Hacker News Way Back Machine

• "There's no reason only poor people should have the experience" - TED video of Bill Gates · 142 points · by wyday · 70 comments
• Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals or Fog Creek · 106 points · by bdfh42 · 49 comments
• Yegge, Clojure, and Arc · 94 points · by fogus · 39 comments
• How do you process credit cards? · 93 points · by pchristensen · 30 comments
• How Pixar Hires · 78 points · by brm · 10 comments
• Unix Time = 1234567890 On Valentine’s Day · 72 points · by peter123 · 21 comments
• Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job · 65 points · by mad44 · 42 comments
• Higher Order PHP · 64 points · by mudge · 28 comments
• The Baby-Eating Aliens · 63 points · by Eliezer · 23 comments
• John Resig Talk: Performance Improvements in Browsers · 53 points · by babyshake · 24 comments
• Ruby’s Most Underused Keyword · 50 points · by sant0sk1 · 12 comments
• Gmail Adds Multiple Inboxes · 44 points · by naish · 15 comments
• How Amazon.com is thriving in a horrendous retail climate · 44 points · by dominik · 25 comments
• Domain Pigeon: Your Unintelligible Five Letter Domain Name Awaits · 42 points · by bemmu · 20 comments
• Why you shouldn't copy us or anyone else · 41 points · by adityakothadiya · 9 comments
• Ask HN: Review my startup, mobify.me · 41 points · by ig0rskee · 15 comments
• TED: MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense · 40 points · by markup · 9 comments
• Ask HN: How do you find a colorscheme for your project? · 38 points · by mixmax · 34 comments
• Should developers worry about ageism? · 37 points · by tyn · 27 comments
• Game of life that produces scrolling text "Golly" · 35 points · by icey · 11 comments
• Load Balancing in Amazon EC2 with HAProxy · 32 points · by jawngee · no comments
• Google Earth updater now quietly updates all the Google apps · 30 points · by nickb · 13 comments
• Gmail Adds Support For Multiple Pane Viewing · 27 points · by vaksel · 13 comments
• A crisis of confidence: the US scientific endeavour is increasingly losing its lustre as a career choice · 27 points · by kqr2 · 13 comments
• Play the Point, Not the Score · 26 points · by IsaacSchlueter · 17 comments
• Study says Seinfeld ads made MS brand image worse. · 26 points · by timr · 19 comments
• ESPN to ISPs: Pay for Your Customers to Play Video · 25 points · by nickb · 16 comments
• Sequoia: 20 Petaflops, 1.6 million cores, 1.6 Petabytes RAM · 25 points · by timf · 28 comments
• Ceiling Height Can Affect How A Person Thinks, Feels And Acts · 22 points · by rams · 12 comments
• Check out this original tetris-like game I made. · 22 points · by amichail · 18 comments
• CSS keyframe animation: Apple mirroring Core Animation in WebKit · 19 points · by agl · 4 comments
• Heyzap: Online games reach the long tail · 19 points · by immad · 3 comments
• Qualifying "Web Karma": It shouldn't be a game. · 17 points · by endtwist · 16 comments
• Japan’s Big-Works Stimulus Is Lesson for U.S. · 17 points · by bwd · 7 comments
• Linking SaaS Software Pricing to Value · 17 points · by swombat · 13 comments
• Subversion - A Summary Cheat Sheet · 17 points · by vp · 6 comments
• Dieting? Put Your Money Where Your Fat Is · 17 points · by jakewolf · 21 comments
• What does a hacker do after an accident which puts him to bed rest? · 17 points · by jyothi · 13 comments
• Avoid virtualization overhead with Linux Containers · 15 points · by old-gregg · 4 comments
• Axl vs. Frank: More time doesn't mean a better product · 15 points · by naish · 3 comments
• In Paris, an anti-ad insurgency grows · 14 points · by crocus · 12 comments
• Boo Hoo in the Boardroom · 13 points · by jderick · 6 comments
• Google tells how it conducts eye-tracking studies · 13 points · by vaksel · 5 comments
• RAII, AC/DC, and the "with" statement · 13 points · by benhoyt · 11 comments
• Ask HN: Please review my site... and find a great place to hike · 12 points · by andrewljohnson · 11 comments
• Three Worlds Collide: Great work of fiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky · 12 points · by rms · 2 comments
• F-Script: Command-line Cocoa shell goes beta · 11 points · by troystribling · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Review our app, Lizzer · 11 points · by digisci · 8 comments
• The History of the Pinball Construction Set: Launching Millions of Creative Possibilities · 11 points · by makimaki · 4 comments
• Interesting series of blog posts on combinators · 10 points · by gommm · 2 comments
• Accurate data about weather changes in the last million years · 10 points · by coliveira · no comments
• Ask HN: rules for storing banking info? · 9 points · by jam · 5 comments
• Hospitals with better IT have fewer deaths, study shows · 9 points · by tsally · 2 comments
• TED Q&A: Neurologist Oliver Sacks · 8 points · by kqr2 · 1 comment
• Freedom of expression in serious danger in Italy · 8 points · by markup · 2 comments
• NAT Primer: How your home router works · 8 points · by protocol_man · 2 comments
• Connect The Dots - Creativity Examined · 8 points · by pchristensen · 3 comments
• Major recessions are characterized by something novel · 8 points · by ksvs · 2 comments
• Inside the ingenious hoax that fooled the British sports press · 8 points · by dominik · 2 comments
• Supreme Court Refuses To Revive Online Censorship Law · 8 points · by beingfamous · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Going to College with NIL Family Support? · 7 points · by tokenadult · 10 comments
• Hobbyist to Game Development Company: Five Realistic Steps · 7 points · by wallflower · 3 comments
• Non-Profit Takes European Students to Silicon Valley · 7 points · by nborghi · no comments
• Reed Hastings: Please Raise My Taxes · 7 points · by robg · 12 comments
• An Open Letter to Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood · 7 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Why My First Business Failed · 6 points · by AndrewWarner · no comments
• Ask HN: How do you vote a submission after you have read the page it linked to? · 6 points · by hboon · 7 comments
• Ask HN: Where to find used office furniture? · 6 points · by KevBurnsJr · 4 comments
• Open Source Means Business · 6 points · by terpua · no comments
• If It's Difficult to Pronounce, It Must Be Risky · 6 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Beautiful Architecture (new Oreilly book ala' Beautiful Code) · 5 points · by timf · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Is this idea outdated? · 5 points · by c00p3r · 3 comments
• Trent Reznor And The Formula For Future Music Business Models · 5 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Base System · 5 points · by Anon84 · 3 comments
• New Zealand bolts net filtering regime into place · 5 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye · 5 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Ask HN: Please help me price my new app · 5 points · by mattculbreth · 3 comments
• Is there a way to develop commercial apps for the iPhone without buying a Mac? · 5 points · by amichail · 9 comments
• Ask HN: Does Gmail have an "email later" feature? · 4 points · by alexyim · 3 comments
• A Ruby, Io, and Ocaml Programming Pattern · 4 points · by silentbicycle · 5 comments
• Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4? · 4 points · by renai42 · no comments
• Ask HN: What if we open-sourced our medical records, anonymously? · 4 points · by jgilliam · 3 comments
• Ad Agency Wins Twitter Business Model Contest · 4 points · by makimaki · no comments
• Four million jobs in two years? FDR did it in two months. · 4 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Unnatural selection: Robots start to evolve · 4 points · by waleedka · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Online editable database? · 4 points · by pclark · 6 comments
• Tree.com Acquires Mint Competitor Thrive · 4 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Quine: A program that's only output is its own source code · 4 points · by dkasper · 1 comment
• ObjectiveResource, an ActiveResource port for the iPhone. · 4 points · by jjburka · 1 comment
• Microsoft smartphone rumors gain steam · 4 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Please Solve the Information Redundancy Problem · 4 points · by codeismightier · 3 comments
• iShoot: 18 hour workdays, written one-handed, 220k paid downloads · 4 points · by wallflower · no comments
• New York Times editor: "Serious discussion" about charging for online news · 4 points · by ilamont · 1 comment
• Top Spam-friendly Registrars Named and Shamed · 4 points · by alexandros · 1 comment
• Official Google Research Blog: Market Algorithms and Optimization Meeting · 4 points · by Anon84 · 1 comment
• Processing Credit Cards - Phil Greenspun's Experience · 4 points · by mhb · no comments
• Wayback Machine & What You Can Learn From It For Your Site / Startup · 3 points · by betterlabs · 4 comments
• Should we track the race of students taking standardized tests? · 3 points · by tc · 3 comments
• How to get RC33 on your G1 without the wait · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Ask HN: How much are you paying for your karma? · 3 points · by RWilson · 5 comments
• How was your site's holiday? · 3 points · by drusenko · no comments
• The credit crunch according to Soros · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Oscar Voting System Poses Problems · 3 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Why innocent people confess to crimes they did not commit (2005) · 3 points · by crocus · no comments
• The 7 Deadly Sins of Startup Companies · 3 points · by psyklic · 1 comment
• ToorCamp · 3 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Python Indexing with BerkelyDB · 3 points · by ionrock · no comments
• Can you start a small business with free software? · 3 points · by Danmatt · 2 comments
• The Kaplan Daguerreotype of Abraham Lincoln - earliest known photographic portrait? · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Post-Commit Web Hooks for Google Code Project Hosting · 3 points · by johns · no comments
• The future of deployment · 3 points · by ryanmahoski · no comments
• Gartner: Telepresence will replace 2.1 million airline seats annually over next 3 years · 3 points · by gravitycop · 5 comments
• Biomimicry Breakthrough: Butterfly Wings Could Lead to Better Solar Panels · 3 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Setting up CouchDB-Lucene on OS X (Some issues..) · 3 points · by twampss · 1 comment
• IT-free fortresses for future elites · 3 points · by makimaki · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Finding a contractor to set up our server · 3 points · by catone · 13 comments
• Harvard's endowment managers lose 22% of endowment, will cut staff by 25% · 3 points · by jbarciauskas · no comments
• Rails documentation for Mac OS X Dictionary.app · 3 points · by priit · no comments
• Google Makes 1.5 Million Books Available For iPhone, Android Phones · 3 points · by kirubakaran · 1 comment
• Benchmarked: Ubuntu vs Vista vs Windows 7 · 3 points · by alexandros · no comments
• 9 Year-Old App Developer More Than Just a Feel-Good Story · 3 points · by twampss · no comments
• A Day Without Mono is like a Day Without a Bullet in my Head · 2 points · by nickb · 1 comment
• SEO At the Enterprise Level–A Major Flop · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• How a Blog Might Have Stopped Madoff · 2 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• You Had Me At ‘Hello World’, 35 Great Nerd Pickup Lines · 2 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Run SimpleDB locally for development. · 2 points · by jawngee · no comments
• The big fat lie about battery life · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Coming Soon: Google Chrome Extensions · 2 points · by noodle · no comments
• Ask HN: Any advice on legal agreements for user data hosted across the Atlantic? · 2 points · by sh1mmer · no comments
• Unix time 1234567890 · 2 points · by dgr · no comments
• Why Obama's green jobs plan might work · 2 points · by khangtoh · no comments
• Beluga whales Blowing Bubble Rings on Yahoo [video] · 2 points · by helveticaman · no comments
• ObjectiveResource: ActiveResource for Objective-C · 2 points · by frankus · no comments
• Tinkerkit: a physical computing toolkit for designers · 2 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Ulrich Drepper - Parallel Programming with Transactional Memory · 2 points · by swombat · no comments
• As Layoffs Surge, Women May Pass Men in Job Force · 2 points · by robg · 1 comment
• How Village Voice Media Uses Digg to Game Their Traffic Numbers · 2 points · by aak · no comments
• Pragmatism, purity and JSON content types · 2 points · by arthurk · no comments
• Nine year old whiz kid writes an iPhone application that is download 4,000 times · 2 points · by hoan · 3 comments
• Who owns the application delivery meta-data in the cloud? · 2 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• 8 Pioneering Moments in Digital Photography · 2 points · by digitalfever · no comments
• The security aspects of the president's SIPRnet phone · 2 points · by cawel · 4 comments
• Automatic Deployment via git · 2 points · by pwim · 1 comment
• TeamPostgreSQL (beta'd here) released, 20% HN discount · 2 points · by johnyzee · no comments
• Win32 Batch File Pi Calculator · 2 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Sysadmin who got arrested for refusing to handover city's passwords, sues San Fran for $3m · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Promoting open government - Track my Tax dollars · 2 points · by pj · no comments
• Are browser plug-ins security risks? · 2 points · by ccraigIW · 1 comment
• The rise of haggling · 2 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• Pete Silva Demonstrates the FirePass SSL-VPN · 2 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Watch Out, Kindle: Google Makes iPhone the New eBook Reader · 2 points · by echair · 2 comments
• Researchers Find Earliest Evidence for Animal Life · 2 points · by dimm · no comments
• IT Layoff Tracker · 2 points · by cadalac · no comments
• Watch a live video, share your PC with CNN · 2 points · by jgfoot · 2 comments
• Review: Amazon Web Services Management Console Beta · 2 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Compression, Encryption, Deduplication, and Replication: Strange Bedfellows · 2 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Ways in which git makes the opposite of sense to me · 2 points · by icey · no comments
• ShoutNow: Rapid Voice Messaging (Indy Startup Weekend company) · 2 points · by mileszs · no comments
• Google brings Shakespeare and Twain to your iPhone · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• EvServer, Introduction: The tale of a forgotten feature · 2 points · by bandris · no comments
• Are We Bringing Our Germs to Mars? · 2 points · by dominik · no comments
• Invention turns cell phone into mobile medical lab · 2 points · by dominik · no comments
• Obama appoints John Doerr to economic advisory board · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Amazon to offer Kindle e-books on cell phones · 2 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• How do you deal with impatience? · 2 points · by CCCP · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Hacker News Thread Dynamics · 2 points · by joe_the_user · 2 comments
• Murdoch: "Infinite increase in inventory" undermines online ad rates · 2 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Who Has Time For This?: TED 2009 Wednesday: "Reboot" · 2 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Police create wanted poster on Nintendo Wii · 2 points · by Guatejon · no comments
• Job cuts ground MS Flight Simulator · 2 points · by amrithk · no comments
• Turritopsis nutricula: the world's only 'immortal' creature · 2 points · by Jebdm · no comments
• F.D.A. Approves Drug Derived From Goat’s Milk · 2 points · by vrs · no comments
• Ticketmaster-Live Nation talks raise concerns · 1 points · by jacobscott · no comments
• Britain From Above · 1 points · by yters · no comments
• Creator of Dovecot Joins Mailtrust (which uses Dovecot) · 1 points · by timf · no comments
• Walmart Growth Video -- including how it was done · 1 points · by sanj · no comments
• Blackboard usability · 1 points · by zaidf · 1 comment
• Learning From Free Content… And why it’s Not Always Enough · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Netscape executive, Michael J Homer, dies at 50 · 1 points · by cadalac · no comments
• Viral Chain Note Jumps Facebook, Connecting Readers And Bloggers · 1 points · by VizionQuest · no comments
• Putin rejects Dell's offer of aid · 1 points · by cadalac · no comments
• Airlines testing biofuels · 1 points · by pbrown · no comments
• Hiring For IT: What We’re Doing Wrong & How To Fix It · 1 points · by mc · no comments
• Collection of research on network effects. · 1 points · by DenisM · no comments
• Abcphp.com · 1 points · by girishr · no comments
• His Guitar's Got Game · 1 points · by brandnewlow · no comments
• Google puts 1.5 million free books on your cellphone · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• After multiple false starts, Microsoft figures out it must change Windows 7 UAC · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Microsoft Songsmith creates an interesting song from just a voice recording · 1 points · by sam_in_nyc · 2 comments
• Semantics Incorporated: How Semantic are Google, Calais and Linked Data? · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Whistlecars and Robocars: Brad Templeton on really automatic transmissions [video] · 1 points · by waleedka · no comments
• Techrigy Hits 1 Billion Conversations–Think Google Alerts On Steroids · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Creating All Humans: A Data-Driven AI Framework for Open Game Worlds · 1 points · by swombat · no comments
• In the Red, Toyota Sees Loss Tripling · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• When Will Netflix Start Renting Games? · 1 points · by jyothi · 1 comment
• Tell HN: We need more web-apps like this... · 1 points · by mlLK · no comments
• Why your pop-up blocker doesn't work as well as it used to · 1 points · by Guatejon · no comments
• Darwin's 200th birthday celebrated · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• The difference between a show and a story · 1 points · by brm · no comments
• Business Opportunities · 1 points · by jackjames · no comments
• Concentration aid for places with irregular ambient noise .need volunteers/beta testers :D · 1 points · by lani · no comments
• Promoting open government is now a political incentive · 1 points · by cawel · no comments
• Jshashtable: a JavaScript implementation of a hash table · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Tips for creating a Virtual Economy in Social Applications · 1 points · by code_devil · no comments
• Emergence Capital: A VC Riding the SaaS Wave · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• First Aptera Electric Cars Roll Out: Vehicle of the Future? · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Elements of a Sustainable Company from Startup School 08 · 1 points · by spoiledtechie · no comments
• High-performance XML parsing in Python with lxml · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• How to build a career as an artist · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• News Quiz: The week in tech · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Is tech really better off than the rest of the economy? · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Messaging and Infrastructure Management · 1 points · by dizz · no comments
• I'll Give You My Template When You Pry It From My Cold Dead Hands · 1 points · by mdasen · no comments
• Exploring Windows 7 on the Mac: the Taskbar · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• From the Design of UKE to Google, Modular Innovation and More Portability · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Why The $900 Billion Stimulus Won't Help Design · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Implementing LINQ on the .NET Micro Framework · 1 points · by tamberg · no comments
• JQuery, PHP & Ajax with the Twitter API · 1 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• The Google Software Update Agent · 1 points · by arthurk · 1 comment
• Porn Site Feud Spawns New DNS Attack · 1 points · by timf · 2 comments
• Espresso is the ideal stimulant for the creative mind · 1 points · by dominik · no comments
• Omega 3 Fatty Acids Prevent Clogged Arteries In Mice · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Ask HN: Think Obama would approve a wireless network cloud owned by the people? · 1 points · by pj · 2 comments
• How To Reach A Top Blogger · 1 points · by warkaiser · no comments
• Five reasons why blogging is your best career move · 1 points · by nlwhittemore · no comments
• Military Robots and the Laws of War · 1 points · by ksvs · no comments
• Mapping EPA air pollution data with Google Maps · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Why Microsoft, labels cling to music subscriptions · 1 points · by echair · no comments
• Browsers: More important than ever. Also more boring. · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• SAP: HP Consultants Know What They're Doing, IBM And Accenture Don't · 1 points · by escapade · no comments
• Born believers: How your brain creates God · 1 points · by troystribling · no comments
• Dependency Management: The Irony of Make · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• 12 Freaky Fetish Museums · 1 points · by burento · no comments
• A Space for BackType [POETIC] · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Stiglitz: Depression in Davos · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• German Mac clone maker claims it won't face Psystar's legal troubles · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• There's only so much science can tell us about human morality. · 1 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Debunked: Apple Doesn’t Ban Facebook In Stores As A Policy (Yet) · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• $1,143 to London to help a Facebook friend supposedly robbed at gunpoint -- Wait a second... · 1 points · by dominik · 1 comment
• Microsoft: Layoffs for Some, Visas for Others · 1 points · by dominik · no comments
• Fake real-life parking ticket leads to malware download · 1 points · by joshwa · no comments
• Seth Godin Explains Why You Need a Tribe and Why he is Not on Twitter · 1 points · by makimaki · no comments
• El Humidor: The Ins and Outs of clj-record Validations · 1 points · by twism · no comments
• Please, world, like subscription music, won't you? · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Verizon Math Fail · 1 points · by nejiron · 1 comment
• IWork ‘09 virus gives birth to Photoshop CS4 virus + the tools to remove · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Optimal Pricing - Annual Credit Card Billing Subscriptions · 1 points · by merrick33 · no comments
• We Must Look to the Future (and colonize space) · 1 points · by rksprst · no comments
• Using Multiple Inboxes in Gmail · 1 points · by svjunkie · no comments
• Startups: Start Small, Win Each Point · 1 points · by colemaniac · 4 comments