Hacker News Way Back Machine

• How Hard Could it Be? Joel Spolsky recalls what it was like to work for Bill Gates · 104 points · by prakash · 52 comments
• Google: we're having scaling issues, please stop distributing your FF extension · 99 points · by gaika · 19 comments
• Ask HN: The Secret Sauce of Angel Investment? · 66 points · by gscott · 22 comments
• Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100M plus · 55 points · by ajbatac · 63 comments
• Bill Gates on iTunes Store: another interesting memo · 53 points · by sanj · 24 comments
• The Choice of Work · 52 points · by DaniFong · 27 comments
• Facebook needs to quit with its thuggish attitude · 50 points · by stats101 · 35 comments
• I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch · 42 points · by nreece · 17 comments
• Richard Hamming: You and Your Research · 42 points · by DaniFong · 7 comments
• Books That Changed My Life · 41 points · by markbao · 40 comments
• Clickpass enables Hotmail, Yahoo, Google and Facebook through OpenID · 40 points · by petenixey · 6 comments
• Ask cperciva: Are great mathematicians born or made? · 36 points · by dwaters · 82 comments
• Ask HN: "Simple" sharding tutorials using MySQL or PostgreSQL? · 32 points · by sanj · 20 comments
• LinkedIn is 99% Java but 100% Mac · 30 points · by kungfudoi · 18 comments
• WoW · 29 points · by rms · 14 comments
• 37Signals "just says no" to feature request: "please fix that security flaw" · 29 points · by tptacek · 33 comments
• Stephen Hawking's explosive new theory · 27 points · by edw519 · 12 comments
• Ask YC: decent JavaScript resource and reference sites? · 25 points · by ulfstein · 16 comments
• Smart Enough Not To Build This Website · 23 points · by bdfh42 · 40 comments
• Readable MySQL command line output (Looks like YAML) · 23 points · by kevTheDev · 6 comments
• The Employable Web Designer · 21 points · by riklomas · 4 comments
• LHC: Better safe than sorry. · 21 points · by Stubbs · 9 comments
• ICANN approves relaxation of TLD rules · 20 points · by sah · 19 comments
• How to avoid being "fan boy" or "fan girl" when building relationships with people you admire · 20 points · by markbao · 11 comments
• Why the new wire tapping law is a lot worse than you think · 17 points · by smanek · 5 comments
• Will broadband caps strangle Web growth? · 17 points · by ilamont · 13 comments
• The Itch: reverse-engineering of human perception · 16 points · by mechanical_fish · 3 comments
• Make your own IM bot in Ruby, and interface it with your Rails app · 15 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Xobni, Xoopit, Gmail Labs: Inbox Addons Are Getting Hot · 14 points · by ajbatac · 5 comments
• Xobni Gets Even Better With LinkedIn Data For Your Contacts · 13 points · by jkopelman · no comments
• Hardware Hacking · 13 points · by sohamdas · 7 comments
• Ask YC: 40Tb in a year. Would you use Amazon? · 13 points · by inovica · 19 comments
• I'm In Like With You raises $1.5 million, plans to use it all to hold a big party · 13 points · by gscott · 6 comments
• Hacker Entrepreneur in Residence · 12 points · by comforteagle · 20 comments
• Google Employees Press 14 Buttons to Operate Their Toilets. · 12 points · by Mystalic · 8 comments
• Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever · 12 points · by mariorz · no comments
• Why can’t website forms be more intelligent? · 11 points · by nreece · 2 comments
• If I make enough money now, I can quit and do what I really love later. · 11 points · by smanek · 5 comments
• Get Ready for Limitless Domain Names · 11 points · by wave · 4 comments
• Mainstream Media versus Blogosphere, an Analysis · 10 points · by socalsamba · 2 comments
• The Paper Version of the Web · 10 points · by Mistone · no comments
• What is a Dimension Anyway? · 9 points · by nickb · 15 comments
• Getting Involved: Gates vs. Jobs · 9 points · by nickb · 5 comments
• UC San Diego computer scientist turns his face into a remote control · 9 points · by cstejerean · 1 comment
• Top 10 Reasons Why Dating an Entrepreneur Rocks · 8 points · by vlad · 16 comments
• Ask YC: So,I have a working Prototype...Now What? · 8 points · by 24pfilms · 13 comments
• Outsource your homeowork to India · 8 points · by iamelgringo · 8 comments
• Why every city council needs at least one geek · 8 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• Yahoo! Establishes Cloud Computing Division · 8 points · by dawie · 1 comment
• The Monk and the Riddle · 7 points · by wumi · no comments
• How to Find Your Angel · 7 points · by wumi · 1 comment
• Fonts: When Comic Sans Isn’t Enough, Sites Help Create Custom Fonts · 7 points · by smoody · no comments
• Noobindex.com Launches · 7 points · by jfornear · 15 comments
• First Mover vs Fast Follower - Who wins? · 7 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Hackers Crack London Tube's Ticketing System · 6 points · by xirium · no comments
• InGameNow launches - Twitter for Sports · 6 points · by kimboslice · 9 comments
• An Interview with Michael Parkatti & Michael Marrone who are now at Y Combinator · 6 points · by jmacd · no comments
• “AutoGrid” for YUI Grids — Using JavaScript to Create Adaptive Grids » Yahoo! User Interface Blog · 6 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• The MBA myth · 6 points · by pbnaidu · 1 comment
• Posterous = tumblr + email attachments ? · 6 points · by nirmal · 5 comments
• Cocoa on the web: 280 North, Objective-J, and Cappuccino · 6 points · by nickb · no comments
• A battle of ideas is going on inside your mind · 6 points · by tyn · 1 comment
• Report: Microsoft Buying Would-Be Google-Killer Powerset For $100M · 6 points · by jmorin007 · 2 comments
• Microsoft To Buy Powerset? Not Just Yet. · 6 points · by wumi · no comments
• Craigslist to surpass eBay in 2009? · 6 points · by ucdaz · 2 comments
• Ask YC: Is it just me? · 5 points · by amarcus · 3 comments
• Holy Hell, I May Buy Windows Vista · 5 points · by wumi · 6 comments
• Why We Built & Launched InGameNow · 5 points · by kimboslice · no comments
• Five easy pieces: the taxonomy of marketing · 5 points · by bdfh42 · 1 comment
• Opera gets proactive and helps you fix your code · 5 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• The "Popularity" of FriendFeed is a Bug in the Social Software Ecosystem · 5 points · by lagringa · no comments
• ICANN ruling opens door for new TLDs (coming in 2009) · 5 points · by calvin · 4 comments
• Image optimization - 7 mistakes · 5 points · by EastSmith · no comments
• Dubai plans 'moving' [skyscraper] · 5 points · by xirium · 4 comments
• Why the cloud cannot obscure the scientific method · 4 points · by dnaquin · no comments
• EventMachine: Fast and Scalable Event-Driven I/O Framework · 4 points · by nickb · no comments
• MySpace Opens Up The Data Pipe With Full Launch Of Data Availability · 4 points · by markbao · 4 comments
• A snake game in 35 lines of Clojure · 4 points · by icey · 1 comment
• Whoisi: Follow your friends on the Internet. · 4 points · by sant0sk1 · 1 comment
• Microsoft to Acquire Mobicomp: Watch for These Cool Mobile Features · 4 points · by naish · no comments
• Yahoo ReOrg Is Official · 4 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Getting more from Moore's Law · 4 points · by xirium · no comments
• Apache CouchDB 0.8.0 escapes! · 3 points · by boorad · 1 comment
• It Gets Worse Each Year · 3 points · by xirium · no comments
• JPC: An x86 emulator written in Java (yes, it runs Linux) · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Dual-display e-book reader lets you flip pages naturally (great HCI!) · 3 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Why do browsers still not have file upload progress meters? · 3 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• ConnectU vs. Facebook comes to an end · 3 points · by blang · no comments
• James Dyson on Engineering and Design · 3 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Start up hosting · 3 points · by tnine · 3 comments
• Intel (80,000 employees) skipping Vista · 3 points · by wensing · no comments
• Hello, Hal · 3 points · by lapenne · no comments
• Government Whore · 3 points · by spydez · no comments
• Ghosn: Nissan to Introduce Electric Car in 2010, Mass-Production in 2012 · 3 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Software Engineering? Maybe not. · 3 points · by edw519 · 3 comments
• Google funding PyPy progress · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Web Scalability Practices: Bumper Sticker on Rails · 3 points · by kungfudoi · no comments
• Doing 2 startups · 3 points · by ktom · 7 comments
• Does Open Sourcing Niche Web Apps Work? · 3 points · by markbao · no comments
• The Meaning of Bill Gates · 3 points · by uuilly · no comments
• Ask YC: What tool to build a web widget · 2 points · by sangguine · 2 comments
• Results from every episode of MythBusters ever aired on the Discovery Channel · 2 points · by DrPickle · no comments
• Getting the Numbers and Doing the Arithmetic (John McCarthy) · 2 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• The Source Control Shingle · 2 points · by xirium · 1 comment
• The Laws of Online World Design · 2 points · by Alex3917 · 1 comment
• Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate... or Duplicate · 2 points · by xirium · no comments
• Focused vs. Unfocused Multitasking: When Multitasking Makes You Smarter and When It Interferes · 2 points · by Tolimax · no comments
• Kosmix, a mahalo competitor · 2 points · by angie · 1 comment
• The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 5 Elyssa R1 · 2 points · by joschi · 2 comments
• Worldwide Internet Advertising To Surpass $106 Billion In 2011 · 2 points · by vineet21 · 1 comment
• Slide's Top Friends disappears from Facebook · 2 points · by brianr · no comments
• Redeye VC: The Steve Jobs of Classical Music · 2 points · by jkopelman · no comments
• Google App Engine performance - Part 2 · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Should [Firefox] developers charge for add-ons? · 2 points · by toni · no comments
• Apple now ordering 17 million total iPhones for 2008 · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Wanna ride a new market wave? Pay attention to the sharks · 2 points · by deftworks · no comments
• Judge Ends Facebooks Feud With ConnectU · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• Ask YC: Opinions on using a CMS like Joomla? · 2 points · by rjett · 1 comment
• Design Decisions: Basecamp support request form · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• Data Availability on Myspace · 2 points · by lakeeffect · no comments
• Computing students outsource homework to India and Romania · 2 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Best IT Places to Work 2008 · 2 points · by jcatcw · no comments
• Inventor of the Internet takes aim at BitTorrent · 2 points · by markbao · 2 comments
• Ubuntu releases Hardy Heron for MIDs · 2 points · by wumi · no comments
• BT starts threatening music downloaders with internet cut-off | The Register · 2 points · by sah · no comments
• MySpace Data Availability launches later today » VentureBeat · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Ask YC: July/August - Events in Silicon Valley · 2 points · by mvrod · 2 comments
• Microsoft after Gates · 2 points · by cawel · no comments
• Microsoft Developing Secret Plan To Seize Control of Yahoo Without Buying It · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• RailRoad diagrams generator · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• The meaning of Bill Gates · 2 points · by __ · 1 comment
• Polar Rose goes Public Beta · 2 points · by st3fan · no comments
• Gates Among The Titans · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• Jsonpickle: turn any python object into JSON · 2 points · by jmpcrew · no comments
• Sony Announces Strategy on Electronics and Video Downloading · 2 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• How to prevent the entrepreneurial burnout · 2 points · by OCInnovationVlt · no comments
• Crude Oil at a fresh high of $140 · 2 points · by xirium · 1 comment
• Facebook website outage resolved · 2 points · by xirium · no comments
• Ask HN:What e-commerce package should I use? · 2 points · by ensignavenger · 4 comments
• How Microsoft can reinvent itself in the post-Gates era · 2 points · by naish · 1 comment
• Symbian, iPhone and the New Mobile reality · 1 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• George Carlin's Last Interview · 1 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• Ask HN: Platform that requires Java == only requires JVM? · 1 points · by globalrev · 2 comments
• The A-Z of Programming Languages: Ada · 1 points · by mariorz · no comments
• A Cross-Language Generics Trick - Java, Scala and C# · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Robust Java Benchmarking · 1 points · by johnm · no comments
• Blogging for Burma: Darkness · 1 points · by mchristoff · no comments
• 23+ Impressive Tools for Faster Javascript/Ajax Development · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Web-Based PHP FTP Application: phpWebFtp · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• The Exemption Pass · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Tips for Better Blogging · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Stupid Secretary WTF · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Announcement: Alex Sells Out · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Are You Cool, Man? and More · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Where should your focus be in Development, Sales and Marketing? · 1 points · by StartUPMedia · no comments
• Premier snack reviews portal for the UK · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• The Quick Meal · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Firefox Deletes Printers, and More Support Stories · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Ruby on Rails: From Hackers to the Enterprise · 1 points · by StartUPMedia · no comments
• Perfectly Adequate Productivity · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• HTTP 414: Way Too F#%&ing Long · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Atlantic.net (network/hosting) has been down for at least 8 hours, isn't telling customers why · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Do You Believe In Magic... Online · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Virtudyne: The Next Generation of Collaboration · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• IBM Survivor, The High Road, & Find the Function · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Wtflib.php · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Hierarchy and Leadership in Society · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Virtudyne: The Gathering · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Superencryptalisticexpialidocious · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Ambient-Oriented Programming · 1 points · by lg · no comments
• F8 Tickets Now On Sale (July 23rd) · 1 points · by bkrausz · no comments
• This Week in Ruby (June 26, 2008) · 1 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Twitter: Adding employees, losing features · 1 points · by smanek · no comments
• Dynamic Dialogs with YUI and Ruby on Rails · 1 points · by ehedberg · no comments
• Google Sued For Stealing Outlook Migration Tools · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• WoW No Longer World’s Biggest MMO? · 1 points · by Mystalic · 2 comments
• Bill Gates on the iTunes Music Store (PDF) · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Application processor for multimedia mobile phones · 1 points · by ionela · no comments
• BC212B Datasheet · 1 points · by ionela · no comments
• MacRuby rather than RubyCocoa? · 1 points · by kevTheDev · no comments
• The CEO Playbook: Smile Through the Mild Discomfort · 1 points · by altay · no comments
• Clients and Creative Control · 1 points · by RobotOverlord · no comments
• Devweek India 2008 · 1 points · by ritiray · no comments
• How to write a business plan · 1 points · by epi0Bauqu · 1 comment
• Newly formed AlphaLab (YC Clone?) nurtures technology startups · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• The Tech Generalist Dilemma - Are You a New or a True Generalist? · 1 points · by epi0Bauqu · 1 comment
• Sorry, the Mouse is Not Dead · 1 points · by buckpost · 1 comment
• Legal, British P2P 'by end of year' · 1 points · by baha_man · no comments
• Plug-ins: isn’t there a better way? · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Images: Bill Gates' words of wisdom · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Mocha UI - A web applications user interface library · 1 points · by reazalun · 1 comment
• Speculation and Commodity Price Increases · 1 points · by kurtosis · no comments
• A refrigerator to boost computer performance! · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Service-Oriented Architectures · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Expanding the Internet Well Beyond .com · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Yahoo to Shareholders: Google Is Better for Us Than Microsoft · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Judge Ends Facebook's Feud With ConnectU · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Maglev: Ruby that scales · 1 points · by sanj · no comments
• Jerry’s Back! And So Is Microsoft · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• FriendFeed Dark Theme · 1 points · by insertcoin · no comments
• Time Management for Startup Founders · 1 points · by eVizitei · no comments
• Harness volcano power, energy experts say · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• James Hong Video Interview: How "Hot or Not" Began · 1 points · by dpapathanasiou · no comments
• Open Source Software Makes it Cheaper For Start-Ups · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• World of web names poised to get wider · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• ICANN threatens to change the rules of the domain name game · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Agile vs. Lean · 1 points · by mattjung · no comments
• YUI Autogrid: Correctly resize the grids · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Chrysler to turn vehicles into wireless hotspots · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Could Microsoft Get Control of Yahoo Without Buying It Whole? Investors Think So · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• ICANN Allows Relaxed TLD Naming Schemes! · 1 points · by ComputerGuru · no comments
• Google Ad Planner Helps You to Refine Your Online Advertising · 1 points · by blogfisher · no comments
• Microsoft buys portuguese mobile startup · 1 points · by zemariamm · no comments
• 100gb Ethernet over copper? It could happen · 1 points · by sah · no comments
• Deadline Approaching to Apply for New NASA Astronaut Class · 1 points · by r7000 · no comments
• Good Job Search Engine for the tech/biomedical fields · 1 points · by OCInnovationVlt · no comments
• Mark Zuckerberg's profile on Socialbrowse · 1 points · by wumi · 2 comments
• Instinctiv Shuffle: A great new iPhone app you can't use · 1 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• New social web project built on rails using Heroku · 1 points · by Mistone · no comments
• Doodle forerunners for Flickr, Twitter, etc · 1 points · by wumi · no comments
• Eloquent Javascript [E-book] · 1 points · by greg · no comments
• Albanian Custom Fades: Woman as Family Man · 1 points · by garret · no comments
• Ask YC: negative comments disappear..? · 1 points · by j2d2 · 3 comments
• Dubai 'shape-shifting skyscraper' unveiled · 1 points · by wumi · no comments
• 14 Simple Ways to Super Charge Your Brain · 1 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• What should Harry blog about · 1 points · by harryinc · no comments
• Spray on Skin Gun Shoots Stem Cells To Heal Open Wounds · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• 20 million Firefox 3 downloads in a week, ~4% market share · 1 points · by dnaquin · no comments
• WordPress Exploit Scanner · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Facebook suspends app that permitted peephole · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Network Workbench: A Workbench for Network Scientists · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Cooperation Commons: Interdisciplinary study of cooperation and collective action · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Parsers and Combinators · 1 points · by spydez · no comments
• NetApp believes ZFS could put them out of business [pdf] · 1 points · by wmf · 1 comment
• Traditional Development is a Chinese Finger Trap · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• To use or not to use? · 1 points · by rjett · 1 comment
• Yahoo Reorganizes in Strategy Shift · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Orbitz Open Sources Monitoring Tools ERMA and Graphite · 1 points · by mokeefe · no comments
• OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion · 1 points · by smoody · no comments
• Win an iPhone 3G for a cool integration · 1 points · by ericly · no comments
• The dry IPO market is creating demand for alternate liquidity · 1 points · by wumi · no comments
• Google's Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web · 1 points · by mariorz · no comments
• The iPhone and Other Transparent Devices · 1 points · by dbreunig · no comments
• The first firefox extension you should install - without Question. · 1 points · by wedocreative · 1 comment
• Maven and Eclipse strive for Visual Studio 'power' · 1 points · by baha_man · no comments
• [Nokia] morphs itself from within · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Visa taps into Facebook following · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Behind the scenes of Firefox 3.0 · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Yahoo goes back to its roots · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Virgin territory for ISPs · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Trade agreement could hit privacy · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Digital switchover is 'a mystery' · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• Police look to digital switchover · 1 points · by xirium · no comments
• OmniFocus Review · 1 points · by ctingom · no comments
• New support for Rails 2.1 and DB2 · 1 points · by acangiano · no comments