Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Applications open for summer 2009 YC funding · 131 points · by pg · 80 comments
• The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture · 85 points · by ajbatac · 56 comments
• Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect · 75 points · by ALee · 96 comments
• A critique of The Black Swan · 72 points · by biohacker42 · 16 comments
• Twits Know: Google Quietly Laying Off Engineers · 70 points · by nickb · 59 comments
• How did we geeks become experts on macroeconomics? · 70 points · by lbrandy · 113 comments
• How one guy with a 20yo telephone did $30m in damages in less than one night. · 67 points · by joshwa · 27 comments
• Kindle 2: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device · 64 points · by sdfx · 61 comments
• Why aren't developers interested in Ada? · 54 points · by lbrandy · 52 comments
• How to game the U.S. higher-education system · 50 points · by Alex3917 · 32 comments
• One free interaction · 50 points · by bouncingsoul · 21 comments
• Alex Payne: The Problem With Email Clients · 49 points · by mqt · 29 comments
• Mint CEO on how to build a startup · 48 points · by marketer · 14 comments
• Good programmers aren’t lazy · 48 points · by r11t · 24 comments
• Snaptalent relaunches - completely changes business model (YC W08) · 48 points · by flavio87 · 42 comments
• Porting Hacker News links to Delicious · 31 points · by nose · 16 comments
• Js-scheme - a Scheme interpreter written in JavaScript · 29 points · by mariorz · 15 comments
• Does removing "override" on noprocrast increase HN's market share? · 28 points · by niels_olson · 18 comments
• Spolksy and Atwood's StackOver is a huge success · 28 points · by staunch · 43 comments
• Leaked NYT memo on paper's future on the web (hint: it won't be free) · 28 points · by eli · 33 comments
• Job losses in six recessions: Percent decline in payroll employment from peak month · 28 points · by curtis · 4 comments
• So maybe the slackers had it right after all · 26 points · by robg · 23 comments
• Google Quietly Laying Off Engineers · 25 points · by gibsonf1 · 2 comments
• Startup Websites that Work · 24 points · by sabon · 6 comments
• Microchip: 7x faster, 30x less power · 24 points · by superkarn · 5 comments
• K7: a standard library for the V8 Javascript interpreter · 21 points · by Jebdm · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget · 21 points · by thorax · 31 comments
• Ask HN: Hacker Listing? · 20 points · by Oompa · 30 comments
• Careers and Marriage · 20 points · by swombat · 45 comments
• Calendar and contact syncing for iPhone and Windows Mobile devices · 20 points · by Anon84 · 4 comments
• It's No Joke: Real Time Search is a Big Deal. · 19 points · by mbleigh · 10 comments
• Education Is All in Your Mind · 18 points · by robg · 4 comments
• Psystar Wins Legal Ruling Against Apple: Can Argue Apple is Overextending Copyright Law · 18 points · by mdasen · 37 comments
• The End of Alone · 17 points · by kqr2 · 5 comments
• Yahoo Should Buy Microsoft · 17 points · by naish · 6 comments
• New Puzzle Challenges Math Skills · 16 points · by jaydub · 8 comments
• Ask HN: why not an API? · 15 points · by giles_bowkett · 9 comments
• Comparison of S3 and Rackspace/Mosso Cloud Files · 14 points · by timf · 11 comments
• Micropayments, Reimagined · 14 points · by toffer · 6 comments
• Ticketmaster Sued in Canada for Scalping Tickets to Shows · 14 points · by gscott · 19 comments
• List of hacked passwords reveals '123456' is most popular · 12 points · by gscott · 13 comments
• Picking up that entrepreneurial date. · 12 points · by selcouth · 3 comments
• Why Google Won’t Be A Victim Of Twitter & Why John’s Theory Is Flawed · 11 points · by mkmark · 4 comments
• Personal Rapid Transit Startup · 11 points · by jaydub · 9 comments
• Time to hang up the pajamas · 10 points · by razorburn · 1 comment
• Are the Creators of Twitter Living in the Last Dreamworld on Earth? · 10 points · by raghus · 1 comment
• Xkcd - TED Talk · 9 points · by arthurk · 7 comments
• Charging for concurrent apps: Windows 7 a non-Starter on netbooks · 9 points · by swombat · 11 comments
• Recruiting Drops at Business Schools · 9 points · by vaksel · 6 comments
• Rural India Snaps Up Mobile Phones · 9 points · by prakash · 6 comments
• Ask HN: Tips for engineer who wants to seed his own startup · 9 points · by mark_ellul · 12 comments
• In defense of bankers · 8 points · by fizx · 8 comments
• Sprint · 8 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Ask HN: Would you trust a .me domain? · 8 points · by hellweaver666 · 20 comments
• Getting Started with Django and Python - First Impressions · 8 points · by matticakes · 5 comments
• TED: A different way to think about creative genius, Elizabeth Gilbert · 8 points · by cadalac · 4 comments
• A Twitter Decision · 7 points · by timf · 3 comments
• If programmers are leaving VB and aren't going to C#, where are they going? · 7 points · by nreece · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Uptime monitoring services · 7 points · by ctingom · 4 comments
• Useful JavaScript Tools · 7 points · by tomh · 2 comments
• The iPhone Becomes a Web Server · 7 points · by Anon84 · 2 comments
• Map of undersea cables from 1901 · 7 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Ad Revenue Per Visit - What Your Eyes Cost · 6 points · by warkaiser · 1 comment
• Friendfeed's User and Usability Problem · 6 points · by nreece · no comments
• Tune your TV into a GPS · 6 points · by nickb · no comments
• gnuplot using HTML5 canvas · 6 points · by mqt · no comments
• Peter Schiff: Stimulus Bill Will Lead to "Unmitigated Disaster" · 6 points · by dpapathanasiou · no comments
• 1709: The year that Europe froze · 5 points · by mixmax · no comments
• The man who made Obama - Campaign Manager David Plouffe and his List · 5 points · by bkudria · 2 comments
• Guy posts 1* review due to faulty copy, author personally delivers replacement on Xmas day · 5 points · by acangiano · 3 comments
• Ask HN: RateMyProfessors replacement? · 5 points · by jobeirne · 12 comments
• Is Noca The Next PayPal? · 5 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How do you explain a social news site to computer noobs? · 5 points · by iamelgringo · 9 comments
• Revisiting "Purely Functional Retrogames": On Functional Programming advocacy · 5 points · by silentbicycle · no comments
• Startup Marketing Plan: Building a Foundation for Buzz · 5 points · by shuleatt · no comments
• Yelp user faces lawsuit over negative review · 5 points · by dominik · 2 comments
• Marijuana Usage Tied to Testicular Cancer · 5 points · by ComputerGuru · no comments
• John Resig: Drop-in JavaScript Performance · 5 points · by peter123 · no comments
• CCBS2009: Chacha102 Content Blog Survey 2009 · 4 points · by chacha102 · no comments
• Fast Web Performance using CDN as a Cloud · 4 points · by dedalus · 5 comments
• Wake Up Call: Facebook Isn’t A Safe Haven · 4 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Quick Compare-and-Contrast of the Y Combinator and TechStars Series AA Documents · 4 points · by dshah · no comments
• Incubator Round-Up (Updated Jan 2009) · 4 points · by paul7986 · 1 comment
• Tony Hoare / Historically Bad Ideas: "Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake" · 4 points · by shailesh · 2 comments
• Ten tips for slightly less awful resumes · 4 points · by geuis · no comments
• Canadian Regional Boot Camp for Technology Start-Ups - March 2009 · 4 points · by tom_rath · 4 comments
• Dance show for Apple co-founder · 4 points · by mad44 · 1 comment
• Update on Famous Awk One-Liners Explained · 4 points · by twampss · no comments
• Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation · 4 points · by newsit · no comments
• Choosing a framework; and why Django? · 4 points · by farhanahmad · 1 comment
• There's Going To Be Many More Rails(es) · 4 points · by bdfh42 · 2 comments
• Capitalism Should Return to Its Roots · 4 points · by Anon84 · 1 comment
• Development to Deployment in Django · 4 points · by twampss · no comments
• Kasparov versus the World, the power of collective collaboration. · 4 points · by erik · no comments
• IDEs, education and the UNIX philosophy · 4 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Linux Containers (LXC) - Lightweight virtualization with Linux · 3 points · by bkudria · no comments
• Should We Deprecate WWW? 9 of the World's Top 10 Websites Don't Seem To Think So · 3 points · by rapidstuff · 2 comments
• MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield fixed data on autism · 3 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• DIY Ring Flash [via Lifehacker] - great idea · 3 points · by nshah · no comments
• The Downside for NY Condo Owners · 3 points · by ojbyrne · no comments
• OLPC's Hidden Killer App: Ultimate E-Book Reader · 3 points · by nreece · no comments
• Simple full-text search engine in 200 lines of Ruby · 3 points · by atarashi · no comments
• Ask HN: MicroISV ideas? · 3 points · by wlievens · 1 comment
• His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama Joins Twitter · 3 points · by tomh · no comments
• Effective Vices for the IT Professional · 3 points · by twampss · no comments
• State of the Browsers (and the wars) · 3 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Trogdor: Burninatingly fast search using Yahoo BOSS · 3 points · by arien · 2 comments
• When Greed Is Good · 3 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• A startup feasibility question · 3 points · by yalurker · 4 comments
• Where's The Cash For Flash? · 3 points · by gnoupi · no comments
• Best of Global Game Jam · 3 points · by gnoupi · 1 comment
• James Dyson: Let engineers make Britain great again · 3 points · by aditya · no comments
• Introducing Shindig-dnd - an open source iGoogle-like gadget container. · 3 points · by amduser29 · no comments
• Ask HN: What videoconferencing / telepresence / screensharing services or apps do you use? · 3 points · by h34t · 1 comment
• Why do People Buy Virtual Goods? · 3 points · by peter123 · 5 comments
• Pay Per Post: Google Uses Every Trick To Beat Yahoo In Japan · 3 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Lesson from The Flip: Do less and you get to print less · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Google Testing Blog: To Assert or Not To Assert · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• "When we are at our best is when we don’t give a fuck" - David Chang · 3 points · by nate · no comments
• Trend Briefing, covering half a dozen consumer trends for 2009 · 2 points · by jfornear · no comments
• 75 Creative Uses of the Spore Creature Creator · 2 points · by ibechase · no comments
• What does Google Really need on the iPhone? : T&M News · 2 points · by chacha102 · no comments
• Zappos CEO Talks Culture Fit and the Importance of Creating a 'Wow' Experience · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• Ask HN: How profitable are most iphone apps? · 2 points · by amichail · 2 comments
• Steve Wozniak to Compete on 'Dancing with the Stars' TV Show · 2 points · by divia · no comments
• Trackmate : an easy to build tangible user interface · 2 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Ask HN: first few things you notice in a web site · 2 points · by adilsaleem · 2 comments
• BMC Evolutionary Biology: Inbred males live long and don't prosper · 2 points · by alexk · no comments
• Mac clone maker (Psystar) wins legal round against Apple · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Comics grammar and tradition · 2 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• The story behind the $10 'laptop' · 2 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Analytics App for iPhone and iPod Touch · 2 points · by petercooper · 2 comments
• Ten Gmail Labs Features You Should Enable · 2 points · by swombat · no comments
• Excellent hack from Johnny Lee: Automatic Projector Calibration with Embedded Light Sensors · 2 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• Is mathematics the language of the universe? · 2 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Michael Bierut: This is My Process · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Recommendation Systems: Interview with Satnam Alag · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Televisions 'to be fitted in contact lenses within ten years' · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• 15 Companies That Might Not Survive 2009 · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• The 5 Questions of Time Estimates · 2 points · by ank · no comments
• 20,000 Indian workers to be flown out of UAE · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• The incredible shrinking OS · 2 points · by ccraigIW · 1 comment
• New Toshiba FeRAM can send and receive data at eight times the speed of previous prototype · 2 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• The Dalai Lama Joins Twitter · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Twentysomething: Obama's salary caps should cap hours too · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• Amazon Kindle bites the dust... $187 to fix · 2 points · by dominik · no comments
• Is the real-time web a threat to Google search? · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• Google Web Toolkit showcase: TeamPostgreSQL · 2 points · by johnyzee · 1 comment
• Video: Kindle 2 as slow as the original · 2 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Visualizing Statistical Profiles with Chartprof · 2 points · by wingo · no comments
• The Value of ‘Other People’s Money’ · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• StatSheet.com is a Community Project · 2 points · by RobbieStats · no comments
• Scheme to java bytecode compiler - jeme · 2 points · by apgwoz · no comments
• The Three Horsemen of the Coming Network Revolution · 2 points · by TechPundit · no comments
• Jonathan Zittrain on the new Kindle · 2 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Gradual Typing in Python · 2 points · by mdasen · no comments
• Google beta of Sync for mobile contacts & calendar is live · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Study Suggests Why Gut Instincts Work · 2 points · by ardit33 · 1 comment
• List of air-filtering house plants compiled by NASA for space station · 2 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Why Small Payments Won’t Save Publishers · 2 points · by raghus · no comments
• Alex Payne on the problem with email clients · 2 points · by Anon84 · 3 comments
• Google's water-based data center · 2 points · by mhb · no comments
• Finding Large Primes by calculating n^2-2, Checking Validity with Legendre · 2 points · by zandorg · 1 comment
• Managing a simple database with Python, SQLite and wxPython, 1 · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Quotes From Great Business People · 2 points · by noor420 · no comments
• Gorilla gestures point to evolution of human language · 2 points · by toni · no comments
• NASA builds mountain climbing robot · 2 points · by tsally · no comments
• Look to biology for the future of computing · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Bruce Perens: Combining GPL and Proprietary Software · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• The Kindle Hardware Tax · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Astronaut's Video Satirizes NASA Bureaucracy · 2 points · by blogimus · 1 comment
• Technology’s Fingerprints on the Stimulus Bill · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Did a US congressman leak classified intel on Twitter? · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• An executable operational semantics for Python · 2 points · by Jebdm · no comments
• Lensless high-resolution $10 microscope for cell imaging · 1 points · by mhb · no comments
• Data portability allows mashup for Australian bush fire crisis · 1 points · by jwilliams · 1 comment
• Proposal for Passive Private Browsing · 1 points · by Jebdm · no comments
• Slightly old but classic advice on web operations · 1 points · by rgrieselhuber · no comments
• Industrial Society and Its Future (Unabomber Manifesto) · 1 points · by jsomers · 2 comments
• RFactor - editor-agnostic Ruby refactoring gem · 1 points · by bkudria · no comments
• Jinzora - Build An Internet Jukebox · 1 points · by blaz1988 · no comments
• Make category theory intuitive · 1 points · by yters · no comments
• Social media lights up as Victorian (Australia) bushfires rage · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• What earns the best online marketing ROI? · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• TFMSC: Putting right people on Design team · 1 points · by bennetbrower · no comments
• The Frightening Beauty of Bunkers · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Web = god · 1 points · by mga · no comments
• Why iPhone 2.5G can be Good for both Apple and the Developing Markets · 1 points · by kanny96 · no comments
• Kaspersky Lab hacked: another sign of the losing war against hackers? · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Bioinformatics elephant and Blind men · 1 points · by abhishektiwari · no comments
• Do Cloud Operating Systems Deserve To Be Called "Operating Systems" · 1 points · by holdenpage · 1 comment
• Write object oriented JavaScript Code · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Quicknet: What Might Have Been · 1 points · by cyunker · no comments
• Distractions of a crisis · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• 5 Ways to Push your Media · 1 points · by chacha102 · no comments
• Add-Art: Firefox Add-ons · 1 points · by tsally · no comments
• Digital Speech Processing Course · 1 points · by mstoehr · no comments
• Wiki Paths · 1 points · by muon · no comments
• How to minimize tax implications of business sale? · 1 points · by codeismightier · 1 comment
• AMD Shifts Phenom IIs to Triple-Core, AM3 Boards · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• A VC - Traffic Sources In The Past Week · 1 points · by brk · no comments
• Posix compliant cluster filesystem · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• More on the Meta-data Menagerie · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Amazon Raises an E-Book Specter · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Google faces post-Fleetwood Mac comedown · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• U.S. Taxpayers Risk $9.7 Trillion on Bailouts as Senate Votes · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• Setting Expectations for Contribution Based Projects (Part 1 ) · 1 points · by brm · no comments
• A conversation with Terry Childs in jail · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• MLB.TV streaming in HD this year for the first time · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Influence of brain type on sex of children (coders have more boys?) · 1 points · by Jebdm · no comments
• Web 2.0 defamation lawsuits multiply · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• 3 TED trends: efficiency, robots, genomics · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Apple App Store developers look to next level · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Secure File Upload in PHP Web Applications · 1 points · by smoody · 1 comment
• Seeding Austin Startups: OneSpot And 7 Billion People Raise Series A Funding · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Facebook flashmob shuts down station · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Solid objects constructed with DNA molecules · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• How Freshbooks Built an Army of Passionate Evangelists on Twitter · 1 points · by mattculbreth · no comments
• ChucK, an audio programming language · 1 points · by karim · no comments
• Live at the Amazon Kindle Event · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Should Microsoft simplify XP-to-Win-7 upgrades? · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• 'My Phone' online storage, sync coming soon for Windows Mobile · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• WSDM 2009 - Web Search and Data Mining Late Breaking Papers · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• The Senate's compromise cuts $2B from spending on broadband deployment · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• The World is Flat · 1 points · by JesseAldridge · no comments
• How is the early stage funding market? · 1 points · by pclark · no comments
• Iranian anti-government Digg clone gets hacked to oblivion. · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• JQuery Case Study: How Boxee.tv uses jQuery · 1 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• Error recovery not failure avoidance (the core skill of innovators) · 1 points · by noel_gomez · no comments
• Scene Systems reconstructs scenes such as Sully’s crash landing · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• F5 And Bytemobile Partner To Scale And Secure Wireless Networks · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Free Online Storage, File Synchronization Solutions From ZumoDrive · 1 points · by VizionQuest · no comments
• Typing Genius defies Apple, introduces Emoji support · 1 points · by mad44 · no comments
• Use member history & rec's to drive action -- Amazon’s missing opps to market the Kindle 2 · 1 points · by adrianscottcom · no comments
• What’s New With The Kindle 2 · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Is Water the Next Carbon? · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• The Future of Heavy Vehicles? · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• AskTog: Kindle vs. iPhone/iPod Touch: Human/Machine Interaction & User Experience · 1 points · by dominik · no comments
• Reasons to be cheerful · 1 points · by Danmatt · no comments
• Useful Ruby 1.9 Links and Resources · 1 points · by petercooper · no comments
• Ask HN: How to bring back the subscription business model for news? · 1 points · by jballanc · 3 comments
• Kindle books on laptops, iPhone coming soon along with international versions · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• EBay ex-CEO Whitman plans run for California governor · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Ask HN: Is there a flat fee, web based ad serving service? · 1 points · by racerrick · 3 comments
• Language-oriented programming: too much, too fast · 1 points · by snprbob86 · no comments
• Kaspersky breach exposes sensitive database, says hacker · 1 points · by habs · no comments
• Free Online Books Every Student of Humanity Should Read · 1 points · by jwesley · no comments
• Google Sync Keeps Contacts and Calendars in Sync on Your Mobile Phone · 1 points · by mad44 · 1 comment
• Bill Blocking H-1B Hires For TARP-Takers Won't Stop H-1B Abuse · 1 points · by escapade · no comments
• Ask HN: What is the best forum to ask beginner coding questions? · 1 points · by jwb119 · 2 comments
• Hey, Amazon, here's step-by-step advice for building a truly cool Kindle 3 · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Why SEM is a service and Not a product. · 1 points · by jyothi · no comments
• Straight Banker Talk: DeSilva + Philips Media DealMakers Conference 2009 · 1 points · by flashinfremont · no comments
• Questions your financially unprepared friends fear · 1 points · by ramit · no comments
• The state of developer testing · 1 points · by jbandi · no comments
• Top Ten Attributes of Good Clients · 1 points · by rams · no comments
• Plastic Logic - Kindle competitor · 1 points · by mhb · no comments
• Quantifying Age and Gender Stereotypes · 1 points · by lukas · no comments
• Can the Internet destroy the University? · 1 points · by mstoehr · no comments
• The Age of Artificial Brains · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• What Would You Pay For Enterprise Customer Service? · 1 points · by warkaiser · no comments
• PowerShell ABC's - Z is for zh-CHT · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Facebook now gets over one _billion_ visits per month · 1 points · by bemmu · no comments
• Whitman wants to be California's next governor · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Top 5 Business Blogging Tips · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• Mob-mentality @ price of wine · 1 points · by adatta02 · no comments
• Ebay testing automated translation of auctions · 1 points · by aristus · 1 comment
• It's not which browser it's which browsers and how you use them · 1 points · by themullet · no comments
• Kindle 2 text-to-speech demonstration · 1 points · by thomas · no comments
• Who is the target audience for Linux netbook? · 1 points · by thomas · 2 comments
• Seth Godin - why you need a tribe · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• Banana Scheme · 1 points · by Jebdm · no comments
• Why There Should Not Be a "Release Backlog" · 1 points · by astrec · no comments