Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Business Requirements are Bullshit · 116 points · by mqt · 84 comments
• Man's Home Lab confiscated for "doing science in a residential area" · 62 points · by smanek · 41 comments
• Have idea, need coder (comic) · 58 points · by jauco · 29 comments
• Jakob Nielsen ranks Wufoo, Sugarsync and Xero among 10 Best Application UIs of 2008 · 47 points · by joseakle · 16 comments
• Why I recommend Scheme · 46 points · by soundsop · 7 comments
• Google Insights shows what sites are mainstream and which ones are still early adopter · 44 points · by andrew_null · 10 comments
• UI Guru Jakob Nielson's Site Is Unreadable · 41 points · by whalliburton · 36 comments
• My Secret Weapon to Getting Contracts · 40 points · by jmorin007 · 12 comments
• Want to live a long life? Run · 39 points · by pavel · 54 comments
• My Interview Experience at Microsoft · 39 points · by parenthesis · 29 comments
• Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products” · 38 points · by sant0sk1 · 8 comments
• Introducing the New Disqus · 33 points · by bdr · 11 comments
• Ask HN: why do we have less science related posts now that in the past? · 32 points · by hhm · 51 comments
• Disqus 2.0: New Plugin, New Interface, And Local Comment Backup · 31 points · by drm237 · 12 comments
• Eee - a case study in bad marketing · 29 points · by swombat · 20 comments
• How Large Software Companies Destroy Startup Value · 28 points · by Anon84 · 12 comments
• Blog comment correcting startup gets $25m funding · 28 points · by gregjor · 26 comments
• Startup, Inc - What You Need to Know Before Starting a Company · 25 points · by mattjung · 9 comments
• What a Jakob Nielsen designed WinAmp skin would look like · 25 points · by alaskamiller · 6 comments
• How black drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds. · 22 points · by robg · 24 comments
• Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids from Learning from Their Mistakes · 21 points · by makimaki · 15 comments
• 7 Months Into My 2nd Stint as a Startup CEO · 21 points · by zen53 · 15 comments
• Y Combinator Challenge #17 - New Payment Methods · 19 points · by toffer · 13 comments
• Increase Your Depth as a Programmer by Spelunking · 18 points · by saundby · 6 comments
• Yahoo's Fireeagle Project open for business · 18 points · by sh1mmer · 10 comments
• Hello darkness my old friend · 18 points · by mariorz · 10 comments
• RescueTime Gets a Shiny New Logo (Less red, still a plus) · 16 points · by bfioca · 8 comments
• Information Graphics In Javascript With Sparklines.js · 15 points · by iamelgringo · 6 comments
• Pictures From the Boston/Cambridge YC Meetup · 15 points · by dcurtis · 5 comments
• Every 100ms of latency costs Amazon 1% of profit · 15 points · by nreece · 13 comments
• What Will the Large Hadron Collider Find? · 14 points · by rms · no comments
• Pirating the Olympics, Then and Now · 14 points · by naish · 2 comments
• What's being built with BOSS · 13 points · by nir · 1 comment
• What not to do as a technical recruiter · 12 points · by xynny · 10 comments
• Memory Translation and Segmentation · 12 points · by aaco · 1 comment
• Smartphone Decision for Young Programmer? · 11 points · by alnayyir · 42 comments
• Inspired by Popcorn · 11 points · by Mazy · 3 comments
• Dividing societies into individualist and collective mentalities · 11 points · by robg · 15 comments
• Disqus Launches New Version of Blog Comment Application · 11 points · by moses1400 · 6 comments
• LivePlace To Launch Photo-Realistic Virtual World Rendered In The Cloud · 10 points · by entelarust · 7 comments
• Twitter’s 2000-Follow Limit Raises A Ruckus · 9 points · by bullseye · 3 comments
• So, You've Sold Your First Startup · 9 points · by slackerIII · no comments
• Ask YC: Best website to form a Delaware C-Corp Online? · 8 points · by dkasper · 14 comments
• When should we consider the long-term ramifications of technological developments? · 8 points · by robg · 12 comments
• The HMS Beagle Project · 7 points · by rrf · no comments
• Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider · 7 points · by hhm · no comments
• Ask HN: how much of the stuff you own do you really need? · 7 points · by Tichy · 7 comments
• IPhone developers get first monthly sales reports · 7 points · by tstegart · 2 comments
• Google's Keyczar: Safe and Simple Cryptography · 6 points · by nickb · no comments
• Ruby 1.9: What to Expect · 6 points · by nickb · no comments
• Richard Stallman in Auckland: On the ethics of free software · 6 points · by raju · 1 comment
• Deafness and the User Experience · 6 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Top 10 Usability Highs for the Mac OS · 6 points · by makimaki · 5 comments
• N Guilty Men · 6 points · by byrneseyeview · no comments
• Scott Rosenberg: Chandler 1.0 ships · 5 points · by nickb · no comments
• Cost-Cutting in New York and London = A Boom in India · 5 points · by makimaki · 3 comments
• Google to Congress: We don't do deep packet inspection like NebuAd with our ads · 5 points · by soundsop · 1 comment
• Launchpad Chicken: MobileMe and Sync Trouble · 5 points · by nickb · no comments
• Putting our Hot Heads Together · 5 points · by riklomas · no comments
• Hackers crack PIN encoding: print own debit cards from stolen data · 5 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Group Theory via Rubik’s Cube · 5 points · by hhm · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Advice re: consultancy agreement (ownership) · 5 points · by shafqat · 3 comments
• Things to Know About Super [1] · 5 points · by kirubakaran · 1 comment
• Platonic Solids in All Dimensions · 5 points · by hhm · no comments
• Ask YC: How do you feel after watching Planet Earth? · 4 points · by babyshake · 8 comments
• IEEE Spectrum: First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt · 4 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• NYT on Magic and Neuroscience · 4 points · by michael_dorfman · no comments
• Photos from YC Cambridge event with Paul Graham, Kevin Merritt and Nabeel Hyatt · 4 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• Img2json: get your image metadata via App Engine · 4 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Learning how to cook food stimulated a big leap in human cognition 150,000 years ago · 4 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Y Combinator Feed Coverflowed (works with every RSS) · 4 points · by franzenzenhofer · no comments
• Twitter: Invented in 1935 · 4 points · by thenextweb · no comments
• Some Web Firms Say They Track Behavior Without Explicit Consent · 4 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Google's Top Disappointments · 4 points · by nreece · no comments
• We feel your pain, and we're sorry · 4 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Why Media and Corporations Should Allow Content to be Embeddable · 4 points · by martinsz · no comments
• Social network popularity around the world · 4 points · by makimaki · no comments
• World of Development: academic paper on gold farming as an economic development activity · 4 points · by iamelgringo · 1 comment
• The Much Anticipated DataCase Launches: Turn the iPhone Into A Wireless Drive · 4 points · by caveman82 · no comments
• Gmail Outage or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GTD Contexts · 4 points · by cjvino · no comments
• The decision to advertise · 4 points · by johns · 1 comment
• "You’re ok if you bring a hacker." Recap of Boston Y Combinator Event · 4 points · by andrew311 · 2 comments
• Ask YC: Photo Centralization Service · 3 points · by waynep · 4 comments
• Programming Language Beauty: Look Closure · 3 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Should Microsoft Fund Startups, Y Combinator-Style? · 3 points · by gthuang · 1 comment
• Beyond Nash: Computer Science and Game Theory · 3 points · by hhm · no comments
• Researchers Halt Spread Of HIV With RNAi In Animal Model · 3 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• Insight into Creating a Profitable Startup Company, by Ruby on Rails Creator · 3 points · by RRiccio · no comments
• How To Speed Up Wordpress With Nginx And WP Super Cache · 3 points · by netsurge · no comments
• Best tools for remote real-time development collaboration? · 3 points · by akd · 4 comments
• Windows security rendered useless? Uh, not exactly · 3 points · by bullseye · 1 comment
• Tracking Firebug Performance · 3 points · by mqt · no comments
• Google Minus Google: Google Search without Google content · 3 points · by enra · 2 comments
• Why Computer Science Doesn’t Matter · 3 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Need Talented Programmer · 3 points · by monad101 · 2 comments
• US download speed average of 2.3 5mbps, Finland 21.7 mbps, and Japan 63.6 mbps · 3 points · by soundsop · 2 comments
• Digital Objects as Passwords · 3 points · by nreece · no comments
• Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server · 3 points · by joschi · no comments
• A Q&A with David Scott Lewis, the mystery hacker who inspired the film "War Games" · 3 points · by yangyang42 · no comments
• A Software Problem, A Marketing Solution · 3 points · by noodle · no comments
• The iTunes Store: Profit Machine · 3 points · by toffer · 2 comments
• Facebook Is Not Only The World’s Largest Social Network, It Is Also The Fastest Growing · 3 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Robots learn to move themselves (neural network) · 3 points · by mariorz · no comments
• Why is Fibonacci misimplemented so often? · 3 points · by globalrev · 4 comments
• Felton, California Residents Pledge to Eschew Proprietary Software · 3 points · by tomh · no comments
• Ask HN: How To Paint a MacBook Pro? · 3 points · by matthall28 · 9 comments
• 5.05 Gigawatt Titan Wind Project is... Titanesque · 3 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• Steve Yegge hits a homer: Your requirements are stupid · 3 points · by soundsop · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Best way to show current weather? · 3 points · by brandnewlow · 1 comment
• Rupert Murdoch fires his CIO · 3 points · by pakafka · no comments
• Typed Scheme: Scheme with Static Types · 3 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Platform leader Benjamin Ling to leave Facebook, as platform continues to evolve · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Major Bug Kills VMware Powered Virtual Servers · 3 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• BillG's Last Review · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Http://sportsity.com - requesting feedback · 2 points · by jeremytliles · no comments
• Birds-nest BSOD during Olympic cermonies · 2 points · by mrtron · no comments
• Speculating Sucks · 2 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Fantastic Contraption · 2 points · by ctingom · no comments
• Users run circles around NBC's Great Olympics Firewall · 2 points · by erickhill · no comments
• The End of YouTube: Would Anyone Really Care? · 2 points · by leadingzero · no comments
• An Overview of Cryptography · 2 points · by streblo · 3 comments
• Ignighter - Group Dating · 2 points · by tomh · no comments
• Razume: Crowdsource your resume · 2 points · by tomh · no comments
• 7 Lessons Olympians Can Teach Internet Entrepreneurs · 2 points · by langer · no comments
• 7 Powerful Ways to Get the Most Out of Any Situation · 2 points · by langer · no comments
• Web analytics faux pas · 2 points · by danw · no comments
• Twitter Limits to 2000 Follows. Could This Result in Stability and Monetization? · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Cal scientists on the trail of invisibility · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Operative Words · 2 points · by fallentimes · no comments
• Branchless Equivalents of Simple Functions · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Let your theme song be your password · 2 points · by sysop073 · 2 comments
• Bram Cohen on Taboo Words · 2 points · by emmett · no comments
• Skape open-sourced WehnTrust: ASLR for Win XP · 2 points · by dguido · no comments
• Hackers hacked at infamous DefCon gathering · 2 points · by Mistone · 2 comments
• Who Owns Blog Comments? · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Don't build simple to succeed · 2 points · by amix · no comments
• Turning Clean-Tech Engineers Into Entrepreneurs · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• Using Your Network to Grow as an Entrepreneur · 2 points · by danw · no comments
• Ask HN: Web Programming Platforms · 2 points · by vecter · 5 comments
• Ask YC: Hecl language syntax? · 2 points · by davidw · 3 comments
• Come fly the fee-filled skies · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• Amateur Science (The story of David Hahn) · 2 points · by kurtosis · no comments
• Why productivity fades with age: The crime–genius connection · 2 points · by mariorz · 5 comments
• Yahoo Fire Eagle Launches Geo-Location Platform To The Public · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Managing Large Web Server Farms: Puppet · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Flash, HTML, Ajax: Which will win the Web app war? · 2 points · by demandred · 1 comment
• Is e-mail on the way out? · 2 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• How Google put Bill's grief on show · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• The venture deals that got away · 1 points · by Mrinal · no comments
• Ideas, Excecution and the Rare Auteur · 1 points · by adsyoung · 1 comment
• Users talk the talk, but don't walk the walk on privacy · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Virtual Community Stardoll hits 20 milllion members. · 1 points · by gustaf · no comments
• MOG Launches Ad Network, Columbia Records Exec Joins Board · 1 points · by bullseye · 1 comment
• 18 Ways to Power Search Google · 1 points · by jones450 · no comments
• Playground Blues / Creating a basic API with Django · 1 points · by webology · no comments
• Microsoft’s Zune, Vista, and Windows Mobile 7 Strategy vs the iPhone · 1 points · by bazookaaa · no comments
• Our psychological vulnerability to bubble-thinking, time for a 'Good Depression' · 1 points · by gscott · no comments
• Why lawyers don't like Linux · 1 points · by noor420 · no comments
• Hacked And I didn't like it - URLScan is Step Zero · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Twitter Limits Followers To 2000? Going Fremium? · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Demoing Software for Fun & Profit · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Olympics live on linux · 1 points · by freakyfriday · no comments
• GE Invests $141M Into Acciona’s Dakotan Wind Farm · 1 points · by langer · no comments
• Digital Camera Powered By a Fuel Cell · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Layer 7 Switching + Load Balancing = Layer 7 Load Balancing · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• AJAX or DHTML powered application? · 1 points · by rizal · no comments
• Wall Street Grids: The Cloud or the Data Center? · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Conditional-CSS · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• File-sharing Networks Return with Legitimate Ways to Share Music -- and Make Money · 1 points · by ideas101 · no comments
• Blog Archive PR-less launch kicks off a stack overflow of praise · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• OpenID’s Struggle for Acceptance · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• 5 Useful Coding Solutions For Designers and Developers · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• How to block SSH dictionary attacks · 1 points · by silentbicycle · no comments
• Surprise, surprise: Why I refuse to upgrade to iPhone 3G · 1 points · by mrspin · no comments
• Georgia Takes a Beating in the Cyberwar With Russia · 1 points · by makimaki · 1 comment
• Google Street View captures blazing home · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Redefining customer service with Web 2.0 · 1 points · by dshah · no comments
• Follow up: Fail open or Fail closed · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising · 1 points · by caveman82 · no comments
• Billy Connolly on Business Requirements (profane) · 1 points · by raganwald · 1 comment
• Against Intellectual Property - were patents and copyrights a mistake? · 1 points · by bokonist · no comments
• Google tool identifies linchpin species · 1 points · by revorad · no comments
• Leaked Video of HTC Dream with Android(Google) OS · 1 points · by caveman82 · no comments
• Fortune 50 Marketer In Broad Collaboration With Web Service Companies; Who Is It? · 1 points · by colortone · no comments
• Distributed Computing & Google Infrastructure · 1 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Sixth annual Santa Clara University global business incubator program launches Aug. 17 · 1 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Unofficial GM Volt Waiting List Tops 33,000, Potentially $200+ Million · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• College girl sets goal: whole summer on one tank of gasoline · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Any opinions on expertrating.com certifications? · 1 points · by Allocator2008 · no comments
• Bye bye Symfony.. Hello Zend · 1 points · by madmotive · 1 comment
• Build Your Own Quad-Core Machine With The Tempest Case · 1 points · by iman · 3 comments
• Disqus Gives Users What They've Been Asking For · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Java.next #2: Java Interop · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Response to WSJ Opinion Piece 'Why Carl Icahn Is Bad for Investors' · 1 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Going from Small Startup to Massive Company · 1 points · by matthall28 · no comments
• Some Web Firms Say They Track Users Without Explicit Consent · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Developer Job Interview Questions and Answers · 1 points · by pavel · no comments
• How not to set goals: Steve Ballmer, a case study · 1 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Long-term and Working Memory - You Are What You Remember · 1 points · by jonmc12 · no comments
• VC Job @ OATV · 1 points · by bryc3 · no comments
• MINI rickshaw stunt in Beijing · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Ask HN: How did they do this? · 1 points · by zacharye · 11 comments
• A guide to the Linux kernel development process · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• Bike to School... Win Gold Medal at Olympics · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Loss of Customer Data Spurs Closure of Online Storage Service "The Linkup" · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Userplane Re-Invents the Message Board · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Modalbox in Grails · 1 points · by rmac3001 · no comments
• Flat-D: A flatulence deodorizer is million dollar a year business · 1 points · by alaskamiller · 1 comment
• How to Participate in the Linux Community · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Funny Software Review… Just Say No · 1 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• 16 Ways QVC Hacks Us · 1 points · by bprater · no comments
• Early Twitter investor Maples applies Internet lessons to biz software · 1 points · by demandred · no comments
• Do internet tech startups do any marketing? · 1 points · by timeformore · 2 comments