Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving · 71 points · by foemmel · 22 comments
• Why Lisp Is Unpopular · 62 points · by mnemonicsloth · 157 comments
• Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort · 54 points · by utnick · 11 comments
• 16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School · 39 points · by edw519 · 9 comments
• Git's avalanche · 39 points · by sant0sk1 · 7 comments
• Ask HN: Choosing a Python framework for web development? · 38 points · by aneel99 · 39 comments
• DHH on the pluses of PHP · 37 points · by raghus · 18 comments
• TheFunded Founder Gives Startups Some Advice · 36 points · by davidw · 5 comments
• In the short term, you should spend your limited willpower budget wisely · 33 points · by divia · 7 comments
• Instead of using Google map API, EveryBlock built their own · 33 points · by ratsbane · 14 comments
• My Startup: app turns music discovery into an online game - feedback? · 32 points · by JMiao · 26 comments
• Core War: Two Programs Enter, One Program Leaves · 25 points · by edw519 · 8 comments
• Waiting until the last minute · 23 points · by wumi · 8 comments
• Email Isn't a Natural Fit For Tech-Savvy Chinese · 22 points · by prakash · 14 comments
• More data usually beats better algorithms: part 2 · 22 points · by neilc · no comments
• Fluid Mechanics in Game Programming · 19 points · by iamelgringo · 3 comments
• Daily caffeine 'protects brain' · 17 points · by jlhamilton · 14 comments
• Workflow software: I'm calling the bluff. · 17 points · by bootload · 19 comments
• How do I startup if I don't own the code? · 17 points · by tricky · 25 comments
• Craigslist Valuation: $80 Million in 2008 Revenue, Worth $5 Billion · 17 points · by parker · 11 comments
• Where are the fast dynamic languages? · 16 points · by polar · 20 comments
• Make GMail Prettier With This Kick Ass Skin · 14 points · by macgeekpro · 7 comments
• One guy, a film scanner, OCR and a lot of disks = 6 million pages of historical newspapers on line. · 14 points · by markdionne · 6 comments
• The nightmare of installing Lisp: a noob's perspective · 13 points · by daniel-cussen · 28 comments
• Git for Subversion Users · 12 points · by Bluem00 · no comments
• EBay Bans Auctions Of Digital Goods · 12 points · by parker · 9 comments
• Ask YC: How long to stay secret? · 12 points · by wheels · 23 comments
• The great inflation cover-up · 12 points · by gongfudoi · 4 comments
• Will There Ever be a Viable Adsense Competitor? · 12 points · by epi0Bauqu · 9 comments
• YC aspirants: if you're from outside USA then you may apply for J1 visa. · 11 points · by ideas101 · 4 comments
• Language Adoption and Lisps · 11 points · by mqt · 7 comments
• Ask YC: Is the site slow or is it just me? · 11 points · by hollywoodcole · 13 comments
• Google Docs has pivot tables! · 11 points · by muriithi · 2 comments
• Huge flaw in Ubuntu Dapper’s Python Crypto Module · 10 points · by st3fan · 4 comments
• Ask YC: Your YC App - 10pm EST just passed, how do you feel? · 9 points · by ericb · 19 comments
• Arrington: 'Demo needs to die' · 9 points · by edw519 · 6 comments
• Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US · 9 points · by gscott · 1 comment
• YC: Startup School Meetup · 8 points · by iamelgringo · 3 comments
• Seen from on high · 8 points · by terpua · 4 comments
• The brain has a limited capacity for self-regulation but practice increases willpower capacity · 8 points · by ivankirigin · 2 comments
• Chart: Seasonal search trends · 7 points · by gordianknot · 2 comments
• Ask YC: Hosting your source code outside, it's really secure? · 7 points · by pibefision · 19 comments
• Business, Revenue, Whatever: Just Hack · 6 points · by jasonb05 · 1 comment
• MIT 6.901: Inventions and Patents · 6 points · by pius · 2 comments
• Your Printer's Secret Yellow Dots · 5 points · by JacobAldridge · no comments
• Get Your Pizza Order Status From Dominos From The Terminal · 5 points · by pavs · 4 comments
• Google Lays Off Double Click Employees who fail entrance interview process · 5 points · by skmurphy · 1 comment
• Brilliant/retarded idea for startup. Brilliant/retarded developers needed. · 5 points · by cthulha · 13 comments
• Leah Culver and the magical unicorn: A Pownce story · 5 points · by pius · no comments
• Ask YC: Feedback on my site No-NSFW, The Not-Safe-For-Work Warning System. · 5 points · by ptm · 32 comments
• Socializing Your Inbox Is Inevitable (mentions Xobni) · 5 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• This time, the startup boom is no bubble · 4 points · by muriithi · no comments
• Benjamin Franklin, blogging role model? · 4 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• 58 Twitter Apps (and then some) · 4 points · by macgeekpro · 1 comment
• Robin Williams Stand-up Riff at TED Now Online · 4 points · by macgeekpro · no comments
• Why forcing an entrepreneur into a big company is a mistake · 4 points · by abarrera · 3 comments
• Why Joost will fail: It's the interface · 4 points · by ilamont · 2 comments
• Mark Cuban's Rules For Startups · 4 points · by dpapathanasiou · 4 comments
• Ask YC: How to build a community online at a college? · 4 points · by forsaken · 5 comments
• Trabb Pardo-Knuth algorithm · 4 points · by pius · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Question(s) for speech technology experts. · 4 points · by opportunity · 1 comment
• Atari user's desk, circa 1983 · 4 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Ask PG: Why the cookie change? · 4 points · by DanielBMarkham · 8 comments
• FAROO - Could P2P Search Change the Game? · 3 points · by naish · 1 comment
• 9 Common Idioms That Come from Technology · 3 points · by ivankirigin · 1 comment
• James Randi anecdote on Feynman · 3 points · by joshvf · no comments
• Bail us out, nerds. · 3 points · by mariorz · 1 comment
• Are Video Hosts Just a Commodity? · 3 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Visual Tools: Marketing Dream, Programmer's Nightmare · 3 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Dr. Greenspan's Amazing Invisible Thesis · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• FriendFeed's goal: More than just a feed aggregator · 3 points · by bootload · no comments
• You will be tracked using your government-mandated RFID cards · 3 points · by mhb · no comments
• Ask YC: How many people don't have/disable java script on their browsers? · 3 points · by tedhaile · 2 comments
• MySpace Announces Online Music Business · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• So you want to work here? · 3 points · by jonathanbl · no comments
• JetBlue Adds Paypal · 3 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Secret Weapons for Java Programmers · 3 points · by sharjeel · 1 comment
• Craigslist responds to Connecticut AG's allegations that they "profit from prostitution" · 3 points · by pius · no comments
• Boeing Flies First Ever Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plane · 3 points · by papersmith · no comments
• Trust in Peers Trumps the "A-List" · 3 points · by toffer · no comments
• The 101 Coolest Easter Eggs Hidden in Your Software, DVDs and Video Games · 3 points · by psogle · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Bootstrapping to the Nth degree - How far is too far? · 3 points · by t0pj · 9 comments
• NOTA : a free, open canvas. · 2 points · by rakusai · no comments
• Ask YC: Did you apply to YC s2008? · 2 points · by wumi · 4 comments
• Nice Numbers for Graph Labels · 2 points · by amd · no comments
• Trouble in conference land: TechCrunch50, DEMO happening at the same time · 2 points · by wumi · no comments
• Mashable reviews new Travel Startup Travature.com · 2 points · by jalmond · no comments
• Next Photoshop will get 64-bit boost--on Windows only · 2 points · by gscott · 1 comment
• Promising new nanotechnology for spinal cord injuries · 2 points · by rms · no comments
• Technology Upgrades B-52 · 2 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• The Threat of “Free” · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Merb on JRuby 1.1 RC3 · 2 points · by luccastera · no comments
• For Some Advertisers, 'Google Slap' Means Plummeting Revenues · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• New Mobile Service Fights Speed Traps · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Rails Admin Plugins Reviewed · 2 points · by ericb · 1 comment
• Intel unveils new Classmate PCs · 2 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• DDoS attacks account for 1-3% of total internet traffic · 2 points · by daviday · no comments
• Any "shit, this is cool"-kind of mobile startups? · 2 points · by geeko · no comments
• Shared Data Considered Harmful · 2 points · by foemmel · no comments
• Transparent PNGs Can Deadlock IE6 · 2 points · by joshstaiger · no comments
• Opinion : Silverthorne fails but PowerVR impresses · 2 points · by randomhack · no comments
• Another $3 Billion Down the Toilet - Census Scraps Handhelds · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Social Networks threaten Friendship? · 2 points · by eastsidegringo · no comments
• Why not to do DEMO or TC50 · 2 points · by wumi · no comments
• Ditz is a simple, light-weight distributed issue tracker · 2 points · by llimllib · no comments
• Zillow and the Idealism of Engineers Going Shopping · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Ex-Googler, New EMI CIO Says: 'Downloads May Be Good' · 2 points · by r7000 · no comments
• Ditch your PC and live the shared apps life · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Why Apple Will Go Atomic · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• An Inconvenient Truth About Privacy · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Ask HN: Metrics for startups? · 2 points · by aggieben · 3 comments
• ITunes beats out WalMart and BestBuy, now top retailer · 2 points · by dbreunig · no comments
• Wisconsin voters... fancy ... governor’s ability to ... veto ... with ... creativity · 2 points · by byrneseyeview · 1 comment
• China's Instant Cities · 2 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• Aztecs devised sophisticated arithmetic system · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• The only 4 Good Reasons to have a Business Website · 1 points · by JacobAldridge · no comments
• Crary, an HTTP server for the REST of us · 1 points · by foemmel · no comments
• Computer Waste Heat to Warm Swimming Pool · 1 points · by tandaraho · no comments
• Every Major Web Company Started Locally · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human · 1 points · by paul_reiners · no comments
• The count down begins! · 1 points · by michjeanty · 1 comment
• The Fentix Cube - an electronic emulation of a Rubik's cube · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• Video: Abbott and Costello portrayed exclusively through typography · 1 points · by henning · no comments
• BT Phorm Advert Trial "Illegal" · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• The current state of the art in space defense · 1 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• Apple to New York City: Bite Me · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• DDoS Packets are Two Percent of Net Traffic · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Kleiner's iBet: Will iPhone Software Be a Multi-Billion-Dollar Market? · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Frontline: Secret History of the Credit Card | Watch this before bootstrapping on your credit cards · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Why voice apps are failing on facebook and myspace · 1 points · by ravishankar · no comments
• What naming convention do you use for S3 keys? · 1 points · by sam · 3 comments
• Intel unveils tiny chips tailored for mobile Internet gadgets · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Grand Theft Auto IV Hands-on · 1 points · by gordianknot · no comments
• Planning an Elevator Pitch? Make the VC come visit you · 1 points · by iamdave · no comments
• The Great Recommender · 1 points · by jason · no comments
• Your Facebook Profile Isn't Really "You" · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Startup Idea:Barphone (A Cellphone with a Barcode Scanner that uploads online discount · 1 points · by Aries · 1 comment
• Microsoft Surface Commercial Launch · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Submitted for obscure reason · 1 points · by jgamman · 1 comment
• Leading Clever People · 1 points · by mjvm · no comments
• What’s in a Name? The ABC’s of Baptizing Your Biz. · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Integrating XCache Into PHP5 (Debian Etch & Apache2) · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• First round of start-up presentations at Next Web · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• VCs counting options in flagging economy · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• 5th-grader finds mistake at Smithsonian · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Data centre used to heat pool · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• How do you choose what causes you support? · 1 points · by k0mplex · no comments
• Crawling fish may be part of new family · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• How the markets really work [video] · 1 points · by kevTheDev · no comments
• Study: 'Influencers' Possess Less Clout Than Friends · 1 points · by parker · no comments
• IPhone PwnageTool for Mac goes live. Handy if you haven't yet been accept in the iPhone Dev program. · 1 points · by aschobel · 1 comment
• Subliminal Creativity, Courtesy of Apple · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Recession Can Be Breeding Ground for Next Big Idea · 1 points · by damien · no comments
• Dell CEO Says to Expect More Job Cuts · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• The Next Web: 2nd group of startups · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• Ubuntu Linux to Be Certified by Sun · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• How To Build Damn Good Software · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Implications Of How A VC Is Funded: Government · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Craigslist Launches Official Blog · 1 points · by aaco · no comments
• Google's CIO Departs For EMI Music · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Bug with MSNBot/1.1 · 1 points · by __ · no comments
• Wayfinder Launches Power Search For iPhone and iPod Touch · 1 points · by vikrantsharma1 · no comments
• The Next Live Stream Back Stage · 1 points · by agentbleu · no comments
• Boston Startup Meetup: Tuesday 22 April, 6:30pm · 1 points · by shimon · no comments
• The User Experience of Software-as-a-Service Applications (UC Berkeley academic paper) · 1 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• Google Ad clicks are flat, the stock is falling · 1 points · by garbowza · no comments
• Nova Spivack: “The Semantic Web as an open and less evil web” · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Expedia Gets A Homosexual Partner · 1 points · by vikrantsharma1 · no comments
• Sun close to buying Intel would-be competitor Montalvo · 1 points · by randomhack · no comments
• Microsoft is to Release Open-Source Compatible XAML/WPF Specs · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Terracotta Builds Java Clusters · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Nokia N-Gage Goes Live · 1 points · by vikrantsharma1 · no comments
• Imitation Is Flattery? Or Just Bad for Entrepreneurs? · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Eriskay: a Programming Language Based on Game Semantics · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Stop organising, please · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Cholesterol, Caffeine and Alzheimer Disease-like Pathology in Rabbit Brain · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 Released; Supports BlackBerry and Java Phones · 1 points · by vikrantsharma1 · no comments
• Engineering 'mindset' doesn't include politics · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• On Markets and Complexity with Economist Robert C. Merton · 1 points · by asp742 · no comments
• Sources of Seed Funding · 1 points · by mattculbreth · no comments
• Tacoda, revenue science, blue lithium? · 1 points · by rwebb · no comments
• Usability sucks · 1 points · by german · no comments