Hacker News Way Back Machine

• How to Write Fast Code · 143 points · by techdog · 42 comments
• Advice to Summer YC Applicants · 125 points · by pg · 53 comments
• Mystery of honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder is probably solved · 119 points · by dfranke · 27 comments
• Jakob Nielsen: Mega Drop-Down Navigation Menus Work Well · 115 points · by henning · 54 comments
• Sometimes having nothing to lose can be a real advantage for a startup · 73 points · by jkopelman · 16 comments
• Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things · 72 points · by sarvesh · 6 comments
• Firefox New Tab Page: Cognitive Shield · 61 points · by toni · 15 comments
• Ruby's Biggest Challenge for 2009 · 60 points · by acangiano · 33 comments
• Spell check your entire website in one go · 58 points · by zemaj · 27 comments
• The myth of big salaries (it's all marketing) · 55 points · by peter123 · 49 comments
• What is the minimum viable product? · 52 points · by coglethorpe · 12 comments
• Dave Shen: What I've Learned in Angel Investing · 51 points · by ivankirigin · 8 comments
• How Cash4Gold Works - From a Former Employee · 50 points · by releasedatez · 31 comments
• 419 scammer chats with security company CEO · 48 points · by bd · 14 comments
• Seven Minute Abs - A/B testing in 7 minutes (rails) · 41 points · by socmoth · 8 comments
• Google Image Search imgcolor= Parameter Allows Results Filtering by Color · 41 points · by tdonia · 11 comments
• Rethinking rent: Maybe we should stop trying to be a nation of homeowners · 37 points · by robg · 68 comments
• First rule of ant traffic: no overtaking · 33 points · by chaostheory · 14 comments
• Smart People Really Do Think Faster. · 32 points · by amichail · 30 comments
• Open Yale Courses - Game Theory · 31 points · by Anon84 · 4 comments
• TwitterAuth: Plugin for Near-Instant Twitter Rails Apps · 31 points · by mbleigh · 3 comments
• Tips for the Sophisticated Fugitive · 30 points · by robg · 12 comments
• Failure is overrated, a redux · 29 points · by johns · 13 comments
• College Prestige "Lies" · 28 points · by quizbiz · 25 comments
• Online Backup Company Carbonite Loses Customers’ Data, Blames And Sues Suppliers · 27 points · by peter123 · 9 comments
• Ask HN: Could stackoverflow.com work for other fields? · 26 points · by erictobia · 27 comments
• It’s easy to make something incredible. · 26 points · by dhotson · 14 comments
• The Nasty Exploding Term Sheet · 25 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Who Really Rules? · 23 points · by twampss · 10 comments
• Do You Really Need a College Degree to Get a Programming Job? · 23 points · by estherschindler · 37 comments
• Ask YC: Where do you advertise online? · 22 points · by epi0Bauqu · 11 comments
• Jungledisk has been down since Saturday - Mosso Cloud Files Fail · 22 points · by pmikal · 13 comments
• Who's Your Arch-Enemy? · 22 points · by bdfh42 · 8 comments
• Nobel Economist: Now Is No Time to Give Up on Markets · 22 points · by jwb119 · 25 comments
• Do nations go to war over water? · 22 points · by robg · 24 comments
• For HN: Polls chart bookmarklet (and GreaseMonkey script) · 20 points · by bd · 7 comments
• Hulu Gains 10 Million Viewers In February, Now No. 4 Video Site In U.S. · 20 points · by vaksel · 12 comments
• Fast deserialization in Python · 19 points · by bravura · 3 comments
• The Kindness of Strangers · 16 points · by robg · 6 comments
• HaiKu Error Messages · 15 points · by redhex · 2 comments
• MountainWest RubyConf 2009 Videos · 15 points · by _pius · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Do you trust Amazon S3 or Mosso Cloudfiles not to lose or corrupt your data? · 15 points · by bk · 16 comments
• Peg/leg - recursive-descent parser generators for C · 15 points · by _pius · 4 comments
• One Million Haskell Downloads · 14 points · by dons · no comments
• If It’s a Good Idea… Don’t Do It · 12 points · by ochiba · 4 comments
• Donate your intellectual property in case of death · 12 points · by shard · 9 comments
• Neutron tracks revive hopes for cold fusion · 11 points · by noodle · 8 comments
• Follow The Hires: Twitter Looking To Ramp Up Search And Platform APIs · 11 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Contextual User Interfaces · 10 points · by chrismahon · 5 comments
• Ask HN: How Can We Make Our iPhone Game More Enjoyable? · 10 points · by nategraves · 14 comments
• How To Remotely Admin Servers Via Twitter · 9 points · by twampss · 8 comments
• Anecdote Driven Development, or Why I Don't Do TDD · 9 points · by shard · 2 comments
• Internet Explorer 8 launch fails to dent Firefox · 9 points · by tl · 14 comments
• Tiny Global Illumination renderer in C++, AS3, Ruby, Python, Lua, Scala and OCAML · 8 points · by greendestiny · no comments
• Stay in the valley to startup but stuck on h1b · 8 points · by h1bored · 3 comments
• Ask HN: when will property prices go back up? · 7 points · by phd_student · 16 comments
• Jakob Nielsen on the Google lead visual designer departure · 7 points · by ambition · no comments
• An Icon That Says They’re Watching You · 7 points · by robg · 6 comments
• Jeff Raikes on Backing Agile Sports, a Football Startup Built on Microsoft Tech · 7 points · by gthuang · no comments
• Ask HN: Review my prototype (webnodes) · 7 points · by csytan · 6 comments
• I don’t do errors, and my name isn’t Google · 7 points · by rayvega · 5 comments
• Merging Mind and Machine · 7 points · by jayamohan · no comments
• Human brains live on the ‘edge of chaos’ · 6 points · by nreece · no comments
• Ron Paul: Believer in small government predicts 15-year depression · 6 points · by winanga · 1 comment
• The Efficient Cloud: All Of Salesforce Runs On Only 1,000 Servers · 6 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• NXT 3D scanner · 5 points · by tocomment · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How should I approach publishing a book? · 5 points · by jballanc · 4 comments
• Current state of the US economy, Pic · 5 points · by alrex021 · no comments
• Which is more useful, MBA or starting something? · 5 points · by shimoda · 8 comments
• Pirates and Ninjas: Emacs or Vi? · 5 points · by azharcs · no comments
• Ask HN: How do I penetrate the hosting market? · 5 points · by Allocator2008 · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Do your users actually use those social bookmarking icons (ShareThis/AddThis)? · 5 points · by villageidiot · 11 comments
• Ask HN: How to promote an API contest? · 5 points · by catone · 9 comments
• Ask HN: What's your process for generating startup ideas? · 5 points · by monological · 6 comments
• The Way Facebook is Made · 5 points · by teej · no comments
• Ask HN: Feedback on Age Directory based on Yahoo BOSS · 5 points · by ptm · 11 comments
• Can Opera Ever Become Popular? · 4 points · by ajbatac · 2 comments
• Cocoa with Love: Recreating UITableViewController to increase code reuse · 4 points · by twampss · no comments
• Anti-patterns for Javascript · 4 points · by geuis · no comments
• Integrating Source Control Tools with Mantis Bug Tracker · 4 points · by nuclear_eclipse · 3 comments
• Does deep packet inspection mean the end of the Internet? · 4 points · by vaksel · 2 comments
• Startup Conversations With Myself: What Should I Work On? · 4 points · by bdfh42 · 2 comments
• 100% Time · 4 points · by ctingom · no comments
• The Stumble Effect: StumbleUpon Hits the Big Leagues · 4 points · by muimui · 1 comment
• Automatically remove wordiness from your writing · 4 points · by rayvega · 1 comment
• Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy · 4 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Clean up Reddit with Greasemonkey · 4 points · by stratomorph · 1 comment
• Bellman, Dynamic Programming, and Edit Distance · 4 points · by bdr · no comments
• Dogfooding: put yourself in the baggage handler’s shoes · 3 points · by raphaeldamico · 1 comment
• What Firefox should do · 3 points · by babyshake · 1 comment
• Knowledge, in Real Time · 3 points · by nreece · no comments
• Exposé is very cool, but why can't I also search for a window using keywords? · 3 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• Coding Errors that Affect Security · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Top IT locations · 3 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Market research and HN community norms · 3 points · by edgefield · 3 comments
• Tech Jobs Search Results across the net · 3 points · by pj · no comments
• In Praise of the 3-Hour Game · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Debouncing Javascript Methods · 3 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Reading Test Dummies · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Why even IT pros are demanding Macs · 3 points · by snydeq · 2 comments
• New Explorer Canvas release with IE8 support · 3 points · by halo · no comments
• SpiralFrog owes $34 million. Investors get nothing? · 3 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• The Geithner Plan FAQ · 3 points · by dpapathanasiou · no comments
• Robots Take Center Stage in U.S. War in Afghanistan · 3 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks · 3 points · by Rabidmonkey1 · 8 comments
• Hey HN what laptop do you use..need a replacement · 3 points · by cop1152 · 2 comments
• Floorspan: rate my startup · 3 points · by cmars232 · 4 comments
• Telephony’s Tale of The Tape: Shrinking Landline Customers · 3 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Ruby script to backup MySQL DB with Subversion · 3 points · by nir · no comments
• 'Chaos Scenario' Has Arrived for Media, Marketing · 3 points · by utnick · no comments
• jQuery Plugins That Utilize Google APIs · 3 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• A Distributed Transaction Layer for Google App Engine · 3 points · by neilc · no comments
• Happy with incomplete understanding of API provided your app seems to work? · 3 points · by amichail · 7 comments
• Section is not just a “semantic div” · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Michael Lewis on the bailout: Opacity over outrage · 2 points · by falsestprophet · 1 comment
• Pmxdr: postMessage XDR JavaScript Library · 2 points · by Sephr · no comments
• What I think about RMS's hatred of closed source · 2 points · by critic · 3 comments
• Auditory Illusions · 2 points · by ptn · no comments
• Why Twitter should fear the new Facebook · 2 points · by pjharrin · 1 comment
• Shiny new CSS organizer · 2 points · by 3zzy · no comments
• STAPLE - An All-or-nothing transform · 2 points · by swapspace · 1 comment
• What is considered to be the worst video game ever? This one is. · 2 points · by henning · 3 comments
• Reasonable Hardware For Home VM Experimentation? · 2 points · by ableal · 2 comments
• A New Approach To Facebook · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Running a Genetic Algorithm on the iPhone · 2 points · by jasonb05 · no comments
• Lifting their dreams by the bootstraps · 2 points · by loumf · no comments
• Cook, a smart make replacement · 2 points · by vorador · no comments
• How VCs Determine Early Stage Valuations: Target Ownership · 2 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• SpiralFrog Goes Under · 2 points · by insomniamg · no comments
• Ask HN: How many times do users mistype their password on a registration form? · 2 points · by quilby · 3 comments
• Ask HN: So, you have a million dollars. Now what? · 2 points · by paraschopra · 7 comments
• Ask HN: Dealing with multiple internship job offers · 2 points · by anorus · 2 comments
• TwitterAuth: For Near-Instant Twitter Apps - Intridea Development Blog · 2 points · by joepestro · no comments
• Joe Armstrong Interviewed by Erlang Inside · 2 points · by inaka · no comments
• Marcel Bruch On Code Recommenders - An Evolution In Developer Productivity · 2 points · by ossreleasefeed · no comments
• Could MP3HD Replace the MP3 Format? · 2 points · by ccarpenterg · 1 comment
• How would you survive society's collapse? · 2 points · by tectonic · 7 comments
• Skype For SIP now available in Beta · 2 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• GPU Programming For The Rest Of Us · 2 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• Ask HN: How to spell check HTML pages? · 2 points · by proee · 3 comments
• RSA closed the Factoring Challenge. Did they stop believing the money is safe? · 2 points · by asciilifeform · no comments
• 4 Hour Liveblog: Website development with Django and Pinax · 2 points · by rnesh · no comments
• Earthcomber Drops Patent Lawsuit Against TechCrunch, Loopt · 2 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Zeebo Announces Console Launch, 'Gaming for the Next Billion' · 2 points · by nihilocrat · 2 comments
• Google's former CIO barely lasts a year at EMI · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• BASE: An Acid Alternative · 2 points · by JMiao · no comments
• New (?) security flaw in Facebook networks access · 2 points · by ErrantX · 3 comments
• Swift: making web applications secure by construction · 2 points · by lhorie · no comments
• Primrose: subversive puzzle game by indie legend Jason Rohrer · 2 points · by unalone · 2 comments
• Predicting The Future (Alan Kay) · 2 points · by 10ren · no comments
• Block Buster Reports A Loss... blames bad movies... might be right. · 2 points · by keltecp11 · 2 comments
• WeFollow - FreeFollow - It's Poetry Time · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Why would Facebook users leave? They’d have to have a reason. · 1 points · by ridertech · no comments
• Redesign Revolt: What Should Facebook Do Next? · 1 points · by vladocar · no comments
• Silverlight 3.0 Mix09 Demos Video · 1 points · by jrbedard · no comments
• Really Simple History: Ajax history and bookmarking library · 1 points · by JMiao · no comments
• The king of customer development starts a blog (and tweets too) · 1 points · by ReTelTech · no comments
• Surfaces beyond the third dimension · 1 points · by hhm · no comments
• How Toxic Assets Turn To Gold · 1 points · by gne1963 · no comments
• Not a Down Market for Secondary Venture Capital Funds · 1 points · by ccarpenterg · no comments
• The Best Business Advisors? Your Family · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Read It Later: Log In · 1 points · by silverfangs28 · no comments
• Mt. Everest Climbers Measure Lowest Blood Oxygen Levels on Record · 1 points · by arjunb · no comments
• The Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) Meter · 1 points · by arjunb · no comments
• RealXtend viewer 0.4 tech lead interview · 1 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• Watch, Emulate and Make It Your Own · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• A Brief Explanation of the GPL and LPGL and Their Implications For Business · 1 points · by tsally · no comments
• Is the e-voting honeymoon over? · 1 points · by cgray4 · no comments
• Sparkle: The iPhone Gets Its First Virtual World (And It’s Completely 3D) · 1 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• Online game gets a banking license · 1 points · by pclark · no comments
• Twitter OAuth REST API client library for Ruby · 1 points · by moomerman · no comments
• Big Data: Technologies and Techniques for Large-Scale Data · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Watch TV5 News | Online Telugu News | Live TV5 News · 1 points · by way2go · no comments
• IPhone game developer Ngmoco raises second round of funding · 1 points · by rogercosseboom · no comments
• Search Engine Optimization is a Waste of Money · 1 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• How to manage Macs: An expert guide for IT · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• Dollar suffers worst weekly loss for 24 years · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Can Science Solve the Present Economic Crisis · 1 points · by jayamohan · no comments
• Five Steps to the Business Model for Professional Bloggers · 1 points · by kidmercury · no comments
• Salesforce.com Offers Twitter Customer-Service App · 1 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• Top browsers felled within hours at hacker contest · 1 points · by Allocator2008 · no comments
• Contructive laziness in software development · 1 points · by daniel71l · no comments
• Science is vital ingredient at world's best restaurant · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• First automated carbohydrate 'assembly line' opens door to new field of medicine · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• One in four government(UK) websites are illegal due to human right or data protection laws · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• IiNet(Au #3 ISP) pulls out of net censorship trials, cites corporate social responsibility · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Chrome bug keeps it from loading checkboxes · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• There’s a Pattern Here · 1 points · by ReTelTech · no comments
• Using Rack Middleware to Handle Single Sign On · 1 points · by _pius · no comments
• GNU/Linux and Commercial Game Developers · 1 points · by nuclear_eclipse · no comments
• Government Intervention in the Market for Toxic Cars · 1 points · by dilanj · no comments
• Got Clawbacks? Thugz on the Bailout - Freakonomics Blog · 1 points · by karl11 · no comments
• Yak Shaving For Advanced Players · 1 points · by danw · no comments
• Under The Plate - Proof How Some Traditional Media Is Alive and Well · 1 points · by keltecp11 · no comments
• Creative Commons Zero · 1 points · by shard · no comments
• Micro Persuasion: Customer Service is the New PR · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• SAI INSPIRES · 1 points · by flatlander997 · no comments
• Inkd: New marketplace for original print design · 1 points · by adamhowell · no comments
• Eclipse to detail platform, SOA plans at conference · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• How to manage Macs: An expert guide for IT · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• 'Cold fusion' rebirth? New evidence for existence of controversial energy source · 1 points · by markup · no comments
• Moffett's Law - It Is Hard To Make Things Easy · 1 points · by rams · no comments
• Outright software tools free to freelancers · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Central European TechCrunch meet-up, April 11, Prague · 1 points · by mcxx · 1 comment
• Researchers unveil persistent BIOS attack methods · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Selling Advertising On The Web To The Impulse Buyer · 1 points · by DJN · no comments
• Recession Junction · 1 points · by danl70 · no comments
• Python Web Framework Advice · 1 points · by mcav · 1 comment
• Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard power · 1 points · by KB · no comments
• Making A Time Budget · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Al Gore opens his CTIA Wireless keynote to the press after all · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• The Pizza Box of the 21st Century · 1 points · by keltecp11 · no comments
• Internet turning into a crime ridden ghetto · 1 points · by rajajasti · no comments
• How Hacker News Points Work - Mine Have Gone Empty · 1 points · by sscheper · 2 comments
• HTTP status code flowchart · 1 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How often do you swap between languages ? · 1 points · by code_devil · 4 comments
• Flying car takes wing · 1 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• IPod shuffle 3G disassembly · 1 points · by shard · no comments
• Productivity, not Bailouts · 1 points · by rayvega · no comments
• Open Invention Network Extends The Linux Ecosystem As TomTom Becomes Licensee · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• TomTom gets allies in Microsoft Linux patent lawsuit fight · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Krugman Slams Geithner Plan · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Will tweeters with large flocks soon be the next traffic billboards? · 1 points · by thinksketch · no comments
• A Healthcare IT Premier · 1 points · by rglullis · no comments
• Why Sweatshops Flourish · 1 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• Rado Switzerland to launch networking site for designers · 1 points · by gvagva · no comments
• Comprehensive Comparison Chart of Best VPS Web Hosting Service Providers · 1 points · by VizionQuest · no comments
• Body 2.0 - Continuous Monitoring Of The Human Body · 1 points · by jonmc12 · no comments
• 3.0’s Missing Trialware Business Model · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• World's Best Programmer is... [w/ Communication] · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Alternative Answers for GoogleLookup · 1 points · by fnazeeri · no comments
• Boxee vs Mark Cuban · 1 points · by Readmore · no comments
• Players of Entropia Universe are getting real-world banking · 1 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Tomorrow is Ada Lovelace Day, Celebrating The World's First Computer Programmer · 1 points · by tortilla · no comments
• AT&T leaks June iPhone announcement information · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Targeting Social Buttons on Blogs · 1 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• Liberia’s Blackboard Blogger · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• GotMirror? GotMore? Poetically? · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• The Javascript trap I willingly step into · 1 points · by jwr · no comments
• Actual Revenue For Twitter, Courtesy of Microsoft · 1 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• Ask HN: Deciding between microISV and something bigger · 1 points · by TJensen · 1 comment
• Downloading Communism... · 1 points · by jpwagner · no comments
• Supporting students in open source software development · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Wozniak on startup scenes (1984 Interview)[video] · 1 points · by jackchristopher · no comments
• OpenCog: Open-Source Artificial General Intelligence for Virtual Worlds · 1 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• Ask HN: If you could build a power company... · 1 points · by jhouck · no comments
• Your free online movie collection: veedemus has launched · 1 points · by ffm104 · no comments
• Inside AdSense: Answers to your interest-based advertising questions · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Twitter is on the verge of eating Google for breakfast, here's why · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Tata Nano - Worlds Cheapest Car - In Production For $2000 · 1 points · by keltecp11 · no comments
• Cognitive Shield for the Firefox New Tab · 1 points · by azharcs · no comments
• The Opiates of the Middle Classes [NNT] · 1 points · by blackswan · no comments
• Engage Expo Presentations Now Online · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Masked Developer Demos iPhone 3.0 beta · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• AT&T Source Spills Details on New iPhone · 1 points · by agotterer · no comments
• Soft Security · 1 points · by triplefox · no comments
• A VC's Biggest Flaw: Arrogance · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• What's the real cost of free music? · 1 points · by ALee · no comments
• Problems in Computer Science · 1 points · by jayamohan · no comments
• Scammer Shuffles Apple out of 9000 Ipods · 1 points · by keltecp11 · no comments
• Don't Get A Computer Science Degree · 1 points · by astrec · no comments
• Fast and the Furious Twitter Hilarity · 1 points · by niels · no comments
• Hands-on Teaching, Designing, and Learning · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Obama's "pro-copyright industry" DOJ sides with RIAA's $150,000-per-song penalty · 1 points · by erickhill · no comments
• Should You Go to Grad School? (Luis von Ahn) · 1 points · by sarp · no comments
• On Web Ads · 1 points · by mariorz · no comments
• Ask YC: What's up with Startup School? · 1 points · by dfranke · 4 comments
• Mobile Trends: The Cell Phone Body Count · 1 points · by rayvega · no comments
• Gamer Deaths Leave Their Online Lives in Limbo · 1 points · by timbowen · no comments
• Invest to Stimulate · 1 points · by jmtulloss · no comments