Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Dean Kamen's robotic "Luke" arm - How long before this can perform martial arts? · 46 points · by attack · 8 comments
• Ask YC: (< (/ signal noise) too-low) · 42 points · by BrandonM · 85 comments
• Lambda functions and closures added to C++ · 41 points · by nickb · 27 comments
• Percent of population with a college degree, by country · 37 points · by pg · 48 comments
• What learning Lisp taught me about other languages · 32 points · by mqt · 37 comments
• Ask YC: Where to start with creating a distributed crawler · 30 points · by groovyone · 24 comments
• Prosper Default Rate 20% · 24 points · by reitzensteinm · 8 comments
• The man who made lists to fend off depression · 23 points · by edw519 · 8 comments
• Start-ups and Legal Fees · 21 points · by julek · 4 comments
• Image Recognition solved? Or, human powered? · 21 points · by earle · 18 comments
• Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking' · 21 points · by gibsonf1 · 46 comments
• The Importance of Mathematics [video] · 20 points · by getp · 5 comments
• You're Not a Programmer, We Won’t Pay You That Much · 19 points · by eb · 11 comments
• Offices and The Creativity Zone · 17 points · by raganwald · 11 comments
• Heroku - Simultaneously Develop and Deploy Automatically Scalable Rails Applications in the Cloud · 17 points · by zh · 2 comments
• How to become smarter? · 15 points · by prakash · 15 comments
• How to survive the recession - list of fastest growing jobs in US during the period 1929-1933 · 13 points · by nickb · 8 comments
• Exciting times in Rails land (review of some 2.1 features) · 13 points · by brett · 1 comment
• Calling Y Combinator - need for YC in other countries · 12 points · by akshaye · 22 comments
• Irony of the day: Student honor code turns out to be plagiarized. · 12 points · by GavinB · 6 comments
• Ask YC: Startupschool Afterparty? · 11 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 10 comments
• Coming Soon, to Any Flat Surface Near You · 9 points · by bootload · 7 comments
• FriendFeed, The Centralized Me, and Data Portability · 8 points · by mattculbreth · 2 comments
• Digg comments about how to disagree, slightly different from News.YC · 8 points · by mrtron · 12 comments
• 1980's cartoons: "The group is always right...the complainer is always wrong." · 8 points · by phony_identity · 1 comment
• A Journey to Baseball’s Alternate Universe · 8 points · by nickb · no comments
• Scaling Out MySQL · 7 points · by zh · 1 comment
• Acid3 Worthless? Certainly not, sir. · 7 points · by nickb · no comments
• Before the 1973 coup, Chile tried to find the right software for socialism · 6 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Linux Declared Hacker Proof · 6 points · by fiaz · 5 comments
• Lambda functions and closures added to C++. · 6 points · by databus · no comments
• Creative Labs: Fixing our crippled sound card drivers is considered "stealing our goods". · 5 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Startup 101: Do you have what it takes to fire your boss? · 5 points · by drm237 · no comments
• 10% of FaceBook Folks Are Xooglers · 5 points · by prakash · 3 comments
• Don't be Afraid of the Economy and do Your Best · 5 points · by xynny · no comments
• Why Original Blog Thought is So Difficult · 5 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Winning Venture Capital Pitches · 5 points · by jmorin007 · 2 comments
• "disk is the new RAM" · 5 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Marc Benioff's journey from Apple to Salesforce.com (14 min video) · 5 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Bjarne Stroustrup discusses the education of programmers · 5 points · by comatose_kid · 5 comments
• Ola Bini: Meta-level thinking · 5 points · by theoneill · no comments
• Q&A with Mozilla’s John Lilly on 10 years of Mozilla and the future of browsers · 5 points · by getp · no comments
• Software Doesn't Rot, But What If It Could? · 5 points · by jasonb05 · 3 comments
• WOWIO: Free Books + Free Minds · 4 points · by dous · 3 comments
• How Switzerland Became the Envy of Europe · 4 points · by garbowza · 1 comment
• Thinking Outside the Company’s Box · 3 points · by timr · 1 comment
• Google hopes Apps will help against Microsoft · 3 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• The Acrid Stench of Polysemy · 3 points · by nonrecursive · no comments
• State of Prolog · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Manufacturing’s comeback chance · 3 points · by rglullis · no comments
• Under Promise and Over Deliver · 3 points · by Mattaw · no comments
• The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide (In My Brain) · 3 points · by shafqat · no comments
• 11-year-old takes school network by the horns · 3 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Men are from Video Games, Women are from Social Networks · 2 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Comcast Adjusts Way It Manages Internet Traffic · 2 points · by timr · no comments
• Eureka! · 2 points · by earle · no comments
• Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science · 2 points · by neilc · no comments
• Watch Ezra's Presentation on Merb · 2 points · by laktek · no comments
• How to Start a Startup · 2 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Startup Search: a directory of web technology startups · 2 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Phoniness vs Magic · 2 points · by imgabe · no comments
• The Fall Of Freeconomics. Why $0.00 Is NOT the Future of Business · 2 points · by roovno · 7 comments
• Google has lots to do with intelligence · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Of Fly Eyes And Newspaper Revenues · 2 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border · 2 points · by osipov · 1 comment
• Video: Tim Berners Lee on the Semantic Web · 2 points · by maxwell · no comments
• Ask YC: Is it feasible to design a laptop that radiates heat from the back of the display? · 2 points · by amichail · 9 comments
• Pre-VC funds for Indian Startups · 2 points · by wumi · no comments
• Creative Labs: Where No Good Deed Goes Unpunished · 2 points · by TheTarquin · no comments
• Mobile Web Trends & Products · 2 points · by getp · no comments
• Myth Busted: No extra geekyness conferred upon eyeglass wearers · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Volunteers use modern technology to put names to unidentified bodies · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Behind Every Great Inventor, Many Others Whom History Forgot · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• Multicore Programming? Yawn! · 1 points · by neilc · no comments
• Economics of H-1B visas · 1 points · by matstc · no comments
• Cycling Hobbies to Day Jobs: A Personal Assessment of Starting a Startup · 1 points · by jasonb05 · no comments
• Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches · 1 points · by acangiano · no comments
• WordPress Gets Major Overhaul · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Does your OpenID provider work for me? · 1 points · by brlewis · 2 comments
• Lambda functions and closures in C++0x · 1 points · by polar · no comments
• Xmonad 0.7 released · 1 points · by vegai · no comments
• Embed FriendFeed Widget in your Blog · 1 points · by roovno · no comments
• Rambus Wins Patent Trial · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Tips for Joining an Excellent Startup Company · 1 points · by xynny · no comments
• Recording made in 1860 knocks Edison off the chart · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Teen Startup, ES40, Launches BT Ping · 1 points · by teamopan · 2 comments
• HK firm taps Filipino developers for iPhone apps · 1 points · by lgcale · no comments
• Why News of Iraq Dropped · 1 points · by matstc · no comments
• Sudoku in 201 lines · 1 points · by dhotson · 6 comments
• IPhone Pwnage Tool Released · 1 points · by paulsb · no comments
• Ask YC: good place to find CC licensed music? · 1 points · by silentmind · 3 comments
• How To Set Up SSH With Public-Key Authentication On Debian Etch · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• The simplest version of the web available, transforming the lives of villagers in rural India · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Ask YC: If someone releases something as public domain, how can you trust him/her? · 1 points · by amichail · 7 comments
• Automated vulnerability auditing in machine code · 1 points · by mich · no comments
• The Subprime Primer · 1 points · by rams · no comments
• Monster-trucking on the moon in a newfangled $2 million buggy · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• The Ex-Googler's Collage · 1 points · by vikrantsharma1 · no comments
• Designing for SpaceTime, Building in No Time by Matt Jones, Doppir · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Who's Your City? · 1 points · by jlhamilton · no comments
• Zemanta Firefox plugin enhances Blogging · 1 points · by Tygerdave · no comments