Hacker News Way Back Machine

• YC is a cult · 116 points · by jamesgolick · 154 comments
• Stop stealing · 65 points · by johns · 24 comments
• Google Knol is Evil · 61 points · by IsaacSchlueter · 45 comments
• Yahoo SEC filing on Viaweb purchase (including Viaweb financials) · 57 points · by byrneseyeview · 30 comments
• Face Swapping · 50 points · by joshwa · 16 comments
• How to be productive instead of inane · 43 points · by unalone · 37 comments
• Developers needed; Hackers need not apply · 38 points · by luccastera · 29 comments
• Scrabulous shut down on Facebook · 36 points · by narendra · 28 comments
• The 'Anti-Java' Professor and the Jobless Programmers · 32 points · by raganwald · 64 comments
• YouOS (winter 07) shutting down? · 30 points · by sown · 47 comments
• Ruby 1.9, massive boost in threading preformance · 30 points · by ashleyw · 17 comments
• Americans drove 9.6 billion fewer miles in May 2008, biggest drop in 66 years · 29 points · by MikeCapone · 61 comments
• Why is Python more fun than Java? · 28 points · by soundsop · 14 comments
• A Chat with a Google Street View Driver · 25 points · by pierrefar · 12 comments
• How To Lose Your Cuil 20 Seconds After Launch · 25 points · by nickb · 26 comments
• Is Money Useless to Open Source Projects? · 24 points · by sant0sk1 · 28 comments
• Warp Speed Engine Designed · 23 points · by iamelgringo · 26 comments
• You’re Doing it Wrong If · 22 points · by raganwald · 35 comments
• Ten lies about microprocessors · 21 points · by mixmax · 9 comments
• New features come to Amazon SimpleDB · 21 points · by sant0sk1 · 1 comment
• The World's Best Places to Live 2008 · 18 points · by pavel · 36 comments
• Js-hotkeys - Google Code · 17 points · by raju · 7 comments
• Housing Bailout Bill: Say Goodbye to Untaxed Internet Transactions · 17 points · by soundsop · 13 comments
• Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity · 15 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• Pushup: Automated Upgrade Links for Old Browsers · 15 points · by soundsop · 8 comments
• Get a 'Personal' MBA · 15 points · by tialys · 10 comments
• Ask YC: Cliff Notes For Blogs · 15 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 33 comments
• Why is the U.S. innovative? · 14 points · by wave · 4 comments
• SoCal earthquake a powerful reminder of Twitter’s potential · 14 points · by markbao · 20 comments
• Ask YC: what is your most important idea? · 13 points · by andreyf · 32 comments
• NY Times Op-ed: "USAF or NASA should reopen investigations of U.F.O. phenomena." · 13 points · by robg · 14 comments
• Drizzle - A Lightweight SQL Database for Cloud and Web · 13 points · by luccastera · 5 comments
• 10 Must-Have Python Packages for Social Scientists · 12 points · by iamelgringo · 1 comment
• The Interface Hall of Shame · 12 points · by raganwald · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Rate My Startup · 12 points · by mooders · 12 comments
• FFmpeg on Mac OS X How-to · 12 points · by garret · 9 comments
• How to Ship Code and Influence People · 12 points · by prakash · 2 comments
• SISC - Scheme Interpreter Written in Java · 12 points · by soundsop · 3 comments
• Build a Web spider on Linux - A simple spider and webpage scraper · 11 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• Ask hackers: what books have you read lately and would recommend me? · 11 points · by pkrumins · 20 comments
• Y Combinator Challenge #7 - Something your company needs that doesn’t exist · 11 points · by yangyang42 · 5 comments
• Delicious is about to lose a bunch of users · 9 points · by joop · 7 comments
• (Response to 'YC is a Cult') A Note on Cults & Productivity · 9 points · by demandred · 3 comments
• Space-Filling Curves in Geospatial Applications · 8 points · by dhotson · 1 comment
• Big Sensor a Small Step for Cameras · 7 points · by davidw · no comments
• Rate/Review: Feedback on my start-up? · 7 points · by chubbawubba · 7 comments
• Do Higher Gas Prices Mean More Mobile Productivity? · 7 points · by terpua · no comments
• Once Upon Atari · 7 points · by hhm · 1 comment
• A (Clisp maintainer's) critique of Ocaml · 6 points · by parenthesis · 1 comment
• Erlang & Single Assignment: You’re Doing It Wrong · 6 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Fate of the book · 6 points · by cawel · 1 comment
• Looking for feedback and some advice on how to get more users · 6 points · by missha · 8 comments
• Ask HN: Best way to handle Email as a startup? · 6 points · by Frocer · 10 comments
• Ask YC: What financially successful companies have been born out of YC? · 6 points · by jbrun · 7 comments
• Why Cuil Sucks - It can't even find itself · 6 points · by geuis · 8 comments
• Kevin Rose calls to non-rebut rumors about Digg and Google acquisition talks · 5 points · by rockstar9 · no comments
• Microsoft's Sphere display in action · 5 points · by nickb · no comments
• Women in Linux · 5 points · by ucdaz · no comments
• PushUpTheWeb.com: Browser detection and Upgrading · 5 points · by sant0sk1 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Cities and Ambition Practicum · 5 points · by aspirant · no comments
• Did Dell just outdesign Apple? · 5 points · by fromedome · 7 comments
• What a Difference a Cert Makes · 5 points · by markbao · no comments
• HTTParty (Rails HTTP lib) · 5 points · by nir · no comments
• Prof. Deepak Malhotra - Before You Speak Your Mind · 4 points · by daveambrose · 1 comment
• Barack Obama is on Scribd · 4 points · by trip · no comments
• Pure Ruby AMQP Client · 4 points · by jfarmer · no comments
• Ask HN: Running your web app on top of a python http server · 4 points · by tzury · 3 comments
• Crushpad raises $9 million from its own wine-making customers · 4 points · by prakash · no comments
• Good Architecture > Hitler > Web Architecture · 4 points · by boblk · 1 comment
• Monitor110 Learnings: The Good, The Bad, and The Really Bad · 4 points · by jedc · no comments
• Ask HN: Online legal forms subscription. Worthwhile? · 4 points · by nikhils · 1 comment
• Endgame: Scrabulous Gets Wiped Off Facebook · 4 points · by nickb · 2 comments
• This is awesome · 4 points · by mark007 · no comments
• How to Read a Novel · 4 points · by loquace · 1 comment
• "Little b" creates biology-specific language using Lisp · 4 points · by troystribling · no comments
• NPR announces an Open API · 4 points · by rams · no comments
• The Future of Web Fonts Looking Brighter · 4 points · by procyon · no comments
• How Steve Jobs Plans to Eat Firefox (and why I'm not getting an iPhone) · 4 points · by troystribling · 1 comment
• Need a regex expert · 4 points · by bkmrkr · 2 comments
• Pricing revisited · 4 points · by alex_c · 1 comment
• From banks of Godavari to Google on wheelchair · 4 points · by prakash · no comments
• Oscon in 37 Minutes · 4 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• This is what a website's Privacy Policy should look like · 4 points · by aneesh · 1 comment
• Linux Friendly Beagle Board On Sale Now: Only $150 · 3 points · by pmorici · no comments
• Bruce Lee’s 5 Rules for Personal Productivity · 3 points · by mattjaynes · 1 comment
• How much does one search cost? · 3 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Dead Simple: Podcast Through Email [Posterous - YC Summer 08] · 3 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Wow, How Did Cuil Get So Much Publicity on Day 1? · 3 points · by nickb · 4 comments
• The Power of a Programming Portfolio · 3 points · by grokcode · no comments
• "The Race Between Education and Technology" · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Inventor plans to unveil "the world’s first practical jetpack" - $100k · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Embedding Rhino · 3 points · by dhotson · 2 comments
• VMware ESXi Hypervisor Now Free · 3 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Heart Robot is star of science event - has a beating heart, a breathing belly · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• HP, Intel, and Yahoo Announce Cloud Computing Research Test Bed · 3 points · by bdotdub · no comments
• The Bigger Questions Behind The Scrabulous Shutdown · 3 points · by rob · no comments
• Spending Like Its 1999: Startup Burns $50k of VC Money on Crazy Contest · 3 points · by terpua · no comments
• Port Knocking: What are you hiding in there? · 3 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• "I Miss Bill." Do You? · 3 points · by LBR9 · 1 comment
• Using Carrot and Stick, IBM Buys LISP Pioneer Ilog · 3 points · by sutro · no comments
• European Common Lisp Meeting 2008 · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Improving Online Dating · 3 points · by VolatileVoid · no comments
• It's about time Dell made something you won't be embarrassed to have sitting around · 3 points · by raganwald · 1 comment
• 5% Layoffs Rumored At Myspace · 3 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 2 comments
• IBM’s “Pensieve” Project to Digitize Business Cards · 3 points · by markbao · no comments
• Future of Internet Search: Mobile version · 3 points · by troystribling · 2 comments
• Reasonably Smart Platform - The Open Web Cloud · 2 points · by dhotson · no comments
• The Best Software Writing — Joel Spolsky · 2 points · by jmorin007 · 1 comment
• Facebook outage. · 2 points · by zitterbewegung · 2 comments
• Selling the Computer Revolution: Historical Marketing Brochures · 2 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• The Whole Economic Model of the Last 37 Years Was a Scam · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• 8 Tips for Getting Your Facebook App Acquired · 2 points · by dshah · no comments
• Getting content outside an iframe · 2 points · by amrithk · 2 comments
• What should I do with my life? · 2 points · by lost · 13 comments
• Ask HN: graphical html editor that doesn't corrupt data? · 2 points · by nailer · 6 comments
• The Google Knol Threat to Content Businesses · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Knol is Google's Wikia · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Help with widget building · 2 points · by nicoperez · no comments
• BlackLight's physics-defying promise: Cheap power from water · 2 points · by rms · 1 comment
• Strings in the D programming language · 2 points · by guruz · no comments
• Rumor: Apple's new MacBooks [might not] have Intel chipsets · 2 points · by fiaz · 2 comments
• Repository Formats Matter · 2 points · by orib · no comments
• A database for medical implants. Is this a startup opportunity? · 2 points · by yummyfajitas · 1 comment
• Facebook application Scrabulous shuts down, as it faces Hasbro lawsuit · 2 points · by markbao · 1 comment
• Lithium Iron Phosphate Breakthrough = Better Batteries · 2 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Is programming art? · 2 points · by cawel · no comments
• Video: Predicting the web's next 5,000 days · 2 points · by coffeeaddicted · no comments
• Ask PG: Activity in comments adds to gravity · 2 points · by jmatt · 6 comments
• 10 Dumbest Lies of the Micro-hoo-gle-cahn Saga · 2 points · by procyon · no comments
• Chinese HD format: It's blue, but not "Blu-ray" · 2 points · by procyon · no comments
• You Don't Need a File System · 2 points · by soundsop · 1 comment
• A Personal Roadmap · 2 points · by matt1 · 6 comments
• Why British Telecom Bought Ribbit Web Telephony Platform · 2 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Cooler than Cuil, True Knowledge takes a sniper’s approach to search · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• Cuil, Please Stop · 2 points · by markbao · 3 comments
• Mindmeister - A Free & Simple Brainstorming Tool · 2 points · by RobotOverlord · no comments
• Are The Olympics Going To Kill The Internet? We Don't Think So · 2 points · by markbao · 1 comment
• The seamy underbelly of U.S. lexicography · 2 points · by garret · no comments
• Retro DHH: compile-time error catching lets you "fail fast"; runtime errors "expensive" · 2 points · by henning · no comments
• Give phones to the masses and they'll fight your enemies for you · 2 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Good Rainmakers Need To Create Clouds · 2 points · by thenotself · no comments
• China to keep rain at bay on Aug 8 · 2 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Microsoft: still a business of threats? · 2 points · by procyon · no comments
• What is the future of the OS? · 2 points · by globalrev · no comments
• Greenfoot: Further Examination · 2 points · by saundby · no comments
• The Passionates vs. The Non-Passionates · 2 points · by yangyang42 · no comments
• Live Mesh For Mac Is Here · 2 points · by procyon · no comments
• Some relief for worrywarts · 2 points · by ranparas · no comments
• Starting the campaign for The London TechHub · 2 points · by danw · no comments
• Online threats materializing faster (within 24 hours after a vulnerability is disclosed) · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Apprise: An Air RSS Reader with AIM/Twitter Integration · 1 points · by bdotdub · no comments
• DevCentral Daily – July 28th, 2008 · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Beyond Polling and REST? Consider PubSub, Push and MOM · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Steve Jobs Walks Into the Trap · 1 points · by rockstar9 · no comments
• Free iPhone from Hictu · 1 points · by omfut · no comments
• Will Cuil dent Google’s might? · 1 points · by omfut · no comments
• Lawsuit filed against Canadian cell carriers for charging for incoming text messages · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Venture Returns Shrinking in 2008 · 1 points · by dshah · no comments
• Startups Created by Google Alumni - The Power of Being Ex-Google · 1 points · by pbnaidu · 1 comment
• Birkerts, after embracing the internet, do you look at your wife in the same way? · 1 points · by cawel · no comments
• Garbage Collection Data Representations · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• What Are HP, Intel, and Yahoo Announcing Tomorrow? · 1 points · by ashish1 · no comments
• Virtual Property Law: Part Three in Game Law Series · 1 points · by tix4luck · no comments
• Searcharoo - Search Engine Crawler in C# / ASP.NET · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Mailinator family now includes talkinator · 1 points · by jgamman · 1 comment
• How To Patch BIND9 Against DNS Cache Poisoning On Debian Etch · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• How Yahoo killed MyBlogLog · 1 points · by joop · no comments
• Researchers Synthesize Evolution of Language · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• Objectified: A documentary about Industrial Design · 1 points · by dhotson · no comments
• The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming · 1 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Can't come up with a "business plan"? Just answer 4 questions · 1 points · by y2002 · no comments
• New Firefox Alpha Shiretoko & new Safari vulnerability? · 1 points · by joop · no comments
• Hasbro Sues Makers of Scrabble-Like Scrabulous · 1 points · by silentbicycle · no comments
• BBC programmes data feeds for developers · 1 points · by nikhils · no comments
• Microsoft building LCD rival technology · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• DevCentral Daily – July 29th, 2008 · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Joining a tribe... · 1 points · by ph0rque · 1 comment
• Software Liabilities and Free Software · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• Usernames and passwords to San Francisco network exposed in court docs · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Web 2.0 Expo NYC Sep 16-19 · 1 points · by dangoldin · no comments
• EarthLink expects 8-10 million dialup users left in 2014, wants to buy them now · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Is DSL dead? Is cable winning? Or will fiber rule? · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Django Gets Intermediate Models · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• The false debate on monkey-patching · 1 points · by raganwald · no comments
• Labs At Night - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center · 1 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Dive Into Python | Online book · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• The Koan of Lazy Evaluation · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• 8 Tips for Getting Your Facebook App Acquired · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Creating a game with PyGlet and Python · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• 'We call it the Three Gorges of the sky. The dam there taps water, we tap wind' · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Ribbit sells to BT for $105 million · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Silicon Valley isn't the only option for startups · 1 points · by hooande · no comments
• What's a Bad Boss? Rant here. · 1 points · by linkup · no comments
• 'Emotional' robot is all heart · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · 2 comments
• How To Finance Your Company: Organic vs. Investment · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• T. Boone Pickens Sells Entire Yahoo Stake, 10 Million Shares · 1 points · by compay · 1 comment
• Code swapping, and taking the long view when writing software · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Flash Crowd Preparation - Load Testing With Siege · 1 points · by blanu · no comments
• Ask HN: What IDE/Editor for RoR Development on Mac? · 1 points · by arvernus · 4 comments
• Ragogmakan (Google) goes to the Amazon · 1 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• MySQL Performance Tools · 1 points · by rams · no comments
• Apple design guru Jonathan Ive to appear in 'Helvetica' director's next film · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• KDE 4.1 review: "KDE marks a triumphant return to full usability with the 4.1 release" · 1 points · by tx · no comments
• Memorable Utility. Convenience and the future of the Web. · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• In Absence of Fiction · 1 points · by iamnirav · no comments
• My Quest to Build the Perfect Burger · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Yahoo, Intel and HP Form Cloud Computing Labs · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Europe and Japan join forces to map out future of intelligent robots · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Do you hate Vista? Try Mojave! · 1 points · by kirse · no comments
• HP, Intel, Yahoo Team on Cloud Testbed · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Simple AMQP Library for Ruby · 1 points · by tmm1 · no comments
• Relive the "series of tubes" before Ted Stevens goes to court · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Mobile web gets some standards · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Microsoft Research Lab Opens Near MIT, Director Says Intellectual Climate Ready to Ignite · 1 points · by rfreierman · no comments
• Scrabulous: Triple Points, Less 92 · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Report: Next MacBook won't use Intel chips · 1 points · by mattculbreth · 1 comment
• Two years of the Dow Jones Industrial Average · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• The web is growing a million pages per day · 1 points · by joop · no comments
• Developerlife - Tutorials » Android TableLayout · 1 points · by screamingdigg · no comments
• Ask HN: "found a hardware firm with the same low investment as for software?" · 1 points · by blowfish · 1 comment
• An interesting thing happened on the way to the magic quadrant... · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Panda Baby-Boom 4 Cubs Born Within 14 Hours · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• [Quotable] NetNewsWire, JotSpot, Git, Google, old Texas sayings, etc. · 1 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• New Alzheimer's drug shows early promise · 1 points · by geuis · no comments
• Pickens rips Yahoo management, says he dumped shares at a loss · 1 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Mobile web standards announced today · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Peer Producing A Web 2.0 Keynote · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Ask YC: What's the best solution for geotargetting by IP? · 1 points · by justin · 3 comments
• Sharding with Max Ross (mp3) · 1 points · by wave · no comments
• Housing Bill includes sweeping data reporting provision · 1 points · by ckinnan · no comments
• Paul Graham - Cuil · 1 points · by msrdic · 2 comments