Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Applications open for winter 2009 YC funding · 74 points · by pg · 39 comments
• Thank you, Adobe Reader 9 · 68 points · by nickb · 32 comments
• Stop waiting for your big idea, learn to get shit done · 53 points · by jmacd · 17 comments
• Signs you're a bad programmer, and how to remedy them · 44 points · by nickb · 18 comments
• How I built a web app in six days for only Rs. 350 ($8.75) · 40 points · by paraschopra · 22 comments
• Why you only need 5 users for usability testing · 38 points · by henning · 20 comments
• I Quit My Job · 32 points · by arn · 21 comments
• Sparklines: theory and practice · 27 points · by bentoner · 7 comments
• Richard Stallman on Bill Gates: "It's not the Gates, it's the bars" · 25 points · by nickb · 69 comments
• Financial Times: IT graduates struggle to find work · 25 points · by madmotive · 44 comments
• Y Combinator Diaries: Installment #4 · 24 points · by parker · 6 comments
• Google's C++ testing framework is now public · 23 points · by nickb · no comments
• Kill Your Users Table · 20 points · by edw519 · 11 comments
• Google Files "FriendRank" Patent (identifies the most influential of a circle of friends) · 19 points · by nickb · 16 comments
• Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms · 18 points · by jmorin007 · 3 comments
• Virtual fencing: A new way of corralling cattle is being tested in New Mexico · 17 points · by davidw · 2 comments
• How To Raise Money For Your StartUp · 17 points · by mace · 4 comments
• Twitter Revisited · 16 points · by sant0sk1 · 2 comments
• Hello: Macs are about to get interesting again · 16 points · by theoneill · 17 comments
• Lost scenes of "Metropolis" rediscovered · 15 points · by gruseom · 6 comments
• Ask HN: How does Amazon EC2 compare to shared web hosting? · 14 points · by geuis · 6 comments
• Why Can't Microsoft Ship Open Source Software? · 12 points · by bdfh42 · 5 comments
• Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form · 11 points · by nirmal · 3 comments
• The World’s Top 20 Public Intellectuals (2008 edition) · 11 points · by nickb · 12 comments
• How Many Web 2.0 Services Have Gone Mainstream? · 11 points · by moses1400 · 7 comments
• How Japan Competes in a World of High Oil Prices · 10 points · by pierrefar · 1 comment
• Reading EXIF data with Javascript · 10 points · by bootload · no comments
• More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water · 10 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Idea for a media startup · 10 points · by sdpurtill · 7 comments
• Piet: a programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings · 9 points · by dood · 1 comment
• Google adds 'Privacy' link to front page · 8 points · by rob · no comments
• The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter · 8 points · by bdotdub · 1 comment
• Nut launches death threats at Debian women · 8 points · by dmoney · 2 comments
• Ask YC: I think i have some great ideas for websites, but I don't code. What to do? · 8 points · by peterc · 24 comments
• Mac OS X market share surges 32% in one year · 7 points · by nickb · 5 comments
• Forget biology; introducing The Materials Genome Project · 7 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Independence Day: HTML5 WebSocket Liberates Comet From Hacks · 7 points · by mariomoosum · no comments
• Developers Wary Of iPhone · 7 points · by markbao · 8 comments
• The Android which really made it: Openmoko reopen now · 7 points · by Create · 7 comments
• Running C and Python Code on The Web · 7 points · by apu · no comments
• Web hosting a downward trend? · 6 points · by nreece · 4 comments
• Vinod Dham interview, father of the Pentium, on a life in technology & venture investing · 6 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• Stallman Spreading FUD about Gates & His Charity Fund · 6 points · by ComputerGuru · 6 comments
• Reuse Your old personal GSM phone for SMS control and monitoring · 6 points · by hackman99 · 2 comments
• Chinese Bloggers Scale The 'Great Firewall' In Riot's Aftermath by Writing Backwards · 6 points · by paulsb · 2 comments
• Diane Greene prefers her competition virtual · 6 points · by cstejerean · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Sign-up Form Usability · 6 points · by mooders · 17 comments
• On Google's Web, the User is #1, Google is #0 · 6 points · by bdotdub · 4 comments
• OpenMoko (OpenSource Cell Phone) On sale, 900Mhz Model already sold out · 6 points · by pmorici · 3 comments
• Scientists find Amazonian tribe that has no words to express numbers · 5 points · by nickb · 2 comments
• Ask HN: what is wrong with asp.net? · 5 points · by maien · 14 comments
• Problems With Life Extension: The Brain · 5 points · by edw519 · 20 comments
• PR: Pitching TechCrunch, Scoble, and other Influentials · 5 points · by toffer · 4 comments
• Adobe is a Joke · 5 points · by jmorin007 · 2 comments
• Immune to Critics, Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism ... and the World · 4 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Biofuels have forced global food prices up 75% according to a World Bank report · 4 points · by sah · no comments
• Michael Bay's Rejected "The Dark Knight" Script · 4 points · by froo · 2 comments
• Slaves to The Process · 4 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Bad links? No way. Can it be true? · 4 points · by shaffer_jame · 2 comments
• This is how I want all opensource project web sites to look… · 4 points · by gaika · no comments
• Why search engines suck · 4 points · by gingermerkin · no comments
• Tooltips using CSS only, no Javascript · 4 points · by hackman99 · no comments
• How the world's most successful art forger fooled all the experts. · 4 points · by cmcginnis · no comments
• Google, privacy and Street View · 4 points · by markbao · 2 comments
• Unit Testing iPhone apps with Ruby: rbiphonetest · 4 points · by nickb · no comments
• How can people not use Firefox 3? · 4 points · by globalrev · 11 comments
• European Parliament rushes towards Soviet Internet · 4 points · by vizard · no comments
• Twitter: User Co-Creating or User Co-Opting? · 4 points · by toffer · no comments
• Microsoft Fixes Feature. · 4 points · by ajbatac · 1 comment
• MySQL: Recovering Innodb table Corruption · 4 points · by nickb · no comments
• Ten XML Schemas you should know · 3 points · by wave · 1 comment
• Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot (vid) · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Ask HN: How important is to invest in DB design from scratch ? · 3 points · by code_devil · 2 comments
• Problems with C++ · 3 points · by sah · no comments
• The Meaning of Bill Gates · 3 points · by breily · no comments
• In depth: The Pirahã tribe (Number-challenged Amazonians) · 3 points · by TransientMuse · no comments
• Ask HN: Recommend any books about Medicine? · 3 points · by cosmok · 4 comments
• A century ago, Americans witnessed an aviation marvel · 3 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax Road Map · 3 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• The Burden of the Humanities · 3 points · by cmcginnis · 1 comment
• Meraki brings free WiFi to 100,000 San Franciscans · 3 points · by echair · no comments
• Make Windows Genuine by a simple trick · 3 points · by hackman99 · 2 comments
• Top 10 WebOS (Web OSes & Desktop) · 3 points · by hackman99 · 4 comments
• Wired Magazine's Editor Serves Up Nonsense on "Demise" of Scientific Method · 3 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Let the microblogs bloom · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Petabyte Scale Data-Analysis and the Scientific Method · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Energy Transitions Past and Future · 3 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• Distributed Software Development Explained · 3 points · by Anon84 · 3 comments
• It has begun. iPhone 3G line starts in NYC a week early · 3 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• Early Stage Fundraising Advice for Tough Times · 2 points · by marketer · no comments
• When Palm OS developer develops for iPhone without reading HIG (pic) · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Why Silicon Valley Need Not Worry About Increased Regulation · 2 points · by daniel-cussen · no comments
• Heroku for Python? Do you know of a Web based IDLE Python? · 2 points · by rokhayakebe · 1 comment
• Which language do you use for day-to-day stuff? · 2 points · by adm · 5 comments
• Ask HN: does scarcity lead to better design? · 2 points · by Tichy · 1 comment
• Make a record player out of LEGO · 2 points · by edu · no comments
• IPhone Timeline · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Ask HN: How do you find domain names that don't suck and are still available? · 2 points · by Stubbs · 8 comments
• Create any size wall posters from any size images · 2 points · by hackman99 · no comments
• Viacom vs. YouTube: Beyond Privacy · 2 points · by dhs · no comments
• A Gmail tip You Don’t Know about. · 2 points · by hackman99 · 3 comments
• Species Extinction Threat Underestimated Due To Math Glitch · 2 points · by theoneill · no comments
• Schwarzman's accounting trial balloon gets thoroughly aerated · 2 points · by revorad · 1 comment
• "One of the most remarkable of the new graduates credits...a goat" · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Three paths of B2C startups growth: ads, free ads, and viral · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Two simple web businesses · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Time wasted, Not forgotten (youtube & viacom... in verse) · 2 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Ask HN: Feedback on my startup www.dojolearning.com · 2 points · by lux · 4 comments
• Iranian Parliament to Debate Death Penalty for Bloggers · 2 points · by paulsb · no comments
• Happy Independence Day! · 2 points · by dawie · 3 comments
• Ask HN: What software has made you go "wow?" · 2 points · by schtog · 4 comments
• Earning revenue from YouTube videos just got easier · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• Ask HN. Do you know of a web based Python IDLE? · 2 points · by rokhayakebe · no comments
• Montenegro domains available for pre-order. · 2 points · by crzivn · 3 comments
• Laptop Losses Total 12,000 Per Week at US Airports · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Back to Basics: Capture Your Ideas · 2 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• 4 Effective Presentation Techniques · 2 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Focus on Results Not time · 2 points · by zemariamm · 1 comment
• What is Simplicity? · 2 points · by cawel · no comments
• Ow, my eyes: Handy Randy for iPhone · 1 points · by raganwald · no comments
• HTTP Error 418: "I'm a teapot" · 1 points · by nickb · 2 comments
• Wealth as an evolutionary force: rich women had 2x as many grandchildren as poor ones · 1 points · by theoneill · no comments
• Coolhunting II: the n+1 dimension · 1 points · by mbriyo · no comments
• Volkswagen to Make Limited Edition of 1-Liter Car (282 MPG) in 2010 · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Wouldn't it be cool if giant rubber snakes saved the world? See the 'Anaconda' prototype · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Ruby Releases Are Scary (Or: How CI Can Save Your Ass) · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Hidden Oil Subsidies: We Need to end Them · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• The iPhone is Going to Bomb · 1 points · by jmorin007 · 1 comment
• Early-stage startups strut their stuff at Geek-Out · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• NVIDIA’s dim future · 1 points · by kungfudoi · no comments
• Independence Day · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Httpd written in sed · 1 points · by jauco · no comments
• Whats the github for svn ? · 1 points · by bosky101 · 1 comment
• Photovoltaic Market with Technology That Maximizes Solar Energy Production · 1 points · by ionela · no comments
• Logicscope founder talks about taking a company to market · 1 points · by cturner · no comments
• Ask YC: Hardware prototypes · 1 points · by qwerty · no comments
• Shredz64: Guitar Hero for C64 · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Luxury Goods Retailers Don't Seem To Care About Consumer Reviews · 1 points · by vineet21 · no comments
• IRAN: Death Penalty For Hackers · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• EBay's has lost its fight to ban all payment methods except PayPal in Australia · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Whitepaper: Sustainable Social Media Infrastructure · 1 points · by humanlever · no comments
• Speed Sticks: Three Wireless USB Modems Reviewed · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Install Ubuntu Linux In 12 Easy Steps · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• How Starbucks' Growth Destroyed Brand Value · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Codebase - Git repository hosting with source browser, changesets, etc... · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Windows XP tips · 1 points · by hackman99 · no comments
• Google faces Street View block in UK · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• 40+ Tools and Hacks for Gmail · 1 points · by hackman99 · no comments
• What happened here · 1 points · by delano · no comments
• Collaborative Contagion · 1 points · by revorad · no comments
• Rules for Business · 1 points · by delano · 2 comments
• Four Reasons Why Apple Is To Blame For Everything · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Happy Birthday to US(A) · 1 points · by glhoffman · no comments
• 10 changes Steve Ballmer should make at Microsoft · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Prominent Mathemathicians Rebuke Recent Riemann Hypothesis Proof · 1 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• How to replace an original iPhone with an iPhone 3G · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Dtrace progress · 1 points · by Create · no comments
• Y2K bug causes Mac Office 2008 users to lose data · 1 points · by vlad · no comments
• Top 10 Tips for 10 Million Women · 1 points · by donna · no comments
• A PHP Guy’s Look At Python · 1 points · by rob · 1 comment
• Google gives away free Web application security scanner · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• One Minute Productivity · 1 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• Go Home, Bill · 1 points · by dmoney · 1 comment
• From the Most Popular Websites in Paper to the Simple Foundations of Modular Innovation · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Visualizing a Large Product Backlog With a Treemap · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Está chegando a hora Rails Summit Brazil 2008 · 1 points · by akitaonrails · no comments