Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python · 219 points · by vorador · 128 comments
• How to get a merchant account - a series of hoops · 190 points · by swombat · 40 comments
• IP Address Geolocation database · 164 points · by jrnkntl · 30 comments
• How Many (Indie) Games I Sell - Part Two · 99 points · by ChrisXYZ · 4 comments
• Three20: Open Source iPhone UI Goodness · 96 points · by arjunb · 10 comments
• Django 1.1 beta released · 95 points · by zain · 12 comments
• Tim O'Reilly: Books That Have Shaped How I Think · 81 points · by socmoth · 10 comments
• Carmack release open source Wolfenstein for iPhone · 72 points · by pistoriusp · 23 comments
• Academic Earth - Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars. · 71 points · by yef · 20 comments
• Ask YC: Feedback on our new service: messagepub.com · 71 points · by luccastera · 64 comments
• AppScale: an open-source version of Google AppEngine · 70 points · by chaostheory · 19 comments
• Building a subscription service? See a cool way to plug in the subscription part... · 68 points · by petenixey · 32 comments
• Congress passes wide-ranging bill easing bank laws (1999) · 67 points · by iamelgringo · 43 comments
• The Ecodrain: How a simple, non-moving part can reduce hot water consumption by 40% · 64 points · by jskopek · 24 comments
• How Skype gets round firewalls · 63 points · by known · 10 comments
• Eric S. Raymond speaks heresy. · 58 points · by bkudria · 84 comments
• China's central bank calls for new reserve currency · 53 points · by bokonist · 43 comments
• Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription · 44 points · by arthurk · 42 comments
• How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke · 43 points · by robg · 8 comments
• Ask YC: Why are SSL certificates so expensive? · 41 points · by andr · 60 comments
• William Zinsser: Writing "On Writing Well" and keeping it up-to-date for 35 years · 40 points · by ekpyrotic · 7 comments
• Ask HN: How to deal with SYN FLOOD and extortion · 40 points · by xal · 50 comments
• Pirate Bay Announces Global Anonymity Service · 38 points · by chaostheory · 11 comments
• 'Slacker DB' shootout: SimpleDB vs. CouchDB vs. App Engine vs. Persevere · 35 points · by snydeq · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Suggestions for learning statistics (& prob) really fast? · 34 points · by samratjp · 12 comments
• Low-income students feel left out at Stanford · 34 points · by tokenadult · 51 comments
• How to get a traffic spike to your Web 2.0 App · 33 points · by dmytton · 10 comments
• TED demo of wearable computer tech from MIT Media Labs · 33 points · by ryanwaggoner · 8 comments
• Download EtherPad for Your Own Server · 31 points · by olegp · 9 comments
• SuperMac War Story 2: Get the Hell Outside the Building · 31 points · by swapspace · 2 comments
• How to go about getting a credit card processor · 30 points · by pelle · 2 comments
• IPhone App Developers Gripe About Payment Delays and Dismal Customer Service · 30 points · by coglethorpe · 7 comments
• TweetRex launched: Twitter friend recommender built on the Directed Edge engine · 28 points · by wheels · 15 comments
• Google Chrome harder to hack than other browsers · 26 points · by yaakov · 16 comments
• Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? · 26 points · by yesraaj · 22 comments
• White Space: How to Get it Right · 26 points · by dmytton · 5 comments
• Apple Putting The Squeeze On iPhone Developers · 26 points · by gabrielleydon · 17 comments
• Advanced PHP Tips Revisited · 23 points · by ninjac0der · 9 comments
• Interview: Bruce Lewis on Web Develpment with Scheme · 23 points · by antiismist · 3 comments
• Using Twitter to Send Alerts When Your Site Goes Down · 22 points · by anson · 31 comments
• Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America · 21 points · by twoz · 12 comments
• Basic Tax Law That Every Start-Up Must Know: the 83b Election · 19 points · by keltecp11 · 3 comments
• Toward an open web standard for 3D graphics · 19 points · by peter123 · 6 comments
• The Open Company - Running your business as if it were an Open Source Project. · 18 points · by artost · 3 comments
• US Navy Laboratory Scientists: Possible cold fusion breakthrough · 18 points · by nickb · 13 comments
• Offer HN: We do your accounting, You help us prove startup concept · 17 points · by ecommercematt · 7 comments
• Rails i18n Simplifier - Translator · 16 points · by champion · no comments
• How laziness changes thinking in Haskell · 15 points · by mqt · 7 comments
• Ask HN: What would an ideal online learning platform look like? · 14 points · by glen · 25 comments
• Hacker News would scale better with some caching headers · 14 points · by sayrer · 6 comments
• Online Monoculture and the End of the Niche · 14 points · by r7000 · 5 comments
• The Elegance of Imperfection · 13 points · by peter123 · no comments
• How the US government bailed out the railroads…and made a profit · 13 points · by sethg · 4 comments
• Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene · 12 points · by robg · 5 comments
• Ask HN: How do you know what you want? · 12 points · by Ardit20 · 12 comments
• Twitter Starts Serving Ads For Third Party Apps · 11 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 6 comments
• Ask HN: Efficiency of StumbleUpon advertising ? · 10 points · by huhtenberg · 8 comments
• Haskell Logo Contest Results · 10 points · by huhtenberg · 9 comments
• What's So Hot About Chili Peppers? · 9 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• New OnLive service could turn the video game world upside down · 9 points · by dmytton · 10 comments
• Do less and go fast, revisited · 9 points · by techdog · no comments
• The Long Demise of Glass-Steagall - CitiGroup Led... · 9 points · by spoiledtechie · 2 comments
• Wee, Ruby 1.9 and Continuations · 9 points · by zemariamm · no comments
• The Future of Machine Intelligence · 8 points · by jpirkola · 1 comment
• Programming Language for Old Timers · 8 points · by scott_s · no comments
• Looking for CTO partner for startup · 7 points · by dotmatrix · 10 comments
• Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab (1950-1951) · 7 points · by rms · no comments
• 3 Reasons Why I Wouldn't Do Agile Software Development · 7 points · by kswaters · no comments
• The Pirate Bay's IPREDator service is accepting beta signups. · 7 points · by chaosmachine · 1 comment
• EveryDNS is down for the count · 6 points · by whalesalad · 5 comments
• The one, two of product marketing · 6 points · by johns · no comments
• start.io · 6 points · by jacobbijani · 20 comments
• Ask HN: What is the best way to track where and why your visitors disappear? · 6 points · by petenixey · 1 comment
• Meeting a stud hacker proved harder than meeting my wife--Per request, added idea to comments · 6 points · by jdileo · 18 comments
• Ask HN: What do you use to order airline tickets online? · 6 points · by jmtame · 7 comments
• Nassim Taleb on the Financial Crisis · 5 points · by pelle · 1 comment
• Google deal machine adjusts to slow times · 5 points · by chadr · no comments
• Any hackers in Denver? · 5 points · by ncarlson · 4 comments
• Ask HN: How-to make solid profits from niche websites? · 5 points · by niqolas · 2 comments
• What are the most challenging problems in the world today? · 5 points · by jayamohan · 2 comments
• Remote VNC Connections via SSH - Make it easy for users · 5 points · by Bjoern · 1 comment
• Study: In-Game Video Advertising Trumps TV Advertising In Effectiveness · 5 points · by azharcs · 2 comments
• We Are Toast: Latest Malware report · 5 points · by iamelgringo · 4 comments
• How to passively stay up to date on a topic · 5 points · by savrajsingh · no comments
• Watch the whole Cosmos series on Hulu · 5 points · by blackswan · 1 comment
• Designing Aero Snap · 4 points · by wyday · 1 comment
• An Open Letter to the Developer(s) of Conficker · 4 points · by mrcharles · 2 comments
• World's First Conversation Game (Or so it is claimed) · 4 points · by jayamohan · 5 comments
• Ask HN: What technology platform would you use for an Medical Records app? · 4 points · by sidmitra · 5 comments
• A New World Order for High-Growth Firms · 4 points · by waderoush · 1 comment
• It's Ada Lovelace Day: Mashup map of today's posts about women in tech · 4 points · by jlees · 2 comments
• Building on Tim Berners-Lee's TED Talk: Making the case for raw data · 4 points · by marcua · no comments
• Memory and string functions can be improved dramatically on x86 and x86-64 glibc · 4 points · by vinutheraj · 1 comment
• IPhone 3.0 now with SquirrelFish Extreme? · 4 points · by waynep · no comments
• We need more socialites with tech skills · 4 points · by mahmud · no comments
• XSLT Abuse · 3 points · by quilby · no comments
• How well will hospitals adapt to their new $100 million IT systems? · 3 points · by lackbeard · 4 comments
• Digg & Reddit missed out on Twitter. Here's why · 3 points · by jskopek · no comments
• Hackers meetup: StartupDrinks in Montréal this wednesday · 3 points · by mtw · 3 comments
• FTC To Require Advertisers Using Testimonials To Show Typical Results · 3 points · by vaksel · no comments
• 'Chiefs, Thieves, and Priests': Matt Ridley on the causes of poverty and prosperity · 3 points · by jbrun · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Why is there a 'Zoom' feature in Flash? · 3 points · by erictobia · 3 comments
• 17" MacBook Pro = A Car in India · 3 points · by ideamonk · no comments
• Cofounder Search (in Bay Area) · 3 points · by akay · 4 comments
• Brain Images Reveal the Secret to Higher IQ · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Stanford Video Lectures On The Brain · 3 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Good book for understanding the current economic crisis? · 3 points · by jphillips · 5 comments
• Purpose-Built Languages · 3 points · by pmarin · 1 comment
• Extravagant Results of Nature’s Arms Race · 3 points · by tokenadult · 1 comment
• There has never been a better time than now · 3 points · by dmytton · no comments
• He Who Laughs Last Should Remember Who Made Him Laugh · 3 points · by sanj · 2 comments
• Boredom · 3 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Protein Stiffness And Scaling Laws · 3 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Ask HN: What's the advantage of listing your site as "Creative Commons"? · 3 points · by firebug · 6 comments
• No hackers in our startup group. Oh oh! · 3 points · by jerry951 · 10 comments
• Ask HN: Slashdot rejected my story, what next? · 3 points · by jpirkola · 12 comments
• Google Web Search gets a little more refined · 3 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Apple iPhone Makes Up Half Of U.S. Smart Phone Web Traffic · 3 points · by johnrob · no comments
• On Schooling, Part 1 · 3 points · by avinashv · no comments
• GMail meets the Web: Applying "Mark as Read" and other email features to web page blocks. · 3 points · by amichail · no comments
• Hackers (1995) · 3 points · by 2cool · 4 comments
• Steamworks Makes DRM Obsolete · 3 points · by nickb · no comments
• Ask HN: Why do Unix groups still require re-logging in to register changes? · 3 points · by glyphobet · 2 comments
• Engineers show off "no jailbreak" iPhone keyboard hack · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• On seeking an overhaul of the U.S. student loan system · 3 points · by indiejade · no comments
• Ask HN: Where's the best place to find Python or Rails programmers in SV? · 3 points · by sscheper · 1 comment
• Is OpenID the future? · 3 points · by vbkimber07 · 1 comment
• Creating an evocative user experience · 3 points · by ujal · no comments
• Report: Apple and AT&T to partner on U-Verse, $99 Netbook · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• A New Memory Tool for the Web · 2 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Digital River dubious upsell busted by BoingBoing.net · 2 points · by hermitcrab · no comments
• When to migrate hosting? · 2 points · by Everest · 4 comments
• Lectures by Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg · 2 points · by azharcs · no comments
• How to layout forms · 2 points · by chrismahon · no comments
• Recommendation on startup resources? · 2 points · by timothychung · 2 comments
• Beyond the Money: Some VCs Provide Startups With A Competitive Edge · 2 points · by dwynings · no comments
• Vote for Name of the Year 2009 · 2 points · by winanga · no comments
• Stealing Weather - The Chinese Obsession With Controlling Weather · 2 points · by nikblack · no comments
• A Short Introduction To Apt-Pinning · 2 points · by joschi · no comments
• Google deal machine adjusts to slow times · 2 points · by drm237 · no comments
• Don't spend much, do everything yourself. · 2 points · by dan_sim · 2 comments
• OnLive, a new game-changing technology · 2 points · by abennett · no comments
• Rhomobile promises: Build once, deploy to any smartphone · 2 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Zappos v. Whole Foods on Twitter - Who's Better? · 2 points · by tplDrew2 · no comments
• Two new improvements to Google results pages · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• ASP.NET MVC for RoR developers: do as locals do · 2 points · by zvikara · 1 comment
• In poor economy, more IT pros could turn to e-crime · 2 points · by snydeq · no comments
• Showing the Obama-Clinton Divide in Decision Tree Infographic · 2 points · by iamwil · 1 comment
• Everything I know about programming is wrong…or will be · 2 points · by chazlett · no comments
• Brain Wave Patterns Can Predict Blunders, New Study Finds · 2 points · by walidghaleb · no comments
• Communications of the ACM Blog · 2 points · by neilc · no comments
• SuperMac War Story 3: Customer Insight Is Everyone’s Job · 2 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Ask YC: Table based layout - part of the learning curve, or just deprecated? · 2 points · by dandelany · 9 comments
• Singularity Summit 2008's talks now up · 2 points · by queensnake · no comments
• Physics of Oil Sand Extraction:Alberta Reserves Similar to Saudi Arabia · 2 points · by naj · no comments
• Academic Earth Is The Hulu For Education · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Intel patches a performance boost to Opensim · 2 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• Ada Lovelace Day · 2 points · by acgourley · 1 comment
• What do you think of goto in php? · 2 points · by oscardelben · 5 comments
• Please stop saying social media is free · 2 points · by smartbear · no comments
• Margo Seltzer · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• How Not to Get a Job Via Twitter · 2 points · by bullseye · no comments
• Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate · 2 points · by markup · no comments
• Brain quirk could help explain financial crisis · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Accessibility to the Face: A Case Study · 2 points · by harpastum · no comments
• Why NPR will have a tough time duplicating its broadcast success online · 2 points · by ilamont · 1 comment
• Open-source online textbook startup gets $8 million in Series A funding · 2 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Merge History, DAGs and Darcs · 2 points · by johns · 1 comment
• Semantic Search Could Secure Google's Future · 2 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• Heads Up: Does your site still work with IE8's InPrivate Blocking turned on? · 2 points · by briansmith · 2 comments
• Don’t Trust Documentation — Ever · 1 points · by twampss · 2 comments
• ASP.NET Development Server works slow in Firefox, way faster in IE · 1 points · by ideamonk · 2 comments
• Tips on designing layouts for games and virtual worlds · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Podcasts for Geeks interested in Everything · 1 points · by cortesi · no comments
• Salesforce.com Integrates Twitter · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Bootstrapped revenue models are good for first time entrepreneurs · 1 points · by ReTelTech · no comments
• China urges new global reserve currency · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Is The iPhone A Bigger Game Changer Than The Wii? · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Wolfram Alpha: Next Web Search · 1 points · by jayamohan · no comments
• Tim Bray on the Future of the Web · 1 points · by asnyder · no comments
• Linux 2.6.29 Released · 1 points · by marketer · no comments
• Startup Metrics 101: a Product & Marketing Workshop · 1 points · by aditya · no comments
• Nader in conversation · 1 points · by Ennis · 1 comment
• Expert Reactions to Geithner Plan: Net Positive · 1 points · by gne1963 · no comments
• Telstra offshoot hires teen hacker 'Akill' · 1 points · by hwijaya · no comments
• Skype Marriage with SIP, Half Hearted · 1 points · by omfut · no comments
• Signals of selection in the human genome: important new paper · 1 points · by MaysonL · 1 comment
• Worm using Facebook Application? · 1 points · by dpurp · no comments
• Windows Marketplace for Mobile to charge developers for application updates · 1 points · by KevinBongart · no comments
• Prioritizing Elements with Numbers · 1 points · by mridulkhan · no comments
• Photographs of the Economic Crisis · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• FS performance benchmarks for new file allocations · 1 points · by amitshah · no comments
• Summer of Code: It's About Passion Not Experience · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable · 1 points · by taylan · no comments
• More Than Just Writing a Check · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Hardware Acceleration Critical Component for Cost Conscious Data Centers · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Building successful teams a Catch-22 · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Live Video Stream - Twitter Developer Nest: London Launch · 1 points · by madmotive · no comments
• Sudo make me a sandwich robot · 1 points · by oscardelben · no comments
• Google Search Major Data Structures Documentation · 1 points · by sinu9i · no comments
• Anyone uses PowerPoint to make Mock-Ups ? · 1 points · by ideamonk · no comments
• Bat flight & locomotion: videos plus discussion · 1 points · by davi · no comments
• NIIT Tech Training - Continuous and Effective Training for Corporate · 1 points · by niittech · 1 comment
• How to think pragmatically · 1 points · by oscardelben · no comments
• Peek's new Pronto messaging device to sell at Amazon, Radio Shack · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Three Keys to SaaS Success · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• PuTTY Tunnel Manager · 1 points · by arien · no comments
• How Twitter changes a conference · 1 points · by Qedanne · no comments
• Dont ignore the donators revenue model · 1 points · by ErrantX · no comments
• Twilight of the Autocrats · 1 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Ask HN: BuySellAds Alternative Idea? · 1 points · by spoiledtechie · 2 comments
• Top Most Annoying Technologies · 1 points · by jayamohan · 2 comments
• One Year of Call Graph, Five Lessons Learnt The Hard Way · 1 points · by braindead_in · no comments
• The Answer to the PE File Universe and Everything. PE File Utilities. · 1 points · by weekendhacker · 1 comment
• Defense in depth means that you protect against exploits that don't exist yet · 1 points · by gus_massa · no comments
• Botnet based on home network routers · 1 points · by mixmax · no comments
• A strategic business changes exactly 1 user behavior · 1 points · by ReTelTech · no comments
• Windows 7: The good, the bad, and the ugly (episode 2) · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• How to know that the programming interview is over · 1 points · by batasrki · no comments
• How to build a better web browser · 1 points · by trezor · no comments
• The Agile Jazz Band · 1 points · by DanielBMarkham · 1 comment
• Three20 project improves iPhone programming · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• How the new toxic assets plan could be gamed · 1 points · by cos · no comments
• 7 next steps for social networks · 1 points · by kennyroo · no comments
• Microsoft vs TestDriven.Net Express · 1 points · by rayvega · no comments
• Google Wonder Wheel - Search Visualisation on Google Search Page · 1 points · by garethr · no comments
• Steve Wozniak Joins DeepDyve Advisory Board · 1 points · by vladocar · no comments
• Google's top designer quits, blames engineers · 1 points · by erickhill · 1 comment
• IBM-Sun Merger Talks Could Hinge on NetApp Litigation · 1 points · by rex8088 · no comments
• DBMSs for Science Applications: A Possible Solution · 1 points · by neilc · no comments
• Ask HN: Unit testing a ZF MVC application · 1 points · by dmitri1981 · 1 comment
• A game console for developing countries · 1 points · by shard · no comments
• ConnectU Cofounder's Financial Social Networking Venture · 1 points · by byrneseyeview · no comments
• AdMob's iPhone ad business exploding · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Fibonacci Web Design: Making web pages using harmonic proportion and Fibonacci numbers · 1 points · by troystribling · 2 comments
• Peek Pronto: The world's simplest email communication device now supports SMS · 1 points · by jskopek · 1 comment
• RubyCentral inexplicably rejected as mentoring organization for GSoC 2009? · 1 points · by rufius · 1 comment
• Quality is Largely Irrelevant for iPhone Games · 1 points · by JabavuAdams · no comments
• Provocative: MDSD vs. Platform · 1 points · by jbandi · no comments
• Never Hide Films Are Viral Successes For Ray-Ban · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• All You Need to Know About Tracking Your Website Activity · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Making GNOME Terminal GNU screen-aware · 1 points · by paulsmith · 2 comments
• Paul Krugman doesn't like the Toxic Asset Plan · 1 points · by alecco · no comments
• Why Customers Will Pay You to Restrain Them · 1 points · by johnm · no comments
• A handy uptime and downtime conversion cheat sheet · 1 points · by dmytton · no comments
• Google Street View may meet its match in Europe - to our loss · 1 points · by dmytton · no comments
• Google’s Wonder Wheel Experiment, and More · 1 points · by dmytton · 1 comment
• The most reliable (and unreliable) blogging services · 1 points · by dmytton · no comments
• Online Video Advertising Works - comScore Chairman Confirms · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• Watch GamesBeat 2009 Live · 1 points · by teej · 1 comment
• Internet March Mayhem e-Tournament · 1 points · by oneplusone · no comments
• Rhomobile chasing after mobile software dream · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Calacanis' Customer Acquisition Cost Math · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• OnLive Delivers Gaming Through The Cloud · 1 points · by code_devil · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Which Bank · 1 points · by nuao · 1 comment
• Don't Count Ad Impressions, Make Them · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems (summary of classic paper) · 1 points · by neilc · no comments
• Google Refines Presentation Of Search Results · 1 points · by breck · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What web database(s) do you guys use? · 1 points · by Keyframe · 3 comments
• The Case of Google and the Surly Ex-Designers · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• Pirates of Silicon Valley · 1 points · by 2cool · no comments
• YouTube Being Blocked in China, Google Says · 1 points · by timr · no comments
• A few hidden commands · 1 points · by chris11 · no comments
• "Texas Shouldn't Mislead Science Students" · 1 points · by toni · no comments
• Choosing a business name · 1 points · by johns · no comments
• Demonstrations of future Web technologies · 1 points · by _pius · 1 comment
• The perils of a table-based layout (open in IE for the full effect) · 1 points · by freejoe76 · 2 comments
• A few YouTube videos you can't see in China right now · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Yahoo's TV Widgets service tries to bridge the Web/television divide · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Undercover 3 - bad news for thieves · 1 points · by jmatt · no comments
• It's Always Ada Lovelace Day at O'Reilly · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• A gaming world without consoles? · 1 points · by michjeanty · no comments
• WatchMouse site monitoring dashboard widget · 1 points · by nir · 1 comment
• Is Facebook Safer than MySpace? · 1 points · by bhellman1 · no comments
• Just Say No To 'Innovation' · 1 points · by astrec · no comments
• Survival Of The Loudest · 1 points · by rams · no comments