Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Google Acquires Omnisio (YC Winter 08) · 168 points · by markbao · 45 comments
• Xkcd - Linux, a cautionary tale · 89 points · by nickb · 62 comments
• Microsoft's new legacy-free OS from scratch · 66 points · by nreece · 76 comments
• Balsamiq, a bootstrapped startup featured here some time ago, makes $10k in 6 weeks · 64 points · by ph0rque · 41 comments
• Posterous.com (YC Summer 08) launches Autopost to all major blog platforms · 56 points · by rantfoil · 29 comments
• OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil · 56 points · by pierrefar · 26 comments
• The Economics of Testing Ugly Code · 48 points · by edw519 · 25 comments
• Yuil vs. Cuil - The hack wins hands down... · 40 points · by mspeiser · 22 comments
• The Myth of Moderate Exercise · 35 points · by adamdoupe · 66 comments
• Response to massive boost in Ruby perfomance · 34 points · by soundsop · 7 comments
• How Hard Could It Be?: Good System, Bad System · 32 points · by mqt · 13 comments
• The Coming Death Shortage · 32 points · by terpua · 12 comments
• “The Mojave Experiment:” Bad Science, Bad Marketing · 31 points · by bazookaaa · 16 comments
• Scaling Python for High-Load Web Sites · 31 points · by t0pj · 5 comments
• Workings of ancient Greek 'computer' deciphered · 31 points · by ckinnan · 3 comments
• Labmeeting: A Social Network For Scientists · 30 points · by jmorin007 · 17 comments
• Scrabulous highlights the failure of American Copyright Law · 28 points · by wave · 5 comments
• Bjorn Lomborg: How to Get the Biggest Bang for 10 Billion Bucks · 27 points · by byrneseyeview · 34 comments
• Another one of those "Aha" interview questions: Long-running averages · 22 points · by raganwald · 20 comments
• What Startups Can Learn From Haruki Murakami · 21 points · by naish · 7 comments
• Charming Python Articles · 19 points · by alexk · no comments
• What if I went to a Java school Joel? · 19 points · by muriithi · 14 comments
• All About Python and Unicode · 18 points · by alexk · 4 comments
• "The way C handles pointers was a brilliant innovation." (1993 Knuth interview) · 18 points · by crocus · 10 comments
• Y Combinator Challenge #8 - Dating · 18 points · by jmorin007 · 28 comments
• The World According to Cuil · 18 points · by trs90 · 16 comments
• Perl Myths (slides from OSCON 2008) · 17 points · by soundsop · 18 comments
• A Software Pricing Primer · 16 points · by nreece · 3 comments
• Teenager invents vehicular antitheft system · 16 points · by kirubakaran · 7 comments
• What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? · 15 points · by gaika · 6 comments
• China to Limit Web Access During Games · 15 points · by markbao · 2 comments
• Project Orion is one of the stupidest, most wonderful ideas ever conceived in America. · 14 points · by byrneseyeview · 6 comments
• Saving The Music Business · 14 points · by whalliburton · 9 comments
• Apple's cult of secrecy begins to bug its developers · 13 points · by crocus · 7 comments
• Comparing Google, Yahoo, Live, Ask & Cuil with Actual Queries & Data · 12 points · by randfish · 4 comments
• UFO hacker loses appeal · 12 points · by gibsonf1 · 7 comments
• Y2K 2.0: Banking software is not ready to handle Zimbabwe's inflation. · 12 points · by gaika · 11 comments
• What You Expect from Clients is What You Will Get · 12 points · by superchink · 3 comments
• I'm doing it wrong? · 11 points · by sdpurtill · 6 comments
• Ask YC: Critique my side-project · 10 points · by nostrademons · 12 comments
• Study: Women Outnumber Men on Most Social Networks · 10 points · by Anon84 · 6 comments
• Ask HN: Your hobbies? · 10 points · by froo · 39 comments
• Password: You're doing it wrong · 10 points · by soundsop · 2 comments
• Examples of large-scale functional language projects · 10 points · by byrneseyeview · no comments
• Are you finding the root cause? · 10 points · by sant0sk1 · 1 comment
• Amazon Offers Other Sites Use of Its Payment Service · 9 points · by jsteele · 6 comments
• The end of IT as we know it · 9 points · by madmotive · 2 comments
• Google's information gathering techniques · 9 points · by gaika · 2 comments
• Balsamiq, a Mockup Creator in AIR, is on Fire · 9 points · by markbao · 3 comments
• Google will aquire GitHub.com (prediction) · 9 points · by pibefision · 11 comments
• KDE 4.1 delivers the next-gen desktop experience · 8 points · by azharcs · 25 comments
• Ask YC: Just launched my startup (an ad exchange network), what do you guys think? · 7 points · by rksprst · 6 comments
• XML's co-author Tim Bray argues that it's no longer good enough to be a one-language shop. · 6 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Entangled - A DHT Based on Kademlia · 5 points · by dhotson · 2 comments
• Teen Social Network myYearbook Gets $13 Million · 5 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• How many computers should a programmer have? · 5 points · by spydez · 12 comments
• YC Alum: Help Me Get a YC Interview for winter 09 · 5 points · by voidfiles · 9 comments
• The Solar Billionaires: Who’s Made Mad Money off of Solar Power? · 5 points · by greev · no comments
• How Insight and Epiphanies Work (New Yorker) · 5 points · by jimgreer · 1 comment
• Ask YC: How to debug javascript in IE?? · 5 points · by ca98am79 · 6 comments
• Bootstraps vs. VC Funded — Who’s most likely to make the most money? · 5 points · by hillel · 3 comments
• List of 10,000 fake diploma buyers published · 4 points · by blueben · 1 comment
• Dear Yahoo, Where’s the relevance? · 4 points · by jackelin · 1 comment
• Posterous becomes a one-stop-shop for cross platform blogging · 4 points · by terpua · no comments
• Escaping the Mentality of a Coder · 4 points · by edw519 · 4 comments
• Engineer's Dream · 4 points · by azharcs · no comments
• First Prototype Developer Day: Monday September 29, 2008 · 4 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Cuil: Why I’m trying to get off of the PR bandwagon… · 4 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• The 10 Commandments of the Social Web · 4 points · by markbao · 5 comments
• Vertebra: p2p XMPP Cloud Control Framework · 4 points · by ezmobius · no comments
• Python Decorators Don't Have to be (that) Scary · 4 points · by yourmomis1337 · no comments
• Creating Heatmaps in WPF · 4 points · by ryanelkins · no comments
• Why Free Software and Apple's iPhone Don't Mix · 4 points · by apgwoz · no comments
• Needed: A Tool To Help You Pay Attention to What You Are Paying Attention To · 3 points · by skmurphy · 1 comment
• A Modest Proposal: Eco-Friendly Stimulus · 3 points · by byrneseyeview · no comments
• Ask YC: How to prepare for interviews? · 3 points · by anon2 · 11 comments
• Journalists covering the Olympics have limited Internet, in contrary of earlier promises · 3 points · by joop · no comments
• New developments in the human/robot relationship. · 3 points · by jsmcgd · no comments
• Ask YC: On Cuil · 3 points · by Novash · 3 comments
• Microsoft bets on cloud computing as Amazon suffers outage · 3 points · by crocus · 4 comments
• Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work · 3 points · by nitam · no comments
• Outsource Your Chores And Feel Good While You’re At It · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• 50+ essays on viral marketing, social network monetization, product design and more · 3 points · by andrew_null · no comments
• Bitbucket.org - Mercurial Hosting · 3 points · by jespern · 1 comment
• HD Moore pwned with his own DNS exploit, vulnerable AT&T DNS servers to blame · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Google testing “AdSense for Games” in bid to shake up in-game advertising · 3 points · by alex_c · no comments
• Feedback on our latest spin: Qwili.com · 3 points · by okeumeni · 1 comment
• Hypebot Infiltrates Columbia Records Site With Anti-Label Ad · 3 points · by fallentimes · no comments
• JavaScript in JavaScript · 3 points · by maxwell · 2 comments
• Streamtech interview: Programming Problems · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Clearing Up a Blurry Work Life · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Peeking into Google's use of data · 3 points · by bigbang · no comments
• YouTube and Omnisio Join Forces · 3 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• HP, Intel and Yahoo study ways to make Web a utility · 2 points · by ashwinl · no comments
• How to pick the right payment gateway · 2 points · by StartUPMedia · no comments
• Cuil And Counting Crows · 2 points · by demandred · no comments
• With Security at Risk, a Push to Patch the Web · 2 points · by markbao · 2 comments
• Online diploma mills: DOJ list shows hundreds of bogus MBAs, PhDs · 2 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Young Job Candidates Find Too-Casual Tone of Textspeak Turns Off Hiring Managers · 2 points · by nickb · 2 comments
• Byteplay: easily interact with Python bytecode · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Malicious attack takes down Scrabble on Facebook · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Reusing code and inverting matrices · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Startup Hacks: Seven Ideas for Building Your Team · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• Viacom: Ad Market So Bad We're Not Making Predictions Anymore · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• About app engine · 2 points · by billxia · 1 comment
• Is every petty crime a new story? It is when Craigslist is involved · 2 points · by pakafka · no comments
• Media face web censorship at Beijing Olympics · 2 points · by babul · no comments
• Vi is for whimps · 2 points · by eru · no comments
• Don't Call It Blogging · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• SplashTop instant-on OS hacked to run other programs, boot off flash drives · 2 points · by paulsb · no comments
• Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Briton designs car that folds in half · 2 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• 9 Common Reasons A Website Is Not Drawing Visitors · 2 points · by zaveri · no comments
• Congressional Effect Fund · 2 points · by byrneseyeview · no comments
• You don't change the world with a marginally better mousetrap · 2 points · by tmarman · 5 comments
• Grails And Git QuickCast (screencast) · 2 points · by systems · no comments
• Is Embedding Infringement? MPAA Sues Two Sites · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• IBM Research's Personal Memory Organizer · 2 points · by whacked_new · no comments
• Top 10 Command Line Tools · 2 points · by deathbyzen · no comments
• NY Techies Schooled On Dating, Baldness, SIM Card Hacking · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Google Moves to Reinvent Transportation · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• Has the Web 2.0 cycle come to a close? No. · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• Ad Slowdown Crushes Some, Leaves Others Unscathed. What Gives? · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Quick tip: how to convert tables to InnoDB · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• DarcsEvaluation - GHC - Trac · 2 points · by d0mine · no comments
• Dell designs music player to compete with iPod ... again · 2 points · by ksvs · 1 comment
• New Facebook Design Confuses Many, Obscures Features · 2 points · by ksvs · 2 comments
• Google: "Complete Privacy Does Not Exist" · 2 points · by nickb · 2 comments
• Creating Power (The Youtube Avril Lavigne Lie) · 2 points · by fallentimes · no comments
• AOL blog cuts permanent, after all? · 2 points · by pakafka · no comments
• Business social network PartnerUp acquired by Deluxe Corp. · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• Google acquires Omnisio · 2 points · by maryrosecook · no comments
• My startup latest project: qwili.com · 2 points · by okeumeni · 3 comments
• Another reason to buy an iPhone: U · 2 points · by thenextweb · no comments
• A Lisp by any other name would smell as sweet? · 2 points · by wagerlabs · no comments
• Ode To Hungarian Notation · 2 points · by mojuba · no comments
• Who makes more money founder CEO's or non-founder CEO's? · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• 10 Big Questions for Geneticist J. Craig Venter on America's Energy Future · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Ask YC: Which looks better? (Website design feedback) · 2 points · by yourmomis1337 · 6 comments
• Why Java Isn't Shit, Part 3 - Higher Order Programming · 1 points · by llimllib · no comments
• Don't expect less from the web · 1 points · by kuldeep_kap · no comments
• Judgment Call - Do investors have a right to know about a CEO’s illness? · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Finding lost qubits · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Three Qualities that Every Piece of Code Should Have … · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Addressing the digital divide with a $5 audio recorder · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Review of "JavaScript: The Good Parts" · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• The Cloud Computing Dogfight and Recent Implications · 1 points · by Archimedius · no comments
• Fixing the Internet Traffic Jam · 1 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• Long-Lasting Jetpack Unveiled at Air Show · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Life after Techmeme · 1 points · by wave · no comments
• BT gobbles ribbit, why? · 1 points · by omfut · no comments
• PairIncubator - World-Class Web Technology Incubator · 1 points · by dhotson · 1 comment
• How to keep playing Scrabulous if you're in the US or Canada · 1 points · by scrollinondubs · no comments
• Own Your Category or Die · 1 points · by trs90 · no comments
• Resources for Web Design · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Moteur de recherche - Mozbot France · 1 points · by pauriaba · no comments
• IPhone apps: 1,001 and counting · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Could someone critique this OpenID clone ? · 1 points · by ptm · 1 comment
• Microsoft's 'Mojave' Bait-And-Switch Vista Experiment Video · 1 points · by aneesh · no comments
• Another good rant: "If you read Problogger you are a bad person." · 1 points · by greyman · no comments
• Plentyoffish Has Plenty of Users: Top Dating Site in US and UK · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Most Valuable Personalities in Java · 1 points · by morbidkk · no comments
• Cat powered · 1 points · by eru · no comments
• Ask HN: Realtime video encoding: how to? · 1 points · by listic · 1 comment
• Ribbit investor talks about good returns, bad markets and ‘Communication 2.0′ · 1 points · by paulsb · no comments
• Ask YC: Apple iPhone development - help needed · 1 points · by qwerty · 1 comment
• Cloud Computing and Networking Vendors: The Third Option · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Open Web Foundation to Keep Data 'Open' · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Yahoo BOSS Should Capitalize On Cuil Damp Squib Launch · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• The Nature of Glass Remains Anything but Clear · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• New Alzheimer's drug slows cognitive decline 81% in trials · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• ProtoChart: Prototype + Canvas = Pretty Charts · 1 points · by superchink · 2 comments
• The Mozilla CEO on His Firefox Strategy, His Google Gambit, and Working With Apple · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Online Funding Marketplace 40billion Launches · 1 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• What traffic? Go to work on a Jetpack · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• UK "hacker" to be extradited for biggest military hack ever · 1 points · by whyleyc · no comments
• "Rich versus King": The Core Concept · 1 points · by johns · no comments
• Protected Cross-Domain Authentication with JavaScript · 1 points · by pottedmeat · no comments
• Sergey Brin: iPhone Users Conduct 30x More Mobile Searches (and other fascinating stats) · 1 points · by kimboslice · no comments
• Using your browser URL history to estimate gender · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• MySpace Announces Five New Senior Execs (Four Of Them Have MySpace Pages) · 1 points · by zaveri · no comments
• Amazon Outsources Its Checkout Cart · 1 points · by babul · no comments
• Competition on a forum SIOC dataset · 1 points · by tuukkah · no comments
• New & Improved Splitview · 1 points · by nirmal · no comments
• Digging Beyond User Preferences · 1 points · by wave · no comments
• Collection of "Where We Do, What We Do" · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• DevCentral Daily - July 30th, 2008 · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Humanity Will Record Apocalypse with Cellphones · 1 points · by dbreunig · no comments
• alexis ohanian Co-Founder of reddit Completes Proust Questionnaire · 1 points · by dshah · no comments
• Exformation · 1 points · by syntaxfree · no comments
• Solving Tic-Tac-Toe: Game Tree Basics · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• How to Make New Things · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Rapleaf milks the data and the media for all they're worth · 1 points · by erickhill · no comments
• Response: Bad Science in the Mojave Experiment? · 1 points · by iamnirav · no comments
• FLOSS Manuals - Free Manuals for free softwares · 1 points · by reazalun · no comments
• TechCrunch UK - So where are London’s existing, organic TechHubs? · 1 points · by paulsb · no comments
• Retro cool: Video of Jack Nicholson's 1978 Hydrogen Car · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Seven Characteristics of Highly Effective Entrepreneurial Employees · 1 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• Kevin Martin of the FCC - Open Network Manifesto · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Open This in a Web-Kit Based Browser · 1 points · by superchink · no comments
• 4 Simple Steps to Detect & Fix Slow Rails Requests · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization [pdf] · 1 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• Can Rails Affect Your Business' Bottom Line? · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Lonely Planet for Languages · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Humanizing Robots · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Perversion Tracker returns · 1 points · by maryrosecook · no comments
• Hidden horrors · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Discount Top Ten Toys for Kids: The Best and Most Innovative Toys of The Year · 1 points · by poochiew · 1 comment
• Firefly's chat-on-a-webpage goes live · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• How to Despam Your iPhone Email · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• With security at risk, a push to patch the Web - International Herald Tribune · 1 points · by jbrun · no comments
• Nice, downloadable Rails API documentation. · 1 points · by tx · no comments
• How Search Engines See Keywords · 1 points · by t0pj · no comments
• Free download ebooks on Computer & Programming · 1 points · by tx · no comments
• Wii MotionPlus from AiLive · 1 points · by andychan1998 · no comments
• Social news sharing survey results, part 1 · 1 points · by sah · no comments
• The dumbing down of science · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Esquire to geeks: hack our e-paper magazine cover · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• YouTube videos with Captions · 1 points · by Jpmex · no comments
• Founder-CEO Succession · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Those who itch for success must keep scratching · 1 points · by Dylanfm · no comments
• "Hacker" vows to fight extradition from UK · 1 points · by inovica · no comments
• Please critique my Startuply ad for a co-founding developer? · 1 points · by savestaff · no comments
• Leverage the Wisdom of the Crowds With Wisia · 1 points · by sebien · 1 comment
• Gears, BrowserPlus, and Web 3.0, baby · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• New Media set to reshape the future of New Zealand journalism. · 1 points · by StartUPMedia · no comments