Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Lessons of Y Combinator: Things I’d do differently after 2 startups · 81 points · by marcus · 32 comments
• Perfectstorm: RTS written in Common Lisp using OpenGL · 53 points · by chaostheory · 14 comments
• Scary thought: Maybe the Rust Belt is the whole U.S. now? · 38 points · by tc · 14 comments
• Rails is moving from SVN to Git · 36 points · by brett · 3 comments
• Bootstrapped startup problem: credit card company abuse · 32 points · by DocSavage · 25 comments
• Asperger's and IT: Dark secret or open secret? · 27 points · by aaco · 16 comments
• Applying to YC this cycle? Please don't wait till the last minute. · 25 points · by pg · 49 comments
• A taste of what's coming in Rails 2.1 · 24 points · by sant0sk1 · 1 comment
• Google Tech Talk: The Secret History of Silicon Valley · 21 points · by staunch · 1 comment
• CollegeHumor Guys' Secret Success: T-Shirts · 21 points · by parker · 9 comments
• PriorSmart, easy patent search for entrepreneurs · 21 points · by nmeyer · 6 comments
• Songkick wants to be the home of live music online · 20 points · by amirnathoo · no comments
• John Doerr on traits of startup mercenaries vs missionaries (Stanford Video) · 20 points · by rantfoil · 8 comments
• Announcing The TechCrunch50 Conference: September 8-10, San Francisco · 18 points · by raghus · 12 comments
• The clock is ticking: Today is the last day to apply to YC · 17 points · by technoguyrob · 7 comments
• Have laptops killed the desktop? (Dell closing factory in Austin) · 17 points · by erickhill · 38 comments
• Designed for Microsoft Windows · 16 points · by pius · 14 comments
• Why aren’t you using ionice yet? · 16 points · by chaostheory · 3 comments
• Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller than MP3 · 15 points · by edw519 · 14 comments
• Design Patterns of 1972 · 15 points · by sah · 2 comments
• Amazon's new text message shopping--from a brick and mortar, conveniently comparison shop by UPC · 15 points · by ericb · 5 comments
• Brijit - The world in 100 words · 15 points · by pius · 4 comments
• Firefox 3 beta 5 is out · 15 points · by maxwell · 7 comments
• 1/3 Rule · 14 points · by Bluem00 · 5 comments
• Geek out old school: Virtual slide rules · 12 points · by noonespecial · 2 comments
• What Question Does Your Product Answer? · 12 points · by socalsamba · 3 comments
• Tooth Regeneration May Replace Drill-and-Fill · 11 points · by rms · 4 comments
• The Maasai warriors' guide to England · 11 points · by dood · 3 comments
• Startuprant.com rants on about Scribd.com · 10 points · by MarkyMark · 19 comments
• Slick or Slack? (HotorNot for code) · 10 points · by prakash · 4 comments
• Embedded + CPU != x86 · 10 points · by emfle · 4 comments
• My Startup: tracking real world trends - thoughts? suggestions? · 10 points · by matthewer · 19 comments
• Startup feeds on Alltop, including News.YC · 9 points · by dcurtis · 5 comments
• Ask YC: is SOAP vs. Rest the new Emacs vs. Vi? · 9 points · by c1sc0 · 31 comments
• Interesting use of Google maps API for non-cartographic data · 9 points · by ratsbane · 4 comments
• On the Need for a Good Computer Science History Course · 8 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• Extensive VC info resource · 8 points · by pelekhl · 3 comments
• Epiphany switches from Gecko to WebKit · 8 points · by rms · 2 comments
• Google CIO Douglas Merrill Quits Becomes President of EMI · 8 points · by willphipps · 5 comments
• Venture Weekend: 40 Entrepreneurs. 1 Weekend. 1 New Startup. · 8 points · by abossy · no comments
• Former Facebook employee sheds light: never going to make money on apps. · 8 points · by crxnamja · 4 comments
• G. Polya: How to Solve It · 8 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• The Top 6 Non monetary Features I Want In An Employer · 8 points · by raganwald · 2 comments
• What would inspire you to work for someone? · 7 points · by symptic · 16 comments
• Extensible CSS - the most basic things your site's css/html should support · 7 points · by rantfoil · 1 comment
• Professional racial discrimination testers in St. Louis, circa 1992 · 7 points · by Alex3917 · 5 comments
• Wildly Oversimplified Diagram of the Internet Backbone · 7 points · by sah · 1 comment
• Once An Algorithms Guy, Always An Algorithms Guy · 7 points · by paul_reiners · no comments
• Is it art? Is it cool? Putting a Giant Banana in Geostationary Orbit over Texas · 7 points · by bmaier · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Should a startup's business model be kept secret? · 7 points · by iamwil · 13 comments
• Ask YC: Speaking at your first conference · 6 points · by PStamatiou · 14 comments
• Discussions of miscellaneous mathematical topics. · 6 points · by mk · 2 comments
• How To Name Your Company · 6 points · by michjeanty · 9 comments
• GitHub switches back to SVN, launches SVNHub · 5 points · by pius · 7 comments
• Querying s-expressions in Common Lisp · 5 points · by mqt · no comments
• Amazon's customer-centric focus (print-on-demand centralization) · 5 points · by DocSavage · 3 comments
• Gold prices fall below $900 an ounce · 5 points · by gongfudoi · 9 comments
• I think this mental health site might need a new webmaster. · 5 points · by tomh · 5 comments
• My startup: Build your own search engine and share it. · 5 points · by okeumeni · 18 comments
• Ask YC: Help Me With A Math Problem · 5 points · by Xichekolas · 13 comments
• But I've got nothing to hide! · 4 points · by D_T · no comments
• Daniel_K, Who Fixed Creative's Broken Vista Drivers, Speaks Out · 4 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Ask YC: What income-generating systems do you employ? · 4 points · by technoguyrob · 2 comments
• The First Hadoop Summit · 4 points · by davidw · no comments
• The Power of Persuasion · 4 points · by marrone · 2 comments
• Make the Most of Muxtape: A Field Guide to Playlists · 4 points · by naish · 1 comment
• Geoengineering for global warming · 4 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• Twitter, The Social Lubricant of the 21st Century · 4 points · by pius · 1 comment
• Project Virgle: the first permanent human colony on Mars · 3 points · by aaco · no comments
• Rubies all the way down · 3 points · by pius · no comments
• Ask HN: Extraordinary people who have inspired you · 3 points · by as · 13 comments
• Open Source Databases Widely Used, Seldom Paid For · 3 points · by gscott · 1 comment
• John Doerr on Mercenaries and Missionaries. · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Polling Twitter: 4 Startups that Take the Pulse of the Twittersphere - ReadWriteWeb · 3 points · by macgeekpro · no comments
• Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• ISO approves OOXML · 3 points · by mqt · 1 comment
• Python-by-example · 3 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• DHH's translation of the MIT License · 3 points · by pius · 2 comments
• VC Funds Pour Into Commercial Open Source · 3 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• My So Called Startup Life... · 3 points · by luccastera · 1 comment
• Four Companies that Conquered America · 3 points · by getp · no comments
• New Work City - Coworking in New York. · 3 points · by pius · 2 comments
• Should we submit our startup - feedback please · 3 points · by kanwaldeep · 1 comment
• Using Rake for Erlang Unit Testing · 3 points · by foemmel · no comments
• Thinking Outside the Company’s Box · 3 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Who Writes Linux and Who Supports It · 3 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Using Basecamp to automatically keep track of product releases · 3 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• TechMeme Leaderboard's Top Ten: Six Months In · 3 points · by bootload · no comments
• Issues in writing a VM - Part 1 · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Happy 32nd birthday, Apple Inc! · 2 points · by gscott · no comments
• Google page rank sucks · 2 points · by luciodiasribeir · no comments
• Acts as ASP.NET (a Ruby on Rails Plugin) · 2 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Acts_as_rickroll: an actual Rails plugin for pranking users with passé intarweb memes · 2 points · by pius · no comments
• Larry Page and Sergey Brin Fund Nanosolar's Innovative Process for "printing" Solar Panels · 2 points · by D_T · 1 comment
• Nanomachine That Kills Cancer Cells · 2 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Rule the World! or Acknowledging Startup Idealism and the Shift to Pragmatism · 2 points · by jasonb05 · no comments
• Economic report says Bay Area could lose its global competitive edge · 2 points · by comatose_kid · no comments
• Google's CIO leaves search giant for job at EMI · 2 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• Top 100 Rails sites · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Google Offers Free License To Patented Atom Based APIs Extensions · 2 points · by vikrantsharma1 · 1 comment
• 10 Tips to Widget-up Your Startup Brand · 2 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• Download Youtube Video From Command Line · 2 points · by pavs · no comments
• Amazon Launches SMS Buying Service · 2 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• Microsoft's Surface moves beyond demoware · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Web surfers know advertisers are watching—and don’t like it · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• 10 things IT needs to know about Ajax · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Emails need to be refactored · 2 points · by jakep36 · 5 comments
• Finding Misery in Another Programmer’s Success · 2 points · by jsj1971 · no comments
• Responsive Face Simulator · 2 points · by theoneill · no comments
• Intel Will Make a Push Into Pocket-Size Internet Devices · 2 points · by theoneill · no comments
• Game Neverending Rises From The Dead · 2 points · by aaco · no comments
• How to Deal With the Fear of Quitting Your Job in Order to Start Your Own Business · 2 points · by morbidkk · 1 comment
• The Art of Designing Markets · 2 points · by h34t · no comments
• The Curious Lives of Surrogates · 2 points · by kradic · no comments
• What PR won’t fix · 2 points · by parker · no comments
• Amazon TextBuyIt · 2 points · by pius · 2 comments
• Edge: The computational universe · 2 points · by sarosh · no comments
• Beware of Hash Cookies · 2 points · by gongfudoi · 1 comment
• Aircraft Outsourcing Problems - With a Twist · 2 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Performance Shootout: Vista 32-bit versus Vista 64-bit · 2 points · by gongfudoi · 1 comment
• Watch Your Wallets!: The Google Scoop Works Like a Charm · 2 points · by Ztrain · no comments
• Google To Sell Off Performics · 2 points · by vikrantsharma1 · no comments
• Google to Lay Off About 300 at DoubleClick · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• 7 soon to be released Ruby and Rails books · 2 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Identifying Top Developers · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Microsoft OOXML was NOT approved by ISO · 2 points · by TheBigRedDog · no comments
• Ask YC: Favorite designs among Facebook Apps? · 1 points · by nomad · no comments
• BusinessWeek 50 Rankings 2008 · 1 points · by kashif · no comments
• The Best Ways to Stop Spam · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Has Microsoft lost its way on desktop computing? · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• The Official I’m Fed Up with Verizon Wireless Customer Service Article · 1 points · by ajzinni · no comments
• People who buy three pairs of sneakers or more a year are far more likely to be a leadership type · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• How to Use Search Engines & Web Data to Conduct Competitive Brand Analysis · 1 points · by h34t · no comments
• iPhone Killer attempt by Sprint and Samsung · 1 points · by dkokelley · no comments
• Using Ruby strings correctly · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Swiss banking giant UBS takes a $19 billion writedown · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Why you're a big sucker · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• A Quiz to Prove Your SQL Knowlege · 1 points · by gongfudoi · 1 comment
• Vint Cerf Explains Net Neutrality · 1 points · by dennykmiu · no comments
• Towards Bug-Free Code · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• PHP/GD Cartesian equation plotter · 1 points · by technoguyrob · no comments
• Notes on the CLR Garbage Collector · 1 points · by polar · no comments
• Algorithm Proof Inference in Scala · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Google might acquire Skype · 1 points · by ravishankar · no comments
• Blind to Change, Even as It Stares Us in the Face · 1 points · by toffer · no comments
• Amazon launches text-message shopping · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Linux kernel developers have tripled in number · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Validating Checkboxes and Radiobuttons in Symfony · 1 points · by arthurk · no comments
• PGP Adds Encryption To Windows Mobile Smartphones · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Best of April Fool’s · 1 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• Faceoff between Facebook app analytics startups · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• The Rise of Independent Media Brands Online · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• You Need an Elevator Pitch! · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Inside Higher Ed - "Professors Should Embrace Wikipedia" - April Fool? · 1 points · by revorad · no comments
• WSJ: Yahoo Succumbs to Microsoft Takeover · 1 points · by Sujan · 1 comment
• Need A Job? Make $1.20/hour Tagging Photos (TagCow uses Mechanical Turk)) · 1 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• Computers to merge with humans · 1 points · by paulsb · 1 comment
• Blinkx Launches BBTV; Ties Up With Dogwoof For Movies · 1 points · by vikrantsharma1 · no comments
• Possible YouTube Ban In Indonesia · 1 points · by vikrantsharma1 · no comments
• Founders: Overcome ‘The tyranny of the scattered mind’! · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Unit Testing with Silverlight · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Skype: The Rodney Dangerfield of Telecom · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Muxtape: Make A Mix Tape, Make Some Cash? · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Frengo Launches OpenSocial Toolkit · 1 points · by vikrantsharma1 · no comments
• Brilliant approach to selling a house in a bad market · 1 points · by pius · 3 comments
• Stuck in a 3rd-world information vacuum? download real books for free... · 1 points · by h34t · no comments
• Music 2.0 book - Gerd Leonhard · 1 points · by willphipps · 2 comments
• Adobe AIR for Linux Alpha · 1 points · by foemmel · no comments
• Frengo Launches Mobile Open Social Toolkit · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Lots of articles from the "Silicon Valley Product Group" · 1 points · by h34t · no comments
• Ask YC: Help our startup and get cheap advertising · 1 points · by dmpayton · 1 comment
• Firefox Gains On Internet Explorer In Businesses · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Xoopit turns Gmail into a gorgeous media browser · 1 points · by cadalac · no comments
• Some venture investors heading for the cellars, as larger economic problems loom · 1 points · by wave · no comments
• The Danger of Expectations and the Beauty of Duty · 1 points · by h34t · no comments
• Publish us: Getting Real, 2nd Edition · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Good luck to all the YC applicants! · 1 points · by jkush · no comments
• Raising VC: The Due Diligence Process · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Google Launches Google Docs Community On YouTube · 1 points · by vikrantsharma1 · no comments
• The Ten Worst Job Interview Questions Ever · 1 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• What Everyone Should Know About Science · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• The Highly Extensible CSS Interface · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Linux: Always a Bridesmaid · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• TechCrunch Down? · 1 points · by russw · 2 comments
• Foreign Affairs - Public Footprints in Private Markets - Robert M. Kimmitt · 1 points · by sarosh · no comments
• Using Basecamp to automagically keep track of product releases · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Loomia: See What Your Facebook Friends Are Reading · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Picasa web albums on Windows Mobile 6 · 1 points · by vikrantsharma1 · no comments
• Supervisor - Monitor and Control Your Processes · 1 points · by drm237 · no comments
• The Internet I’ve got — what I really need are more pockets · 1 points · by jmorin007 · 1 comment
• Yahoo unveils a smarter mobile search · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Why does Clickpass not work for me? · 1 points · by jraines · 2 comments
• An Employer’s View: Teamwork · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Living With Autism · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Linden Labs Make Enhancements To Second Life Grid · 1 points · by vikrantsharma1 · no comments
• Video: Meet Karl Pilkington · 1 points · by henning · no comments