Hacker News Way Back Machine

• GitHub on applying Getting Real to their unfunded startup · 93 points · by defunkt · 7 comments
• Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search · 81 points · by snewe · 107 comments
• Your Best Hire: It May Surprise You · 69 points · by nreece · 25 comments
• Spreeder.com | read 300 words/minute instantly · 64 points · by iamelgringo · 45 comments
• Google says there are now 10^12 unique URLs. I am proud to announce the 2nd trillion. · 44 points · by bdr · 32 comments
• How to Jumpstart the Economy - Tax Free Small Businesses · 43 points · by drm237 · 44 comments
• When the 'Wisdom of Crowds' turns on itself: IMDB Edition · 39 points · by nickb · 62 comments
• How Skype gets around firewalls · 36 points · by soundsop · 13 comments
• A quiet investor becomes a media powerhouse everyone and nobody knows · 33 points · by robg · 12 comments
• Average environments beget average work · 33 points · by pbnaidu · 8 comments
• 42.zip: A single 42,374-byte zip file that uncompresses to one million 4.5GB files (4.5PB) · 33 points · by soundsop · 17 comments
• No, your code is not so great that it doesn’t need comments · 32 points · by nickb · 8 comments
• Beyond REST · 30 points · by dhotson · 6 comments
• Alan Kay on How We Teach Computing · 28 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Chef David Chang on failure, Thoreau, and vegetarians · 26 points · by spydez · 31 comments
• Y Combinator Challenge #6 - More variants of CRM · 26 points · by jmorin007 · 7 comments
• Google Code Jam: Numbers · 24 points · by rguzman · 3 comments
• Let’s talk about DVCS · 23 points · by niels · 11 comments
• Knol getting preferential placement in search results? · 21 points · by soundsop · 16 comments
• Ask YC: Where's the escape hatch? I'd like to leave the US, but to where? · 21 points · by isoadventure · 101 comments
• Returning The iPhone After Two Weeks Of Daily Use · 19 points · by rami · 13 comments
• Reply to Scobleizer's "Silicon Valley VC Disease" · 18 points · by 13ren · 2 comments
• Update on Linux/Foxconn issue by Ubuntu dev. Matthew Garrett · 18 points · by mdemare · 8 comments
• Out-of-print math books · 17 points · by hhm · 5 comments
• Summers Vindicated (again) · 17 points · by ivankirigin · 27 comments
• Cuil Launches -- Can This Search Start-Up Really Best Google? · 14 points · by nickb · 23 comments
• Why trying to Out-Google Google is a search for FAIL (and how to actually do it) · 14 points · by greatreorx · 3 comments
• Got Flash? Got Silverlight? Make a FlashLight · 14 points · by delconte · 7 comments
• Flipping Web Sites, Selling the Niche · 14 points · by markbao · 4 comments
• Exception notifier on steroids · 13 points · by kevTheDev · 4 comments
• Syntax is a smell · 13 points · by parenthesis · 8 comments
• Twitter engineers learning Scala · 13 points · by jorgeortiz85 · no comments
• Pysimpledb - Python Simple Database Access · 12 points · by iamelgringo · 7 comments
• Yet Another Review/Rate My Startup Request · 12 points · by witten · 41 comments
• Apple's next-gen Macs to have something special under the hood · 12 points · by nickb · 9 comments
• Help HN: My app 'looks crap' in need of design advice. · 11 points · by agentbleu · 21 comments
• Steve Fossett may be alive, investigator claims · 11 points · by baha_man · 15 comments
• Yahoo Music Does the Right Thing: Issues Refunds to Customers · 11 points · by naish · 3 comments
• Google Beats Cuil Hands Down In Size And Relevance, But That Isn’t The Whole Story · 10 points · by brianlash · 3 comments
• Why we never need to build another polluting power plant · 10 points · by Alex3917 · 4 comments
• The Five Percent Solution - Who Needs Another Chat Client? · 10 points · by pchristensen · 1 comment
• Get startup jobs by twitter feed · 10 points · by LukeG · 3 comments
• Iverson on APL · 9 points · by parenthesis · 1 comment
• Reddish (ycombinator/reddit clone for Google App Engine) open sourced. · 9 points · by mdipierro · 1 comment
• Buy Shanghai! · 9 points · by byrneseyeview · 10 comments
• Not So Cuil After All · 9 points · by jrrl · 12 comments
• Calacanis on Google, Knol: Of course Google is a content creator. Now what? · 9 points · by pakafka · no comments
• Why Java Isn't Shit, Part 2 - Conservatism · 9 points · by billybob3 · 10 comments
• Y Combinator diaries - Week 7 · 9 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Smalltalk Compiler · 8 points · by qwph · no comments
• Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial · 8 points · by silentbicycle · 6 comments
• Bit bombs and other dangers · 8 points · by syntaxfree · 3 comments
• WebToSnailMail · 8 points · by iamelgringo · 5 comments
• Virgin Galactic Launches the White Knight 2 · 8 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Fans of L.E.D.’s Say This Bulb’s Time Has Come · 7 points · by echair · 5 comments
• Amy Hoy: Informational Hygiene · 7 points · by gaika · 5 comments
• Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis? · 7 points · by reazalun · 2 comments
• 10 most overpaid jobs in the US · 7 points · by ranparas · 3 comments
• Barack Obama's official document channel on Scribd · 7 points · by jasonbentley · no comments
• Most important choice of a hardware startup - contract manufacturer · 7 points · by krschultz · 7 comments
• How to Fix The Comments Section of Your Site and Set Guidelines for Community · 7 points · by brm · 2 comments
• Ask HN: good electronics hacking course in the Bay Area? · 6 points · by menloparkbum · 3 comments
• Is EC2 The Right Choice For Hosting Our Web Application? · 6 points · by LiveTimeCards · 6 comments
• Rainbow's End -- a novel by Vernor Vinge that shows what is possible. Now go build it. · 6 points · by abcde · 5 comments
• Cuil · 6 points · by code_devil · 3 comments
• How to Save Local Newspapers: Cellphones · 6 points · by Mrinal · 1 comment
• Is Apple becoming Microsoft? · 6 points · by nreece · 2 comments
• Seth's Blog: Marilyn Monroe, the Mona Lisa and Jackson Pollock · 6 points · by pbnaidu · 5 comments
• Flickr Co-Founder Open About Yahoo's Fail · 6 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 1 comment
• Blippr Is Twitter For Micro-Reviews · 6 points · by markbao · 9 comments
• Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal · 6 points · by prakash · no comments
• Ask YC: Does anyone know of a bank whose online account doesn't suck? · 5 points · by jonnytran · 8 comments
• The Database Programmer: Different Foreign Keys for Different Tables · 5 points · by pbnaidu · 1 comment
• The clouds are coming · 5 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Ask YC: What's your Rails setup? · 5 points · by lyime · 8 comments
• Interview: Michael Dell, CEO & Founder of Dell Inc. · 5 points · by markbao · 1 comment
• Cuil, semantic search by ex-Googlers · 5 points · by markbao · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Some feedback before we launch NewsCred publicly · 5 points · by shafqat · 6 comments
• More Dreaming of Better User Interface · 5 points · by inglorian · no comments
• Cuil shows us how not to launch a search engine · 5 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine · 4 points · by senthil_rajasek · 1 comment
• Boom to Bust: Startups that go Belly Up · 4 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Statins may protect against memory loss in the brain · 4 points · by fiaz · no comments
• IPhone NDA: Doing more harm than good · 4 points · by nickb · no comments
• AOL Realizes Bloggers Will Work For Free; Stops Paying Them · 4 points · by jmorin007 · 1 comment
• A Public Service for the FSF · 3 points · by raganwald · no comments
• FCC to Rule Comcast Can't Block Web Videos · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Accel Looks To India For Venture Returns · 3 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• The New Microsoft Conspiracy? · 3 points · by bennetbrower · 1 comment
• Cuil Finally Gets Going · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Online Credit Card Processing for Non-Americans · 3 points · by curiousgeorge · 1 comment
• Verve Wireless believes it can save the dying local newspaper by making it mobile. · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Deploying Merb with Git, Vlad the Deployer, and Ubuntu · 3 points · by dhotson · no comments
• What is a Good First Programming Language? · 3 points · by parenthesis · 9 comments
• Beautiful Migration · 3 points · by Maro · no comments
• Mercurial Woes · 3 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Digg.com co-founder diggs TravelPod · 3 points · by r7000 · 2 comments
• Using CouchDB for I Play WoW · 3 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Top 10 Greasemonkey scripts to improve your productivity · 3 points · by Sam_Odio · 1 comment
• What Is the Motivation for Editing Someone Else's Knol Article? · 3 points · by tomh · no comments
• Five reasons Cuil won't kill Google...yet · 3 points · by senthil_rajasek · 2 comments
• Facebook Tries To Fight Off International Clones. Good Luck With That · 3 points · by vascoos01 · 1 comment
• GM Volt Gains a Cylinder, Loses a Turbo-charger · 3 points · by MikeCapone · 3 comments
• Copy and Paste Finally Coming to the iPhone. Sort Of. · 3 points · by markbao · no comments
• NSA guides to securing Linux, Mac OS, Windows, and Solaris · 3 points · by gcv · 1 comment
• Flattened Butterfly Network Lets Data Fly Through Supercomputers and Multicore Processors · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Your Public Photos Could Become My Disguise · 3 points · by reazalun · no comments
• Summers correct: Boys' math scores have greater variance than girls' · 3 points · by mhb · no comments
• Economists Weigh Possibility of a Recession Amid Economic Growth · 2 points · by procyon · no comments
• Who Will Be Microsoft’s Next Online Chief? McAndrews? Miller? BoomTown? · 2 points · by procyon · no comments
• Associated Press Invests in Mobile News Startup Verve Wireless · 2 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• Simplicity Is Highly Overrated · 2 points · by tom_rath · 1 comment
• InGameNow Opens API: Attention Techie Sports Fans · 2 points · by kimboslice · no comments
• Understanding The Hardware · 2 points · by Oompa · no comments
• Pascal gets closures before Java · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• How RMS browses the web · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Ask YC: How can I guide my brother towards success in school/life? · 2 points · by dmnd · 19 comments
• Ask YC: how to go about setting up my own online store · 2 points · by ulfstein · 3 comments
• Glance · 2 points · by shuleatt · no comments
• Cuil Search Engine Launches - Does Google Care? · 2 points · by lyime · 2 comments
• The N-Prize. Get an object into orbit: budget 999 pound · 2 points · by lupin_sansei · no comments
• An un-American feel aids expanding US Web firms · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Compressed Air Energy Storage - How viable is it? · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Candy Button Paper - old but good. · 2 points · by lallysingh · 1 comment
• Predict The Future On WashingtonPost.com · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Elitism is not a dirty word · 2 points · by echair · no comments
• Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who's Doing It? · 2 points · by echair · no comments
• What the U.S. Can Learn from Indian R&D · 2 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Can Cuil, Built for the Long-Term, Win the "Instant Analysis" Battle? · 2 points · by parker · no comments
• IBM to buy French software company Ilog for $340 million · 2 points · by ilamont · 2 comments
• Ask HN: What are your favorite browser add-ons? · 2 points · by LogicHoleFlaw · 6 comments
• Top 22 Mac OS X Products: Part Two · 2 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Top 22 Mac OS X Products: Part One · 2 points · by ideas101 · 1 comment
• No Infinities: the universe is discrete. · 2 points · by Asmodeus · 2 comments
• Ask YC: list of what languages sites are written in? · 2 points · by epall · 2 comments
• Cuil Can't Find Itself · 2 points · by gotitgoingon · 1 comment
• Kampyle Ties User Feedback to Website Analytics · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• Cuil: Color Me Unimpressed · 2 points · by saundby · no comments
• Microsoft Backs Apache and Open Source · 2 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Programming IQ Test · 2 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Are Criminals and Entrepreneurs Similar? · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• What I want from my next cell phone. · 2 points · by dentonbros · no comments
• Apple says economy is “depressed”… · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• When Bigger isn't Better · 2 points · by jnfazio · no comments
• Aviary introduces browser-based terrain generation · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Gawker.com rips boomer advice to Gen x and y. Deserved? · 2 points · by linkup · no comments
• Silly Serious Ideas in Economics · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• The difference between 'or' and || in Perl · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• IPhone, App Store problems causing more than just headaches · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Ask HN: Problem getting through Hotmail's spam filter? · 2 points · by Frocer · 1 comment
• The problem with (Not so) OpenOffice.org · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• The imperatives of the link economy · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Google-wannabe Cuil: Worst. Launch. Ever. · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• 2 Ways to Take Screenshots From Your iPhone · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Modeling The Real Market Value Of Social Networks · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• Advanced Web Application Security · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Spider trap - A site made to swamp a web spider or make it crash · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Was Santa Claus invented by The Coca-Cola Company? · 1 points · by alexwg · no comments
• Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style [video, presentation] · 1 points · by staunch · no comments
• If FailCamp succeeds, is it still FailCamp? · 1 points · by maryrosecook · no comments
• Don't Make Me Click (Google TechTalk) · 1 points · by maryrosecook · no comments
• And….Cuil Goes Offline · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• NASA: 50 Years of Towering Achievement · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Chinese takeaway biodiesel man in garage explosion horror · 1 points · by baha_man · no comments
• Awesome examples of CSS code box styling · 1 points · by wagerlabs · 5 comments
• Google's new rival: Ex-employees · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• In 13 yrs, he has defused 300 bombs · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Does Google just sort results by relevance or can Knol be irrelevant but still nr1? · 1 points · by globalrev · 1 comment
• New Search Engine Launched to Defeat Google · 1 points · by paulleviss · 1 comment
• Next: A Medical Wikipedia · 1 points · by vitaminj · no comments
• Introducing ActivePresenter: The presenter library you already know. · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• One Size Does Not Fit All · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• What are you doing in Lisp, right now? (in 2004) · 1 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Why Apple Must Tell Its Story (Apple after Jobs) · 1 points · by drm237 · 1 comment
• Ex-Googlers launch rival search engine · 1 points · by parker · no comments
• Dojango: Two great tastes in one can · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Facebook Fends Off Attack of the Clones · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Facebook Hires Mozilla Exec Mike Schroepfer As Director Of Engineering · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• PHP 5.3 in feature freeze · 1 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Paxos Made Live – An Engineering Perspective · 1 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Crowdsourcing and user generated firings · 1 points · by olefoo · 2 comments
• CalDav enabled for Google Calendar · 1 points · by dizz · no comments
• Chatbot Game supports embedded videos. Will this lead to more interesting chats? · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• The Implicit Association Test · 1 points · by revorad · no comments
• Male Test Scores Are More Variable Than Female Scores · 1 points · by snewe · 1 comment
• Voodoo Envy 133 · 1 points · by screamingdigg · no comments
• Imagine a Bigger Market and You'll See a Bigger Market · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Activismism: political illiteracy and moral zeal · 1 points · by garret · no comments
• Are Online Ad Dollars Being Wasted On Gen Y? · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• CitiBank:Windows is the only secure operating system. · 1 points · by woot · no comments
• Zip bombs: 42 Kilobyte file when unzipped makes 4.5 Petabytes · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Python for Scene and Model Description for Computer Graphics · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• A discussion and review of Joel Spolsky's The Best Software Writing I · 1 points · by jseliger · no comments
• Virtualization Needs a New Backup Strategy · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• An Old Task in Python · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• The App Store could spread like wildfire through Apple’s product line · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Flickr Founder: I Wish Microsoft Had Bought Yahoo · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Peering into Microsoft's Cloud · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Leader-Follower (1999) · 1 points · by Alex3917 · no comments
• Miasma: a new framework for web applications · 1 points · by gregjor · no comments
• Yang Still Needs To Make Nice With His Biggest Shareholders · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Advantages of obtaining proof of concept for your startup · 1 points · by myasmine · no comments
• Facebook will struggle to dominate on a truly global scale. · 1 points · by phpvsmerb · no comments
• What's the other 75 Percent? Blogs · 1 points · by azharcs · 1 comment
• What We Use: The Lifehacker Editors' Favorite Software and Hardware · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Virgin Galactic Unveils Space Liner Mothership · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Stop the Presses...seriously · 1 points · by iamdave · no comments
• Venture payoffs falling — but hey, they’re still better than the stock market · 1 points · by parker · no comments
• Toyota to Boost Prius Hybrid Production by 70% Next Year (480,000 units) · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Branson unveils space tourism craft 'WhiteKnightTwo' · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Bloom-filtered Britney · 1 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• McCain Campaign Yanks 'Obama Love' Web Video · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Have reports of the music industry’s decline been greatly exaggerated? · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Some AOL Weblogs Inc. bloggers posting for free this month · 1 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• Rumor: MacBook updates to include glass trackpad, other goodies · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Microsoft Research releases free software for academics · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Microsoft Plays Practical Joke On People To Convince Them They Like Vista · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Reddit doesn't show up on Cuil · 1 points · by eventhough · 2 comments
• Replace Online Ads With Art · 1 points · by rw · no comments
• GitHub: The Post-Apocalyptic Guide · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments