Hacker News Way Back Machine

• The mortgage crisis, in cartoon form (has cursing, maybe NSFW?) · 127 points · by yummyfajitas · 25 comments
• Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90 · 90 points · by rms · 16 comments
• Test your stock-picking skills with instant feedback. Most common word from my users: "addicting". · 53 points · by ssanders82 · 49 comments
• Solo Entrepreneurs: Big Bucks from Tiny Computing Startups · 47 points · by papa · 17 comments
• Mark Pilgrim on Joel Spolsky’s “Martian Headsets” · 46 points · by nickb · 5 comments
• Apple sales soar to capture 14% of US PC retail sales · 40 points · by edw519 · 23 comments
• Would you accept a buyout offer that made you rich but you still felt was undervalued? · 37 points · by os111 · 46 comments
• Ask YC: Any newbie coders? · 36 points · by willphipps · 30 comments
• Joel is from Mars, browsers are from Venus · 34 points · by muriithi · 3 comments
• Ask YC: Hacker News Feature Request - Gigs Page · 33 points · by PStamatiou · 41 comments
• Disqus Gets VC Funding, Releases v2 and Kicks Competitions' Ass. · 33 points · by immad · 21 comments
• Apple releases Safari 3.1 · 32 points · by naish · 18 comments
• The Feel Good Initiative. Discover new music daily. · 27 points · by andr · 35 comments
• 10 tips for optimizing mysql queries · 25 points · by azsromej · 2 comments
• Coding Horror: Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity? · 24 points · by e1ven · 9 comments
• The hidden cost principle · 24 points · by drusenko · 9 comments
• U of Waterloo: All intro CS courses use Scheme (for Math students too!) · 23 points · by pchristensen · 20 comments
• Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux · 19 points · by marrone · 5 comments
• Performance comparison: Rails 1.2.6 vs 2.0.2 · 19 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• Yahoo's "Unlimited" Email Hits Its Limit · 18 points · by jmorin007 · 4 comments
• Sci-fi guru Arthur Clarke dies at 90 · 18 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• The Problem With 1,000 True Fans · 17 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures · 17 points · by brooksbp · no comments
• The .NET Framework is big. Really, really big. · 17 points · by iamelgringo · 14 comments
• Performance comparison of FreeBSD 7.0 to FreeBSD 4.11 and Dragonfly BSD 1.12 · 16 points · by gongfudoi · 13 comments
• Why Is There No New "Einstein"? · 16 points · by neilc · 33 comments
• Why good developers don't need a resume · 15 points · by hhm · 3 comments
• Good Luck at Demo Day · 15 points · by drm237 · 4 comments
• Does FriendFeed Solve a Problem, or Highlight One? · 13 points · by jmorin007 · 1 comment
• Elitism is the new black? A karma whoring social network idea · 12 points · by Raphael · 18 comments
• The Disney Rules Of Marketing · 12 points · by socalsamba · 1 comment
• Why Is Simple So Hard? · 11 points · by loquace · 2 comments
• Ask YC: Best Hacking Music? · 11 points · by sant0sk1 · 24 comments
• Ongoing IFrame attack proving difficult to kill · 10 points · by bdfh42 · 3 comments
• The Week That Shook Wall Street: Inside the Demise of Bear Stearns · 10 points · by prakash · 6 comments
• Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming · 10 points · by makimaki · 1 comment
• A few ideas about Negotiation · 10 points · by fleaflicker · 4 comments
• Subliminal Exposure to Apple Logo Makes You 'Think Different' · 10 points · by kingnothing · 3 comments
• FriendFeed Has Search, And Suddenly Feels Like A Destination Site · 9 points · by jmorin007 · 6 comments
• Meebo raising new round. Valued more than Bears Stearns · 9 points · by ericwan · 7 comments
• What is the value of advertising space on my site? · 9 points · by zeke77 · 5 comments
• 6 Tips for Hiring Top Talent at Startups · 8 points · by moses1400 · no comments
• New Features Twitter Needs to Compete · 8 points · by buckpost · 2 comments
• And you thought BrainFk was hard to understand... · 8 points · by iamelgringo · 2 comments
• Vale Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008 · 8 points · by jmorin007 · 2 comments
• Acid tripping, Disneyland, and Special Relativity · 7 points · by johnm · no comments
• Tone - It really is important (Xobni) · 7 points · by brett · 2 comments
• Maybe the Web's Not a Place to Stick Your Ads · 6 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• Pricing and the brain · 6 points · by bootload · no comments
• How to Innovate Right Now · 6 points · by unfoldedorigami · 1 comment
• Charlie Rose Face Plants To Save His MacBook Air · 6 points · by ivankirigin · 1 comment
• DC Proof -- a free program to help you learn to do proofs · 5 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Is Meebo Worth Half a Slide? · 5 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• B Corporations · 5 points · by jakep36 · 2 comments
• Disqus: In the middle of a disruptive change in media · 5 points · by bootload · no comments
• Ask YC: Suggestions for funding a small-scale open-source development project (a la the x prize) · 5 points · by kn0thing · no comments
• A reward from Sir Donald Knuth · 5 points · by rms · 3 comments
• New wiki - nuospace · 4 points · by andykill · 6 comments
• Push To Classify Internet Addiction As a Mental Disorder · 4 points · by jmorin007 · 3 comments
• Investor: Clean Tech Is Only Hope for the Collapsing Economy · 4 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Anonymous: This is why we fight · 4 points · by earle · 3 comments
• Slackware 12.0 on the eee · 4 points · by revorad · no comments
• Fear and doubt spread in Silicon Valley · 4 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Pi.comet: a javascript class for creating cross browser Comet(Reverse Ajax) applications easily · 4 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Size Does Matter — Bigger Monitors Save 2.5 Hours a Day · 4 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Insomnia and productivity of coders · 4 points · by ropiku · no comments
• Google Maps Enables Live Editing of Public Map Data · 4 points · by mattjaynes · 1 comment
• The Last Question · 4 points · by henning · no comments
• Ask YC: What important lesson did you learn from this site? · 3 points · by wave · 2 comments
• What's Your Startup's Virality Coefficient? · 3 points · by shafqat · 3 comments
• Oxford: Digital Piracy Benefits Affected Companies · 3 points · by earle · 1 comment
• Google: We didn't help the NSA (or did we?) · 3 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Are You Sure You Should be Subclassing That? · 3 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Flickr will introduce video uploads next month. · 3 points · by michjeanty · 1 comment
• What do you think of this idea? · 3 points · by myoung8 · 4 comments
• If the iPhone SDK is a “joke”, Apple will laugh all the way to the bank · 3 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Installing The Open Source Ticket Request System (OTRS) On Fedora 8 · 3 points · by joschi · no comments
• Creating Comet Applications In 3 Minutes · 3 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Software safety by the numbers · 3 points · by gongfudoi · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Has anyone seen any polls lately? · 3 points · by BrandonM · 2 comments
• 11 Ways to Make Money With Robots · 3 points · by danec · 2 comments
• Lessons from Bear on Sarbanes-Oxley: We didn't need it, and it didn't do any good · 3 points · by dpapathanasiou · 5 comments
• Starbucks dangers · 3 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Facebook Ready To Pass MySpace In Worldwide Traffic · 3 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Cell phone as boarding pass · 3 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Funding business plans from first time entrepreneurs won't happen anymore · 3 points · by willphipps · 1 comment
• Java is Faster than C++ and C++ Sucks Unbiased Benchmark · 3 points · by gongfudoi · 2 comments
• Improving Your Business with Technology on a Budget · 3 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• Yahoo’s Three-Year Plan: Grow Revenues 73% By Focusing on Display Ads, Mobile, and Better Search · 3 points · by ciscoriordan · 1 comment
• Ask N.YC: What is the best (cheap) way to prepare taxes (for an individual and a small business)? · 3 points · by falsestprophet · 4 comments
• The classics: Dijkstra's a discipline of programming · 3 points · by azsromej · 1 comment
• GenerateData.com: Ever needed custom formatted sample / test data, like, bad? · 3 points · by marrone · 1 comment
• The Black Swan for the Young and Restless (e.g., you) · 3 points · by apathy · no comments
• The Courage to do things Simply (dirtSimple.org) · 3 points · by marcus · no comments
• Cellphone as boarding pass · 3 points · by vegashacker · no comments
• The Collatz Conjecture (maths) · 3 points · by hhm · no comments
• Search and you shall find, says Google boss · 3 points · by nreece · no comments
• Git-Style Automatic Paging in Ruby · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• How to make reputation markets work · 2 points · by syntaxfree · 2 comments
• For Freedom from lengthy phone menus, use fonolo · 2 points · by ravishankar · no comments
• Dealing with Large Data in Ajax · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• 13 Tips to Comment Your Code · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• CBS to bloggers: Install our widgets, and we'll split the profits · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Some Nice Features of the Objective-C Language · 2 points · by gongfudoi · 1 comment
• Remote execution DoS exploits iPhone by simply loading a Web page · 2 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• You can run windows on Mac then why can't you run Mac OS-X on PC? Is it the intel chips for PC not designed for Mac OS-X? · 2 points · by ideas101 · 3 comments
• SXSW: The Ascent of Nerdcore Rising · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• The "mobile is different" argument is back · 2 points · by sanj · no comments
• Throwing Out An Idea · 2 points · by brentr · 5 comments
• A Cold War mission, deep in the Arctic · 2 points · by jbrun · no comments
• Tips for Web 3.0 (Semantic Web) System Builders · 2 points · by pius · no comments
• The Web in Charts—Google vs. Microsoft-Yahoo vs. China · 2 points · by wave · no comments
• The Personal Advantage of Small · 2 points · by Mistone · no comments
• 6 Tips for Hiring Top Talent at Startups · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Amusing Tidbits From Warren Buffet and The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report · 2 points · by brlewis · no comments
• Securing Firefox 3 · 2 points · by ivank · 1 comment
• Guido van Rossum: Python 3000 and You · 2 points · by iamelgringo · 1 comment
• One of many reasons why the Windows command line will never be taken seriously. · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Django vs. ASP.NET MVC · 2 points · by iamelgringo · 2 comments
• More on Blogs, The Long Tail and Following vs Leading · 2 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Taming software complexity · 2 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• More UI Lessons from the Real World (Second Part) · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Toolbar free competitor to stumbleupon · 2 points · by spinsnap · 1 comment
• VC enthusiasm for Web 2.0 startups slowing · 2 points · by dpapathanasiou · no comments
• VC enthusiasm for Web 2.0 startups slowing · 2 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Do Startups Understand Consumer Research Habits? · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Class name generator · 2 points · by hernan7 · no comments
• Jason Calacanis & the Mahalo Work Ethic (Comic) · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Disqus Raises $500,000; Adds New Community Pages for Blog Comments · 2 points · by dskhatri · no comments
• Awareness Test · 2 points · by blackswan · no comments
• Notes on scaling an organization from FriendFeed's Bret Taylor · 2 points · by azsromej · no comments
• Adobe Fireworks Tutorials and Downloads - Best of · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Federal Reserve slashes US rates 0,75% - less than expected · 2 points · by mixmax · no comments
• Yesterday's Priority is Today's Procrastination · 2 points · by andygeers · no comments
• NASA's space robot assembled and awaiting first assignment · 2 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Yahoo Expects 8.8B Revenue By 2010 · 2 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Survey Confirms iPhone Users are Hardcore Internet Junkies · 2 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Aggregate Your Online Social Life with FriendFeed · 2 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Learn as Many Languages as You Can (or just learn Scala) · 2 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Instablogs Negotiating $3 Million Round · 2 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Where Does Bear Stearns Go From Here? · 2 points · by tomh · no comments
• Python 2.6 and 3.0 release schedule · 2 points · by inklesspen · 1 comment
• Workers Uncovering Mummified Dinosaur · 2 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• UncleShare - ShareAnnotation-Based Access Control · 2 points · by pius · no comments
• Long Tail Missing from MySpace Platform, Just Like Facebook · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Catching threading bugs at compile time · 2 points · by jconti · no comments
• A first look at searchme the visual search engine · 2 points · by GIMAD · no comments
• Any college basketball fans on News.YC? · 2 points · by hooande · 3 comments
• A mathematical puzzle: The Case of Sleeping Beauty · 2 points · by hhm · no comments
• Is venture capital's love affair with Web 2.0 over? · 2 points · by parker · 1 comment
• Intel Maps Out Course to Eight-Core Nehalem · 2 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Dow spikes 420 points on rate cut · 2 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Developers, Developers, Developers: Internet Explorer 8 will drive you nuts · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Tools For Improving Focus [video] · 1 points · by pkaler · no comments
• Mistake of the Week: “But even he says so, and he’s an X!” · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• Dr. Seuss discusses parser monads · 1 points · by henning · no comments
• VCs inject million dollars in open source · 1 points · by TheBigRedDog · no comments
• I have got spammed emails from italk.match.c0m for 4 per day · 1 points · by wayland · no comments
• The same companies that dominate the old news media are dominating Internet news as well · 1 points · by dkasper · 1 comment
• Idea: Karma exchange · 1 points · by goodgoblin · 3 comments
• When You Listen to Fools, the Mob Rules · 1 points · by jlhamilton · no comments
• Ask YC: Dynamic systems (text)books recommendation? · 1 points · by andreyf · 3 comments
• Identifying Manipulated Images · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Insecure by design: Cisco product shipped with backdoor · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• USB stick fingerprint security easily bypassed · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Know your System Administrator · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• FPGA-based XAUI interface supports Linux · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Android port turns phones into webservers · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Wireless home automation wakes up · 1 points · by gongfudoi · 1 comment
• Browser makers focus on beating malware · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• The needle in a haystack problem · 1 points · by ggrot · no comments
• Public submition of prior art and commentary relevant to the claims of a patent · 1 points · by eusman · no comments
• America's Robot Army: Are Unmanned Fighters Ready for Combat? · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• getBoundingClient Rect is awsome · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Harvard grad student's info in danger · 1 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• European's firm benrfit from bebo's acquisition · 1 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• Comparison of different SQL implementations · 1 points · by samueladam · no comments
• Apple and Microsoft’s Flash dance · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Slideshare Ramping Up - Leading Online Presentations App? · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• The Silver Lining to this Economic Mess · 1 points · by JohnN · no comments
• Ode to Apple fans · 1 points · by wumi · no comments
• Did Microsoft beat Apple to dual-sided touch technology? · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Enter the socialprise · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• IPhone Developer Program Rejections: Take 2 · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Running xp on linux with virtualbox · 1 points · by azsromej · no comments
• Ask YC: New logo, feedback and effects. · 1 points · by agentbleu · no comments
• The Web is Ruined and I Ruined it · 1 points · by german · no comments
• Google Summer of Code Mentor List · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• The two ugly faces of HTML generation · 1 points · by glyphobet · no comments
• Lessons to learn from a do-it-yourself curry house · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• 'On the Internet, guard your personal space' · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• When the IP laWyer drops, the TCP layer resends · 1 points · by TheBigRedDog · no comments
• Camera that Sees Under Clothes · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Disqus Goes Beta II - Gets More Funding And Removes Message Boards · 1 points · by moses1400 · no comments
• Microchip-sized 'fan' with no moving parts · 1 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• GeoLocating Visitors for Relevant Homepages · 1 points · by humanlever · no comments
• Microsoft releases Vista SP1 · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Google Maps, Wiki-Style · 1 points · by rsa · no comments
• Good Financial Advice for Startups: AKA Calacanis is Right · 1 points · by mindplunge · no comments
• Songkick is down · 1 points · by blored · 1 comment