Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Failure must always be an option · 63 points · by lisper · 23 comments
• Interview with a hedge fund manager · 50 points · by eru · 18 comments
• Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth · 42 points · by umangjaipuria · 12 comments
• Palin Hacker Caught - Son of Democratic TN State Rep. · 42 points · by pmorici · 63 comments
• Python's Super is nifty, but you can't use it · 29 points · by alexk · no comments
• Japanese Girl Sensation: Virtual Boyfriends (Webkare) · 25 points · by blackswan · 24 comments
• Erlang's Mnesia no longer has 2GB storage limit · 25 points · by iamwil · 3 comments
• Success as an Entrepreneur: Why It’s Not About You · 24 points · by rantfoil · 7 comments
• Second interview with the hedge fund manager · 23 points · by eru · 3 comments
• New York in Black and White · 23 points · by gopher · 5 comments
• Another iPhone app, MailWrangler, banned from App Store for "duplicating functionality" · 22 points · by nickb · 43 comments
• What Was Stack Overflow Built With? · 22 points · by rnesh · 22 comments
• Freelancers: Two Methods for Making Sales the Easy Way · 21 points · by nerdburn · 6 comments
• New Neal Stephenson Book Out - Anathem · 19 points · by fkrueger · 24 comments
• Why You Should Hate the Treasury Bailout Proposal · 19 points · by furiouslol · 12 comments
• Recommendations all the way from Berlin, interview with Directed Edge founders · 16 points · by wheels · no comments
• What can OCaml do that you can't do in other programming languages? · 9 points · by baha_man · 8 comments
• Intro to Unintrusive JavaScript with Django · 8 points · by naish · 2 comments
• Pycon UK, Javascript and the GIL · 7 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• Idea for killer mobile app? · 7 points · by newton · 10 comments
• How easily we are fooled: The rotating grid illusion · 7 points · by alexwg · 1 comment
• Asus passed another test · 6 points · by bootload · 12 comments
• Einstein fridge design can help global cooling · 6 points · by hhm · no comments
• The Camera-Friendly, Perfectly Pixelated, Easily Downloadable Celebrity Academic · 6 points · by robg · no comments
• Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds. · 6 points · by robg · no comments
• How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming · 6 points · by soundsop · no comments
• What can CPython learn from the new JavaScript VMs? · 6 points · by mace · 2 comments
• DNA indicates humans in N. America 14,300 years ago · 5 points · by erictobia · 1 comment
• The Army's Totally Serious Mind-Control Project · 5 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• Getting RESTful with web.py · 4 points · by johnp · no comments
• Time to Build Trust With an “Open Achievements API”? · 4 points · by babyshake · 1 comment
• Benchmark: Apache2 vs. Lighttpd (Static HTML Files) · 4 points · by joschi · 9 comments
• A First-timer’s Tips for Networking in Silicon Valley · 4 points · by ajbatac · 1 comment
• 200,000 Cores and 10 Petabytes: Blue Waters · 4 points · by jmtame · no comments
• Ask HN: How to store user/pass securely in the browser? · 4 points · by geuis · 8 comments
• School desks: the next generation · 4 points · by bootload · no comments
• Porting X-Plane to the iPhone took only 14 days! · 3 points · by joshwa · 1 comment
• Progress and its Sustainability · 3 points · by pogos · 1 comment
• EA relents and changes Spore DRM (a bit) · 2 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Hug a developer today · 2 points · by raganwald · no comments
• 2,000 “no’s” a year · 2 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Programming Bottom-Up (1993) · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Working Remotely from Home, Telepresence and Video Conferencing · 2 points · by bdfh42 · 1 comment
• What advertising can't fix · 2 points · by bdfh42 · 1 comment
• Atan2 and Exceptions (and why there aren't any) · 2 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• A faster way to run Selenium tests · 2 points · by asargent · no comments
• Magic Coal from the Steam Cooker - Alternative Energy · 2 points · by eru · no comments
• Mashable Startup Showdown - That’s a lot of money · 2 points · by andrewbadera · no comments
• Almost Armageddon - Markets Were 500 Trades From A Meltdown · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · 4 comments
• The future of mobile · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Seedcamp 2008 Winners Announced · 2 points · by durdn · no comments
• Ask YC: How would you go about finding your other founder (in France)? · 2 points · by lucite · 6 comments
• Fred Wilson's Web 2.0 Keynote · 2 points · by rms · no comments
• Let's Hope It Works (And Even Then It's Painful) · 2 points · by raganwald · no comments
• @Seedcamp: Winners & more winners at startup central · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Rails Debug Bar · 2 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Apple kind of accused of stealing ideas for the iPhone · 1 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Facebook Growth By Age Group: Share of College-Age Users is Declining · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Science is the activity which defines humans as human. · 1 points · by mlLK · 1 comment
• Massive computer infrastructure of the LHC · 1 points · by johnp · no comments
• Is Facebook Shutting Down Beacon? · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Lightweight Scriptaculous Accordion · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Google plans satellites, sea-based server farms · 1 points · by mlLK · no comments
• Cellphones with Projectors? · 1 points · by frank42 · no comments
• From "World Wide Web" to "Web Wide World" -- The Web Breaks Out of its Petri Dish · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• The Best Mind of His Generation · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Those Who Write, Teach · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• The Epiphany Philosophers · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Smirk: Share Your Mood With a Video Emoticon · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• "Really good teaching is about not seeing the world the way that everyone else does." · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• The latest in Sharing Mashups.. IMs and Blogs sharing · 1 points · by GuyE · no comments
• The Advantages of Being Different · 1 points · by eru · 1 comment
• The Three Prices--more than zero, zero, and less than zero · 1 points · by baha_man · no comments
• Trending F# jobs in the UK · 1 points · by baha_man · no comments
• What We Need To Know About The Bailout Plan · 1 points · by Mystalic · no comments
• The Paradox of Choice - Google TechTalk · 1 points · by eru · no comments
• Tumblr Breeds Its Own Species Of Griefer: The Anonyblogger · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• The Perils of Multi-Tasking · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• ITunes 9 Ideas · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• History of NYC's internet community by Fred Wilson. - Boing Boing · 1 points · by bradgessler · no comments
• Designing a CMS Architecture · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Why Start ShareMeme Now? · 1 points · by zaveri · 1 comment
• Best of the Best: The Hive Five Winners · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• How Do You Deal With Change In Uncertain Times? · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Business vs Programming: Hype versus Craft · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Thread Your Twitter Conversations With Tweader · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Mozilla Comes Through Regarding EULA Concerns · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• The Craft of API Design · 1 points · by luckystrike · no comments
• Alternatives to fixing the financial crisis · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Improving your desktop experience [with xmonad] · 1 points · by durdn · no comments
• Rebuilding San Francisco Academy of Sciences no walk in park · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Rules For The Splurge · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Is the US past its prime? · 1 points · by tectonic · 3 comments
• Dear Adobe... · 1 points · by pogos · no comments
• Fund Raising 101 · 1 points · by boaj · no comments
• Windows 7 Starts to Come Into Focus. Slowly. · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• The Power of Introspection and Detached Analysis · 1 points · by boaj · no comments
• TIP #328: Coroutines · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• Peter Norvig at Startup School 08 · 1 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Silicon Valley's resiliency might get tested · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Wingman: In-Browser Validation · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Stem cell therapy curing paralysis and limb death in animals · 1 points · by marvin · no comments
• A Language Detector for Java · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Apple Rejects Another iPhone App For Competing With Apple · 1 points · by technologizer · 1 comment