Hacker News Way Back Machine

• How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy) · 220 points · by rob · 42 comments
• Part-time apps developers getting rich · 90 points · by asp742 · 50 comments
• Last.fm Blog: Quality Control · 85 points · by alex_c · 18 comments
• The Trolls Among Us · 83 points · by Alex3917 · 98 comments
• 'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution · 59 points · by nreece · 34 comments
• The Secret Curse of Expert Archers · 58 points · by robg · 26 comments
• Smart-people traps · 42 points · by senthil_rajasek · 38 comments
• What They Never Told You About Handling B2B Transactions · 37 points · by yangyang42 · 2 comments
• Coffee shop programmer · 36 points · by hassy · 32 comments
• A photo that can steal your Facebook and most other accounts · 36 points · by nickb · 23 comments
• Hippies, Nerds, and Lumpenprogrammers · 32 points · by raganwald · 31 comments
• Web Design Pattern · 30 points · by greev · 8 comments
• The Web's Dirty Little Secret · 30 points · by inglorian · 6 comments
• Bruce Schneier on the recent DNS vulnerability · 30 points · by soundsop · 24 comments
• 6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then · 29 points · by markbao · 20 comments
• Stack Overflow Private Beta Begins · 28 points · by raganwald · 25 comments
• Park nomad, laptop in tow, calls bushes home · 23 points · by dangoldin · 7 comments
• Tipjoy (YC winter 08) Adds Auto-Twitter Integration So You Can Tweet Your Tips · 22 points · by markbao · 7 comments
• Giles Coren's letter to Times subs · 21 points · by raganwald · 13 comments
• IPhone Tethering Returns To Apple’s App Store · 21 points · by dawie · 12 comments
• Confessions of a Car Salesman · 20 points · by helveticaman · 6 comments
• California judge rules early cell phone termination fees illegal · 19 points · by brianlash · 22 comments
• Social Thing (Techstars) Acquired By AOL · 19 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 6 comments
• Firefox market share exceeds 20%, Internet Explorer dips below 70% · 18 points · by prakash · 20 comments
• Amazon To Acquire Abebooks · 17 points · by drm237 · 13 comments
• The real cost of starting a startup? · 17 points · by gduffy · 13 comments
• Ask HN: Why don't more web developers found startups? · 16 points · by matt1 · 46 comments
• Yuil is now 4hoursearch.com · 16 points · by timtrueman · 8 comments
• The forgotten Americans who ended in the gulag · 15 points · by peakok · 7 comments
• It’s the Software, Not You · 14 points · by pbnaidu · 10 comments
• Microsoft Should Invest in Startups a la YC · 13 points · by kmerritt · 2 comments
• Why You Should Fire Your Clients And Launch A Product · 13 points · by swombat · 3 comments
• Ask HN: how do you find a good salesperson? · 13 points · by jon_dahl · 8 comments
• Proving your concept by rolling out slowly · 13 points · by iseff · 1 comment
• "Switzerland" ISP Protocol Meddling Detection Software · 12 points · by orib · 1 comment
• Jsonpickle (early beta) serializes python objects to JSON · 11 points · by DocSavage · 2 comments
• Breaking Free of Outlook · 10 points · by terpua · 8 comments
• Bijan Sabet: Techmeme vs Hacker News · 10 points · by crocus · 1 comment
• 7 things to consider before outsourcing software development · 10 points · by JohnReel · 3 comments
• Kids losing touch with natural world -- can't identify common animals... · 10 points · by gscott · 13 comments
• Commercializing the Cloud · 9 points · by prakash · no comments
• The Big Picture: Large Hadron Collider nearly ready · 9 points · by jkkramer · 5 comments
• Tap Tap Revenge Approaches 1 Million Users, Music Industry Takes Notice · 8 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 1 comment
• Psychological Proofs and Reverse CAPTCHAs · 8 points · by amichail · 2 comments
• NASA Found Water on Mars · 7 points · by wave · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Your best marketing idea that has helped spread the word about your product? · 7 points · by ctingom · 5 comments
• Tethering Briefly Comes To The iPhone, Tempers Flare · 7 points · by drm237 · 6 comments
• The Neurological Roots of Genius · 7 points · by mhb · 2 comments
• Why RIM Is Screwed: Limited Market Opportunity, Losing AT&T Share, Margins Getting Worse · 7 points · by markbao · 9 comments
• HN Show & Tell: Feedvolley · 7 points · by nir · 8 comments
• 5 Things You Must Know About Sleep · 7 points · by pbnaidu · 1 comment
• Y Combinator Challenge #10 - Auctions · 6 points · by drm237 · 4 comments
• Irreversible effects on female brains from soy products · 6 points · by hhm · 5 comments
• What Do Small Open Source Projects Do With Money? Not Much. · 5 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Ask HN: The Quest for Webapp Publicity - Now What? · 5 points · by mstefff · 4 comments
• Ask YC: How do you network with people? · 5 points · by paraschopra · 12 comments
• Microsoft discloses Google, Apple threat, plus Danger sale price · 5 points · by nickb · no comments
• Industry Insights from Angelsoft · 5 points · by sanj · 1 comment
• How big an opportunity is the external memory? · 5 points · by terpua · 2 comments
• Ask PG and HN: Print-on-demand 'On Lisp' ? · 5 points · by parenthesis · 2 comments
• Search quality, continued · 5 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Dell tries to trademark "cloud computing" · 5 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Who Needs the Tech IPO? Open source and Facebook have changed the economics of Startups · 5 points · by smanek · 1 comment
• A fun online physics puzzle game · 5 points · by jmatt · 3 comments
• Chris Anderson: The time/money formula of free · 4 points · by toffer · no comments
• 4 Things That Hold Us Back · 4 points · by ryanelkins · no comments
• Firefly: Chat about nothing everywhere... · 4 points · by thenextweb · no comments
• On a wing and a prayer · 4 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Spreading the gospel of entrepreneurship in the developing world · 4 points · by cawel · 1 comment
• CrimeTube: NYPD wants you to upload video of cops behaving badly · 4 points · by mlearmonth · no comments
• Yahoo hiring freeze over? · 4 points · by fromedome · no comments
• P#: a concurrent Prolog for .net · 4 points · by parenthesis · 2 comments
• Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web · 4 points · by cawel · no comments
• Did PCMark 2005 Cheat for Intel? · 4 points · by aggieben · no comments
• Cyber Security Awareness Week · 3 points · by dguido · 2 comments
• Ask YC: Best Wordpress Plugins · 3 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 1 comment
• The Art of Visual Thinking · 3 points · by markbao · no comments
• Yahoo Turns Yelp, Yahoo Local and LinkedIn SearchMonkey Apps On In Search · 3 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Who are the candidates to be Apple's next leader? · 3 points · by davidw · 1 comment
• Want To Run A Chinese YouTube? Better Hire Your Own Censors · 3 points · by pakafka · no comments
• Reddit question: postgresql to mysql? · 3 points · by rjett · 2 comments
• Carmack: iPhone more powerful than Nintendo DS, PSP combined · 3 points · by pistoriusp · no comments
• Get Rid of Long iPhone Backups With A Simple App · 3 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 2 comments
• All Things Pythonic - Origin of BDFL · 3 points · by wave · no comments
• Across the Curious Parallel of Language and Species Evolution · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Zed's Reply To HN Concerning Feed Readers · 3 points · by mdemare · 2 comments
• The Annoying Chinese Room · 3 points · by LBR9 · 1 comment
• Cuil Becomes Third Largest Search Engine (for a day) · 2 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Ask YC: Legal Inquiry Regarding Client Issue · 2 points · by iamdave · 4 comments
• IPhone Developers Get Push Notification API · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• The Original Google Computer Storage · 2 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• It’s 2018: Who Owns the Cloud? · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• Why the 'Mojave Experiment' fails · 2 points · by unalone · no comments
• Google Exploring Venture Capital Arm · 2 points · by jaydub · no comments
• AOL Tells Angry Blogger Staff: Everything is Fantastic · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• The efficient web: it's up to you now how much time you waste. · 2 points · by unalone · no comments
• JIT Compiler for PHP · 2 points · by jawngee · no comments
• A discourse on web-frameworks · 2 points · by lost · 1 comment
• Apple's customer service: The wrong kind of 1% · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Why cellphones didn't work during the quake · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• 10 Things to Scratch From Your Worry List · 2 points · by peakok · no comments
• China depending on cloud seeding technology to keep Olympic Games dry · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Contingency Design: Maximizing Online Profitability By Helping People When Things Go Wrong · 2 points · by brm · 1 comment
• India unveils 3G policy; plans global auctions · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Ask PG: Does YC review single founder applications? · 2 points · by unohoo · 8 comments
• CERN Rap · 2 points · by jbrun · no comments
• Location-based mobile social networking: a $3.3 billion market in 5 years? · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Facebook Developers: Much-Dreaded Redesign Not So Terrible, After All · 2 points · by vascoos01 · no comments
• Want to run a Chinese YouTube? Better hire your own censors · 2 points · by mlearmonth · no comments
• YSlow Performance Grades for 200 Top Web Sites · 2 points · by robreact · no comments
• Ask YC: Sign of the Times - An Advertisement Preloading a Lightbox · 2 points · by iamdave · 1 comment
• Microsoft's Avenue A/Razorfish Seeks Old Media Business · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• Nice jQuery tooltip script.. improved · 2 points · by jmtame · no comments
• A Photo that can steal your online credentials. · 2 points · by azharcs · 1 comment
• Use the web to get your 2008 Beijing Olympics fix · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• We Know How Many Kindles Amazon Has Sold: 240,000 · 2 points · by markbao · no comments
• Creating a Business Logo · 2 points · by yangyang42 · no comments
• How To Take Criticism Like Donald Trump · 2 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• AT&T's U.S. iPhone Exclusive Extended To 2010? Or Shortened From 2012? · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Mixing Computing and Time Travel · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Job Losses Likely to Accelerate · 2 points · by fiaz · 4 comments
• Interactive Journey Through NASA's First Fifty Years of Exploration · 2 points · by ashwinl · no comments
• Phoenix Spacecraft Confirms Water on Mars · 2 points · by fiaz · no comments
• IPhone Game 'Tap Tap Revenge': Popular With Humans, Birds · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• HS Computer Class Objective: Going from Consumer to Creator · 2 points · by saundby · no comments
• Visiting a Brewery Startup · 2 points · by breck · no comments
• Lisp Language for Programming Proteins · 1 points · by JoeO · no comments
• Custom Search Engine · 1 points · by cryptovenom · 1 comment
• Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Opens Up to the Masses · 1 points · by dshah · no comments
• Cloud Computing TestBed initiative from Yahoo, Intel, and HP · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• HN beer in London August 8? · 1 points · by nick_a · no comments
• DNS Exploit Exposes Core Internet Challenge · 1 points · by Archimedius · no comments
• Researchers discover protein that triggers hair follicle regeneration in mice · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Ask YC: What happened to Plaxo's Address Book Widget? · 1 points · by mrducky · no comments
• How good is your title? · 1 points · by nsimpson · no comments
• U.S. Intends to Remain in Full Control of Internet Root Zone · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Opt-in or opt-out? Street View case echoes privacy debate · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Illegal filesharing: A suicide note from the music industry · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Looking for work in Web2.0 ? · 1 points · by eurostartups · no comments
• Working Long Hours, and Paying a Price · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Summertime and the searching ain't easy · 1 points · by eurostartups · no comments
• New Softphone - Beta release · 1 points · by eurostartups · no comments
• C4[2] Conference speakers announced · 1 points · by joao · no comments
• Mac Cloner Psystar Hires Apple-Busting Law Firm · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• New Linux file system in development: Tux3 · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• 8 things you can do with an ADC to make your apps secure, fast, and available · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Replacing the WebSphere Apache Plugin with iRules · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• PowerReviews aims to become the AdSense of product reviews · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Are prospective investors killing your vision or fueling your fire? · 1 points · by ceonyc · no comments
• Toyota's Winglet aims to usurp Segway · 1 points · by ksvs · no comments
• Now everyone wants to cloud compute · 1 points · by ksvs · no comments
• How To Recover From Windows Vista Crashes · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Combinator Birds · 1 points · by raganwald · no comments
• No time to think? · 1 points · by theoneill · no comments
• Standalone RPMs available for Eucalyptus (V1.2) · 1 points · by dizz · no comments
• Cuil Needs To Fix Its Technology Before It Can Get Hot · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Chosr: Quicksilver interface in the Web · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Open source text readability code (PHP) · 1 points · by pierrefar · no comments
• Ecrio's Revolutionary Cell Phone Applications Could Change How America Shops · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• How Do You Study the Internet? · 1 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• From passionate users to saving the music industry via Modular Innovation · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Why "firef.ly"? · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Cuil Early Stats from Hitwise · 1 points · by pierrefar · no comments
• Designgeist goes beta and needs your feedback (Win Prizes from Moo) · 1 points · by themichael · no comments
• Is Your SOA really SEA? · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Is it over for RSS readers? · 1 points · by tomh · 1 comment
• Yelp, Yahoo Local and LinkedIn SearchMonkey Apps Now Default-On · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Can my startup kill reddit? · 1 points · by samwise · 6 comments
• Turn Here, Trust Me - Dash's amazing new GPS gizmo guides you around traffic. · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Ask YC: A twitter idea - any thoughts? · 1 points · by dangoldin · 3 comments
• Overview: Integrating Facebook Connect With Your Website · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• 6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then · 1 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• In memoriam: venture capitalist Keith Benjamin · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Another 'digital gold currency' company under investigation · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• What should I use MYISAM or INNODB? · 1 points · by Anon84 · 1 comment
• Facebook adds comments. What is it afraid of? · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• FCC Punts on Network Neutrality · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Agami Systems Shuts Down · 1 points · by leonardr · no comments
• (In)Accuracy of Alexa and Compete · 1 points · by breck · 1 comment
• FCC spanks Comcast for P2P blocking: no fine, full disclosure · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Federal Crypto Algorithm Info Released [pdf] · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• The Web 3.0 Devolution · 1 points · by nerdburn · no comments
• NVIDIA to exit chipset business, no Apple partnership? · 1 points · by arvernus · no comments
• Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars · 1 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• 10 Tips for Founders to Improve Their FICO Score · 1 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• FCC tells Comcast to stop blocking P2P, just as anti-P2P bill passes Congress · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Bill Gates Trash Talks Bill Gates · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• CSS: Fully Accessible Background Images · 1 points · by thomasmallen · 1 comment
• End-of-the-World Trade · 1 points · by troystribling · no comments
• Time Warner Killed Jon Miller/Yahoo Board Deal · 1 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• The lore of searching: how to exploit the shallow deep_web · 1 points · by d0mine · no comments
• Time for Apple to get serious about Apple TV · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• The End of PageRank · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Comcast, slapped with wet noodle by FCC, tests new tech to mess with your cable modem · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• YC sending weird traffic? · 1 points · by rwebb · 1 comment
• Best Buy Express Vending Machine Brings Tech to You · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Pointfree Calculator · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• Sun's Q4 profit drops sharply, warns of U.S. economic downturn · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Verizon's DNS server prevents some users from visiting Facebook · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Why social media (doesn’t) matter · 1 points · by abreckle · no comments
• US officials given power to seize laptop of anyone entering the country · 1 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Location-Based Social Networking to Generate $3.3 Billion by 2013? · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Mobile OS Openess: What does it mean to the Developer · 1 points · by LBR9 · no comments
• Water found on Mars by Phoenix lander; mission extended · 1 points · by henning · no comments
• Things I Love and Hate About Being a Release Engineer · 1 points · by xynny · no comments
• Symphonic releases TrueView ADC Edition · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments