Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Web Hosting’s Dirty Laundry · 139 points · by jadence · 49 comments
• Why I Hate Frameworks · 126 points · by Jebdm · 124 comments
• Failure · 93 points · by comatose_kid · 31 comments
• Open-plan offices are making workers sick · 90 points · by astrec · 71 comments
• The History of Python · 65 points · by bockris · 11 comments
• Posterous had an amazing growth spike in December · 63 points · by alaskamiller · 24 comments
• When the Education Bubble Finally Pops · 61 points · by babyshake · 45 comments
• Happiness 101 · 48 points · by tansengming · 25 comments
• Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” · 47 points · by jlhamilton · 11 comments
• At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard · 46 points · by tokenadult · 46 comments
• Clojure is running in a live system in a big veterinarian hospital · 46 points · by sctb · 21 comments
• Ask HN: Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text · 43 points · by thomatas · 60 comments
• Ask HN: Best Micro Payment provider? · 40 points · by dell9000 · 26 comments
• Dominos Pizza Tracking in Real-time using Python · 38 points · by frisco · 14 comments
• Buckminster Fuller's Universe · 32 points · by brm · 13 comments
• The Hackers Manifesto · 32 points · by spoiledtechie · 29 comments
• Writing Decisions: Headline tests on the Highrise signup page · 32 points · by brm · 11 comments
• The bullshit of outage language · 30 points · by sant0sk1 · 31 comments
• Tweet by Snail Mail · 23 points · by ivankirigin · 31 comments
• One Space or Two? When did this change? · 22 points · by iamelgringo · 30 comments
• New Year's Resolution: Do Experiments, Not Projects · 21 points · by mattmcknight · 6 comments
• Venture capitalist picked to run FCC; 10 reason Fred Wilson likes him · 20 points · by gravitycop · 8 comments
• Ask YC: how to learn computer programming in 8 months? · 19 points · by deltapoint · 61 comments
• Lack of sleep 'raises cold risk' · 18 points · by ars · 12 comments
• New York court dismisses Amazon's objections to paying state taxes · 16 points · by vaksel · 16 comments
• Open Hacker House tomorrow in San Francisco · 15 points · by aristus · 6 comments
• R.I.P. Enterprise RSS · 14 points · by qhoxie · 8 comments
• Long Ring Fingers May Point to Wealth in Traders, Study Says · 13 points · by cubix · 21 comments
• Test for Dwindling Retail Jobs Spawns a Culture of Cheating · 13 points · by epi0Bauqu · 17 comments
• Carol Bartz to be named new Yahoo CEO · 13 points · by vaksel · 12 comments
• Useful Web Application Interface Techniques · 11 points · by qhoxie · 1 comment
• Installing Ruby Enterprise Edition with Phusion Passenger · 11 points · by speric · 1 comment
• New Prius: 50 mpg, optional solar roof, bigger engine, better drag coeff, EV Mode, etc · 11 points · by MikeCapone · 14 comments
• The Man Who Loved Tanks · 11 points · by peter123 · 10 comments
• Tutorial - Backing up EBS Volumes via the AWS console · 10 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• Ask YC: Is a particular methodology of customer service advocated at YC? · 9 points · by JoelSutherland · 3 comments
• VisiCalc: The 30th Anniversary of the (No Good) Spreadsheet App · 8 points · by astrec · 8 comments
• Student Designs Portable Fridge for the Developing World · 8 points · by nlwhittemore · no comments
• Clojure Discussion - When Performance Matters · 8 points · by jast · no comments
• CodeIgniter 1.7.0 SQL Fix · 7 points · by auston · 2 comments
• Crayons + Physics Engine = Award Winning Game · 7 points · by ALee · 1 comment
• Google Quick Search Like Quicksilver from Google · 6 points · by dcancel · 1 comment
• An iTunes for news? Dumb, dumb, dumb · 6 points · by astrec · 3 comments
• Obama to Nominate Tech Adviser Julius Genachowski as FCC Chair · 6 points · by davidtspf01 · 1 comment
• Great Self Made Men · 6 points · by liangzan · 2 comments
• Seth's Blog: Beauty as a signaling strategy · 6 points · by twampss · no comments
• Hong Kong named world's freest economy · 6 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Sue Decker resigns · 6 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Ask HN: Why is there no "execution" rule for patents? · 6 points · by frisco · 21 comments
• Revealed: The Times Made Up That Stuff About Google And The Tea Kettles · 5 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Ask HN: Is this plagiarism or competition? · 5 points · by edb · 11 comments
• Soul-searching in Israel after Channel 2 broadcasts banned video · 5 points · by echair · 2 comments
• Cory Doctorow: One Laptop per child - what went wrong? · 5 points · by twampss · 3 comments
• 30 second productivity hint that has saved me days · 5 points · by tjic · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Review my webapp EatMyCharts.com (Social Music Charts on Facebook Connect) · 5 points · by xtimesninety · 4 comments
• Freedom Rules · 5 points · by genepope · no comments
• China factory workers heading home as global economy cools · 5 points · by quoderat · 1 comment
• Facebook Digs Deeper into the Black Hole of Custom Markup · 5 points · by atduskgreg · 2 comments
• Stanford Announces $100 Million Energy Institute · 4 points · by peter123 · no comments
• An answer to David Carr's question on "how to build an iTunes for newspapers." · 4 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus with Animated Reduction · 4 points · by eru · no comments
• How long can wood last? · 4 points · by MaysonL · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Parallel Programming Languages · 4 points · by jderick · 1 comment
• So you want to make your own MMORPG? · 4 points · by frisco · no comments
• The Photo Marketplace That Never Launched: Flickr Stock · 4 points · by rms · 1 comment
• Teenage Girl Sends 14,500 SMS Texts In 1 Month · 4 points · by gibsonf1 · 11 comments
• Labor Dept disburses $10M to grant applicants for technology-based learning projects · 4 points · by oldwesley · 1 comment
• Userfly: Get Usability Insights with One Line of Code · 4 points · by terpua · 3 comments
• DRM-Free iTunes tracks embed your email address in them · 4 points · by pclark · no comments
• Calling All iPhone Developers: Support DMCA Exemption · 4 points · by ensignavenger · no comments
• If you installed Windows 7 Beta...you might want to back up your MP3s · 4 points · by vaksel · 2 comments
• Ask HN: good interview questions? · 4 points · by jdavid · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Review my site Skuttlefish - rate videos second by second · 4 points · by freddy · 9 comments
• Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown · 4 points · by robg · 2 comments
• Ask HN: entry point · 3 points · by kozyrev · 1 comment
• Human Hunters Genetically Shrink Their Prey · 3 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Stanford launches $100M energy institute for cleantech research, teaching · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Florida State Player Is Heading to Oxford, Not the N.F.L. · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Triskweline: New fixed-width coding font · 3 points · by frisco · no comments
• What happened to GE's stock price in 1988? · 3 points · by albertsun · 2 comments
• Everyblock launches neighborhood news trends · 3 points · by brandnewlow · no comments
• The YouTube Government: Why Is YouTube Getting Preferential Treatment? · 3 points · by wheels · 1 comment
• A New Market for Battery Start-Ups? · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Where can we read the original CO2Stats paper? · 3 points · by tuukkah · no comments
• Why He chose JRuby over Groovy · 3 points · by systems · no comments
• Amazon EC2 - building a Windows 2003 Instance from scratch · 3 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• Chrome gets Mac deadline, extensions foundation · 3 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Setting Up A High-Availability Load Balancer With Perlbal/Heartbeat On Debian Etch · 3 points · by joschi · no comments
• Testes found to yield versatile stem cells · 3 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes · 3 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Things I Learned the Hard Way: What’s Your Suggestion? · 3 points · by brm · no comments
• Dangerous coding errors revealed · 3 points · by rmanocha · no comments
• Ask YC: Review my startup, exocloud.com · 3 points · by kylef14 · 6 comments
• Numenta: HTM computing · 3 points · by BKmke · 1 comment
• The Case Of The Missing Burrito · 3 points · by raju · 4 comments
• What Are The Resolved Debates in General Purpose Language Design? · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Wall Street Not Impressed With Bartz As Next Yahoo CEO · 3 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Wireless Electricity Is Here (Seriously) · 3 points · by wave · no comments
• Ask HN: Review our (reviews) Startup · 3 points · by lawrence · 8 comments
• Vim: File Browsing · 3 points · by kleevr · no comments
• Can a good night's sleep prevent a cold? · 3 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Twitter Decides To Hire Somebody Whose Job It Is to Make Money · 3 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Ramit Sethi: Your idea isn’t good enough to keep secret · 2 points · by zain · 1 comment
• World’s first flying car prepares for take-off · 2 points · by cadalac · no comments
• CPI CPC · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Why Text Remains King of the Web · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• TechCrunch Says Jump, Twitterers Say How High? · 2 points · by Jebdm · no comments
• Here's an example of a succesful local newspaper · 2 points · by davi · 1 comment
• Web startups focus on college choice, online tipping · 2 points · by echair · no comments
• Effect of human activity on evolution · 2 points · by flashgordon · no comments
• Seriously mechanical (gears!) Rube Goldberg corkscrew and wine pourer. · 2 points · by jdnier · 2 comments
• Virtualization Will Help with Acquisitions in 2009 · 2 points · by himangim · no comments
• Whatever Happened to Silicon Valley Innovation? · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• God Or Science? · 2 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Guido van Rossum: The Evolution of Python 3 · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Google releases The Quick Search Box for Mac · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Proposal: Imuse, an IMAP-capable FUSE filesystem · 2 points · by mariorz · no comments
• Simply Ridiculous: Saturday Unit Syndrome · 2 points · by jigar435 · no comments
• Over 100 Articles on Entrepreneurship · 2 points · by iyazam · no comments
• Living with free music for a year · 2 points · by fuhur · no comments
• MySQL employee Australian Visa refused for unfair competition? · 2 points · by pmjordan · no comments
• Buying Sea Salt? You Might Be a Sucker. · 2 points · by twampss · 6 comments
• A Problem of the Brain, Not the Hands: Group Urges Phone Ban for Drivers · 2 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Greasemonkey script to hilight "friends" on News.YC · 2 points · by pclark · 1 comment
• The Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors · 2 points · by Stubbs · 2 comments
• Stanford Launches Green Institute · 2 points · by astrec · no comments
• Browser bug could allow phishing without e-mail · 2 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Geordi La Forge Talks Tech On Latest TWiT (Audio) · 2 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Dubai's sand castles crumble amid credit crunch · 2 points · by gravitycop · no comments
• Pitching 101: Say What You Do · 2 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• "Most parents want their children to be far left in their early years" · 2 points · by robg · 3 comments
• The power of doing the right thing in programming · 2 points · by coliveira · 1 comment
• Hpricot vs. Hpricot · 2 points · by clintjhill · no comments
• The Birth of SQL · 2 points · by revorad · no comments
• Google widened lead in search in December · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• The taxman cometh? IRS urged to tax virtual worlds, economies · 2 points · by raju · no comments
• Eight ways Windows 7 could flop · 2 points · by technologizer · 2 comments
• Is Obama’s Blackberry Secure? · 2 points · by eastsidegringo · 1 comment
• Extending FBML with Custom Tags · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• KickApps Launches App Studio to Quickly Create Interactive Applications · 2 points · by gentso · no comments
• Yahoo to Name Bartz as CEO · 2 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Dentist sues over negative Yelp review · 2 points · by medearis · no comments
• An Apple Ergo tip for Macbook users · 2 points · by milesnmiles · no comments
• The Real Story of the Electric Vehicle? Not the Vehicle · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Google has new favicon...ugh. · 2 points · by boredguy8 · 1 comment
• New bill in congress would add cigarette like warning labels to video games · 2 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Web 2.0 is so over. Welcome to Web 3.0 · 2 points · by vaksel · 3 comments
• 7 Countries Where Graduate School Is a Fraction of US Costs · 2 points · by terpua · 2 comments
• Ask HN: What do your require in your JS framework? · 2 points · by invisible · 4 comments
• Photoshop Adbusting · 2 points · by TravisLS · no comments
• Starting your business - 37Signals [video] · 2 points · by mattjaynes · no comments
• Why Do People Become Entrepreneurs? · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Why Windows 7 should be a free upgrade · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• OWL Web Ontology Language Guide · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Go East, young man? Californians look for the exit · 1 points · by abl · no comments
• New Stack Overflow Server Glamour Shots · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• DivX 7 adds support for Blu-ray rips · 1 points · by mrspin · no comments
• David Allen on Productivity, Software, and Making It Work · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Algae - the slimy scum that could end the fuel crisis · 1 points · by mixmax · no comments
• Should you move from MyISAM to Innodb? · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Changing China one loan at a time · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Re-Potting with Resources: What Would You Make? · 1 points · by brm · no comments
• The Nature of Order · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• The first video recorded on the G1 — and it looks awful · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Tunnel's Vision · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Web Application Developer Referral Bonus · 1 points · by sid2323 · no comments
• Thriving in the Age of Collapse · 1 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Free Press's 2009 Media & Tech Priorities: A Public Interest Agenda (pdf at bottom) · 1 points · by davidtspf01 · no comments
• Android on x86 devices: the fabled Google OS? · 1 points · by curej · 1 comment
• Startup #157 – BeautyBags · 1 points · by cnu · no comments
• Is 2009 The Year Of The ‘Restart’? · 1 points · by flashinfremont · no comments
• JavaScript is Not Perfect · 1 points · by jmtulloss · no comments
• How we built Dojo Learning - Planning and designing new features · 1 points · by lux · 1 comment
• Big Brother will soon have no trouble recognising you · 1 points · by ksvs · 1 comment
• The Problem with AIR: A love-hate rant · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Problems with Mobile Security · 1 points · by known · no comments
• Interviews With Entrepreneurs · 1 points · by iyazam · no comments
• 10 Smart Javascript Techniques For Manipulating Content · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Heinlein on bailouts · 1 points · by albertcardona · no comments
• 11,000 Attend Virtual Wedding · 1 points · by gravitycop · no comments
• Nationalism and Peace (1) · 1 points · by IGbarb19 · no comments
• You Are Being Watched - Hotspots · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Flickr Stock - The Way Stock Photos Should Have Been · 1 points · by astrec · no comments
• A Breakthrough in Imaging - Seeing a Virus in Three Dimensions · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Ask HN: What is the big deal with Virtualization? · 1 points · by paraschopra · 3 comments
• 3 Ways to Copy files faster and easier · 1 points · by vatu · no comments
• Building an elastic environment requires elastic infrastructure · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Nokia Web Runtime; Aptana plugin available · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Ask HN: Using Really Simple History Properly · 1 points · by andrewljohnson · no comments
• Google Talk: Tips And Tricks · 1 points · by blaz1988 · no comments
• 100 million greenbacks for Stanford energy site · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Ask HN:Want to Learn Objective C/Cocoa - No Previous Coding Knowledge · 1 points · by vinalk · 2 comments
• Add Security to your PHP projects using .htaccess file · 1 points · by sinu9i · no comments
• Userfly: Capture and playback user interaction on your web site · 1 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Financial Casualty: Why Adolf Merckle Killed Himself · 1 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• Dire Predictions: Tech Vendors That May Not Survive 2009 · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• The Best Environment for Rails on Windows · 1 points · by akitaonrails · no comments
• Hold those robo calls: Tips on how to stop those unwanted calls · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• The 2009 Technology of the Year Awards · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• In verse - by myself sometimes good old hard work Isn't enough [mixedink] · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• The Prescription for Self-Doubt: Watch This Video · 1 points · by swombat · no comments
• Video killed the radio stars: Possible Cosmic Radio Background Detected · 1 points · by Allocator2008 · no comments
• Master Foo and the Nervous Novice · 1 points · by ii · no comments
• Paris Hilton's Web site being used in Web attack · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Ask HC: Pligg Feedback? My first install · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Firefox to Mimic Chrome Tab Sorting · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Mobile Gold · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Science 2.0: New online tools may revolutionize research · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• IPhone Nano Coming in June, But Not to United States? · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Funny craigslist "job": create a dating site in 4 hours · 1 points · by vaksel · 4 comments
• Best job in world · 1 points · by lake2k · no comments
• Mobile Payments Getting Traction On Social Networks, But Fees Are Sky High · 1 points · by mattmaroon · 1 comment
• The Rebirth of "Web TV" · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Info from the legal side regarding Startups · 1 points · by BKmke · no comments
• Shafer’s this-ain’t-the-Web dream world · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Paris Hilton's Web site being used in Web attack · 1 points · by erickhill · no comments
• Benefits of programming (doing) versus reading blogs (thinking?) · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• Dieting cavemen on twitter · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• Simply Ridiculous: 36 Things To Expect From Internship · 1 points · by jigar435 · no comments
• Learning Makes Itself Invisible · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• What you can get me for Christmas next year... · 1 points · by iamelgringo · 1 comment
• Apple Too Shiny for Georgetown · 1 points · by mattmcknight · no comments
• Wikipedia Needs Rubyists to Flesh Out Mobile Vision · 1 points · by oldwesley · no comments
• Yahoo to Name Bartz as CEO · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• What the Palm Pre Stole from the iPhone and What the iPhone Should Steal From the Pre · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• A new force has entered Yahoo: Carol Bartz, CEO · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Facebook Makes Its Markup Extensible · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Ask HN: New FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski: how do you feel about him? · 1 points · by JayNeely · no comments
• PowerShell ABC's - P is for Parameters · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• 10 Best Extensions To Pimp Out Your Web Browser · 1 points · by insomniamg · no comments
• Ask YC: Do you know what is $7 Dollar script or RAP? · 1 points · by popat · no comments
• Reflections on 2008 - The Year of Cloud Computing · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• A loopless FizzBuzz · 1 points · by pistoriusp · no comments
• What bloggers can learn from journalists · 1 points · by speek · no comments
• Microsoft's Cheap-Looking-On-Purpose Wall Street Journal Insert · 1 points · by brm · no comments
• Talking Together - Government Technology - PIER Systems · 1 points · by bamber · no comments
• New Era of Lean Startups - Mike Maples [pdf] · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Project Voldemort - A Distributed Database · 1 points · by e1ven · no comments
• Dell Mini 9 released on 3G network · 1 points · by netbookstation · no comments
• Boxee as Media Sherpa · 1 points · by kennyroo · no comments
• Motorola's Android team safe from layoffs, employee says · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Would an OS exclusively for web apps not need a virus checker, firewall, UAC, etc? · 1 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• The exceedingly grumpy editor's accounting system update · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• Facebook lets developers swap content with custom tags · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Another Reason to Get that Walmart Application · 1 points · by fabiosundeen · no comments
• Sun Web Server open sourced (does it matter?) · 1 points · by wmf · 1 comment
• Autodesk executive to lead Yahoo · 1 points · by jbrun · no comments
• The Next-Gen Databases · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Industrial Education · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Hey, let's figure out when the next-generation game consoles will arrive · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Interesting discussion about tech start-ups in China (30 min video) · 1 points · by felipe · no comments
• Ask HN: Can you help me not confuse the Googlebot? · 1 points · by andrewljohnson · 3 comments
• Common table games on a torus and a Klein bottle · 1 points · by nx · no comments
• The High Priests of Snark · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Keep your Web 2.0 community happy - Derek Powazek · 1 points · by brm · no comments