Hacker News Way Back Machine

• A “short squeeze” sounds innocuous enough... · 224 points · by jdnier · 51 comments
• Potion - a little fast OO language by _why · 183 points · by arockwell · 55 comments
• A guide to GNU Screen · 90 points · by epi0Bauqu · 23 comments
• How Plentyoffish Conquered Online Dating (Hint: Its Founder Works Just One Hour a Day) · 87 points · by bd · 36 comments
• The Dangerous Trend Of Thinking That Ideas Can Be Owned, Sold Or Stolen · 71 points · by makimaki · 22 comments
• Microsoft Releases Windows 7 Beta as a Free Download · 64 points · by atestu · 39 comments
• The Two Flaws Of Libertarian Economics · 64 points · by bdfh42 · 161 comments
• My visit to American Apparel · 63 points · by peter123 · 86 comments
• Announcing the New York Times Congress API · 60 points · by brandnewlow · 10 comments
• QA from Anybots - the coolest thing you'll see at CES all day. · 52 points · by Sam_Odio · 41 comments
• Ask HN: How to write a business plan for an Internet startup? · 51 points · by hamgav · 49 comments
• Beautifully Documented Code · 46 points · by bdfh42 · 1 comment
• Things to consider before launching a startup (or) Sometimes it's not so fun · 46 points · by cmos · 30 comments
• Ask HN: Do you criticize? · 38 points · by critic · 83 comments
• Unemployed architect gives advice for a nickel · 38 points · by blueben · 7 comments
• Ask HN: feedback on my trip and travel planner site · 37 points · by yoyoyo · 33 comments
• R.I.P. Dr. Dobb's · 33 points · by nickb · 20 comments
• Palm WebOS, Palm Mojo Application Framework, and Palm Mojo SDK · 32 points · by inc · 27 comments
• Ask HN: Using alternative keyboard layouts? · 30 points · by tower10 · 71 comments
• Academics: Why it's faster, more lucrative, and fun to do startups · 27 points · by urlwolf · 10 comments
• Miyamoto Musashi's Final Work · 26 points · by rgrieselhuber · 25 comments
• India's Madoff? Satyam Scandal Rocks Outsourcing Industry · 25 points · by thomasmallen · 5 comments
• Would you buy a notebook with a battery you wouldn't replace? · 21 points · by technologizer · 30 comments
• Why Facebook Will Have a Big 2009 · 21 points · by astrec · 30 comments
• Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business · 20 points · by timf · 2 comments
• Dictionary Attacks 101 · 19 points · by bdfh42 · 13 comments
• Ask HN: How important is Posix? · 19 points · by jballanc · 40 comments
• Palm announces Palm Pre at CES · 19 points · by chaostheory · 13 comments
• JQuery pageSlide: throwing content around · 18 points · by ajbatac · 15 comments
• Brain Hayes on the Zune Bug · 16 points · by muon · 14 comments
• Using memcached to rate-limit dictionary attacks · 16 points · by soundsop · 18 comments
• ARM based processors coming to Linux netbooks · 14 points · by brkumar · 14 comments
• Bone in a bottle · 13 points · by bootload · 2 comments
• Ces 2009: Sony Vaio P Super Don't-Call-It-a-Netbook Hands On · 11 points · by ksvs · 10 comments
• Students, law prof want RIAA trial live and online · 10 points · by pg · 1 comment
• Obama: "They’re going to pry [the BlackBerry] out of my hands." · 10 points · by bdotdub · 17 comments
• Legal to-dos before quitting a job to form a startup company · 10 points · by yokumtaku · 3 comments
• They left the corporate cocoon to blossom · 10 points · by yaj · no comments
• Inside the mind of an autistic savant · 7 points · by rms · 1 comment
• How about if Steve Jobs smoked a pipe? · 7 points · by twampss · 3 comments
• CES 2009: Palm Press Conference · 7 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Old drug slows cellular clock, treats multiple neurodegenerative diseases · 7 points · by ngvrnd · 1 comment
• Miser – A Dynamically Loadable Memory Allocator for Multi-Threaded Applications · 7 points · by threadman · no comments
• Nine Inch Nails: The First Open-Source Band? · 6 points · by makimaki · 1 comment
• Gen Yers Wont Settle · 6 points · by iamdave · 1 comment
• The Fundamental Problem With Libertarianism · 6 points · by astrec · 5 comments
• Will stupid people & their pseudoscience cost more lives this year? · 5 points · by bootload · 3 comments
• Pittsburgh thrives after casting steel aside. A lesson for other industrial cities? · 5 points · by robg · 1 comment
• 8 startups that won federal grants · 5 points · by jyothi · no comments
• Which Google Products Make Money? · 5 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Most VCs see investments of under $5 million as a waste of time · 5 points · by nreece · 7 comments
• A User's Guide to 21st Century Economics - Umair Haque · 5 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Textures in Modern Web Design · 5 points · by twampss · no comments
• I've coded a product.. now what? · 5 points · by sam_in_nyc · 13 comments
• Best Mouseover / Hover Text yet. · 5 points · by Retric · no comments
• The Google Apps Revenue Myth · 5 points · by bdotdub · 2 comments
• Is it the end of the desktop PC? · 5 points · by signa11 · 4 comments
• Did the term 'sharding' start with Ultima Online? · 5 points · by jim-greer · 3 comments
• U.S. debt is losing its appeal in China · 4 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• Ask HN : What print magazines do you still subscribe to? · 4 points · by kqr2 · 9 comments
• How to become an independent programmer in just 1068 days · 4 points · by hbien · no comments
• The Forbidden City of Terry Gou · 4 points · by peter123 · no comments
• How to do Basecamp-style subdomains in Rails · 4 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• Zed presents "The ACL is Dead" at CUSEC2008 · 4 points · by knowtheory · no comments
• Learning C/C++ Step-By-Step · 4 points · by joschi · no comments
• Ask HN: How do you read? (And Yellowstone is a supervolcano) · 4 points · by matt1 · 8 comments
• The problem with STM: your languages still suck · 4 points · by mightybyte · no comments
• BasicThinking blog now for sale on German ebay · 4 points · by Tichy · 5 comments
• Complexity Kills: SOA = CORBA 2.0 = DOA · 3 points · by lallysingh · no comments
• Google’s Street View Takes A Byte Out Of Crime · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• ZEVS, The Russian 82 Hz ELF Transmitter · 3 points · by signa11 · no comments
• Social media has a branding problem. · 3 points · by astrec · no comments
• Aaron Swartz: Felten for CTO? · 3 points · by twampss · no comments
• Japanese Firms, Flush With Cash, Step Up Deals · 3 points · by rbc · 7 comments
• The Polaroid camera is back, in digital · 3 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Do you guys think a think tank startup would work? · 3 points · by zitterbewegung · 7 comments
• Chiropractor sues patient for posting criticism on Yelp · 3 points · by sutro · 1 comment
• If Toyota can avoid layoffs by halting production, why can't startups? · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Microsoft Tag: Microsoft’s own 2D barcode · 3 points · by est · 1 comment
• Dogster retains bite post downturn as revenue rolls in · 3 points · by pclark · 1 comment
• TCMalloc : Thread-Caching Malloc · 3 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Google Ranked Third Worst Spam Provider · 3 points · by rupalik · no comments
• Ask HN: About Cloudant · 3 points · by ajkirwin · 1 comment
• The Printed Blog: Twice-daily newspaper made out of blogs · 3 points · by brandnewlow · no comments
• 47 Google Products That Don't Make Money On Their Own · 3 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Choosing VIM Color Scheme · 3 points · by CaptSolo · 5 comments
• What Are the Chances of a Depression? · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Email SMTP server recommendations? · 3 points · by finknottle · 5 comments
• Dandelife's Struggles Offer Lessons for Startups · 3 points · by makimaki · 1 comment
• Palm Unveils iPhone Competitor, the Pre · 3 points · by darragjm · no comments
• Palm shows off its Palm Pre gesture-based smart phone · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• UClassify: Create Your Own Text Classifiers · 3 points · by swapspace · no comments
• Ask HN: Have you seen any open source HN clones? · 3 points · by villageidiot · 10 comments
• How do you do database backups? · 3 points · by tectonic · no comments
• My Balls Are Fuzzy Today · 3 points · by kevTheDev · no comments
• HP Announces Flexible Computer Screens On the Horizon · 3 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Google Testing Blog: Interfacing with hard-to-test third-party code · 2 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Project Darkstar · 2 points · by newsit · no comments
• Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses · 2 points · by LogicHoleFlaw · no comments
• Price as Signal: The recording industry is lying about why they want different prices (2005) · 2 points · by divia · 3 comments
• 6starts.com: simplify your life. Critique? · 2 points · by omarish · 7 comments
• A Pacific fish uses mirrors as well as lenses to help it see in the murky ocean depths · 2 points · by alex_c · no comments
• Should I use a Rules Engine? · 2 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• The Problem Of Radical Innovation · 2 points · by wunderfu · no comments
• Game Developer Confronts iPhone Software Cracker · 2 points · by codeview · no comments
• U.S. Job Losses in Dec. Could Be Worst in 60 Years · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Ask HN: A Riddle for an emacs User · 2 points · by andrewljohnson · 3 comments
• RSS feed aggregator for European Web startups · 2 points · by itrprod · 1 comment
• Visual Database Design with MySQL Workbench · 2 points · by sinu9i · no comments
• Ask HN: Incorporate before launch? · 2 points · by tail_weaver · 2 comments
• Alternatives to sharding · 2 points · by davidw · no comments
• Write the manual first · 2 points · by KevinBongart · 1 comment
• Video game league Major League Gaming raises $7.5M · 2 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Are social content aggregators ruining your ability to read a book? · 2 points · by BigCanOfTuna · 6 comments
• Treasure Mapping Reveals Path to Lost Retail Revenue · 2 points · by scobb · no comments
• Push Your Web Design Into The Future With CSS3 · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• Seth's Blog: The thing about goals · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• Inside the mind of an autistic savant · 2 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Repulsive quantum effect finally measured · 2 points · by troystribling · no comments
• Mitsubishi i MiEV Electric Car to be Sold as Citroën and Peugeot in Europe · 2 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Ask HN: Review my holiday side-project (clipclipsave.com) · 2 points · by callmeed · 4 comments
• Who are the scientists of today? · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• $173 Million in Madoff Checks Reportedly Found · 2 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• SlingPlayer Is Finally Coming To The iPhone (Video) · 2 points · by reddit · no comments
• Why you can't trust your gut in this market · 2 points · by davidw · no comments
• Change Your Keyboard Keys With SharpKeys · 2 points · by blaz1988 · 1 comment
• Joel on Software: Goals · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• Is Microsoft Giving Up On Vista? · 2 points · by AndrewWarner · 2 comments
• Palm wows one crowd for sure: Its investors · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Ruby people on Twitter, and other ways to keep up with the community · 2 points · by wastedbrains · 1 comment
• Writing a businessplan is like coding in the psychology language · 2 points · by mixmax · no comments
• What Entrepreneurs can Learn from Shigeru Miyamoto · 2 points · by BenS · no comments
• Ask HN: Creative TLD Use? · 2 points · by fuzzmeister · 11 comments
• Facebook overtakes MySpace in U.S. uniques · 2 points · by bdr · no comments
• Water structure and science · 2 points · by Herring · no comments
• Shops, Loyalty Cards and Data Portability · 2 points · by danw · no comments
• Ask HN: Would you solve programming puzzles to apply for jobs? · 2 points · by cardmagic · 9 comments
• Give me a hint: How are programming languages related to problem domains? · 2 points · by jbandi · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Is this a DMCA takedown? · 2 points · by jreposa · 7 comments
• NIMble: $300 Android Desktop Phone Designed by Former iPhone Engineer · 2 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• The Media is Dying · 1 points · by rp · no comments
• Generating Conversations with Renewable Energy: Entrepreneurship from the Bottom · 1 points · by llimllib · no comments
• Sony to launch world's lightest 8-inch notebook PC · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Two New Free SEO Tools Released by Bruce Clay · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• And the Winner of the Google Docs Easter Egg Hunt Is ... · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Angelsoft: Startup valuations declined 25 percent in Q4 · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Details about Google’s layoffs — actually, no, none · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• The End of Ajax · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Google cuts temporary workers but murky on details · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Fixing a Bad Feedburner Subscriber Count · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Apple Releases Revolutionary New MacBook With No Keyboard · 1 points · by time_management · no comments
• IBM may cut 16,000 jobs · 1 points · by paraschopra · no comments
• Stack Overflow Podcast with Eric Sink of SourceGear · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• Same jobs, less pay -- firms cutting salaries · 1 points · by quoderat · no comments
• Ballmer reveals unseen features of Windows 7 at CES 2009 · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Windows 7 beta available worldwide on Friday · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Great interview with George Lucas · 1 points · by kcy · 2 comments
• Suicide Fails the Test of Taking Responsibility: Michael Lewis · 1 points · by lnguyen · no comments
• The MMO Crash of 2008 · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• OpenID Gets Explained, Maligned, and Dropped · 1 points · by swombat · no comments
• How Long Should Companies Make E-Bills Available? · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Fun and dull moments of making development tools · 1 points · by boris · no comments
• Microsoft Wins Key Search Deals · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Evernote takes $5M in Funding · 1 points · by pclark · no comments
• B. Ramalinga Raju, Chairman of Satyam, Admits £1bn Fraud and Quits · 1 points · by rupalik · no comments
• Sharing and creating HTML and CSS templates · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Wii Sports surpasses Super Mario Bros. as best selling game ever · 1 points · by dmoney · no comments
• Minimum computer spec released for Windows 7 · 1 points · by pclark · no comments
• Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2009 · 1 points · by anthony_barker · no comments
• Windows 7 Is "Less of a Resource-hog" Than Vista · 1 points · by raganwald · 2 comments
• Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• How We're Using Yammer to Communicate Within Our Company · 1 points · by newmediaclay · no comments
• Superb word play - and a warning about ambiguities in your writing. · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• JQuery pageSlide · 1 points · by bdfh42 · 2 comments
• Today’s Links That Just Make Me Want to Be Better: 01/08/09 · 1 points · by dkellner · no comments
• The inexact science of carbon neutrality · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Slim down your software · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Apple without Jobs: Can it succeed? · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• S.F. Yelp user faces lawsuit over review · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Programming as Design · 1 points · by japerk · no comments
• PowerShell ABC's - N is for Numbers · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Designing in public can improve your business · 1 points · by jackchristopher · no comments
• Pelicans Mysteriously Falling from Sky on West Coast · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• "Intel Outlook Pared Again" as AMD announces Phenom II and SanDisk announces new SSDs · 1 points · by jseliger · no comments
• Confession: I love Flex, but we're parting ways in 40 or so days · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• How to learn CouchDb · 1 points · by alr · no comments
• P2P highway traffic control · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Intelligent Design Advocates Confused by Their Own Arguments · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Copilot OneClick for Macintosh · 1 points · by sanj · no comments
• Human-electric hybrid car · 1 points · by gcv · 1 comment
• Aptera Pushes Back Vehicle Production to October 2009 · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• detenc: a fast low-memory character-encoding detector · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Electric Cars Driving the Revolution (pics) · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Amazon's Holiday Miracle: Spending-Per-Customer Up 17% · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Who checks the spell-checkers? · 1 points · by ksvs · no comments
• Microsoft server worm can spread via USB · 1 points · by svjunkie · no comments
• Vietnam: 100 percent open source by 2010? · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• GlimmerBlocker: http proxy ad blocker for mac os x · 1 points · by arthurk · 1 comment
• Publishing 2.0: Tim Ferriss on Using a Viral Idea to Create a Best-seller · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected · 1 points · by bd · no comments
• Wage Cyberwar Against Hamas, Surrender Your PC · 1 points · by makimaki · 1 comment
• Behind the label: Soya · 1 points · by rams · no comments
• Managing Amazon Web Services From An iPhone · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Ask HN: Rate my microapp · 1 points · by kevTheDev · 2 comments
• Astronauts threatened by cosmic rays as sun becomes less active · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• GOP leadership candidates say they needs more internets in order to win · 1 points · by knowtheory · no comments
• Followup: From coding whore to opinionated developer? · 1 points · by jbandi · no comments
• Ballmer Was "Quaking In My Boots" Before Big Keynote · 1 points · by bdotdub · no comments
• Norwest’s Chang: Things Could Get Scary For Facebook, Slide in ‘09 · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• The Money Management Boom · 1 points · by rwebb · no comments
• 37Signals does full announcement, with logo, for reorderable sidebar links. · 1 points · by tptacek · 5 comments
• Top Marketing Trends for 2009: Execs ‘Sick’ of Web 2.0 · 1 points · by snowstorm · no comments
• The 2008 Linux and free software timeline · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Scott Adams Blog: Sign of the End Time 01/06/2009 · 1 points · by agrinshtein · no comments
• Live CES 2009 Palm keynote · 1 points · by svjunkie · no comments
• AMD and OTOY Working Together on "Fastest Supercomputer Ever" · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• The Nine Inch Nails Theory of Entrepreneurship · 1 points · by nlwhittemore · no comments
• Whopper Sacrifice: Ditch 10 Friends, Get a Free Whopper · 1 points · by dnaquin · 2 comments
• A prime example of why Apple needs to overhaul the App store - and the solution · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Apple releases 2009 proxy statement · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Sonar Time Machine: replaying the past of your code quality · 1 points · by fmallet · no comments
• Fastest hard drive ever? · 1 points · by bprater · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What would you want (or Not want) on a dead-simple free niche jobs site · 1 points · by brandnewlow · 1 comment
• BCC Report Card: Could Do Better · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Have we just witnessed the second coming of Palm? · 1 points · by mrspin · no comments
• Top 5 Internet Priorities for the Next Government (any next Government) · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Follow cost: Is understanding milliscobles worth the pain? · 1 points · by ctingom · no comments
• Introducing the new nobosh landing page · 1 points · by nobosh · no comments
• Tracking your expenses · 1 points · by flashgordon · no comments
• Generational Wealth · 1 points · by flashgordon · no comments
• Measuring Feedburner's latency · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• More About Google's Routers · 1 points · by VonGuard · no comments
• Reliving the Uncanny Valley · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Whining and Dining: Love, Mosquito Style · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• The Difference Between Building a Business and Building a Brand · 1 points · by nreece · 1 comment