Hacker News Way Back Machine

• I tried Joel's salary scale method, and the results were... mixed. · 107 points · by blasdel · 20 comments
• I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems · 85 points · by neilc · 28 comments
• Sleep is Garbage Collection · 57 points · by soundsop · 29 comments
• Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA · 51 points · by vaksel · 4 comments
• Obie Fernandez: My Reasoned Response about Scala at Twitter · 45 points · by tortilla · 44 comments
• Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination · 42 points · by blackswan · 47 comments
• J.K. Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination · 42 points · by markbao · 3 comments
• Easy AI with Python · 42 points · by malvosenior · 1 comment
• Online Brokerage Zecco Pretends To Give Away Millions, Panics When People Start Spending · 40 points · by peter123 · 19 comments
• Google is just an amoral menace · 38 points · by raju · 62 comments
• Bruce Sterling requests assistance proving the validity of his marriage · 38 points · by haasted · 13 comments
• How Baseball Players Catch Fly Balls · 37 points · by sobriquet · 7 comments
• Startup Weekend: Problems · 36 points · by transburgh · 20 comments
• Why the U.S. carrier group is scrap metal · 35 points · by bokonist · 78 comments
• Dubai: How not to build a city · 32 points · by peter123 · 26 comments
• Ask HN: Choosing a college · 29 points · by v3rt · 84 comments
• Ask HN: How to spend a marketing budget of $US 2k per month? · 27 points · by yeti · 26 comments
• Open Source Shooter Nexuiz 2.5 Released · 24 points · by dawson · 9 comments
• Ext Core 3.0 vs jQuery, a comparison · 24 points · by jrnkntl · 27 comments
• An Aesthetics Reading List for Programmers · 24 points · by atduskgreg · 3 comments
• Becoming my own OpenID provider with 99.999% downtime · 23 points · by ericwong · 7 comments
• Ask HN: MAC vs PC for a developer? · 21 points · by anon87 · 97 comments
• Luxim LIFI plasma light bulb more efficient than LED/CFL · 18 points · by floatingatoll · 7 comments
• Will your application scale? · 18 points · by bandhunt · 10 comments
• Court Rules Part Of Copyright Act Unconstitutional · 17 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Specialist vs. Generalist: Who Wins? · 16 points · by johns · 23 comments
• The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines Corporation (1995) · 15 points · by asciilifeform · 2 comments
• A natural language date and time parser for Common Lisp · 15 points · by zaph0d · 7 comments
• Learning new languages makes you a master of none? · 15 points · by drhowarddrfine · 17 comments
• Eric Ries: Lean Startup Presentation For Web 2.0 Expo · 15 points · by ivankirigin · 3 comments
• Web Site Makes Millions by Connecting Cheaters · 15 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 25 comments
• BattleBots Is Back · 13 points · by Flemlord · 9 comments
• Impractical Not to Rely on Servers? Nah · 11 points · by codemechanic · no comments
• Cable is building apps for your TV · 11 points · by physcab · 6 comments
• Earning Your Media · 10 points · by winanga · 1 comment
• Walt Disney - Hardware Hacker · 10 points · by replicatorblog · 11 comments
• Are you working for a startup and don’t know when to quit? · 10 points · by codemechanic · 7 comments
• The Sudden Charm of Public School · 9 points · by tokenadult · 15 comments
• What Stack Overflow Can Teach You · 9 points · by Anon84 · 2 comments
• This Time, Slump Hits Well-Educated, Too · 9 points · by tokenadult · 8 comments
• Geospatial Analysis - a comprehensive guide · 9 points · by Anon84 · 1 comment
• The Impact of Dropping the SAT · 9 points · by tokenadult · 21 comments
• More on the so called "entire" data center seizure · 8 points · by oomkiller · 3 comments
• What Sun means to IBM · 8 points · by techdog · 1 comment
• The Coworking Visa Project · 8 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Ask HN: What's the right way to authenticate survey takers? · 7 points · by frisco · 5 comments
• Statistics Refresher? · 6 points · by jyu · 2 comments
• Ron Garret’s (ex)-Google Story · 6 points · by asciilifeform · 1 comment
• Chinese Social Networks ‘Virtually’ Out-Earn Facebook And MySpace: A Market Analysis · 6 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Ask HN: How to block links created by URL redirection sites · 6 points · by christefano · 8 comments
• Multithreaded I/O · 6 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Cardapult: the Business Card Catapult · 5 points · by kqr2 · 1 comment
• Israeli Entrepreneurs: Know What Game You Are Playing · 5 points · by kivivi · no comments
• Bighugewindow · 5 points · by ziadbc · 4 comments
• Inside Netflix (Nightline Video) · 5 points · by dmytton · 1 comment
• The power of a tiny picture (how to improve your social network brand) · 5 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Hacker News for musicians? · 5 points · by vorador · 5 comments
• Workers more productive if allowed to use the Internet for leisure · 5 points · by tyn · 1 comment
• Apple should disrupt the camera market with the iPod Touch of cameras · 4 points · by replicatorblog · 1 comment
• F.A.A. Scrambles to Replace Retiring Controllers · 4 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Computer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics · 4 points · by signa11 · no comments
• Ask HN: Flight Simulator in Lisp? · 4 points · by ballpark · 1 comment
• The Next Web Is Just Around The Corner (The Conference, That Is) · 4 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Scrum and virtual worlds: perfect fit · 4 points · by jpirkola · 2 comments
• You Can't Take The Paper Out Of The Newstand · 4 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Smart Polling, Using Conditional GET XHRs · 4 points · by eferraiuolo · no comments
• Sun, IBM $7 billion acquisition talks on brink of collapse · 4 points · by winanga · no comments
• Ask HN: Firefox v. Chrome · 3 points · by joshwprinceton · 16 comments
• Ask HN: Best Way to Learn About User Experience · 3 points · by sscheper · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Cost of a server farm · 3 points · by bravura · 4 comments
• When a Feature Isn't a Business · 3 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• New York Times Co. Is Said to Consider Closing The Boston Globe · 3 points · by hko · no comments
• Internal cloud's big test: Amazon vs. Cloudera · 3 points · by vladocar · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Startup House? · 3 points · by endlessvoid94 · 3 comments
• On Design Minimalism: Why JSON Template Doesn't Need an Include Statement · 3 points · by chubot · no comments
• Bad Crazy in Internet Space · 3 points · by barry-cotter · no comments
• Russia to unveil spaceship plans · 3 points · by joshwprinceton · no comments
• Good hacker essays? · 3 points · by Scriptor · 6 comments
• Want to buy Twitter? Better find $3 billion. · 3 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• The Incredible, Edible Hand Distribution - Coding the Wheel · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Adventures trying to use open-source libraries · 3 points · by pchristensen · no comments
• Small Company Offers Web-Based Competition for Microsoft Word · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Snow Crash has arrived: "Virtual Cocoon" simulates all five senses · 2 points · by frisco · no comments
• CSS Toolbox · 2 points · by kivivi · no comments
• Building Sites Around Social Objects (Live from Web 2.0) · 2 points · by kivivi · no comments
• Why freedom of speech must include the right to “defame” religions · 2 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Gartner explores reality of x86 parallelism · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Can we do a poll on which OS hackers use? · 2 points · by javert · 4 comments
• North Koreans Launch Rocket Over the Pacific · 2 points · by frisco · no comments
• How Big is Facebook? · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• CSIS Agent Canada: Front Man · 2 points · by Ennis · 1 comment
• New Deal Revisionism: Theories Collide · 2 points · by DanielBMarkham · 6 comments
• Can a Videogame Make You Cry? · 2 points · by barry-cotter · 1 comment
• This is how Social Media really works · 2 points · by boundlessdreamz · 2 comments
• Ask HN:What would be the skills required for Developers in the next 10 years? · 2 points · by Fuca · 5 comments
• Churches using Twitter - #ldsconf #1 trending Sat / Sun · 2 points · by adammichaelc · no comments
• Under the Covers of the Google App Engine Datastore (video of talk) · 2 points · by Maro · no comments
• Recent mass shootings have left 43 dead and many asking why · 2 points · by amichail · no comments
• Big Banks' Recent Profitability Due to AIG Scam? · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Nesson will reframe scale of fair use, claiming entire Tenenbaum trial as his parody · 1 points · by niels_olson · no comments
• Micro Persuasion: Bring Twitter Right Into Gmail with the Amazing TwitterGadget · 1 points · by kivivi · no comments
• Amazon EBS Currently Unavailable · 1 points · by adelcambre · no comments
• Murdoch Wants A Google Rebellion · 1 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Google sees voice search as core · 1 points · by kivivi · no comments
• Charity: water · 1 points · by joshwprinceton · no comments
• No Best Practices · 1 points · by johns · no comments
• Obama to call for nuclear weapon-free world · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Has Your Bank Failed? Probably Not. · 1 points · by gne1963 · 1 comment
• Confessions of an Alien Hunter · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Images scaled for every mobile phone screen · 1 points · by jamesgpearce · no comments
• With the Downturn, It’s Time to Rethink the Legal Profession · 1 points · by hko · no comments
• Description Logics for Dummies · 1 points · by ilaksh · no comments
• Dan Dennett's sneak peak at the Hurley Model ("The joy of debugging") · 1 points · by zemaj · no comments
• As Economy Is Down, Vitamin Sales Are Up · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• One Thing Google IS Doing With Twitter · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Amar Bhide "In Praise of More Primitve Finance" · 1 points · by skmurphy · 1 comment
• Behind the Scenes: The Business of the Ballpark · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Internet marketing videos with Frank Kern, Jeff johnson, Jeff Walker... · 1 points · by mayazo · no comments
• Villagers block Google Street View · 1 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• VirtualBox 2: How To Pass Through USB Devices To Guests On An Ubuntu 8.10 Host · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• Over 35,000 firms in UK may go bust · 1 points · by dreamz · no comments
• European Social Media: Web Startups to Watch · 1 points · by vladocar · no comments
• SlideShare: Lessons learned from an April Fool’s prank · 1 points · by steamboiler · no comments
• Societies With Large Income Disparities Imprison More of Their People · 1 points · by Flemlord · 1 comment
• Almost Perfect (the story of WordPerfect) · 1 points · by zcrar70 · no comments
• Google Street View mashup: interactive London theatre map · 1 points · by Scaramanger · no comments
• Google Loses A Round In Sponsored Search Litigation · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Why wouldn't you use Disqus? · 1 points · by pclark · no comments
• Dolores Labs Vets Web Sites On The Cheap · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Why Facool failed and what I learned from it · 1 points · by liuliu · no comments
• Aren't captchas supposed to be human readable? · 1 points · by hermitcrab · no comments
• Is an Apple more form than function? · 1 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Thomas Edison Awards · 1 points · by ccarpenterg · no comments
• What Edison has to teach us about innovation · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• New virus-built battery could power cars, electronic devices · 1 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Tech Review of Fairpoint Migration, Status · 1 points · by Hoff · no comments
• HN on iPhone using mobile mac reader · 1 points · by sgman · no comments
• Agile Estimating · 1 points · by kswaters · no comments
• Revisiting thoughts about Paul's old article re: starting a startup in a downturn · 1 points · by jp510 · no comments
• Avoiding a social recession · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• Ask YC: A good free solution for VOIP? · 1 points · by igorhvr · 1 comment
• Web 2.0 Booth Crawl · 1 points · by vladocar · no comments
• Puzzle: Apparently blank HN item ... · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 1 comment