Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Ron Garret: How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career. · 118 points · by asciilifeform · 39 comments
• The problems with url shorteners · 94 points · by joshu · 56 comments
• Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter · 90 points · by johns · 59 comments
• Open letter to Blackboard: $1M to charity if you drop patent litigation · 87 points · by paulgb · 55 comments
• Twitter, Ruby on Rails, Scala and people who don’t RTFA · 85 points · by mileszs · 64 comments
• Tiny computers + wireless mesh network + Python → Awesome · 71 points · by mdakin · 11 comments
• Linux is Obsolete [1992] · 69 points · by vinutheraj · 46 comments
• Ask HN: What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? · 64 points · by quellhorst · 93 comments
• IBM On The Verge of Buying Sun for $7 billion · 61 points · by ojbyrne · 24 comments
• Chat startup Chatterous (YC W08) throws gauntlet down against proprietary closed chat widgets · 52 points · by rantfoil · 1 comment
• E Text Editor: Releasing the Source · 51 points · by bdfh42 · 22 comments
• Announcing HackStars · 49 points · by brianculler · 105 comments
• Lessons in Graphic Design Theory · 48 points · by kivivi · 2 comments
• Erlang Doesn’t Fit The JVM · 44 points · by newsit · 49 comments
• Posterous (YC S08) launches Twitter commenting/tweetback and oAuth · 38 points · by rantfoil · 11 comments
• Rails Template: Create a Twitter Application in Seconds · 37 points · by sant0sk1 · 15 comments
• How Geico Wastes $90MM a Year on SEM · 36 points · by tplDrew2 · 31 comments
• Google Is Not in “Late-Stage Talks” to Acquire Twitter · 36 points · by nickb · 9 comments
• Simple and Impressive Design Techniques · 33 points · by _pius · 2 comments
• Proposed Bill Gives President Emergency Authority To Halt Web Traffic; Access Private Data · 30 points · by mdasen · 30 comments
• Bill Venners chats with the Twitter developers, in Twitter on Scala · 30 points · by jpedrosa · 3 comments
• Reddit pycon keynote video · 28 points · by dood · 2 comments
• Dice.com Shows 45% Drop In Tech Jobs · 28 points · by epi0Bauqu · 23 comments
• Trying out 'Amazon Remembers' · 27 points · by kirubakaran · 7 comments
• UserVoice founder on how to build a killer site by listening to feedback · 26 points · by oliviakuhn · 2 comments
• Wrong Tomorrow · 25 points · by prakash · 4 comments
• Three libraries, a framework and an API - how ContentTagger got built in 7 hours · 25 points · by danw · 2 comments
• Contacts considered crappy · 24 points · by barry-cotter · 6 comments
• Human Evolution and Frameshift Mutations · 23 points · by pg · 13 comments
• John Carmack surprises fans (and his CEO) with Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone · 23 points · by peter123 · 14 comments
• Investigating the people behind those sketchy flat-stomach ads. · 22 points · by peter123 · 4 comments
• Robot achieves scientific first, discovers new knowledge w/o human input · 20 points · by vaksel · 6 comments
• Google Chrome Without 3D · 20 points · by palish · 2 comments
• Is Twitter Killing RSS? · 18 points · by kivivi · 24 comments
• Web Trend Map [IMG] · 17 points · by vladocar · 2 comments
• SAT scores can have impact beyond college · 17 points · by tokenadult · 56 comments
• Happy 15th Birthday to Tcl and the Tk Toolkit · 16 points · by pmarin · 7 comments
• Ask HN: Should monetization be an afterthought ? · 16 points · by unohoo · 30 comments
• Tell HN NY: Moving meetup tonight to Heartland Brewery, Union Square (6-8PM), RSVP here · 16 points · by daveambrose · 10 comments
• "Collapse will not be televised... you will only know that it has happened to you." · 15 points · by asciilifeform · 20 comments
• How to Incorporate in California and Stay on the Budget? · 15 points · by white · 4 comments
• Harvard Begins Case Study as Tainted MBAs Reveal Damaged Brand · 14 points · by thinkcomp · 4 comments
• Chinese Develop "Kill Weapon" targetting Aircraft Carriers · 13 points · by chaostheory · 35 comments
• Tropicana Line's Sales Plunge 20% Post-Rebranding · 13 points · by chaostheory · 2 comments
• Marc Cuban Is Psyched About Cable · 12 points · by noor420 · 8 comments
• Ask HN: Real costs associated with a startup? · 11 points · by grinich · 9 comments
• Dot-NET to benefit from Sun sale? · 11 points · by techdog · 3 comments
• What is the single most influential book every programmer should read? · 10 points · by scorpion032 · 5 comments
• Heist (Scheme in Ruby) 0.2 adds proper list support, better documentation · 10 points · by ionfish · 5 comments
• Has Your Startup Been Screwed Yet? · 10 points · by odvious · 2 comments
• Samsung's Android Phone Plans · 10 points · by davidw · no comments
• David Brooks: Good summarization of all the literature on financial collapse. · 10 points · by anirudh · 16 comments
• How JRuby Makes Ruby Fast · 9 points · by nreece · no comments
• Humanoid robot helps scientists to understand intelligence · 9 points · by njrc · 1 comment
• Quantum setback for warp drives · 8 points · by Anon84 · 8 comments
• Lorentz violation at high energy [astro-ph/0505267] · 8 points · by floatingatoll · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Please help review my site CollectiveSys.com · 8 points · by jerryji · 5 comments
• Introducing Digg’s IDDB Infrastructure · 7 points · by dmytton · no comments
• Neuroscience and Social Deprivation · 6 points · by colins_pride · no comments
• Vimperator 2.0 Released · 6 points · by DannoHung · no comments
• So just what's going on with the DiggBar? · 6 points · by moses1400 · 1 comment
• The oldest problem in computing - Recipes - How do you solve it? · 6 points · by spice · 10 comments
• Cornell Chronicle: Computer derives natural laws · 6 points · by muon · 1 comment
• New design, traffic stats etc at alexa · 6 points · by axod · 1 comment
• Adam Savage Reddit Interview · 6 points · by quilby · 1 comment
• Twitter Wouldn’t Sell For $1 Billion, Says Source · 6 points · by transburgh · 2 comments
• Aim to Fail · 5 points · by ramchip · 2 comments
• Masters of the (Tabletop) Universe · 5 points · by dzohrob · no comments
• Black/White hole radiation from dispersive theories [hep-th/0903.2224] · 5 points · by floatingatoll · no comments
• Xpra: (GNU) screen for X applications · 5 points · by bwoodacre · 1 comment
• Amazon Elastic MapReduce: A Web Service API for Hadoop · 5 points · by physcab · 1 comment
• Heart Muscle Renewed Over Lifetime, Study Finds · 4 points · by oldwesley · 1 comment
• Common Lisp for Java · 4 points · by Kototama · no comments
• Why Isn't Smalltalk Popular? · 4 points · by mdasen · 2 comments
• Google’s Phone Apps for the Blind, and Everyone Else · 4 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Ask HN: What would normal people do with Twitter search? · 4 points · by webwright · 2 comments
• Using Haar Cascades and OpenCV in AS3 [Demo] · 4 points · by tortilla · no comments
• Good-Bye Solaris? The Fate of Sun's Top 5 Technologies After the IBM Buyout · 4 points · by mdasen · no comments
• Ask HN: What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? · 4 points · by rdmlx · 10 comments
• FBI Seizes Servers at Dallas Data Center · 4 points · by 1SockChuck · no comments
• The dark secrets of Whopper Sacrifice · 4 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How to validate billable hours? · 4 points · by axeman · 3 comments
• Ten times the iPhone traffic on AT&T starting in June? How come? · 4 points · by technologizer · 3 comments
• Where are the Asian hackers? · 3 points · by alvinlai · 6 comments
• Skype iPhone App Downloaded One Million Times In First Two Days · 3 points · by vladocar · no comments
• Check Username Availability at Multiple Social Networking Sites · 3 points · by _pius · no comments
• Would You Buy a Used Dotcom from this Man? · 3 points · by staunch · no comments
• March 2009 Web Server Survey · 3 points · by ccarpenterg · 2 comments
• Science and Tech Ads · 3 points · by brandonkm · no comments
• Predicting the Present with Google Trends · 3 points · by neilc · no comments
• Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures · 3 points · by ulvund · 1 comment
• XHProfLive: Continuous function-level performance stats from production · 3 points · by nebula · no comments
• Computer security: Browser wars are back · 3 points · by davidw · 1 comment
• Detecting event support in browsers · 3 points · by ossreleasefeed · no comments
• President gets power to shut down the Internet? · 3 points · by joeythibault · no comments
• Video Conferencing With Microsoft Live Meeting · 3 points · by gandbeckham · no comments
• Google-Twitter deal: good or bad ? · 3 points · by STW · no comments
• Fresh & funny iPhone apps · 3 points · by mancuso5 · no comments
• How to turn your iPhone into a 2FA security token · 3 points · by maclifer · no comments
• Ersatz Capitalism: Another Nobel Winner Against Bailouts · 3 points · by jderick · no comments
• Ask HN: Is it alright to cycle through inspiration/discouragement? · 3 points · by mannicken · 2 comments
• Skin and Bones - How Startups Use A Boxer From Anchorage Alaska To Gain Exposure · 3 points · by keltecp11 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How to Inspire young people in computer science? · 3 points · by pj · 5 comments
• F# vs OCaml vs Haskell: hash table performance · 3 points · by trezor · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What's the state of universal internet connectivity? · 3 points · by newy · 2 comments
• 37 Essential Viral Video Tips, Posts and Sites · 3 points · by kivivi · no comments
• Ask HN: How to predict 3-year revenue and growth for an early-stage "search" company? · 3 points · by bravura · 9 comments
• Ask HN: Berkeley or Urbana Champaign? · 3 points · by kajecounterhack · 20 comments
• Microsoft's Lauren ad faked say bloggers · 3 points · by sahaj · 1 comment
• Baby chicks do basic arithmetic · 2 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• GE Research: Advanced Security - Object Tracking · 2 points · by wallflower · 1 comment
• Arriving shortly: Quickoffice, a real office suite for the iPhone · 2 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Analyst on RIM: "They are crushing it" · 2 points · by ojbyrne · no comments
• New FriendFeed interface to roll out Monday · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Facebook's CFO Exits: Enter, the Questions · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• The Palm Pre Will Be an iPhone Killer · 2 points · by nreece · 5 comments
• EFF Bootcamp On User Generated Content and the Law · 2 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• New alternative to thrift/protobuf from Doug Cutting · 2 points · by tow21 · no comments
• Fedral Budget Stepping Stones · 2 points · by sahaj · no comments
• IPods, First Sale, President Obama, and the Queen of England · 2 points · by newsit · no comments
• Ask HN: Good network library for games in Python · 2 points · by nocivus · no comments
• Why Hunch's community-built decision trees will catch on · 2 points · by waderoush · no comments
• Dither and gamma (David Jones) · 2 points · by shadytrees · no comments
• How to deploy your rails application with ruby 1.9 · 2 points · by oscardelben · no comments
• The Crash-Test Solution: Using Physics to predict economic downturns · 2 points · by tmarman · no comments
• You’re not a social media expert · 2 points · by arien · no comments
• Stochastic Models of User-Contributory Web Sites · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Mass Extinctions, Ancient Viruses May Hold Clues to Life’s Origins · 2 points · by toni · no comments
• Dear Europe, How Would You Feel About Google Buying Twitter? · 2 points · by tomh · no comments
• Google Uses Twitter to Sell Ads · 2 points · by kivivi · no comments
• Linode rolling out backup service · 2 points · by anuraggoel · no comments
• Paul Krugman Explains the Global Banking System · 2 points · by pj · no comments
• Texas Tells Microsoft's Vista To Mosey on Out of Town · 2 points · by ericbieller · no comments
• Twitter Founder Biz Stone’s Hilarious Colbert Interview (Video) · 2 points · by vladocar · no comments
• The Right Business Model for Your Startup · 2 points · by anuraggoel · no comments
• Microsoft releases ASP.NET MVC source under open license · 2 points · by minalecs · no comments
• Digg To Finally Fix Search - See The Screenshot · 2 points · by ericbieller · no comments
• Do you Outsource External DNS? Think Again. · 2 points · by TechPundit · 3 comments
• Categorize submitted URLs by media type? · 2 points · by PaulMorgan · no comments
• Dynamic Hadoop Clusters - SmartFrog · 2 points · by newsit · no comments
• Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop · 2 points · by kivivi · no comments
• Google May Buy Twitter. Or Not. But Why is Twitter So Hot? · 2 points · by kivivi · no comments
• Eating chocolate can help improve your math · 2 points · by seren6ipity · no comments
• FreeRisk: Crowdsourcing Credit Ratings? · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Ask HN: Who is going to Startup Weekend San Francisco? · 2 points · by dannyr · no comments
• Ask HN: Password managers · 2 points · by waldrews · 6 comments
• Highlights of the G20 deal · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• How to get nice, smooth, X11 fonts in your terminal and editors · 1 points · by kcbanner · no comments
• Virus battery could power cars · 1 points · by vitaminj · no comments
• Center for Talented Youth · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Search Suggestions Come To Gmail · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Ask HN: Analyze Trends in your data · 1 points · by dannyr · 2 comments
• Reason #5 That You Need File Virtualization · 1 points · by dmacvittie · no comments
• 5 years of Gmail · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Working on a Web-Hosted Project? Here are 10 Dependable Hosts · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• An Alternative Approach to Archiving Blog Posts · 1 points · by stevenjames · 1 comment
• Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses · 1 points · by mikeyur · no comments
• The Sam IM · 1 points · by dmacvittie · no comments
• Ask HN: How Much Should I Pay @THE_REAL_SHAQ For A Retweet? · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• The SIMpill, a small pill bottle with a SIM card · 1 points · by ccarpenterg · no comments
• John Key at World Class New Zealand - · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• Layman's overview of Amazon's Elastic Map Reduce Service · 1 points · by ccpill · no comments
• Jellyvision: Interactive Conversation (click the blue button under nav bar) · 1 points · by snprbob86 · 1 comment
• Factory Orders Rise, Layoffs Fall · 1 points · by gne1963 · no comments
• 5 Apps to Wow The Average PC User · 1 points · by timy2 · no comments
• Math Should be the Language of Politics Today · 1 points · by jwstaddo · 1 comment
• User Stories - Tell it like it is · 1 points · by AgileArtem · no comments
• UK village mob thwarts Google Street View car · 1 points · by dmytton · no comments
• Disney sign landmark YouTube deal · 1 points · by ulfstein · no comments
• International Electronics · 1 points · by amiethom · no comments
• Robotic Scientists Make First Discoveries · 1 points · by Evgeny · no comments
• Recession and the semiconductor industry · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• Angel Investment down 26% in 2008 · 1 points · by acro · no comments
• Cheaper Multitouch Interface Invented · 1 points · by mdasen · no comments
• Twitter, Google, and Semantic RSS · 1 points · by techdog · no comments
• Dingus - Clever Python Mock Library · 1 points · by durin42 · no comments
• Data Alignment, Part 1: It's All About Performance · 1 points · by mdasen · no comments
• MySQL and Microsoft's Entity Framework · 1 points · by chrispatterson · no comments
• MIT virus battery could power cars, electronic devices · 1 points · by FiReaNG3L · no comments
• Yelp Focuses On Mobile, New And Improved iPhone App Coming Soon · 1 points · by ericbieller · no comments
• TrailBehind Beta: Please give us a test and tell us what to do · 1 points · by andrewljohnson · no comments
• The Beast unveiled: inside a Google server · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• MacHeist 3 Bundle · 1 points · by yan · no comments
• Linux Foundation says it's time to ditch Microsoft's FAT · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Can Large Companies Help Small Companies Find Business Models? · 1 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Angels Keep Our Economic Future Alive · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• No namespaces in Lisp · 1 points · by ballpark · 3 comments
• Linux game console ready to ship · 1 points · by tsally · 1 comment
• Mozilla No Longer Allows Firefox Community Editions? · 1 points · by toni · no comments
• Skills developers will need in the next five years · 1 points · by kivivi · no comments
• Verizon: Fast, wireless Internet coming to rural America · 1 points · by physcab · 1 comment
• Don't repeat your CSS, use Sass modules · 1 points · by tdreyno · no comments
• The new Jaiku API: Problems and solutions · 1 points · by alienbrain · no comments
• Twitter + Amazon Mechanical Turk = TwitTurk or Frankenstwit · 1 points · by jfno67 · no comments
• "Persistence" Hunt · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• From Saving Newspapers through Design to Distributed Friending of Modular Innovation · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Understanding The Facebook Era · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Microsoft Releases All New Windows Live Client For Windows Mobile · 1 points · by ericbieller · no comments
• Interview w/author of "Jesus Misquoted" & "Jesus Interrupted" about human origins of Bible · 1 points · by cos · no comments
• Mac Apps for Developers · 1 points · by zaveri · no comments
• Time Warner looks for best way to drive away customers, introduces monthly bandwidths · 1 points · by frisco · no comments
• Peer - Automatically search and share the best of your web · 1 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• Blogging therapy: But I’m not an expert · 1 points · by dnewcome · no comments
• ESR: Hyperpower and high finance · 1 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Biz Stone Plays It Cool On Colbert · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Ask HN: Monetizing eyeballs · 1 points · by sanj · no comments
• Shazam iD: a cool way to discover music using mobile · 1 points · by nebula · no comments
• Apple, Stanford Teaching iPhone Development for Free · 1 points · by tortilla · no comments
• Real Time Valuations of top 25 Digital startups · 1 points · by jonmc12 · no comments
• Some Twitter Thoughts · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Copyright law sparks 40% decrease in Internet traffic in Sweden · 1 points · by cadalac · no comments
• Wired.com lays off 12 percent of staff · 1 points · by ALee · no comments
• Good Solves iPhone Enterprise Management · 1 points · by yvesrn · no comments
• Google should offer to buy Twitter for $1 billion · 1 points · by physcab · no comments
• Cheap and effective django web hosting · 1 points · by ckopec · no comments
• Principles for Artist Compensation in New Business Models · 1 points · by ALee · no comments
• A special report on the rich: An end to inequality? · 1 points · by bd · no comments
• E-Learning platform Moodle integrated to Opensim · 1 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• Debugging linux kernel tools and techniques · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• IPhone Security Key: VeriSign Identity Protection App Released · 1 points · by tortilla · no comments
• CTIA09 Video: Palm demos Pandora, Fandango, Sprint TV, FlightView, and Nascar · 1 points · by ericbieller · no comments
• Image Search Preview Page Overhaul · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• Scripting PowerPoint with Python · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• FinancialStability.gov | U.S. Department of the Treasury · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• TweetCall - Twitter by Voice · 1 points · by kivivi · no comments
• The Humble King of "Good Enough" Turns 20 · 1 points · by Tiktaalik · no comments
• Why people hate phone companies · 1 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How Many HN Readers are going to the Startup Weekend at SF today ? · 1 points · by code_devil · 1 comment
• Install multiple versions of IE on your PC · 1 points · by rishi · no comments
• Robot Theorizes, Proves Own Scientific Discoveries · 1 points · by rdmlx · no comments
• MPAA President to be Thrown Out · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Better not to sell iphone apps to non-English speaking countries to avoid poor ratings? · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• DevCentral Top5 04/03/2009 · 1 points · by cwalker · no comments
• Reddit's PyCon 09 keynote · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Bookmarks Bar with Frosting Sprinkled with Social · 1 points · by samfind · no comments
• Behind the Whopper Sacrifice Facebook App · 1 points · by defunkt · 4 comments
• Tech startups hire students on a shoestring through Ottawa program · 1 points · by naish · no comments