Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Why thinking in the shower may be an ideal model for "creative pause" · 66 points · by danw · 35 comments
• Startup founder evolution (or, the biz guy *is* valuable, just not at first) · 53 points · by ph0rque · 16 comments
• A Letter from Iceland: A World without Money · 52 points · by tortilla · 22 comments
• Salary history: Just say no · 45 points · by prakash · 63 comments
• Unhappy people watch TV, happy people read/socialize · 41 points · by alex_c · 35 comments
• Ask HN: Review our startup (bitloot) · 41 points · by drewcrawford · 56 comments
• Laid-Off Tech Worker Kills 3 in Silicon Valley · 39 points · by Mistone · 56 comments
• Ask HN: How do you write a book? · 33 points · by zeynel · 26 comments
• Twelve virtues of rationality · 28 points · by Hexstream · 17 comments
• Clojure Setup · 27 points · by briancooley · 8 comments
• How to be a programmer - short book under gnu free documentation license. · 24 points · by socratees · no comments
• Solo Science: Tinkering outside the tower · 24 points · by robg · 2 comments
• How To Get My Job · 23 points · by teaquaffer · 4 comments
• How To (really) Trust A Mathematical Proof · 19 points · by nickb · 17 comments
• Nate Silver of 538 Signs With Penguin In Two Book Deal · 16 points · by brm · 4 comments
• Just be Glad You Aren’t Pythagoras’ Student… · 15 points · by MikeCapone · 8 comments
• An ever-compiling quine in Scheme · 15 points · by wingo · no comments
• 10 tips for optimizing mySql queries · 14 points · by socratees · 5 comments
• Outrageous success - genius or hard work ? Malcolm Gladwell analyses. · 12 points · by whyleyc · 7 comments
• Bust finally reaches technology industry · 10 points · by jbrun · 4 comments
• From Vim to Emacs - part 2 · 9 points · by silentbicycle · no comments
• The Decline and Fall of Agile · 9 points · by bdfh42 · 4 comments
• Your Favorite NP-Complete Cheat · 9 points · by bdfh42 · 2 comments
• VirginTech: Ignore Chat messages link with heysan.com · 9 points · by mattmaroon · 6 comments
• The Development of the C Language (Dennis Ritchie) · 8 points · by qwph · 1 comment
• Google voice search available on iPhone now · 8 points · by socratees · 2 comments
• Introducing: The Facebook Phone · 6 points · by cbetta · no comments
• Speeding Up Rails Development · 6 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Fastcompany writer complains about sexism on Digg. Digg bans 20-30 users for hate speech. · 6 points · by makimaki · 2 comments
• AskHN: What browser and browser plugins do you use? · 6 points · by vaksel · 11 comments
• Venture Debt - The "Other" Green Money · 6 points · by mollylynn · no comments
• The outsiders: Johnny Marr on the misfits and mavericks who make music magical · 5 points · by parenthesis · 1 comment
• The Art of Assembly Language · 5 points · by t0pj · 1 comment
• Monkey Business · 5 points · by ojbyrne · no comments
• Top Ten Software Engineering Concepts · 5 points · by prakash · no comments
• Grand Theft Auto meets WOW: More subscription based games coming soon · 5 points · by scottycrystal · no comments
• You are 80% less likely to die from a meteor landing on your head... · 5 points · by baha_man · no comments
• Man who lost job at Santa Clara startup killed 3 · 5 points · by reazalun · 1 comment
• My coding practices in 1991 · 5 points · by aaco · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How would you deploy a Rails app onsite for a customer? · 4 points · by callmeed · 4 comments
• A cool idea: Using Parser-Generators for Protocols Like SMB, RPC [LtU] · 4 points · by tptacek · 1 comment
• MiniTask - Minimalist task management · 4 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Which Member of the Startup Tribe Are You? · 4 points · by mollylynn · 1 comment
• Economic indicator: Spam sales are up · 4 points · by razorburn · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What are your experiences with remote support software? · 4 points · by Flemlord · 8 comments
• The A-B-C's of Mass Customization: 26 companies/people changing manufacturing · 4 points · by replicatorblog · no comments
• Record Labels to Sue Vuze, Limewire and SourceForge · 4 points · by raju · 2 comments
• Who Would You Finance? Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn? · 4 points · by matthewmeredith · 2 comments
• John Doerr: Seeking salvation and profit in greentech [video, TED] · 4 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• Elevator Pitch Friday: Truevert, The Green Search Engine · 3 points · by trs90 · 1 comment
• Add an image to any flat surface in a video · 3 points · by 13ren · no comments
• Advice for Peldi (Balsamiq Response) · 3 points · by jbyers · 2 comments
• Net Neutrality: AT&T Has Change of Heart? · 3 points · by jmtame · 2 comments
• When software builders become product stakeholders · 3 points · by jasonb05 · no comments
• Grand Plans - Starting Up for Under $1000 in 1999 · 3 points · by catone · no comments
• 10 steps to winning YC · 3 points · by einarvollset · 1 comment
• Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? · 3 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Golden Rule for Startups · 3 points · by paraschopra · 1 comment
• Tech Industry Feels a Slump · 3 points · by nreece · no comments
• The Fast, Good and Cheap Pricing Method · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• A sad day in Silicon Valley. Startup employee gets fired, kills 3 people. · 3 points · by rokhayakebe · 1 comment
• Apple’s enterprise strategy the same as it ever was · 3 points · by raganwald · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Are XFN links and FOAF popular enough to base a startup idea on them? · 3 points · by SingAlong · 1 comment
• For Sale: Clean, Lightly Used IP Address? · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Twitter’s Hockey Stick Moment · 3 points · by wird · 1 comment
• Google adding voice search to iPhone · 2 points · by s3graham · no comments
• ZunaVision: Easily embed pictures, logos, and videos within other videos · 2 points · by darragjm · 1 comment
• Easy Multi-Database Support for Django · 2 points · by arthurk · no comments
• Study Shows How We Evolved Different Personalities · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Tick Tock - An Air Powered Scooter · 2 points · by pchristensen · no comments
• YouTube Geo Search + Gears Geolocation = Find Flix Near You · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Classic Graphic Novel, The Watchmen, trailer · 2 points · by kwamenum86 · no comments
• Ask HN: where do you post job ads? · 2 points · by rustartup · no comments
• Yahoo Layoffs Set for December 10 (And, No, Jerry Yang Is Not Leaving Too) · 2 points · by raju · no comments
• CohesiveFT VPN-Cubed: Not Your Dad's Encrypted Tunnel · 2 points · by Archimedius · no comments
• Techcrunch asks, is Obama ready to be a two-way president? · 2 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• U.S. colleges scour China for top students · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Book Review - The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Why Obama should fill his Cabinet with geniuses · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Some people see a great deal and some see very little in the same things. · 2 points · by andreyf · no comments
• Ask HN: Virtual gifts vs real-world prizes? · 2 points · by mdolon · 2 comments
• Study Finds GoogleDocs Struggles to Gain Foothold in Productivity Market Dominated by MS · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Myth #5: Rails is hard because of Ruby · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• From the Failure of Zoints to Ownership in Modular Innovation · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• How To Move Your Outlook And Windows Mobile Contacts To Your T-Mobile G1 · 1 points · by VizionQuest · no comments
• The Shape of the World to Come: Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• A photobucket full of rhymes · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• What Leaders Need to Do Right to Move Up · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Simpleweather.com for sale · 1 points · by soundsop · 1 comment
• Google's voice search: Why on iPhone, not Android? · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Why Spending Stimulus Plans Fail · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Obama to post fireside chats on youtube · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Goalkeepers' bias for doing something · 1 points · by helveticaman · no comments
• Wal-Mart Now Going After Search Engines For Linking To Sites With Black Friday Ads · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Getting The Fill (aka buying on the way down) · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Susan Crawford named for fcc review. · 1 points · by chris11 · no comments
• Update on the GDR that is coming for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Ask HN: Is 400Mhz makes a huge difference in MacBook? · 1 points · by hwijaya · no comments
• Laid-Off Worker Kills CEO and Two Others at Santa Clara Semiconductor Startup · 1 points · by sutro · no comments
• Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• JQuery Solar System · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Chandrayaan...dates & milestones of the mission · 1 points · by rakesh4ever · no comments
• Django 1.0.1 released · 1 points · by arthurk · no comments
• Oblong's g-speak: 'Minority Report' UI brought to life · 1 points · by xavi · no comments
• Wikimapia - Let's describe the whole world · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Jaguar, World's Most Powerful Supercomputer · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• You play a $40 lottery @ TopCoder... to reduce your chances of winning · 1 points · by ideamonk · no comments
• Ask YC: What digital download solution are you using? · 1 points · by prime0196 · no comments
• Obama Names FCC Transition Team · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect · 1 points · by raju · 1 comment
• How to get and format date in a bat file · 1 points · by liamQ · no comments
• Misconceptions about testing (and what we should do about them) · 1 points · by arthurk · no comments
• Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World · 1 points · by bd · no comments
• A Respectful Blend of Old and New · 1 points · by cubix · no comments
• Rails Myth #4: Rails is a monolith · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Obama’s Talk With Clinton Starts Buzz · 1 points · by titicat59 · no comments
• Is the U.S. losing its edge? · 1 points · by volida · no comments
• Need help · 1 points · by Nonhacker · 2 comments
• Packages You Won’t Need a Saw to Open · 1 points · by jkopelman · no comments
• First Look At WordPress 2.7 | Weblog Tools Collection · 1 points · by wird · no comments
• Online Visualization Tool · 1 points · by wird · no comments