Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons · 149 points · by palsecam · 92 comments
• How to stop the drug wars · 129 points · by arjunb · 155 comments
• Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important as Google · 97 points · by toffer · 73 comments
• Trailer now available for Ray Kurzweil's movie, "Transcendent Man" · 75 points · by gourneau · 56 comments
• Why the Wii will never get any better · 58 points · by dfox · 29 comments
• Reilly’s Right - Tickets Are Cheap · 49 points · by fallentimes · 3 comments
• What Colour are your bits? · 48 points · by blasdel · 11 comments
• Ruby-style Blocks in Python · 46 points · by tav · 42 comments
• Dolphins blowing bubble rings, and playing with them [video] · 44 points · by DaniFong · 14 comments
• How to rewrite files in Linux · 40 points · by kqr2 · 20 comments
• The Importance of the Facebook Redesign · 40 points · by unalone · 17 comments
• Big Music Will Surrender, But Not Until At Least 2011 · 36 points · by vaksel · 26 comments
• Nice book on convex optimization techniques · 33 points · by carterschonwald · 21 comments
• Dear Speakers: things that interfere with getting a message across to an audience · 30 points · by sarvesh · 10 comments
• PostgreSQL: What happened to Hot Standby? · 29 points · by jawngee · 36 comments
• CSRF vulnerability found in Gmail; Google not willing to fix it · 27 points · by nickb · 17 comments
• Doctoral Candidates Anticipate Hard Times · 25 points · by nickb · 32 comments
• The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces · 25 points · by rms · 4 comments
• Hack your life for fun & profit with Mitch Altman (creator of the TV-B-Gone) · 25 points · by gourneau · 4 comments
• Reverse HTTP · 23 points · by vaksel · 9 comments
• The History of Python: How Exceptions Came to be Classes · 22 points · by dfox · no comments
• How the US forgot how to make Trident missiles · 22 points · by kqr2 · 7 comments
• Enzyme behind cancer spread found · 21 points · by nickb · 9 comments
• Ask HN: Review our startup (www.chuwe.com) · 21 points · by sgrove · 26 comments
• Solving the TinyUrl centralization problem · 20 points · by nreece · 16 comments
• Ask HN: Worthwhile hacker events in the Bay Area for March/April 2009? · 17 points · by denglish · 13 comments
• All-in-one I-have-no-idea · 17 points · by alecst · 17 comments
• Your Cool Technology is Worthless... If You Don't Know How to Sell · 17 points · by thinkingserious · 1 comment
• Is Google Rewiring Our Brains? Yes. fMRI studies of websearch in the Internet savvy. · 16 points · by DaniFong · 11 comments
• Ask HN: We just launched PleaseRT.me, a Twitter-app, please send feedback · 15 points · by Mazy · 19 comments
• Return on Design · 15 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• The Internet's librarian: Brewster Kahle, archivist and idealist · 12 points · by robg · 2 comments
• Angelsoft Lets Startups Find Funding Through New Investor Filtering Tool · 12 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 7 comments
• Security Inference from Noisy Data · 10 points · by bayareaguy · no comments
• Graduate school in a New Ice Age · 10 points · by peter123 · 5 comments
• Going Galt? · 9 points · by bcx · 4 comments
• The Neokast Mystery · 9 points · by naish · 3 comments
• Cocoa with Love: An Asteroids-style game in CoreAnimation, Part Four · 8 points · by twampss · no comments
• Microsoft Confirms IE8 Can be Removed from Windows 7 · 7 points · by nreece · 7 comments
• Ask HN: comments automatically killed? · 7 points · by thepanister · 3 comments
• Notes From Angelconf · 7 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• The Collapse of the VC Ecosystem & What It Will Look Like Post Recovery · 7 points · by mikebo · no comments
• Common Database Design Mistakes · 7 points · by alexk · 2 comments
• Face Recognition using Eigenfaces and Distance Classifiers: A Tutorial · 7 points · by Rod · 1 comment
• What the Heck Is Twitter? It's not a Google killer, and it's not a Facebook killer. · 6 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• The last will and testament of Circuit City · 6 points · by technologizer · 1 comment
• Is Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) useful? · 6 points · by nopassrecover · 8 comments
• Apple slow to process iPhone development contracts: would-be iPhone developers frustrated · 5 points · by dpapathanasiou · 1 comment
• Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big. · 5 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• How to play ultimate frisbee · 5 points · by Sam_Odio · 3 comments
• How To Run Fully-Virtualized Guests (HVM) With Xen 3.2 On Debian Lenny (x86_64) · 4 points · by joschi · no comments
• 50 Deployments A Day and The Perpetual Beta · 4 points · by plinkplonk · 1 comment
• Mike Rowe: Celebrating Work · 4 points · by quizbiz · 2 comments
• Meditation Driven Development · 4 points · by streblo · 1 comment
• Are you going to South by Southwest (SXSW) ? · 4 points · by pj · 4 comments
• I Want to Invest in Your Idea--Mine Sucks · 4 points · by lethe · no comments
• Steal These Federal Records — Okay, Not Literally · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Mozilla and WebKit, browser platform wars. · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Finding the Charm of Cross-Country Rail Travel · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• One-eyed man creates prosthetic 'surveillance' eye · 3 points · by barry-cotter · no comments
• 3d Bone Printer · 3 points · by barry-cotter · no comments
• Why not rewrite large parts of our DNA from scratch leaving only certain parts to evolve? · 3 points · by amichail · 17 comments
• The Technium: Collapsitarians · 3 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Ask HN: Trouble uploading to S3 from local? · 3 points · by goodgoblin · 3 comments
• Empathy Is Growth · 3 points · by brandonkm · no comments
• Why Global is the New 'Local' · 2 points · by Gibbon · no comments
• Ask HN: Review my latest web app - BoostCam · 2 points · by podman · 2 comments
• Interview: Jerry Lawson, Black Video Game Pioneer · 2 points · by blasdel · 1 comment
• Batman's fight to get on Facebook · 2 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Hulu blocks Boxee once again · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• Data Flows and Crises in Online Reputation Economies · 2 points · by zen53 · 1 comment
• U.S. Census Bureau - Entire data set (comma-separated values, field descriptions) · 2 points · by floatingatoll · no comments
• U.S. Patent Database - "Advanced Search" metadata fields and values (date, location, etc.) · 2 points · by floatingatoll · no comments
• Digital Web Magazine shuts down · 2 points · by sheatsb · no comments
• True Knowledge answering more and more facts · 2 points · by pclark · no comments
• A Conservative Pundit Turns 14 · 2 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Rabbi overcomes fear of Nazis by playing Call of Duty · 2 points · by emilam · 1 comment
• Design Patterns In Ruby, Explained · 2 points · by kitallis · no comments
• Go Retro, Convert Any Image to ASCII Art · 2 points · by nategraves · 1 comment
• Have You Ever Failed? · 2 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• VC Meetings · 2 points · by jgalvez · no comments
• Snakes on a Cloud · 2 points · by at · no comments
• The Beauty of Working Backwards · 2 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• GOP's top techie calls it quits · 2 points · by edgefield · no comments
• Vatican vetoes 'dot god' domain · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Txtng associated wiv superior reading skills · 1 points · by CoryOndrejka · 1 comment
• DTV coupon program back on track · 1 points · by colins_pride · no comments
• ZoomInfo Scores Deal With Microsoft To Integrate Search Into CRM · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Hedge Recession · 1 points · by nav · no comments
• Valley Cycles and Scott Rafer · 1 points · by nav · no comments
• Join the PPCGeeks Group location tracking on Google Maps · 1 points · by sprinttouch666 · no comments
• Has 'cloud-computing' lost its VC luster? · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• If you only had one minute to pitch your story · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Verizon Customers - Just Say No · 1 points · by edgefield · no comments
• Facebook Status and Twitter Updates · 1 points · by code_devil · no comments
• Understand Normalization Before Denormalizing · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• CodeIgniter Error CSS Classes · 1 points · by danspam · no comments
• You GO Kutiman · 1 points · by revital9 · no comments
• To execute or not: A question of cost? · 1 points · by geeko · 1 comment
• Digg is Dead to me · 1 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• If Google Bought Twitter.... · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Delver Gets Acquired by Sears (Really) · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Reasons to Convert to Linux · 1 points · by vp · no comments
• Wireless charging · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Wanted: Backend Developer · 1 points · by sunpatel · no comments
• Heart Attack Risk and Daylight Savings Linked · 1 points · by mhb · 1 comment
• The Linux Foundation buys Linux.com from SourceForge · 1 points · by mapleoin · no comments
• Power of Twitter - My thoughts · 1 points · by dangoldin · no comments
• The VC Apocalypse: Careful with Your Time · 1 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• PopBox Javascript image manipulator · 1 points · by chwolfe · no comments
• Jim Cramer on how he manipulated the stock market · 1 points · by shalmanese · no comments
• When is openness and transparency bad? · 1 points · by kortina · no comments
• Becoming Indie (on the iPhone): i360Dev Presentation · 1 points · by comatose_kid · no comments
• Is anyone getting it? · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• What it really takes to get your app into iTunes · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments