Hacker News Way Back Machine

• $700bn Bailout is shot down by House of Rep Vote (205-228), US stock market plummets · 130 points · by kirse · 189 comments
• How to get into the Hottest Restaurants in Town · 117 points · by antiform · 41 comments
• Cloud computing is a trap, says Stallman · 99 points · by razorburn · 70 comments
• The Diskette That Blew Trixter's Mind · 89 points · by comatose_kid · 11 comments
• SpaceX launches 1st commercial rocket into orbit · 78 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 33 comments
• Wil Shipley on OCD and depression · 64 points · by yters · 24 comments
• I've watched the economy for 30 years. Now I'm truly scared · 51 points · by nreece · 36 comments
• Apple stock plunging, Google stock diving, Yahoo stock melting · 43 points · by mariorz · 26 comments
• Why The Flow Of Innovation Has Reversed · 41 points · by wave · 16 comments
• How Flickr polices 2.8 billion photos · 37 points · by browser411 · 8 comments
• Why Is America So Religious? · 28 points · by robg · 89 comments
• Don't abandon websites to spammers · 28 points · by henning · 2 comments
• Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed? · 27 points · by qhoxie · 41 comments
• DNA is object code · 26 points · by maxwell · 17 comments
• Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron? · 22 points · by parenthesis · 9 comments
• The Google 20 Year Usenet Timeline · 21 points · by marketer · 5 comments
• Novell Engineer Blasts Ubuntu for not Helping Linux · 21 points · by qhoxie · 13 comments
• GoDaddy Charges Customer $6,579 in Fees; Points Finger at Drupal · 19 points · by aasarava · 12 comments
• Everybody's Free (To Learn a Powerful Editor) · 19 points · by antiform · 4 comments
• Success is complex, Failure is a no-brainer · 18 points · by danielh · 3 comments
• Erlang: Getting Started with EUnit · 17 points · by mitchellh · no comments
• The Angle of repose · 16 points · by marketer · 5 comments
• Ask YC: UK VC and Mentoring · 16 points · by pkill · 18 comments
• Citigroup buys Wachovia · 15 points · by visakhcr · 10 comments
• Why The Enterprise Space Needs To Build Companies Like The Consumer Space · 14 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 20 comments
• Ask YC: Review my app (pycmds, a web-based command line) · 14 points · by csytan · 32 comments
• Ask Hacker News: Review our block-based collaborative editor · 13 points · by celoyd · 8 comments
• The old-fashioned way of making strings for musical instruments · 13 points · by marketer · no comments
• The Bellic School of Management Training · 13 points · by dill_day · 3 comments
• Xkcd - Height · 13 points · by cstejerean · 3 comments
• Microsoft unveils the F# programming language · 13 points · by 0_o · 9 comments
• Why Angels Continue to Invest in Consumer Internet Deals · 12 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 5 comments
• Good fences make good neighbors · 12 points · by marketer · 12 comments
• Jakob Nielsen: 'About Us' Information on Websites · 11 points · by makimaki · 2 comments
• SkyDeck gets $3MM · 10 points · by Sam_Odio · no comments
• Risky, we-can't-fail, all-or-nothing science · 9 points · by naish · 30 comments
• How The U.S. Government Engineered The Current Economic Crisis · 9 points · by axiom · 5 comments
• Private Rockets · 9 points · by visakhcr · no comments
• Ask HN: How to decide if an idea is worth implementing as a business? · 8 points · by ashr · 15 comments
• Performance techniques used in the Hotspot JVM · 8 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• What if Google's mission extended to public records? · 8 points · by ilamont · 4 comments
• SGN Founder’s Rambling, Jetlagged, Semi-Lucid and Beautiful Email On Entrepreneurism · 8 points · by terpua · no comments
• "Obnoxious Hipster Startups Must Die" (re: Xobni) · 7 points · by adnam · 2 comments
• JS Bin - live javascript pastebin · 7 points · by kevinold · 1 comment
• Bank accounts with over $100K? Make sure it is insured · 7 points · by ttol · 3 comments
• Ed Felten & Team Disclose 4 New CSRF Vulnerabilities, Can Transfer Funds From ING · 7 points · by tptacek · 1 comment
• Amidst Stock Downgrade, Apple Seeking Partnerships With Wal-mart, McDonalds · 7 points · by dorothy86 · no comments
• How Do Locks Lock? · 7 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Hadoop 0.18 Highlights · 7 points · by jwilliams · 5 comments
• Adobe's CS4 pricing is completely bananas · 7 points · by nickb · no comments
• Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search? [a paper] · 5 points · by marketer · 3 comments
• Linux SMS Applications and Tools · 5 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• What is early stage? · 5 points · by ceonyc · no comments
• Will Habari Be The Next WordPress? · 5 points · by ajbatac · 5 comments
• Insulate Your Startup Against a Nuclear Winter · 5 points · by redgsnodgrass · no comments
• The 25 Most Influential People on the Web · 5 points · by bootload · 4 comments
• Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward - ScottGu's Blog · 4 points · by abl · no comments
• Finding jobs for an old school Comp Sci graduate? · 4 points · by r11t · no comments
• The new UI wars: Why there’s no Flash on iPhone 2.0 · 4 points · by nickb · no comments
• Apple's App Store schizophrenia driving developers crazy · 4 points · by soundsop · 1 comment
• Bailing Out Wall Street Won't Save Main Street · 4 points · by yamil · 5 comments
• Forrest M. Mims: Early days at MITS INC · 4 points · by bootload · 2 comments
• Web 2.0 Gritty Entrepreneurs · 4 points · by terpua · no comments
• Launching missiles and other unhappy accidents · 4 points · by raganwald · no comments
• 3 lessons the individual investor can learn from JPMorgan Chase · 4 points · by brox · no comments
• What does an employee offer letter look like? · 4 points · by wheels · no comments
• E Wants To Be The Future of Networking · 4 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Don't Quit Your Day Job to Start Something New · 4 points · by daveambrose · 1 comment
• Adobe AIR vs Google Gears vs Silverlight · 4 points · by unfoldedorigami · no comments
• Ask HN: Examples of DatabaseLess website? · 4 points · by rokhayakebe · 4 comments
• Boys do better when they are taught by men, study finds · 4 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• 10 Remarkable Female Mathematicians · 3 points · by acangiano · 2 comments
• Letting Our Fingers Do the Talking · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Steve Jobs: Out For Revenge [in 1989, at NeXT] · 3 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• 37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins · 3 points · by abl · no comments
• Have we reached the end of book publishing as we know it? · 3 points · by wave · no comments
• When tissue is pronounced "Kleenex", you have a problem. · 3 points · by helveticaman · 3 comments
• Can Browser Plug-ins Be a Business? · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Making Social Networks Profitable · 3 points · by zh · no comments
• Firefox Extensions You Must Have · 3 points · by marketer · no comments
• Golden rules of internet startup · 3 points · by qhoxie · 3 comments
• Optics and genetics are allowing neuroscientists to identify and control brain circuits · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• What the 21st Century Will Taste Like · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Ask HN: business model for a new image format? · 3 points · by nadam · 1 comment
• What will happen to all my web accounts/blogs after I die ? · 3 points · by superstar123 · 2 comments
• The State of Social Media 2008 · 3 points · by Mistone · no comments
• Scripting Attacks Plague Even the Web’s Largest Sites · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Official Google Mac Blog: Introducing Top Draw · 3 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• University of Portsmouth develops game to combat culture shock · 3 points · by whacked_new · no comments
• How to recruit developers from financial industry? · 3 points · by nradov · 3 comments
• The top 100 most popular Classical Music works · 3 points · by newsit · no comments
• High Schoolers Trying Out Free OSes & Giving Back · 3 points · by saundby · no comments
• Line Rider for stocks? · 3 points · by geuis · no comments
• Programming Languages Aren't · 3 points · by BigZaphod · 1 comment
• Yahoo's Zimbra e-mail program exposes passwords · 3 points · by holdenk · 1 comment
• On deployment · 2 points · by eries · no comments
• Baltic-avenue: open source clone of the Amazon S3 REST API on Google AppEngine · 2 points · by catastrophic · no comments
• How to land a 747 · 2 points · by rms · 1 comment
• The accidental pornographer · 2 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Vegetable Oil and Homicide · 2 points · by kingkongrevenge · 1 comment
• How to learn Erlang (or any functional programming language) · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Skydeck gets boost for service that reminds you to call your Ma · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• "Grid" + Large Hadron Collider (LHC) = Faster Internet- Times Online · 2 points · by ALee · no comments
• Printed Circuit Board (pcb): All You Need to Know · 2 points · by ionela · 1 comment
• Electricity - allows Ruby and Erlang to talk using an Erlang port to a Ruby process · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Do URLs Matter to Normal People? · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• What is the value of formal organisational structures? · 2 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• Networking Cheatsheets · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• How Good Are Your Critical Thinking Skills? · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• With entrepreneurship you can't afford a big ego · 2 points · by known · no comments
• Mobile phones to track carbon footprint · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• The road to Nirvana · 2 points · by vincekrish · no comments
• Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm · 2 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• VCs and Startups won't be immune to the credit crunch · 2 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• Even worse than software patents · 2 points · by bocajuniors · 2 comments
• Rules of Productivity · 2 points · by spydez · no comments
• Development Tools I Use & Recommend · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Evolving predator drones · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Dow Crashes. Down 400 points in 10 minutes. · 2 points · by rokhayakebe · no comments
• Ron Paul Voted No To Bailout Package · 2 points · by furiouslol · no comments
• Gartner: Cloud Computing Causing Confusion · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• What’s like to work at Microsoft (part 1 of n) · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Ripening FreshDirect · 2 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Beta Program - Looking for Early Adopters · 2 points · by MediaF · no comments
• Digg to Expand its Data Center Network · 2 points · by 1SockChuck · no comments
• 101 Ways To Destroy Your Tribe · 2 points · by mcxx · no comments
• Stocks plummet, but tech stocks fall even faster · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Now on Twitter: 37signals' Jason Fried · 2 points · by ReidReid46 · no comments
• Experience in Japan offers solution to financial crisis · 2 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Microsoft Updates Hotmail: Faster Interface and More Storage · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• It may seem unfair, but a bailout is essential · 2 points · by dpapathanasiou · no comments
• Developing a jQuery Plugin · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• MIT scientists move closer to creating 'artificial noses' · 2 points · by makimaki · no comments
• A Guide to Choosing Colors for Your Brand · 2 points · by puns · no comments
• Extending Classes in Objective-C With Categories · 1 points · by jonhohle · no comments
• Ask HN: Why do we still have an Electoral College in the US? · 1 points · by jcromartie · 4 comments
• American Express "Venture Capital" Commercial · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• RWW Predictions: Will eBay Sell StumbleUpon? · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Long or Short Capital » SEC Wants to Blow Your Mind - Paying Dividends Since Q1'06 · 1 points · by helveticaman · no comments
• Elon Musk's SpaceX Did It — Falcon 1 Made it to Space · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Elon Musk Interview Sept 26, 2008 · 1 points · by zandorg · no comments
• Experimental Port of Valgrind Memory Debugger for Mac OS X · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Having a business idea · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• Computers figuring out what words mean · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Don't return status codes (or null) from your methods · 1 points · by jwilliams · 1 comment
• What goes up must come down. You can't get something for nothing. · 1 points · by sutro · no comments
• Old people Facebook disasters · 1 points · by namin · no comments
• JQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Story Musgrave: Why Space, Why Explore? · 1 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• Linux for Older PCs : From Ubuntu to Vector Linux · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• A "Microscope" for Exploratory Computer Science Permalink · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• What’s the Right Business Model for a User-Generated Review Site? · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Sociocast launches new personalized content delivery platform · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• An iPhone Opinion Extravaganza · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Fascinating Jorge Luis Borges Story About a Man With a Perfect Memory · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Ruby Performance Tools · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Full-text US Patent Database · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Scala Syntax Primer · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• The Bellic School of Management Training · 1 points · by knarf · 2 comments
• Memcached and Terracotta : Alternatives or Complementary ? · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Speeding up Solid-State Drives · 1 points · by habs · no comments
• Economic crisis of the virtual kind · 1 points · by aaron_vernon · no comments
• The Ford Model T turns 100 · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Conquering Malaria Once and For All · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• MacArthur awardees 2008 for science · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• FireStatus - A Status Update Utility for Twitter, Facebook & FriendFeed · 1 points · by orli · no comments
• The 25 Most Influential People on the Web · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Google.org's ‘Threat Detective’ against diease epidemics: 'hot spots' from search queries? · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Which security strategy takes more time - configuration or coding? · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• To explore Space, use big robots and big rockets · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• IPhone Safari 3D Navigation Menu · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Why the banks collapsed and how a paper on Haskell can help stop it happening next time · 1 points · by arockwell · 1 comment
• Why isn't this news? · 1 points · by Anon84 · 1 comment
• Niche social network Uber.com shuts down today · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Charlie Brooker: Go on holiday, they said... · 1 points · by andyking · no comments
• BT to kick off fresh Phorm trial · 1 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Fitting Into My Routine · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• How to write your own custom DataMapper adapter · 1 points · by pius · no comments
• How I Evaluate Strategic Positioning Of Ad Networks · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• A couple things to improve your 404 page · 1 points · by RobbieStats · no comments
• Fate of Wachovia: Citigroup buys its bank ops. · 1 points · by newt0311 · no comments
• ReichOS: Computing after an Axis victory · 1 points · by maxwell · no comments
• How Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments could be applied to greenhouse gas emissions. · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Social Media ABC's - N is for Netiquette · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• The Technology of Memory · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Tougher standards, dumber students. [video] · 1 points · by Alex3917 · no comments
• Sprint's WiMax: Comcast Who? We'll Choke BitTorrent If We Want To · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• The Decline of Print Journalism? · 1 points · by byrneseyeview · 1 comment
• The Admissions Office Finds Facebook · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Videos from DjangoCon 2008 · 1 points · by rnesh · no comments
• Background tasks on appengine · 1 points · by nikils · no comments
• Superior Lamp Inc · 1 points · by niken · no comments
• Teaching robots · 1 points · by mrtron · no comments
• DropSend sold - but how easy is it to flip a web app these days? · 1 points · by blackswan · no comments
• Using Rails to serve different content to humans and robots · 1 points · by mhartl · no comments
• Open Source Software a Booster Shot for Health Care? · 1 points · by normchow · no comments
• Thomson Reuters Takes Virginia to Court over Zotero · 1 points · by normchow · no comments
• Getting started with FPGA DSP designs · 1 points · by ionela · 1 comment
• Anatomy of a flawed microbenchmark · 1 points · by qwph · no comments
• Facebook Tries Fair And Balanced Route, Adds Republican Lawyer · 1 points · by vascoos01 · no comments
• Congress Gets Closer to Forcing a Broadband Census · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Startup Scalability Strategies: How Important Is Being Scalable? · 1 points · by aschobel · no comments
• Iceland’s Future Could Be Electric (freedom from fossil fuels by 2050) · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Firefox Minefield: Faster Than Chrome · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Multihoming with INETS · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• If You Could Track Anything, What Would You Track? · 1 points · by urlwolf · no comments
• The Blue Screen of Nonsense · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• House Rejects Bailout For US Financial Markets · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Cloud computing conundrum causing confusion · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• PopGist: Yahoo Search Results in Context · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• House Votes Down Rescue Plan - TheStreet.com · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Command your tasks · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Why we ‘use’ so many browsers · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Calling JavaScript functions in the Web Browser Control · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Mind the gap: The world's biggest cruise ship squeezes out of dock and sets sail · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• DoodleBuzz: Typographic News Explorer · 1 points · by apgwoz · no comments
• Financial crisis would have worsened in spite of the bailout · 1 points · by furiouslol · no comments
• Palin Claimed Dinosaurs And People Coexisted · 1 points · by noor420 · no comments
• Test HTTP response with various status codes · 1 points · by arthurk · no comments
• "Just" use XML · 1 points · by henning · no comments
• More than 500 newspapers sign up for AP Member Marketplace · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Alarm sounded on second-hand network kit · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers (Usability Guidelines) · 1 points · by dangoldin · no comments
• How start-ups can survive · 1 points · by psogle · no comments
• Gritty Entrepreneurs: Jigsaw, a Profitable Web 2.0 Venture · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Open Video Project · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• MooTools Essentials · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Google Hot Trends reflects voter interest -- and anger -- over the bailout vote · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Everyone hates ComScore · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• JQuery Tips: Text Searching, Page Load Time and Others · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• How To Write An Effective Design Brief and Get The Design You Want · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Marathons vs. Sprints - a response to Calacanis · 1 points · by marketer · no comments
• MogileFS: Open Source Distributed Filesystem · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Cloud + Client · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Little Known Ways to Ruby Mastery by James Edward Gray II · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments