Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Add "pwn" before youtube in the url of any youtube video to download it · 164 points · by pclark · 53 comments
• Teensy USB Development Board - 16MHz, $19 · 110 points · by andreyf · 58 comments
• The new reality: Ticketstumbler ($15,000 in funding) vs Fansnap ($10.5 million) · 99 points · by pg · 83 comments
• Ma.gnolia.com crashes hard -- no backups? · 95 points · by eli · 77 comments
• Six Ways to Boost Brainpower: Exercise, Diet, Stimulants, Video Games, Music, & Meditation · 84 points · by robg · 52 comments
• Wikipedia list of algorithms · 62 points · by soundsop · 12 comments
• The Economy According To Mint · 59 points · by bd · 14 comments
• The Beauty of Lisp-1 · 50 points · by mdasen · 17 comments
• Is College Working? · 47 points · by peter123 · 66 comments
• Ruby 1.9.1 Released: First Stable Ruby 1.9 Release · 47 points · by mdasen · 14 comments
• I suck at math, please divulge resources · 47 points · by cookiecaper · 35 comments
• Eric Raymond: The sound of empire falling · 42 points · by ii · 42 comments
• Capital Factory - Austin-based YC Style Incubator · 41 points · by jonmc12 · 47 comments
• Ask YC: Favorite blogs? · 40 points · by unalone · 40 comments
• The Best E-Mail Program Ever: How Gmail destroyed Outlook. · 40 points · by robg · 53 comments
• Lua vs Ruby benchmarks (similarly "high-level" languages, insanely different performance) · 39 points · by critic · 72 comments
• Facebook Tech Talk: Mark Zuckerberg on Memcached · 34 points · by pc · 14 comments
• List of algorithms requested on Wikipedia - if you know one, do your share · 34 points · by andreyf · 6 comments
• Lego Turing Machine · 33 points · by kqr2 · 11 comments
• Nasa faked a shuttle image. · 32 points · by muon · 27 comments
• Remembering Martin Schaedel · 31 points · by numair · 3 comments
• With an official description, Google Drive is more real than ever · 31 points · by froo · 21 comments
• Indian government explores $10 laptop · 30 points · by hsuresh · 23 comments
• Everyblock's Dilemma: How Do You Open Source Your Entire Site and Survive? · 30 points · by Anon84 · 14 comments
• Young entrepreneur Martin Schaedel (23) dies in plane crash · 29 points · by ThomPete · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Transmoggit (aka "HTF is trim in Python?"); What next? · 28 points · by s3graham · 25 comments
• As a founder of PayPal, Elon Musk made $250 million. But then he got bored · 28 points · by ashwinl · 20 comments
• Steve Jobs a music visionary? Judge for yourself · 26 points · by wallflower · 13 comments
• Slinkset releases categories · 21 points · by brett · 4 comments
• Coding Horror: The Sad Tragedy of Micro-Optimization Theater · 20 points · by twampss · 29 comments
• Transmeta patents trolled, company dies · 19 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Imaginative play makes us better adjusted, smarter and less stressed · 18 points · by robg · 9 comments
• O'Reilly releases official iPhone SDK app dev book · 18 points · by anuraggoel · 7 comments
• TED 2004, Kunstler Dissects Suburbia · 18 points · by nir · 35 comments
• Senior Unix Engineer saves Fannie Mae · 17 points · by vaksel · 4 comments
• Amazon Announces Strong Results · 13 points · by ojbyrne · 4 comments
• Detecting Cycles in a Directed Graph · 13 points · by bdr · 7 comments
• SuperHappyDevHouse Tomorrow - Saturday 01/31/2009 · 13 points · by jollyjerry · 3 comments
• How to shoot yourself in the foot · 12 points · by Tihy · 7 comments
• Wobbly Compiz · 12 points · by critic · 25 comments
• Ask HN: Which accounts (twitter, gmail, etc) should I secure? · 12 points · by sam_in_nyc · 15 comments
• A Programmer's Apology · 11 points · by tdavis · 4 comments
• Microsoft's Photosynth, the best thing to happen to photography since the digital camera. · 11 points · by kalvin · 3 comments
• Database Troubles · 11 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• US scientific output begins to slow · 10 points · by old-gregg · 5 comments
• Hating the Gantt Chart · 10 points · by mixmax · no comments
• Google fakes out Hotmail for Chrome support · 9 points · by amobilebiz · no comments
• The fallacy of volume and revenue: The iPhone difference · 9 points · by raganwald · 7 comments
• Ask HN: How to learn languages with non-Latin alphabets? · 9 points · by tsel · 15 comments
• Global recession - where did all the money go? · 8 points · by revorad · 2 comments
• Open Table files for an IPO and reveals its finances · 8 points · by vaksel · 3 comments
• Startup success case studies. From Xfire to Userplane.... · 7 points · by rokhayakebe · no comments
• Applications and Services I Use Daily · 7 points · by pstinnett · 4 comments
• Embed WebKit into Java 7? · 7 points · by timf · 1 comment
• Facebook Announces FBJS2 · 7 points · by peter123 · 6 comments
• Ross Mathematics Program at Ohio State · 6 points · by tokenadult · 2 comments
• A Layoff in the Smith Family Ripples Through Town · 6 points · by ChaitanyaSai · 3 comments
• Defect Ticket Response · 6 points · by kirubakaran · 1 comment
• My adviser's been poached · 6 points · by pattyoreally · 10 comments
• MyMMOShop.com Purchased For $10,000,000 USD · 6 points · by jennifercgrant · no comments
• Sacrificing security for usability: security flaw in Windows 7 beta (w. proof of concept) · 6 points · by mixmax · 2 comments
• TripIt API Released · 5 points · by ashwin_c · no comments
• Google apologizes for killing Bambi’s mom · 5 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Pregunte HN: ¿Adonde encuentran nueva información tecnológica en español? · 5 points · by iamelgringo · 7 comments
• Estimate: Top US Firms Have Over 700,000 Job Openings · 5 points · by gne1963 · 11 comments
• The case against Candy Land · 5 points · by mhb · no comments
• Bad Python: How Java Programmers do Python Wrong · 5 points · by mdasen · no comments
• Warning High Dimensions Ahead · 5 points · by eduardoflores · no comments
• Ze Frank on Executing Ideas Vs. "Brain Crack" · 5 points · by raju · 1 comment
• PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook · 5 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• 5 Essential Survival Lessons From The Guy Who Studied The Dot-Com Bubble · 5 points · by mathoda · no comments
• 'Colbert Report' creator Ben Karlin on the weird world of comedy portal WonderGlen · 5 points · by waderoush · no comments
• Verify your work with checklists · 4 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Water lilies inspire scientists to create large-scale graphene films · 4 points · by ph0rque · 1 comment
• Life Tips From Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom · 4 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Michael Arrington beaten to top spot on Forbes top 25 web celebs... by Perez Hilton · 4 points · by piers · 4 comments
• All lies? Scientists threatened with legal action over lie detector article · 4 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• Comparison of PageRank and number of inlinks on Wikipedia · 4 points · by michael_nielsen · no comments
• What is your (least) favorite syntax gotcha? · 4 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Prêt-à-porter mobile video · 4 points · by MIKAMAI · no comments
• List of algorithms not described in Wikipedia · 4 points · by azharcs · no comments
• What wave are you trying to catch? · 4 points · by tricky · 3 comments
• Why The iPhone Version 3 Will be a Games Platform · 4 points · by transburgh · no comments
• The Ronald McDonald of Revolution · 4 points · by crocus · no comments
• Patterns in Python · 4 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• The Smart Growth Manifesto · 4 points · by colortone · no comments
• Figuring out a branching strategy · 4 points · by iamwil · no comments
• Page For Page Scrape of Site Pirated and Posted on New Domain · 4 points · by youngnh · 4 comments
• Old-School Keyboard Makes Comeback Of Sorts · 4 points · by jcl · 2 comments
• Will Symantec’s CEO repeat his success with our economy? · 3 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Git Submodules in Rails · 3 points · by jeckel · no comments
• Novel technology could produce biofuel for around €0.50 a liter ($2.49 a gallon) · 3 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• I love the Stackoverflow discussion format · 3 points · by mdemare · 2 comments
• Ask HN: What is the best version control software for lone web developers? · 3 points · by soundsop · 6 comments
• Learning Science Facts Doesn't Boost Science Reasoning · 3 points · by tsally · no comments
• Git + large media files · 3 points · by timf · no comments
• Language Oriented Programming · 3 points · by Hexstream · 1 comment
• Why Using require ‘rubygems’ Is Wrong · 3 points · by qhoxie · no comments
• The Google Guide to Infuriating Your ISP · 3 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Innovations impacting basic problems at the core · 3 points · by jyothi · no comments
• Wikipedia list of data structures · 3 points · by angstrom · no comments
• When Sitemaps Don't Work: Two Alternatives · 3 points · by luccastera · no comments
• China’s Great Library of Alexandria · 3 points · by MikeCapone · 3 comments
• Tetris Inoculation Against Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Flashbacks · 3 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Zuckerberg: Facebook’s “intense” year · 3 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Why VisiCalc was not patented. · 3 points · by known · no comments
• It Should Be Free? · 3 points · by hbien · no comments
• Why Are Math Jobs So Much Fun? · 3 points · by peter123 · 3 comments
• Detroit Should Get Cracking on its Googlemobile · 3 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• A demonstration that Direct2D is ridiculous · 3 points · by gus_massa · no comments
• What are you good at? · 3 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Money Is Destroying Your Project · 3 points · by mattjung · no comments
• Plenty Of Stats · 3 points · by petercooper · no comments
• Gasoline direct injection, etc., makes electric cars irrelevant · 3 points · by gravitycop · 43 comments
• The Art of Pitching Cliff-Notes,from "Art of the Start" by Guy Kawasaki · 3 points · by adammichaelc · no comments
• Video game conditioning spills over into real life · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Solve most of your problems by solving just one · 3 points · by twampss · no comments
• Fast String Searching With Suffix Trees · 3 points · by Xichekolas · 1 comment
• Google: Our Green Data Centers Got a Lot Greener · 3 points · by mdasen · 2 comments
• Feel The Source (my personal favorite LH rant) · 3 points · by critic · no comments
• Where the Financial Gurus Are Putting Their Own Money · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Microsoft claims former employee spied for startup · 3 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• What do you think of my site · 3 points · by Rswan75 · 5 comments
• Introducing Two-Click Signup; OpenID + OAuth (+ Google) · 3 points · by timf · no comments
• Domain Pigeon helps you find unclaimed URLs · 3 points · by matt1 · 7 comments
• Stable ruby 1.9 released, it's faster now and multilingualized · 3 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• SEC investigating Apple over Jobs' health · 3 points · by tc · no comments
• San Francisco to Get Bike-Sharing Pilot Program in 2009 · 3 points · by MikeCapone · 2 comments
• Work smarter and harder · 3 points · by arthurk · no comments
• Microsoft: One Windows 7 release candidate will be enough · 3 points · by technologizer · 1 comment
• Lessons from Week One of a Small Team's Scrum · 3 points · by KrisJordan · no comments
• Why file2hd.com rules · 3 points · by rubing · 1 comment
• Apple Achieves 1.1 Percent Cellphone Market Share · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Greed—and fear · 2 points · by wave · no comments
• Ask HN: Term Sheets · 2 points · by ieatpaste · 4 comments
• Mytoons implodes amidst serious drama · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Removing New Zealander's right to due process and court trial before being found guilty · 2 points · by tjpick · no comments
• Do game companies retouch screenshots? Yep--Activision is hiring for that job · 2 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Cipher Prime giving away Auditorium to people who donated · 2 points · by jonnytran · no comments
• GPGMail finally works under Mac OS X 10.5 · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• Don Norman's 'In Defense of PowerPoint' · 2 points · by rams · no comments
• Good Bank, Bad Bank by Dr. Seuss · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• What self promotion sits well with you? · 2 points · by brlewis · no comments
• Fight brews over how to build a better Internet · 2 points · by physcab · no comments
• FriendFeed changes by author (compiled by HN user nadim) · 2 points · by Sam_Odio · 1 comment
• Court Orders, Facebook, Lawyers and a Catfish · 2 points · by JacobAldridge · 1 comment
• Processing Hack Week · 2 points · by omouse · 1 comment
• Clickjacking Twitter · 2 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• The Forbes Web Celeb 25 · 2 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• 1969 film predicts PCs, the Net, multi-monitor setups, Webcams, online shopping, etc. · 2 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Grails 1.1 Beta3 is out · 2 points · by dreur · no comments
• Do Humanlike Machines Deserve Human Rights? · 2 points · by Shamiq · 6 comments
• LEGO Announces Digital Camera · 2 points · by dpeq · no comments
• Oh co-founder where art thou? · 2 points · by mikebiostat · no comments
• Playing Games in the Matrix · 2 points · by svjunkie · no comments
• Detroit Should Get Cracking on its Googlemobile · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Is “broadband for all” a recipe for recovery, or a boondoggle? · 2 points · by cawel · no comments
• Google's Street View camera car hits a baby deer · 2 points · by twampss · 1 comment
• Fully hands-free phone with voice recognition (video) · 2 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• Lawyer/Accountant Advice for Starting a Business · 2 points · by kleinsch · 3 comments
• Dell choosing between Windows Mobile and Android for its phone, is there really a choice? · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Compiz is dying? · 2 points · by marksutherland · no comments
• Ajax Spy · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Mars Rover's Unexpected Behavior Puzzles NASA · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Snipt - Code sharing for twitter · 2 points · by kynikos · 2 comments
• Microsoft's Desktop Smartphone Isn't a Stupid Idea, If You Really Think About It · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• DVD Plunge May Force Studios to Write Down Movies · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Your office is moving to the web, get ready · 2 points · by noel_gomez · no comments
• Roubini Sees Global Gloom After Davos Vindication · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Austin Gets Its Own Startup Incubator · 2 points · by blanu · no comments
• Dell asks for help gaming Google · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Do you know of any good filetype/mimetype icons? · 2 points · by psaccounts · no comments
• Afraid of crumbling when it counts? Try not to think so hard. · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Reading binary data in Clojure [declaratively] · 2 points · by sctb · no comments
• History of servers in pictures, from 1981 till today · 2 points · by mtw · no comments
• Ruby 1.9.1 released · 2 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Take a peek at the Google Drive · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• Talend: Open Source Data Integration · 2 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• Google Code Jam's Ranking Library Released · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview · 2 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• Yahoo sucks · 2 points · by cnu · 1 comment
• Terrible GUI design ideas · 2 points · by quoderat · no comments
• The Baby-Eating Aliens (1/8) (Novella by E. Yudkowsky) · 2 points · by rms · 1 comment
• What Is The Right Age To Start A Company? · 2 points · by mathewgj · 1 comment
• DRM makes game unplayable after 1/28/09 · 2 points · by chris11 · no comments
• Don't build websites: develop the web · 2 points · by seldo · no comments
• Foxmarks (Mitch Kapor's startup) adds suggested tags to Firefox bookmark sync · 2 points · by anuraggoel · 5 comments
• MySpace CEO DeWolfe Jabs Back At Yahoo’s Bartz (Video) · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Why Google Needs the GDrive to Fight Microsoft · 2 points · by sarvesh · no comments
• Any ideas on how to force users to always vote and to do so truthfully in social sites? · 2 points · by amichail · 4 comments
• Breaking Down Bernie Madoff P2 & 3 · 2 points · by revorad · no comments
• What if OLPC and Sugar Labs were For-Profit? · 2 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Venture's New Grail · 2 points · by Mistone · 1 comment
• Ask HN: customer backups delivered on the cheap? · 2 points · by timf · 4 comments
• New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests · 2 points · by jacoblyles · no comments
• Trinary : Ternary computer science, logic and computers · 2 points · by kqr2 · 1 comment
• Rate My New Music Site · 1 points · by danhak · 1 comment
• The sign of Times · 1 points · by satyajit · no comments
• Commercials Increase Enjoyment Of TV Shows? · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• In the Trenches Bitches - How to Build an Audience · 1 points · by ajv · no comments
• AT&T, Comcast expected to help RIAA fight piracy · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Does Perfection Have to Have a Price? · 1 points · by sarvesh · no comments
• Package Design Research - Pretty cool analysis · 1 points · by dangoldin · no comments
• Programming Turtle Graphics in Javascript · 1 points · by JoelSutherland · no comments
• The story of Chestnut Lisp translator · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Government Blocks Release of Documents on Secret IP Enforcement Treaty · 1 points · by tsally · no comments
• Poetic Brief · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Things to know once you have the Twitter Account · 1 points · by ashwin_c · no comments
• Google Reader makes some improvements · 1 points · by AndrewWarner · no comments
• Developer's eye view of smartphone platforms · 1 points · by liangzan · no comments
• Nolan Bushnell: From Atari, Pong, and Chuck E Cheese to the Future of Games a... · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• RedBubble paints a rosy picture · 1 points · by astrec · no comments
• Color combinations · 1 points · by alexk · no comments
• 11 business plans for Twitter · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Productive Nanosystems Movies · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Global internet users reaches one billion · 1 points · by cawel · no comments
• Installing Window 7 beta on a Mac with Sun VirtualBox · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• The hype about super-fast broadband subsidies · 1 points · by cawel · 1 comment
• Godaddy SUCKS, ASP.NET and Discount ASP. · 1 points · by spoiledtechie · 2 comments
• Review of Clark's Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• The Hacker History and movement. · 1 points · by spoiledtechie · no comments
• Making connections: Creating a wiring diagram of the brain · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Enterprise application development, reinventing the wheel · 1 points · by Tihy · no comments
• CrunchBase API Implementation · 1 points · by kakobese · no comments
• Combining Clouds: Appirio’s ReferMyFriends App Deftly Links Facebook To Salesforce · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Global Game Jam: How to Make a Game in 48 Hours (by World of Goo creator) · 1 points · by jim-greer · no comments
• Big Precedent: Irish ISP Adopting Three Strikes · 1 points · by ALee · no comments
• Will netbooks eat into laptop sales? · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Dopplr's Long Wow · 1 points · by bdotdub · no comments
• Ask HN: Is there a list of websites that support OpenSearch anywhere? · 1 points · by sam_in_nyc · no comments
• Methods to unlock hidden potential for your startup through user-behavior analytics · 1 points · by suhail · 1 comment
• Seeing and Believing · 1 points · by crocus · no comments
• Live Search autosuggestions come to Firefox · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Companies need to do a better job of talking to their early adopters · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Top Crossword Solver Throws Down Geeky Challenge · 1 points · by tfincannon · no comments
• Rock Out With Your Dock Out · 1 points · by TimothyFitz · no comments
• Rupert Murdoch - The Boyer Lectures "A Golden Age of Freedom" · 1 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Chad Hurley, Craig Mundie, and Mark Zuckerberg Talk Mobile At Davos · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• From the Usability of Billing to the Modular Innovation of Mosembro · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months · 1 points · by noor420 · no comments
• WSJ rumor: Dell to enter the cellphone market · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Wall Street pays out $18b in bonuses last year · 1 points · by sgman · no comments
• $10 laptop coming from India on February 3rd, or so they say · 1 points · by erickhill · 1 comment
• Collaborative music composing using Muxicall. · 1 points · by humanlever · 1 comment
• The word you should never use in sales, unless you’re referring to your competition · 1 points · by jslogan · 1 comment
• Parallels Desktop at Target: more evidence of how mainstream the Mac is · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Did Arrington leave TechCrunch to the marketing weirdo's? · 1 points · by tstegart · no comments
• @barackobama: Look out, Republicans have discovered Twitter · 1 points · by erickhill · no comments
• Online direct response shows booms and busts by category · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• A Touchscreen for Super Bowl Security (vid) · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Of Words and Variables · 1 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Torvalds: Linux and OpenSolaris a tough mix · 1 points · by svjunkie · no comments
• Tool Tips: InCopy Galley & Layout View at the same time · 1 points · by tagger23 · no comments
• Super Bowl Ads: Get Out the 3D Glasses · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Is the Red Herring dead? · 1 points · by erickhill · no comments
• Ask HN: CMU's Information Systems or Computer Science? · 1 points · by Spyckie · 1 comment
• Google’s Jonathan Rochelle: Docs will get more integrated, social · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• TED: David Bolinsky - Fantastic voyage inside a cell · 1 points · by tlrobinson · no comments