Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Why There Aren't More Googles · 152 points · by ecommercematt · 154 comments
• Storage Space, The Final Frontier: Amazon EC2 adds persistent disks · 82 points · by RyanGWU82 · 16 comments
• The Young Man's Business Model · 67 points · by zinxq · 17 comments
• Interview with reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian · 58 points · by Sam_Odio · 9 comments
• Donald Knuth's letter about teaching O notation in calculus classes · 50 points · by plinkplonk · 25 comments
• I built it but they wouldn't come! · 44 points · by hashbucket · 72 comments
• Ask YC: Who do you use to print your business cards? · 32 points · by dangoldin · 56 comments
• Urgency is poisonous? · 29 points · by mattjung · 22 comments
• Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2 (ok, it's missing BigTable) · 29 points · by toffer · 1 comment
• Lisp as Blub · 28 points · by mqt · 31 comments
• The Internet, a collection of computer networks that already has hundreds of thousands of users. · 28 points · by Sam_Odio · 14 comments
• Ask PG: And we're back...What happened? · 27 points · by aston · 9 comments
• Werner Vogels on Amazon EC2's new persistent storage feature · 26 points · by RyanGWU82 · 7 comments
• Why Are Manhole Covers Round? (on Microsoft brainteaser job interviews) · 24 points · by gruseom · 28 comments
• Probabilistic Assertions: Crashing When Something Feels Wrong · 24 points · by slackerIII · 8 comments
• OpenMac - $399 Leopard-capable PC · 23 points · by nickb · 23 comments
• 7 Actually Useful Things You Didn’t Know Static Typing Could Do · 23 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• The American Dream: 17 Years of Engineering Software · 21 points · by noname99 · no comments
• 30K application lines + 110K testing lines: Evidence of...? · 21 points · by nickb · 19 comments
• Tips on how to work smarter from Ricardo Semler · 21 points · by naish · 4 comments
• Open Source Rails · 20 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• How much money should we raise? Two founders, two investors, and guidelines · 19 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• Ask HN: Lead generation? (consulting) · 18 points · by goofygrin · 13 comments
• "... and now you’re a sharecropper on the Google plantation." · 18 points · by pius · 16 comments
• How to get over the fear and start your own business · 17 points · by webwatch · 5 comments
• Love Him Or Leave Him, Some Solid Advice From Guy Kawasaki · 17 points · by socalsamba · 2 comments
• Ask YC: Part-time consulting while working on a startup, good idea? · 17 points · by richesh · 21 comments
• Ask YC: Accounting suggestions - how do you do it? · 17 points · by ericb · 18 comments
• Focus on making a kickass UI, performance be damned (for now). · 16 points · by pius · 3 comments
• Pageflakes Acquired By Live Universe · 16 points · by ciscoriordan · 2 comments
• Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site · 16 points · by ahold · 1 comment
• The difference between undefined and null in Javascript · 16 points · by rantfoil · 2 comments
• Faster than expected... (Salesforce, Google + EC2 with Disks) · 15 points · by foemmel · no comments
• Is Google App Engine a Lock-in Play? · 15 points · by sant0sk1 · 5 comments
• Their Passion Is Windows XP · 14 points · by nreece · 17 comments
• Do startups work well when managed remotely? · 14 points · by jmtame · 9 comments
• Ask HN on: Controlling trolling · 12 points · by aswanson · 19 comments
• Is this a good way to run a software company? [13 min vid] · 12 points · by rguzman · 10 comments
• Hacker News meeting at SF Wednesday April 16th · 12 points · by abarrera · 6 comments
• Food Inflation, Riots Spark Worries for World Leaders · 12 points · by Goladus · 11 comments
• John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term ‘Black Hole,’ Is Dead at 96 · 11 points · by mhartl · 2 comments
• A New Operating System · 10 points · by mudge · 23 comments
• Google AppEngine for Personal Web Presence? · 10 points · by pius · 1 comment
• Worldwide run on Rice · 10 points · by Goladus · 7 comments
• 8 Tips For Landing The Perfect Startup Job · 9 points · by terpua · no comments
• Ask YC: Reading from RSS, keeping track of conversations? · 8 points · by truebosko · 12 comments
• Rightscale's take on EC2's new persistent storage · 8 points · by bprater · no comments
• The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing (75% of them have Asperger's) · 8 points · by nickb · no comments
• Closures in Ruby (run it and follow along) · 8 points · by nickb · 2 comments
• Venture Voice-- The podcast for entrepreneurs · 7 points · by dcurtis · 2 comments
• When is What Users Want Not Enough for a Business? · 7 points · by epi0Bauqu · 8 comments
• Other disciplines outside the arts also require creativity: we need to teach them that way · 7 points · by raganwald · 5 comments
• Can your type checking system do this? · 7 points · by muriithi · 1 comment
• U.S. housing collapse spreads overseas · 6 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• The coolest stealth mode startup ever? · 6 points · by sharpshoot · 1 comment
• Custom PuTTY color themes (for us lucky, Win devs) · 6 points · by igrigorik · 3 comments
• The Economist: The Great American Slowdown · 6 points · by wheels · 2 comments
• Richard Feynman, the Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering · 6 points · by apgwoz · 1 comment
• Django Dash: 48 Hour App Competition · 6 points · by pskomoroch · 1 comment
• Do You Have a Hard Time Staying Focused? · 6 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Current Git Branch in Bash Prompt · 5 points · by nickb · no comments
• First Joel on Software conference · 5 points · by revorad · no comments
• Observations on using an RDBMS alternative (BigTable) · 4 points · by mattrepl · no comments
• Overview of Phusion Passenger (a.k.a. mod_rails) · 4 points · by raghus · no comments
• Google Search API is back · 4 points · by davidw · 2 comments
• Mash Ruby Gem - Mocking Hash for total poser objects · 4 points · by luccastera · 1 comment
• "Wow" service · 4 points · by marrone · no comments
• Google Analytics AIR beta · 4 points · by alex_c · no comments
• Tell YC: "Hacker News" needs clean profile URLs · 4 points · by jonallanharper · 12 comments
• Brain Scanner Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them · 3 points · by ericb · 3 comments
• Showing the complete range of choices in a grid · 3 points · by johns · no comments
• Does Your Company Need a Chief Blogger? · 3 points · by bahellman · 2 comments
• The only revolutionary that didn't sell out? · 3 points · by sox · 3 comments
• In France 3 strikes your out program run by ISP's for RIAA · 3 points · by gscott · no comments
• Bob Ippolito's Erlang Presentation · 3 points · by jawngee · no comments
• TwitLinks: The Techmeme of Twitter? · 3 points · by terpua · no comments
• The Secret of Open-Source Project Success · 3 points · by kungfudoi · 1 comment
• Four Bad Designs · 3 points · by german · no comments
• Startup Weekend Portland · 3 points · by lyime · no comments
• Clojure (Lisp on the JVM) videos on blip.tv · 3 points · by vthakr · no comments
• Google XSS · 3 points · by ojbyrne · no comments
• Consumer oriented 3D printing service started · 3 points · by marcidoo · no comments
• Better Bass: Skip the Subwoofer, Hack Your Hearing? · 3 points · by tandaraho · no comments
• Speculative Multithreading and Manycore · 2 points · by neilc · no comments
• Red light camera monkey business may be a national trend · 2 points · by noname99 · no comments
• Apple's OS Edge Is a Threat to Microsoft · 2 points · by caveman82 · no comments
• Attention Economy: The Game · 2 points · by hashbucket · no comments
• Building a Simple Highly Available Server · 2 points · by pinggoat · no comments
• Can We Make Operating Systems Reliable and Secure? · 2 points · by mudge · no comments
• Ask YC: Mac software for organizing startup documentation/research? · 2 points · by Shooter · no comments
• Expectations of Free and Beta/Alpha Services · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Clock Ticking On Pageflakes? · 2 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• Is this site gonna make it? · 2 points · by Fuca · 3 comments
• Scientists Construct Traffic Pattern of the World Wide Web · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• IT Facts Blog by ZDNet · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Which Web Browser Works Best? · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Ask YC : java template engine for generating source code? · 2 points · by randomhack · 3 comments
• Continue; - the forgotten statement · 2 points · by rantfoil · 1 comment
• Logo Design Basics: The Five Types of Marks · 2 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• OpenMac Brand Offers Non-Apple Macs · 2 points · by ssharp · 1 comment
• Satellite IDs Ships That Cut Cables in Mideast · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• Bash Git prompt without Ruby · 2 points · by aggieben · 4 comments
• Random Bots Crack CAPTCHA to Hack Hotmail · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• TweetLater : Blog when I'm alive and tweet when I'm dead · 2 points · by fogofeternity · no comments
• Startup idea: high-volume email client · 2 points · by Zak · no comments
• Puzzle: Determining the number of one hat · 2 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• Java Will Never Be A Mobile Platform - Thoughts On Nokia, iPhone, and it’s Murderer · 2 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• "Top-quality" sperm is going for $3k/vial? · 2 points · by lamaw · no comments
• "Don't fight the internet." · 2 points · by pius · no comments
• In the valley for startup school? Check out SHDH · 2 points · by Sam_Odio · no comments
• "I have only made this letter long because I have not had time to make it shorter." · 2 points · by gruseom · 1 comment
• Creative Web 2.0 RSS ICons for your blog · 2 points · by peyote · 1 comment
• Japan's Stupid Robot Contest · 2 points · by r7000 · 1 comment
• Tribute to honor Jim Gray · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Bidding On A Twitter Account: Insanity or Efficient Market? · 2 points · by foemmel · no comments
• Wondering Which Partner at a VC Firm to Pitch? TheFunded Now Breaks Out Individual VC Ratings. · 2 points · by davidw · no comments
• Programmers: Work from your home office. · 2 points · by jdueck · no comments
• AppDrop: Google App Engine Ported to Amazon EC2 · 2 points · by adelcambre · no comments
• Ludum Dare 48-Hour Solo Game Programming Competition (April 18-20) · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Swiss Interface Syndrome · 1 points · by jtgranby · no comments
• A judge has ruled that Comcast's decision to filter e-mails sent by the company is perfectly legal. · 1 points · by noname99 · no comments
• Confessions of a Flickr Snoopr (Admit It, You're One Too) · 1 points · by noname99 · no comments
• Patent-based open source: yep, the P word · 1 points · by TheBigRedDog · no comments
• Getting Drunk on Chocolate in 1100 B.C. · 1 points · by noname99 · no comments
• Visualizing Viruses [Pictures] · 1 points · by noname99 · no comments
• Stories everyone's got, this is mine, what's yours? · 1 points · by kleevr · no comments
• Leaked "Star Wars: Clone Wars" trailer [video] · 1 points · by alexwg · no comments
• Sudoku done right · 1 points · by codeshepherd · no comments
• Weekend circulars show jailbroken iPod touch with Installer on board · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Best damn SVN client for macs · 1 points · by pinggoat · 2 comments
• Salesforce For Google Apps Launches · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• A RESTful web service demo in yaws · 1 points · by foemmel · no comments
• This Week in Ruby: a summary of this week's highlights from the Ruby and Rails communities. · 1 points · by acangiano · no comments
• The Steve Sleeve · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• The best pieces of advice for successful startups · 1 points · by dshah · 1 comment
• Yahoo Tries Out Google Ads, Teams With AOL · 1 points · by szczupak · no comments
• WoW exceeds 1 million concurrent Chinese players · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Updated Web Browsers: Which One Works Best? · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Leo Laporte did a show for 10 years and it got cancelled - here's how he blogged it · 1 points · by henning · no comments
• Inventor's Paradox: an ambitious plan may have more chances of success · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• 7 Google Cafes in Two Hours · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Yea, I've been thinking about that too. · 1 points · by lovelinuxlove · no comments
• How to write 200,000 books, with a computer's help - International Herald Tribune · 1 points · by jbrun · no comments
• Javascript: Introducing "Using" for Declaring Dependency Scripts · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Wikipedia breeds 'unwitting trust', says IT professor · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Branding’s Impact on Raising Capital · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Dealing with problem clients: Maybe the problem is you · 1 points · by webwatch · no comments
• GIT branch in your bash prompt [] · 1 points · by graywh · 1 comment
• The Roots of Lisp · 1 points · by sajidu · no comments
• EMusic passes 200 million downloads · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Is Google actually producing? · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Twitter’s Branding Problem · 1 points · by shuleatt · no comments
• Is it really cathartic to get a secret off your chest? · 1 points · by dumbone · no comments
• Google and Salesforce.com: Why don’t they merge? · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Is Cloud computing too good to be true? · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Seth says: how to really make friends and influence people online · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Globbing with Finder · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• EC2 gets persistent block level storage · 1 points · by foemmel · no comments
• Stumpedia - Search For the People By The People · 1 points · by lpereira74 · no comments
• Even more Textmate and Rubygems hotness · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• The press becomes the press-sphere · 1 points · by parker · no comments
• Looking at creative pictures can help to get the creative juices flowing · 1 points · by adammichaelc · no comments
• How To Improve Notebook Battery Life · 1 points · by hollywoodcole · no comments
• AOL Lands Verizon for Exclusive Ad Partnership · 1 points · by hollywoodcole · no comments
• Getting Real with 37 Signals · 1 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• Blockbuster Offers to Buy Circuit City · 1 points · by thinkingserious · 1 comment
• Video: The xos exoskeleton in action (jump to 1:15) · 1 points · by Sam_Odio · no comments
• John Wheeler, inventor of the term 'black hole', is dead at 96 · 1 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• What is like to be a programmer · 1 points · by catalinist · no comments
• On Testing: Some Programmers Refuse to Get it · 1 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Guerrilla IT: How to stop worrying and learn to love your superusers · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Blockbuster Bids $1 Billion for Circuit City · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• My First Facebook Thrift App · 1 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• Gwt-ext · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Wozniak on today's young innovators [vid] · 1 points · by nostrademons · no comments
• The NSFW Semantic Web (GRDDL Profile for NSFW) · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Unlocked iPhones: $471 in China, $625 in Turkey · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Quake III on the iPod touch · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Why Adobe AIR Is Not Google Gears, Prism, JavaFX or Silverlight · 1 points · by pius · 1 comment
• Mod_rails for Apache is here · 1 points · by r7000 · no comments
• ACM Queue (March+April '08 edition) -- very interesting interface · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• How to Get Publicity for Your Startup · 1 points · by drm237 · no comments
• The Private Equity Data Center · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Monocle: design notes · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• What Exactly Is Google App Engine? · 1 points · by stevengg · no comments
• Windows users petition to keep XP alive · 1 points · by jbrun · no comments
• Anyone @ the mysql conference this week? · 1 points · by gregp · no comments
• Five surprising salaries (Astronomers 96K/year) · 1 points · by willz · 2 comments
• UN warning on Food Riots · 1 points · by Goladus · no comments