Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Hadoop: When grownups do open source · 61 points · by sanj · 42 comments
• Congratulations Apple, you made the iPhone less stable than Windows Mobile · 50 points · by bdfh42 · 27 comments
• "I make $1.45 a week and I love it" · 49 points · by senthil_rajasek · 27 comments
• Don't Do What Your Users Say · 48 points · by Harkins · 10 comments
• Why programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood ideas · 43 points · by urlwolf · 4 comments
• GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself · 41 points · by hhm · 13 comments
• Small Business Willing to Pay $1/Tweet to Send Ads · 35 points · by ph0rque · 15 comments
• Asynchronous Databases: DBSlayer and HTTP · 26 points · by igrigorik · 16 comments
• "Chuck Norris"-ing code · 25 points · by staunch · 2 comments
• Memoranda (a contrast of Jobs's and Ballmer's styles) · 24 points · by mariorz · 7 comments
• Adhearsion - next killer app for Ruby? · 23 points · by sant0sk1 · 9 comments
• Focus on Core · 22 points · by madmotive · 3 comments
• Why Do People Say "Yes?" The "6 Weapons of Influence" · 21 points · by demandred · 9 comments
• Here’s the Deadliest Catch: Hiring an Agency to Build Your Startup · 21 points · by lyime · 16 comments
• About AI and neural networks · 20 points · by hhm · 2 comments
• Hackerfeed for News.YC · 20 points · by twism · 11 comments
• Systemwide GMail Outage · 18 points · by Mazy · 4 comments
• In search of Western civilisation's lost classics: a library buried in AD79 is slowly revealing its secrets · 16 points · by dood · 3 comments
• Songkick (YC s07) in the Financial Times - A little chat about finding backing · 15 points · by hailpixel · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Patents · 14 points · by jmtame · 17 comments
• Doing Personal Computer Software Development in the early 80s · 14 points · by soundsop · 7 comments
• Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop · 14 points · by nickb · 11 comments
• Citi: Yep, The Kindle's A Huge Hit. $1 Billion For Amazon In 2010 · 13 points · by prakash · 16 comments
• Microsoft worried over .NET fragmentation · 12 points · by bdfh42 · 9 comments
• Y Combinator Challenge #16 - A form of search that depends on design · 12 points · by jmorin007 · 20 comments
• Handling Human Error in the Datacenter · 12 points · by slackerIII · 10 comments
• Reminder: A few spots still open for the Cambridge/Boston Startup Meetup tonight · 11 points · by jmorin007 · 2 comments
• Internet Provider RANT · 11 points · by eVizitei · 4 comments
• The real surprise of the App Store isn’t number of downloads or revenue · 11 points · by danw · 4 comments
• Blackberry captures 10.6% of US cell phone market · 10 points · by martythemaniak · 12 comments
• The difficult choice · 10 points · by bdfh42 · 9 comments
• Less is better (DHH interview) · 10 points · by swombat · no comments
• Replication, caching, and partitioning · 9 points · by dhotson · 2 comments
• DEC System's Research Center Technical Memos · 9 points · by soundsop · 1 comment
• IPhone Apps: One Month And 60 Million Downloads Later. But Not One Of Them Is A Killer App · 9 points · by terpua · 6 comments
• Ask YC: Those using PHP, what do you use for talking to your database (MySQL)? · 9 points · by rob · 35 comments
• Why laptops will kick desktop PCs to the curb · 8 points · by makimaki · 21 comments
• Study: Left-Handed Males Earn 15% More Than Right-Handed Males (All College Educated) · 8 points · by vlad · 14 comments
• Dennis Ritchie: Trying to release old versions of Unix · 8 points · by bootload · no comments
• Salon launches blogger 'tipping' system · 8 points · by nickb · 4 comments
• 7 Miles of Car-Free Streets in NYC (vid) · 8 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Ask YC: Billing Systems · 7 points · by pcc · 6 comments
• An Introduction to Thread Programming in Python · 7 points · by soundsop · 3 comments
• Gmail is up · 7 points · by ctingom · 4 comments
• Surf Jack - HTTPS will not save you · 6 points · by sandrogauci · no comments
• A New State of Mind · 6 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• Drop.io Injects Steriods Into Twitter · 6 points · by markpeterdavis · 2 comments
• Servers: Why Thrifty Isn't Nifty · 6 points · by makimaki · 4 comments
• Is unit testing doomed? · 6 points · by procyon · 9 comments
• Tumblr Beta · 6 points · by rob · 7 comments
• Breakpoint conditions with GDB · 5 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Ask YC: Regex web search? · 5 points · by aneesh · 4 comments
• Parking Garage Hacking · 5 points · by netsurge · 1 comment
• Is Microsoft up to old tricks with Silverlight? · 5 points · by nreece · 10 comments
• Imeem Taking Off - Before MySpace Music Has Even Launched · 5 points · by terpua · no comments
• How social networks can add a dimension to your travel: real people · 5 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Is Facebook the Most Popular Social Bookmarking Service on the Web? · 5 points · by bastian · no comments
• How makers work · 5 points · by emmett · no comments
• Top 50 Marketing Blogs To Watch In 2008 · 5 points · by procyon · no comments
• Nintendo Asks Miyamoto to Kindly Shut Up · 5 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Obama to Announce VP By SMS, Email · 5 points · by Anon84 · 1 comment
• Rebase for Mercurial · 4 points · by aston · no comments
• Is Web 2.0 the great VC return equalizer? · 4 points · by bootload · no comments
• On the philosophy behind Android · 4 points · by davidw · 3 comments
• Statistical programming with R · 4 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Understanding map and reduce · 4 points · by procyon · no comments
• Music to (Not) Code By · 4 points · by prakash · no comments
• Photos of the LaunchBox08 companies at Demo Day · 4 points · by zaveri · no comments
• Industrial Strength C++ - Free Ebook (PDF and Html) · 4 points · by pavel · no comments
• A first ever look inside the Defcon Network Operations Center · 4 points · by bootload · no comments
• Social Disorder · 3 points · by procyon · no comments
• How to survive ? · 3 points · by dkberktas · 4 comments
• The 3 Loops of Designing for Audience · 3 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Tufte course worth the cost? · 3 points · by robg · 5 comments
• Love the Work, Hate the Job · 3 points · by edw519 · no comments
• What reading Tufte won’t teach you: Interface design guidelines · 3 points · by glyphobet · no comments
• Connect U twins lose in court, still alive in beijing olympics · 3 points · by pakafka · no comments
• Georgia Clings to the 'Net · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• And the FiveRuns TuneUp Contest winner is... (our own luccastera) · 3 points · by pius · no comments
• PoolExpert acquired by Rogers · 3 points · by alex_c · no comments
• Creating the GoogleApps Notifier: Sohail Amjad · 3 points · by alex_c · no comments
• Andrew Chen: How to start a professional blog - 10 tips for new bloggers · 3 points · by andrew_null · no comments
• Nbcolympics.com not enough (for me) · 3 points · by sallywu · no comments
• High-flying helpers can boost your chances of success · 3 points · by babul · no comments
• China's BYD to sell electric cars in Israel next year, Europe in 2010 · 3 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Is Customer Service The Business Model? · 3 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Encyclopedia Dramatica threatens shutdown · 3 points · by ilamont · no comments
• 2006 U.S. Census figures show 20.7 million non-payroll businesses · 3 points · by procyon · no comments
• Online Outliners - The Best of What's out There · 3 points · by zsection · 3 comments
• Web Privacy on the Radar in Congress · 2 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Paying for style · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• How to Set Up Reliable E-mail on Your Server (Continuing Series from Slicehost) · 2 points · by pius · no comments
• Hadoop Streaming · 2 points · by dhotson · no comments
• David Pogue's Gadget List of 2008 · 2 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• My Best Advice About Social Media · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Saving a Failing Project · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• FaceStat's Rousing Tale of Scaling Woe and Wisdom Won · 2 points · by comatose_kid · no comments
• Jobs confirms iPhone application kill lever · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• The Large Hadron Collider was tested this weekend · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Google Maps Nightmare · 2 points · by aneesh · no comments
• Georgian government: websites attacked by Russian hackers · 2 points · by wave · no comments
• The Rise and Fall of a Graduate School Applicant · 2 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• LevelHead- Augmented Reality Game (watch the demo video) · 2 points · by joshwa · 1 comment
• The Evolution Of Sega: A Conversation With Sega America's CEO · 2 points · by makimaki · no comments
• IPhone 3G Unlocked · 2 points · by agotterer · no comments
• 19 Ways To Speed Up Windows XP · 2 points · by socalsamba · no comments
• Gentle Deployment · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• How to leave a program running after you log out · 2 points · by luccastera · 2 comments
• The Capability Pattern - Future-Proof Your APIs · 2 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Guilloches · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• The Paradox Of Power · 2 points · by raju · no comments
• DBSlayer Helps You Get Parallel · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• The China factor - What role does China play in your business? · 2 points · by alex_c · no comments
• New social networks invent twists to stay in game · 2 points · by erickhill · 1 comment
• Is any tech more overdue than solar-powered air conditioning? · 2 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• AirBed And Breakfast Takes Pad Crashing To A Whole New Level · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• Battered by Russia, Georgia moves servers to Atlanta · 2 points · by ckinnan · no comments
• Those Kindle Estimates Keep Going Up. · 2 points · by markbao · 1 comment
• Wonderful world of MySQL Storage Engines · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Looking for Start-Ups to Join Fantasy Football League; Prize is Blog Coverage for Company · 2 points · by kimboslice · 1 comment
• OpenSolaris: Does it look familiar? · 2 points · by Herring · 5 comments
• A startup strategy - where I almost went wrong · 2 points · by eisokant · no comments
• Will moving the BBC R&D centre damage innovation? · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Three Ways (Times Three) for Entrepreneurs to Blow It · 2 points · by dshah · 1 comment
• The death of planned obsolescence -- why today's gadgets keep getting better · 2 points · by fmanjoo · no comments
• The venture deals that got away · 1 points · by DocSavage · no comments
• Picking datatype for STATUS fields · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Hacking Business Models · 1 points · by dhotson · no comments
• 'Cloud computing' heightens privacy risks, warns US military CS professor · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Conduit Labs at the Boston Startup Meetup · 1 points · by LukeG · no comments
• Theo Jansen's kinetic sculptures/creatures. · 1 points · by condor · no comments
• Top Website Usability Mistakes - 10 Costly Assumptions · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Mikiane - Bzzster · 1 points · by mikiane · no comments
• Curved Spaces · 1 points · by Maro · no comments
• Ask HN: Growing a Company? · 1 points · by jyu · 2 comments
• It takes 10 years to become a success · 1 points · by sbuxrox · no comments
• iPhone App Downloads Are Up. What About Their Usage? · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• The Unpossible Task of Eliminating Risk · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• IPhone Software Sales Take Off: Apple's Jobs · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Server side JS applications hosting · 1 points · by mcxx · no comments
• Being a better gamer: a guide to changing the world · 1 points · by marvin · no comments
• Is unit testing doomed? · 1 points · by raju · 1 comment
• One Step Closer to 'Invisibility Cloak" · 1 points · by pmorici · no comments
• Conditional-CSS allows you to write maintainable CSS with conditional logic · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Card-counting whiz eyes Facebook football fantasy social network · 1 points · by caveman82 · no comments
• Surf Jack · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• MockMe: A new JavaScript mocking framework · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Doctor campaigns for iPhone drug application · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• PC Industry Scared Netbooks May Hurt Laptop Sales · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Small businesses and thinking big · 1 points · by noodle · no comments
• Coping With Internet Explorer's Mishandling of Buttons · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Nine reasons the iPhone SDK and apps platform is lacking · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Why 'Nonprofit' Does NOT Mean 'Lose Money' · 1 points · by procyon · no comments
• Apple looper laptop: neverending Customer service calls · 1 points · by gtani · no comments
• Britain from Above: 24 Hour Britain · 1 points · by danw · 1 comment
• Design Patterns of 1972 · 1 points · by henning · no comments
• Awkward Rap · 1 points · by jacobbijani · no comments
• Pedro Teixeira · 1 points · by pgte · no comments
• Seedcamp video pitch or popularity contest? · 1 points · by nikhils · no comments
• Writing your first Domain Specific Language, Part 1 of 2 · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• LaunchBox Cultivates the Scene for Start-Ups · 1 points · by zaveri · no comments
• Free Software is the Future · 1 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• Google Analytics New Front Door… Is Now Broken · 1 points · by kimboslice · 1 comment
• The 2008 InfoWorld Geek IT IQ Test · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Doctors Allergic To Electronic Record-Keeping · 1 points · by blogimus · no comments
• Steve Jobs Shouldn't Be Happy with the AppStore... · 1 points · by bprater · no comments
• Virtual goods: Who will be the Amazon.com of virtual item sales? · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• For Techie Startups: Don't Forget the Service · 1 points · by linkup · no comments
• DEMO v. TechCrunch50 Takes A Nasty Turn With Charges Of Plagiarism · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Reduce Java SE's Footprint - updated · 1 points · by LBR9 · no comments
• Benefits of Single-User Source Control (from a product announcement) · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Making waves in Beijing · 1 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• Businesses approaching Green IT cautiously · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Gestures of Pride and Shame Are Universal · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Who owns your online networking contacts? · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Facts are Better than Dreams · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• If necessity is the mother of internet inventions, who's the father? · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• A Modern-Day Blackout: Gmail Goes Dark · 1 points · by mixmax · no comments
• Ruby VM shootout on Rock, Paper, Scissors · 1 points · by dhotson · no comments
• How to Pitch and Demo Your Cool Web App · 1 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• Hacks for sale · 1 points · by nreece · no comments