Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Scaling on EC2 - WebMynd's experiences (YC Winter '08) · 80 points · by amirnathoo · 15 comments
• Jgrowl · 68 points · by ajbatac · 18 comments
• Pothead Ph.D. - This is most definitely not a cautionary tale · 66 points · by robg · 131 comments
• Dabblers and Blowhards - A Criticism of PG · 62 points · by smanek · 57 comments
• Balsamiq - Software and Website Mockup App · 62 points · by tortilla · 33 comments
• Google Protocol Buffers - Open Sourced · 57 points · by enomar · 24 comments
• See Twitter's SQL. · 49 points · by ptm · 43 comments
• How to Say Nothing in 500 Words · 44 points · by imgabe · 20 comments
• The ascendancy of Hacker News & the gentrification of geek news communities · 37 points · by rabble · 20 comments
• Richard Feynman on The Value of Science · 37 points · by mqt · 5 comments
• The End of Bugs? · 35 points · by sant0sk1 · 19 comments
• Twitter to buy Summize.com · 34 points · by joshchandler · 18 comments
• As I Get Older, Some Online "Friending" Gets Creepier · 28 points · by tomh · 46 comments
• Recommended Flaw: 31% of Digg Homepage submitted by 10 Users · 26 points · by ajbatac · 26 comments
• Economics of Software · 25 points · by gaika · 2 comments
• An Apple User Tries Ubuntu · 24 points · by rams · 57 comments
• YubNub - a (social) command-line for the web - released as open source · 23 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• PostgreSQL Gets Religion About Replication · 23 points · by iamelgringo · 2 comments
• Rails employee expected to spend 50% of his time doing what he desires · 23 points · by cawel · 9 comments
• 200 Highest Paying Search Terms · 22 points · by tlrobinson · 23 comments
• Google has trained us all to think like marketers · 22 points · by extantproject · 14 comments
• The Facebooker Who Friended Obama · 21 points · by timr · 1 comment
• LLVM and running C as well as Python in the browser · 21 points · by ajbatac · 5 comments
• Economics of a POW Camp (classic paper) · 20 points · by smanek · 3 comments
• Monitor Access to Your Gmail Account · 19 points · by enomar · 5 comments
• Top 20 resources to increase Web site traffic · 18 points · by OCInnovationVlt · 7 comments
• Don't Quit Your Day Job · 17 points · by aceregen · 8 comments
• There's more than one way to skin the revenue cat · 17 points · by adityakothadiya · 6 comments
• Understand YSlow: What Matters; What Doesn't · 16 points · by jrrl · no comments
• A Chinese YouTube Disappears, Along With Millions Of Western Dollars. Next? · 15 points · by pakafka · 9 comments
• Resource List for Finding Domain Names · 15 points · by Stubbs · 13 comments
• Ask YC: Would you sign this if you were me? · 15 points · by PStamatiou · 29 comments
• Ask YC: Normal Options/Equity for Employee Number 1 · 15 points · by auston · 9 comments
• German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac · 13 points · by cmcginnis · 33 comments
• ColorZilla - Firefox plugin for Web Devs · 13 points · by kirubakaran · 6 comments
• The Problem With Code Folding · 12 points · by bdfh42 · 11 comments
• What good is collective intelligence if it doesn't make us smarter? · 12 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Oil price shock means China is at risk of blowing up · 12 points · by iamelgringo · 19 comments
• Dropbox Gadget Adds Your Synced Files to iGoogle · 12 points · by wumi · no comments
• SQL "development" gone horribly wrong... · 11 points · by avner · 8 comments
• BASE: An ACID Alternative · 11 points · by prakash · 8 comments
• The Largest Known prime by Year: A Brief History · 10 points · by gaika · no comments
• Oh no -- no IPOs · 10 points · by socalsamba · 2 comments
• Poof! You’re Unpublished. · 9 points · by Mystalic · 7 comments
• OLEDs are the future of screens · 9 points · by paulleviss · 2 comments
• Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku · 9 points · by brentr · 2 comments
• Secure Design Using a Microcontroller (I) · 9 points · by hackman99 · 1 comment
• A VC: Three Statistics That Lie · 9 points · by echair · 4 comments
• Listening Post's Top 10 Hottest Music Sites · 9 points · by naish · 4 comments
• B-Trees - Balanced Search Trees for Slow Storage · 9 points · by nickb · 11 comments
• Ask HN: Feedback on my learning startup · 9 points · by lux · 8 comments
• Awful Computers for Kids · 8 points · by prime2 · 1 comment
• "No Silver Bullet" Revisited · 8 points · by jdale27 · 5 comments
• The 11 Best Foods You're Not Eating · 7 points · by dreadpirateryan · no comments
• Google is doing what? · 7 points · by timr · 1 comment
• 100 Best Places to Work in IT 2008 · 7 points · by systems · 3 comments
• 'The Dumbest Generation' · 7 points · by byrneseyeview · 12 comments
• Starbucks and the Restroom Anti-Bubble · 7 points · by prakash · 4 comments
• Google Toolbar data and the actual surfer model · 7 points · by prakash · 4 comments
• Ask HN: A preview that randomly changes how you view the text. · 7 points · by biohacker42 · 8 comments
• Cut and paste one line of code to make any website editable · 7 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Ubuntu server team seeks advice on supporting rails in their next release · 7 points · by danielharan · no comments
• How Reddit is Flirting With The Future of Social News · 7 points · by dshah · 1 comment
• Good Bye To The Purple Mothership: Leaving Yahoo · 6 points · by dhotson · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Are you using computers to augment your intellect? · 6 points · by ynd · 7 comments
• Eleventh ICFP Programming Contest (July 11th-14th) rules posted · 6 points · by jcl · 1 comment
• Facebook making their own version of apps · 6 points · by lakeeffect · 2 comments
• Google: Net-throttling is against the law - in Canada. · 6 points · by run4yourlives · no comments
• SpeakHQ: building a group micro-update webapp · 6 points · by markbao · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How to design private messaging emoticons? · 5 points · by shergill · 7 comments
• Service and the Fifty Percent Rule · 5 points · by smanek · no comments
• Google, Zen Master of the Market · 5 points · by lurkage · no comments
• An IT productivity horror story · 5 points · by timr · 2 comments
• Flash Lite ported to the iPhone · 5 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• Eucalyptus · 5 points · by sarosh · 3 comments
• The Science of Setting Goals · 5 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Shortwave ~ an extensible quick-search and shortcut system · 5 points · by superchink · 1 comment
• SOA and Future Trends · 5 points · by LBR9 · no comments
• Biometric Scans Find U.S. Crooks in Iraq, Afghanistan · 5 points · by tomh · no comments
• Giles Bowkett: Programmers should be happy governments are illiterate · 5 points · by gaika · no comments
• The Myth of the Interchangeable Programmer: Can’t We Just Offshore Him? · 5 points · by edw519 · no comments
• ASK HN: Quad monitors - advice? tips? tricks? · 5 points · by boesel · 5 comments
• Learn How to Mine Data from Amazon.com & Harrah's Casinos · 5 points · by kimboslice · no comments
• Prius to go (partially) solar · 4 points · by dkasper · no comments
• Metcalfe's Plateau - "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded" · 4 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Database War Stories: Google File System and BigTable · 4 points · by smanek · no comments
• Crossbrowsertesting.com added macs in beta · 4 points · by tonetheman · 1 comment
• GOOG’s MySpace Problem: Serving Irrelevant Ads · 4 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• Pittsburgh TEQ: Alpha Lab Opens Its Doors · 4 points · by bootload · no comments
• EPOC : Next Generation Gaming · 4 points · by paulleviss · no comments
• Virtualization comes to mobiles · 4 points · by kevinbernard31 · 2 comments
• The confession of a finance professional · 4 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• How To Raise Money for Your Startup (real world) · 4 points · by linkup · no comments
• Programming Puzzles and Our Mismatch Problem · 4 points · by IsaacSchlueter · no comments
• Hackers+Entepreneurs Play Video Games For Charity · 4 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 1 comment
• 8 Questions: The Right Span of Control Isn't a Number · 4 points · by avner · no comments
• Venture capital industry under the gun · 4 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• Need Press? Repeat: Green, Sex, Cancer, Secret, Fat · 4 points · by 1gor · no comments
• Unexpectedly Quit · 4 points · by ctingom · no comments
• ELua - boot directly into Lua · 4 points · by LogicHoleFlaw · no comments
• Rik Van Riel - Why Computers Are Getting Slower (And What We Can Do About It) [PDF] · 4 points · by nickb · no comments
• In Praise of Loopholes - Working Smarter not Harder · 3 points · by smanek · no comments
• Linear Logic and Permutation Stacks - The Forth Shall Be First · 3 points · by smanek · no comments
• Ranking CS and SE Institutions by Authors and Publications · 3 points · by vlad · no comments
• If You’re Open to Growth, You Tend to Grow · 3 points · by ardit33 · no comments
• Got information overload? Get filtrbox, but don’t pay quite yet · 3 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• The Letter I'm Overnighting to My Senator About FISA · 3 points · by steveplace · no comments
• Microsoft Signals It Would Rather Talk To An Icahn-Controlled Yahoo · 3 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• The Copycat Benefir For Startups · 3 points · by socalsamba · no comments
• A Few Useful Bookmarklets · 3 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Microwave ray gun controls crowds with noise · 3 points · by tyn · no comments
• How do you do Real-world Unit Testing? · 3 points · by toxik · 2 comments
• Why you’ll have a long wait for Microsoft’s next OS · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• On ESR's continual changing of the Jargon File.. · 3 points · by syntaxfree · 1 comment
• Twitter buys Summize -- or not? · 3 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• Segway CTO Joins Apple: The Beginning Of The Jobs Transition? · 3 points · by dawie · no comments
• Hypermiling Causes Road Rage? Lets keep things in perspective... · 3 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• Challenges of the startup entrepreneur and where is social software going · 3 points · by wumi · no comments
• A Different Climate Change Apocalypse Than the One You Were Envisioning · 3 points · by wumi · no comments
• 11 Ways To Avoid Entrepreneurial Divorce Court · 3 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• Five trends driving the mobile web · 3 points · by astrec · no comments
• Viacom's Statement on YouTube User Data Controversy · 2 points · by nadim · no comments
• Three VC Questions You Should Not Answer · 2 points · by timr · no comments
• RefleX - A general-purpose XML Virtual Machine · 2 points · by smanek · no comments
• Build your own scripting language for Java with JSR 223 · 2 points · by smanek · no comments
• The Dojo Offline Toolkit - Take your Web Application Offline · 2 points · by smanek · no comments
• Power Law of Participation · 2 points · by smanek · no comments
• Best Explanation of why Lisp coders use Emacs · 2 points · by smanek · 2 comments
• Segway CTO Leaves to Become Apple Product Design VP · 2 points · by lurkage · no comments
• The Hiring Problem and Lake Wobegon Strategies · 2 points · by arjunbanker · no comments
• An insight in to Japanese consumer electronics market · 2 points · by paulleviss · 1 comment
• Get a Grip -- Phillips Screws Up the Toolbox · 2 points · by yagibear · no comments
• 3 Reasons not to use Apache mod_rewrite · 2 points · by lmacvittie · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Why do people value digital goods less? · 2 points · by agentbleu · 4 comments
• Cracking the China Code: what works—and doesn't—in the world's most populous market · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Android Installer - for Nokia 810 · 2 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• FSJ Done For? · 2 points · by jobeirne · no comments
• HOWTO Make online videos without getting sued · 2 points · by tomh · no comments
• Marketing Vs. Engineering. Can't We All Get Along? · 2 points · by tomh · no comments
• IPhone enterprise opportunity "larger than thought," Goldman says · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Solving Sudoku with TDD · 2 points · by gcv · 1 comment
• Dell disables some audio ports on their computers under the pressure from RIAA · 2 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• The Myth of the Interchangeable Programmer: Can’t We Just Offshore Him? · 2 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• News.YC Feeds: Comments on 'Ask HN' submissions... · 2 points · by twism · 1 comment
• Why project managers get no respect · 2 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Developers eager to build apps for iPhone · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Madhouse Ex-Founder Sameer Guglani To Start Y Combinator For India - Morpheus Venture · 2 points · by guglanisam · no comments
• Congratulations on having the same great idea... · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• Interesting Early Artwork for Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10) · 2 points · by mcxx · no comments
• 'Scrabble' on Facebook: Too little, too late · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Biological Clocks Tick for Men, Too · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Learning to use the Emacs keyboard macro system effectively · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• A Credit Card Missing One Digit · 2 points · by tubby · no comments
• Atomic Monday: Why Atompub is a big deal · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• Send Your Name to the Moon · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• SarkasmShirt - Shirts Not Only For Geeks · 1 points · by Andi · no comments
• Say2GO Offers Asynchronous Voice Chat For Windows Users · 1 points · by dawie · no comments
• Biofuels Have Bumped Up Food Prices 75% · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• Sample VC Intent Letter · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• Toyota to add solar panels to Prius hybrid · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• iRobot files robotic lawnmower patent · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• Microsoft's Hyper-V Finally Shows Up to Virtualization Party · 1 points · by jfornear · no comments
• Google, Zen Master of the Market · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• Resources for learning load balancing and building scaleable web apps? · 1 points · by bcheung · 1 comment
• Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• Wikipedia gets fictional · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Five Nines on the Net is a Pipe Dream · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• SoundManager 2 Update: Flash 9 and Chorus effects · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Google has trained us all to think like marketers · 1 points · by rgrieselhuber · no comments
• Segway CTO Leaves for Apple as Product Design VP · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• The Top Coder - Tomek Czajka · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• O2 UK release iPhone upgrade details ... website falls over. · 1 points · by Stubbs · no comments
• Can We Trust Web Completely? · 1 points · by vineet21 · no comments
• Hackers crack cash machine PIN codes to steal millions · 1 points · by babul · no comments
• IDC: Instant messaging to overtake email in business · 1 points · by mickael · no comments
• Jobsite hack used to market identity harvesting services · 1 points · by baha_man · no comments
• Free Gas for Tech Purchases? · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Facebook Continues War On App Developers. This Week: Super Wall · 1 points · by senthil_rajasek · 1 comment
• ISPs prepare for video revolution · 1 points · by kevinbernard31 · no comments
• YouTube shocker: Amateur musician paid for her work in hit video · 1 points · by pakafka · no comments
• An alarm clock that should never be built · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• A wishful theory on a dream job · 1 points · by quan · no comments
• 10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Add Some Spice to Flickr Galleries with FotoViewr · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Mobile ad company Admob is about to mint money · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• International Customer Backlash on iPhone Rate Plans · 1 points · by cmcginnis · no comments
• Facebook’s “f8″ conference Agenda · 1 points · by sanj · no comments
• Artificial DNA can power future nano size PCs. · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• What is the cost of SMS? · 1 points · by reazalun · no comments
• Some Linux Tips · 1 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Really, last call for iPhone apps, Apple tells developers · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Edit Any Web Page in your Browser · 1 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Introducing (the other) MagLev. A Ruby framework without Rails · 1 points · by e1ven · 1 comment
• Session Strength Analysis With Stompy · 1 points · by SecurityDistro · no comments
• Child trafficking on EBay · 1 points · by murderofcrows · no comments
• Judgment, Hope, and Being a Public Company · 1 points · by hillel · no comments
• Why there will never be "One Ring to Rule Them All" in web services for groups · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Premature optimization, another perspective · 1 points · by LBR9 · no comments
• History of Gawker · 1 points · by sdpurtill · 1 comment
• IPhone Enterprise Anxieties · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Hundreds of Thousands of Laptops Lost at U.S. Airports Annually · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• All things reliably green, eco-friendly, leaders, etc · 1 points · by dweir · no comments
• Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu and the Linux Desktop · 1 points · by pchivers · no comments
• Inside Microsoft’s Internet Infrastructure & Its Plans For The Future · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Berners-Lee named to MIT faculty, to develop "Web Science" curriculum · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• A Prosthesis for Speech · 1 points · by cstejerean · no comments
• U.K. scientists demo graphic passwords · 1 points · by cstejerean · no comments
• The beginning of the end for the ubiquitous mouse. · 1 points · by cstejerean · no comments
• A tax on buggy software · 1 points · by cstejerean · no comments
• User Experience Talk · 1 points · by wumi · no comments
• Time.com Has a Shitty Grasp of Economics · 1 points · by raganwald · no comments
• Embedding sparklines inline into web pages with "data" URLs (and a little PHP) · 1 points · by jimdahl · no comments
• Flickr Release History · 1 points · by ctingom · no comments
• Outpost - Manage your Basecamp projects on your iPhone. · 1 points · by ctingom · no comments
• The 15 Most Influential Social Media Websites (Mathematically Ranked) · 1 points · by Mystalic · no comments
• How Testing The VC Market Can Lead To An Investment: Beginning Due Diligence · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Is Microsoft spamming websites to boost its numbers? · 1 points · by pierrefar · no comments
• The value chain for information · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• MyYahoo 2.0 Goes Live for All · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Do you need an MBA to start a successful startup? · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Dallas meetup · 1 points · by aggieben · no comments
• Surviving an IT Budget Squeeze · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Moving On: What I Learned From Shrimp Farmers · 1 points · by wumi · no comments
• My Yahoo Rolls Out New Interface, Tries To Fend Off iGoogle · 1 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• Twitter May Buy Summize · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• SOA Elitism · 1 points · by foemmel · no comments