Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Understanding Git · 258 points · by cduan · 12 comments
• Stop pouring hot water down the drain · 125 points · by chaostheory · 49 comments
• Unladen Swallow: Making CPython Faster Using LLVM · 105 points · by durin42 · 15 comments
• Anxiety, Depression, Technology, and Me · 73 points · by tiredandempty · 51 comments
• Fast polling using C, memached, nginx and libevent · 71 points · by amix · 18 comments
• The Global Warming Heretic - NYTimes On Freeman Dyson · 71 points · by eisenkr · 111 comments
• High-powered mathematicians take on free will · 62 points · by nickb · 37 comments
• Wikileaks.de domain owner raided · 59 points · by chris11 · 12 comments
• RIP, MBA - The economic crisis has exposed the myth of business-school expertise · 57 points · by winanga · 54 comments
• China bans Youtube · 53 points · by vaksel · 39 comments
• PhoneGap: Open Source Tool for Building 'Native' Mobile Apps (iPhone, Android) with Javascript · 45 points · by chaostheory · 9 comments
• CS171 - Data Visualization at Harvard · 42 points · by Anon84 · 8 comments
• Justin.TV is bigger than Hulu...overseas · 40 points · by jrbedard · 17 comments
• Good Advice on Keeping Your Database Simple and Fast · 40 points · by don420 · 14 comments
• Sand Won't Save You This Time: the story of chlorine trifluoride · 39 points · by dschobel · 4 comments
• Xobni takes in funding, exits beta · 38 points · by jmorin007 · 11 comments
• How Y Combinator Schools Tech Startups · 36 points · by fallentimes · 26 comments
• Review: MailChimp (Email Marketing) · 36 points · by twampss · 18 comments
• Tell HN: YC Summer 2009 application is due today. · 35 points · by sarvesh · 67 comments
• HN NYC: Spring Meetup at Shake Shack, 4/3 · 33 points · by daveambrose · 20 comments
• How Google Routes Around Outages · 31 points · by 1SockChuck · 1 comment
• Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip - 200K neurons linked up by 50 million connections · 30 points · by nickb · 5 comments
• Secure Programming for Unix · 29 points · by vorador · no comments
• Atlanta Gets Its Own Y Combinator In Shotput Ventures · 28 points · by vaksel · 48 comments
• Announcing Start@Spark: Why are we doing this? · 27 points · by ivankirigin · 11 comments
• How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch · 25 points · by rwalling · 12 comments
• MIT to make all faculty publications be open access · 24 points · by terpua · 8 comments
• Amazon Releases AWS Toolkit for Eclipse · 22 points · by KrisJordan · 4 comments
• MIT Graphene Multiplier May Push CPUs to 1,000 GHz · 22 points · by vaksel · 23 comments
• Clojure and The Robot Apocalypse · 22 points · by kyleburton · 5 comments
• Google invests in e-commerce start-up Pixazza · 21 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Fast sampling and update of weighted items? (data structure like red-black trees?) · 21 points · by bravura · 26 comments
• New tech could make consoles obsolete · 20 points · by edgefield · 36 comments
• Researchers Worldwide Rally to Help Scientist Exposed to Ebola · 19 points · by jwilliams · 4 comments
• New worm can infect home modem/routers · 18 points · by davo11 · 3 comments
• Unix. IT should ask for it by name · 18 points · by ccraigIW · 16 comments
• Ask HN: How do you stave off food comatose after lunch? · 17 points · by derwiki · 17 comments
• Boston Venture Firm Seeks Entrepreneurial Spark · 16 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Ask HN: Feedback on my web app: govcheck.net · 16 points · by rmanocha · 14 comments
• Apple close to unveiling guarded Snow Leopard UI overhaul · 16 points · by dmytton · no comments
• How to Spot the "Uncoachables" · 16 points · by peter123 · 7 comments
• Report Cards Give Up As and Bs for 4s and 3s · 16 points · by tokenadult · 18 comments
• Study Links Depression to Thinning of Brain’s Cortex · 15 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Dean Edwards on Callbacks vs Events · 15 points · by andreyf · 7 comments
• Nginx resources · 15 points · by tdupree · 1 comment
• AskHN: Feedback for online game: "Squad Leader" by Avalon Hill. · 14 points · by robertmrangel · 20 comments
• Twitter confirms paid pro accounts on the way · 14 points · by fromedome · 3 comments
• Email startup Xobni leaves beta, raises $3.2M · 12 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• GCalCron Automates Your Linux System with Google Calendar · 12 points · by wooby · 4 comments
• Can Mathematics Unlock the Secrets of Terrorism? · 11 points · by toni · 5 comments
• Browser Notifications and Flow · 11 points · by wyday · 5 comments
• MySQL command-line tip: compare result sets · 11 points · by kilo_bit · no comments
• Philly Emerging Technology For the Enterprise Conference - Tomorrow and Friday · 11 points · by kyleburton · 7 comments
• Open Source Bridge hacker lounge · 11 points · by lyime · 3 comments
• Google User Experience · 10 points · by nkurz · 1 comment
• There will be code · 10 points · by nreece · 4 comments
• Skimmer, organize online social stuff · 10 points · by jrnkntl · 7 comments
• Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society · 10 points · by eisenkr · 1 comment
• John Carmack on Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone · 9 points · by mauricio · no comments
• Ask HN: Best way to get freelance work without being treated like a commodity code monkey? · 8 points · by firebug · 7 comments
• how to profile / debug your iPhone app on a (simulated) slow network connection · 8 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• 11 Link Usability Tips · 8 points · by mcxx · 3 comments
• How Some Places Fare Better in Hard Times · 8 points · by robg · 1 comment
• My estimate of possible defect rates in cryonics · 8 points · by Allocator2008 · 17 comments
• Researchers demo BIOS attack that survives hard-disk wipe (requires compromised machine) · 7 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Senior Python Developer - Quantitative Trading (120-160K DOE) · 7 points · by sscheper · no comments
• Google search gets Aussie algorithm update · 7 points · by KiwiNige · no comments
• Ask HN: Where should I move to maximize my career potential? · 7 points · by ncarlson · 16 comments
• Opening board meetings to the entire company · 7 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• The C10K problem - scaling servers to 10,000+ clients · 7 points · by silentbicycle · no comments
• NYC Entrepreneurship Week: 4 days of advice and talks for free · 7 points · by aditya · 2 comments
• Visual learners convert words to pictures in the brain and vice versa · 7 points · by ph0rque · 1 comment
• Ask YC: Can you use QuickBooks to manage a software/iphone dev business? · 6 points · by rksprst · 7 comments
• Xobni - The Next BlackBerry Partners Fund Investment · 6 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Amazon Web Services Blog: New AWS Toolkit for Eclipse · 6 points · by madh · no comments
• The Right Size · 6 points · by bdfh42 · 2 comments
• New Zinc video browser--redeeming ZeeVee's failed ZvBox product? · 6 points · by bobbud · no comments
• Fructose metabolism by the brain increases food intake and obesity · 6 points · by ph0rque · 3 comments
• Ask YC: How much to charge for iPhone app development? · 6 points · by helloyc · 5 comments
• Is Reia an object oriented language Joe Armstrong could actually like? · 6 points · by bascule · no comments
• Ask HN: Co-founder can't move to BA. Apply as single founder? · 6 points · by nanexcool · 3 comments
• Object sharing is fun Using stream algos and refcounting to improve Redis memory usage · 6 points · by antirez · no comments
• Life After Google · 5 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• No Never Surrender To Your Users, Facebook. · 5 points · by jkopelman · no comments
• Some examples of the serendipity effect on innovation · 5 points · by rgrieselhuber · 2 comments
• Ask HN: How do you reach women 18-25? · 5 points · by anon87 · 5 comments
• OnLive could threaten XBox, PS3 and Wii · 5 points · by tonyvt2005 · no comments
• Stop Whining About Facebook's Redesign · 5 points · by tokenadult · 3 comments
• Ask YC: should we apply if we're sure we won't be able to come at the interview? · 5 points · by raquo · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Are modified Y Combinator applications reviewed again? · 5 points · by jerryji · 1 comment
• UK government plans to monitor all conversations on social networking sites · 5 points · by nickb · no comments
• Al-Qaida's dumbed-down recruitment manual. · 5 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• iPhone presenting Nintendo DS with unexpected competition · 5 points · by jballanc · 3 comments
• Rise of the Machines · 5 points · by babyshake · no comments
• Picwing launches a new product: Picwing Automatic Prints · 4 points · by edawerd · 6 comments
• Should Congress Buy Twitter? · 4 points · by yalurker · 1 comment
• Build your own mail analyzer for Mac Mail.app · 4 points · by twampss · no comments
• JuicyDrop: Canvas music visualization · 4 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Spark Capital Launches Seed Funding Program Start@Spark · 4 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Food, Glorious Food Myths · 4 points · by robg · no comments
• Launch of FourthBranch.US · 4 points · by ryanmnly · no comments
• Picoscale stability in a room-temperature AFM · 4 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• 6 Reasons OnLive Could Be a Bust · 4 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• IBM layoffs continue · 4 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Silicon Valley's bright young things [video] · 4 points · by LWCARAB · no comments
• Marketing Is Becoming Even More So · 4 points · by astrec · no comments
• Why MIT now uses Python (more interesting recounting of Sussman's comments) · 4 points · by inimino · no comments
• Holy Cow, The White House Has a Digg Clone · 3 points · by babyshake · 1 comment
• The Official WhiteHouse.gov digg clone · 3 points · by Anon84 · 2 comments
• GE's Augmented Reality Demo · 3 points · by mishmax · 1 comment
• Facebook: Responding to Your Feedback · 3 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Financing the Next Silicon Valley · 3 points · by CoreyLoose · no comments
• The Art of the Tutorial · 3 points · by physcab · no comments
• Yelping My Way Through LA · 3 points · by astrec · no comments
• Evaluating renewable energy startups · 3 points · by pingswept · no comments
• India's Tata Motors unveils the world's cheapest car · 3 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Scientists claim to have identified brain region that makes choices · 3 points · by manish · no comments
• Git Enterprise Requirements · 3 points · by vaksel · no comments
• 37signals home page designs over the years · 3 points · by teej · 1 comment
• EMI Drops Lawsuit Against Project Playlist, Licenses Catalog Instead · 3 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Late-bound object lambda architectures, by Iam Piumarta of VPRI (Alan Kay's institute) [video] · 3 points · by andreyf · no comments
• Computed tomography images of toys and food · 3 points · by stuntgoat · no comments
• The unfiltered questions at the White House's Digg clone are more fun than the top ones · 3 points · by technologizer · no comments
• The mindset of an AIG Executive · 3 points · by smidwap · 2 comments
• Who’s Afraid of Natural Proofs? · 3 points · by bdr · no comments
• Science education under assault on multiple fronts in Texas · 3 points · by jballanc · 1 comment
• Asus eee Keyboard PC at CeBIT 2009 · 3 points · by axod · 3 comments
• Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free: A Manifesto · 3 points · by yafujifide · 1 comment
• Twitter Business Models Are Afoot · 3 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Ask HN - Best way to pick new skills · 3 points · by railslearner · 3 comments
• "Smallest, lowest-power" ARM core debuts · 3 points · by toni · no comments
• How to start your own TEDx · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Ask HN: state of the art in source code visualization · 3 points · by phd_student · 6 comments
• Treasury to Seek Power to Seize Non Banks (Trojan Horse Alert) · 2 points · by winanga · no comments
• Facebook Relents: Users Get More Control With Redesign Tweaks · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Amazon SimpleDB Batch Put, More Attributes Per Domain · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Counterpoint to Doug Bowman's Google post · 2 points · by batasrki · no comments
• Rethinking rent: Maybe we should stop trying to be a nation of homeowners · 2 points · by zaveri · 2 comments
• The Magic Behind Parser Combinators · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Ask HN: Hacking ability related to teaching language? · 2 points · by grinich · 4 comments
• Lawsuit: Best Buy has "anti-price matching policy" · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• BlackBerry Partners Fund Adds $3.2M to Xobni's Series B ($10M total) · 2 points · by brezina · no comments
• A Guide to Generating Buzz Through Social Media · 2 points · by aspenbordr · 1 comment
• Fear and the Availability Heuristic · 2 points · by minus · no comments
• Learning to Make Your Own Reality · 2 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Win-control: Watir like library for Scheme · 2 points · by dragonquest · no comments
• Ask HN: How do you keep away from HN? · 2 points · by ideamonk · 7 comments
• China Calls for New Global Currency · 2 points · by hendler · no comments
• Example of Moore's Law · 2 points · by pmarin · no comments
• Accurate Ems · 2 points · by danspam · no comments
• Lesser known git tricks · 2 points · by uggedal · no comments
• Console AJAX: Intersecting 2 sets of Twitter users · 2 points · by techdog · no comments
• Django 1.0 Website Development · 2 points · by NehaS · 1 comment
• We are all makers and hackers · 2 points · by whyleyc · no comments
• The world's cheapest car: Interesting Photo Essay · 2 points · by visitor4rmindia · no comments
• Twitter Gets A Conference · 2 points · by jsmoov · no comments
• Social gaming is a tactic not a category · 2 points · by jeremyliew · no comments
• The Facebook Generation vs The Fortune 500 · 2 points · by gregparadee · no comments
• The Sun for Tech Jobs Rises in the East · 2 points · by firebug · 1 comment
• Now that China Is the New Israel, What’s Israel? · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Why VCs Love To Hear About Your Plan B · 2 points · by mollylynn · no comments
• Interesting Monetisation Metrics From Flash Gaming Summit · 2 points · by sadiq · no comments
• Juicydrop: Milkdrop-style music visualisation using canvas · 2 points · by halo · no comments
• Twielsen: A real time TV show rating system using the social stream · 2 points · by tomhacker · no comments
• Ultra Light Startups Launching in Boston · 2 points · by CollegeMogul · no comments
• Progress in understanding deep brain stimulation · 2 points · by davi · no comments
• Ask HN: Why is Ryanair monetizing airplane lavatories? · 2 points · by michael_dorfman · 5 comments
• Cautionary Tales From The Social Networking Universe · 2 points · by physcab · no comments
• Is Your Organization Designed for Humans? · 2 points · by LukeG · no comments
• Wikirank: New project from Jeff Veen and Co. · 2 points · by adamhowell · 2 comments
• Google Rolls out Semantic Search Capabilities · 2 points · by njrc · no comments
• Google Chrome - interview with Ben Goodger · 2 points · by Qedanne · no comments
• Twitter finally plans to make money · 2 points · by ilamont · no comments
• It's time for seat-based software licensing to end · 2 points · by techdog · 1 comment
• Analysis of the OnLive "cloud console" system · 2 points · by zemaj · 3 comments
• Every Hero Needs A Formidable Challenger (what to do with negative feedback) · 2 points · by melvinram · no comments
• Software Craftsmen and Agilists · 1 points · by tiago182 · no comments
• Access Enablement or Accessibility? · 1 points · by ossreleasefeed · no comments
• IPhone Makes Up 50 Percent of Smartphone Web Traffic In U.S., Android Already 5 Percent · 1 points · by winanga · no comments
• Clean the earth in 26 days · 1 points · by adell50 · no comments
• Facebook Responds to New Layout Feedback · 1 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• The Facebook way: Do stuff. Make mistakes. Listen. Learn. Fix. · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Boss writes to employees · 1 points · by hwijaya · 5 comments
• Pimp my development environment · 1 points · by ossreleasefeed · no comments
• Mp3HD: New lossless MP3 format explained · 1 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Google search gets Aussie algorithm update · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Monster Employment Index Up · 1 points · by gne1963 · 1 comment
• White House Using Google Moderator For Town Hall Meeting. And AppEngine. And YouTube. · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• NZ Phone company hires convicted hacker known as "Akill" · 1 points · by KiwiNige · no comments
• Will Cisco, IBM, Salesforce, or Amazon buy Gnip? · 1 points · by michaeledwards · no comments
• Will Xobni Help BlackBerry Take On the iPhone? · 1 points · by bonforte · no comments
• The Hidden Gems of Venture Capital · 1 points · by minus · no comments
• Quest For Immortality Through Architecture Hits Financial Snag · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• The Hoc programming language · 1 points · by wooby · no comments
• Ecco in the cloud with Amazon · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• ScrumMaster Murphy: Ten problems in the Daily Scrum, and what you can do about them · 1 points · by AgileArtem · no comments
• Neutron tracks revive hopes for cold fusion · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• Barack Obama avatar in Olive and in realXtend · 1 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• Startup Advice: Lead like a Dictator · 1 points · by sgrove · 1 comment
• The Data Center Declaration of Independence · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Leaks are easy to find, but memory usage analysis is bit more difficult · 1 points · by kohlerm · 1 comment
• Author Nick Carr on the many ways cloud computing will disrupt IT · 1 points · by ccraigIW · no comments
• How Content Publishers Will Disrupt SaaS Internet Startups · 1 points · by kidmercury · no comments
• Online Deal Marketplace FatWallet Gets A Facelift · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• British gov't is proposing that twitter be taught in elementary schools · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• British gov't is considering tracking all UK Facebook traffic · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Tech Layoffs on Big Q1 Upswing, Far Outpacing Average · 1 points · by ebsherman · no comments
• Spark's seed funding program retains right to fund up to 50% of next round · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• How (Baseball Player) Curt Schilling started a game company · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Registration open for Mobile Tech "Unconference" Mobicamp in Atlanta · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Looser Credit Conditions Advantageous to Some But Not All · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• OnLive cloud-rendered gaming could threaten Xbox, PS3, and Wii · 1 points · by tc · no comments
• Smelting Gold In The Twitter Ghetto · 1 points · by Alex3917 · no comments
• Findjango Redesign & Slides for django-nyc · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• Ours is not the first society to value an economy of words. · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• IT giants back up open source 3D Web · 1 points · by jpirkola · 1 comment
• Real IT Episode 5, Bugs, Build-out, and Bungled Shipping · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• How Will The Recession & Economy Effect Startups? · 1 points · by CollegeMogul · no comments
• Beer Pong Business Leads to Book Deal & 1.5 Million Downloads · 1 points · by CollegeMogul · no comments
• RunMyErrand (Performs local errands for corps) raises round of angel funding in Boston · 1 points · by e1ven · no comments
• Mega drop-down navigation at Basecamp and Rails Guides site · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• TiVo gets a Blockbuster card · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Google Summer of Code 2009 · 1 points · by jwilliams · no comments
• Netflix Finds Value In Contrarian Approach · 1 points · by yshara09 · no comments
• Ask YC: I want to build a SNS, Should I start from Ning/Forum? · 1 points · by jinhow · 3 comments
• Six years in the Valley · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• A Self-Writing To-Do List · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Cocos2d for iPhone: An open source framework for building 2D games for the iPhone · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Why College Towns Are Looking Smart · 1 points · by nickb · no comments
• How Nintendo succeeded in selling 50 million Wiis · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Real IT Video Blog - Colin talks testing · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Top CMS and Social Media Picks for Smaller Publishers · 1 points · by tagger23 · no comments
• Gmail - Undo Send · 1 points · by keltecp11 · no comments
• Tim O'Reilly on enabling transparency · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• Netflix on Facebook - The slow revolution of recommendation engines · 1 points · by thinksketch · no comments
• New metasearch engine leaves Google, Yahoo crawling · 1 points · by shard · 1 comment
• Citizen participation that scales: a call to action · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Improving Javascript Load Performance? · 1 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• UK government considers monitoring social networking sites · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Start@Spark [Capital] · 1 points · by sanj · no comments
• DeadPool for Doc-Film-Net · 1 points · by agentbleu · no comments
• Hating Twitter Is Like Hating a Hammer · 1 points · by sjs382 · no comments
• Exploring Educational Excellence (College Admission Officers Travel to Recruit Students) · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Let's Open up Venture Capital · 1 points · by bravura · 1 comment
• U.S. companies waste $2.8 billion per year powering unused PCs · 1 points · by snydeq · no comments
• RESTful API and HATEOAS Conundrum · 1 points · by ssuravarapu · no comments
• National Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• The Future of Open Source Technology and Acquia · 1 points · by CollegeMogul · no comments
• Load Balancing for Developers - The Gotchas · 1 points · by dmacvittie · no comments
• Social networking sites: do not pry, says online community · 1 points · by Delmar · 3 comments
• AT&T first to test RIAA antipiracy plan · 1 points · by ALee · no comments
• Last.fm puts pay wall around streams; except in US, UK, Germany · 1 points · by ALee · no comments
• My Leaning Bookshelf - 18 Books That Are Influencing My Lean Learning Path · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• 4 hot-swap servers in 2U · 1 points · by pert · no comments
• Does making development non-trivial (e.g., iphone apps) result in fewer but better apps? · 1 points · by amichail · 3 comments
• Big changes ahead for enterprise software licensing · 1 points · by techdog · 1 comment
• Discussion: Credit Default Swaps · 1 points · by sahaj · 1 comment
• Flattening List Comprehensions in Python · 1 points · by rayvega · no comments
• A VM by any other name -- def euler(x); cos(x) + i*sin(x); end · 1 points · by neovintage · no comments
• Interop Blog: The Network is Strategic Again · 1 points · by TechPundit · no comments
• Carbon Caps Are the Best Policy - Why taxing emissions is an inferior approach · 1 points · by Alex3917 · no comments
• Did BBC break the law by using a botnet to send spam? · 1 points · by dc2k08 · 1 comment
• Infoblox The Quiet Achiever: Justin Grant blog · 1 points · by TechPundit · no comments