Hacker News Way Back Machine

• How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data · 347 points · by paul · 84 comments
• Papers Every Programmer Should Read · 189 points · by soundsop · 14 comments
• On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database · 159 points · by wheels · 43 comments
• One Thing You Don't Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College Degree · 79 points · by ciscoriordan · 86 comments
• Jason Calacanis: What to do if your startup is about fail · 78 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 51 comments
• Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers · 62 points · by brk · 18 comments
• Middle Men, Aggregators, And Apologies · 60 points · by twampss · 12 comments
• The Hacker's Diet: Losing weight the hacker way · 50 points · by jjguy · 53 comments
• Install a DNS resolver on your laptop · 49 points · by aristus · 34 comments
• Kestrel: Twitter's new message queue, written in 1500 lines of Scala · 46 points · by nreece · 4 comments
• The Size of Social Networks: Primates on Facebook · 46 points · by sanj · 4 comments
• jQuery Chart Plugins For Your App · 44 points · by mootymoots · 16 comments
• Bruce Schneier: Privacy in the Age of Persistence · 42 points · by anuraggoel · 18 comments
• Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone · 37 points · by peter123 · 14 comments
• Why your tiered password scheme is flawed, and what to do about it. · 33 points · by raganwald · 31 comments
• Stop Catching Exceptions · 32 points · by paul_houle · 25 comments
• Instead of 'branding,' how about startup-friendly policies for Mass.? · 26 points · by waderoush · 14 comments
• New Yahoo CEO's Open Letter to Fans, Analysts, and Employees · 26 points · by newmediaclay · 17 comments
• Memcached based message queues · 24 points · by tjake · 8 comments
• Beyond hot desk communism · 22 points · by swombat · 18 comments
• An experiment in combining Clojure and Terracotta · 22 points · by mattrepl · 1 comment
• From Mark Cuban Open Source Funding: Grow Traffic Using "the Elevator, not the Stairs" · 21 points · by alain94040 · 9 comments
• Sunlight Labs Looking For Volunteers To Scrape Legislation For All 50 States · 20 points · by paul_houle · 2 comments
• Inkling's using Tipjoy · 18 points · by nate · 4 comments
• Primates on Facebook · 17 points · by pj · 3 comments
• Startup Launch: Buzzable Creates Twitter Groups Around RSS Feeds (500 Invites) · 16 points · by transburgh · 2 comments
• The New York Times Expected To Launch Local Blog Network On Monday · 15 points · by transburgh · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Books That Gratify One's Intellectual Curiosity? · 15 points · by tokenadult · 10 comments
• Mapping CraigsList Housing Ads · 15 points · by andrewljohnson · 21 comments
• Impossible is a step · 14 points · by swombat · 3 comments
• Karplus-Strong Guitar Synthesizer · 14 points · by ajkirwin · 3 comments
• Magic properties make Firefox synchronously load the Java plugin · 13 points · by tremendo · no comments
• The History of Python: First-class Everything · 12 points · by dnaquin · no comments
• Diakonos: A Programmer's Text Editor in Ruby · 11 points · by blanu · 6 comments
• The Death of Business-Method Patents · 10 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Translating "The Economist" Behind China's Great Firewall · 9 points · by mqt · 1 comment
• Nokia's Skype-based end run around its operator partners · 9 points · by sutro · 8 comments
• Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage · 8 points · by dreur · no comments
• The Voynich manuscript - A mysterious undeciphered text · 8 points · by cool-RR · no comments
• Ask YC: What to do if burned out, and have dozens of deadlines for tomorrow · 7 points · by burnedouthacker · 10 comments
• How Do You Recruit Passionate People Who Would Work For Free? - The Jun Loayza Interview · 7 points · by releasedatez · 3 comments
• Shanzhai: New electronics trend from China · 7 points · by nickb · no comments
• Facebook's “In-House Sociologist” gives Stats on Users' Behavior · 7 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• Dynamic ActiveRecord Optimization with Scrooge · 7 points · by igrigorik · no comments
• Ask HN: hacker culture and ramen · 7 points · by billroberts · 19 comments
• Who needs a board of advisors? · 7 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 3 comments
• A Sketchy Brain Booster: Doodling · 6 points · by mad44 · no comments
• Ask HN: How would you teach Python? · 6 points · by yourabi · 3 comments
• How Mom sent a guy to Gitmo · 6 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Responding to the myth that entreprenuers don't need college · 6 points · by omnivore · no comments
• Ask HN: How to get bloggers to write about your product? · 6 points · by ucdaz · 4 comments
• Intro to Clojure - 80 min screencast for non-Lispers (vid) · 5 points · by nickb · no comments
• Yellow Is the New Green · 5 points · by robg · no comments
• Hash Table with Preemptive Bloom Filter · 5 points · by bdr · no comments
• How to get gigapixel photos from a cheap digicam · 5 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• Ask YC: Do we have to collect sales tax on SaaS? · 5 points · by jotto · 2 comments
• Start acting like a startup or call yourself something else. · 5 points · by vlod · 1 comment
• The Debt/Consumption Sham · 5 points · by lionhearted · 1 comment
• Why My Printer Received a DMCA Takedown Notice · 4 points · by darragjm · no comments
• Ubigraph: Free dynamic graph visualization software · 4 points · by newsit · no comments
• The Anti-web Manifesto · 4 points · by vladimir · no comments
• You shouldn't have to sell your soul just to download some music · 4 points · by nickb · no comments
• Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 released · 4 points · by vaksel · no comments
• $400 Unlocked Developer G1 Banned From Accessing Paid Apps [Android] · 4 points · by vaksel · 2 comments
• Tom Siebel: Emerging Opportunities in a Post IT Marketplace · 4 points · by gsiener · no comments
• Kindle Student Edition Coming Soon · 4 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Why the notion here that to be an entrepreneur, you have to be a hacker. · 4 points · by vintya · 23 comments
• The panhandler's secret · 4 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Startup looking for cofounder/hacker · 4 points · by Ripst · 4 comments
• Magic: The Gathering card search "startup" · 4 points · by blinks · 11 comments
• Create 50,000 companies for $1B · 4 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Ask HN: Vesting Schedule on Founders Shares? · 4 points · by BenS · 7 comments
• PowerShell: Windows Scripting Made Fun Again · 4 points · by Mojah · 2 comments
• Startup Lessons From The Underpants Gnomes: PROFIT · 4 points · by jsmoov · no comments
• Developing Apps on Palm webOS Webcast · 3 points · by jmtulloss · no comments
• Colorado Backyard Yields Cache of Stone Age Tools · 3 points · by tokenadult · 1 comment
• The Pirate Bay Manifesto · 3 points · by rms · no comments
• Ask HN: How do you use multiple AWS Accounts from the command line? · 3 points · by mattculbreth · 1 comment
• Facebook and the Future of User Generated Governance · 3 points · by zen53 · no comments
• Sample Chapter From "Ruby Best Practices" · 3 points · by sandal · 1 comment
• Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far · 3 points · by muon · no comments
• Don’t cage customers · 3 points · by rnesh · no comments
• Parasitic Computing · 3 points · by Rod · no comments
• Perl4caml allows you to use Perl code within OCaml · 3 points · by l0stman · no comments
• Streamlining HTTP · 3 points · by apgwoz · no comments
• Life on the roller coaster, the highs and lows of being an entrepreneur · 3 points · by rmason · no comments
• Question: can I store my homepage in a CDN like Amazon's new CDN?? · 3 points · by petervandijck · 3 comments
• 150 year old Rocky Mountain News shuts doors · 3 points · by transburgh · 2 comments
• Microsoft Vista voted tech world's top "Fiasco" · 3 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Twitter : The New “Browser” War? · 3 points · by buckpost · 2 comments
• Computer Shopper, once 1000+ a month, has gone to the great newsstand in the sky · 3 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Highlight2Translate, Greasemonkey script for instant Google Translation · 3 points · by bd · no comments
• If your users can't find the feature it might as well not exist · 3 points · by rayvega · no comments
• Ideapad: The Internet you didn't know · 3 points · by superchink · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Does anyone know a good way of reviewing code on the iphone? · 2 points · by adsyoung · 1 comment
• For instance, poets who previously received two dollars per line now get ten. · 2 points · by mynameishere · 1 comment
• On museums: Define your goals and then don't suck · 2 points · by jkkramer · no comments
• Dear Paul Buchheit, may I officially request playback a la Etherpad in Gmail and Gdocs? · 2 points · by niels_olson · 6 comments
• The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer · 2 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• Judge orders defendant to decrypt PGP-protected laptop · 2 points · by there · 3 comments
• Art of Type: Squint-Free Small Type · 2 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Intro to Palm WebOS · 2 points · by geeko · no comments
• Science gets a boost from cheap, super-resolution snapshots · 2 points · by muon · no comments
• Japan's 40 Richest · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Can Games Teach You To Program? · 2 points · by vladimir · no comments
• Frequon Invaders - Arcade Fun with Complex Exponentials · 2 points · by eru · no comments
• The Economics of Time and Effort and OpenSource · 2 points · by mapleoin · 1 comment
• India: Where Angels Fear To Trade · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Computer Shopper Is Going All Digital; April Is Last Print Issue · 2 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• Gazelle is the browser that thinks like an OS · 2 points · by ccraigIW · 1 comment
• ITunes University and the classroom: Can podcasts replace Professors? · 2 points · by pchristensen · 1 comment
• Print You Favorite Wikis As Books, Courtesy Of Wikipedia · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Developers at Mixi create a tweeting, IRC chatting coffee maker · 2 points · by teej · no comments
• This Internet fix is no pipe dream · 2 points · by ccraigIW · 2 comments
• Newsday to charge for website, online cable service · 2 points · by ALee · 1 comment
• Things Every Software Architect Should Know · 2 points · by phomer · no comments
• Thought provoking TDD exercise at the Software Craftsmanship conference · 2 points · by gojko · no comments
• Twitbin: Firefox Add-ons · 2 points · by ronchemist · no comments
• A man implemented wind mill in his home for daily needs · 2 points · by dksays · no comments
• A review of the Shortcovers ebook reader for the iPhone · 2 points · by kranner · no comments
• Think About Your Scope of Influence on Twitter or LinkedIn · 2 points · by tplDrew2 · 1 comment
• Fact checking George Will on climate change · 2 points · by davi · no comments
• The 4 reasons applets continue to fail, and why they still matter · 2 points · by jimbojw · no comments
• Smarter phones mean dumber pipes · 2 points · by mrspin · no comments
• Seeking Success - Google in Asia · 2 points · by halo · no comments
• Nation's 10th Largest Paper, Rocky Mountain News, Folds · 2 points · by ALee · no comments
• Samsø island (Denmark) now produces more renewable energy than it uses · 2 points · by smikhanov · no comments
• How to design a social networking site using social objects · 2 points · by kylemathews · no comments
• Why not build a handwriting word processor (not recognizer) for the iphone? · 2 points · by amichail · 4 comments
• Golden Parachutes: How the Bankers Went Down - CEO & Executive Compensation · 2 points · by tortilla · no comments
• Sorting Elements with jQuery · 2 points · by danspam · no comments
• The Human Brain - Stress · 1 points · by mad44 · no comments
• Apple has a readable, brief Terms of Service · 1 points · by helveticaman · 2 comments
• Cloud Computing Roundtable Sold Out, But It Will Be Streamed · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• $25 Billion to Promote Electric Cars Is Untouched · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Racetrack Memory · 1 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• Stackoverflow: Finding Success in Failure · 1 points · by jwstaddo2 · no comments
• It's not always about money; sometimes hackers just hate you · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Nanotechnology Acceleration Buzz is High: Pessimists Were Wrong · 1 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• How To Erase Old Hard Drives Without A Drill Bit · 1 points · by sarvesh · 2 comments
• Ning Launches Rich, Persistent Chat Feature · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Might Blu-ray be able to save itself yet? · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Firefox Productivity Addons · 1 points · by pfisch · 1 comment
• CBS's TV.com comes to the iPhone, proves pleasant. But we need Hulu for iPhone. · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• CoolPreviews by Cooliris, Inc. · 1 points · by rgaurelio · no comments
• Economy News: Investing in Jobs is Important · 1 points · by Logic-Shop · no comments
• JQuery Ajax Experience Framework Videos · 1 points · by kmt · no comments
• Apple files patent for hover-ready touchscreen · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• Las Vegas Running Out of Water Means Dimming Los Angeles Lights · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Imagine if Twitter became a Google App · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• MountableHDFS · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• (Australian) Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• 101 Reasons Plus 9 Optimists · 1 points · by gne1963 · no comments
• Creative Commons Zero: Waiving Copyrights · 1 points · by jwilliams · 1 comment
• Cloud Computing: An Escapist Fantasy? · 1 points · by TechPundit · no comments
• Tutorials - HTML.dk · 1 points · by dazlo · no comments
• HarperCollins Pays Big Advance For A Book Of… Tweets · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Aurora: Class types and invariants in JavaScript · 1 points · by bdfh42 · 1 comment
• Ghosts in the machine - avoid using window.sun in Firefox as it starts the Java engine · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Silicon Valley: down but not out? · 1 points · by Pabl0_Diabl0 · no comments
• Digital business: didier grossemy · 1 points · by didiergrossemy · no comments
• Coach Fitz's Management Theory (by Michael Lewis) · 1 points · by ecuzzillo · no comments
• Law Makes Blasphemy Illegal · 1 points · by Zarathu · no comments
• How We Actually do it: Accounting for Bugs in an Agile World · 1 points · by AgileArtem · no comments
• Lift(Scala Web Framework) 1.0 Released · 1 points · by mindaugas · 1 comment
• Hacking the planet: The only climate solution left? · 1 points · by habs · 1 comment
• Add A Youtube Video To Your PowerPoint Presentation · 1 points · by blaz1988 · no comments
• Common Lisp's library problem · 1 points · by bsaunder · no comments
• Demand for iPhone App Development Passes Facebook · 1 points · by vladimir · no comments
• Why is enterprise software so bad? · 1 points · by techdog · 3 comments
• The Microsoft patent attack · 1 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Blogger tips · 1 points · by rawseo · no comments
• Ask YC: Coding War Games Definition Required · 1 points · by abhishekdesai · no comments
• Netflix not ready to dive into streaming? · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Facebook Pages Redesign Coming · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Augmented Reality...(cool trick by GE) · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• How not to get a Wuzzy · 1 points · by AlexTheFounder · no comments
• Facebook Replaces Venture Capitalists as the Blogosphere's Punching Bag · 1 points · by kidmercury · no comments
• Pretty Printing XML (in Emacs) · 1 points · by thejuangarcia · no comments
• Good interfaces create good habits · 1 points · by KevinBongart · 1 comment
• Open the Future: John Henry was an Audiobook-Readin' Man · 1 points · by LogicHoleFlaw · no comments
• High-Throughput Nanomanufacturing (with video) · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Parenting advice from AAP. This is a sample article on discipline · 1 points · by niels_olson · no comments
• The code behind (some) CDS pricing - revealed. · 1 points · by umbra · no comments
• Companies should try to use the downturn as an opportunity for transformation · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• 1.5 Million-Year-Old Fossil Humans Walked on Modern Feet · 1 points · by toni · no comments
• Gary Vaynerchuk FOWA Keynote · 1 points · by tlrobinson · no comments
• Future of White Boys' Clubs Redux · 1 points · by batasrki · no comments
• Feedback Widget for iPhone Developers via Get Satisfaction API · 1 points · by davidcann · no comments
• Stupid License Tricks · 1 points · by VonGuard · no comments
• Engadget interviews Paul Aiken, Executive Director of the Authors Guild · 1 points · by brlewis · no comments
• Will the Future of the Web Be More Like the Present? · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Google introduces ads to Google News · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Microsoft fears Linux more than Apple · 1 points · by macco · no comments
• MyStart by IncrediMail.com · 1 points · by dude2009 · no comments
• The Netbook Effect · 1 points · by iamelgringo · 1 comment
• Specs vs. Constraints · 1 points · by oxyona · no comments
• Documents To Go for iPhone Nearing Completion · 1 points · by yvesrn · no comments
• Clearwire (WiMAX ISP) is hiring for engineering support in Las Vegas · 1 points · by somecrazydude · no comments