Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Why Not To Do A Startup · 136 points · by rms · 83 comments
• An Ingenious Video Game That Looks Like It Was Designed by a Third-Grader · 78 points · by gensym · 18 comments
• Come stay at the hacker house in San Jose, Free · 68 points · by samwise · 55 comments
• My create-your-own-social-news-site startup is live. Feedback appreciated. · 50 points · by brett · 46 comments
• Ask YC: What's the most inspiring sci-fi book you've read? · 43 points · by moog · 79 comments
• How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong · 35 points · by rms · 6 comments
• The Next Programming Skill You Should Learn · 31 points · by nickb · 16 comments
• Ask YC: Suggestions for funding a small-scale open-source development project (a la the X Prize) · 25 points · by kn0thing · 13 comments
• Google Drive: drive around Google Maps · 25 points · by hhm · 15 comments
• Apple to offer unlimited free iTunes music to iPod/iPhone owners · 23 points · by naish · 12 comments
• Social networking will become ubiquitous, but that doesn't mean it's a business. · 22 points · by parker · 14 comments
• 101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site · 21 points · by sagar13d · 2 comments
• Ask YC: Internet Startup or Big Powerhouse for a summer internship? · 21 points · by njoubert · 35 comments
• SemanticHacker · 21 points · by nextmoveone · 6 comments
• The First, The Free, and the Good · 21 points · by comatose_kid · 4 comments
• Y Combinator Demo Day - which one will be The Next Big Thing? · 20 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Lovd by Less - Open source social network based on RoR · 18 points · by pibefision · 4 comments
• Ars: iPhone apps can only be deployed/tested on 5 iPhones before going to the App store · 18 points · by e1ven · 3 comments
• 5 Tools to Track How Much Time you Waste while Online (including YC 8aweek and RescueTime) · 18 points · by bfioca · 3 comments
• Are VCs done with Web 2.0 Startups--Or the Other Way Around? · 18 points · by ciscoriordan · 1 comment
• Wiki Time Travel Humor · 17 points · by Flemlord · 1 comment
• Disks have become tapes · 17 points · by __ · no comments
• Memory usage comparison: Rails 1.2.6 vs 2.0.2 · 16 points · by nickb · no comments
• Songkick’s concert recommendation engine: It goes to 11 · 16 points · by pg · 6 comments
• Ask YC: startup or traditional work experience? · 16 points · by Payton · 19 comments
• For Scientists, a Beer Test Shows Results as a Litmus Test · 15 points · by sanj · 9 comments
• Some startup inspiration: Homes of the world’s billionaires · 15 points · by edw519 · 23 comments
• Man Builds Robot to Kill Him · 14 points · by hhm · 12 comments
• The Recession Will Hit the Web · 14 points · by ciscoriordan · 7 comments
• Nails Never Fails (Lenny Dyktra is a Massively Successful Entrepeneur) · 14 points · by llimllib · 4 comments
• Google's riches rely on ads, algorithms, and worldwide confusion · 13 points · by moog · 3 comments
• iPhone Users Do More With The Mobile Web Than Any Other Smartphone Owners · 13 points · by AZA43 · 2 comments
• Voting-Machine Maker to Princeton Researcher: 'Hands Off' · 12 points · by chaostheory · 3 comments
• Ask YC: Demo Day, the results? · 11 points · by rokhayakebe · 3 comments
• Songkick gets more TC coverage · 11 points · by wumi · no comments
• VC confab: Please, no more social networks · 11 points · by parker · 5 comments
• Ask YC: What's the most insipid sci-fi book you've read? · 10 points · by moog · 8 comments
• Sun and MySQL: Few Acquisitions Make This Much Sense · 10 points · by drm237 · 8 comments
• Facebook has failed us · 9 points · by lanej0 · 7 comments
• CiUI - CNET iPhone UI · 9 points · by marrone · no comments
• Chrysler 'like a $60 billion startup' · 9 points · by drm237 · 4 comments
• Mastering Linux debugging techniques · 9 points · by 0xdefec8 · 2 comments
• Google Mobile Learns the Need For Speed, But Is Still Not Fast Enough · 9 points · by jmorin007 · 1 comment
• It’s not them, it’s you: Why new hires are so hard. · 8 points · by jmorin007 · 1 comment
• Why the iPhone $99 dev program is limited · 8 points · by vlad · 3 comments
• Xkcd: Tap That Ass · 7 points · by bkrausz · 1 comment
• 8 common lies told by enterprise software sales people · 7 points · by edw519 · no comments
• A Hardcore Developer-Turned-CIO Shares the Trials and Tribulations of His First-Ever CIO Job · 7 points · by MeridithL · no comments
• Is an offline version of gmail coming? · 7 points · by azsromej · 2 comments
• What's the best way to get started? · 7 points · by arohner · 10 comments
• Pentagon's Cyborg Insects All Grown Up · 7 points · by hhm · 1 comment
• Adobe Bringing Flash to the iPhone · 6 points · by divia · no comments
• Binary calculator created from marbles and wood · 6 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90 · 5 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Intel's Long-Distance Wi-Fi · 5 points · by dskhatri · no comments
• Using Python for Word Frequency · 5 points · by dedalus · no comments
• Squeakers: Alan Kay video about kids and Squeak · 5 points · by arcologist · no comments
• The Disruptive Entrepreneur’s Dilemma · 5 points · by wave · 1 comment
• How to think like a Pythonista · 5 points · by dedalus · no comments
• GitHub - Rails-based Git repository hosting · 5 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• A Framework for Automatic Web Application Generation in Common Lisp · 5 points · by dpapathanasiou · 1 comment
• The Energy Industry · 4 points · by sudeepjuvekar · no comments
• Axiom of Choice · 4 points · by nickb · no comments
• Odeo Acquires BlogDigger · 4 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Adobe Forging Ahead with Flash for the iPhone Despite Jobs’ Remarks · 4 points · by ciscoriordan · 1 comment
• The dark side of Extensions · 4 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Google Code University · 4 points · by nextmoveone · no comments
• A CIO Evalutes the Technologies Necessary to Support Telecommuters · 4 points · by MeridithL · no comments
• The tool I’ve been waiting for years · 4 points · by drm237 · no comments
• He’s Baaack! Quattrone Starts Qatalyst Partners. · 4 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• MPI Cluster with Python and Amazon EC2 · 4 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test · 4 points · by arcologist · 2 comments
• Bidding on wireless spectrum ends · 4 points · by bigv586 · 1 comment
• 35 Facts About Grad School You Need to Know · 4 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Canadian TV to Adopt DRM-Free BitTorrents · 4 points · by naish · no comments
• How to protect the source code? · 4 points · by dalembertian · 2 comments
• Math and the Current State of Coarse-Grained Parallelism in Python · 4 points · by paul_reiners · no comments
• Former Yahoo Ad Chief Joins Startup as CEO · 4 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Investment banks (Goldman Sachs, Lehman Bros, Morgan Stanley) are borrowing from Fed · 4 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Twitter Is The Tech Water Cooler · 4 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Newspapers Beware: Blogs are A Disruptive Technology · 4 points · by bootload · no comments
• Superlanguages: A Revolutionary Approach to Development · 4 points · by nreece · 5 comments
• Twitter breaks down barriers in the classroom · 4 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Student won't be expelled over Facebook study group · 3 points · by naish · no comments
• How Ibuildings builds scalable web applications · 3 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Rails and Grails comparison · 3 points · by nreece · no comments
• Joseph Weizenbaum, Creator of ELIZA, Obituary (March 5) · 3 points · by kajecounterhack · no comments
• Google I/O · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• No Adjectives please! (How to pitch your company) · 3 points · by kulkarnic · no comments
• Safari 3.1 Develop Menu · 3 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Fear and loathing at the Customs desk · 3 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Visa IPO Sets Record $17.9B · 3 points · by kingnothing · no comments
• More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant. · 3 points · by rms · no comments
• How to Scale Up Quickly by Steve McConnell · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Yahoo Outlines Why It's Worth More Than MSFT Is Paying · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• JavaScript metaclass programming · 3 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Google sees surge in Web use on hot mobile phones · 3 points · by edw519 · no comments
• What’s Luck got to do with (data center catastrophe)? · 3 points · by dennykmiu · no comments
• In Most Species, Faithfulness Is a Fantasy · 3 points · by theoneill · no comments
• Top 5 reasons why “The customer is Always Right” is wrong · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Pleasing Google's Tech-Savvy Staff · 3 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• The technology that toppled Eliot Spitzer · 3 points · by raghus · no comments
• 1 in 5 undergrads is constantly stressed · 3 points · by edw519 · 6 comments
• Architecture in Enterprise Engineering · 3 points · by ocastaneda · no comments
• Collapsing geography: y? y not! · 3 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• See-saw to power African schools · 3 points · by rms · no comments
• Informal Chicago Meetup · 3 points · by bmaier · 3 comments
• Yahoo + Microsoft = Web Mail Dominance · 3 points · by joshwa · no comments
• Aaron Swartz presenting at a Canadian conference · 3 points · by rms · no comments
• Who Needs Flash on the iPhone More: Adobe or Apple? · 3 points · by naish · 3 comments
• Google Visualization API · 3 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Google sees surge in Web use on mobile phones · 3 points · by bootload · no comments
• Challenge: which Javascript library is the best · 3 points · by nreece · no comments
• The Internet Archive Keeps Book-Scanning Free · 3 points · by bootload · no comments
• 12 things that cost more than Bear Stearns · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Unlock And Hack Into A Windows PC With A Single Command · 2 points · by TechMaster · 1 comment
• Brain Enhancement Is Wrong, Right? · 2 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Vyatta open sources networking software that scales to 10 Gigabit Environments · 2 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• New Bomb Detecting Sensor Technology · 2 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Ajax World Conference - Picking the Right Technology for Enterprise Rich Internet Applications · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Aussies are leading Firefox users · 2 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• A Song Made from Windows XP sounds [video] · 2 points · by aneesh · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Favorite fantasy novel(s)? · 2 points · by wumi · 12 comments
• Apple mulls unlimited music bundle · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Ask YC: What websites or products have the best User Interfaces? · 2 points · by Mazy · 1 comment
• The Privacy Toolbox: 100 Guides and Resources for Keeping Your Personal Information Safe · 2 points · by sagar13d · no comments
• The State of the News Media 2008 · 2 points · by matstc · no comments
• Creators of stu.dicio.us launch New Web App for Budgeting · 2 points · by iamdave · 1 comment
• Can't grasp credit crisis? Join the club. · 2 points · by wumi · 1 comment
• OA5 Business Processes · 2 points · by xirium · no comments
• In depth explanation why the iPhone doesn't allow background processes · 2 points · by spif · no comments
• Apple patent would allow iPhone clamshell · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software? · 2 points · by muriithi · no comments
• What you can learn from Arthur C. Clarke · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• What’s The Next PHP Stack? · 2 points · by marrone · 1 comment
• Flash vs. hard drive battle heats up · 2 points · by davidw · 1 comment
• Would You Pay An Extra $100 For An All-You-Can-Listen-To iPod · 2 points · by sant0sk1 · 1 comment
• Jim Rogers, legendary trader and investor, explains the current financial crisis (vid) · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Google Visualisation API · 2 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Mahalo Launches Reviews and Ratings; CEO Shares Company Stats · 2 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Questions about Block D linger in aftermath of auction · 2 points · by auferstehung · no comments
• Solid State Fan to cool your laptop and other electronics · 2 points · by Xichekolas · 1 comment
• Free audio/video downloads from Webstock 08 · 2 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• High Definition Slowly Coming to IPTV · 2 points · by psogle · no comments
• Hey Chipheads, Here Are Some Startup Ideas · 2 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• India: future now · 1 points · by smackaysmith · no comments
• 'Squirrel Facebook' shows three degrees of separation · 1 points · by moog · 1 comment
• Nets made by spiders fed on drug-dosed flies · 1 points · by brooksbp · no comments
• IPhone 2.0 SDK: How Signing Certificates Work · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• A different kind of startup: bringing bagged ice to Germany · 1 points · by henning · no comments
• Social Experiment: Whats the Name of that Color? · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• $19 billion raised for wireless spectrum auction? · 1 points · by michjeanty · 1 comment
• Anyone interested in applying to YC to build iPhone apps? · 1 points · by vlad · no comments
• Iomega Corporation, EMC Corporation Acquisition Proposal · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Links to resources from PyCon talks · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Collaborative decision making and the impact of Scrum · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• On Inject, Complexity, and George Carlin · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Ask YC: isn't N.YC more accurate? · 1 points · by falsestprophet · no comments
• Note the Date and Time… the Ad Industry has Finally Started to Get It · 1 points · by sharksandwich · no comments
• KidZui: The Kid Safe Browser - trying too hard to control the internet? · 1 points · by Payton · 1 comment
• Building your IT security team · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Adobe: DRM for Flash · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• StudentBusinesses: A Network for Student Entrepreneurs · 1 points · by aneesh · no comments
• Vista SP1 officially released · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Apple evaluating "all you can eat" iTunes option? · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• 700MHz auction comes to a $19.6B finish, winners still not revealed · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Sprint Executive Satire · 1 points · by GIMAD · no comments
• Twitter Economy: The Coral Reef of Social Networking · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Harvard Law offers tuition breaks for public-service minded students. · 1 points · by wumi · no comments
• Blunders prompt more care of data · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Google your way to a wacky office · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Privacy on Facebook · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Don’t coddle the cow. Kill the cow · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• IE8 and Connection Parallelism · 1 points · by dedalus · no comments
• Taming Ruby on Rails with FiveRuns · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Murderer nabbed via tracking, Web search · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• We're not buying Apple's new unlimited music plan · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Free Windows for Supercomputers from Microsoft · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Has anyone read The Fourth Turning? What's your take? · 1 points · by jkush · 1 comment
• Why has Bear Stearns's stock been rallying? · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Blog Search in the Spotlight…Finally · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Efficient CRC calculation with minimal memory footprint · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• The next gold rush: solar power · 1 points · by gongfudoi · 1 comment
• Evolution of the smart phone · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Labeling of xen images with SELinux · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Interoperability by Friction (re: the Spolsky article that you're probably sick of reading about) · 1 points · by bct · no comments
• Sir Arthur C. Clarke: The Times obituary · 1 points · by moog · no comments
• Fannie, Freddie cleared to pump $200 billion into market · 1 points · by kirubakaran · 1 comment
• Dollars tough to sell on streets of Amsterdam · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Company closed its source because: "Open source is a wash" · 1 points · by TheBigRedDog · no comments
• Ask YC: What do people use for test environments? · 1 points · by brentr · no comments
• 12 Essential Rules to Live More Like a Zen Monk · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Chain Reaction: From Einstein to the Atomic Bomb · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• IPhone Users Are Having More Fun · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Pleasing Google's Tech-Savvy Staff · 1 points · by muriithi · no comments
• How Does the Gcc Organization Work? · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Python Spreadsheets: Like Resolver, Only in Excel and Free · 1 points · by muriithi · no comments
• Proof That Web 2.0 Doesn’t Have To Be So Serious · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• The Byzantine Generals Problem · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Top 13 ways to use social networking to build your business · 1 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• Social Networks Will Be Tomorrow's iTunes · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Viddyou Offers High Definition Uploads For Personal Videos; For a Price · 1 points · by aaroneous · 1 comment
• Silicon Valley's Bubble 2.0 · 1 points · by Payton · no comments
• Facebook app to discover cliques among your friends · 1 points · by mymool · no comments