Hacker News Way Back Machine

• The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad · 338 points · by pg · 126 comments
• How I almost killed Facebook · 157 points · by neilc · 55 comments
• Introducing SelectorGadget: point and click minimal CSS selectors · 137 points · by tectonic · 25 comments
• Things I Wish I’d Been Told: Tips For Students with a Bachelors in Computer Science · 134 points · by dedalus · 59 comments
• If my startup fails, this is my cover letter for my next employer · 94 points · by raffi · 17 comments
• Can a musician sell their music online? · 94 points · by sevib · 67 comments
• Technical Debt · 90 points · by baha_man · 35 comments
• Tricks for Getting Out of Bed in the Morning · 87 points · by peter123 · 67 comments
• Twiddla does Replays now. Thanks for the inspiration, Etherpad · 66 points · by jasonkester · 25 comments
• 'Oldest English words' identified · 64 points · by ilamont · 41 comments
• Why is the DOS path character "\"? · 58 points · by vladimir · 7 comments
• Building Quake Live : John Carmack · 53 points · by kqr2 · 5 comments
• The Value of the Y Combinator Experience · 52 points · by sachin · 13 comments
• Do You Need All That Water to Boil Pasta? · 48 points · by robg · 21 comments
• All the Texts on Financial Engineering You Could Ever Want · 48 points · by steveplace · 25 comments
• Flower is the only video game I've played that made me feel relaxed, peaceful, and happy · 41 points · by pchristensen · 13 comments
• Rails deployment missing piece, filled in · 41 points · by koops · 27 comments
• Heist: a Scheme interpreter written in Ruby · 38 points · by swombat · 14 comments
• John Carmack interview on bringing Quake Live to browsers · 37 points · by ilamont · 20 comments
• Airtel, one of the biggest Indian ISPs, is intercepting HTTP requests to display ads · 36 points · by GeneralMaximus · 14 comments
• Ask HN: What have you learned from Hacker News? · 32 points · by adsyoung · 18 comments
• Computer Vision for Python · 29 points · by mjtokelly · 5 comments
• Use PHP to build a Twitter-like system on your site · 25 points · by jaspertheghost · 26 comments
• Bell Canada to charge 15 cents per Twitter SMS even with an unlimited plan · 25 points · by ingenium · 10 comments
• Pirate Bay Trial Day 9: BitTorrent Is Not Evil · 24 points · by rogercosseboom · 3 comments
• New Rule: Don’t launch a storage service if you’re going to close down within a year. · 23 points · by peter123 · 17 comments
• Rapid Thinking Makes People Happy · 21 points · by kqr2 · 8 comments
• E Ink's Russ Wilcox on why the Kindle 2's e-paper screen took 12 years, $150 million · 21 points · by waderoush · 3 comments
• Non-Disclosure Agreements are for young losers, not old winners · 21 points · by dan_sim · 25 comments
• Lift 1.0 released · 18 points · by codeslinger · 7 comments
• Chi Square and Modulo 512 to find TrueCrypt Files · 17 points · by damn_cops · 5 comments
• Launch: Pitching Hacks, The Book · 17 points · by prakash · 8 comments
• Exploring Logo Designs with Mathematica · 15 points · by kqr2 · 1 comment
• Philosophy’s great experiment · 14 points · by robg · 4 comments
• IPhone not selling well in Japan, now available for free · 14 points · by vaksel · 8 comments
• Ask PG: Working with infants · 12 points · by sanj · 5 comments
• Steve Jobs expects to return at the end of June · 11 points · by jacquesm · 4 comments
• Ask HN: How to monetize 1.3 million page views? · 11 points · by charuhas · 19 comments
• Digg Is Working On a Toolbar To Go After StumbleUpon, TinyURL, and All The Rest · 11 points · by vaksel · 5 comments
• Music Labels Reach A New Low, Sue Developer For Using Seeqpod API · 10 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 1 comment
• Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension · 10 points · by davidw · 2 comments
• VC Model Is Not Broken: Insights from Brad Feld of TechStars and Foundry Group · 10 points · by gthuang · no comments
• Journalist and amateur cyclist documents his experimentation with HGH · 9 points · by mark_h · 2 comments
• Facebook Opens Up Its Terms Of Service To Input From Users · 9 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• CEO: Nokia Considers Entering Laptop Industry · 9 points · by mad44 · 12 comments
• Useful Tips For Ruby On Rails Developers · 8 points · by twampss · no comments
• Louis CK: Everything's amazing, nobody's happy · 8 points · by humanlever · 2 comments
• Ask HN: easy resources for learning Python? · 8 points · by geuis · 8 comments
• Ask HN: Why do I always want to use an ordered dictionary? · 7 points · by noaharc · 15 comments
• Among the Inept, Researchers Discover, Ignorance Is Bliss · 7 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Google Apps Status Dashboard · 7 points · by mkuhn · 2 comments
• Fewer Calories (Carbs, Protein or Fat) Are Called Weight-Loss Key · 7 points · by tocomment · 22 comments
• TwistyMol:A minimal molecular viewer in JavaScript & Canvas · 7 points · by bd · 1 comment
• Fog Creek Compensation (2000) · 7 points · by baha_man · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Advice on working at a large company or startup? · 7 points · by eraeboess · 4 comments
• Microsoft sues TomTom · 6 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Official Gmail Blog: Updates to attachments: multi-select and progress bars · 6 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• For a startup, money doesn't solve problems, it just changes them · 6 points · by twampss · 1 comment
• Value of a social network user · 6 points · by maxer · 2 comments
• [video] Concurrency in Clojure · 6 points · by fp · no comments
• Design Techniques to Simplify and De-clutter Your Interfaces · 5 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Google blocks paid apps for unlocked G1 users · 5 points · by nickb · no comments
• Spotify, the music industry's smiling assassin · 5 points · by Danmatt · 1 comment
• Web Developer Handbook · 5 points · by vladocar · no comments
• State of the Computer Book Market 2008, part 4 -- The Languages · 5 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• Microsoft plays with small, sleepy servers · 5 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Directory of Open Access Journals · 5 points · by omouse · no comments
• Mike Turner's Do-It-Yourself 95 MPG AeroCivic (Slideshow) · 5 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• Ask HN: how do you sync your software's data? · 5 points · by oscardelben · 2 comments
• Markets are Anti-Inductive · 5 points · by kurtosis · no comments
• Google now has an official Twitter account · 5 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• Ask HN: What advice do you have for a first time blogger? · 5 points · by mnemonik · 3 comments
• Practice Your Code-Fu: Programming Exercises, Puzzles, & Contests Online · 5 points · by grokcode · no comments
• Does the Cloud OS Really Deserved To Be Called Such? · 4 points · by holdenpage · no comments
• NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered passenger ship, built in the late 1950s · 4 points · by tjic · no comments
• Google Responds To ‘Gfail’ Outage With Apps Status Dashboard · 4 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Google blames Gmail outage on data centre collapse · 4 points · by mad44 · no comments
• Start With the Most Difficult Part · 4 points · by nreece · no comments
• When Angels Fear to Tread · 4 points · by goodgoblin · no comments
• New research shows placebos can also benefit patients who do not have faith in them · 4 points · by divia · no comments
• Is VoIP communication being Abused? · 4 points · by omfut · 3 comments
• Why hasn't America been attacked since 9/11? · 4 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Recession hits paid sites hard… · 4 points · by peter123 · no comments
• How can I have a part-time job so I have time for my startup? · 4 points · by 0xAnonym · 2 comments
• Canadian startup story : well.ca · 4 points · by awk · 1 comment
• Image Programming in JavaScript: The Histogram · 4 points · by sci · no comments
• When the hive mind works, it's a beautiful thing. · 4 points · by imgabe · 1 comment
• A Completely Unscientific (Yet Accurate) Look at Social Sites · 4 points · by pierrefar · no comments
• Hunt not the Snark but the Snarker · 4 points · by LogicHoleFlaw · no comments
• Distributed Reliability Testing (Google Chrome) · 3 points · by timf · no comments
• Fake Horoscopes - Crazy Idea (But is it legal?) · 3 points · by cburgdorfer · 4 comments
• Paranoid Android: Google blocks paid apps for unlocked dev phones · 3 points · by wmf · no comments
• Zumodrive vs. Dropbox · 3 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Capitalizing on accessibility, the Authors Guild is out of touch · 3 points · by noel_gomez · no comments
• An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time · 3 points · by d0mine · no comments
• Did facebook just get hijacked? · 3 points · by agotterer · 4 comments
• 101 Economic Positives · 3 points · by gne1963 · no comments
• Using Yahoo Pipes for the "enterprise" · 3 points · by adatta02 · no comments
• Virgin annouce social media integration for new site and facebook connect for planes · 3 points · by chokosabe · no comments
• How Are Those Guys Datamoshing? · 3 points · by mattjaynes · no comments
• 'gfail' incident report [pdf] · 3 points · by moomerman · no comments
• Kestrel: Twitter's new message queue, written in 1500 lines of Scala · 3 points · by simonw · 1 comment
• Liquid film motors explained · 3 points · by markup · no comments
• Hackers: Ideology trumps profit when it comes to Web site attacks · 3 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• On installers · 3 points · by KevinBongart · no comments
• Twitter on ABC's Nightline · 3 points · by pakafka · no comments
• Three things you need if you want more customers · 3 points · by zen53 · 1 comment
• Loading A Database Of Everything Into A Star Schema · 3 points · by paul_houle · no comments
• Interview: what's next for Google Chrome · 3 points · by paulsb · 1 comment
• Rapid HIV evolution avoids attack · 3 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Pitching Hacks, The Book - Venture Hacks · 3 points · by sarvesh · no comments
• Cocoa Is My Girlfriend » Don’t Screw Your Customers Over · 3 points · by twampss · no comments
• Mathematics, Physics and "A Hard Day's Night" · 3 points · by bentoner · no comments
• Ask HN: Site for recent CS grads (jobs)? · 3 points · by hbien · 2 comments
• Prints Are Evidence of Modern Foot in Prehumans · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Governing the Facebook Service in an Open and Transparent Way · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Rocky Mountain News closing after Friday edition · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Twitter's new business model: T-Shirts · 3 points · by jonursenbach · 1 comment
• Geekstas Paradise (from Craigslist) · 3 points · by petenixey · 1 comment
• Hey Microsoft: What if you gave Windows 7 the power to run multiple browsers really well? · 2 points · by technologizer · 2 comments
• Coding Horror: Who's Your Coding Buddy? · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• OS # · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• $25000 Hacking Contest open to the Public · 2 points · by hahaman · no comments
• You must translate this Wikipedia article to French before you can go on a date with them · 2 points · by divia · no comments
• UK Quacks Cry "Bulltwit" About Twitter Users · 2 points · by panda88 · no comments
• Heist: A Scheme Interpreter Written in Ruby · 2 points · by luckystrike · 1 comment
• Apple shareholder meeting dominated by politics · 2 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• Extending Enterprise Applications · 2 points · by jonnycoder · 1 comment
• Ask HNC; Can you suggest an alternative to Gmail? · 2 points · by TobiasCassell · 3 comments
• What every web startup ought to know about public data sets ? · 2 points · by magicmodule · no comments
• Conceive, Choose, Create, Communicate: Advice for successful projects from a hacker · 2 points · by jaspertheghost · 1 comment
• Old Media Strikes Back · 2 points · by bdfh42 · 1 comment
• FDIC's Failed bank list. 3 in 2007. 14 so far this year. · 2 points · by TrevorJ · no comments
• Ft. Benning report on Big Dog robot field tests · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• A Formula for Startup Success: Miller High Life and 12Seconds.tv · 2 points · by Tippingpoint · no comments
• A Zero-Emissions City in the Desert (Abu Dhabi) · 2 points · by pchristensen · no comments
• Two Quick Words About Microsoft v. TomTom: Think Bilski · 2 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Chapter Summaries of Geeks Bearing Gifts by Ted Nelson · 2 points · by omouse · 1 comment
• DataTables 1.4 · 2 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• The best social media marketing advice I've collected over the years · 2 points · by lennysan · no comments
• Worthless stock certs that were once worth millions (From Fred Wilson) · 2 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Four big reasons to get behind the smart grid · 2 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• World's Best Programmer is... · 2 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• /home/dima: Rails On Emacs (in english) · 2 points · by iamwil · no comments
• Braitenberg vehicles · 2 points · by swapspace · no comments
• How strong is a chimpanzee, really? · 2 points · by staunch · no comments
• Yahoo CFO to Leave · 2 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Plug Computers: Green, Small, Cheap and Maybe the Future · 2 points · by Rasmussen · 1 comment
• Twitter’s public/private space design, aka “How to find girls on Twitter” · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Building a Balancing Scooter · 2 points · by j57r · no comments
• Fit to be used · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Bulk Email Sending · 2 points · by merrick33 · 1 comment
• Is Your Tribe Holding You Down? · 2 points · by mikecuesta · 1 comment
• Small Cars Are Big in Canada · 2 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• Microsoft Going Too Fast? 36 Changes To Windows 7 Since Beta, Still No Beta 2 · 2 points · by escapade · no comments
• Sending SMS using Google Calendar's python API · 2 points · by abyx · no comments
• Twitter Blog: Bell Mobility and Twitter—No Extra Fees · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Why Array Indexes Should Start From Zero · 2 points · by Xichekolas · no comments
• From Creationism to Evolutionism in Computer Programming · 2 points · by fahree · no comments
• Printing the NYT costs twice as much as sending every subscriber a free Kindle · 2 points · by jws · 1 comment
• Politics done right - Land of a Thousand Liebermans · 2 points · by geeko · no comments
• Running Android and WinCE on the same device · 2 points · by shimi · no comments
• Does a new or emerging programming language really need practical libraries? · 2 points · by berlinbrown · 6 comments
• JamLegend founder on launching a start. · 2 points · by AndrewWarner · no comments
• Will Mobile PDAs & Phones Replace Laptops? And if they do… · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• RealIT Episode 1, The Project · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• If you want to go viral, you need a hook. · 1 points · by joao · no comments
• Internet Safety Act launches a new battle on privacy · 1 points · by physcab · no comments
• The best marketing advice I've collected over the years · 1 points · by lennysan · no comments
• What do fourth generation ad networks look like? · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Expanding broadband to bail out economies · 1 points · by jbrun · no comments
• Ask YC: After Twitter.com what will be the next hot website? · 1 points · by mannylee1 · no comments
• Comparative Biology in Aging Research · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Amazon's Wheel of Growth · 1 points · by toffer · no comments
• Kindle 2 Tear Down · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Designer Babies - Like It Or Not, Here They Come · 1 points · by jawngee · no comments
• Gmail Glitch Shows Pitfalls · 1 points · by je · 1 comment
• Cracking an INI file with a jackhammer · 1 points · by benhoyt · no comments
• Facebook took ads for get-rich-quick scam · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Try to predict shifts in relative prices · 1 points · by divia · no comments
• The New, New Math of Cloud · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Stupid console tricks: Getting the names of your Twitter non-followers · 1 points · by techdog · no comments
• Steve Jobs Probably Won't Return To Apple · 1 points · by mattjaynes · 1 comment
• Why Windows 7 on Netbooks Won’t Save Microsoft · 1 points · by shiranaihito · no comments
• Why Microsoft Should Settle The TomTom-Linux Patent Lawsuit At Any Price · 1 points · by ekrangel · no comments
• Groupware Server With Group-Office, Postfix, Dovecot And SpamAssassin On Debian Lenny · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• Facebook and the Simple Inconvenient Truth About Social Media · 1 points · by kidmercury · no comments
• Ask HN: Should Ebook publishers provide a syntax highlighting option for code listings? · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Review: Komodo 5 takes the crown for dynamic IDEs · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Enclojure - an IDE for the Clojure programming language · 1 points · by sci · no comments
• A Blog-Based Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator · 1 points · by vp · no comments
• Once unleashed, in 1978, DIY brewers revolutionized the industry. · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Ask YC: Adobe Flex in practice · 1 points · by wallflower · 1 comment
• Ngpay: 1st Indian firm to win WEF tech award · 1 points · by dreamz · no comments
• Howard Lindzon and Friends Launch New Investment Fund for Social Apps · 1 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• Top Ten Most Famous Hackers of All Time · 1 points · by physcab · 1 comment
• Reranking Results in django-springsteen · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• As Agile as the Next Guy · 1 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines, by John McCarthy · 1 points · by omouse · 1 comment
• IT deserves better than IBM or Microsoft · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• What you can learn from McDonald's: Service, Quality and Price · 1 points · by Maven911 · no comments
• Local Motors: 1st Disruptive Entrance In Auto Industry in Decades - Open Source Car Design · 1 points · by CollegeMogul · no comments
• How Twitter could be a threat to Google · 1 points · by edgefield · 2 comments
• An impossible alloy now possible · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Apple Tells Investors That Steve Jobs Plans to Return · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Automatic iPhone sudoku solver grabs images from paper · 1 points · by iamflimflam1 · 1 comment
• HP Abandons Its Online Storage Service · 1 points · by dbarefoot · no comments
• BookGlutton · 1 points · by newsit · no comments
• Tips for Grails developers · 1 points · by dreur · no comments
• Silicon Ireland (beta) · 1 points · by newsit · no comments
• Yahoo SearchMonkey Adds Facebook Profile Actions Into Search Results · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Analyst: "Apple's 99-cent iTunes model does not build a market for apps" · 1 points · by ilamont · 1 comment
• The Periodic Table Of Doomsday Economic Charts · 1 points · by kingkongrevenge · no comments
• Second Estimate Can Reduce Planning And Purchasing Errors · 1 points · by toni · no comments
• Lotus to show innovative OMNIVORE engine in Geneva · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Best Development Platform EVER · 1 points · by j57r · no comments
• Devolving Sigils · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• Help a friend break the App Store Top 100 (itunes link) · 1 points · by auston · no comments
• JQuery UI - Pt.2 - Widgets · 1 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• Gender research - a fruitful inspiration for building semantic technologies? · 1 points · by cgerrish · no comments
• Magnetic self-assembly in slow motion · 1 points · by ctingom · no comments
• Ask YC: How do I find a good intellectual property lawyer? · 1 points · by keefe · 4 comments
• Walk Like Us: 1.5 Million-Year-Old Footprints Look Modern · 1 points · by mad44 · no comments
• Most useful projects solved or helped with a website · 1 points · by troytabor · 3 comments
• Music 2.0 book - thoughts on the future of the music industry · 1 points · by mcxx · no comments
• Framework trend Django Up Rails Down? · 1 points · by skinnydog · no comments
• Yahoo Management Restructure · 1 points · by jbyers · no comments
• Top Most Expensive Google Android Apps On The T-Mobile G1 Market · 1 points · by VizionQuest · no comments
• Future of Microsoft 3D simulation platform in doubt · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Energy net-zero house: Unity House · 1 points · by mainsequence · no comments
• Engineers use 'nano-origami' to build tiny electronic devices · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• Great 3rd Party Keyboard iPhone Concept & Interview · 1 points · by yvesrn · no comments
• Ebay good in parts · 1 points · by minalecs · no comments
• Comparing Cilk++ and OpenMP · 1 points · by threadman · no comments
• How Not to write Network Applications · 1 points · by dedalus · no comments
• Facebook's egalitarian working of its TOS is an experiment worth trying · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Free Scaling Rails Screencasts · 1 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Myth Revealed: Not all gamers white teenage boys · 1 points · by Logic-Shop · 2 comments
• Listen To Twitter With The PoshMouth PowerShell Service · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Why today's netbooks won't kill the laptop market · 1 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 76 - RealIT · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments