Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Is poverty self-perpetuating? · 61 points · by kradic · 72 comments
• Picasso’s Top 7 Tips for Creating an Exciting Life · 37 points · by laktek · 7 comments
• The Top 9½ Books In a Hacker's Bookshelf · 35 points · by nreece · 47 comments
• More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy · 35 points · by grotius · 50 comments
• The True Price of SMS Messages · 33 points · by chaostheory · 43 comments
• Blizzard has learned 11 lessons on innovation that can help almost any business · 26 points · by gordianknot · 3 comments
• Non-Advertising Business Models for Your Startup · 24 points · by JohnN · 9 comments
• Video: College Student Builds Paintball Tank · 24 points · by ckinnan · 9 comments
• Choosing Languages · 24 points · by bootload · 8 comments
• Solutions to Exercises in "ANSI Common Lisp" · 23 points · by paul_reiners · no comments
• Skype Plans for PostgreSQL to Scale to 1 Billion Users · 22 points · by gongfudoi · 1 comment
• Waf: a Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications. · 22 points · by chaostheory · 8 comments
• Ask YC: What methods do you use to manage your time? · 21 points · by vikram · 26 comments
• Ants and the nature of their intelligence · 19 points · by comatose_kid · 5 comments
• How to pick the right business partner · 19 points · by drm237 · 1 comment
• Trying to get to Stanford for Startup School · 18 points · by philcrissman · 7 comments
• Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app? · 18 points · by shafqat · 13 comments
• Ask YC: Speed reading? · 17 points · by rguzman · 39 comments
• Taking On the World - how the U.S. can become competitive again · 15 points · by nickb · 8 comments
• Stop Dreaming. Start Building. · 13 points · by logjam · 8 comments
• Latent Semantic Analysis in Python · 13 points · by nickb · no comments
• Europe Is Searching For Its Silicon Valley · 13 points · by garbowza · 6 comments
• A VC: The Declining Power Of The Firm · 13 points · by toffer · 2 comments
• Notes from Valentine’s Day - Knuth Lecture Notes · 12 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Life with the MacBook Air · 11 points · by pius · 6 comments
• Latent Semantic Analysis . . . in Ruby! (apologies to nickb) · 10 points · by pius · 2 comments
• Creeping Up on Riemann · 10 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Nasty Bug: Safari doesn’t cache stuff. · 10 points · by prakash · 8 comments
• Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop · 9 points · by bootload · 4 comments
• Improvements in Firebug 1.2 · 9 points · by dkasper · 2 comments
• JRuby 1.1 Released · 8 points · by foemmel · 2 comments
• The face of Leonardo (Video) · 8 points · by dpatru · 1 comment
• Anonymous Code Blocks in Python · 8 points · by cstejerean · 1 comment
• Hash collisions. Two different docs and same MD5 hash value · 8 points · by carlos · 5 comments
• Facebook Chat Launches, For Some · 8 points · by r7000 · 5 comments
• Why We Abstract, and What To Do When We Can’t · 7 points · by pius · no comments
• Dick Cavett on improving your speeches · 6 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• On technology startups · 5 points · by llimllib · no comments
• Ask HN: it is acceptable to pitch to bloggers about your site? · 5 points · by hashtable · 6 comments
• Euler's Constancy · 5 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Stanford Launches On-Campus Venture Fund, SSE Ventures · 5 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• Dean Allen (founder of TextDrive, the first significant Rails host) is back! · 5 points · by henning · no comments
• AP Language, Computer Courses Cut · 4 points · by bootload · 2 comments
• Setting up Subversion on Windows · 4 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Startups That Came Back From The Dead · 4 points · by gongfudoi · 3 comments
• Affinity and Herding Determine the Effectiveness of Social Media Advertising · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• What happened to changing the world? · 3 points · by rksprst · 4 comments
• Foldable, Stretchable Circuits · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Tin Whiskers: Within a whisker of failure · 3 points · by bootload · 2 comments
• Ask HN: when does your bullshit filter turn on? · 3 points · by admp · 6 comments
• A Tinypy: a minimalist implementation of python in 64k of code · 3 points · by kradic · no comments
• TweetStats Lets You Spy On Others Twitter Usage · 3 points · by moses1400 · no comments
• An Outsider’s Flawed View Of Silicon Valley · 3 points · by getp · no comments
• PostgreSQL Warm Standby Servers for High Availability · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Dijkstra: The Humble Programmer · 3 points · by bootload · no comments
• Blackberry's business: Sustainable Innovation · 2 points · by gongfudoi · 3 comments
• Social Network Equity - The Social Economics of Twitter · 2 points · by joshwa · no comments
• The New York Times covers blogging · 2 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• Sex and Financial Risk Linked in Brain · 2 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• Windows 7 in 2009? · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Aztec Math Used Hearts and Arrows · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Microsoft: Yahoo has three weeks or else · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Women are more successful stock investors than men · 2 points · by mhb · no comments
• Guilt Culture vs Shame Culture and free markets · 2 points · by motoko · no comments
• A powerful bot enables JobArray to collect jobs without prior cooperation with content publishers · 2 points · by net0guy · no comments
• 13 Startup CEOs discussing Web 2.0 · 2 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Microsoft Threatens To Go Hostile On Yahoo!; May Cut Price · 2 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• Sunday Conversation with Tiger Woods · 2 points · by stevenboudreau · 1 comment
• Fractal - A Direct3D Demo of Natural Phenomena · 2 points · by revorad · no comments
• Ask YC: Who wants one month of free advertising space on Simplebucket.com · 1 points · by khangtoh · 1 comment
• Think And Grow Rich · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• Top-Down approach to simplify your CSS code · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Bad things done well: accepting dangerous input with Rails · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Unobtrusive Javascript based login window · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• New law targets corporate killing · 1 points · by pius · 1 comment
• Can a spam filter play chess? · 1 points · by gaika · no comments
• Confessions of a layoff coach · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Microsoft Joins MIT Kerberos Consortium · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Do the most productive thing possible today · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Music services pay high price to labels · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Consumer (Dis)Comfort With Online Tracking · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• 25 Must Buy, Borrow, or Steal Books for Web Designers · 1 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• Cram 20s clarinet solo into sub-kilobyte File · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Browser based easy font creation tool from Fontshop · 1 points · by laktek · no comments
• Behind the Alter-G (anti-gravity) Treadmill (text + video) · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• The Fakest Apple iPhone · 1 points · by hardik · no comments
• It’s an Aggregation Festival · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Interview With Steve Wozniak at Boston Robotics Competition (video) · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Managing The GRUB Bootloader With QGRUBEditor On Ubuntu 7.10 · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• 3 Reasons to Welcome a Recession · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Translation Game - Hacking Users into Workers · 1 points · by mattrepl · no comments
• Apple Challenges NYC Bid for New `Big Apple' Logo · 1 points · by bkow20 · no comments
• PostGres: High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• How can startups identify golden ideas? · 1 points · by stealthstartup · no comments
• Safari Books Online Review · 1 points · by screamingdigg · no comments
• Computer Program Reveals Anyone's Ancestry · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Risk Analysis Finds Nuclear Deterrence Wanting · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Who Says Print is Dead? Local Blog Finds Success Offline · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Yahoo expanding Zimbra team · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Explaining Exploratory Testing · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Third Annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference: 4/18-19 in San Jose · 1 points · by gongfudoi · no comments
• Google Grants $273.3 Million in Free AdWords · 1 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• NodeBox: Create visual output with Python programming code · 1 points · by jey · no comments
• People say Google will buy Skype and Expedia and, and, and, and · 1 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• 20 reasons why Seesmic acquired Twhirl · 1 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• Frank Zappa on the Guitar Clone · 1 points · by leoc · no comments
• How-to have an excuse for anything · 1 points · by ebukys · no comments
• Create new words · 1 points · by kozyrev · no comments
• Executive Pay: The Bottom Line for Those at the Top · 1 points · by gongfudoi · 2 comments
• Zero to a Fully Git Enabled Rails App in the time it takes to drink an espresso · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Science 2.0: Studying Collaboration in Socio-Technical Systems · 1 points · by asp742 · no comments
• An enthusiastic breakdown of Get Satisfaction · 1 points · by mattrepl · no comments
• Tangler - A solution for customer support forums · 1 points · by mattrepl · no comments
• Absolute Moron's Guide to Forms in Rails · 1 points · by laktek · no comments
• What a DVCS gets you (maybe) · 1 points · by foemmel · no comments
• Become an Xcoder: An Intro to OS X Programming (e-book) · 1 points · by manvsmachine · no comments
• Erik Naggum, RPG, Kent Pitman and Design Patterns in Lisp · 1 points · by omouse · no comments
• Good clipart site? · 1 points · by limeade · 1 comment
• Greenspun's Tenth Rule · 1 points · by bootload · no comments