · by webwright · 9 comments
• The Arc Challenge Explained · 13 points · by jgrahamc · 3 comments
• How to tie world's fastest shoelace knot · 12 points · by bootload · 11 comments
• Is Twitter Down? · 11 points · by joshwa · 5 comments
• Poorly-written software makes 100 million+ DTD requests/day to w3.org · 11 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• Startup Plans to Solve Online Identity Theft, But Does Anyone Care? · 10 points · by terpua · no comments
• XHTML 2 vs HTML 5 · 10 points · by PStamatiou · 3 comments
• "People writing Rails apps without tests are idiots." · 10 points · by pius · 15 comments
• Heroku gets a shoutout on the official Rails blog · 9 points · by pius · no comments
• Ten ideas about Ideas (old but interesting) · 9 points · by nreece · no comments
• Rumor: Plaxo Sold to Google for $200M? · 8 points · by __ · no comments
• Memory savings with magic trampolines in Mono · 8 points · by jey · 2 comments
• Why DTrace Makes Leopard a Must-Have Upgrade · 8 points · by pius · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Which is easier to deploy/maintain: Python or Ruby apps? · 7 points · by rob · 14 comments
• Ask YC: what's the most technically impressive startup you remember from recent memory · 7 points · by rkabir · 13 comments
• The Economist dissolves the conspiracy theories on the undersea Internet cables · 7 points · by cawel · 3 comments
• Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat · 7 points · by garbowza · no comments
• Ask YC: which subversion client do you like most · 7 points · by ozzieg · 22 comments
• Why PHP as a templating language sucks · 6 points · by hollywoodcole · no comments
• Attention Profiling: APML Beginner's Guide · 6 points · by nreece · no comments
• 3 Products That Will Change 2008 · 6 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Everything A Django Developer Needs To Create Logins · 5 points · by hollywoodcole · no comments
• Python for Bash scripters: A well-kept secret · 5 points · by hollywoodcole · no comments
• Google Likely Out Of Wireless Spectrum Auction, And Happy · 5 points · by nickb · 2 comments
• A Radical Option For Yahoo: Out-Open Google · 5 points · by rsa · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Best text editor for Windows? · 5 points · by sjstearns · 34 comments
• Does more screen real estate make you more productive? · 5 points · by lyime · 11 comments
• The Port Scan Attack Detector · 4 points · by pavs · 3 comments
• New Genetics Discovery: All Blue Eyed People Related to Brad Pitt (for real) · 4 points · by pius · 5 comments
• Jason Fried's cousin launches an online backup service, SpiderOak · 4 points · by pius · no comments
• Fastest Template Language Ever · 4 points · by irrelative · no comments
• The Top 10 Mistakes People Make When Starting A Business · 4 points · by hollywoodcole · no comments
• 10 Most Amazing Google Search Tricks · 4 points · by hollywoodcole · no comments
• How to be a better developer? · 4 points · by hollywoodcole · no comments
• Beat Your Website into Submission with .htaccess · 4 points · by hollywoodcole · 1 comment
• Antiquicksort · 4 points · by polar · 2 comments
• Ask YC News: a good way to learn electronics/microcontrollers? · 4 points · by rugoso · 6 comments
• Taking the Arc Challenge...with BASIC · 4 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Russell Beattie's First Rule of Application Development · 4 points · by raghus · no comments
• Modu Revealed · 4 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• FriendFeed: Ex-Googlers Create Social Network Experience Using Feeds · 4 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• UStream.tv negotiating $50 million sale to Microsoft · 4 points · by terpua · no comments
• Putting Java on Your Flash Drive · 4 points · by hollywoodcole · no comments
• The Ultimate Programming Language · 4 points · by hollywoodcole · no comments
• What is REST, anyway? · 4 points · by hollywoodcole · no comments
• Israeli Startup modu Revolutionizes Phone Industry · 4 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• The B Language, Predecessor to C · 4 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• 10 Years of Purely Functional Data Structures · 4 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Not in a recession - Blackberries selling great · 4 points · by daviday · no comments
• The limit of The Semantic Web · 3 points · by jmorin007 · 2 comments
• Deutsche Bank CEO: We're screwed, but we're just fine · 3 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• OpenID Has Big New Friends · 3 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Shrinking ad revenue realigns U.S. newspaper industry · 3 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Essential guide to the Ruby driver for DB2 · 3 points · by acangiano · no comments
• "Green" robot self-propels through sea · 3 points · by justinwhitefoot · no comments
• Internet Cables And Sharks With Laser Beams On Their Heads · 3 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• How can we stop the design thieves? · 3 points · by danw · 9 comments
• Idea: Site for Programming Language Challenges · 3 points · by llimllib · 3 comments
• Hotmail doesn't work with Firefox 2.0 · 3 points · by iamelgringo · 1 comment
• Be my Support Group · 3 points · by iamelgringo · 1 comment
• Password pain looks set to ease · 3 points · by justinwhitefoot · 2 comments
• Yahoo offers hosting with unlimited storage and bandwidth · 3 points · by naish · no comments
• Top 20 Movies about Computer Hacking And Geeks · 2 points · by pavs · 2 comments
• The important thing · 2 points · by pius · no comments
• Mark Zuckerberg finds a way to kill all those stupid apps, sorta · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• The Economist: Microsoft should be allowed to buy Yahoo · 2 points · by cawel · no comments
• Seattle Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley · 2 points · by mqt · no comments
• The Rules of Digital Engagement · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Hypertable: An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database (Big Table Clone) · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Facebook Turns 1,500 Users Into Spanish Translation Slaves · 2 points · by jmorin007 · 1 comment
• Automated crack for Windows Live captcha goes wild · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Andrew Mwenda: Let's take a new look at African aid (TED talk) · 2 points · by vsingh · no comments
• Fossil - A Software Configuration Management System · 2 points · by bayareaguy · no comments
• Runtime vs. Test time: Functional tests and programming by contract · 2 points · by inklesspen · 1 comment
• Still more thoughts on motivation · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Yahoo Live Fails To Scale · 2 points · by jmorin007 · 1 comment
• Google to buy Plaxo for $200 million? · 2 points · by tomh · no comments
• This Is Not Our Bubble · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Deriving the Y combinator · 2 points · by danw · no comments
• Interesting math links · 2 points · by yters · no comments
• Twemes is a Twitter Meme that’s Actually Helpful · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• It’s Sad Not Make the Beta Cut · 2 points · by buckpost · no comments
• What's the right quality metric? · 2 points · by imgabe · no comments
• Are Men Really More Competitive Than Women? · 2 points · by getp · no comments
• Face value: Disruption of service · 2 points · by davidw · 1 comment
• First experiment with Arc at Will.Whim · 2 points · by apgwoz · no comments
• With iPhone, 'Security' Is Code for 'Control' · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• TSA Changes Screening Based on Blog Suggestion · 2 points · by brlewis · no comments
• Seattle Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley · 2 points · by natrius · no comments
• Reuters CEO sees "semantic web" in its future · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• $168 Billion Stimulus Package - Act of desperation? Will it work? · 2 points · by kirubakaran · 4 comments
• Ballmer Confirms Yahoo Brand Will Live On, MSN The Likely Casualty · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Run Web Apps on your Desktop with Prism · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• State of Open Source Message: A New Decade For Open Source · 2 points · by polar · no comments
• Duel of the skinny laptops · 2 points · by justinwhitefoot · no comments
• Any idea how many greasemonkey users there are? · 2 points · by nextmoveone · no comments
• US Compaines going public in Canada (IPO's) · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Hey, in ISO 8601 format, it's 2008-02-08. · 2 points · by pingswept · 4 comments
• Designing What’s Right for Consumers · 2 points · by jbrun · no comments
• Yahoo's D-Day: Postponed · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• All quiet on the Yahoo front, time for alternative ideas · 2 points · by utnick · no comments
• 'Twas The Night Before Startup · 2 points · by xirium · no comments
• Europe’s grip on the world looked irresistible in the 1890s · 2 points · by daviday · no comments
• Cinema Fiction vs Physics -- Ghosts, Vampires, and Zombies · 2 points · by DocSavage · 2 comments
• Undecidable problem · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Anandtech on Mac Book Air battery life · 1 points · by reitzensteinm · no comments
• Roughing it out in a startup · 1 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Tech Startup Industry Still Shaky · 1 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Demo planned for Google's phone platform Android · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Ten Indian Start-ups to watch for in 2008 · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Old discussion on Viaweb, Lisp, and maintainability · 1 points · by dmoney · 1 comment
• Like Apple, Intel Wants to Put the 'Internet in Your Pocket' · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Will Opera Mobile perform for free? · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Rumor: Apple planning late February event? · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Workling - Use Starling (Twitter's Queueing Engine) or Amazon SQS from Rails · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Anyone know of an email service where you pay to send email to famous people? · 1 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• 18 inspirations for educators and social entrepreneurs · 1 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Companies Change, So Do their Logos · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Fancy Zoom: Lightview Like Javascript Photo Gallery that Zooms When Popping Up · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Poor man's python templating - what should I worry about? · 1 points · by johnrob · 3 comments
• The Top 5 Reasons Nokia Should Bid On Yahoo - Mobile Blog - InformationWeek · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Visual Music Instruments · 1 points · by karthikv · no comments
• "Whoa" Says Yahoo To Live Viewers · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• First Video of Electricity-Generating Knee Brace · 1 points · by karthikv · no comments
• Japan's space agency planning space-based microwave beaming solar arrays · 1 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• MacBook Air: SSD vs HDD · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• New York Times' illustrates the Year in Ideas · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Bebo: Social central · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• paper presentation on SEO · 1 points · by yearsinrock · no comments
• MS, Google and Other Big Names Throw Their Weight Behind OpenID · 1 points · by cawel · no comments
• Google Docs allows you to create custom polls · 1 points · by ivan · no comments
• Malicious programs hit new high · 1 points · by justinwhitefoot · no comments
• Staying safe without anti-virus · 1 points · by justinwhitefoot · no comments
• Facebook says hola to Spanish amigos · 1 points · by justinwhitefoot · no comments
• High-tech tool cought mystery killer virus · 1 points · by rakiura · no comments
• Ebay Sellers Revolt, Proving Again That Internet Users Don't Get Strikes · 1 points · by justinwhitefoot · no comments
• Michael Eisner fantasizes about end to writer's strike on CNBC · 1 points · by justinwhitefoot · no comments
• Seattle Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Can Web-based worlds teach us about the real one? · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• 10 Years Ago Today: 24 Hours in Cyberspace · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Check This Out: A $6 Million Home Movie Theater · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Of internet cafés and power cuts · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• CREATIVE STARTUP PEOPLE (Number 2 of a series) : Do you what they have? · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Should I contact VCs financing my competitors? · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• CloudBook poised to give the Asus Eee PC a run for its money · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Do storm - find idea, solution, answer in you subconsciousness. · 1 points · by kiosan · no comments
• Ruby Cheat Sheets · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Court Finds That Trolls Can Remain Anonymous · 1 points · by brlewis · no comments
• Rails 5 times faster with this patch · 1 points · by febeling · no comments
• How to Setup Parallels Virtualization Software in Ubuntu · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Floating data Centers: The Ocean As Watercooler · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Google Plays to Microsoft's Weaknesses · 1 points · by drm237 · no comments
• GPS Determines Car's Speed Limit · 1 points · by drm237 · no comments
• eBay to ban negative seller views · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• So what's wrong with all these smartphones? · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Exception Handling in Running a Business · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Robert Scoble's section on the new Fast Company website · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• How many employees does Google have? · 1 points · by jbrun · 2 comments
• The Pathetic Fallacy of RDF · 1 points · by joe24pack · no comments
• 10 Great Tools For Online Business Communication · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• (Startup) Life is what you make of it · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• GlassFish v3 Ruby Gem on RubyForge · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• xkcd - Möbius Battle · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Analyzing the Internet Collapse · 1 points · by drm237 · no comments
• 15 Stunning Cutting-Edge Gadgets and Technologies · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• SealedMedia: A DRM nightmare · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Microsoft Kool-Aid and the cloud · 1 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Facebook Introduces Spanish Twin · 1 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Microsoft's Head Is in the Cloud · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Digsby is Here · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Why YaSoft, MicroYa and Yoogle Are Not Important · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• How to Win Big at Negotiation: 3 Rules You Must Definitely Know · 1 points · by jensthang · no comments
• Designing What’s Right for Consumers · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• A chat with Stephen Covey on conflict vs. synergy · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Snocap CEO Rusty Rueff interviewed about managing top talent for entrepreneurs · 1 points · by meredith · no comments
• Small is not Always Beautiful · 1 points · by llimllib · no comments
• Most excellent web calendar app MixIn · 1 points · by theremora · no comments
• Sun's 'disturbingly quiet' cycle prompts fear of global Cooling · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Great Inteview with Avid founder Bill Warner · 1 points · by theremora · no comments
• Astronauts to check shuttle for damage · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• VC Fundraising Manual: Be Nice To Assistants · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Messing up the Interface: What happens when Sales, Marketing and Legal get involved · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• The coolest thing at LIFT: MixIn · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Become a Better Programmer by Not Programming · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Incremental Map/Reduce in Couch DB · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Game show "The Moment of Truth" is by now on US TV, but Colombian original has set the bar high · 1 points · by zoltz · no comments
• Facebook translated into Spanish · 1 points · by justinwhitefoot · no comments
• Why is Manhunt 2 the most controversial game in history? · 1 points · by justinwhitefoot · no comments
• Syntax makes you feel safe. · 1 points · by xmilestegx · no comments
• The design of social spaces · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Screencast: RSpec and NetBeans · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Someone pursued my electronic puzzle idea · 1 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• New CrunchBoard Up and Running · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Microsoft preps seven 'critical' fixes · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Why I Don't Use PowerPoint For Teaching · 1 points · by neilc · 1 comment
• ROFLputers · 1 points · by philcrissman · no comments
• Polaroid Gets Out of the Polaroid Business · 1 points · by joshwa · no comments
• FlixWagon Allows Realtime Broadcast From Mobile Telephone · 1 points · by xirium · no comments