Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs · 153 points · by makimaki · 44 comments
• How Difficult is it to Write a Compiler? · 119 points · by breck · 48 comments
• The Extraordinary Happenings At BitTorrent · 76 points · by makimaki · 27 comments
• Ask HN: you're rich, now what? · 66 points · by ryanwaggoner · 152 comments
• Advice to Incoming Freshmen in Computer Science · 64 points · by brooksbp · 49 comments
• Screencast on writing a ray tracer in Common Lisp · 49 points · by kirubakaran · 3 comments
• Lawrence Lessig: The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal · 48 points · by twampss · 22 comments
• My Seth Godin decline letter. Thoughts? · 45 points · by bkj123 · 73 comments
• If you have to lay people off, don't do it this way · 44 points · by ccraigIW · 19 comments
• 321 Vim colorschemes · 41 points · by mapleoin · 12 comments
• Truck driver conducted a decade of research to build accurate replica of Hiroshima bomb · 40 points · by mhb · 6 comments
• WSJ made to believe Google abandons strict net neutrality · 39 points · by ckinnan · 30 comments
• Books programmers don't really read · 36 points · by mlLK · 15 comments
• Eliminating the Programmer · 36 points · by lief79 · 16 comments
• I haven’t given up on PHP — yet · 35 points · by nreece · 49 comments
• The Yawn Explained: It Cools Your Brain · 35 points · by eisokant · 24 comments
• SC, an s-expression based front end to C · 34 points · by ngvrnd · 16 comments
• You can now build apps for Yahoo mail without plugins (let's hope gmail is next?) · 27 points · by auston · 15 comments
• Ask YC: What Are Your Biggest Marketing/PR Problems As A Startup? · 26 points · by nathanburke · 21 comments
• Selling ideas to a big company · 25 points · by bdfh42 · 18 comments
• Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part II: repeat.vim · 21 points · by twampss · 7 comments
• Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning · 17 points · by atarashi · 6 comments
• Some iPhone apps should not be written in Cocoa · 17 points · by jrnkntl · 14 comments
• Social Networking Anti Patterns · 16 points · by theblackbox · 7 comments
• Twitter Joins The Google Friend Connect Party · 16 points · by dell9000 · 7 comments
• Pip: easy_install replacement · 15 points · by de_guzman · 1 comment
• Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest · 14 points · by soundsop · 22 comments
• LShift is terrified by asynchronous libraries performance · 14 points · by bandris · 9 comments
• News You Can Lose · 14 points · by davidw · 5 comments
• Syntax matters · 13 points · by osi · 3 comments
• Yudkowsky And De Grey Discussion on Aging · 13 points · by jonmc12 · 2 comments
• Australian Startup Index - Dec 08 · 12 points · by geedot · 3 comments
• Google v. Microsoft, and the dev:test ratio debate · 12 points · by greyman · 8 comments
• @Twitter: Welcome to Google Friend Connect · 12 points · by raju · no comments
• Physicists Build 10 Atom Transistor · 12 points · by Darmani · no comments
• Poll: What experiment to run on AWS mechanical turk? · 11 points · by adatta02 · 13 comments
• The power of OS X hot keys unlocked · 11 points · by twampss · 2 comments
• Mother Nature takes out the Northeast · 11 points · by ccraigIW · 10 comments
• 5 Minute Blog Using Nitrogen and CouchDB · 10 points · by nreece · 8 comments
• Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update with lots of bug fixes · 10 points · by nickb · 3 comments
• The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World · 9 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• In defense of complex financial derivatives · 9 points · by syntaxfree · 6 comments
• Apple Wrongly Rejects iPhone App for Use of Private APIs · 7 points · by raganwald · 1 comment
• Official Google Blog: Net neutrality and the benefits of caching · 7 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Good Math, Bad Math : Wind-Powered Perpetual Motion · 6 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Reverse Engineering "Marketing" · 6 points · by aikiai · 1 comment
• Google Adds Ads to Image Search... It Really Sucks. · 6 points · by mrtwitter · 8 comments
• Ask HN: Gaming Startups · 6 points · by happylancer · 2 comments
• Completely homebuilt computer running Minix · 6 points · by wooby · no comments
• Entrepreneurs are not overconfident (academic study) · 6 points · by emmett · 2 comments
• Ask YC: Twitter is the most exciting technology...? · 5 points · by mingyeow · 6 comments
• Meetup's Dead Simple User Testing · 5 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Yet another Lisp related screencast · 5 points · by kapuzineralex · 1 comment
• Native Client d**k-swinging met with fake Googasm · 5 points · by twampss · 11 comments
• Google off list of 20 most trusted companies · 5 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• Jason Calacanis: Why we built Mahalo Answers · 5 points · by makimaki · 4 comments
• Five Reasons Apple Should Open Source The iPhone · 5 points · by smikhanov · 2 comments
• Pygame ported to pyS60 for nokia phones · 5 points · by illumen · 1 comment
• Web Developer San Diego · 4 points · by sarvesh · 8 comments
• A Software Secretary that Takes Charge · 4 points · by lunchbox · no comments
• Google Turning Its Back on Network Neutrality? · 4 points · by ctingom · no comments
• Mahalo Answers: a Yahoo Answers slayer? · 4 points · by lordblackader · no comments
• Twitter produced $1m in revenue for Dell over the past year · 4 points · by nreece · no comments
• Stickam API Lets You Build Your Own Live Video Site · 4 points · by raju · no comments
• Brute Force Search of a DES Keyspace · 4 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Google Blog Search loses its bearings · 4 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Making a record is just one way a band can make money · 4 points · by mattjung · 5 comments
• Jakob Nielsen: Interaction Elasticity · 4 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Yahoo Announces Next Steps in Open Strategy · 4 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Immune System Works Better at Night · 4 points · by orph · 2 comments
• Biomass for energy might be both a sustainable and economical scenario. · 4 points · by ph0rque · 4 comments
• TCC : Tiny C Compiler · 4 points · by azharcs · 1 comment
• Hasbro Finally Drops Scrabulous Suit · 4 points · by peter123 · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Do RoR Developers Fall Within the 95/5% Rule? · 4 points · by Hume62 · 4 comments
• What’s Ruby’s future? · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• The Art of Giving Up · 3 points · by lemonysnicket · 1 comment
• Nintendo sales PS2 + PS3 + 360 sales · 3 points · by turbod · no comments
• Do Brands Belong on Twitter? · 3 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Microsoft releases its first-ever iPhone application · 3 points · by ccraigIW · 1 comment
• The Beatles vs. The Flock Of Seagulls - Is Your Company A One-hit Wonder? · 3 points · by mollylynn · 1 comment
• Morale important even after you have millions of dollars · 3 points · by dstowell · no comments
• News About the News Business, in 140 Characters · 3 points · by raju · no comments
• Tell HN - Awesome Book : 'The Creative Habit, Learn it and user it for life' · 3 points · by kirubakaran · 1 comment
• Ask YC: PHP Coding Standards? · 3 points · by trickjarrett · 4 comments
• Tumblr’s lead dev: Scoble doesn’t know what he’s talking about · 3 points · by raju · no comments
• The Cartoon that's Too Dangerous for the App Store · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Why Life Originated (And Why it Continues) · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Intel's Survey: Half of Women Would Give Up Sex Over Internet · 3 points · by ComputerGuru · 1 comment
• Compact (mini) keyboard recommendations wanted · 3 points · by raja · no comments
• WaterBoxx Enables Forest Growth in the Desert · 2 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Computer scientists who have founded companies · 2 points · by joubert · 1 comment
• Vista to XP "upgrade" triples in price to $150 · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• Fun with Ruby’s Abstract Syntax Trees · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• The Evil Santas of Science Fiction · 2 points · by gscott · no comments
• Japanese site tracks stinky areas using Google Maps · 2 points · by mhb · no comments
• Extending unemployment benefits · 2 points · by sarvesh · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Does your ACM chapter suck? · 2 points · by jmtame · 3 comments
• Finance Hack: Get 0% card offers as a way to refinance debt. · 2 points · by rglullis · no comments
• The Social Life of Routers: 1960s sociology experiment could hold the key to better Internet routing · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Content Types, HTTP And You · 2 points · by arthurk · no comments
• A better object oriented JavaScript · 2 points · by jmtulloss · no comments
• 31 years of Apple patent drawings: the breakthroughs, the bombs, the dead ends · 2 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Yahoo Removes 'Poison Pill' Severance Plan · 2 points · by boundlessdreamz · no comments
• Myths entrepreneurs tell themselves · 2 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Preview: Windows Azure Services Platform gives wings to .Net · 2 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Startup banks on making money from free broadband · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Putting the network back in social networking · 2 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• The Joy of Concatenative Languages Part 2: Innately Functional · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Falling asleep in class? Blame biology · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• The Case for Higher Gas Taxes (and Lower Income Taxes) · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Ask HN: Single Programmer Testing · 2 points · by dlytle · 4 comments
• Staying Innovative In a Downturn · 2 points · by raju · no comments
• [Google Tech Talks]: Faith, Evolution and (Functional) Programming Languages · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• How To Save Microsoft · 2 points · by charlesju · 1 comment
• A Look Back at Charles Ponzi the Schemer · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Scrum in under 10 minutes video · 2 points · by blackswan · no comments
• Dickens wrote 'A Christmas Carol' in six weeks while reducing his publisher to his printer · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• The case of the disappearing iTunes ringtones · 2 points · by technologizer · no comments
• What's The Value Of My Startup? · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Bogus WSJ Story on Net Neutrality · 2 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Here's Who's Getting Hired Right Now in Tech · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• The 17th Floor, Where Wealth Went to Vanish · 2 points · by blackswan · no comments
• Cross-domain POST with jsonptunnel.cgi · 2 points · by wooby · no comments
• Twitter Humiliates MySpace · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Downturn may turn techies to crime, say reports · 2 points · by jmtame · 1 comment
• Gaming Effects Versus Hollywood · 2 points · by bd · no comments
• Microsoft to Apple: Yes, your phone is better · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• Data Migration with HAppS · 1 points · by atarashi · no comments
• Zeroed out: Five steps toward restoring email inbox sanity · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Employee Training is Worthless, Educate and Develop Them Instead · 1 points · by markbao · no comments
• Prep sports 2.0: Webcasting catching on with schools · 1 points · by johns · no comments
• Wipee List and Twitter · 1 points · by slavingia · no comments
• The Entrepreneurial Year in Review · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Stress and lack of exercise are killing elephants, zoos warned · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Safer, Better, Faster: Addressing Cryptography’s Big Challenges · 1 points · by CaptainMorgan · 1 comment
• Lua Interpreter in Flash (Alchemy Port) · 1 points · by ed · 1 comment
• Detroit bailout bill may lead to more debt-investor insecurity · 1 points · by newt0311 · no comments
• Russian businessman trademarks smiley sign :-O · 1 points · by turbod · no comments
• Call Center Services & Recruitment Process Outsourcing · 1 points · by hogoworld · no comments
• Mahalo's 'Project A' launched · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Microsoft Launches Seadragon App for the iPhone · 1 points · by aneesh · no comments
• Will Twitter Replace RSS? · 1 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Have The Big Internet Companies Turned Their Back On Net Neutrality? | Techdirt · 1 points · by mattjung · no comments
• Rocking Restrictions · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Seadragon - first ever Microsoft application for the iPhone · 1 points · by brlewis · no comments
• Bugs Everywhere - a distributed bugtracker for Arch, Bazaar, GIT, Mercurial, RCS · 1 points · by wodow · no comments
• Lightview library got a makeover · 1 points · by staaky · no comments
• Interview with founders of BugMeNot/RetailMeNot · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Mozilla reverse-engineers OS X to add multitouch gestures to Firefox 3.1 for Mac · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Just how much time DO you spend on Twitter? · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• 21 Simple But Impressive Corporate Web Designs Of Top Brands · 1 points · by adnymarc · no comments
• The 7 deadly sins of IT management · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Microsoft sees 'huge increase' in IE attacks · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Final Chrome Version Boosts Speed, Compatibility · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Raising Capital · 1 points · by delano · no comments
• Microsoft: The Wal-Mart of software · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Microsoft Releases Its First iPhone Application · 1 points · by charlierosefan · no comments
• TechCrunch, Top Tech News Websites Feeling Economic Crunch · 1 points · by VizionQuest · no comments
• Solution of project Euler #2 · 1 points · by oscardelben · no comments
• TwitOrFit is Twitter-meets-HotOrNot · 1 points · by dell9000 · 1 comment
• Ubuntu solves terrorism · 1 points · by tholder · 1 comment
• How to end the recession (technically) · 1 points · by eru · 6 comments
• Startup Scene in New Delhi · 1 points · by vp · 1 comment
• The 4 Types Of Exits: M&A · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• CNN/SAI: Sony PlayStation 3 a "sinking ship" · 1 points · by jasonbentley · no comments
• Annual lobbying spending and number of lobbyists · 1 points · by helveticaman · no comments
• Scaling MySQL on a 256-way T5440 server using Solaris ZFS and Java 1.7 · 1 points · by bandris · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How to implement a custom rating system (with a declining date relevance)? · 1 points · by rksprst · 1 comment
• My Netbook Took Me Back To Windows · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Larry Wall on Perl · 1 points · by jHutton · no comments
• Coming to an End (Poetically) Quicker · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• GM weeps: BYD F3DM Plug-in Goes On Sale in China, 3 years before Chevy Volt · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Working with Erlang in Emacs · 1 points · by blackswan · no comments
• Amarok 2.0 released · 1 points · by azharcs · no comments
• My history of mobile devices from 1998 - today · 1 points · by dbreunig · no comments
• An iPhone nano at Macworld? No · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Two TwitterBots Are Better Than One · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• 40 Ways to deliver killer blog content in 2009 · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• "Smart Crash Reports" Tool for Mac OS X · 1 points · by makecheck · 1 comment
• Requesting some advice from hackers · 1 points · by geedelight · 1 comment
• PowerShell ABC's - B is for begin · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• LuckyCal on Thrillist · 1 points · by sanj · no comments
• Thinking in Scala vs Erlang · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• 10 Ways to Cut Down Web Development Time · 1 points · by adnymarc · no comments
• Smart Planet: Interview with Andy Stanford-Clark · 1 points · by eisokant · no comments
• Tim Draper on VC Today (video) · 1 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• Scott Adams Blog: Financial Markets Explained · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Why I’m backing Palm to make a comeback · 1 points · by mrspin · no comments
• Venture capital - Wikipedia · 1 points · by ctingom · no comments
• Using Git With An Alternate SSH Port · 1 points · by vthakr · no comments
• Some observers skeptical of Palm's "Nova" OS strategy · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• New iPod In-Ear Headphones reviewed: Apple's best yet · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• Forget the Bailout, Here's How to Save Detroit · 1 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• Consumers Trust Search Engines More Than Traditional Media · 1 points · by newmediaclay · no comments
• Why you need to be careful when using Chinese characters · 1 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Advertising Money Shifting to the Web · 1 points · by jeffesp · no comments
• Cloud computing comes to a PHP IDE · 1 points · by edb · no comments
• Seadragon Mobile: first AppStore application from Microsoft · 1 points · by smikhanov · no comments
• How to Get Results · 1 points · by blackswan · no comments
• The Reinvention of the Self · 1 points · by tyn · no comments
• The Google Non-Story On Network Neutrality · 1 points · by jmtame · no comments
• Yahoo Mail’s New App Platform · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• "Molecular Programming" [Video] · 1 points · by DTrejo · no comments