Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Stefano’s Linotype: Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design (CSS Guide) · 172 points · by alexandros · 42 comments
• Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic · 143 points · by mojombo · 23 comments
• Pixlr - the online image editor · 105 points · by baltoo · 48 comments
• Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes for free · 99 points · by tortilla · 30 comments
• The Young Man's Business Model · 65 points · by ntoshev · 14 comments
• Career Advice For Young Developers · 62 points · by nreece · 29 comments
• How We Made Our Face Recognizer 25x Faster · 57 points · by nickb · 13 comments
• 6 reasons why my VC funded startup failed · 43 points · by Tachikoma · 17 comments
• Introducing Amazon's Windowshop.com · 41 points · by wave · 28 comments
• Ask HN: I am delivering mediocre work and feel awful about it. Should I commit seppuku? · 41 points · by wynand · 49 comments
• SEO is bullshit · 40 points · by danw · 43 comments
• Microsoft launches Windows Azure, its "cloud OS" · 39 points · by bdfh42 · 62 comments
• Kevin Rose: Start Up During A Recession · 38 points · by Anon84 · 12 comments
• How This Bear Market Compares - Interactive Graphic · 36 points · by bradn · 4 comments
• Brain peaks at 39 years of age and declines thereafter · 33 points · by nreece · 25 comments
• A Gazillion-user Comet Server With libevent, Part 0 · 32 points · by alecco · 8 comments
• Steve Jobs: We Still Haven't Figured Out The Living Room · 27 points · by echair · 19 comments
• John Carmack's team wins XPrize's $350,000 Lunar Lander Challenge · 27 points · by bandris · 3 comments
• Google Earth Comes To The iPhone, And It’s Awesome · 25 points · by ciscoriordan · 2 comments
• ASH HN: How do I turn my Beta into Pay-ta · 25 points · by pwoods · 19 comments
• Senator "series of tubes" Stevens convicted on 7 felony counts · 24 points · by tptacek · 23 comments
• Cher Wang, the most powerful female tech executive you've never heard of · 21 points · by echair · 17 comments
• Linux applications gain new developers on Windows and OS X · 20 points · by habs · 1 comment
• Fred Wilson's Survival Matrix · 18 points · by lanceweatherby · 12 comments
• OCaml kicks ass on Tim Bray's Wide Finder 2 benchmark challenge. Again. · 18 points · by shadytrees · 9 comments
• Review my side project: www.recreationparks.net · 18 points · by tectonic · 23 comments
• Net startups slow their metabolism · 17 points · by amrithk · 4 comments
• Cocoa with Love: Debugging tips for Objective-C programming · 17 points · by jcwentz · 1 comment
• Obesity and (the loss of) Pleasure · 17 points · by robg · 2 comments
• Schneier on Obama Discussing Security Trade-Offs · 15 points · by saikat · 8 comments
• PowerTOP · 14 points · by known · 2 comments
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crash · 14 points · by Ztrain · 9 comments
• Introducing Google Earth for iPhone · 13 points · by tlrobinson · 3 comments
• Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft 'to transport millions' · 13 points · by gibsonf1 · 33 comments
• The Shape of the Cloud · 13 points · by astrec · 4 comments
• Colonia Dignidad: The Curious History of a German Cult in Chile · 12 points · by bradn · 2 comments
• Wall Street exports boomed with 'fools' born to buy debt · 12 points · by bootload · 15 comments
• Ask HN: What data about users and how they use your website do you wish you could collect? · 11 points · by endtwist · 13 comments
• Introducing Authgasm: "Rails authentication done right". · 10 points · by evdawg · 30 comments
• Google Scrambles to Patch Buffer Overrun Exploit in Android G1 · 10 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• Jason Calacanis on "The Death Spiral" · 10 points · by fnazeeri · 13 comments
• Betas of the Year 2005 - Where are they now? · 9 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• App School launch: TaskFive · 9 points · by swdesignguy · 1 comment
• Writing a compiler in Ruby bottom up - step 12 · 8 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Alarm raised on teenage hackers · 8 points · by razorburn · 11 comments
• Ask YC/Startups: How has fundraising been going for you? · 8 points · by shafqat · 20 comments
• I/O models: how you move your data matters · 8 points · by ice799 · no comments
• Android Garage Door Opener, part 2 · 8 points · by staunch · no comments
• A phone that photographs printed material and then reads it back. · 7 points · by robg · 2 comments
• Data 2.0 - Is your Application ready ? · 7 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Ask YC: Do I need to have breadth on accounting and laws? · 7 points · by log0 · 13 comments
• Small venture company bucks the economic winds · 7 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Dean Kamen: part man, part machine · 7 points · by marcus · no comments
• ASK HN: Slight Career Change · 6 points · by code_devil · 9 comments
• Fanboy Driven Development with Arc · 6 points · by twampss · no comments
• Australian government considers blocking porn and gambling sites · 6 points · by echair · 1 comment
• Twitter Goes Mainstream · 6 points · by jcwentz · 4 comments
• O'Reilly are doing a freely licensed book on CouchDB · 6 points · by nslater · no comments
• Windows Live Adds Support For OpenID, Calls It De Facto Login Standard · 6 points · by jaydub · no comments
• Traveling by zip line · 6 points · by astrec · 1 comment
• Baby duck syndrome - preferring an interface you already know · 6 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Appliance building with pfSense - Introducing pfDNS · 5 points · by geekgod · no comments
• "Cool, Determined, and Under 30" -- Inc. Mag's counter to WSJ Entitlement Article · 5 points · by skmurphy · 1 comment
• Really Simple Color Picker in jQuery · 5 points · by laktek · no comments
• [O'Reilly] Network Effects in Data · 5 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• OpenOffice.org Update Sets Downloads Record · 4 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• Where do you ask business related questions to get answered? · 4 points · by deltapoint · 4 comments
• Netflix brings online streaming to Mac with Silverlight · 4 points · by jacobscott · 1 comment
• Review my startup: JamRides - Carpool to events · 4 points · by jaytee_clone · 15 comments
• A Practical Theory of Programming (Free Book - PDF, PS) · 4 points · by nreece · no comments
• How do email addresses end up on spam lists? · 4 points · by gillyzammit · 4 comments
• New UK-focused technology venture capital fund · 4 points · by madmotive · no comments
• Computing is about to face a trade-off between sovereignty and efficiency · 4 points · by robg · no comments
• Not Possible to Use IE’s Web Slice Icon In Other Browsers · 4 points · by bdfh42 · 2 comments
• Capturing the Power of Trillions of Footfalls · 4 points · by ksvs · no comments
• Target micromedia · 4 points · by brm · no comments
• The iPhone App Store - A Classic Protection Racket · 4 points · by twampss · no comments
• The 48 Laws of Power - anybody read the whole thing? · 4 points · by brooksbp · 6 comments
• A Marketing Guy Nails the Problem with Software Companies · 4 points · by rams · 3 comments
• Is surfing the Internet altering your brain? · 4 points · by tortilla · 1 comment
• Ask HN: When do you scrap a startup due to a well-entrenched player/competitor? · 4 points · by callmeed · 6 comments
• Text Based GUI Prototypes · 4 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Google Earth comes to the iPhone (it's dazzling there, too) · 3 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Tech Facing The Tight Cash Crisis · 3 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• 5 Best URL Shrinkers · 3 points · by jwilliams · 5 comments
• eWeek: Windows Vista No Longer Matters · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Time to Leave the Laptop Behind · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• More women needed on trading floors · 3 points · by ritug84 · 5 comments
• Video of evolved virtual creatures (Karl Sims' genetic algorithms in Lisp from 1994) · 3 points · by csl · 1 comment
• Start-Up Empire = Start-Up School · 3 points · by ciscoriordan · 1 comment
• StartupEmpire – Canada's Conference for Startups · 3 points · by ciscoriordan · 2 comments
• Inspiron Mini 12: Dell’s Answer to the Air · 3 points · by bradn · no comments
• Archaelogists reconstruct detailed picture of Martin Luther's life · 3 points · by theoneill · no comments
• In Defense of Raising Money: a Manifesto for NonProfit CEOs · 3 points · by makimaki · no comments
• The Kurt Cobain Guide to Startup Success · 3 points · by ashleytowers · no comments
• How do you handle configuration control? · 3 points · by mironathetin · 8 comments
• Layoffs Hit Revision3 · 3 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• Ask HN: volunteering/giving back? · 3 points · by jacobscott · 3 comments
• Kathy Sierra: How to grow and nurture your community · 3 points · by danw · no comments
• Web form name fields: how to lose business & annoy customers · 3 points · by danw · no comments
• Jacking into the Brain: Is it the Ultimate Computer Interface? · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• CodeWeavers to Distribute Free Licenses as Result of "Lameduck Challenge" · 3 points · by ComputerGuru · no comments
• A lesson for bloggers: go to the source or look like a fool · 3 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Crazy JavaScript Web Framework · 3 points · by wooby · no comments
• Microsoft Azure Aims to Re-define the OS · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Your top productivity web apps? · 2 points · by deyan · 3 comments
• Qik Finally Brings Its Live Video Streaming To Blackberry · 2 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Dell Inspiron Mini 12... Tasty · 2 points · by berecruited · no comments
• 5+ Keyword Search Queries Account for 19% of All Searches · 2 points · by berecruited · no comments
• Kick Ass Fonts in Ubuntu: 3 Easy Steps · 2 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Apple: A Bigger Open Source Enemy Than Microsoft? · 2 points · by azharcs · no comments
• Preventing MySQL Injection Attacks With GreenSQL · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Niche Job board · 2 points · by junkbond · no comments
• How long until Apple is bigger than Microsoft? · 2 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Alabama Fat Tax - $25 A Month for certain insurance coverage (Free for non-fat folks) · 2 points · by sidsavara · 1 comment
• Global stock markets fall again · 2 points · by bradn · 1 comment
• Scaling and performance · 2 points · by vp · no comments
• Bret on Social Games: A Case for Cloning Games · 2 points · by martinsz · no comments
• Media's Presidential Bias and Decline - Slanted Election Coverage and the Reasons Why · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• MySpace Gives Up On The Netherlands · 2 points · by ksvs · no comments
• Scaling ActiveRecord with MySQLPlus + ConnectionPool · 2 points · by igrigorik · no comments
• Battle of the Thumb Drive Linux Systems · 2 points · by echair · no comments
• How to generate awesome test candidates for A/B testing · 2 points · by martinsz · no comments
• Ruby's Roots: Smalltalk Comeback and Randal Schwartz on Smalltalk · 2 points · by paulsb · no comments
• Exploring Clojure (Lisp on the JVM) - Part 3 - Some Language Features · 2 points · by jast · no comments
• Microsoft launches cloud platform Azure · 2 points · by andygeers · no comments
• A picture is worth a thousand passwords · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• GBF Ventures: Introducing: The GBF Germ Funding Program · 2 points · by tamirsen · 1 comment
• Twitter, Terrorist Hot Spot? · 2 points · by eoswald · no comments
• Windows Azure launches · 2 points · by joseakle · no comments
• Microsoft launches cloud-based OS Windows Azure · 2 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Yahoo's developer platform to launch next week · 2 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Boilerplate Legal · 2 points · by donniefitz2 · 1 comment
• Revision3 cuts shows including 'Pop Siren' and distribution deals including 'Wine Library' · 2 points · by fromedome · 2 comments
• Homework for the Perfect Startup · 2 points · by danw · no comments
• Microsoft Azure announced. Should Amazon worry? · 2 points · by tm · 1 comment
• Revision3 Removes Epic-Fu and Wine Library TV; Scoble Ponders a Restructuring · 2 points · by byosko · 1 comment
• Ask YC Startups: How is the economy treating you? · 2 points · by j2d2 · 1 comment
• Most Major Papers Continue Circulation Decline · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• PDC 2008: More Nitty Gritty Details on Azure · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Why a Bad Economy Rocks for SaaS Startups · 2 points · by lanceweatherby · no comments
• Australian scientists say bees can count to four · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Are New Video Networks In Trouble? · 2 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• Twenty Questions You'll Be Asked By Investors and VCs (If You Get That Far) · 2 points · by krisnair · no comments
• Helium Raises $17 Million, Lays Off 30 Percent of Employees · 2 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• Hypothesis Testing: The Basics · 2 points · by jfarmer · no comments
• Integrating TextMate and Pygments · 2 points · by acangiano · no comments
• West Virginia vote flipping caught on tape · 2 points · by philipn · no comments
• Further musings on the network effect and the cloud · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Black holes may not grow beyond certain limit · 2 points · by alexwg · no comments
• Microsoft to open up 'M' language · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Ask YC: Have you come across any good interface for a search engine? · 1 points · by cosmok · 7 comments
• Donate your bookmarks to Science · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Inner Goodness · 1 points · by PieSquared · no comments
• 2Advanced conference table · 1 points · by antidaily · no comments
• Trends in Internet Advertising: Banner ads share declining, Keyword based search on a rise... Ask HN: What does it indicate?? · 1 points · by ritug84 · 1 comment
• RWW Predictions: Facebook Music Coming Soon? · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Micro Persuasion: Mahalo Launches Incentive Program to Spur Use · 1 points · by ashishk · no comments
• Tech Finance Defaults Rise; More Makers Offer Loans · 1 points · by ashishk · no comments
• MySQL Slave Delay Explained And 7 Ways To Battle It · 1 points · by archon810 · no comments
• Why Language Classes Don’t Work: How to Cut Classes and Double Your Learning Rate · 1 points · by jwilliams · 1 comment
• Qik Teases BlackBerry Users with Alpha for Pearl and Bold · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• TuneCore raises $7 million for music distribution services · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Rich presence support on the XMPP network · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Has Adobe Lost Its Mind? · 1 points · by qhoxie · 3 comments
• MySQL talks with Johan Wikman, Father of MySQL on Symbian/S60. (part 1 of 3) · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• TuneCore Takes $7 Million To Help Artists With Digital Sales · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• How long is a 'long term investment' - Updated with dividend reinvestment · 1 points · by tomsaffell · no comments
• Depressed astronauts to find high-tech comfort · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• PluggedIn Connects With iJustine For Online Music Show · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Economy overshadows all for heartland voters · 1 points · by titicat59 · no comments
• Getting design sign off · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• For iDrive 4.0, BMW Decides to Bring Back a Few Buttons · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Even Scammers Are Affected By Credit Crisis · 1 points · by gillyzammit · no comments
• Clever AC/DC Music Video in Microsoft Excel · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Next Bubble To Burst: Tech Financing (e.g., Cisco) · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• The Fall of the House of Crunch · 1 points · by twampss · 1 comment
• Even if Royalties for Web Radio Fall, Revenue Remains Elusive · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• Web 2.0 has crept into the everyday work place, FaceTime reports · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• The Brain Unveiled: New Imaging Method Offers Spectacular View of Neural Structures · 1 points · by bradn · no comments
• This should_raise an exception (Ruby + Shoulda) · 1 points · by possiblemat · no comments
• Social Tools - Shareaholic · 1 points · by rstan251 · no comments
• Hitler a hot political topic these elections, says Twitter · 1 points · by thenextweb · no comments
• The J-Curve: The Evolving Value Of A VC Portfolio · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Is the global economy melt-down the USA's fault? · 1 points · by modoc · 1 comment
• Grantham: S&P 500 bottom between 600-800 in the next two years? (see last page) · 1 points · by zurla · no comments
• Equal Chances for Equal Talent · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• From Stone to Silicon: A Brief Survey of Innovation · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Boston startup's 'portable eye' translates cellphone pics of text into speech · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• Biofuel flying will take off in three years, says Boeing · 1 points · by theoneill · no comments
• Soulseek (P2P filesharing) for iPhone · 1 points · by nir · no comments
• Douglas Crockford: "Quality" · 1 points · by anthonyrubin · no comments
• Microsoft Goes Far Afield to Study Emerging Markets · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• Future of Media & Ads: A survey · 1 points · by jyothi · no comments
• Nothing demonstrates love like a custom ROM hack · 1 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• A real-world lesson in venture financing · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• The Personal Genome Project hits the Web · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Hello Cloud: Windows Azure brings Microsoft into the cloud · 1 points · by martinsz · 2 comments
• Startups show their wares at Web2Expo Europe · 1 points · by martinsz · no comments
• Technical white paper on Microsoft's Windows Azure (Word doc) · 1 points · by razorburn · no comments
• China Channel Firefox Add-on · 1 points · by pretz · no comments
• Appnr - Synaptic For Your Browser (Ubuntu) · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Open source: How e-voting should be done · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• A new AJAXian web application · 1 points · by vladimir · no comments
• DZOIC releases the version 3.6 of their white label social networking software Handshakes · 1 points · by mg1313 · no comments
• Python Grimoire · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Unexpected rise in new US home sales · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Lessons from the last crash · 1 points · by fnazeeri · no comments
• Open Solaris + MySQL + ZFS Success Story in Production at SmugMug · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Will_paginate and Merb · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• A bunch of Terms of Service (TOSes) · 1 points · by racerrick · no comments
• Obama is Google while McCain is AOL (Candidates as well know brands) · 1 points · by yaj · no comments
• Microsoft Announces Windows Azure Cloud Services Platform · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• MTV launches a Hulu for music videos · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Is Amazon Ready For The Enterprise? · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• VC performance dips but stays strong through Q2 · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Popcap to shut down site for its latest game · 1 points · by newsit · no comments
• Greenpeace: Enery [R]evolution · 1 points · by mapleoin · no comments
• Why Doesn't Google Remove Malware Pages? · 1 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• A Spot on myPunchbowl · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Memiary + Lessons of a Weekend Entrepreneur - Rev2.org · 1 points · by smoody · no comments
• Ask HN - Now a good time for a services company? · 1 points · by mikeryan · 2 comments
• RPC Server for Erlang, In Scala · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Microsoft Windows Live Supports OpenID · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Campaigns Hit Economic Themes in Key State of Ohio · 1 points · by arturseg57 · no comments
• The tel URI for telephone numbers · 1 points · by soundsop · 2 comments
• Apple to sweeten Snow Leopard with more Cocoa · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Google Opens Android Market to Developer Submissions · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Amazon’s WindowShop Offers A Sleek Interface For The Online Megastore · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• YouTube Shows Off API With ActionScript 3 Demo · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Symbaloo - Life in Boxes (poetically so) · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Windows Live is now an OpenID Provider · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• GitHub Rebase #1 · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Microsoft releases "limited distribution" Surface SDK to PDC developers · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Cool Cell Phone [PIC] It is called "ring-cellphone" and designed by Tao Ma · 1 points · by stacy66b · 1 comment
• Why Talent is Overrated · 1 points · by Mrinal · no comments
• HearWhere Lets You Discover Live Music In Your Neighborhood · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Neurobotics - Talks about how brain signals can control prosthetic limbs (video) · 1 points · by wave · no comments
• Microsoft's cloud strategy? · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• The Bet That Blew Up Wall Street · 1 points · by pbnaidu · no comments
• Matchmine Flames Out Suddenly - "Matchkey" Recommendation Technology Never Caught On · 1 points · by waderoush · no comments
• Visualization Lab from NY Times and IBM · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• New 'Electricity From Water' System Uses No Movable Parts · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Microsoft Releases a Technology Preview of OpenID · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Review My Startup: Feedbeater · 1 points · by diffbot · 2 comments