Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Advice from a once burnt-out programmer · 136 points · by anuraggoel · 52 comments
• The Single Most Important Career Question You Can Ask Yourself · 114 points · by swapspace · 23 comments
• Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles · 107 points · by agrinshtein · 20 comments
• A Defense of libertarianism (and response to Zed, etc.) · 90 points · by grandalf · 175 comments
• Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? · 85 points · by pg · 194 comments
• Ask YC: Do any of you find yourself reading comments before the actual link? · 71 points · by shafqat · 86 comments
• Ask HN: 5-7 months of living expenses left; terrified. Advice? · 57 points · by recession · 97 comments
• Google Blog Converter (Google's tool to move blog data between services) · 33 points · by anuraggoel · 3 comments
• Bright - a free collection of 148 icons · 32 points · by anuraggoel · 6 comments
• Ask HN: Any DIY/installable alternatives to Dropbox? · 31 points · by adnymarc · 25 comments
• Rare is the leader who can actually write well · 30 points · by robg · 30 comments
• Using MapReduce to compute PageRank · 30 points · by soundsop · 1 comment
• Objective-C, Ruby and Python for Cocoa · 29 points · by swombat · 25 comments
• High RAM servers - why so expensive? · 29 points · by FiReaNG3L · 42 comments
• How to send a personal email · 27 points · by astrec · 15 comments
• You Can Look -- But Don't Touch · 27 points · by swapspace · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Musicians? · 20 points · by lincolnq · 65 comments
• Bricks, Bikes, and Code · 18 points · by andreyf · 8 comments
• Lovepixel Zoom (Lovepixel + Seadragon + AppEngine) · 18 points · by bd · 15 comments
• Losing everything, and seeing it as an invitation to a better life. · 17 points · by robg · 6 comments
• In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates · 15 points · by kalvin · 6 comments
• TrueMotion's amazing 3D game controller makes the Wii look like a toy · 14 points · by technologizer · 12 comments
• Why Writing Software Is So Hard · 14 points · by leftnode · 10 comments
• A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery · 14 points · by echair · 19 comments
• Programming in Python 3 Book Review · 14 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Facebook Prepares To Launch FriendFeed “Like” Feature · 12 points · by peter123 · 10 comments
• Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches · 11 points · by nickb · 14 comments
• A cutting-edge legal mind turns to an age-old problem: corruption · 11 points · by makimaki · 6 comments
• Web Usability Blunders That Still Piss Me Off · 10 points · by pclark · 14 comments
• Full Working MultiTouch on the T-Mobile G1 Android Phone · 10 points · by swapspace · no comments
• The Rise and Fall of Chinese Gold Farmers Industry · 9 points · by AlanEdge · 5 comments
• A business model for open source hardware · 9 points · by peter123 · 3 comments
• Marketwatch.com bug has Ford stock up 879.55% · 9 points · by vaksel · 8 comments
• Ask HN: Why is SICP generally preferred over HtDP? · 8 points · by cenazoic · 4 comments
• Reply-all e-mail storm hits State Department · 8 points · by epi0Bauqu · 2 comments
• Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age · 8 points · by gibsonf1 · 14 comments
• The Newspaper Industry Is Dying Before Our Very Eyes · 7 points · by gravitycop · 13 comments
• Ordinary people vs Extraordinary problems · 6 points · by amrithk · no comments
• Forget feature requests (2005) · 6 points · by prakash · 7 comments
• Nielsen's Law of Internet Bandwidth · 6 points · by known · 4 comments
• Does Windows 7 have any must have features that Windows XP does not? · 6 points · by amichail · 17 comments
• A Job Guiding Web Surfers to Your Company’s Site · 5 points · by peter123 · 3 comments
• Cocoa with Love: Multiple row selection and editing in a UITableView · 5 points · by twampss · no comments
• The Jargon File · 5 points · by mk · no comments
• How to End the Recession · 5 points · by johns · no comments
• Ask HN: Computing/Biology Resources? · 4 points · by fizx · 5 comments
• Should a company allow early exercise of stock options? · 4 points · by peter123 · no comments
• What We Learned By Watching The Crunchies · 4 points · by nickb · 2 comments
• Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World · 4 points · by BioGeek · 5 comments
• Is Java obsolete? · 4 points · by nreece · 6 comments
• Ask HN: SlinkSet or Pligg? · 4 points · by dell9000 · 3 comments
• Toyota Plug In Hybrids Coming Late This Year · 4 points · by physcab · 1 comment
• Surprisingly, Younger Users Care More About Privacy · 4 points · by wheels · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Any "semantic web" programmers here? What is the future of the Semantic Web? · 4 points · by glenstein · 5 comments
• Microsoft: Expect Fewer Phones With Windows · 4 points · by samyxp17 · no comments
• Ask HN: Entering the market place · 4 points · by eru · 2 comments
• Two Google searches 'produce same CO2 as boiling a kettle' · 4 points · by nreece · 5 comments
• Microsoft postpones Windows 7 public beta · 3 points · by somnambulist · 2 comments
• World’s first flying car prepares for take-off · 3 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• Disruptive innovations and why great firms are so helpless to survive the impact. · 3 points · by vorador · 1 comment
• Texting a signal of wider trends · 3 points · by ksvs · no comments
• Fail Fast: A Startup Funding Manifesto · 3 points · by brm · 1 comment
• Moleskine notebooks, the original PDA · 3 points · by moswald · 1 comment
• Dictatorship of the Minorities · 3 points · by signa11 · 1 comment
• Who's Watching You On The Web · 3 points · by wheels · no comments
• Bullshit Promises · 3 points · by bd · no comments
• Who Should Redesign? · 3 points · by huhtenberg · 1 comment
• India's Enron: A Software Giant · 3 points · by jonas_b · no comments
• Dear HN, what are some applications of supercomputers/massive clusters? · 2 points · by rabbit9 · 1 comment
• Texting a signal of wider trends · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Another Richter Scales song · 2 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• ITable - Amazing new multi-touch table that's better than Surface · 2 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Sometimes you just Gotta laugh - The Richter Scales · 2 points · by tapinko · 1 comment
• Live Gaza Cam - They are being bombed right now (slow load, be patient) · 2 points · by tylerdee · no comments
• Ask HN: Has Anyone Installed Pligg? · 2 points · by dell9000 · 3 comments
• An Open Letter from Watchmen Producers: IP Battle between Fox and Warner Bros. rages on · 2 points · by kwamenum86 · no comments
• Clever and Creative Billboard Advertising · 2 points · by michael_dorfman · no comments
• Mumbai Police To Search For and Secure Open Wifi · 2 points · by ojbyrne · no comments
• Ask HN: Taking on Too Many Projects? · 2 points · by Mystalic · 3 comments
• You’ve Been Talking (or Pressing ‘Send’) in Your Sleep · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Disney CEO and impact of tech (and Pixar) on their business strategy · 2 points · by replicatorblog · no comments
• Warner Music adding social networking to websites · 2 points · by ksvs · no comments
• On Moore's Law, Sharding and Device Driver Hell · 2 points · by dshah · 1 comment
• The Ultimate Flying Machine: Sexy as a Sports Car, Portable as a Jet Ski · 2 points · by pfedor · 1 comment
• New computing history book out by Ted Nelson, hypertext guru and personal computing legend · 2 points · by zandorg · no comments
• Ask HN: How to avoid being "taken lightly" at work? · 2 points · by wythrep · 7 comments
• Phase2: "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware" · 2 points · by samyxp17 · no comments
• Detroit Goes for Electric Cars, but Will Drivers? · 2 points · by echair · 5 comments
• Bono: Notes From the Chairman · 2 points · by robg · 1 comment
• 50% of survey respondents plan on increasing iPhone integration · 1 points · by yvesrn · no comments
• The Hype Machine 2008 Music Blog Zeitgeist · 1 points · by merrick33 · no comments
• Download Windows 7 Beta + Get Key in Two Clicks · 1 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• Chrome for Mac and Linux in first half of 2009 · 1 points · by martey · no comments
• Start-up your Web business with Microsoft BizSpark · 1 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• Speaker slides from CodeMash 2009 · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• The man who invented marketing · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Poetically Version Controlled: Go Git · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Did you know crazy people invented the web in 1960, but no one ever used it? · 1 points · by andrewljohnson · no comments
• How long can Apple stay fresh once it loses its core? · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• How transparency can help your business - use cases · 1 points · by lennysan · no comments
• Geoff Arnold's first application 40 years ago · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 8.10 · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• Ask HN: Online backup without forgot password functionality? · 1 points · by wesley · 1 comment
• Signs of Peace · 1 points · by IGbarb19 · no comments
• University of Cologne considering 45,000 iPhones · 1 points · by yvesrn · no comments
• Google Search & Google News Widgets · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Startup Interview: Rentimental Enterprises – The world’s on rent · 1 points · by praval · no comments
• Ask HN: streaming shoutcast stations in flash (as3) · 1 points · by jmtame · 4 comments
• How to spot a Ponzi scheme · 1 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Pearl River Delta Becomes China’s New Technological Innovation Lab · 1 points · by gravitycop · 1 comment
• Pastebud: Copy and Paste for the iPhone · 1 points · by mattb · no comments
• Be Relevant! Amazon.com vs Borders.com email marketing strategy / Volcanic Marketing Tips · 1 points · by melvinram · no comments
• Ask HN:Will you use some one else's contacts to get a job or get interviewed at a company? · 1 points · by zateon · no comments
• Daddy’s Home, and a Bit Lost · 1 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• The "Hive Mind" at work - lessons for agents, actors and AI? · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• A double decker smart car · 1 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Operate Like a Mountain Climber in 2009 · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Tesla debuts zippier Roadster Sport · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Do Us All Favor And Forget That Startup Idea · 1 points · by astrec · 3 comments
• The boom in photography as an industry was in education. · 1 points · by gaius · 2 comments
• Killing the planet one search at a time · 1 points · by bjclark · 1 comment
• Commonly used tools of the Chinese hacker · 1 points · by justifyleo · no comments