Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Steve Jobs speaks out about his health · 153 points · by spif · 91 comments
• Zed Shaw - The ACL is Dead - CUSEC 2008 · 123 points · by edwardog · 51 comments
• English-Prime - English without "is" · 108 points · by silentbicycle · 76 comments
• The best paper airplane in the world · 104 points · by wallflower · 30 comments
• Xobni Closes $7 Million Series B Financing · 63 points · by auston · 31 comments
• Ask YC: $1000 to advertise my startup · 60 points · by pclark · 64 comments
• Twitter Security Collapses; Obama, Fox and Britney Accounts Hacked · 50 points · by qhoxie · 23 comments
• Amazon's Best-Selling Album Download of 2008 Was Available for Free · 44 points · by peter123 · 24 comments
• Ask HN: Free accounts for students? · 41 points · by defunkt · 88 comments
• Social Security: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme on Earth (By Milton Friedman) · 38 points · by chaostheory · 121 comments
• I'm using Git because it makes me feel cool · 37 points · by gourneau · 12 comments
• The Year 2038 Problem · 35 points · by makimaki · 26 comments
• Entrepreneur Hotels, Y Combinator, and Dead VCs · 30 points · by nlwhittemore · 42 comments
• Do you set goals? · 29 points · by bkj123 · 38 comments
• Music Startups to Watch in 2009 · 27 points · by sachin · 6 comments
• Is It Time to Let FeedBurner Burn? · 26 points · by technofication · 10 comments
• Picasa Arrives on the Mac · 25 points · by rscott · 16 comments
• Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part III · 24 points · by Anon84 · 2 comments
• MemcacheDB: A distributed key-value storage system designed for persistence · 24 points · by chaostheory · 17 comments
• Alternative Memcache Usage: A Highly Scalable, Highly Available, In-Memory Shard Index · 22 points · by herewego · 8 comments
• Running a microISV · 20 points · by hermitcrab · 6 comments
• Disgruntled employee kills JournalSpace with data wipe · 20 points · by thomas · 22 comments
• How an explorer of the South Pole did his employee recruiting · 19 points · by mathoda · 15 comments
• How should I market this game? · 19 points · by mdonahoe · 12 comments
• Integrating Yahoo BOSS Search in a Django site in 5 easy steps - Peter Krantz · 19 points · by iamelgringo · 5 comments
• FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE Announcement (DTrace & ULE scheduler by default) · 19 points · by epi0Bauqu · 4 comments
• Ask YC/HN: How do you help your job-hunting friends out? · 18 points · by Mystalic · 13 comments
• HN meet-up in Bangalore on Saturday 10th Jan at the Headstart conference? · 17 points · by prakash · 17 comments
• DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD · 17 points · by astrec · 6 comments
• New ESPN.com homepage · 17 points · by brandnewlow · 19 comments
• Ask HN: Do you guys use speed reading techniques? · 16 points · by elviejo · 44 comments
• Syntax-free programming · 16 points · by arjunb · 16 comments
• Monday Morning Madness · 15 points · by bootload · 9 comments
• Products I Can’t Live Without · 14 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 9 comments
• Arctic Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979 - fastest rate of change on record · 14 points · by gibsonf1 · 20 comments
• Aaron Swartz: The True Story of the Telephone · 14 points · by twampss · no comments
• Numerous celebrity/company twitter accounts hacked · 12 points · by vaksel · 12 comments
• New Architectures for a New Biology (by David E. Shaw) · 10 points · by Rod · 5 comments
• Twitter's explanation regarding the hijacked accounts · 10 points · by vaksel · 9 comments
• Multiple languages in the same interpreter in Parrot · 10 points · by tene · no comments
• The Daily Routines of Interesting People · 10 points · by bd · 11 comments
• The 'first true scientist' · 9 points · by dilanj · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Feature Grid/Price Chart Design? · 9 points · by asnyder · 7 comments
• Rethinking authentication for twitter · 9 points · by utnick · 10 comments
• What is Social Browsing? · 9 points · by garbowza · no comments
• Venture capital goes short-term · 8 points · by amrithk · 4 comments
• Sharding for startups · 8 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• PowerPoint Does Rocket Science--and Better Techniques for Technical Reports · 6 points · by tokenadult · 1 comment
• Molecular Assembly Lines · 6 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Social Security a Ponzi Scheme? · 6 points · by kajecounterhack · 3 comments
• Build your own website thumbnail generator with Django · 6 points · by dunglas · no comments
• Always Treat Money Like It Is Your Own · 6 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Big list of 2009 tech conferences that every startup should be aware of · 6 points · by andrew_null · 3 comments
• Digg this, HuffPo: What's $200 million divided by 2009 reality? · 5 points · by brandnewlow · no comments
• Google Hopes to Open a Trove of Little-Seen Books · 5 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• D.C.'s Kinetic Tech Czar · 5 points · by raleec · 1 comment
• Whatever Happened to Silicon Valley Innovation? · 5 points · by joshstaiger · no comments
• Ask HN: What's on your bookshelf? · 5 points · by siong1987 · 6 comments
• DeepEarth: Microsoft’s Open Source Mapping Control · 5 points · by astrec · no comments
• How to Integrate an Acquired Company: Lessons from IBM · 5 points · by rfreierman · no comments
• What is all the fuss about how you can write DSLs in Lisp? · 5 points · by andreyf · 1 comment
• Open Hacker House: regular Wednesday meetup in San Francisco · 5 points · by aristus · 1 comment
• ESnips: A Story of Hearthache · 5 points · by pclark · 1 comment
• Making Cities Fun Is The Best Stimulus · 5 points · by pchristensen · 1 comment
• Google Timeline Experiment Seen In Main Search Results · 4 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• A Guide to Converting to Metric · 4 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• Are You Creating Micromanagement Zombies? · 4 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Fighting Off A Depression · 4 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Norwegian Broadcasting publishes all 212 tunes from the Beatles - free and legal · 4 points · by judofyr · 1 comment
• Video of a very inefficient concrete drill (read description) · 4 points · by joshwa · 2 comments
• Fox News Twitter account hacked · 4 points · by moses1400 · no comments
• Ask HN: Rate My App · 4 points · by jmcannon · 1 comment
• NYT on analytical versus subjective risk management · 4 points · by jacobscott · 2 comments
• Want Erlang concurrency but are stuck with Java? 4 Alternatives · 4 points · by Tachikoma · no comments
• 50 things I've learned in 50 years, a partial list in no particular order · 4 points · by raju · no comments
• Changing Emotions · 4 points · by rms · 2 comments
• VixML a simple iPhone "app" development tool for non-programmers · 4 points · by vaksel · 3 comments
• Writing Effective JavaScript Unit Tests with YUI Test · 4 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Stuff that lasts vs disposable junk · 4 points · by hernan7 · 6 comments
• Probability as Space · 4 points · by jballanc · 4 comments
• John Battelle's 2009 Predictions · 3 points · by humanlever · no comments
• Deep Throat Meets Data Mining · 3 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• GDataCopier - copy your stuff from/to Google Docs from command line (and a python library) · 3 points · by DenisM · no comments
• RIAA fires MediaSentry · 3 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• The Daily Buzz | trends.nobosh.com · 3 points · by BrettH · no comments
• Obama Eyes $300 Billion Tax Cut · 3 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Netflix streaming to be built into TVs · 3 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Nobel Lecture by Mother Teresa · 3 points · by cadalac · 1 comment
• Crowdsourcing an Ethical Dilemma · 3 points · by lukas · no comments
• Mark Bittman's _Food Matters_ · 3 points · by silentbicycle · no comments
• Ask HN: How would you change this blog community? · 3 points · by kynikos · 2 comments
• Emulating Ruby blocks in Python · 3 points · by nicolaslara · no comments
• Prepare for new visitors to HN · 3 points · by geuis · no comments
• Visual News Sites · 3 points · by BrettH · no comments
• What Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers can teach us about interface design · 3 points · by tortilla · no comments
• Roku’s second act: Amazon Video on Demand · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Will More iPhone Apps go Open Source? · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Amazon offers pay-per-use service for data hosted on S3 · 3 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Analysis of Linking Patterns on Twitter · 3 points · by pierrefar · no comments
• Why It Sometimes Sucks To Be A Geek · 3 points · by MattGeri · 1 comment
• CEOs Getting a Free Pass · 3 points · by BrettH · no comments
• Scott Adams Blog: Testing the Illusion Hypothesis 01/05/2009 · 3 points · by mad44 · no comments
• Why Jinja is not Django and why Django should have a look at it · 3 points · by snprbob86 · 4 comments
• The Art of Computational Science: Socratic dialogues on computational physics and Ruby · 3 points · by henning · no comments
• Getting into space by broomstick · 3 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Toss Your Most Brilliant Product Ideas Into Ponoko.com's Fishbowl · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Cheney's staff was reading all the White House NSC emails · 2 points · by tptacek · 2 comments
• Pure: A modern-style functional programming language based on term rewriting. · 2 points · by e1ven · no comments
• New trojan blocks Pirate Bay and Mininova · 2 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• First SpringStage Startup Happy Hour of 2009 · 2 points · by bradleyjoyce · no comments
• On Infrastructure 2.0 · 2 points · by TechPundit · no comments
• Free Online Virus and Malware Scanners · 2 points · by vatu · no comments
• Demise of the Trophy Husband · 2 points · by pmorici · no comments
• Library usage soaring · 2 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Phoenix AZ meetup · 2 points · by ctingom · 3 comments
• Meme Agora: Tactics vs. Strategy (SOA & The Tarpit of Irrelevancy) · 2 points · by mattmcknight · no comments
• Hacking Your Strength Training · 2 points · by gaius · 1 comment
• When losing weight works? Love, money at stake · 2 points · by aaron755 · no comments
• Memo to Vendors: Here's How to Build a Winner · 2 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Blu-ray Format Struggles With Uncertain Prospects · 2 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Serving an NSManagedObjectContext over an NSConnection · 2 points · by twampss · 1 comment
• The Coming Desktop Revolution? · 2 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Ask HN: Please review my new computer architecture I plan to sell as PaaS. · 2 points · by zitterbewegung · no comments
• Middle-class China aims for the Ivy League · 2 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Digitisation - It's Not About 'Books' · 2 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Stop brute force listing of HTTP OPTIONS with network-side scripting · 2 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Macworld & CES scale back · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• 6 Great Tips to Launching Your Product c/o Jason Calacanis : East Coast Blogging · 2 points · by zaveri · no comments
• Kakuteru: A Blogging and Lifestreaming Mashup (+Invites) · 2 points · by dominiek · no comments
• Steve Jobs Skips Macworld Because of His Health · 2 points · by Flemlord · 1 comment
• Underwater archaeology + prehistoric remains + lost shipwrecks = midwestern mystery · 2 points · by eisokant · no comments
• Ask HN: Incorporating in Ontario - Advice? Recommendations? Experience? · 2 points · by DanHulton · 1 comment
• Internet-Ready TVs Usher Web Into Living Room · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Twitter Status - Multiple accounts hacked. Situation stable. · 2 points · by pmjordan · no comments
• Political Compass · 2 points · by huherto · 1 comment
• "Dont be surprised to see an Electric Lotus shortly" said Lotus CEO · 2 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Gruber's Macworld Expo 2009 Predictions · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• For Sale at the New York Times: The Front Page · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Xobni Closes $7 Million B Round Led By Cisco · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Meg Whitman Considers Run for California Governor · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• "Drunk Dialer" iPhone App Economics · 2 points · by innonate · no comments
• Fraunhofer IIS to push MPEG Surround as next big downloadable audio format · 2 points · by svjunkie · no comments
• Why we buy: the science of shopping · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Scientists Find Stress Reshapes the Brain · 2 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• Vx32: Lightweight, User-level Sandboxing on the x86 · 1 points · by e1ven · no comments
• FORA.tv - Guy Kawasaki: The Power of ‘No Bull Shiitake’ · 1 points · by eisokant · no comments
• Written and Created Destiny · 1 points · by somnambulist · no comments
• New Palm phone to have slide-down keyboard, large touchscreen · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• The Great Implication of Context-Driven Methodology · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Python411 - podcast about Python · 1 points · by mcxx · no comments
• Macworld rumors · 1 points · by nobosh · no comments
• A computer revolution through a child's eyes · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Download Windows Media Player 12 for Vista · 1 points · by vatu · no comments
• Google's "Product Ideas" Campaign Isn't Crowdsourcing. It's A PR Stunt · 1 points · by wird · no comments
• Left 4 Dead Art Direction: Stylized Darkness · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• Ask HN: what do you guys think of JavaFX? · 1 points · by ktharavaad · 1 comment
• Higher Order abstractions in Scala with Type Constructor Polymorphism · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Video Alerts · 1 points · by mertero · no comments
• 15 Resume Blunders to Avoid · 1 points · by webtime · no comments
• Ask HN: the link to the article ``what makes a good teacher'' · 1 points · by plmday · 2 comments
• Welcome to the Future: Leadership, Accountability & Swimwear · 1 points · by skmurphy · 1 comment
• Whatever Happened to Silicon Valley Innovation? · 1 points · by ardit33 · no comments
• Microsoft VP runs to office daily · 1 points · by seshagiric · 1 comment
• Depression among the young at alarming level, says charity · 1 points · by andyking · no comments
• Croquet, or the future of virtual worlds · 1 points · by vorador · no comments
• Get Windows 7 look in Windows Vista & XP · 1 points · by vatu · no comments
• Threshold · 1 points · by __ · no comments
• DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD · 1 points · by renai42 · no comments
• OS X Automator · 1 points · by jgamman · no comments
• DD-WRT: Free Linux firmware for WIFI routers · 1 points · by gus_massa · no comments
• Good walkthrough for setting up Facebook Connect on Wordpress · 1 points · by rscott · no comments
• Managing concurrent asynchronous URL requests in Cocoa · 1 points · by basil · no comments
• Business Card Design Project Walkthrough · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Steve Jobs as CTO-USA · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Mosebro: mobile semantic browser for Android · 1 points · by nimbix · 2 comments
• Frugal is cool in cash-strapped US · 1 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Seth's Blog: Teaching people a lesson · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• Gmail as Help Desk System · 1 points · by aytekin · no comments
• Make Magazine Debuts Their Own TV Show · 1 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Obama Moves to Counter China With Pentagon-NASA Link · 1 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Why We Keep Falling for Financial Scams · 1 points · by epi0Bauqu · 1 comment
• Blogging keeps on being pronounced dead. It's actually the opposite this time. · 1 points · by syntaxfree · no comments
• Add reCAPTCHA widgets to Symfony forms · 1 points · by dunglas · no comments
• Fed has abandoned monetary policy, critic says · 1 points · by tomh · 1 comment
• Stop being stupid · 1 points · by nikils · no comments
• Ramaze site redesigned - beautiful · 1 points · by mindaugas · 3 comments
• Herding Cats - How to encourage better content from a community · 1 points · by brm · no comments
• A lesson on infinite loops · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Is a circle a kind of ellipse, or vice versa? · 1 points · by silentbicycle · no comments
• A year later, Amazon's Kindle finds a niche · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• China targets Google in crackdown on pornography · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• Free Teamwork 4 user licenses for reviewers · 1 points · by ppolsinelli · no comments
• Steve Jobs admits poor health · 1 points · by avinashv · no comments
• A book for teeny, tiny entrepeneurs? · 1 points · by einarvollset · no comments
• Installing a solar panel in a college dorm · 1 points · by harshavr · no comments
• How to become a better programmer · 1 points · by rasmus4200 · no comments
• Tying the Knot · 1 points · by eru · no comments
• FileMaker 10's Fresh New Face · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Joyent has very deceptive sales tactics. Stay away · 1 points · by m0digital · no comments
• 'Objectified' movie trailer: New movie from 'Helvetica' guy about gadgets, design · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• From coding whore to opinionated developer? · 1 points · by jbandi · no comments
• Free, legal downloads of every Beatles song · 1 points · by rms · 1 comment
• Playing golf can 'damage hearing' · 1 points · by baha_man · no comments
• Great Depression Inventions (including Xerography) · 1 points · by 11ren · no comments
• The History of Visual Communication · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Comparing the Performance of WPF/E, Flash9/Flex, Javascript · 1 points · by urlwolf · 1 comment
• 2008 In Review for Music- 2009 looks bleak · 1 points · by ALee · no comments
• Acquiring a natural edge · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Ask HN: How do you follow people's submissions / comments on here? · 1 points · by merrick33 · 2 comments
• The Chameleon: The many lives of Frédéric Bourdin. · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Ask HN: Where have the "Review my startup/app" posts gone? · 1 points · by callmeed · 3 comments
• Ruby 1.9 - What's new? What's changed? · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Project FROG is a 'Best Clean Tech' finalist for the 2008 Crunchies · 1 points · by nikkit · no comments
• Diplomatic Efforts Intensify as Israel's Gaza Offensive Continues · 1 points · by titicat59 · no comments
• Vortex Induced Vibrations · 1 points · by swapspace · no comments
• Next netbook - thinner, cheaper, better, Linux · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Announcing the Rails activists · 1 points · by mh77 · no comments
• Gems Point to Comet as Answer to Ancient Riddle · 1 points · by LogicHoleFlaw · no comments
• The Simple Joys of Web-Scale Identifiers · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• PowerShell ABC's - K is for Keywords · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Chumby Application Gadget · 1 points · by charukishnani · no comments
• Governance Expert: Steve Jobs' Disclosure "Dismissive," Insufficient · 1 points · by DavidSJ · no comments
• Presenting the Rails Activists · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• I, Pencil · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• 60 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes, .PSDs and Resources · 1 points · by bryanbrannigan · no comments
• Twitter Blog: Gone Phishing (Official update on Hacking) · 1 points · by staunch · no comments
• Interruption Marketing: Rumors of its Death have been Greatly Exaggerated · 1 points · by johns · no comments
• The best iPhone apps for business · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Top tech resolutions for 2009 · 1 points · by snydeq · 1 comment
• Windows 7: The beginning of the end of the "Wintel" duopoly? · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Surfers should pay congestion charges · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Mapping looks to be the web’s next big thing · 1 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008 — HBS · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Bops, tree hugging, and safe wagers · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• Increasing Value in a Declining Ad Market · 1 points · by wird · no comments
• Watch what you twitter, big sister is watching. (Includes potty language.) · 1 points · by humanlever · no comments
• Hackers School of Business--Some School for Thought · 1 points · by NabweeklyCanada · 1 comment
• Powering Down: Q&A With Saul Griffith, Makani Power · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Shantytown, U.S.A. · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• Be more time efficient - Startup advice for the Super Busy · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• If you build it, they will come — on Google Earth · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• How to Make Money in 2009 With Your Web Startup · 1 points · by bradleyjoyce · no comments
• First Annual SIGMOD Programming Contest · 1 points · by neilc · no comments
• It's Christmas - I have seen the light - thanks Mac · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• Trust Your Customers... And They Do Amazing Things... · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Press the button to cross the street: a puzzle · 1 points · by syntaxfree · no comments
• Parrot: The Vision for 1.0 · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Will Meg Whitman Be The Next Governor Of California? · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• The Black Book (graphics tricks of Quake guru Michael Abrash) · 1 points · by yters · no comments
• Mind Flex: Use your brain waves to float a ball through hoops · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Most big companies unprepared for IT risks, survey finds · 1 points · by bdotdub · no comments
• 5 changes newspapers will adopt in 2009, · 1 points · by rokhayakebe · no comments