Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Randy Pausch, noted CMU prof, succumbs to cancer · 187 points · by demandred · 57 comments
• NFL player IQ by position · 76 points · by mhb · 93 comments
• Basic MySQL Performance Tuning Practices that Everyone Should Know About · 50 points · by pkrumins · 10 comments
• On Math Teaching: Lockhart's Lament · 46 points · by orib · 21 comments
• Common Lisp Quick Reference · 45 points · by nickb · 13 comments
• Coding Without Comments · 39 points · by ajbatac · 57 comments
• The Smartest Advice I Ever Got: Personal Finance · 38 points · by iseff · 40 comments
• Firefox plugin Socialbrowse launches in-page commenting · 34 points · by monkeyboy · 14 comments
• Google: We knew the web was big... · 32 points · by gaika · 18 comments
• Ask YC: Best way to sell downloadable software? · 32 points · by pg · 13 comments
• Labels used to suppress ideas · 30 points · by garret · 27 comments
• Is Your Program Perfect? Let Me Count The Ways. · 30 points · by mdemare · 14 comments
• Bug? Or can you downvote stories on Hacker News? · 29 points · by gaika · 23 comments
• The Illogic of Farm Subsidies, and Other Agricultural Truths · 27 points · by robg · 12 comments
• The Cost of Empire · 25 points · by tonystubblebine · 21 comments
• Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux ACPI · 24 points · by nickb · 19 comments
• What's the Fastest Way to Code a Loop in JavaScript? · 23 points · by d0mine · 4 comments
• 3 reasons why Knol will beat Wikipedia · 23 points · by joop · 31 comments
• fbFund and Y Combinator · 18 points · by sanj · 28 comments
• Git - Fast Version Control System · 17 points · by reazalun · 6 comments
• Prevailing theory of aging challenged in Stanford worm study · 17 points · by gaika · 5 comments
• Mike Maples: The Party is Over · 17 points · by garbowza · 8 comments
• HTML/CSS as a Prelude to Programming · 16 points · by saundby · 5 comments
• Fugitive spam king found dead in apparent murder-suicide · 16 points · by ilamont · 4 comments
• Routers and Ethics · 16 points · by IsaacSchlueter · 7 comments
• 3 Reasons Why Wikipedia Will Beat Knol · 16 points · by parker · 3 comments
• Microsoft is Now a Platinum Sponsor of the Apache Foundation · 16 points · by pierrefar · 9 comments
• Id Software's John Carmack and Marty Stratton Talk Quake Live · 15 points · by nadim · 7 comments
• Python(x,y) - Python for Scientists · 15 points · by d0mine · 5 comments
• Loopt strikes a deal to make massive use of GPS data cost effective · 14 points · by gaika · 7 comments
• I need to build a house, what kind of hammer should I buy? · 14 points · by jmorin007 · 6 comments
• Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank · 13 points · by markbao · 14 comments
• The Real Dan Lyons on Fake Steve Jobs (and why he left) · 13 points · by nickb · no comments
• Announcing Our Offer For The New York Times Company · 13 points · by markbao · 2 comments
• What is deep mathematics? · 12 points · by michael_nielsen · no comments
• "Is Apple the Worst Company Ever At Public Relations?" · 11 points · by inglorian · 13 comments
• Code commenting? Try Business Commenting · 11 points · by hhm · 3 comments
• The golden rule in starting a business today is to be benevolent, not evil · 11 points · by jmorin007 · 2 comments
• Randy Pausch dies, and the world loses a true hero · 10 points · by ilamont · 4 comments
• Web: As Seen By The Color Blind · 9 points · by reazalun · 3 comments
• Developer impressions and lessons learned from iPhone App Store launch · 9 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• BricaBox Back From The Dead as Open Source Platform · 9 points · by moses1400 · 1 comment
• And This is Why China is Every Internet Company’s Dream · 8 points · by markbao · 16 comments
• OLED breakthrough: 70 lumens/watt () · 8 points · by MikeCapone · 3 comments
• Disagreeing with 37signals #1: Less Is Sometimes Less · 7 points · by demandred · no comments
• 15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers · 7 points · by smanek · no comments
• VCs Have Their Heads in the Clouds · 7 points · by terpua · no comments
• Congrats to the winners of the MobileBeat Tesla Award: Loopt, AdMob and more · 7 points · by zaveri · 1 comment
• Google finds the web has over 1 trillion unique URLs · 7 points · by markbao · 1 comment
• How Google Looks for the Colorblind · 7 points · by pbnaidu · 3 comments
• Facebook Connect Will Be Game-Changing...and Dangerous · 6 points · by markbao · 8 comments
• Are You Ready to Give Up Cable TV for Internet Video? · 6 points · by waderoush · 8 comments
• De-Risking Your Business Model: A How To Guide · 6 points · by epi0Bauqu · 1 comment
• Google Misleading: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Their Index Are Very Different · 6 points · by nickb · 7 comments
• Jon Hicks’s Design Iterations for the Silverback Mascot · 5 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Silverlight vs. Flash: The Developer Story · 5 points · by parenthesis · 1 comment
• What price a byline? (Or: what’s wrong with Knol) · 5 points · by syphoon · no comments
• Y Combinator Challenge #4 - Outsourced IT · 5 points · by jmorin007 · 5 comments
• Is Philosophy Worthwhile? · 5 points · by trominos · 8 comments
• Four Mistakes that Killed the Record Industry before Filesharing · 5 points · by michael_dorfman · no comments
• RIP Randy Pausch, College Prof Who Got YouTube To Pay Attention · 5 points · by markbao · no comments
• V.C. Advice to Entrepreneurs: Its Not All About the iPhone · 5 points · by markbao · 1 comment
• Y Combinator Challenge #5 - Enterprise Software 2.0 · 5 points · by jmorin007 · 5 comments
• Wrong: 5 Reasons Lossless Formats Will Not Destroy MP3 · 5 points · by naish · 3 comments
• Net is a single point labeled G connected to 10 billion destination pages. · 4 points · by gaika · 2 comments
• Ask YC: Share Your Lisp Resources · 4 points · by tss · no comments
• When you look at two choices and can't tell immediately which one, neither matters. · 4 points · by jmorin007 · 1 comment
• Why Facebook Connect Matters & Why It Will Win · 4 points · by nickb · 2 comments
• Speculation over back door in Skype · 4 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Android Is For The Masses, iPhone For The Rich · 4 points · by terpua · 2 comments
• AA, BB, CC, and DD · 4 points · by raganwald · no comments
• Message boxes are dead · 4 points · by edw519 · 7 comments
• Inspiring and amusing speeches · 4 points · by hofmeyr · no comments
• Ask HN: Would you really use this on a girl? · 4 points · by osmoses · 6 comments
• Burt Rutan: Entrepreneurs are the future of space flight · 4 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• Pencil Project · 4 points · by kirubakaran · 1 comment
• Saying goodbye to a man who inspired the world · 4 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Microsoft to sponsor the Apache Software Foundation (Really) · 4 points · by mariorz · 1 comment
• A vision of social networking from 1971 · 4 points · by Alex3917 · 1 comment
• Refuge Markets · 4 points · by byrneseyeview · no comments
• Customer Disservice Spotlight On: FedEx · 3 points · by thinkcomp · no comments
• Full Text Of AOL Email: XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring To Shut Down · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Fugitive spammer dies in murder-suicide · 3 points · by edw519 · 3 comments
• Developer vs “the others” · 3 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Thinking in Concurrency · 3 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Are Developers Using LINQ? · 3 points · by krisokot · no comments
• The new dating site Y Combinator's been looking for? · 3 points · by JayNeely · 2 comments
• Favtape: Full playback for your favorite Last.fm and Pandora songs · 3 points · by tomh · 1 comment
• Protothreads and C++ · 3 points · by benhoyt · no comments
• Television will be the first traditional media medium to fall · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Aurora Feint Relisted in App Store · 3 points · by reddit · no comments
• Early home of computing falling into disrepair · 3 points · by hermitcrab · no comments
• The Evolution of Websites: How 10 Popular Websites Have (And Have Not) Changed · 3 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Google App Engine Blog: Some small updates · 3 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Blogs, JavaScript and security · 3 points · by grey_kristy · no comments
• 8 Bomb Blasts in Bangalore, India · 3 points · by lyime · no comments
• The ascent of scripting languages · 3 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Craigslist CEO: our real estate listings are booming · 3 points · by mlearmonth · 1 comment
• Why Johnny Can't Add · 3 points · by dominik · no comments
• New research shows the body turns fructose into fat faster than other sugars. · 3 points · by crocus · no comments
• BricaBox goes Open Source · 3 points · by innonate · no comments
• I’m Reinstalling Disqus - Two Months After Turning Disqus Off · 3 points · by kimboslice · no comments
• RedLasso shuts down after getting sued, bloggers weep · 3 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Ballmer: Microsoft to get more narrow-minded · 3 points · by markbao · no comments
• Judging a really early stage startup · 3 points · by ncbutters · no comments
• Roll Your Own Digg: Coming in Six Months · 3 points · by naish · no comments
• Blind Taste Test Shows XP Users Love Vista · 3 points · by naish · 1 comment
• Can anybody recommend a web-traffic service? · 3 points · by Allocator2008 · 2 comments
• Is lasting value diluted by blogs? · 2 points · by eisokant · 1 comment
• Perl - When you can snatch the punctuation from the Larry... · 2 points · by anr · 2 comments
• AOL To Shutter A Slew Of Products including Xdrive, EVP Kevin Conroy’s Future Uncertain · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• Inching toward federation · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Microsoft to show off spherical Surface next week · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Creative Code: 14 Ways to Learn From Creative Programmers · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Use Templates in Django · 2 points · by reazalun · no comments
• Forrester: Vista is ‘New Coke’ in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little · 2 points · by procyon · no comments
• CERT: 60%+ Of Servers Unpatched for DNS Flaw · 2 points · by Archimedius · no comments
• A Small Design Study Of Big Blogs · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Web analytics in a recession? · 2 points · by tomh · no comments
• Scrabtastic · 2 points · by rms · no comments
• Android, Symbian Expected To Become One OS · 2 points · by ideas101 · 3 comments
• Domain Names, New and Old - Everybody Sells · 2 points · by babul · no comments
• OpenID may be the desktop Linux to Facebook’s Windows. A geeky solution for the rebels. · 2 points · by urlwolf · no comments
• Ask HN: The most interesting work you could imagine doing? · 2 points · by Tichy · 2 comments
• Scientists Find Trigger for Northern Lights · 2 points · by aaco · no comments
• Netflix to test higher prices for Blu-ray discs soon · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• IPhone 2.1 Update to Bring Turn-by-Turn GPS? · 2 points · by brk · no comments
• No gender differences in math performance · 2 points · by dgabriel · no comments
• Talking to the Plumber · 2 points · by byrneseyeview · no comments
• Google Not Cheating: Knol Pages Buried Deep In Search Result Hell · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Electro-Shock Therapy: GM Makes a Risky Bet on a New Electric Car · 2 points · by crocus · no comments
• Complaining Bloggers Have a Cable Company’s Ear · 2 points · by crocus · no comments
• Bomb Blasts Hit Bangalore, Impact to Be Felt in Silicon Valley - GigaOM · 2 points · by rmanocha · no comments
• Redlasso Shuts Down In Response To Fox/NBC Lawsuit · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Google to face charges over Down's syndrome video · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Squarespace launches version 5... very cool overhaul · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Streamfile Simplifies On-Demand File Sharing · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• RedLasso: Why Its Dangerous to Rely on 3rd Party Content & Services · 2 points · by kimboslice · no comments
• Architecting for Speed · 2 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Switching From OS X to Ubuntu: 10 Things I Miss · 2 points · by parenthesis · 2 comments
• Ballmer Has Secret Plan To Save Microsoft's Internet Business · 2 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• ShoesFest is today: Hack on _why's Ruby GUI toolkit · 2 points · by omouse · no comments
• Symbols · 2 points · by llimllib · 1 comment
• Surfing the Universe · 2 points · by gaika · no comments
• There's no such thing as information overload · 2 points · by gaika · no comments
• Peak Oil: A utopia for startups? · 2 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Ask YC: Please Review this Startup · 2 points · by eisokant · 3 comments
• The #1 mistake hosting providers make for MySQL servers · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Every OS Sucks! · 2 points · by pkrumins · no comments
• 'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey · 1 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• 'Neglect' of Bletchley condemned · 1 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• How to Swim Alcatraz · 1 points · by kimboslice · no comments
• Why AdMob Is Winning Mobile · 1 points · by kimboslice · no comments
• Revenue model for Mobile VoIP and SMS apps · 1 points · by omfut · no comments
• Microsoft platforms chief Kevin Johnson leaving to join Jupiter Networks · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• 13 Apps to turn your iPhone into a blogging machine · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• A Letter to Safari · 1 points · by iamnirav · no comments
• Notes from MobileBeat 2008 · 1 points · by nasser · no comments
• MUST READ : Narayana Murthy's words of wisdom for Entrepreneurship & Success · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Making Sense of Mapnik · 1 points · by dhotson · no comments
• July 25: Four Women Who Made a Difference · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Software Lets BlackBerry Sync With iTunes · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Ubuntu’s role in bug management for the whole free software stack · 1 points · by revorad · no comments
• Seven Grand Challenges Facing IT · 1 points · by tst · no comments
• How to take dump of svn repository and restore from this · 1 points · by vikashnsingh · no comments
• What really breaks the "end-to-end nature of the Internet" · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Django pagination screencast · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Google Should Do This · 1 points · by matt1 · 2 comments
• The freelancing business part 1: pricing your work · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · 1 points · by aaco · no comments
• From the New Facebook to Modular Innovation Empowerment · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• To Fight Poverty, Tear Down HUD · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Book Review - RSI Theory & Therapy for Computer Professionals · 1 points · by screamingdigg · no comments
• Ask YC: How important are writing skills when considering new employees/cofounders? · 1 points · by iamelgringo · 2 comments
• AOL to close services, Weblogs Inc blogs affected · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Video: Test Driving an Electric Smart Car · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Bikers, pedestrians seeking better Web maps · 1 points · by bostonbiz · no comments
• The best analogy of why DPI is a really bad idea · 1 points · by davidu · no comments
• Programming: Art, Not Science · 1 points · by maxwell · no comments
• Escaped 'spam king' allegedly kills self, family · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Why I Love Corporate Blogs (And You Should Too) · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Why it’s Time for Facebook to Sell · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• A gathering for Gardner · 1 points · by revorad · no comments
• The Producer/Consumer Threading Model · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Fannie Mae bailout: Taxing America's poorest citizens to help the richest · 1 points · by raganwald · no comments
• Side Project: How to Find Growth Opportunities · 1 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Science Labs At Night · 1 points · by manvsmachine · no comments
• Diagonal Scaling - Don't Forget to Scale Out AND Up · 1 points · by t0pj · no comments
• Are we about to witness a real OS X virus? · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Python Information and Examples · 1 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Philosophy in the Barnyard: What's *Really* Wrong With Bestiality · 1 points · by garret · no comments
• Psychological studies confirm what we all know: Long meetings are a waste of time · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Liquidity Preference Is Accretive · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Visit to the Creation Museum · 1 points · by garret · no comments
• Randy Pausch Graduation Speech at CMU · 1 points · by ucdaz · no comments
• Lisp for the win · 1 points · by wagerlabs · no comments
• Impressions of fbFund and the f8 show · 1 points · by sanj · no comments
• LuckyCal Awarded fbFund Grant · 1 points · by sanj · no comments
• ITunes DRM Playback on Linux · 1 points · by daeken · no comments
• Glassfish V3 Lite Express (Prelude Release) · 1 points · by LBR9 · no comments
• What, Exactly, Did Jerry Yang Tell Yahoos Yesterday? · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Google Chubby and the Paxos Algorithm · 1 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Why The Establishment Needs Change or We All Purge · 1 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• From the Erotic Domain, an Aerobic Trend in China · 1 points · by tss · no comments
• Colorblind Web page filter · 1 points · by silentbicycle · no comments
• Mullenweg on Wine Library TV · 1 points · by ctingom · no comments
• And Someday We’ll Have Ads on Every Single One of Them · 1 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• EBay help wanted listings: Is cloud computing in the company's future? · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• SAP significantly boosts service costs, angering customers · 1 points · by procrastitron · 2 comments
• How much are Computers able to Understand text? + a lot of CS talks · 1 points · by sebastjanm · no comments
• McGoogle’s — over one trillion served · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• CL-Unicode - A portable Unicode library for Common Lisp · 1 points · by d0mine · no comments
• Cyclone · 1 points · by parenthesis · 1 comment
• The Tech Behind the VFX of the Dark Knight · 1 points · by tlrobinson · no comments
• Anatomy of a Software Bug · 1 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Why SELECT * is usually evil. · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Mastering Meetings - 10 Tips for Freelance Web Designers · 1 points · by nerdburn · no comments