Hacker News Way Back Machine

• College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek · 194 points · by peter123 · 75 comments
• 6 months later, the Intel SSDs are still massively better · 136 points · by blasdel · 56 comments
• Undo Send in Gmail · 124 points · by KevinBongart · 63 comments
• Rails is a Ghetto (retracted) · 102 points · by swombat · 40 comments
• Six best start-ups from Y Combinator demo day · 93 points · by polvi · 57 comments
• The Startup Myth · 81 points · by inglorian · 17 comments
• Seth's Blog: Advice on equity · 62 points · by mattjung · 46 comments
• Trying to Earn More Money? Stop Wasting Your Time · 60 points · by dangoldin · 16 comments
• Y Combinator Demo Day Spring 2009 · 57 points · by aneesh · 25 comments
• Want your own Github? Check out the open source Gitorious. · 56 points · by evdawg · 11 comments
• Strategies to Take on an Established Competitor · 54 points · by collistaeed · 13 comments
• Fully patched OSX hacked within seconds of start of pen test contest · 51 points · by nikblack · 37 comments
• MIT adopts a university-wide Open Access mandate · 49 points · by carlosrr · 16 comments
• Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites · 46 points · by nreece · 18 comments
• Ask HN: Please review mailop.com, an instant disposable email you don't even need to check · 45 points · by ntoshev · 28 comments
• The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security · 44 points · by lsb · 20 comments
• Poll of Facebook Users Finds 94% Hate Redesign · 43 points · by vaksel · 69 comments
• Browser Ball · 42 points · by rogercosseboom · 8 comments
• What should a Ruby shell look like? · 40 points · by hayeah2 · 16 comments
• Salt Water collects on leg of Mars Lander · 37 points · by jacoblyles · 3 comments
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Launches at Noon · 36 points · by arthurk · 40 comments
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released · 34 points · by yaakov · 23 comments
• Where did all the wealth go? To our kids. · 31 points · by robg · 39 comments
• The end of the free lunch - again · 31 points · by mixmax · 14 comments
• LL vs. LR vs. GLR · 30 points · by zzkt · 4 comments
• The Facebook poll: A Little Case in Statistical Bias · 30 points · by jwb119 · 6 comments
• Why biology students should learn how to program · 27 points · by MaysonL · 15 comments
• Open Source Hardware Hackers Start P2P Bank · 23 points · by jwb119 · 2 comments
• The Geography of a Recession - Interactive Graphic · 23 points · by robg · 2 comments
• Flip Video: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong And Then So, So Right. · 23 points · by terpua · 5 comments
• I need a co-founder for YC in the Bay area · 21 points · by geuis · 7 comments
• Language-python: A Python Parser Written in Haskell · 21 points · by rogercosseboom · 7 comments
• Using Prosper and Mechanical Turk to figure out if people who are shifty look shifty · 19 points · by jeremyliew · 5 comments
• Don’t launch? But the New York Times is on the phone · 19 points · by terpua · no comments
• Computer Experts Unite to Hunt Worm · 17 points · by pierrealexandre · 8 comments
• DIYCity: An operating system for a user driven city · 17 points · by aditya · 10 comments
• Light and Heat: Giant Fresnel · 17 points · by ph0rque · 6 comments
• Venturebeat Demo day review · 16 points · by immad · 2 comments
• Officials Hoard Valuable Databases Funded by Taxpayers · 16 points · by naish · 7 comments
• Apple's Delays Could Cost iPhone Developer $600K · 16 points · by peter123 · 8 comments
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released · 15 points · by rlm · 2 comments
• Cognitive enhancement drug may also cause addiction · 15 points · by robg · 25 comments
• Your decisions can be affected by fleeting images and what you currently see · 14 points · by thorax · 4 comments
• The Lie of The Four Hour Work Week. · 14 points · by MaysonL · 8 comments
• Godaddy now requires you to change your password every 6 months · 13 points · by vaksel · 26 comments
• Deploying PyQt applications on Windows and Mac OS X · 12 points · by terpua · no comments
• Google StreetView in UK goes live · 11 points · by ftse · 9 comments
• Order of Operations · 10 points · by ph0rque · 5 comments
• GNOME team migrating to GIT · 10 points · by ananthrk · no comments
• The 100 Degree Data Center · 10 points · by 1SockChuck · 7 comments
• Rethinking the American Dream · 9 points · by alecco · no comments
• Ask PG: How would you respond to the VC's "how can I help you?" · 9 points · by donna · 2 comments
• The Importance of a Good jQuery Selector · 8 points · by danspam · no comments
• Developers should not be allowed to work overtime · 8 points · by techdog · 1 comment
• Six years in the Silicon Valley · 8 points · by jagjit · no comments
• Proof-of-concept exploit: Intel CPU cache poisoning · 8 points · by yungchin · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Channels to Venture Capital · 7 points · by lakeeffect · 2 comments
• Mark Cuban: Understanding Big Bonuses & The Coming Options Scandals · 6 points · by kirse · no comments
• California the Worst State in Which to Start a Business · 6 points · by nreece · 5 comments
• Vizeddit: Visualization of Reddit · 6 points · by winanga · 1 comment
• Video of Spectacular Undersea Volcano Erruption · 6 points · by run4yourlives · no comments
• Biz happiness insights from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh · 6 points · by Mistone · no comments
• Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free · 5 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• 'Smart drug' Modafinil an addiction risk, study finds · 5 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Reverse engineering Apple's OS X · 5 points · by rlm · no comments
• Doubts About Twitter the Business · 5 points · by buckpost · 28 comments
• Pentagram's Michael Bierut's notebooks · 5 points · by jemond · no comments
• Kontagent Now Offers Uber Analytics For iPhone And Web Applications Using Facebook Connect · 5 points · by fredric · no comments
• Personal Observations of Richard Feynman on the Challenger space shuttle · 5 points · by mixmax · no comments
• First Haskell Facebook App - and it's a Math Quiz · 5 points · by rogercosseboom · 2 comments
• Philip Greenspun: Printing Money American Style · 5 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Internet Explorer 8 released, progress unmistakable · 5 points · by weegee · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Anyone know anything about Lua? · 5 points · by callmeed · 6 comments
• Solid state drives: performance becoming affordable (saga) · 4 points · by ableal · no comments
• Dear HN: I made a library to let you add a Google-Suggest like search to your site easily · 4 points · by chime · 4 comments
• U.S. Migration Falls Sharply · 4 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Why Dyslexics Make Great Entrepreneurs · 4 points · by bigbang · no comments
• Why we should all hope IBM buys Sun · 4 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Ask HN: Review my site TweetBoss (www.tweetboss.com) · 4 points · by freddy · 7 comments
• Why some of us choke under pressure · 4 points · by carlosrr · no comments
• Summary: state of the solid state drive world · 4 points · by coderrr · no comments
• Ask HN: Reseller agreements. What percentage does a reseller take? · 4 points · by shafqat · no comments
• How EDGAR met the Internet · 4 points · by chime · no comments
• Honoring BSG'c Final Episode - home brew ringtone of *the* song...you know which one · 4 points · by BrandonWatson · 2 comments
• Ideas crisis is not only in my head · 4 points · by snitko · no comments
• Haskell has memcached bindings; maybe GHC could memoize directly to memcached? · 4 points · by lsb · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Twitter in the news: is this all PR? · 3 points · by rrhyne · 2 comments
• A Real Semantic Search Engine is Coming: Q&A With Swingly CEO Andy Hickl · 3 points · by bradleyjoyce · 1 comment
• Microsoft IE8 Now Available For Download · 3 points · by ekrangel · 1 comment
• Rotzy - An iPhone App with a backend on Google App Engine · 3 points · by code_devil · no comments
• Find Out How Much Traffic a Website is Getting · 3 points · by adityakothadiya · 2 comments
• Linux Kernel Temporarily Receives New Mascot/Logo, Tuz · 3 points · by whalesalad · no comments
• Ask HN: Best networking venues in SF to meet programmers · 3 points · by jhouck · 2 comments
• Social Collider: reveal cross-connections between conversations on Twitter · 3 points · by swombat · no comments
• Cognitive Science and Coding: Automatic Language Identification using Python · 3 points · by newsit · no comments
• Do not allow newly created accounts to create new threads · 3 points · by mellampudi · 5 comments
• The Squirrel portable shell and scripting language · 3 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• Ask HN: Feedback on iPhone app address book cleaner · 3 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Wrong number · 3 points · by muon · no comments
• A High-Performance Polymer for Nanosytems Engineering · 3 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Microsoft to release Internet Explorer 8 today · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Lending Club Gets A $12 Million Credibility Boost · 3 points · by vaksel · no comments
• DSL interview with Martin Fowler · 3 points · by ananthrk · no comments
• Ask HN: Feedback on my idea? · 3 points · by noodle · 5 comments
• Building a Thriving Community around your Company/App/Service is F***in’ Hard Work. · 3 points · by collistaeed · no comments
• Browser Ball - Possibly More Cool Than You Think It Will Be · 3 points · by Xichekolas · 1 comment
• Paying Workers More to Fix Their Own Mess · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• The Kindness of Strangers · 3 points · by tc · no comments
• Ask HN: Do you enjoy programming or do you see it as a means to an end (start a business)? · 3 points · by endtwist · 10 comments
• Data Visualization Is Reinventing Online Storytelling · 3 points · by neovintage · no comments
• Six years in the Valley · 3 points · by garbowza · no comments
• USA Today coverage of demo day · 3 points · by rwalker · no comments
• Goodbye To Glib Gurus And Their Gobbledegook · 2 points · by rams · no comments
• 50% of americans have a one month saving · 2 points · by dare2d4l2 · no comments
• After crisis: creative construction · 2 points · by cawel · 1 comment
• SXSW 2009: A Half-Dozen Things I Learned · 2 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• Microsoft Releases IE 8 to Combat Rival Browsers · 2 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Goodbye, Cruel Hello World · 2 points · by mattjaynes · no comments
• FF, IE and Safari hacked during Pwn2Own contest · 2 points · by danielh · 1 comment
• Computer Science: Cool versus Cash · 2 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Twitter Unveils New Premium Accounts? I hope not · 2 points · by pet3r · 2 comments
• Bowling for Dollars · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• Unix Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful · 2 points · by silentbicycle · no comments
• Google News no longer requires numbers in the URL · 2 points · by pierrefar · no comments
• Obama Administration To Stop Raids on Medical Marijuana Dispensers · 2 points · by mhb · no comments
• Ask HN: What is a fair hourly rate split btw consultant and consulting company? · 2 points · by goodgoblin · 3 comments
• Origins of twitter: Started on paper (pic) · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Using Machine Learning to Predict March Madness Results · 2 points · by pdubroy · no comments
• Third edition of the Rails book, updated for the latest version of Rails, is now shipping · 2 points · by henning · no comments
• Wolfram on the Quest for Ultimate Knowledge · 2 points · by jonmc12 · no comments
• Mint.com making good money in downturn · 2 points · by fromedome · no comments
• VC Firm Zombies · 2 points · by notavcvc · no comments
• Microsoft opens Azure to PHP developers · 2 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Google’s new Behavioral Targeting: Looking Beyond Keywords · 2 points · by thinksketch · no comments
• Create a social-networking BlackBerry application with open source tools · 2 points · by jaspertheghost · no comments
• Harness the power of XML to Open Financial Exchange files · 2 points · by jaspertheghost · no comments
• Movable Type gets in Motion, launching a social activity streams aggregator for your site · 2 points · by mg1313 · no comments
• Sun's Cloud (Johnathan Schwartz's Blog) · 2 points · by troystribling · no comments
• Sentencing commission ponders extra jail time for proxy users · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• What can actually be accomplished with Twitter? · 2 points · by messel · 1 comment
• The iPhone Gets A New Weapon In The War On Drunk Dials · 2 points · by code_devil · no comments
• Chinese game company files for Nasdaq IPO · 2 points · by dbul · no comments
• TomTom Countersues: Linux And Microsoft Going To War · 2 points · by escapade · no comments
• New in GMail Labs: YouTube, Picasa, Flickr and Yelp previews · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• "Fake Steve Conroy" fesses up: Twitter satire of Australian Communications Minister · 1 points · by danprager · 1 comment
• What's Next for Google (from 2005) · 1 points · by codeismightier · no comments
• ETech: Nathan Eagle, "txteagle: Crowd-Sourcing on Mobile Phones in the Developing World" · 1 points · by dshep · no comments
• You can now buy a contract-free 16GB iPhone for $699. But would you? · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• The Care & Feeding of Reporters · 1 points · by lanceweatherby · no comments
• Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites · 1 points · by Dalziel · 1 comment
• Early Beta Data From Microsoft Adsense Competitor Encouraging · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• How do you teach sales guys about basic internet and web design things? · 1 points · by cwitr329 · 4 comments
• HashCache · 1 points · by sanj · no comments
• Swoopo is a Scam Please help tell the world · 1 points · by ez · 3 comments
• Google: Internet disconnection a "disproportionate" penalty · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Tim O'Reilly at Web 2.0 Expo NY · 1 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Shifty-looking sorts · 1 points · by occam · no comments
• Charles Teague's blog (Technologist-in-Residence at General Catalyst) · 1 points · by fnazeeri · no comments
• Great article explaining the inner workings of Solid State Disks · 1 points · by nshah · 1 comment
• AIG and Inequality : The Frontal Cortex · 1 points · by davidtspf01 · no comments
• Using Hadoop to fight spam - Part II · 1 points · by malvosenior · no comments
• Ad-free web browsing for Chrome · 1 points · by known · no comments
• Freeware Design Comp alternatives · 1 points · by aj · no comments
• Consumer Confidence Makes Up Huge Ground · 1 points · by gne1963 · no comments
• Create a new social networking site in few hours using django pinax platform · 1 points · by shabda · no comments
• Rare Fossil Octopuses Found · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Imperative computation in F# (I.) - Returning results from a function · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Microsoft's Future Vision Montage Video · 1 points · by karthikv · no comments
• How to turn your iPod into an iPhone · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Introducing Microsoft Web Platform Installer · 1 points · by JoshJordan · no comments
• 5 Ways to Retain Superstar Employees · 1 points · by yaakov · no comments
• Harvard prof apologizes to judge, RIAA lawyers. Sort Of. · 1 points · by yaakov · no comments
• A Better Biofuel Bug: Bacteria engineered to efficiently breakdown cellulose · 1 points · by sown · no comments
• Facebook could kill Google by 2012 says Analyst · 1 points · by collistaeed · 3 comments
• A Guide To Silverlight 3 - It is really starting to look awesome · 1 points · by nikblack · no comments
• Real time web analytics with chartbeat -- what are people doing on your site *right now*? · 1 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Terrafugia's flying car makes maiden voyage · 1 points · by lassej · no comments
• Beejive IM Moves To Block Out iPhone Pirates · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• India Tech-startups News Blog · 1 points · by vardaan · no comments
• A reducibly complex mousetrap · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Would You Buy This Business? · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Understanding Requirements Engineering · 1 points · by Qedanne · no comments
• Naveen Jain and the Intelius Scam · 1 points · by nikblack · no comments
• Adamo.com - The Importance of a Good Domain · 1 points · by edgefield · no comments
• ASP.NET MVC Finally arrives · 1 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• Spintronic Memristors · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Brainstorm websites (webcomic) · 1 points · by mapleoin · no comments
• The Perfect Desktop - PCLinuxOS 2009.1 · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• Browsers get hacked before phones at CanSecWest · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Researchers may be able to measure consciousness as well as we measure body temperature · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Twitterville Falls For Premium Accounts Hoax · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Naveen Jain’s Intelius Scam Begins To Crumble. Good. · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Online Privacy, The World Is Watching · 1 points · by rstan251 · no comments
• Spring Is In the Air and Browsers Are Refreshed · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Twitter / hackerwatrcoolr (includes HN stories reaching #1) · 1 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Reason #3 That You Need File Virtualization · 1 points · by dmacvittie · no comments
• C.P. Snow's Two Cultures: Hardware and Software, Discovery and Creation · 1 points · by dpapathanasiou · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Would you employ someone in exchange for equity? · 1 points · by hamgav · 2 comments
• Facebook's Lousy Facelift, or how Facebook is playing catch-up to its runner-up · 1 points · by gamache · no comments
• Internet Explorer 8 available today · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Realistic 3D Foosball Game for the PC · 1 points · by nadam · 1 comment
• Guillaume Olivrin On Open Source, NAP And Sign Language In Information Systems · 1 points · by ossreleasefeed · no comments
• Man Says He Has USB Drive in Prosthetic Finger · 1 points · by razorburn · 1 comment
• Sony, Google Challenge Amazon · 1 points · by gcheong · no comments
• Global images of the recession · 1 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• Wikirank: A Zeitgeist for Wikipedia · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• De-anonymizing Social Networks · 1 points · by sdfx · no comments
• It’s Official: Cisco Buys Pure Figital (Flip Video) For $590 Million · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• 8-bit hip hop medley · 1 points · by joshwprinceton · no comments
• Real IT Video Blog - Jason Ponders Technology Reuse · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Video of Terrafugia first flight, angel funded flying car start-up · 1 points · by asmithmd1 · no comments
• How To Save Half A Second On Every CakePHP Request · 1 points · by jemond · no comments
• Bear Stearns: The Fed's Original 'Systemic Risk' Sin · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• 3 Editors Breakdown the iPhone OS 3.0 Event · 1 points · by yvesrn · no comments
• Chimpanzee short-term memory better than human (annoying commentary but still interesting) · 1 points · by lkozma · no comments
• Survey: Social Factors of (Interface) Gestures · 1 points · by emordnilap · no comments
• Needed: Affirmative Action for the Poor (2003) · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• 'Minor' head injuries can turn serious rapidly · 1 points · by Allocator2008 · no comments
• IPhone OS 3: The moat strategy vs. features-fetishism · 1 points · by raganwald · no comments
• Bacterial Chemotaxis Modeled in JavaScript · 1 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• Ghosts of a Faded Gilded Age Haunt a 19th-Century Chinese Banking Hub · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Nimbuzz Launches a Super Communication App for iPhone · 1 points · by sarvesh · no comments
• Big Brother: Startup Edition · 1 points · by malte · no comments
• Evidence of new iPhones, new iPod Touch · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Spacebook: A blog from space · 1 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Using the electrodes to the face as music visualization [video] · 1 points · by iamwil · no comments
• Interview with Scott Pio on Programming · 1 points · by spoiledtechie · no comments
• With IE8, Microsoft Ignores One Third Of The Market · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• “Meta-Local” & “Vast Horizon”: Google is pulling the long tail from under the rug · 1 points · by thinksketch · no comments
• Your app’s stories on a user’s new Facebook homepage with Feed Forms · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Be careful with the number of iPhone app beta testers you provision. · 1 points · by amichail · 2 comments
• Is Cisco/Flip the US Robotics/PalmPilot of 2009? Hope not · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• WordPress users may want to avoid Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 8 · 1 points · by cmscritic · no comments
• Tito's Blog - How Much Is A Trillion Dollar? · 1 points · by titocosta · no comments
• P2p online storage firm Wuala acquired by LaCie · 1 points · by flavio87 · no comments
• August Capital Raises A New $650 Million Fund · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Google's Marissa Mayer Tells Lesley Stahl What's Next · 1 points · by callmeed · 1 comment
• Develop an Ajax Chat program · 1 points · by jaspertheghost · no comments
• How Twitter Will Make Money · 1 points · by jemmons · no comments
• Cowpox, Smallpox · 1 points · by jgalvez · no comments
• Hi-res Street View for Vancouver/Squamish/Whistler · 1 points · by r7000 · 1 comment
• How One Social Net In China Is Making A Lot Of Money · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Live Search with jQuery & PHP · 1 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• Is Kosmix the new Google? · 1 points · by startupnz · 2 comments
• Seth Godin's advice on equity for start-ups · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• DYI: How To Set Up An Auction Using Craigslist and Google Docs · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Ask HN: Where can you find Government Startup Resources & Grants? · 1 points · by jhaski · 1 comment
• Do academics exaggerate startup risk and belittle creativity for their own benefit? · 1 points · by amichail · 2 comments
• GigaPan is hiring programmers · 1 points · by gigapan_admin · no comments
• Twitter as a protocol: Evolving tags as a trellis - symbiotically develop and mine content · 1 points · by thinksketch · no comments
• The reboot of journalism · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Guided tour to iPhone 3.0 · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• The Camblr Strikes Back: more Starwars nerdery · 1 points · by sanj · no comments
• Bank in Silicon Valley for small business? · 1 points · by white · no comments
• How to Save Money on Conferences and Events · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• The Creator’s Culture · 1 points · by mcormier · no comments
• Clearing some SDD FUD · 1 points · by daniel71l · no comments
• A compact beginner's Objective-C tutorial · 1 points · by access_denied · no comments
• Nick Bilton Keynote O’Reilly Tools of Change 2009 · 1 points · by babyshake · 1 comment
• To predict what will make you happy, ask a stranger rather than guessing yourself · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• PostgreSQL Conference: East · 1 points · by dfj225 · no comments