Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS · 130 points · by yawniek · 16 comments
• Water-lensed eyeglasses offer promise of sight for millions · 89 points · by indiejade · 22 comments
• Joel Spolsky's resume tip for startup applicants · 85 points · by tptacek · 35 comments
• Balsamiq - A look back at 2008 · 74 points · by kapitti · 17 comments
• Jason Scott: "A terrible thing happened recently. You might have missed it." · 70 points · by unalone · 41 comments
• Python patch to speed things up to 20% · 67 points · by vaksel · 22 comments
• Survival tips if you find yourself in the Middle Ages? · 62 points · by robg · 98 comments
• The question is wrong · 50 points · by peter123 · 54 comments
• Dear Joyent · 41 points · by epall · 20 comments
• The $20 Theory of the Universe · 40 points · by fallentimes · 12 comments
• Weird Logos That Work (and Why They Do) · 35 points · by jwilliams · 12 comments
• Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy · 34 points · by raju · 22 comments
• 2008 - A Year of JavaScript · 33 points · by richtaur · 6 comments
• The Dragon in My Garage · 29 points · by markessien · 9 comments
• Do "interesting details" really hurt learning? · 28 points · by sant0sk1 · 9 comments
• Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired · 24 points · by ksvs · 23 comments
• Am I Still Here? · 22 points · by anthonyrubin · 5 comments
• Why your web startup will fail · 22 points · by joao · 7 comments
• Can Tipjoy Make Micropayments Into Megabucks? · 21 points · by echair · 18 comments
• Amimarginalized.com: Our experience with Appjet · 18 points · by adatta02 · 2 comments
• The (Mathematical) Theory and Practice of Juggling · 16 points · by jsomers · 1 comment
• PTLsim: cycle accurate x86 microprocessor simulator · 15 points · by signa11 · no comments
• Fixing Finance: A Slice of Danish · 15 points · by fallentimes · 9 comments
• Apple Should Buy Yahoo: Why I'm Now Convinced · 14 points · by nickb · 24 comments
• Who Owns Your Great Idea? · 14 points · by robg · 10 comments
• Gödel's ontological proof · 12 points · by hhm · 9 comments
• EBay shares lessons learned from designing site · 11 points · by marketer · 1 comment
• How Facebook Could Kill Twitter Overnight · 10 points · by peter123 · 29 comments
• How to run Linux from a USB drive · 10 points · by jwilliams · 1 comment
• Putting The Band Back Together · 9 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 1 comment
• Transform your browser into a lightning fast, cinematic way to discover the Web. · 9 points · by robg · 3 comments
• Dreamers and Doers - 'teaching' entrepreneurship at University · 8 points · by ashwinl · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Better Search For Wiki? · 8 points · by avner · 6 comments
• Taking a Closer Look at Leopard’s Guest Account · 7 points · by tll · 3 comments
• Resume with horizontal timeline and map · 7 points · by h34t · 7 comments
• The Macroeconomics of Information and Attention: How People Make Decisions · 7 points · by codeismightier · 6 comments
• Why couchdb is better than mysql · 7 points · by genetify · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Did you work on a personal project over the holidays? · 7 points · by aroon · 11 comments
• Plenty Of Fish Advertising on NYTimes · 6 points · by staunch · 3 comments
• The Big Cram to get into an elite High School as an 11 year old · 6 points · by robg · 12 comments
• The Truth About the "Robber Barons" · 6 points · by t0pj · 1 comment
• Parsers and Combinators · 5 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• Do ads work? · 5 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Mini, Micro Funds for App Developers · 5 points · by kanny96 · 2 comments
• Real VC Might Be The Safest Asset Class Today · 4 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Sending SMS - The best option for a startup? · 4 points · by Bplus · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Are Paid RSS Feeds Possible? · 4 points · by espadagroup · 6 comments
• Buy a Dodge Ram truck, get a Ram, PT Cruiser, or Dodge Caliber for free · 4 points · by robg · 3 comments
• Why We Keep Falling for Financial Scams · 4 points · by rglovejoy · 3 comments
• One or two spaces between sentences? · 4 points · by rvcx · 2 comments
• Gerald - A Python Schema Comparison Tool · 4 points · by nickb · no comments
• The secret to intellectual productivity · 3 points · by hhm · no comments
• Free Web Analytics Tools · 3 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Ask HN: SQLAlchemy for Java? · 3 points · by jmtulloss · 2 comments
• How the World of Goo became one of the indie video game hits of 2008 · 3 points · by smysore · no comments
• Protect Your Productivity: Block Incompetent Usability Annoyances · 3 points · by MaysonL · 1 comment
• Acting as a non-monetary economy · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• IPhone, MySpace, Facebook Race To Micropayments In 2009 · 3 points · by kleneway · 1 comment
• JPG’s dead. Why your advertising-funded business could be next… · 3 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Mars rovers roll on to five years · 3 points · by alexandros · no comments
• The year in IPv4 addresses: almost 200 million served · 3 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• HN Community is not immune to Recency Bias · 3 points · by hardik · 1 comment
• EMC buys SourceLabs, operator of open source site Swik.net · 3 points · by ksvs · 1 comment
• The Other Jason Fried - myopenbar.com · 3 points · by newmediaclay · no comments
• Warning: Someone is phishing on Twitter · 3 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• IPhone/Web Mockup PDFs · 2 points · by nolanbrown23 · no comments
• Paul Krugman Forecasts Dark Days · 2 points · by cawel · no comments
• How do you back up large amounts of data? · 2 points · by mixmax · 5 comments
• Three rules for technological fixes: How to decide which problems will yield to technology · 2 points · by robg · 3 comments
• Academic & Industrial Text Mining Toolkits: A geek2geek list by Lingpipe · 2 points · by gtzi · no comments
• An exploration of one button games · 2 points · by marketer · no comments
• Annals of Crime: The Chameleon · 2 points · by technofication · no comments
• An FAQ about those Android netbooks · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Another resume tip · 2 points · by ajbatac · 1 comment
• Programming and the law · 2 points · by cduan · 1 comment
• ShrinkSafe - compress your JS code · 2 points · by alexk · no comments
• Watertight Texture Sampling · 2 points · by JabavuAdams · no comments
• 5 Years Later, Mars Rovers Still Rolling On · 2 points · by ComputerGuru · no comments
• Further explanation of how the Journalspace 'no backups' happened · 2 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Optimus Aux keyboard - from the folks who brought you the Maximus · 2 points · by tomh · no comments
• Ask HN: How do I convince my boss that he should get me a Mac? · 2 points · by nixy · 2 comments
• Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization · 2 points · by tokenadult · 1 comment
• Neuroscience of meditation and attention · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Advantages of concatenative and stack-based languages · 2 points · by Sekenre · no comments
• BeepBeep Is Another New Erlang Framework · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Software development predictions for 2009 · 2 points · by snydeq · no comments
• The Daily Buzz - Business Trends & Technology Trends - News Visualizer · 2 points · by BrettH · no comments
• Tailpipe Harvest: Putting All That Hot Air to Good Use Charging Battteries · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• The death of Lively and some lessons about complexity · 2 points · by raju · no comments
• Group Releases Tool to Unlock iPhone 3Gs · 1 points · by gcheong · no comments
• Good research: invent new problems or explain mysteries · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• Multiple Streams of Income for Digital Nomads · 1 points · by zen53 · no comments
• Dumb Networks are a smart choice. · 1 points · by olefoo · no comments
• Some Economists Find Reasons to Be Optimistic · 1 points · by reyu · no comments
• Skype for Windows Mobile 2.5 Beta · 1 points · by abl · no comments
• CatholicGoogle, Conservopedia for search · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Track Google SERPs for Reputation Management and Rankings Monitoring · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Macworld site rife with concealed banners · 1 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• Don't buy cloud computing hype: Business model will evaporate · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Beginning Emacs in 10 minutes · 1 points · by technofication · no comments
• Domain Specific Language Exceptionalism · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Complex Order, Simple Chaos · 1 points · by tdavis · no comments
• Today’s Links That Just Make Me Want to Be Better: 01/02/09 · 1 points · by dkellner · 1 comment
• Inspiring Vintage Advertisements · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• Ask HN: How/Where do you host your webapp? · 1 points · by schtog · 2 comments
• What is RjDj? Music that reacts to your movements and sounds in realtime. (vid) · 1 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• Top 10 Appplication Development Stories of 2008 · 1 points · by smysore · no comments
• Oysters and the law of unintended consequences · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• New Zealand , First Nation to see in 2009. AP Cashes in · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins · 1 points · by frisco · no comments
• Facebook | TheEargasm.com a online music magazine for indie bands · 1 points · by UrbanGeek101 · no comments
• The Soul of The Sims, by Will Wright · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• A look back at the open source victories of 2008 · 1 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• Amazon EC2 issue - cannot provision new servers · 1 points · by amirnathoo · 4 comments
• Tech Pundits Put Their 2009 Predictions On the Line · 1 points · by raju · 1 comment
• Exciting New RSS Feed Reader With Podcasting Features · 1 points · by socialmix · no comments
• Are You Gonna Do It? · 1 points · by acangiano · no comments
• You can run Android on your PC · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Evidence of 'risk-taking' brain · 1 points · by tortilla · 1 comment
• Ten Things I Hate About You (Internet Edition) · 1 points · by danw · 1 comment
• Fatal flaws that are killing local Internet plays · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• 23 Student Innovations (scroll down - individual hyperlinks on left margin) · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Dispersed versus collocated: which one wins? · 1 points · by redfiretrucker · no comments
• Rules of the garage · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Your Culture Is Your Brand · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Serv O' Beer · 1 points · by physcab · no comments
• How Detroit works. · 1 points · by jagjit · no comments
• What the Kids Are Collecting These Days - NYT · 1 points · by davidtspf01 · no comments
• The Reference Frame: Myths about thermodynamics and gravity · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Papers submitted to W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Avoiding Silos: “link” as a first-class object · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Twitter and the Password Anti-Pattern · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Subversion Hooks Best Practices - Post Commit · 1 points · by leftnode · no comments
• Android on netbooks is big money for Google · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• Now for My Next Trick, I'll Turn Brand into Cash · 1 points · by raju · 1 comment
• In which new paradigms are explored, clojure is reached, and impressions are still cursory · 1 points · by jast · no comments