Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Carbon nanotechnology in a 17th century Damascus sword · 67 points · by ph0rque · 20 comments
• I test drove a Tesla · 64 points · by astrec · 59 comments
• JQuery finds its way into Microsoft and Nokia stacks · 57 points · by qhoxie · 12 comments
• Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours · 54 points · by alexwg · 14 comments
• How We Value the Super-Rich - Wall Street vs. Silicon Valley · 51 points · by robg · 36 comments
• Why Erlang · 45 points · by sant0sk1 · 16 comments
• Microsoft and Nokia start supporting jQuery as a dev platform · 44 points · by halo · 1 comment
• Why can't we divide by zero? · 37 points · by jwilliams · 51 comments
• Calacanis: Collapsing Economy Will Kill 50%-80% Of Startups · 36 points · by brandonkm · 36 comments
• Ask HN: Getting hands dirty with electronics for newbies · 28 points · by SingAlong · 31 comments
• We are all Japanese now · 27 points · by sridharvembu · 6 comments
• Hands on with some surprising $80 night vision goggles · 25 points · by soundsop · 13 comments
• Reddit's discussion for a guy that lost interest in programming · 20 points · by alaskamiller · 2 comments
• Google "In Quotes" from google labs · 19 points · by iamwil · 5 comments
• 10 articles to better understand the financial crisis · 18 points · by bokonist · 6 comments
• Pandora Lives a Little Longer, House Passes Webcaster Act · 16 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• SpaceX's Falcon 1 makes it to orbit · 16 points · by benl · 2 comments
• Towards a new test of general relativity? · 15 points · by hhm · 8 comments
• The 14 best Linux distros · 13 points · by qhoxie · 31 comments
• Chinese Spacewalk Astronauts return home to heroes' welcome · 13 points · by jwilliams · 4 comments
• A Zen State of Blogging with Disqus and Webby · 13 points · by pius · no comments
• Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part I · 11 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• Fraud Charges Against Facebook, Sean Parker, Mark Zuckerberg to Stand · 10 points · by thinkcomp · 11 comments
• Did you know you could access hacker news via http://www.hackerne.ws? · 10 points · by pkrumins · 11 comments
• Prediction vs Explanation: A Puzzle · 10 points · by bumbledraven · 2 comments
• The State of Location-Based Social Networking On The iPhone · 9 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• Probably the first open source Merb-based social network (GPL'd) · 9 points · by pius · 1 comment
• Rules of Productivity · 9 points · by JesseAldridge · no comments
• Google's IP 'anonymization' inadequate, says EU watchdog · 8 points · by nickb · no comments
• Installing Google Android SDK 1.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop · 8 points · by joschi · no comments
• 2008 Rails Rumble Registration - 48 hour startup competition · 8 points · by zapnap · 2 comments
• Think Kids Can't Do Science? Meet These Copenhagen 2008 Teen Science Winners And Be Amazed · 8 points · by hhm · 1 comment
• Watch out TinyURL, Cligs is much better for us · 7 points · by ajbatac · 6 comments
• Writing A Simple Web Service With Merb · 7 points · by pius · no comments
• Cloud + Client · 6 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 4 comments
• Motorola Building Up 350-Person Android Team. Nokia Also Sniffing Around. · 6 points · by davidw · no comments
• Search Flickr by Color · 6 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• The Cepheid Galactic Internet · 5 points · by bentoner · no comments
• Huge new prime number discovered · 5 points · by reazalun · 5 comments
• UCLA Mathematicians Discover 13-Million-Digit Prime Number · 5 points · by alexk · 4 comments
• Relativity, Uncertainty, Incompleteness and Undecidability · 5 points · by hhm · no comments
• The 50 most significant moments of Internet history · 5 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Parkinson's Law (On Amazon reader, but the book is excellent) · 5 points · by DaniFong · 1 comment
• Wal-Mart Gives Consumers Number 1 Reason Why DRM is Not the Answer · 4 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• I want a struct linker · 4 points · by etal · no comments
• Essential Math for Games Programmers - One Day Tutorial · 4 points · by vlad · no comments
• You don't need as many tools as you think · 4 points · by eries · no comments
• The vicious cycle of deleveraging | A fate worse than debt · 4 points · by robg · no comments
• Kicking off a new website - appreciated feeback (good and bad) · 4 points · by livz · 14 comments
• AskHN: Why are chinese getting good at programming contests? · 4 points · by ideamonk · 5 comments
• As many buttons as there are channels on TV · 4 points · by maxklein · 1 comment
• OS X on PC : Getting that pesky cat to run on a PC · 4 points · by habs · 4 comments
• Largest Australian ISPs Say that Net neutrality is an 'American problem' · 4 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Gash: Ruby Hash interface to Git · 4 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• An unlocked iPhone? I'd travel halfway across the world for one · 3 points · by technologizer · 5 comments
• Product: Happy = Hadoop + Python · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• UK: ID card design revealed by home secretary · 3 points · by bootload · no comments
• Pixar: Tall tales · 3 points · by bootload · no comments
• Bidding for savings account rates at MoneyAisle · 2 points · by amrithk · no comments
• Spore Hits 1 Million Mark Despite DRM · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Multi-line lambdas: Reia can do them... why can't Python? · 2 points · by ash · 4 comments
• Jack Thompson, game industry scourge, disbarred · 2 points · by habs · no comments
• Comment on my 10^100 submission: Reddit on cellphones for geotagging interesting news · 2 points · by mad44 · 2 comments
• Boards running Linux · 2 points · by ionela · 1 comment
• Recession Proof Your Job with Web Based Tools · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• The Cringely Plan: See the light · 2 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Long or Short Capital » The Bailout, A Play - Paying Dividends Since Q1'06 · 2 points · by helveticaman · no comments
• Gang Garrison - A sweded 8bit version of TF2 · 2 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Meet the 2008 MacArthur Fellows, including Alexei Kitaev, quantum computer scientist · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Largest known Prime Number is (was) 2^20996011-1 · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• What makes a good road sign? · 1 points · by reazalun · no comments
• Cucumber to replace native RSpec Story Runner · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• Open Source Rails projects, make sure you’re safe… · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Google Celebrates 10th Birthday, Gives Away Money · 1 points · by alexyim · no comments
• Need a rockstar UX/XD/UI person · 1 points · by satyajit · 1 comment
• FactChecking Debate Number 1 · 1 points · by IsaacSchlueter · no comments
• Political spectrum image via statistical analysis of cosponsorship bills · 1 points · by bayareaguy · no comments
• Pandora, Webcasting appear headed for Senate victory · 1 points · by rrf · no comments
• What’s after the Social Web? · 1 points · by martinsz · no comments
• Everybody Calm Down. A Government Hand In the Economy Is as Old as the Republic. · 1 points · by walterk · 1 comment
• Journalist Goes Missing After Outing Google's Latest Evil Plot · 1 points · by dorothy86 · no comments
• MessageLabs names UK spam capital · 1 points · by habs · no comments
• Translation programs and devices · 1 points · by 0_o · no comments
• Ask YC: basic text parser? · 1 points · by unalone · 4 comments
• Leveraging Cognitive Bias in Social Design - Joshua Porter, Dconstruct 2008 · 1 points · by ntoshev · no comments
• Windows 7 on a Diet - Thank Goodness · 1 points · by dshah · no comments
• The White Hats are hackers who spot security breaches and are a force for good · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• The New Google Moderator · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Should HN have some sort of RSS? · 1 points · by carterschonwald · 4 comments
• Will Future Information Consumption Be In Nested GUIs? · 1 points · by mbuchanan · 1 comment
• Becoming a Sexy Programmer: Slideshows · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Is your brand awesome? Should it be? · 1 points · by sbuxrox · no comments
• Last.FM Releases Highly Anticipated iPhone App Update · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Examples of Funny Videos about the financial crisis · 1 points · by mingyeow · no comments
• How to Use the Web to Transform the World · 1 points · by rplevy · no comments
• Google Bucket Tests User-Defined Blurb Length In Search Results · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Apple to Make iTunes 8 and iPod Completely Accessible to the Blind · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Computers tell a poker strategy · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Applause lights · 1 points · by herdrick · no comments
• Web Depression...will it be as poetic as... · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Tom Perkin's Spectacular yacht Maltese Falcon due in bay · 1 points · by Mistone · no comments