Hacker News Way Back Machine

• URL Rewriting for Beginners · 82 points · by sant0sk1 · 13 comments
• Why I stick with Perl · 56 points · by jrockway · 99 comments
• Border Security: We can take your laptop anywhere we want for as long as we want · 52 points · by dominik · 45 comments
• YC's summer update · 51 points · by ksvs · 20 comments
• Why I'm Not Working on my Startup (yet) · 51 points · by IsaacSchlueter · 43 comments
• Unstructured Thoughts on Making Websites · 50 points · by antiform · 6 comments
• Michael Tsai: Welcome to iPhone: Your Crappy Mac of Tomorrow, Today · 49 points · by toffer · 30 comments
• In defense of Perl. · 43 points · by wheels · 69 comments
• Introductory course on Unix sysadminning (includes notes, slides, homework, and labs) · 43 points · by nickb · 4 comments
• Field Guide to Genetic Programming (Free Book) · 42 points · by Herring · 7 comments
• K as a Prototyping Language · 42 points · by cubix · 25 comments
• Ask HN: What has been your biggest mistake? · 37 points · by dhotson · 100 comments
• Erlang as middleware · 34 points · by iamelgringo · 7 comments
• Wearing Out My Delete Key · 32 points · by dhotson · 12 comments
• Google interview questions - fun brain teasers · 31 points · by dangoldin · 54 comments
• Bouncing back from losing $20 million · 30 points · by dats · 3 comments
• Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style · 28 points · by dats · 6 comments
• What's Really Killing Newspapers · 25 points · by kennyroo · 20 comments
• Lessig: How the law strangles creativity · 25 points · by dominik · 7 comments
• Database heresies (The "right" and "wrong" way to do ORM) · 24 points · by toffer · 16 comments
• Facebook to let employees sell some stock — at internal $4 billion valuation · 23 points · by sanj · 20 comments
• A New, Simple Way to Salt your Hashes · 22 points · by pyroman · 69 comments
• Ten commandments for developers · 21 points · by whalesalad · 3 comments
• Feedburner hack: how to get 2500 subscribers overnight (video) · 21 points · by joop · 20 comments
• Why chess programs find good moves, but barely understand chess · 21 points · by soundsop · 8 comments
• Do Not Debase Science: Don't Call On It To Settle Your Medieval Disputes - Richard Feynman · 20 points · by pierrefar · 29 comments
• Sage: Free Open Source Python Alternative to Mathematica / MatLab · 19 points · by vlad · 4 comments
• Y Combinator Challenge #11 - Office Competitor · 19 points · by drm237 · 17 comments
• IPhone SDK Tutorial: Build a Simple RSS reader for the iPhone · 19 points · by tortilla · 3 comments
• Haskell, bondage-and-discipline and separation-of-concerns programming · 17 points · by cubix · no comments
• Britain seen from above · 16 points · by nreece · 5 comments
• John Gruber Explains Why Free Software Has Poor Usability · 16 points · by nickb · 12 comments
• Meet the Rich · 13 points · by theoneill · 35 comments
• Twitter will kick themselves for missing this · 12 points · by bootload · 3 comments
• Presentation Files for OSCON 2008 · 12 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Commandos, Infantry, and Police · 11 points · by prakash · 2 comments
• Judge OKs Tivo-in-the-clouds · 10 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• JavaScript Reusability Is A Quagmire · 10 points · by abhay · 7 comments
• 37signals Live debuting tomorrow at 3pm CDT · 10 points · by terpua · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Review my startup · 9 points · by herewego · 17 comments
• Supermarket Scale detects Fruits and Vegetables automatically · 9 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Data-based Recommendations · 9 points · by Maro · 8 comments
• FCC Votes 3-2 to Punish Comcast for Interfering with BitTorrent · 9 points · by dominik · 18 comments
• Ask YC: Anyone up for a meetup this Thursday night in Sunnyvale? · 9 points · by iamelgringo · 3 comments
• The Urban Bike is the One · 8 points · by pbnaidu · 3 comments
• A Standard for Bootstrapping Rails · 8 points · by sant0sk1 · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Subscription management/billing software? · 7 points · by tylercarbone · 8 comments
• Mozilla's Robert O'Callahan explains why it was important to support Ogg in Firefox · 6 points · by nickb · 4 comments
• Supporting a free language study application? · 5 points · by donw · 6 comments
• 18 Sound Sculptures by Advanced Beauty (Videos) · 5 points · by themichael · no comments
• Avoiding the Second System Effect in Software Development · 5 points · by soundsop · no comments
• The Structure and Performance of Efficient Interpreters [pdf] · 5 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Philippe Petit · 5 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• How to get a 28.9% risk-free after-tax return: Looking at Debt repayment as an Investment. · 4 points · by danteembermage · 1 comment
• Techdirt: College Classes On Malware Writing Still Piss Off Anti-Virus Firms · 4 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Linux: Using goto In Kernel Code · 4 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Billionaire Mark Cuban: I want more free Web video with naked people · 4 points · by pakafka · 1 comment
• Congress passes Higher Education Act: Tells Universities to Stop Illegal File-sharing · 4 points · by dominik · 1 comment
• Is Facebook Letting Employees Cash Out? · 4 points · by prakash · no comments
• Did democracy cause World War II? · 4 points · by bokonist · 1 comment
• Why Apple and Facebook Need to Leave Apps Alone · 4 points · by markbao · no comments
• Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet (V2) · 4 points · by davidtspf01 · no comments
• The Anti-Java Professor: Wrong Again · 4 points · by saundby · 2 comments
• My startup latest project: karatr.com · 3 points · by okeumeni · 7 comments
• After the Bubble, Ghost Towns Across America · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Ars Technica Guide to Virtualization: Part I · 3 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Social.FM, Formerly Mercora Shuts Down · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Just so you know: there’s an iPhone nano rumor · 3 points · by thenextweb · no comments
• Applications Spur Carriers to Relax Grip on Cellphones · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• DSL customers fleeing to cable broadband · 3 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Casual Collective: Lessons Learned · 3 points · by Harkins · 1 comment
• Ask YC: What percentage of the YC accepted come from Ivy League Schools? · 3 points · by maxklein · 5 comments
• Topics in High-Performance Messaging · 3 points · by dgr · no comments
• A Shallow Introduction to the K Programming Language · 3 points · by maxwell · no comments
• 15 Year-Old Entrepreneur Launches "Teens in Tech" · 3 points · by indiejade · no comments
• Venture Capital Database · 3 points · by ceonyc · no comments
• Ask YC: "Get things done" Motivation? · 3 points · by brooksbp · 6 comments
• Beginning Game Programming · 3 points · by edw519 · no comments
• New mark-compact garbage collection algorithms · 3 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Sports Illustrated Moves Fantasy Football onto Facebook; Tries to Catch Up · 2 points · by kimboslice · 1 comment
• Startonomics Conference - Dave McClure · 2 points · by Mistone · no comments
• How to Start an Online Business: 11,520 Free Resources for the Internet Entrepreneur · 2 points · by paraschopra · 5 comments
• A Post-Mortem for Faneuil Media · 2 points · by dshah · no comments
• 21 About:Config Hacks (Tweaks) For Firefox 3 · 2 points · by dous · no comments
• Make some of your own · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Apple to launch the iPhone 'nano' in time for Christmas · 2 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Google Sites to Replace Google Page Creator · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Anti-Piracy Lobby Gains Power Over Internet Subscribers · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Ask YC: Incorporating · 2 points · by thejefe711 · 4 comments
• Microsoft Velocity and Memcache · 2 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Mathematicians Clamor for Open Source Math Packages for Cost and Transparency Reasons · 2 points · by vlad · no comments
• Deprec -- install, configure and control services on remote servers · 2 points · by shawndrost · 1 comment
• Using ExtJS's Grid Filtering with Django · 2 points · by mattdennewitz · no comments
• The Importance of Taking a Break · 2 points · by alexk · no comments
• The story behind the DNS-cache-poisoning fix · 2 points · by timr · 1 comment
• Programming Processes · 2 points · by projectileboy · no comments
• A horse is a horse, of course, of course, but… · 2 points · by thenextweb · no comments
• How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World · 2 points · by swombat · no comments
• Start-up Stories · 2 points · by babul · no comments
• There's a method behind StumbleUpon's madness · 2 points · by dats · no comments
• Cuil CEO: "The fact that it works at all is a kind of a miracle" · 2 points · by pakafka · no comments
• Is Your Cloud Opaque or Transparent? · 2 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Do they really think the earth is flat? · 2 points · by reazalun · no comments
• 10 calculations to know · 2 points · by ideas101 · 3 comments
• Why the world needs quantum mechanics · 2 points · by michael_nielsen · no comments
• Big business learning that smaller teams can rekindle the creative spark · 2 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Ask HN: Can I use the RDBMS as an application server? · 2 points · by somedeveloper · 2 comments
• Ask HN: What resources have you read for E-Tailing/E-Commerce? · 2 points · by daveambrose · 10 comments
• Party's over for jittery New York · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Yahoo Boss - Google App Engine Mash-up · 2 points · by mspeiser · no comments
• Microsoft sees end of Windows era · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Is your wireless network a tool for terrorists? · 2 points · by thenextweb · no comments
• News and Content in a Digital World · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Google Takes On Mechanical Turk With Translation Center · 2 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns · 2 points · by bdr · no comments
• Human competitive genetic programming results · 2 points · by yters · 1 comment
• Feasibility of my startup idea · 2 points · by bsnp · 10 comments
• The Nature of Domain Specific Languages · 2 points · by ath · no comments
• Software demo widgets? · 2 points · by techgirl · 2 comments
• Why Web Entrepreneurs Are Like Robot Vacuum Cleaners · 2 points · by pmikal · no comments
• Hardening your files with Reed-Solomon codes · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Welcome to iPhone: Your Crappy Mac of Tomorrow, Today · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• On Facebook, an 11-Letter Synonym for Scrabulous Turns Out to Be Wordscraper · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• History's Funniest Error Messages · 1 points · by lupin_sansei · no comments
• Git-enabled googlecode-like code review · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Why the epic fail at Twitter.com will be a major win · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Python, C and C++ efficiency on JPG thumbnail creation · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Throwing Bean Bags in Mathematica 6 · 1 points · by vlad · no comments
• Why Microsoft can't ship open source code · 1 points · by glyphobet · no comments
• Microsoft 10K warns of iPhone, Mac threats as iPhone nears 1.1% share · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• MS: In online, yeah, it’s Google, Google, Google, and we’re in the game. · 1 points · by ashish1 · no comments
• Can Google be bested? Not anytime soon · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Are Economic Woes Pushing Up Library Circulation? · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Has anyone solved the public web site username problem? · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Ask YC: Alternatives to 3rd Party Processing? · 1 points · by Stubbs · 3 comments
• Ask Hackers: What business Google App Engine fits? · 1 points · by ahold · no comments
• New technique to compress light could open doors for optical communications · 1 points · by ksvs · no comments
• How to back up your web server (not just your database) · 1 points · by NoBSWebDesign · 1 comment
• Intel’s Line of Graphics Chips Could Have Broader Uses · 1 points · by ksvs · no comments
• Study: Media Industry should embrace illegal downloading · 1 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Do they really think the earth is flat? · 1 points · by paulsb · 4 comments
• Motorola poaches Qualcomm COO to lead mobile device turnaround · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• NoGray Visual Time Picker · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Animated Strange Attractors · 1 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Startup uses video games to heal young people · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• How to capture your user value proposition · 1 points · by jeremyliew · no comments
• The browser landscape - optimist or depressed? · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Apple pulls posted pulled iPhone modem app · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Ask HN: Which mobile phone would you buy? · 1 points · by ca98am79 · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Social app without the social part · 1 points · by bapbap · 1 comment
• Google Translation Center, a New Human Translations Service in the Making · 1 points · by joshwa · no comments
• Android LinearLayout · 1 points · by screamingdigg · no comments
• Apple pulls Box Office from App Store · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Brazilian Open Source Rails Projects · 1 points · by akitaonrails · no comments
• DevCentral Daily - August 4th, 2008 · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Clarify your Internet Business Story · 1 points · by jlogic77 · no comments
• Andrew Chen: 7 ideas for billion dollar companies in online ads · 1 points · by andrew_null · no comments
• SAS buys revenue management software vendor IDeaS · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Intel to Nvidia: It’s time for you to die, Mr. Bond · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Y combinator function in Ruby and Python · 1 points · by maxwell · no comments
• Fixing uneven load balancing between Apache and Mongrel for Ruby on Rails applications · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Best of Open Source Software awards · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• FCC encrochment of the internet. · 1 points · by newt0311 · no comments
• The Rubyist - new Ruby magazine · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• OpenCL as the CUDA killer · 1 points · by LBR9 · no comments
• Chinese tech entrepreneur seeks global brand · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• 15 points to reveal the “Launching a Startup is easy” myth. (2/15) · 1 points · by szczupak · no comments
• Yahoo Shortcuts: automated links gone wild · 1 points · by ckinnan · no comments
• Targeted-Ad Initiative Is Crucial for MySpace · 1 points · by Mrinal · no comments
• Overstock.com CEO continues hedge fund assault: "I'm not vindictive" · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Android ListView and custom adapter · 1 points · by screamingdigg · no comments
• Mashable in Boston tomorrow night, tix still available. · 1 points · by hendler · no comments
• The Yahoo Boss Q&A Service Gives Pretty Decent Results · 1 points · by aneesh · no comments
• Implied Copyright Infringement and File Sharing Protocols · 1 points · by showerst · no comments
• Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo · 1 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• SuccessFactors plugs Google Apps into HCM · 1 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Lenovo Dives into Sub-Notebook Computing · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Microsoft sees end of Windows era · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Microsoft working on "post-Windows" OS · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• How Big Is The Market For Tiny, Mobile TV Ever Going To Get? · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Is the "click" the new price mechanism [and a revenue model for Facebook]. · 1 points · by mspeiser · no comments
• A New Take on Extended Warranties · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• VentureBeat wants a VP of sales and business development · 1 points · by kimboslice · no comments
• Big Money · 1 points · by jlhamilton · no comments