Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Is your Rails application safe? · 56 points · by jon_dahl · 33 comments
• An intelligent discussion on ligatures for 'wtf' and 'lol' · 50 points · by marketer · 8 comments
• Hidden Features of JavaScript · 48 points · by iamelgringo · 39 comments
• "A New Kind of Venture Capitalist Makes Small Bets on Young Firms" · 44 points · by jaydub · 9 comments
• 700 Billion bailout? Ebay it · 43 points · by Anon84 · 22 comments
• Ask HN: Hack a healthy, yet not expensive, meal. · 40 points · by rokhayakebe · 116 comments
• Goldman, Morgan to Become Full-Fledged Banks · 39 points · by agotterer · 19 comments
• Hidden features of Python · 38 points · by iamelgringo · 21 comments
• PHP vs. Lisp? · 36 points · by iamelgringo · 59 comments
• Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (by W. Danny Hillis) · 31 points · by DaniFong · 12 comments
• Simple mental math tricks · 28 points · by hhm · 3 comments
• The Register slams OpenSocial, OpenID and Google Gears - "destined for the dustbin" · 27 points · by jwilliams · 37 comments
• How companies should hire developers · 25 points · by acangiano · 18 comments
• JamLegend - the browser based Guitar Hero · 23 points · by tbrooks · 5 comments
• David Heinemeier Hansson's keynote at RailsConf Europe 2008 on Vimeo · 23 points · by zaveri · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Feedback please - Actual size visualization webapp. · 23 points · by ptm · 39 comments
• Oracle puts its 11g database in Amazon's cloud · 23 points · by snydeq · 7 comments
• Doing an Ironman · 22 points · by Maro · 9 comments
• Advanced bit manipulation-fu · 22 points · by ks · 1 comment
• Company in Oz replaces lightbulbs with CFLs for free - makes money selling carbon credit · 22 points · by jwilliams · 19 comments
• Python inside LaTeX · 21 points · by iamelgringo · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Stormpulse valuation · 18 points · by wensing · 21 comments
• Japan hopes to turn sci-fi into reality with elevator to the stars · 18 points · by gibsonf1 · 6 comments
• Wikipedia is now deleting entries about its own practice of deleting entries · 18 points · by nickb · 8 comments
• OpenGL 3 and DirectX 11 - The war is over (apparently) · 17 points · by jwilliams · 5 comments
• Pleading with HN: Submit and upvote "better" content · 17 points · by robg · 11 comments
• The multicore crises: Scala vs. Erlang · 17 points · by iamwil · 9 comments
• Technorati Confirms: Blogging Continues To Be Pitiless Work That Doesn't Pay · 17 points · by jackjack1000 · 6 comments
• Post-scarcity Software · 16 points · by rplevy · 5 comments
• Versionista: Diff on Obama's Technology Policy · 16 points · by muriithi · 11 comments
• The Present and Future of Ruby and Rails · 16 points · by troystribling · no comments
• PHP vs. Lisp: The Gripes About Lisp Are Valid · 16 points · by rw · 1 comment
• Microsoft Makes Key Hire in Researcher Danah Boyd · 15 points · by qhoxie · 19 comments
• Scheme vs Common Lisp · 15 points · by qwph · 5 comments
• Lessons Learned - The three drivers of growth for your business model. Choose one. · 15 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Tired of thieves, Portland woman lets the world watch her Obama sign · 14 points · by Mazy · 15 comments
• My Role in the Collapse of Lehman Brothers · 13 points · by bootload · 3 comments
• HBase | An open-source, distributed, column-oriented store modeled after Big Table · 12 points · by iamelgringo · 11 comments
• How to Stage a Revolution · 12 points · by ashwinl · 2 comments
• Google's Decade · 12 points · by hhm · 2 comments
• CSS Sprites2 Refactored: Building an Unobtrusive jQuery Plugin · 12 points · by JoelSutherland · no comments
• Indian Start-Ups Become More Attractive to Venture Firms · 12 points · by soho · 5 comments
• Japanese women like protected sites · 11 points · by greut · 8 comments
• Creating Startups in Gray Areas · 11 points · by wumi · 6 comments
• Angry IT workers: A ticking time bomb? · 11 points · by snydeq · 1 comment
• Serial Port Communication in C# · 10 points · by ionela · 7 comments
• 8 tips for "scaling" CSS development · 10 points · by lunaru · 3 comments
• Data trumps the HiPPO (Highest Paid Poisitions Opinion) · 10 points · by TimothyFitz · 1 comment
• Fighting for the Right to Clone · 9 points · by nickb · 2 comments
• FriendFeed presentation from MIT/Stanford Venture Lab · 9 points · by bootload · 2 comments
• College Panel Calls for Less Focus on SATs · 9 points · by jaydub · 26 comments
• Just launched Scholar spot.com free educational videos · 9 points · by jseek · 2 comments
• Eliza · 9 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• F# in 20 Minutes - Part I · 9 points · by Anon84 · 2 comments
• Posterous - Dead Simple Way to Blog and Share Files with Freinds · 9 points · by ajbatac · 6 comments
• Microsoft to Buy Back $40 Billion of Stock · 9 points · by ComputerGuru · 10 comments
• As Android approaches, carriers embrace change · 9 points · by rrf · no comments
• LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds · 8 points · by davidw · no comments
• Nokia's NFC phones - Touch to command. · 8 points · by jyothi · 4 comments
• Startup metrics, Prototyping, Scaling, Developing, Marketing, and Funding · 8 points · by markbao · no comments
• Creationist campaigner has Richard Dawkins' official website banned in Turkey · 7 points · by bootload · 3 comments
• Building a Brand Takes Balls · 7 points · by trs90 · no comments
• Near Field Communications is Amazing · 7 points · by prakash · no comments
• Google's mobile masterplan · 7 points · by GuyE · 2 comments
• InfoQ: Erlang - software for a concurrent world · 7 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Paper: On Delivering Embarrassingly Distributed Cloud Services · 7 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Linked Data · 7 points · by jdale27 · no comments
• New Immersive Wii Ad On Youtube (Watch full video) · 7 points · by pmikal · no comments
• The NOSPEC campaign vs. crowdSPRING · 6 points · by pchristensen · 3 comments
• Oracle Enters the AWS Cloud · 6 points · by raghus · 2 comments
• The PhD Octopus · 6 points · by DaniFong · 3 comments
• TimesPeople, the New York Times' social network, launching tonight · 6 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• Charts and Graphs Plotting with JQuery plugins · 5 points · by iamelgringo · 1 comment
• David Heinemeier Hansson, 37signals: "Friday Keynote" · 5 points · by zaveri · no comments
• 5 Things That Make Your City Better Than the Valley : East Coast Blogging · 5 points · by zaveri · 4 comments
• Swoogle: Semantic Web Search Engine · 5 points · by jdale27 · no comments
• A No-Frills Introduction to Lua 5.1 VM Instructions [pdf] · 5 points · by qwph · no comments
• What is the "HN Quotient" of a story? · 5 points · by raganwald · 5 comments
• Look Who's Irrational Now · 5 points · by ph0rque · 11 comments
• My new project - RubyEncoder · 5 points · by groovyone · no comments
• The three drivers of growth for your business model. Choose one. · 5 points · by rajatrocks · no comments
• Try not to use threads - (Not sure I agree) · 4 points · by jwilliams · 1 comment
• Default by the US government is no longer unthinkable · 4 points · by furiouslol · no comments
• Tilera launches new generation of multicore embedded chips for communications · 4 points · by prakash · 2 comments
• Ask YC: What to have on site while under construction? · 4 points · by abiek · 3 comments
• Social-networking sites viewed by admissions officers · 4 points · by denglish · 4 comments
• Financial crisis: Default by the US government is no longer unthinkable · 4 points · by kul · no comments
• Amid turmoil and news of $700B federal bailout, is the sky falling for VCs and start-ups? · 4 points · by terpua · no comments
• Clay Shirky: It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure. · 4 points · by Sujan · no comments
• A New Google Data API for Book Search · 4 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Power sleeping cube. A must have if you spend more than 8 hours at the office. · 4 points · by rokhayakebe · no comments
• The Trouble With Boys · 4 points · by Alex3917 · 2 comments
• Labels launch slotMusic format, miss point of digital music · 4 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Technorati Report: State of the Blogosphere 2008 · 4 points · by mqt · no comments
• Alltop Launches Redesign Amid Rapid Expansion · 4 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Why AI Failed (and a comment by Bill Gates) · 4 points · by hhm · 3 comments
• America is Bleeding · 3 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Ask HN: laid back, but still interesting jobs for hackers? · 3 points · by menloparkbum · no comments
• Graph Theory: Part III (Facebook) | 20bits · 3 points · by iamwil · no comments
• Cliff Asness Is Mad as Hell · 3 points · by furiouslol · no comments
• Previous and Next Actions in Web Forms · 3 points · by astrec · 1 comment
• On Competition and Ideas · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• High-Performance DNS for the Cloud · 3 points · by igrigorik · no comments
• Senate Boosts Funding for Directed-Energy Weapons · 3 points · by DanielBMarkham · 1 comment
• Startups: Do It Yourself PR : East Coast Blogging · 3 points · by zaveri · 1 comment
• Hacker Makes $250k on iPhone Apps · 3 points · by lanceweatherby · no comments
• Is ShareThis the next Digg? · 3 points · by ajbatac · 1 comment
• Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · 3 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• We need a co-founder for this YC round · 3 points · by markk · no comments
• From Physics to Security: Postfix's Creator Outlines Spam Solution · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Review: Coghead for non-coders · 3 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Hacking NYC: Turning parking spots into... whatever you want · 3 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Clojure Programming wikibook · 3 points · by jdale27 · no comments
• Shining Chrome (of Google) · 3 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Finding and fixing mass assignment problems in Rails applications · 3 points · by mhartl · no comments
• A semi-technical review of string theory · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Google Blog: Building a future that's clean and green · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Weightless threads with python generators (charming-python David Mertz) · 3 points · by tzury · no comments
• T-Mobile to charge app developers for users' bandwidth consumption? · 3 points · by wmf · no comments
• T-Mobile’s Google phone may offer free e-mail · 3 points · by rockstar9 · 1 comment
• Startup Metrics for Pirates (AARRR) · 3 points · by TimothyFitz · no comments
• Danah Boyd: Joining Microsoft Research in January · 3 points · by bootload · 4 comments
• Memagent memcache proxy: consistent hashing and replication without client library support · 3 points · by TimothyFitz · no comments
• How Google's downtime hurts your business (not what you expect) · 2 points · by lennysan · no comments
• Globalisation today: Emerging-market companies competing furiously vs. rich-country ones. · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Factor now available on x86-64 platforms · 2 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Scientific product development. · 2 points · by mspeiser · no comments
• Official Google Blog: The democratization of data · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Stonehenge - The Debate Continues · 2 points · by visakhcr · no comments
• On Becoming a Quant · 2 points · by eru · no comments
• VC Take On Market Crash: Short-Term Bear, Long-Term Bull · 2 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• Intel to cool servers with fresh air - potentially significant cost and energy savings · 2 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Sarah Palin and Elitism · 2 points · by newsit · 2 comments
• Passwords you’ll never forget, but can’t recall · 2 points · by eru · no comments
• Why well funded startups waste money? · 2 points · by abarrera · no comments
• Why Aren't You Using JQuery? · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• The Politics of Fear -- Holden 2008 (918): 2 -- ScienceNOW · 2 points · by zaveri · no comments
• Mark Cuban's advice to newspapers: "Bankruptcy is probably your best friend" · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Writing dynamic XML sitemaps using PHP · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Sexism pays: Men who hold traditional views of women earn more than men who don't · 2 points · by FiReaNG3L · 1 comment
• Confessions of a textual loser · 2 points · by fogus · 1 comment
• Top 10 Influential Space Thinkers · 2 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• Yahoo Loses as Google Moves Search to the Toolbar · 2 points · by JoelSutherland · no comments
• Google Book Search Adds Embeddable Previews · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Talk like a physicist · 2 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• Pay to Play? · 2 points · by fusionman · 1 comment
• Hiring star from 90s to fix Vista's rep adds to impression that Microsoft is in time warp · 2 points · by mattculbreth · no comments
• How Startups and Ad Agencies Can Collaborate · 2 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• Adobe is announcing their CS4 line-up tomorrow · 2 points · by mattyfo · no comments
• Music On microSD: I Can’t Believe The Labels Fell For This · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Bad signs for Blu-ray: Free discs, cheap players, and declining market share · 2 points · by ilamont · no comments
• How to create a website banner with the GIMP (a beginner tutorial) · 2 points · by BrandonM · 1 comment
• GNU Make Hints and Tips · 2 points · by qwph · no comments
• Amazon launching a mobile music/movie store for Google’s platform · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• The adventures of a Pythonista in Schemeland/2 · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Slatex:Scheme inside latex. · 2 points · by zitterbewegung · no comments
• Straight from the Gut: Secrets of Successful Web Companies (event) · 2 points · by Mistone · no comments
• D-Expressions: Lisp Power, Dylan Style · 2 points · by mridulkhan · no comments
• State Of The Blogosphere: Get To 100K Uniques, Make $75K/year · 2 points · by rockstar9 · no comments
• Human cloning gets green light in Australia · 2 points · by hhm · no comments
• Need some JavaScript puzzles · 2 points · by aneel99 · no comments
• Ask YC: How to find a business minded cofounder? · 2 points · by thecheeseguy · 1 comment
• The term “hacker” · 1 points · by baha_man · no comments
• Bail Out the Drunks, O'Malley, and Arrest the Usual Suspects · 1 points · by ojbyrne · no comments
• Facebook Kicks Off College Recruitment Effort · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• From Capitalism to Socialism to ? · 1 points · by rrf · no comments
• Tech firms fare better than most in jobs slump · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Top 10 Most Famous Hackers of All Time · 1 points · by dc2k08 · no comments
• Yahoo's Poor Ad Targeting & Thoughts On Google-Yahoo · 1 points · by trs90 · no comments
• Richard Dawkins' jaw-dropping talk on our bizarre universe · 1 points · by jonmc12 · 2 comments
• How web savvy are New Zealand’s political parties? · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• Google Miscalculator: Revealing Errors · 1 points · by rplevy · no comments
• On Starting Up: Introduction · 1 points · by rjett · no comments
• Learning about startups from a Packers Loss · 1 points · by peregrine · no comments
• Pitch Camp Dallas is Coming : Fort Worth Startup Blog · 1 points · by bradleyjoyce · no comments
• Daily Deals - Off The Back · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• WordPress Archive that *works*: StepxStep Guide and Plugins · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Downloading a Complete Picasa Web Album (Without Installing Picasa · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• StumbleUpon has updated its algorithms - Aims to reduce manipulation · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Python: The WSGI era is here · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• SD: the new CD? · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• OSGi "Whole Book" Release - the prevalent solution to "Jar Hell" · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Pelosi Rejects 'blank Check To Wall Street' · 1 points · by furiouslol · 1 comment
• Innovation Lessons from Hollywood · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Running an Ad Network (The Mechanics of Arbitrage) - ShoeMoney® · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Is Stupid Making Us Google? · 1 points · by atestu · no comments
• What if we didn’t lump all “accessibility” requirements together? · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• The New PlanetEye · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• ROI Justification(s) for Application Delivery Controllers · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Software Rhythm · 1 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Descriptions and Fixes of Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crash errors | How To | DailyGeeks · 1 points · by Raine1988 · no comments
• Gogimon Search Channel · 1 points · by nikils · no comments
• Would you buy a cool Twitter name? · 1 points · by abarrera · no comments
• Could a grey market for iPhone apps survive? Probably not · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• The meek shall inherit the web · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Is MySpace Music An Antitrust Lawsuit Waiting To Happen? · 1 points · by zaveri · no comments
• Next software for the masses? How about three-dimensional design · 1 points · by erictobia · no comments
• The World Probably Doesn't Need slotMusic · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Today is OneWebDay · 1 points · by SarahToton · no comments
• Make money from your mobile apps · 1 points · by brogo · no comments
• Social Media ABC's - I is for Instalanche · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• SlotMusic vs. Compact Disc: The Ultimate Comparison · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• The Poetic Run Around of Apple's App Store · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Proto.Menu: A prototype-based context menu · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• FBI Searches Apartment of Tennessee Student Suspected of Palin Hack · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• How A VC Can Change The Cap Table · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Anthropology: The Business Model · 1 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• T-Mobile's Dream Is a Distraction · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• Lessons for Google’s Android Marketplace from Apple App Store · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• DIY online app-dev tools for building DB-driven Web apps · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• How GPS navigation devices can be duped · 1 points · by FiReaNG3L · no comments
• Timberland pays out to settle text spam lawsuit · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Should students be allowed to blog about what goes on in the classroom? · 1 points · by ceonyc · no comments
• Marshall, Texas, Capital of Missouri · 1 points · by marketer · no comments
• An idea to improve voting - get users to upvote · 1 points · by pedalpete · no comments
• Corporate Blogging: The Fallacy of Quantity vs Quality · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• What, Why, Where, How and more on the proposed startup · 1 points · by ordinaryman · no comments
• Bailout Comic Relief · 1 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• Googlewhacks for Fun and Profit · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Haskell for C Programmers · 1 points · by qwph · no comments
• The major labels' new physical media format: the microSD-based slotMusic · 1 points · by halo · no comments
• New Horizons in Data Centers · 1 points · by razorburn · no comments
• Can the Zune Zoom? · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Memoirs of an Early String Theorist · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• Newly-formed San Francisco Selenium meetup group · 1 points · by asargent · no comments
• Python decorators explained · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Inte's Ct: C/C++ for Throughput Computing · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Adventures in Webpage Content Injection With Python · 1 points · by alaskamiller · no comments
• I'm sorry, there are no such people as "Web natives" · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Virtual Machine Showdown: Stack Versus Registers [pdf] · 1 points · by qwph · no comments
• Canvas set to boost AJAX · 1 points · by jaydub · no comments