Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins · 162 points · by jaspertheghost · 53 comments
• News.YC faster (plus new traffic stats) · 117 points · by pg · 82 comments
• What Should I Do with My Life, Now? · 92 points · by raju · 16 comments
• Hidden Secrets of the Amazon Shopping Cart · 82 points · by mattmcknight · 17 comments
• Our world may be a giant hologram · 73 points · by troystribling · 27 comments
• The Hofmeister Kink: A Lasting BMW Design Detail · 64 points · by JoelSutherland · 10 comments
• Heyzap Vies To Become A YouTube For Flash Games (YC W09) · 54 points · by fallentimes · 31 comments
• Addmired (YC W08) launches super addictive iMob Online on iPhone App Store · 48 points · by rantfoil · 61 comments
• Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku · 43 points · by peter123 · 16 comments
• One Room Configured 24 Ways · 42 points · by kalvin · 15 comments
• Coding Horror Strikes Again (RE: Windows 7 UI) · 40 points · by tdavis · 18 comments
• Worst Microsoft Video Promo Ever, Take 2. Just Cover Up The Mac With Stickers. · 39 points · by vaksel · 37 comments
• Dude, Where's My Job? · 37 points · by ojbyrne · 50 comments
• New Twitter Code For Retweet: ♺ · 32 points · by Tichy · 37 comments
• Dodgeball Shuttered By Google, Its Co-Creator Promises To Clone It · 31 points · by bdotdub · 14 comments
• Chef: configuration management done right · 31 points · by ezmobius · 3 comments
• Things I Learned the Hard Way: Programmers are Tiny Gods · 30 points · by brm · 22 comments
• Scientists baffled by mysterious columns of coloured light · 26 points · by DanielBMarkham · 12 comments
• When using gestures, rules of grammar remain S-O-V · 26 points · by silentbicycle · 19 comments
• Launch Day at our Start-Up: Feedscrub · 25 points · by ardell · 15 comments
• Mars methane discovery hints at presence of life · 24 points · by gibsonf1 · 14 comments
• "What took us a weekend to do, has taken 18 months here." · 22 points · by Anon84 · 5 comments
• Robots at War: I for one, welcome our new robot overlords · 22 points · by iamelgringo · 12 comments
• U.S. Airways crash rescue picture: Citizen journalism, Twitter at work · 22 points · by fromedome · 16 comments
• Is Google Reader next on the chopping block? · 19 points · by pclark · 16 comments
• Shipping rates hit zero as trade sinks · 17 points · by chaostheory · 16 comments
• How do you treat your kids when your startup is a success? · 17 points · by Stubbs · 15 comments
• What if Guido was hit by a bus? (thread dated '94) · 16 points · by mcxx · 7 comments
• IPhone Developer Quits Day Job After 'iShoot' Hits Number One · 14 points · by chaostheory · 9 comments
• How to Ensure Your Employees Don’t Care About Their Job, But Stick Around Anyway · 14 points · by bradleyjoyce · 31 comments
• Are iPhone apps fool's gold for developers? · 14 points · by ccraigIW · 14 comments
• Hey, What About Pixar? · 13 points · by peter123 · 7 comments
• Jobs not suffering from a recurrence of cancer, but his body not absorbing food · 12 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Do you thread comments on your startup? · 12 points · by spoiledtechie · 16 comments
• Energy-efficient water purification made possible by Yale engineers · 11 points · by ph0rque · 3 comments
• The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility · 11 points · by bdr · 1 comment
• What Will Save the Suburbs? · 10 points · by pg · 25 comments
• One Tough Yahoo - Carol Bartz is the new CEO. · 10 points · by mdemare · no comments
• MySpace to offer email addresses to users · 10 points · by pclark · 10 comments
• Rolls-Royce: Britain's lonely high-flier · 10 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• Getting more work done with a bigger monitor · 9 points · by amrithk · no comments
• YUI 2 and YUI 3 Source Code Now on GitHub · 9 points · by astrec · no comments
• How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs · 9 points · by chaostheory · 6 comments
• IMDB's search is damn smart · 9 points · by andr · 4 comments
• Harry Lewis: Not Your Father's Censorship · 9 points · by ksvs · 2 comments
• Web Startups with a subscription based business model · 8 points · by psaccounts · 3 comments
• Anyone using Javascript on server side? · 7 points · by snowstorm · 4 comments
• How Warner Music Killed Facebook Music · 7 points · by prakash · no comments
• Die, You Gravy Sucking Pig Dog · 7 points · by bdfh42 · 24 comments
• Business Lessons from African Mobile Technology · 7 points · by nlwhittemore · no comments
• WireIt - a Javascript Wiring Library · 6 points · by nreece · no comments
• Ask HN: Awstats or Google Analytics · 6 points · by medianama · 5 comments
• India razes slums, leaves poor homeless · 6 points · by noor420 · 2 comments
• Formy CSS Framework out of Beta · 6 points · by vladocar · no comments
• Was Jack the Ripper a woman? · 6 points · by jamesjyu · 7 comments
• Silicon Valley Inc. Needs a Turnaround Expert, New PR Firm · 6 points · by marketer · no comments
• Why No Company Should Have More Than Seven Employees · 5 points · by robg · no comments
• Tor anonymous network now has zero known bugs · 5 points · by mixmax · 1 comment
• Emacs - Great Operating System, Decent Editor · 5 points · by zacharypinter · 3 comments
• Web Design Trends For 2009 · 5 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Functional Differential Geometry [pdf] · 5 points · by Rod · no comments
• Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple · 5 points · by nreece · no comments
• Django's ORM gets aggregate support · 5 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Good website idea someone should build · 5 points · by fnazeeri · 2 comments
• In Lisp, all code is data. In Haskell, all data is code. · 5 points · by mightybyte · 9 comments
• Million Dollar Traders - BBC show about amateurs in a hedge fund [video] · 5 points · by comatose_kid · no comments
• Ask HN: Any goal setting sites? · 5 points · by Fuca · 4 comments
• Innoventors · 4 points · by comatose_kid · no comments
• Is it just me or does wi-fi seem to break down above 20-30 computers in a room? Why? · 4 points · by niels_olson · 1 comment
• Facebook shuts down the Whopper Sacrifice promotion · 4 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Smashing Creme Eggs · 4 points · by signa11 · 1 comment
• Fake Steve Jobs Banned From CNBC For Life · 4 points · by hillel · 2 comments
• Joyent Buys Reasonably Smart to Create Open-source Cloud · 4 points · by aaroniba · no comments
• Form-Finding and Structural Optimization: Gaudi Workshop · 4 points · by Rod · 1 comment
• Apple confronts Wired over Mac OS X netbook hacking tutorial · 4 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• When Robot Programmers get bored · 4 points · by noor420 · 2 comments
• Technology firms in the recession: 2001 vs 2009 · 4 points · by cawel · no comments
• How to figure out what you should be doing with your life · 4 points · by twampss · no comments
• ASK HN: (click on link to view question, duh!) Learn web development? · 4 points · by agrinshtein · 15 comments
• US FISCR court releases secret ruling compelling telco to release email subject lines · 4 points · by tptacek · 1 comment
• Students Paying More and Getting Less, Study Says · 4 points · by tokenadult · 1 comment
• Alternatives to layoffs more cost effective, layoffs done to please investment community · 4 points · by skmurphy · no comments
• (A bit of) Decision-making for startups · 4 points · by nivi · 3 comments
• Fog Creek Open House (Friday, January 30th - 12-1pm) · 4 points · by twampss · no comments
• The Engine - Why Google Reader ain't going anywhere · 4 points · by swombat · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What should I do if I suffer from 'pre-optimization syndrome'? · 4 points · by mlLK · 3 comments
• How the Web is opening up our democracy · 4 points · by paulsmith · 2 comments
• An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows · 4 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Reducing Federal Travel Budget by about $1B using LuckyCal · 3 points · by sanj · 1 comment
• Problems Venture Capitalists Should Have Solved (But Didn't) · 3 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Court says evidence is valid despite police error · 3 points · by dantheman · 3 comments
• 7 Essential Steps to Surviving a Post-Layoff Existence · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• China becomes third largest economy · 3 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• Gelernter: Replace 90% of teachers with cloud-resident "learning tracks" · 3 points · by gojomo · 1 comment
• Help Ban Non-Competes In Massachusetts · 3 points · by fnazeeri · no comments
• RMS: What is GNU? · 3 points · by andreyf · 1 comment
• The Future of Jaiku Finally Revealed · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Google to enlist army of SaaS resellers for Google Apps · 3 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• In Rare Move, Microsoft Is Exploring Job Cuts · 3 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• Identi.ca gets fresh aid in quest to out-message Twitter · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Trip.com founder gives advice on fundraising · 3 points · by ALee · 1 comment
• Unicode in Japan: a technical and psychological struggle · 3 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Madoff might not have made any trades · 3 points · by lnguyen · no comments
• The lens-blind can see, with MIT's new portable gadget · 3 points · by gravitycop · 1 comment
• You're boring · 3 points · by brm · 5 comments
• Google Video, Notebook, Catalog Search, Jaiku, and Dodgeball to Shut Down · 3 points · by Anon84 · 1 comment
• The Valuation Blues (aka How FAS157 Is Tortuous) · 3 points · by jbenz · no comments
• My road to Lisp · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Of the top 6 results for "Real World Haskell" on Amazon, 2 are Haskell books... · 3 points · by andreyf · 2 comments
• "We must consider the possibility that the book may not be around much longer" · 3 points · by ksvs · 1 comment
• Nocera: It’s Time for Apple to Come Clean · 3 points · by robg · 4 comments
• Job Application 2.0 · 3 points · by marketer · 3 comments
• Departing Yahoo President Has History of Missteps · 3 points · by IsaacSchlueter · 2 comments
• Joseph Pine On What Consumers Want · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Seeing Both Sides: Why Do "Asshole VCs" Survive? · 3 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Mark Cuban on startup investing (and Gmail management) · 3 points · by pakafka · 1 comment
• Wiimote Talking to Ubuntu · 3 points · by sidsavara · no comments
• How Google Is Making Us Smarter · 3 points · by makimaki · 1 comment
• Microsoft Office 14 screenshots · 3 points · by pclark · 3 comments
• Ask HN: How do you handle NDA'd projects and VCs? · 3 points · by frisco · 2 comments
• Judge calls RIAA objections "specious," will stream hearing · 3 points · by raju · no comments
• An artist catalogs his year · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Should doctors be required by law to consult computers for tests/diagnosis/medication? · 3 points · by amichail · 3 comments
• NYTimes style bubble charts with Python and Nodebox · 3 points · by pskomoroch · 1 comment
• How do you translate your site? · 3 points · by wayne · 4 comments
• The price of prejudice · 3 points · by bootload · no comments
• Finger size link to earning power · 2 points · by sgrove · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Beginning to Code on the Iphone? · 2 points · by Rabidmonkey1 · 1 comment
• Apple Shareholders Suits Coming In 10, 9, 8, 7... · 2 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Umair Haque: Asleep at the Wheel of Creative Destruction · 2 points · by astrec · no comments
• Listening to Schroeder: ‘Peanuts’ Scholars Find Messages in Cartoon’s Scores · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Ask HN: please review "Introducing Fathomer" · 2 points · by geuis · 1 comment
• Lefsetz: Steve Jobs is a Rockstar · 2 points · by jaxn · no comments
• The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web · 2 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Google Code Blog: Changes for Jaiku and Farewell to Dodgeball and Mashup Editor · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• More chip cores can mean slower supercomputing, Sandia simulation shows · 2 points · by FiReaNG3L · no comments
• Change or Die · 2 points · by jaspertheghost · no comments
• Ptee - tee with shell expressions instead of files · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Robot Density · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• What's New in Internet Explorer 8 · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• RocksIntoGold -A free parable for developers who want to Thrive through the Credit Crunch · 2 points · by cching · 1 comment
• Will the Government Turn to the Printing Press? · 2 points · by noor420 · no comments
• OSDI ‘08: Corey, an operating system for many cores · 2 points · by 11ren · no comments
• 12 resources for getting a jump on HTML 5 · 2 points · by danw · no comments
• Live video takes off on sites like Justin.tv and Ustream.tv · 2 points · by wave · no comments
• Best Buy to be Palm Pre’s exclusive retailer · 2 points · by mattmcknight · no comments
• SimplyBox is like Google Notebook · 2 points · by gravitycop · 2 comments
• Automatic Game Design · 2 points · by nihilocrat · no comments
• I am in your HTTP headers, attacking your application · 2 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Why Yahoo Should Buy Hulu · 2 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Parser Combinators in C · 2 points · by crocus · no comments
• The learning revolution · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Future tigers of innovation · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Who Would Jesus Smack Down? · 2 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Meet Tim Cook: The Man in Charge of Apple · 2 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• What Apple could learn from Palm's webOS · 2 points · by pclark · no comments
• HotIndianStartups.com · 2 points · by rh · no comments
• Dear Drupal, Happy Birthday - and thank you · 2 points · by pclark · 2 comments
• Apple the religion, Steve Jobs the man · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Twitter Launches Suggestions Tool · 2 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• Google cuts 100 jobs as tech sector braces itself for big cuts · 2 points · by cadalac · no comments
• Google grows up; Restructuring tweaks signal end of adolescence · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Doctors make virtual-housecalls in Hawaii, over webcam · 2 points · by gravitycop · 1 comment
• Another Manchester professor falls ill · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Remix by Lawrence Lessig reviewed · 2 points · by quoderat · no comments
• Bridging MRI, JRuby & Rubinius with FFI · 2 points · by igrigorik · no comments
• Ask HN: Feedback on WindyCitizen.com - Social News for Chicago · 2 points · by brandnewlow · 3 comments
• Facebook Whooper App comes to an end: 230,000 users removed, 82,000 installs. · 2 points · by pclark · no comments
• Image Mosaic Generator · 2 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Silver Lining for California Businesses · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• The cost of a “complex” Jobs health issue: About $6 billion (so far) · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Bay Area iPhone Conference: 360iDev · 1 points · by perezd · no comments
• Got Gastro · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• I Can Haz Community? (Ben Huh on improving community) · 1 points · by tdavis · no comments
• Army using video games to tempt recruits · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• Looking back on the development of the LHC Grid · 1 points · by mokeefe · no comments
• Pay to Play (Times Are Definitely Changing) · 1 points · by bradleyjoyce · no comments
• YouTube Blog is super spammy (see comments) · 1 points · by DTrejo · 1 comment
• The Art of Execution · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• Working towards a Vertical Language · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Jobs' hiatus thrusts quiet exec into the spotlight · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Intel Capital Invests $23 Million in India · 1 points · by popat · no comments
• Startup Riot Accepting Applications · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Apple strongarms Wired to remove Hackintosh video · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Joyent Acquires Reasonably Smart to Take On Google App Engine · 1 points · by astrec · no comments
• (Probable) Leopard fix to connect to Windows VPN · 1 points · by akitaonrails · no comments
• Recycled Boeing 747 Becomes Jumbo Hostel · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Video Gaming Gods · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Nortel gives up, files for bankruptcy · 1 points · by omfut · no comments
• Ten Things That Need to be Redesigned · 1 points · by muon · no comments
• Haskell vs Erlang: Reloaded · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Going Solar: Six Month Update · 1 points · by bdfh42 · 1 comment
• Aggregating 40 European Web 2.0 start-ups RSS Feeds · 1 points · by itrprod · 1 comment
• RecipeSecrets.net · 1 points · by maddock288 · no comments
• Installing SugarCRM Community Edition On Ubuntu 8.10 · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• MBR Love Note · 1 points · by gus_massa · no comments
• You can't innovate like Apple (Pragmatic Marketing) · 1 points · by satyajit · no comments
• Tweetstars: a guide to celebrities on Twitter · 1 points · by technologizer · 1 comment
• The Family and Peace · 1 points · by IGbarb19 · no comments
• Ask HN: Any tool for X-browser compliance test? · 1 points · by satyajit · 2 comments
• Adopting New JVM Languages in the Enterprise · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• A Sound of Thunder · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Kara Swisher on the ugly spectacle of speculation on Jobs · 1 points · by wmorein · no comments
• Best Free Online Virus Scanners · 1 points · by vatu · no comments
• Is Hardware Really Cheaper Than Humans? · 1 points · by silentbicycle · 1 comment
• (PRUG/PhRUG) Public Service · 1 points · by Neoryder · no comments
• Who Is Hosting This.com · 1 points · by nick5768 · 1 comment
• Dear Paul Buchheit, Remember Me When You Do This. · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Embattled Palm charges back with webOS · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Apple's Jobs taking leave of absence · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Asus confirms Eee phone · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Keeping users in control · 1 points · by coliveira · no comments
• Is this the future of sky cars? · 1 points · by emson · no comments
• How to read news on the iPod touch · 1 points · by willobrien · no comments
• Value Investing? Answer: Invest in Yourself · 1 points · by crocus · no comments
• How Not to Start a Company · 1 points · by dnewcome · no comments
• Ricardo Montalban, early Latino leading man, dies · 1 points · by gaius · no comments
• Javascript With Advanced Continuation Support · 1 points · by mcxx · no comments
• Tell Dell your favorite online tech community. · 1 points · by rokhayakebe · no comments
• An open letter to Carol Bartz on rebuilding Yahoo · 1 points · by IsaacSchlueter · no comments
• Mainframes in the Cloud? · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• In A Down Economy, Startups Rise From Coworking · 1 points · by mpc · no comments
• Strategic farming practices could help mitigate global warming · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• YouTube Comes To The Wii And PS3, But Not Xbox · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• YUI on Github · 1 points · by bdotdub · no comments
• Wikipedia SearchMonkey App Now Default On · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• 30 Muslims in remote region near Mali border feared vaccine causes infertility · 1 points · by vegetarian · no comments
• Wikipedia announces new technology on its 8th birthday · 1 points · by pclark · no comments
• Social Networks Grow: Friending Mom and Dad · 1 points · by dcancel · no comments
• Pretty_print_inspect and semi-intelligence · 1 points · by clintjhill · no comments
• Improving OpenGL ES performance on the iPhone · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• Simply Ridiculous: The Official Bro Code – Part 1 (Articles 1-40) · 1 points · by jigar435 · no comments
• IControl 101 - #20 - Port Lockdown DevCentral F5 DevCentral Documentation and Tips · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Facebook is Hiring Developers using new Rails site ProspectLinker · 1 points · by ewakened · no comments
• Catch a Daemon by its Tale · 1 points · by svjunkie · no comments
• High caffeine consumption could be linked to a greater tendency to hallucinate · 1 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Crime and Punishment · 1 points · by lehmannro · no comments
• Google & Facebook battle for your friends · 1 points · by blgraves · no comments
• Is conflict betwen God and science hardwired? · 1 points · by johns · no comments
• Who has the most to fear from Palm’s “New-ness”? · 1 points · by mrspin · no comments
• Photo of plane crashing in NY. · 1 points · by rokhayakebe · 2 comments
• Next generation cloaking device demonstrated · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Apple's likely strategy until June: What Would Steve Do? · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Why Technology Won't Prevent Identity Theft · 1 points · by CaptainMorgan · no comments
• Write an airline reservation system for $1 · 1 points · by aneesh · no comments
• Salesforce.com comes to iPhone · 1 points · by yvesrn · no comments
• Do you want to work at Facebook? · 1 points · by ewakened · 1 comment
• How branching policy enables review-before-checkin for distributed teams · 1 points · by gsporar · no comments
• teapot: a new lib for responding to Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol requests · 1 points · by toolmantim · no comments
• 2010 Toyota Prius - A Even Less-Thirsty Prius · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Jet Ditches in Hudson; All Are Said Safe · 1 points · by jwilliams · 2 comments