Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your new fancy web application? · 113 points · by nocivus · 25 comments
• Joel is giving away his software to Y Combinator startups · 93 points · by mhp · 48 comments
• CSSHttpRequest (CHR) is a method for cross-domain AJAX using CSS for transport. · 75 points · by tzury · 12 comments
• Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities · 55 points · by jeffbarr · 16 comments
• Ask HN: Need a host with some balls, offshore maybe? · 55 points · by needahost · 50 comments
• The Receptionist Test (The Interview before the Interview) · 54 points · by edw519 · 44 comments
• The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know · 49 points · by bdotdub · 33 comments
• Debian's Vim maintainer switches to Emacs · 49 points · by nickb · 32 comments
• Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up · 46 points · by lnguyen · 1 comment
• New York Times Running On Fumes · 46 points · by ashishk · 42 comments
• How Derek Sivers sold CD Baby for $22M without taking VC · 45 points · by vv · 25 comments
• Nassim Taleb and Benoit Mandelbrot on the Economy · 35 points · by nir · 18 comments
• GvR's Blog · 33 points · by kirubakaran · 13 comments
• Hacking the Amazon S3 SLA · 33 points · by cperciva · 4 comments
• Smashing the Clock (BestBuy's "location and hours do not matter" work style and an increase in productivity it caused) · 28 points · by strlen · 22 comments
• Reddit goes 'Independent,' says more deals to come · 25 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 8 comments
• The Age of Big War Has Passed · 24 points · by andreyf · 51 comments
• JavaScript Will Save Us All · 21 points · by mojombo · 6 comments
• Sun melting down, and where's Java? · 20 points · by kenver · 6 comments
• Is Anyone Buying the Googlephone? · 19 points · by walterk · 34 comments
• Sorting a million 32-bit integers in 2MB of RAM using Python · 18 points · by astrec · 7 comments
• 131 Rails Apps Launched This Past Weekend; You Get To Vote For The Best · 18 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Why you're drawn to mobile development · 18 points · by 100k · 6 comments
• Bank of America SiteKey man-in-the-middle attack demonstration · 17 points · by DavidSJ · 9 comments
• Linked-in: the money keeps rolling in · 17 points · by razorburn · 9 comments
• Don't know what startup to do? Try this · 17 points · by danw · 1 comment
• Beautiful Code Roundup · 13 points · by astrec · no comments
• Hedge funds turn out not to work: average fund down 17.6% for the year · 13 points · by pg · 43 comments
• CMU computer scientist creates problem-solving algorithm · 12 points · by edw519 · 13 comments
• How much does Linux cost? · 12 points · by newsit · 5 comments
• Ask YC: Rate My Start-up Markets.Com · 12 points · by Markets · 15 comments
• Is 39 the New 28 at Google? · 11 points · by jaydub · 7 comments
• WSGR Lawyer Strikes Gold with iPhone Apps · 11 points · by tix4luck2 · 5 comments
• Programming To Create Beauty · 10 points · by abossy · 4 comments
• Women in Silicon Valley · 10 points · by piers · 1 comment
• Werner Vogels: Using the Cloud to build highly-efficient systems · 10 points · by toffer · no comments
• A Million-user Comet Application with Mochiweb, Part 2 · 10 points · by cnu · 1 comment
• Ask YC: What great mac-only software do you recommend? · 10 points · by BenS · 14 comments
• Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller Than Mp3 · 10 points · by nreece · 16 comments
• You’ve got an idea, what now? · 10 points · by procyon · 2 comments
• 10 things your IT guy wants you to know. · 9 points · by edw519 · 10 comments
• Free Software Still Isn’t Understood · 9 points · by qhoxie · 3 comments
• Will Gmail Leave Anything For Me To Do on My Own? · 8 points · by ajbatac · 11 comments
• How to do an Xray with Sticky Tape as your xray Source · 8 points · by mark_ellul · 2 comments
• Cobol job market heating up · 8 points · by snydeq · 6 comments
• Cruz - A Social Browser for Mac OS X Leopard · 8 points · by ashishk · no comments
• Phone chargers - the truth · 8 points · by nickb · 8 comments
• Ask YC: feedback on my music recommendation app (round 2) · 8 points · by maryrosecook · 23 comments
• 10 Inspirational "How I did it" stories · 8 points · by astrec · no comments
• The sad truth about marketing shortcuts · 7 points · by yaj · no comments
• Startups & The Downturn · 7 points · by blakeperdue · no comments
• LinkedIn Announces $22.7 Million Infusion From SAP, Goldman Sachs, and McGraw Hill · 6 points · by markbao · no comments
• Segway Inventor Turns Mind to the Poor · 6 points · by robg · 2 comments
• Startuplet financial model, users · 6 points · by akhavr · 3 comments
• Virtual Murder results in Arrest · 6 points · by ojbyrne · 3 comments
• Commanding heights (3 x 2 hour video) · 6 points · by mixmax · 8 comments
• Apple Heads Off to School · 5 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• TheNewVote · 5 points · by bisceglie · 4 comments
• Git global ignores · 5 points · by possiblemat · no comments
• Jillian Tamaki Sketchbook: Idea Generation · 5 points · by brm · no comments
• Technology startups face the downturn · 5 points · by amrithk · 2 comments
• Shoppers are suckers for stats - even when they're meaningless · 5 points · by robg · no comments
• Google Maps API now offers reverse geocoding · 4 points · by bd · no comments
• Why Platforms Are Letting Us Down - And What They Should Do About It · 4 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• My Take on the Calacanis Email Missive · 4 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Ask HN: How should I approach selling ideas? · 4 points · by fbbwsa · 2 comments
• 7 Quick and Easy VBA Macros & Tips for Excel · 4 points · by Boydy · 1 comment
• Microsoft to rush out emergency Windows patch · 4 points · by snydeq · no comments
• IPhones Help Airlines Get a Little Greener · 4 points · by burento · 5 comments
• "Clojure for Lisp Programmers" Talk Summary · 4 points · by raju · no comments
• Computing In The Nucleus Of An Atom Achieved · 4 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code · 3 points · by nreece · no comments
• Email From Jason Calacanis: How To Handle Layoffs · 3 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• What is the culture of the cloud? · 3 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Benoit Mandelbrot on the Credit Crisis (Video) · 3 points · by gills · no comments
• Some Facebook Secrets for Better Operations · 3 points · by herdrick · no comments
• Typocalypse: what every font subliminally says · 3 points · by unalone · no comments
• Weblogs, Inc. Three Years Later: Impressive Page View And Revenue Growth · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Ex-Cisco SVP to Lead Andy Bechtolsheim’s Latest Switch Startup · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Social Web Usage Tipped in 2008 · 3 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Backlash over Microsoft's anti-piracy tactics · 3 points · by jwilliams · 2 comments
• TechCrunch on Racespace Acquisitions · 3 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Got a G1? Feeling Lonely? · 3 points · by twampss · 1 comment
• Reasons to move to a startup · 3 points · by Payton · 3 comments
• Why online advertising sucks, and is a bubble · 3 points · by makimaki · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Buying a new desktop · 3 points · by FraaJad · 8 comments
• The Cloud Is Shaping Up. Amazon Beefs Up EC2, Bechtolsheim Shifts His Attention To Arista · 3 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Ask HN: What are your favorite idea pitches? · 3 points · by Shamiq · 2 comments
• Tomboy now in Mac and Windows · 3 points · by yaj · no comments
• Collateral Damage: Why Windows Mobile will die. · 3 points · by ph0rque · 2 comments
• Recreating Linux Fedora 9 Would Cost 10.8 Billion · 3 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Mythbusting: Ideas Do Not Spread Because they are Good · 3 points · by alaskamiller · no comments
• The Importance of Writing Tools · 3 points · by jmtulloss · no comments
• Banks mine data & woo troubled borrowers · 3 points · by bootload · no comments
• Model-View-Controller Considered Harmful · 3 points · by nreece · no comments
• Succeeding in a Recession · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• How to Master Screencasts · 2 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• The Quine Page (self-reproducing code) · 2 points · by qwph · no comments
• The New York Times pubisher's seven "observations" for online media · 2 points · by ilamont · no comments
• How to conduct a market analysis · 2 points · by alexyim · no comments
• Nathaniel Branden on the Art of Living Consciously · 2 points · by matt1 · no comments
• Path to nowhere leads to success · 2 points · by ritug84 · no comments
• OneSeason.com: Trading Virtual Shares Of Players For Real Money · 2 points · by czstrong · no comments
• Zip Compressing ASP.NET Session and Cache State · 2 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• UCI Machine Learning Repository · 2 points · by iamwil · no comments
• Lisp50 @ OOPSLA 2008 · 2 points · by jayded · no comments
• What deal terms appear in down round and highly dilutive financings? · 2 points · by yokumtaku · no comments
• Visualizing Data with Flot · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• 3 steps to a fast, secure, and reliable application infrastructure · 2 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Guy Kawasaki: Reality Check · 2 points · by raju · no comments
• 5 Early Recommendation Technologies That Could Shake Up Their Niches · 2 points · by ntoshev · no comments
• Greiner leaving iRobot but will stay in robotics - 'enthralled with R2D2' · 2 points · by waderoush · no comments
• Video comparison: Web browser loading on Android G1 and iPhone 3G · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Harvard prof sues Google over ads on typosquatted domains · 2 points · by echair · no comments
• Pixolu - Find what you imagine · 2 points · by jwilliams · 2 comments
• Facebook Dreams Of Easy Music While Religious Battle Rages Internally · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• 7 Intellectual Property Resources Every Freelancer Should Know About · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Testfire of homebuilt rocket (same guy who built his own submarine) [video] · 2 points · by mseebach · 2 comments
• Looking for a Venture Capitalist or Angel Advisor · 2 points · by spoiledtechie · 8 comments
• Suggestions for Pursuing Big Ideas · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Our Vanishing Night: Most city skies have become virtually empty of stars. · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• FIFO Queue · 2 points · by ionela · 1 comment
• And now for the enterprise ... · 2 points · by razorburn · no comments
• ThinkPad W700 - The first 17-inch ThinkPad reviewed · 2 points · by thomas · no comments
• LinkedIn Reels in Another $22.7M in Funding · 2 points · by thomas · 1 comment
• How Bars Can Use Microsoft Surface Tables to Get You Drunk Faster Than Ever · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• App Stores galore - now Rim’s and Android Market · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• 2008 Startup Compensation Survey Results · 2 points · by fnazeeri · no comments
• Von Braun’s Spaceship from 1952 · 2 points · by mixmax · no comments
• Socialcast - Gritty Yammer Alternative · 2 points · by ashishk · no comments
• Mint.com founder: "Design is crucial to conveying trust" · 2 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Cloud computing may be the ultimate form of globalization · 2 points · by makimaki · 1 comment
• StickK − Change (of your habits) Starts Now · 2 points · by robg · 3 comments
• Introducing Gmail for mobile 2.0 · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• In case you thought peace studies was just a “Western” thing… · 2 points · by IGbarb19 · no comments
• Rails Rumble '08 Voting opens · 2 points · by bscofield · 1 comment
• Teens convicted of virtual theft · 2 points · by noodle · no comments
• I have some code for a music video site i tried to get going a while ago.. · 2 points · by willphipps · 1 comment
• Microsoft's U Rank Prototype Offers Custom, Social Search · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Slghtly unrelated to hacking.. · 2 points · by willphipps · 8 comments
• Ask HN: Best intro to Emacs, Latex, Python? · 2 points · by chris11 · 2 comments
• Politically Incorrect Statistics - Does Public-Transit Result in a Crime Boom? · 2 points · by sidsavara · 2 comments
• Interview With WellcomeMat Co-Founder Phil Thomas Di Giulio · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Netflix API Gets Love From Plaxo · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• MacRabbit is making a competitor to Panic's Coda - Espresso · 2 points · by ctingom · no comments
• Mars pioneers should stay there permanently, says Buzz Aldrin · 2 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• How Recessions Drive New Ideas · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Language Innovation: C# 3.0 explained · 2 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Complexity and Society · 2 points · by llimllib · no comments
• How Scala's type system works for your Domain Model · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• There's a Problem with Seed Capital in Africa · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Replacing obsolete video game circuits with Xilinx CPLDs · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Cadence Design Opens Probe · 1 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Facebook Connect and OpenID Relationship Status: “It’s Complicated” · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• 500GB MacBook Harddrive Upgrade for Under $100 · 1 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Video games not just for nerds anymore, IGN reports · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Load and Parse Awstats With PHP · 1 points · by 303 · no comments
• Who murdered the financial system? · 1 points · by ritug84 · no comments
• Resolved: The best versions of Windows are the minor ones · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Scientists without borders · 1 points · by mhb · no comments
• Touching Firefox - Firefox for OS X gets Multi-Touch Gestures · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Yes, Facebook Has 110 Million Users · 1 points · by martinsz · no comments
• Don’t Hold Your Breath For The Facebook Android App · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Alpha Version of Camino Mac Browser Debuts · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Five things your recruiter won't tell you · 1 points · by marketer · no comments
• London to get fleet of electric taxis · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Behind the Scenes at the World's Most Technologically Advanced Planetarium · 1 points · by astrec · no comments
• Web 2.0ver? · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• 70% of Tech Firms Fail to Utilize RSS · 1 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Free used items for you kids and baby · 1 points · by fungnyitfen · no comments
• Android and iPhone philosophies worlds apart · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Q&A with Facebook CEO · 1 points · by ritug84 · no comments
• Narau | a small island, lost riches, russian money laundering, · 1 points · by iamwil · no comments
• Meeting the man behind Moore's Law · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Ask YC: Any startup outside US using Amazon FPS? · 1 points · by laktek · no comments
• Flack watch: “This downturn is going to be good for us.” « · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• User-generated content and meta programming · 1 points · by Raphael · 1 comment
• Script your Scala application with JRuby, Jython, Groovy & JavaScript · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Health 2.0: Rules of Engagement · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• LivePipe: User Interface Components for Prototype · 1 points · by arjunlall · no comments
• Supersonic car targets 1,000mph · 1 points · by jsmcgd · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Using a hosted mail server with a CNAME that isn't your domain name · 1 points · by ScottWhigham · 4 comments
• Minefield - Future of Firefox · 1 points · by akshaye · no comments
• Superyachts of the rich and famous · 1 points · by portfolioexec · 3 comments
• Ten cheapest cars to own and operate · 1 points · by known · no comments
• Comcast to roll out faster Internet speeds - 50mbps · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Diversify Your Investments by Starting a Side Business · 1 points · by known · no comments
• LinkedIn Debuts B2B Market Research Network · 1 points · by jyothi · no comments
• Wikipedia's definition of truth (= appeared in a newspaper article) · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• Moblyng Lets You Build Slideshows On Your iPhone · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• 7 years ago this day, the music industry saw a new wave · 1 points · by jyothi · no comments
• What To Do What To Do? · 1 points · by rstan251 · no comments
• Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/Courier/MySQL/SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2009.0) · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• Another Stab at the Freemium Thesis · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Yale business school dean picked to run Apple University · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Raising funds for your start up in tough times · 1 points · by sonicjohnson · no comments
• Digital Business special report · 1 points · by davidw · 1 comment
• Socialcast: Gritty Yammer Alternative · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Agile: Managing your Backlog Size · 1 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Microsoft Live Labs Web Sandbox · 1 points · by bdfh42 · 1 comment
• A little collaboration can stop world hunger and poverty · 1 points · by rashmiranjan · no comments
• International science community to establish global virtual library for scientific data · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• What videogames teach us about security · 1 points · by webappsec · no comments
• Google Maps: Polling location information goes live · 1 points · by ashishk · no comments
• Startup news: Word-of-mouth social platform launched in Boston · 1 points · by tlib747 · no comments
• Amazon's EC2 Comes Out Of Beta - Now Supports Windows · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Out-of-Band security release for Windows · 1 points · by boredguy8 · no comments
• Using Science To Trick Your Body Into Feeling Full - Protein Coated Fats · 1 points · by sidsavara · no comments
• Self-Control and the Prefrontal Cortex · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Used GM EV1 Electric Car Sold for $465k? · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Marshmallow temptations: brain scans could yield vital lessons in self-control · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• NY council likely to extend term limit for Bloomberg · 1 points · by burento · no comments
• ABC Development · 1 points · by palish · no comments
• Amazon.com's feel-good free shipping comes at a cost · 1 points · by ilamont · 1 comment
• Emergency Microsoft Patch Issued, Exploit code in wild · 1 points · by webappsec · no comments
• What is an “unauthenticated user”? · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Private Access seeks to share health data for patients without giving up privacy · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Indexhibit: bare-bones CMS displays HTML pages, a navigation bar, and that's it. · 1 points · by unalone · 1 comment
• Gigapan Goes Commercial - Low-Cost Gigapixel+ photos · 1 points · by jonnytran · no comments
• Google deal blocked in Russia: cannot buy the contextual advertising company Begun yet · 1 points · by mg1313 · no comments
• 50 Worst Albumn Covers · 1 points · by geuis · no comments
• Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• A new imaging method offers a novel view of neural structures · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Ask HN: Google Phone/T-mobile in SF Bay Area · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• GM Volt to use high-tech li-ion batteries by LG Chem · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Ask HN: How to find the best buyers for your website/app · 1 points · by zzdds · 2 comments
• Woman jailed after 'killing' virtual husband · 1 points · by noodle · no comments
• The convergence of open source and SaaS · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• How to Ride the Recession the Steve Jobs Way · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Bill Clementson's Blog: Exploring Clojure (Lisp on the JVM) - Part 2 - Setup · 1 points · by apgwoz · no comments
• What is Web 3.0? · 1 points · by bincsearch · 1 comment
• Amazon: We Promise Our EC2 Cloud Will Only Crash Once A Week · 1 points · by ekrangel · 1 comment
• Greenspan "shocked" at credit system breakdown · 1 points · by Anon84 · 1 comment
• New Business Model for News: Make Other People Money · 1 points · by trs90 · no comments
• Microsoft reports record Q1 revenue · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• TED: TED inspires us to do some crazy things · 1 points · by spoiledtechie · no comments
• Here's a code snippet to load a BMP file, in case you need it. · 1 points · by palish · no comments
• Liveblogging: A Five-Step Framework for Achieving the Strategic Value of Cloud Computing · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• CMS with radical inline WYSIWYG editor and online help · 1 points · by basil · no comments
• Rebuilding New Orleans: Ten Coolest Innovators · 1 points · by astrec · no comments
• Thoughts from Rails Rumble Teams and Organizers · 1 points · by catone · no comments
• Deep in the rain forest, stalking the next pandemic · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Schedule tweets and other social network messages ahead of time · 1 points · by hamgav · no comments
• Microsoft Chugs Along In The Third Quarter, But Its Online Business Is Still Sucking Wind · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Interview with David Karp about how Tumblr is going to grow up and monetize · 1 points · by alaskamiller · no comments
• When your company should spend · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Perl 6 isn't vaporware · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Why Microsoft's SDL Missed MS08-067, in their own words · 1 points · by webappsec · no comments
• Startup I'd Like to See #1 · 1 points · by adammichaelc · no comments