Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Would you have answered this job ad? · 93 points · by dhotson · 55 comments
• Valley of Broken Dreams: A YC Postmortem · 59 points · by revolvingcur · 60 comments
• Standing versus Sitting · 56 points · by naish · 29 comments
• Solving the IT Turnover Crisis: Employment 2.0 · 53 points · by dnaquin · 18 comments
• The end is near: Henry Blodget's index of companies that don't make products and don't have revenues · 38 points · by raganwald · 11 comments
• Simple brain exercise can boost IQ · 36 points · by alex_c · 25 comments
• Free US ZIP Code Database as CSV · 36 points · by iamelgringo · 13 comments
• An Open Challenge to Silicon Valley · 35 points · by bosshog · 47 comments
• The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. · 30 points · by byrneseyeview · 10 comments
• This is why your printer never works. · 30 points · by transburgh · 13 comments
• Twitter Usage Numbers Finally Emerge · 28 points · by PStamatiou · 9 comments
• America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree · 25 points · by pchivers · 25 comments
• My Mac Mini · 24 points · by ashu · 96 comments
• Git from the bottom up · 24 points · by rsanheim · no comments
• VisiCalc during the early days [w/pics] · 24 points · by mpc · 3 comments
• Homer Simpson 100% in CSS :) · 23 points · by tx · 6 comments
• Vertical ad networks: What are they, and why did Cox just buy Adify for $300MM? · 21 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Newsflash: Display Ads On The Internet Don't Work · 18 points · by pchristensen · 22 comments
• Wanted: 5 Startups To Change the World · 18 points · by jmorin007 · 4 comments
• SICP in Texinfo Format - Read It In Emacs · 17 points · by pchristensen · 6 comments
• Ask YC: Someone builds your idea in return for equity. Good idea? · 17 points · by shabda · 16 comments
• Facebook is for college goobers (review of social network transitions) · 14 points · by drinko · 9 comments
• From Defeat, Rejection to Success · 14 points · by epi0Bauqu · 1 comment
• Why Chinese is so damn hard · 13 points · by plinkplonk · 2 comments
• 2 Simple Ingredients That Will Boost your Morning Energy · 13 points · by chaostheory · 13 comments
• Modular robot reassembles itself when kicked apart (YT video) · 13 points · by raghus · 6 comments
• A 3D Exploration of Picasso's Guernica · 13 points · by eduardoflores · 3 comments
• Ted Neward evaluates 20 programming languages · 12 points · by pchristensen · 24 comments
• What I look for in Startups · 12 points · by raghus · no comments
• Private Equity Valuation: How-To · 11 points · by drm237 · 2 comments
• Ask YC: Do you plan on becoming a space tourist if you make it big? · 11 points · by amichail · 27 comments
• Python Standard Library Reorganization · 10 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Ajax Accessibility · 10 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Could Apple be preparing the way for Mac gaming? · 10 points · by raju · 9 comments
• Hurrah for Home Chemistry · 9 points · by bootload · no comments
• Coding Horror: Programmers Don't Read Books -- But You Should · 9 points · by graywh · 13 comments
• Recommendation Nation · 8 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• General Problem Solving Strategies (for programmers) · 8 points · by prakash · no comments
• Metacafe Founders Ditch, Reportedly Cash Out Their Shares For $5 Million · 8 points · by fiaz · 2 comments
• Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet!) · 8 points · by bootload · no comments
• HBase Leads Discuss Hadoop, BigTable and Distributed Databases · 7 points · by idea · no comments
• MySpace developing "HyperTargeting" ad system, claims 300% increase in clickthroughs in tests · 7 points · by ilamont · 2 comments
• The Endorsement Gap · 7 points · by socalsamba · no comments
• FoundRead Finds a New Home and sends some love to Hacker News · 6 points · by ctingom · 1 comment
• Which is your favorite 70-80s computer book? · 6 points · by carlos · 28 comments
• The fibula and the safety pin · 6 points · by jmorin007 · 3 comments
• A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search · 5 points · by rms · 5 comments
• I want my OpenID · 5 points · by julieb2 · 4 comments
• The Death of Television · 5 points · by raganwald · 4 comments
• Computer languages and facial hair · 5 points · by iamelgringo · 1 comment
• Beating the codebreakers with quantum cryptography · 5 points · by breily · 1 comment
• Win-xp sp3 released · 5 points · by xenoterracide · no comments
• Record Labels Strategically Invest $2.8M in MOG · 5 points · by kyro · 1 comment
• Kenyan Runners · 5 points · by DaniFong · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Instead of online ads, wouldn't seamless website embedding work better? · 4 points · by amichail · 9 comments
• Firefox for Emacs users · 4 points · by rms · no comments
• The Emerging Main Street Web · 4 points · by naish · no comments
• Ask YC: What is/are your favorite book(s)? · 4 points · by raheemm · 5 comments
• Sample Comet application in Pylons with cogen (an async network programming Python library) · 4 points · by ionel · no comments
• OQO Hacked to Run Leopard - Now World's Smallest Mac · 4 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• 216 tiny spherical magnets == billions of topological possibilities == one cool toy · 3 points · by joshwa · 1 comment
• The Tinfoil-Hat Toolbox: 100+ Resources to Protect Your Sites from Google · 3 points · by sagar13d · no comments
• Let me tell you a story about a language called "Stutter" · 3 points · by rms · no comments
• Why Skype should buy mobile client iSkoot · 3 points · by omfut · 1 comment
• How2: Debug Google Engine Apps in Eclipse. · 3 points · by DenisM · no comments
• Seed technology investment with a twist · 3 points · by lowkey · no comments
• Ballmer's laptop? · 3 points · by sutro · 1 comment
• Why Women Live Longer Than Men - A Pictorial · 3 points · by GIMAD · 1 comment
• Linux and Formula One · 3 points · by muriithi · no comments
• Who do people trust? (It ain’t bloggers) · 3 points · by chaostheory · 2 comments
• Forget Brain Age: Researchers Develop Software That Makes You Smarter · 3 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• How to Know if You’re Doing What You Love Most · 3 points · by julieb2 · no comments
• The Fragility of Social Networking · 3 points · by foemmel · no comments
• Startup Founders – Are You In Rush To Start A Startup? · 3 points · by adityakothadiya · 2 comments
• McKinsey Surveys the New Software Landscape · 3 points · by razorburn · no comments
• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters (Updated for 2008) · 3 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Social Addicts: How do Hardcore Facebook, MySpace and Twitter users differ? · 3 points · by alex_c · no comments
• Newspaper Online vs. Print Ad Revenue · 3 points · by mynameishere · no comments
• Understand Google's Guidelines · 3 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• Why Does the Brain Need So Much Power? · 3 points · by breily · no comments
• Grab lunch with Jeff Barr of AWS · 3 points · by Sam_Odio · 1 comment
• Retsaot is Toaster, Reversed: Quick ‘n Dirty Firmware Reversing · 3 points · by breily · no comments
• Ask YC: How self-made weather forecast can be monetized? · 3 points · by nelud · 7 comments
• Twing offers deep search for forums · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Advanced Polymorphism in Perl 6 (PDF) · 2 points · by johnm · no comments
• TwitterSnooze. A script I wrote over the weekend. Thoughts? · 2 points · by andrewparker · 1 comment
• Migrating to Ruby 1.9 · 2 points · by brett · no comments
• Ruby, Lisp, Why a Lexus is Not An Acceptable Ferrari · 2 points · by t0pj · no comments
• Laptops as Earthquake Sensors · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Land of lisp · 2 points · by vikrant · 1 comment
• What Excessive Pay Package? · 2 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) · 2 points · by joschi · no comments
• Mind's Limit Found: 4 Things at Once · 2 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Why Everyone Should Backup Google Calendar to Their Own Computer · 2 points · by baha_man · no comments
• One-line web server in Ruby · 2 points · by sant0sk1 · 1 comment
• NYT: Who needs another Social Network? · 2 points · by sanj · no comments
• Facebook: Reach and Saturation by Country, Part II · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• A reminder of how far Wikipedia has come in the last three years · 2 points · by Alex3917 · no comments
• Strands Acquires Expensr, Launches moneyStrands · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• Ask YC: advice for a would-be startup founder living in Africa · 2 points · by aitoehigie · 10 comments
• TechCrunch UK - Every UK VC deal in 2007 · 2 points · by paulsb · no comments
• Interview^-1 · 2 points · by raganwald · no comments
• LinkedIn Prepares for Lucrative Push Into Europe · 2 points · by makimaki · 1 comment
• Choosing a database for your project · 2 points · by pim · no comments
• Paper: 3G iPhone smaller, lighter than existing model · 2 points · by terpua · 2 comments
• They F*!$ you at the DRM: MSN Music Abandons Users · 2 points · by johnm · no comments
• Seth's Blog: Signal to noise · 2 points · by kyro · no comments
• Twistori: A Twitter Zeitgeist Social Experiment · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• How to Plan Software like a Pro · 2 points · by kyro · no comments
• Prototype Invest: It is time for more than money and connections · 2 points · by foemmel · no comments
• Ubiquitous computing done right · 2 points · by timcederman · no comments
• Why the Semantic Web is More Pipe Bomb than Pipe Dream · 2 points · by Readmore · 5 comments
• Updated: We Now Know 8 of Microsoft’s 12 Proposed Yahoo Board Members · 2 points · by kyro · no comments
• Can Web Apps Get Too Drunk on Aggregation? · 2 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Reveal more. Learn from twhirl's recent user experience improvement. · 2 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Why Steve Ballmer Will Keep Chasing Yahoo · 2 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• Deadly Sins of Web Design · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Interview With Gabriel Aldamiz-echevarria, Strands VP · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Homesteading the High Seas (or: Will three generations of Friedmans be enough?) · 2 points · by bumbledraven · no comments
• Cory Doctorow on inbox management · 2 points · by rms · no comments
• I Am Woman, Hear My (Web) Roar · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Ajax Performance Analysis · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• A Social Network Analysis of the American Federal Judiciary · 1 points · by breily · no comments
• Twitter: more mainstream than it looks · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Yahoo rewiring itself from the inside out · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Venture capital firms produce positive returns, but they are weakening · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Dear Yahoo and Microsoft Management - please do something soon! · 1 points · by raghus · no comments
• Richard Branson Ticket to Space. · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• Finding the Exact Spot of the First Internet/ARPANET Transmission [video] · 1 points · by fidler · no comments
• Incrementalism and "The New New Thing" · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Making a hologram out of a CD case (DIY) · 1 points · by nazgulnarsil · no comments
• Building An Expanding DHTML Menu With CSS and JavaScript · 1 points · by Mistone · 1 comment
• The Mildly Amusing Adventures of a Lowly Enterprise Technologist · 1 points · by jaydub · no comments
• Google's Guice: A Dependency Injection Framework · 1 points · by johnm · no comments
• Interview with JAJAH’s Daniel Mattes on the eve of their deal with Yahoo! · 1 points · by rockstar9 · no comments
• Where’s the next new thing in Silicon Valley? · 1 points · by rockstar9 · no comments
• Semantic Search the US Library of Congress · 1 points · by breily · no comments
• IPhone rumors galore: Haptic / vibration feedback touchscreen, GPS, Jabber, etc. · 1 points · by getp · no comments
• Google as a shield from RIAA lawsuits · 1 points · by TheBigRedDog · no comments
• Malware gets an EULA · 1 points · by rms · 1 comment
• ITunes Store May Capture One-Quarter of Worldwide Music by 2012 · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• Atlanta Early Stage Investors · 1 points · by mattculbreth · no comments
• Self-Copying Factories · 1 points · by rp · no comments
• The New New Thing · 1 points · by paulsb · no comments
• Uggc: URL Obfuscation Service · 1 points · by xirium · 1 comment
• Attention, Digital Peasants: the iPhone is Coming · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• It's Official: iPhone coming to Canada this year · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Communication is great and all, but don't become a "New Media Douchebag"! · 1 points · by raganwald · no comments
• Hans Reiser, developer of the ReiserFS filesystem, has been found guilty of 1st degree murder · 1 points · by daviday · no comments
• MorganStanley Internet Trends 2008 Report · 1 points · by tandaraho · no comments
• A Call To Arms - alternative funding options · 1 points · by Payton · no comments
• Subscribing to RSS Theory · 1 points · by asp742 · no comments
• The emotional pulse of twitter · 1 points · by bosshog · no comments
• Improving Interface Design · 1 points · by getp · no comments
• The Rubyists are Wrong · 1 points · by foemmel · 1 comment
• Tech sector laughs in the face of recession · 1 points · by rockstar9 · no comments
• Making a Rubik's Cube studio seem effortless · 1 points · by Xichekolas · 1 comment
• Blog post frequency and SEO · 1 points · by shaffer_jame · no comments
• 2400 Baud To Broadband · 1 points · by t0pj · no comments
• Ask HN: Intellectual property 101 · 1 points · by wensing · 2 comments
• Why Should Engineers and Scientists Care About Color (and Design)? · 1 points · by breily · no comments
• Microsoft Stops Fighting Linux, And Tries To Give It A Big Bear Hug Instead · 1 points · by kyro · no comments
• ICANN Takes a Step Toward Ending Domain Tasting · 1 points · by xenoterracide · no comments
• Terminator! Self-Repairing Robot Video (via pmarca) · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Moral Hazard: An Open Challenge to Silicon Valley · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Ruby in Ruby...Seriously · 1 points · by hollywoodcole · no comments
• Doug McCune » Blog Archive » Why I don’t read books · 1 points · by dean · no comments
• Marketing your startup: dorks vs everyone else · 1 points · by matthewer · 6 comments
• Google Maps Driving Directions Add Street View Option · 1 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• Bad Stereotyping · 1 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• Up For Grabs: $42 Billion of Newspaper Ad Revenue · 1 points · by imp · no comments
• The Perfect and the Good · 1 points · by DaniFong · 1 comment
• The Risk Pool - What's behind Ireland's economic miracle—and G.M.'s financial crisis? · 1 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• Google-Hacking Goes To China · 1 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• Inc’s Great Idea Contest · 1 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• Linux funny and otherwise edifying factoids · 1 points · by TheBigRedDog · no comments
• Implementing Type Inference: Not So Hard! · 1 points · by LBR9 · no comments
• Ask YC: Open-source social networking platform · 1 points · by aneesh · 2 comments
• Riding Rails: RailsConf keynotes: Kent Beck, Joel Spolsky, Jeremy Kemper, yours truly · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• The Smear Campaign Against Larry Lessig And Free Culture · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Ready To Rumble: Here’s Who Microsoft Will Bring To a Hostile Fight Over Yahoo · 1 points · by mk · no comments
• Wigix wants to kill eBay · 1 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• The Revolution Will Be Twittered · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Ask YC: Advantages of using an API instead of pulling RSS · 1 points · by merrick33 · 2 comments
• Macarthur Forum: "Teen Socialization Practices in Networked Publics" · 1 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• Last minute glitch holds up Windows XP SP3 · 1 points · by naish · no comments