Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Ask HN: How do you deal with alienation? · 108 points · by daniel_ · 161 comments
• Why PHP won · 100 points · by eries · 59 comments
• Doug Comer: How to Insult a Computer Scientist · 81 points · by dedalus · 18 comments
• 3 Rules of Database App Aging · 79 points · by Harkins · 52 comments
• Why PHP really won · 77 points · by wooby · 45 comments
• Surgeons in England to adopt checklists - expect to halve death rate · 75 points · by mhb · 67 comments
• Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07) · 63 points · by drm237 · 51 comments
• Ask HN: How do you produce product demo videos? · 50 points · by Edinburger · 39 comments
• Hulu CEO: "We screwed up royally" · 50 points · by peter123 · 44 comments
• More startups fail from a lack of customers than from a failure of product development · 49 points · by phil_KartMe · 23 comments
• New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience · 43 points · by qhoxie · 7 comments
• Noteflight: start-up that lets you compose music within your browser · 41 points · by unalone · 18 comments
• Clever bike lane hack · 36 points · by pingswept · 30 comments
• Y Combinator IRC channel? · 35 points · by informer · 16 comments
• Beautiful visualisations of everyday statistics · 35 points · by jgamman · 11 comments
• Tumblr v5 Released · 34 points · by beaudeal · 28 comments
• Tracking Flight Path of US Airways 1549 · 30 points · by boundlessdreamz · 17 comments
• Why I hate software patents: IBM patents trim() · 30 points · by mdasen · 28 comments
• Work Smarter and Harder · 29 points · by brm · 9 comments
• An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows · 28 points · by zvikara · 6 comments
• Web Design Job for the Eager · 27 points · by andrewljohnson · 17 comments
• Choices Narrowed for First U.S. CTO · 27 points · by nikils · 29 comments
• In Software: Simplify, Simplify · 26 points · by eVizitei · 7 comments
• Sphinx Search at Craigslist · 25 points · by tortilla · 6 comments
• Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model · 24 points · by lnguyen · 18 comments
• Why we can't stop birds downing aircraft · 24 points · by alexandros · 53 comments
• Morten Lund provides an update on life · 23 points · by numair · 6 comments
• Building Scalable Databases: Pros and Cons of Various Database Sharding Schemes · 21 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Circuit City to liquidate all US stores · 21 points · by larrywright · 19 comments
• Ask HN:Finding a Break · 20 points · by de_la_espada · 27 comments
• Django tests are now fast · 19 points · by forsaken · 6 comments
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey · 19 points · by Rod · 10 comments
• Zimbabwe unveils 100 trillion dollar banknote · 19 points · by azharcs · 25 comments
• Microsoft's failed attempt to wean Intel off Linux · 18 points · by chaostheory · 10 comments
• Honey, we shrunk the food -- really, really fast · 18 points · by chaostheory · 13 comments
• An Economy of Faith and Trust · 17 points · by robg · 6 comments
• Emergent Neural Network Simulation System · 16 points · by robg · 5 comments
• Why Startups Don’t Make Money Anymore · 15 points · by wyattpeak · 15 comments
• Twitter: It's About People, Not Technology · 14 points · by gravitycop · 11 comments
• Google searches nab hit-and-run driver · 14 points · by peter123 · 5 comments
• EMusic Says Data Supports Long Tail Theory · 12 points · by lnguyen · 3 comments
• Ask HN: To Patent, or Not To Patent · 12 points · by goodgoblin · 28 comments
• You can now watch Ustream live on your iPhone · 12 points · by Mazy · 3 comments
• Implementing VisiCalc (2003) · 11 points · by swapspace · no comments
• Upcoming Australian Android phone delayed indefinitely over screen resolution · 9 points · by mark_h · 2 comments
• Making 3D movies with Xtranormal--serious fun, not yet a serious tool · 8 points · by waderoush · 6 comments
• How to check if an email address exists without sending an email? · 7 points · by imgabe · 6 comments
• Carl Marx on financial crisis · 7 points · by old-gregg · 1 comment
• NearbyGamers: Find people in your vicinity for Euro-style games, RPGs, and TCGs · 7 points · by time_management · 8 comments
• How Unit Testing Could Have Saved Lives · 7 points · by r00k · no comments
• Prejudice has an incredible half-life · 7 points · by greg · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How Google Maps works? · 6 points · by alexkay · 5 comments
• Safe Water Landing a Remarkable Feat · 6 points · by ctingom · no comments
• Where Sweatshops Are a Dream · 6 points · by mattmcknight · no comments
• 80 Million Tiny Images: visualization of all the nouns in the English language · 6 points · by makimaki · no comments
• How Failure Is Viewed in the Innovation Community: Seattle Startups and VCs Weigh In · 6 points · by gthuang · 1 comment
• Tips for successful freelancing · 6 points · by gregjor · no comments
• Google's ever-growing market share · 5 points · by razorburn · 5 comments
• Steve Jobs May Have Pancreas Removed After Cancer · 5 points · by nreece · no comments
• Acceleration Due to Gravity: Super Mario Brothers · 5 points · by astrec · no comments
• Great Entrepreneurs Build "Tribes" · 5 points · by prakash · no comments
• Japan's buraku, genetically similar to Japanase, still wait for society's embrace · 5 points · by soundsop · 1 comment
• Killing Dodgeball Saves Google $50,000 Per Year · 5 points · by bdotdub · 3 comments
• How to Go About Creating a Program (1965) · 5 points · by randrews · no comments
• Ask HN: Recommendations for work-queue software? · 5 points · by soundsop · 2 comments
• Q&A: How to Survive a Plane Crash · 4 points · by jamesjyu · 2 comments
• Be Careful What You Post Online · 4 points · by ensignavenger · no comments
• XKCD: The Jurassic Park Approach To Parenting · 4 points · by lionheart · no comments
• BASH completion for Git · 4 points · by ronnieliew · no comments
• Don’t Worry about Apple · 4 points · by bdfh42 · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Any Tips for Applying to Berkeley or Stanford? · 4 points · by brentr · 6 comments
• History Flow: the only way to convince yourself that the "wiki" is a valuable medium · 4 points · by theblackbox · 3 comments
• Don’t Worry about Apple · 4 points · by astrec · no comments
• Ask HN: Any tips for using Python Interactively? · 4 points · by breck · 6 comments
• Online Farmers Market · 4 points · by physcab · no comments
• Technology in the recession: Less is Moore · 4 points · by bootload · no comments
• Elevator pitch Friday: sqworl · 4 points · by vaksel · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Educational Software Opportunity · 4 points · by gsmaverick · 12 comments
• Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist · 3 points · by md_moulton · no comments
• Yahoo’s Bartz to earn $1M plus bonuses, options · 3 points · by pclark · no comments
• Eight Python warts · 3 points · by glyphobet · no comments
• Obama Official Portrait: EXIF Data · 3 points · by atlbeer · no comments
• 10 ruby on rails plugins you should be using · 3 points · by hwijaya · no comments
• Chill out, everybody. - Dr. Shadowfax on Steve Jobs' medical leave. · 3 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Facebook Hole · 3 points · by medianama · no comments
• National Day of Service · 3 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• BootLaw: Bill baby, bill · 3 points · by madmotive · no comments
• Can anyone recommend a good web-based spelling and grammar checker? · 3 points · by dabeeeenster · no comments
• The Decline and Fall of an Ultra Rich Online Gaming Empire · 3 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• TweetDeck Secures Angel Funding · 3 points · by pclark · 5 comments
• In A Down Economy, Startups Rise From Coworking · 3 points · by nathanburke · 2 comments
• Why Amazon and eBay Should Merge · 3 points · by dell9000 · 5 comments
• Morten Lund on Entrepreneurship · 3 points · by utnick · no comments
• Bookmarklet fix for overwide News.YC PREs · 3 points · by gojomo · 2 comments
• Patent troll seeks to ban Nokia, RIM, Palm from importing devices to the U.S. · 3 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Citigroup Reports $8.3 Billion Loss, Splits Into Two · 3 points · by ksvs · no comments
• Obama in 3D: Photosynth to Crowdsource Synth of the 44th Presidential Inauguration · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Top 5 Most Clever Android Apps For Your T-Mobile G1 · 3 points · by VizionQuest · 1 comment
• Carver Mead’s Natural Inspiration · 3 points · by Rod · 1 comment
• Recess Framework Gets Serious Backing · 3 points · by danw · no comments
• Andrew Wyeth, Revered and Ridiculed Artist, Dies · 3 points · by wyday · 1 comment
• What Browser Battle? They're More Alike Than Different · 3 points · by svjunkie · no comments
• PR Pros to Get a Database of Twitter Users by Mid-Year · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Calvin and Hobbes on economic bailouts · 2 points · by anuraggoel · no comments
• The Zen of Twitter Support · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Writing a Shakespeare interpreter with Parrot · 2 points · by acangiano · no comments
• The Train in Spain Replaces the Plane · 2 points · by ojbyrne · 1 comment
• GPUs Used to Successfully Crack Wi-Fi Passwords · 2 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Intel's profits dropped 90% in Q4 · 2 points · by tansengming · no comments
• Health Isn't a Private Issue When You're a Legend · 2 points · by mhartl · no comments
• Nintendo Wii and DS sold twice as much as Microsoft and Sony in 2008 · 2 points · by technologizer · no comments
• New Search Engine, KGB: Knowledge Generation Bureau · 2 points · by kwamenum86 · 8 comments
• MySQL Query Cache, WP-Cache, APC, Memcache - What to choose · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Can Apple Fill the Void? · 2 points · by wyday · 3 comments
• RIAA File Sharing Hearing to Be Webcast · 2 points · by ALee · no comments
• Ask HN: Is it possible to get cerified in PHP, Perl, Python, C/C++, etc.? · 2 points · by arjungmenon · 7 comments
• Application Distribution on webOS · 2 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• Ask YC:Domain Registration? · 2 points · by awad · 6 comments
• Check your spelling and write carefully - appearances really do matter. · 2 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• The cost drivers impact on so-called freemium models · 2 points · by STW · no comments
• What If Steve Jobs Doesn’t Come Back to Work? - Bits Blog · 2 points · by mattjung · no comments
• One tough Yahoo · 2 points · by davidw · no comments
• Ask HN: RoR/Ruby mainstream yet or still underground? · 2 points · by satyajit · 1 comment
• HDFS Reliability · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• German Government Wants to Start ISP-Based Censoring · 2 points · by pclark · no comments
• jQuery applications · 2 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• TweetDeck Raises an Angel Round. Next Up: A Business Plan · 2 points · by ivankirigin · 1 comment
• Entrepreneur Country - a Manifesto · 2 points · by danw · no comments
• Average salary for a Software Program Manager · 2 points · by seshagiric · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Y Combinator Wiki? · 2 points · by jdavid · 1 comment
• Is it really bad to be sad? · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Is Enterprise RSS Dead? Newsgator CEO: “Who cares?” · 2 points · by mattjung · no comments
• Will cell phone prices drop in the recession? Sprint goes to $50 all you can eat. · 2 points · by AndrewWarner · no comments
• Global Music Sales Fell 7% in 2008. (Is this business dead?) · 2 points · by AndrewWarner · 2 comments
• 1974 and 2008, Graphs That Lie (Or do they?) · 2 points · by gne1963 · no comments
• Enterprise RSS - the State of the Industry · 2 points · by mattjung · no comments
• Yahoo Becomes More FriendFeed-like, Adds Updates From 20 Outside Sites · 2 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• What do Wal-Mart and open-source software have in common? · 2 points · by lnguyen · no comments
• 200 million app store downloads in the past month · 2 points · by snowbird122 · no comments
• ActiveRecord.js · 2 points · by rcoder · no comments
• Morphing gel display puts images at your fingertips · 2 points · by manvsmachine · no comments
• RESEARCH: Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests · 2 points · by tokenadult · 1 comment
• Mac is targeted to inexperienced computer users. So why is it popular in Silicon Valley? · 2 points · by amichail · 14 comments
• Federated Media is about to lose Techcrunch as a partner · 2 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Three Silos That Enterprise 2.0 Must Break · 2 points · by danw · no comments
• All That's Left Of Circuit City: 17 Lines Of HTML · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Life without Comcast: Can you dump cable and just stream Internet video onto your TV? · 2 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Another GP Parting Ways with Sequoia · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Dresden Codak is Back With a Vengeance · 2 points · by revorad · no comments
• Django meetup in NYC live · 1 points · by anuraggoel · no comments
• Stanford Prof. Wants to Link Smart Meter Data to Online Game · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Caltech Changes Scholarship Policy · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• OneWire Introduces Better Way for Hiring Firms and Job-Seeking Professionals to connect · 1 points · by dahmer · no comments
• Do Not Hire This Man as Your CFO · 1 points · by bradleyjoyce · no comments
• Why so many minds think alike · 1 points · by aswanson · no comments
• Fight long boot times with HyperSpace instant-on desktop · 1 points · by thomas · no comments
• Win7 tested on a netbook · 1 points · by thomas · no comments
• Physics Jokes · 1 points · by dedalus · no comments
• Exporting or travelling to the US soon? Do this pronto · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• IceRocket Live Web Search Rolls Up Twitter, Blogs, News and More · 1 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• Apple without Jobs, Obama with Microsoft? · 1 points · by satyajit · no comments
• Microsoft Bid to Beat Google Builds on a History of Misses · 1 points · by samyxp17 · 1 comment
• Windows 7 on older hardware: A Catch 22 for Microsoft · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Vodafone Australia launches mobile social network trial - Pocktlife · 1 points · by geedot · no comments
• You Have No Friends: Everyone else is on Facebook. Why aren't you? · 1 points · by lnguyen · no comments
• Getting Started with LaTeX · 1 points · by muon · 2 comments
• Usability Study Pitfalls · 1 points · by l_frequency · no comments
• Details of new Stimulus package. · 1 points · by newt0311 · no comments
• Top Science Stories of 2008 · 1 points · by physcab · no comments
• Troubleshooting Java Applications – Sun Microsystems shows the way · 1 points · by girishgupta · 1 comment
• GPSd under OS X · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• "Jeff is Wrong and don't listen to him" · 1 points · by evdawg · no comments
• Internet Explorer 8 release candidate is coming out within a month · 1 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Debian on Android installer released · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• Ask HN: iPhone apps that didn't make money? · 1 points · by adilsaleem · no comments
• Is Google growing up? · 1 points · by xynny · no comments
• Nuance Buys IBM Assets, Raises Funds · 1 points · by koraybalci · no comments
• The Palmerston Group explores the amazing social phenomenon that is Facebook. · 1 points · by arjunb · no comments
• Democrats sneak Net neutrality rules into 'stimulus' bill · 1 points · by mnemonik · no comments
• Star Tribune files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy · 1 points · by medianama · no comments
• Is it really bad to be sad? · 1 points · by liangzan · no comments
• Top 7 alternative energies · 1 points · by liangzan · no comments
• Real World Apps in Days not Weeks · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Develop iPhone Web applications with Eclipse · 1 points · by jaspertheghost · no comments
• Super fast rendering for flash games · 1 points · by jaspertheghost · no comments
• Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing · 1 points · by arthurk · no comments
• How to get Windows 7 Drivers · 1 points · by vatu · no comments
• Review of Career Renegade by Jonathan Fields · 1 points · by mattjung · no comments
• XUI: A JavaScript Library for Mobile Devices · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Depression ahead, prepare for stock rout - Societe Generale · 1 points · by noor420 · no comments
• Cloud42: EC2 Management Tool · 1 points · by guruz · 1 comment
• How Obama's Blueprint for Change Impacts IT · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Ask HN: Any service out there for titles/phrases/names/etc. · 1 points · by satyajit · 2 comments
• DebateGraph · 1 points · by theblackbox · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Gandi.net experiences? · 1 points · by kngspook · 2 comments
• Insecurity Questions · 1 points · by anokneemouse · no comments
• Towards Advanced Nanosystems: Materials, Part II · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• The Nobel Prize and after · 1 points · by revorad · no comments
• How Mature is Computer Science? · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• Aiming for a 40 hour work week · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Can games teach ethics? · 1 points · by murrayh · no comments
• On Lisp - Clojure: ProloG (pt. 1) · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• Browser wars deemed hot again · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Conficker malware ups the ante · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• News Quiz: The week in tech · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Microsoft beta lets old Windows apps run on Vista · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• The dark side of technology · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• X is the same as Y - overgeneralization of concepts · 1 points · by dan_sim · 1 comment
• DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 70 - Wagering On Predictions · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Jim Jarmusch: "Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that fuels your imagination." · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• TweetDeck reportedly raising angel round · 1 points · by jaydub · no comments
• How to search for information within social networking sites · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Ask HN: Extending desktop to 2nd monitor on Ubuntu (for non-techie)? · 1 points · by rokhayakebe · 1 comment
• Nintendo sets US sales records in 2008 · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• National Buy A NewsPaper Day · 1 points · by tapinko · no comments
• The evolution of manual dexterity · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• 1 in 3 Windows PCs vulnerable to worm attack · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• The Secret Lives of Ubuntu and Debian Users · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Steven Pinker: "We have entered the era of consumer genetics." · 1 points · by indiejade · no comments
• Nokia Research Center is not a Willy Wonka phone factory · 1 points · by brandonkm · no comments
• Jaron Lanier: Post-Symbolic Communication · 1 points · by queensnake · 1 comment
• Industry is pushing clouds, but the linings may not be silver for all · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• What fair use? Three strikes and you're out... of YouTube · 1 points · by mdasen · no comments
• The Good News Economist: No Credit Crunch (For Most Banks) · 1 points · by gne1963 · no comments
• Aaron Swartz: Cass Sunstein, Concern Troll · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• Bank of America to receive additional $20 billion · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Living in the cloud…How did it go? · 1 points · by wyattpeak · no comments
• Circuit City to Liquidate After Sale Efforts Fail - Who's next? · 1 points · by AndrewWarner · no comments
• Mozilla Top News Site · 1 points · by rickharrison · no comments
• $6 billion broadband infusion in House appropriations bill · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• When listening to music, your brain is ‘moving’ even if you are not · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• PowerShell ABC's - R is for Runspace · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Circuit City Closes Up Shop Once and For All · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Americans adults reading more literature, for the first time in 25 years · 1 points · by anuraggoel · no comments
• The Cultural Gulf Between Lawyers And Technologists On Patent Law · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Mail.app vs Entourage · 1 points · by rickharrison · no comments
• Metaplace Readies Virtual World Platform · 1 points · by pchristensen · no comments
• Good firewall suggestions (for windows xp)? · 1 points · by deyan · no comments
• After 85 years in business, San Francisco Bookstore Stacey's is Closing · 1 points · by larryfreeman · no comments
• Date Range Picker using jQuery UI 1.6 and jQuery UI CSS Framework · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Sanitize and Validate Data with PHP Filters · 1 points · by rickharrison · no comments
• Twitter News · 1 points · by kevin_blogs · 3 comments
• Run a WSGI compliant python web framework in a J2EE container (using jython) · 1 points · by johnrob · no comments
• Why is Economic Recession Good for Startups · 1 points · by dhimes · no comments
• Circuit City shutting down · 1 points · by daviday · no comments
• Mousedroid · 1 points · by racso · no comments
• Kinesis Contoured keyboard gunk · 1 points · by markdennehy · no comments
• Is whining sabotaging your progress? · 1 points · by noel_gomez · no comments
• 10 Steps To Untwangling Twitter To Make It Useful · 1 points · by jnickles · no comments
• Europe in shock antitrust attack on Microsoft · 1 points · by condor · no comments
• Hawaii takes closely watched digital TV plunge · 1 points · by lnguyen · no comments
• Of Long Tails, Short Heads, and Turning Music into Money · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• The Little App Store That Could... · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Changes in Facebook Platform Leadership · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• From the Soul of the Serial Entrepreneur to an Embodiment of Modular Innovation · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Study: 95 Percent of Music Downloads Are Pirated · 1 points · by ALee · 1 comment
• Report: Jobs weighing liver transplant · 1 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• 500 Million iPhone apps downloaded · 1 points · by kanny96 · no comments