Hacker News Way Back Machine

• A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer · 201 points · by pkrumins · 63 comments
• I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life. · 186 points · by peter123 · 96 comments
• The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote · 164 points · by mixmax · 30 comments
• Life at Wal-Mart · 125 points · by lackbeard · 55 comments
• Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone · 100 points · by iamelgringo · 68 comments
• If English was Written Like Chinese · 73 points · by mnemonicsloth · 32 comments
• What I don’t like about Python · 48 points · by kirubakaran · 17 comments
• Still Doing the Math, But for 100K A Year · 43 points · by ojbyrne · 87 comments
• The Lecture System in Teaching Science, and My Discovery of the "Gutenberg Method" (1986) · 41 points · by niels_olson · 13 comments
• Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video · 38 points · by brentb · 38 comments
• Remember the strop · 37 points · by twampss · 21 comments
• Big Websites Start Small · 34 points · by rosshill · 13 comments
• PhpBB's site hacked · 27 points · by geuis · 8 comments
• Ask HN: How do you get tech bloggers to review a startup? · 27 points · by flexterra · 42 comments
• IBM has developed a computerised voice that is almost indistinguishable from a human. · 27 points · by vaksel · 25 comments
• Google: "We're Not Doing a Good Job with Structured Data" · 27 points · by Anon84 · 14 comments
• How I DOS'd My Cell Phone Using EC2 · 27 points · by ardell · 9 comments
• Tips for writing efficient Bash scripts · 26 points · by quoderat · 4 comments
• Response to Alex Payne: In Defense of "Everything Buckets" · 25 points · by dangrover · 2 comments
• Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory · 25 points · by dangoldin · 7 comments
• The next frontier: 'Seasteading' the oceans · 23 points · by peter123 · 26 comments
• Soon, Majority of Web Users Will No Longer Use IE · 23 points · by peter123 · 18 comments
• Two years after Vista launch, 71% of business PCs still running XP · 22 points · by crocus · 29 comments
• Ask HN: Stats on freemium services · 20 points · by nikhils · 12 comments
• Passport RFIDs cloned wholesale by $250 eBay auction spree · 20 points · by atestu · 14 comments
• Ask HN: Framing other sites has always seemed scummy to me. Am I off-base? · 20 points · by brandnewlow · 24 comments
• The Case For Web Applications · 19 points · by mbleigh · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Why don't you use email encryption? · 17 points · by RK · 20 comments
• Remus: possible high availability of apps through replicating virtual machines · 17 points · by ktom · 4 comments
• Google Earth To Show Ocean Floor · 17 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• TrackMeNot: Firefox plugin to hide your searches in a sea of automated random searches · 16 points · by soundsop · 2 comments
• jwacs: Javascript With Advanced Continuation Support · 16 points · by andreyf · 6 comments
• More Semantic Apps to Watch · 15 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• IT needs to get over its cloud denial, or management will get over IT · 15 points · by ccraigIW · 21 comments
• Tubes for the Sticks: Internet for Rural America · 15 points · by Silentio · 14 comments
• One unit test should have prevented Google from categorizing the entire internet as malware · 15 points · by rishi · 12 comments
• Smithsonian Institution Oral History Interview with Steve Jobs (1995) · 14 points · by condor · 5 comments
• Foreclosure helps homeowners and the economy · 14 points · by quoderat · 13 comments
• Venture Capital Returns Dip Below Zero · 14 points · by brentb · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Pricing Models for Subscription Services... Your Experience? · 14 points · by dell9000 · 15 comments
• EU Plots against the Pirate Bay · 13 points · by ojbyrne · 2 comments
• Guess What Happened To The Guy With The Microsoft Tattoo · 13 points · by ekrangel · 7 comments
• Ask HN: Glad the override feature is gone? · 13 points · by projectileboy · 12 comments
• Worldwide Distribution of Blood Types · 12 points · by crocus · 4 comments
• Python threads and the Global interpreter lock · 11 points · by jnoller · 3 comments
• Security · 11 points · by pclark · 1 comment
• Lisp, Smalltalk, Graphel? · 10 points · by mtrimpe · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How does the White House prevent Obama's emails from being forwarded? · 10 points · by fuzzmeister · 8 comments
• John Resig - Talk: The DOM is a Mess · 10 points · by twampss · 1 comment
• 3D Ajax Preloaders · 9 points · by peter123 · 3 comments
• Experiments Bring Internet to Remote African Villages · 9 points · by mqt · 4 comments
• SICP Prequel Textbook · 9 points · by mroman · 14 comments
• Using the Best Tools in Programming: Not Really Doable · 8 points · by bad_user · 3 comments
• Rubik's Cube inventor is back with Rubik's 360 · 8 points · by sanj · 6 comments
• India set to sell a £7 laptop · 8 points · by makimaki · 1 comment
• Can't override procrastination settings anymore · 8 points · by sanj · 6 comments
• Graph: Internet Population Distribution · 8 points · by breck · 2 comments
• Social experiment: Start from scratch with 25$ and a camping bag · 8 points · by newsit · no comments
• Strategies for creating a new Web 2.0 product · 7 points · by startupnz · 1 comment
• Interprocess communication: snooping, intercepting and subverting · 7 points · by twampss · no comments
• Ask HN: which way to go for bulk image uploading? · 7 points · by dpeq · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Are you from Japan? · 7 points · by jmtame · 10 comments
• Tucson-area cable TV broadcast porn during Super Bowl · 6 points · by qhoxie · 3 comments
• GE Augmented Reality (real time computer vision + VR) demo with code · 6 points · by anuraggoel · 3 comments
• Rails 2.3RC1 Released · 6 points · by wavesplash · no comments
• Have Keyboard, Will Program · 6 points · by bdotdub · 2 comments
• Correcting the Billion Dollar Mistake · 6 points · by swombat · no comments
• LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman: "We Can Go Public Any Time We Want To" · 6 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What is an expected compensation for a startup yet to launch a product ? · 5 points · by code_devil · 8 comments
• Davos Interviews: Etsy Founder Robert Kalin · 5 points · by mqt · 2 comments
• Super Ad Bowl: 2 decades of ads on a timeline · 5 points · by jyothi · 3 comments
• Ask HN: How does this AddThis.com make money? · 5 points · by sam_in_nyc · 10 comments
• Failure: The secret to success (short film) · 5 points · by ropiku · no comments
• Why Davos Never Produces Anything Useful · 5 points · by revorad · no comments
• How To Write Proofs · 5 points · by hhm · no comments
• Macro Patterns (Lisp) · 5 points · by kyle_burton · no comments
• Famous Companies Born During Downturns · 5 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Despite Accord With Apple, Music Labels Still Fret · 5 points · by ALee · 2 comments
• SWAT Teams Deployed in Online 911 Fraud · 5 points · by mattmcknight · 3 comments
• Tips for new WordPress users · 5 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• Resig: The DOM is a Mess @ Yahoo · 5 points · by astrec · 1 comment
• Problems with Linux · 4 points · by vinutheraj · 5 comments
• Simple Features that Set Emacs Apart · 4 points · by brandonkm · 1 comment
• The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs · 4 points · by peter123 · no comments
• The movement to give every American a trust fund at birth · 4 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job · 4 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Ask HN: Anyone offer 110% guarantee for their products? · 4 points · by imp · 4 comments
• "Traffic is not enough to make any real money" · 4 points · by Fuca · 5 comments
• Microsoft patenting Philip Greenspun's design plans? · 4 points · by tjr · 1 comment
• The Wal-Mart You Don't Know · 4 points · by gislebertus · 1 comment
• Entrepreneurs five times more likely to suffer from dyslexia · 4 points · by mixmax · no comments
• The official thinking behind the post-6.001/SICP foundation programming course at MIT [pdf] · 4 points · by uberc · no comments
• The Hopelessly Egocentric Blog Post · 4 points · by swombat · no comments
• One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public · 3 points · by azharcs · 1 comment
• Instant Web 2.0 Cred with the Vanilla Application Icon Designer (VAPID) · 3 points · by Bantik · no comments
• Calling the death of Windows Mobile · 3 points · by davidw · 2 comments
• Tools to Track Your Footprints on the Web · 3 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• His Cube is most famous, but Ernő Rubik created quite a few other puzzles, also · 3 points · by andreyf · no comments
• Do you know who's checking your DNA? · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• OpenTable files for IPO · 3 points · by amrithk · no comments
• E-book revolution: Small presses lead the way in mass digitization · 3 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Macintosh: 25 Years · 3 points · by brlewis · no comments
• The Small Files Problem · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• A video-conferencing iPhone in the works? · 3 points · by physcab · 1 comment
• Writing Technical Documentation with Sphinx, Paver, and Cog · 3 points · by arthurk · no comments
• Korea to introduce 1 Gbps residential Internet by 2012 · 3 points · by kennyroo · 1 comment
• Phusion Passenger is now Ruby 1.9.1 compatible · 3 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Access Denied: How to Defend Your Systems from an Inside Job - Cringely on technology · 3 points · by bdfh42 · 1 comment
• Thoughts on the GRE by a Professor of English · 3 points · by Bluem00 · no comments
• In Praise of Lo-Fi · 3 points · by danw · no comments
• Email is like Tetris: you lose eventually · 3 points · by danw · 2 comments
• The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age · 3 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Tech Reporters From 1981 Ask: Will People Ever Read Their Newspaper On A Computer? · 3 points · by dpifke · no comments
• Dear pg, thanks for removing override · 3 points · by niels_olson · no comments
• Cheap way of speeding up Visual Studio I/O · 3 points · by blumenkraft · no comments
• Ask HN: How to write financial projections? · 3 points · by macco · 7 comments
• Haskell circa 1994: reviving the Gofer standard prelude · 2 points · by dons · no comments
• PowerPoint to the People: The urgent need to fix federal archiving policies · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Ask HN: www and non www redirection issue. Somebody help! · 2 points · by redmaverick · 4 comments
• Social changes, not all bad, accompany recessions · 2 points · by quoderat · no comments
• Facebook Polls Bring Reality To Davos Elite · 2 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 3 comments
• How to Make an Entire Sea (the Aral Sea) Disappear · 2 points · by crocus · no comments
• Utility Mill - Easily Create Online Python Utilities · 2 points · by Jebdm · no comments
• Beta Test Site For iPhone Developers · 2 points · by koraybalci · no comments
• Ask HN: Does anybody have the link to the trading systems post? (couple months back) · 2 points · by pjharrin · 2 comments
• Physicists use waste heat from computers to add to their processing power · 2 points · by habs · no comments
• Game Theory in The Dark Knight: the opening scene · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• The Great Client-Server Architecture Myth · 2 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Ask YC: A simpler STM implementation? · 2 points · by andr · 4 comments
• Obama Inauguration Day Front Pages: Best of the Best · 2 points · by digitalfever · no comments
• Useful chart for time conversion functions · 2 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• Fermi’s paradox solved? · 2 points · by hhm · no comments
• Is Google Evil? The Great Debate · 2 points · by hhm · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Business and programming? · 2 points · by malte · 6 comments
• Human error caused Google search bug · 2 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• N-dimensional sequential move puzzles · 2 points · by andreyf · no comments
• How to use MacFUSE to make an Apple TV Boxee Torrent dropbox on OS X · 2 points · by mbleigh · no comments
• That Buzzing Sound · 2 points · by mqt · 2 comments
• Hacker war drives San Francisco cloning RFID passports [vid] · 2 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Seedcamp Tel Aviv Winners · 2 points · by pclark · 2 comments
• Software Development Attitude · 2 points · by t0pj · no comments
• Lessons from 1960s on how newspapers can survive today · 2 points · by tristmegistus · no comments
• Disruptive Innovation, Applied to Health Care · 2 points · by crocus · no comments
• Revver and Pageflakes go dark for days · 2 points · by crocus · no comments
• Friendly Interface For Archive.org: DeweyMusic.org · 2 points · by mustardhamsters · 1 comment
• The Steve Jobs Issue: Do Shareholders Have A Right To Facts About A CEO's Health? · 2 points · by uberc · 2 comments
• A reminder that some startup fundamentals don't change even in this economy · 2 points · by uberc · no comments
• Defense Department sets up its own SourceForge · 2 points · by timf · 2 comments
• Official Google Blog: Dive into the new Google Earth · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• How-to: Craigslist phone verification type system · 2 points · by apollo · 6 comments
• For the rest of you, It's a Marathon · 2 points · by rockstar9 · no comments
• Psyco, the Python Optimizing Compiler, is under Active Development Again · 2 points · by mdasen · 1 comment
• Crowd-sourced biology reading list from Carl Zimmer · 2 points · by davi · no comments
• How much are you worth on Twitter? · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Ask HN: Creating an image of a Macbook, to install a dev environment · 2 points · by andrewljohnson · 1 comment
• Breaking the Myth of the Megapixels · 2 points · by cake · no comments
• The "Any Competent Programmer" BS · 2 points · by swombat · no comments
• Computational Semantics with Functional Programming · 2 points · by Rod · no comments
• Facebook growing seven times faster than LinkedIn · 2 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• Facebook COO "promised that users would be able to add more than 5k friends soon" · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Help needed: Mapping a bidirectional list with Hibernate · 2 points · by jbandi · no comments
• Mafia business equivalent to 9% of Italian GDP · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Beyond Regular Expressions: More Incremental String Matching · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Farewell to Mike Homer · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Amazon target of mysterious postal investigation · 1 points · by Flemlord · 1 comment
• Only 25% of Britons believe Darwin's theory of evolution · 1 points · by MikeCapone · 3 comments
• Welcome To Zaffoo · 1 points · by alishasmth · 2 comments
• Suggestion: Auto filter articles preference. · 1 points · by jfoutz · no comments
• EBay top bidder: Take our money, keep your stuff · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Super Bowl: 1984 Ad of Apple · 1 points · by jyothi · no comments
• Barack Obama's Social Media Toolkit · 1 points · by rgrieselhuber · no comments
• IPhone leading the pack in mobile phone gaming · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Google promises offline Calendar support · 1 points · by alexk · no comments
• Ask HK: Understanding money · 1 points · by silvajoao · 3 comments
• The Common Lisp Cookbook - Using the Win32 API · 1 points · by revorad · no comments
• Creating HTML using tree structures · 1 points · by Tihy · no comments
• Seven steps to overcoming procrastination · 1 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Living In Public Doesn't Have To Be Destructive · 1 points · by brlewis · no comments
• Google Is Vulnerable, Time To Back Up Your Data · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• TED's head Chris Anderson excited about move · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Keyboards layouts for Spanish keyboards without the "<" and ">" key · 1 points · by gus_massa · no comments
• Twitter improves service, base; next, revenue · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Many companies now selling internships · 1 points · by Tangurena · no comments
• I'm sorry, we're out of time · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Google Business Card · 1 points · by timf · no comments
• How Michael Phelps Screwed-up His Google Reputation in Just 24 Hours · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• What is this “crisis”? · 1 points · by Tihy · 1 comment
• Apple may use 'Nuclear Arsenal' of patents to delay Palm's iPhone rival · 1 points · by 1gor · no comments
• 25 Years Ago, Apple Launched Their 1st Macintosh Commercial During the Super Bowl · 1 points · by CollegeMogul · no comments
• The Bouba/Kiki Effect · 1 points · by jsomers · no comments
• How to save your IT project from the scrap heap · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Microsoft, HP try to avoid Intel's "netbook" moniker · 1 points · by ilamont · 1 comment
• Twitter Top 100 for Software Developers · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• TARP artificially goosed GDP - would have been much worse · 1 points · by quoderat · no comments
• He said/she said: Flash not coming to iPhone · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• As snow hits the UK the Twitter mashups storm in · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Young entrepreneurs still flourishing after 25 years · 1 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• Google Researcher Targets Web's Structured Data · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• In the Facebook Age, jobless but not friendless · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Libvirt release, supports copy-on-write · 1 points · by timf · no comments
• Analytics spike from $15m fundraising round · 1 points · by timf · 1 comment
• Hasta La Vista, Noovo · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Numerical Analysis tools for C#? · 1 points · by physcab · no comments
• Linux Magazine hacked or just DOS'd itself with latest email? · 1 points · by niels_olson · no comments
• Japanese Designs That Could Go Global · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Is Apple about to release a new iPhone? · 1 points · by markessien · no comments
• AOL may be considering Bebo sale -- at a vast discount · 1 points · by uberc · no comments
• Want a Wireless Plan with Your Netbook? · 1 points · by makaimc · 1 comment
• ModBookPro = MacBookPro + Tablet mod · 1 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• 7 Solar Boats · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• The microprinter, an experiment in physical activity streams and notification · 1 points · by izaidi · no comments
• Yahoo Stops Serving Ads In RSS Feeds · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Twitter Search Plus: Find Replies Inline with Twitter Search - Intridea Development Blog · 1 points · by zaveri · no comments
• Human Clones May Be Genetically Viable · 1 points · by newsit · no comments
• Beware of your intuition when reasoning about many dimensions · 1 points · by andreyf · 2 comments
• A run down of the major security mailing lists · 1 points · by webappsec · no comments
• Sinatra Simple Example · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Britain Seen from Above: the Outtakes · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Jim Collins: How great companies turn crisis into opportunity · 1 points · by AndrewWarner · 1 comment
• Internet Explorer’s browser market share shrinks — because IE6 is finally dying · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Ask HN: How do you support your users/clients? · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Mining Poop For Gold · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Macy's cuts 7,000 jobs, slashes dividend · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Stanford Writes In World's Smallest Letters · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Recommended Informatics (CS) Literature · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Quicknet: What Might Have Been · 1 points · by sarvesh · no comments
• 5 Things Mark Shuttleworth Has Learned about Organizational Change · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• A Tech Mogul's Green Thumb · 1 points · by newmediaclay · no comments
• Lets Have Mr. Feeny Solve It · 1 points · by debtkid · no comments
• JsCron: Schedule code to run via simple JavaScript · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments