Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed $18,000 · 206 points · by minus · 45 comments
• A visit to id software, 1993 · 72 points · by abstractbill · 16 comments
• Why People Don’t Install Firefox - Part III · 71 points · by toni · 10 comments
• Ineligible Bachelors: Indian Men Living in U.S. Strike Out · 68 points · by rglovejoy · 87 comments
• Real-time view of Zappos purchases · 64 points · by kennyroo · 17 comments
• MySQL Doesn’t Always Suck; This Time it’s AMD · 63 points · by ice799 · 12 comments
• Facebook's photo storage rewrite · 60 points · by sr3d · 12 comments
• "We think you'd also like..." and the Math of Suggestion – Part 1 (from Directed Edge) · 56 points · by wheels · 8 comments
• How Obama used behavioral economics to win the election, and how he's using it to govern · 53 points · by gabrielroth · 68 comments
• Tutorial: Setup EC2 for Rails/Merb/Sinatra using Chef · 52 points · by _pius · 6 comments
• What we did to (not) get into TechStars · 51 points · by MicahWedemeyer · 31 comments
• Mapreduce Bash Script · 47 points · by danw · 5 comments
• Interview with Posterous (YC S08) Co-Founder Sachin Agarwal · 43 points · by rantfoil · 9 comments
• So Now Everything Is Google’s Fault · 41 points · by ericbieller · 39 comments
• Pixar’s Latest Film Has Wall Street on Edge · 41 points · by peter123 · 31 comments
• 20 of the Best Free Linux Books · 39 points · by Anon84 · 2 comments
• Ask HN: How to Hire Hackers · 37 points · by ALee · 30 comments
• The recession may be lifting · 35 points · by nopinsight · 46 comments
• Ask HN: Feedback Please - TapInko.com · 34 points · by keltecp11 · 57 comments
• Finding freelance jobs: Sites for talented techies · 34 points · by abennett · 22 comments
• Ask PG: When will YC selectees be notified? · 33 points · by jdileo · 51 comments
• Sharp Variables · 32 points · by philogb · 15 comments
• 6 Months of free DropBox Pro · 32 points · by mikeyur · 23 comments
• Coming soon: 37signals University · 31 points · by _pius · 30 comments
• PayPal, Visa rival Revolution Money gets $42 mln from Goldman, others · 29 points · by ivankirigin · 9 comments
• Our Sentiments, Exactly · 29 points · by njrc · 4 comments
• The current database debate and graph databases · 28 points · by Anon84 · 32 comments
• Amazon to no longer pay for paid search referrals · 25 points · by r7000 · 11 comments
• URL shorteners suck · 24 points · by winanga · 15 comments
• A.P. Moving to Halt Use of Newspaper Articles on Web Sites · 24 points · by senthil_rajasek · 47 comments
• A web service to unshorten short URLs, in modern Perl · 24 points · by jrockway · 21 comments
• Mac, Linux skills grab higher salaries than Windows · 23 points · by nreece · 15 comments
• Do We Create Type Systems In Dynamic Languages? · 23 points · by johns · 26 comments
• George Soros: US Recovery Is Far Off, Banks Are 'Basically Insolvent' · 23 points · by noor420 · 15 comments
• Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal · 22 points · by banned_man · 38 comments
• The Water-War Myth · 21 points · by tokenadult · 9 comments
• Bug eats electricity, farts biogas · 21 points · by habs · 10 comments
• Messagepub: New Pricing Plans (based on HN feedback) · 20 points · by nixme · 9 comments
• Henry Ford & Event Driven Architecture: Reinventing the assembly line · 20 points · by igrigorik · 3 comments
• From Bubble to Depression? · 20 points · by lackbeard · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Why have a "Terms and Conditions" on your site? · 19 points · by zepolen · 14 comments
• Unicorn Tears, Eh? · 19 points · by jballanc · 21 comments
• Quantum mathematics could improve web searches · 19 points · by nreece · 6 comments
• Making the HTML5 <time> element safe for historians · 19 points · by sethg · 4 comments
• ARM: Heretic in the church of Intel, Moore's Law · 19 points · by troystribling · 13 comments
• Cash flow crisis - Lawyers, prostitutes, and architects · 18 points · by swombat · 12 comments
• CVS joins Google Health Rx network: millions can access medication records online · 18 points · by peter123 · 3 comments
• Review: ImHonest.com Lost and Found Service · 17 points · by PStamatiou · 4 comments
• User Interface Design: Notifications and (avoiding interruption of) Flow · 17 points · by noblethrasher · no comments
• Friendfeed release simpler, faster UI · 17 points · by pclark · 9 comments
• Why baseball benched Microsoft Silverlight · 17 points · by Flemlord · 26 comments
• First 2 Words: A Signal for the Scanning Eye · 16 points · by brlewis · 1 comment
• Rubx: Twitter's Ruby shell · 16 points · by oscardelben · 6 comments
• More Android is Good Android · 16 points · by chacha102 · 14 comments
• BrowseCMS - like Drupal, but in Rails · 15 points · by clofresh · 17 comments
• Idea Gardening: A Primer · 15 points · by mattyfo · 2 comments
• Web Trend Map (image) · 15 points · by byrneseyeview · 8 comments
• Savory: Native Kindle epub and PDF Converter · 15 points · by chaostheory · 3 comments
• The JamLegend Fragment Cache · 14 points · by RWilson · 1 comment
• Sun Strategy Spinner · 14 points · by jyothi · 1 comment
• Observing the Pentagon Report on China Military Power · 13 points · by Ennis · no comments
• Ask HN: Feedback Please - Lit · 13 points · by youngj · 16 comments
• Army has been developing a GPL'd CAD package since 1979: BRL-CAD · 13 points · by niels_olson · 8 comments
• As FeedBurner Flails and Fails, Feedblitz Fights · 12 points · by swombat · 6 comments
• Do Economists Breed Greed and Guile? · 12 points · by peter123 · 5 comments
• Google becomes more local · 12 points · by Anon84 · 7 comments
• Google loses on appeal in adwords trademark suit · 12 points · by jacquesm · 4 comments
• Is "junk DNA" essential for evolution? · 11 points · by pg · 9 comments
• Detailed Analysis of Google Chrome EULA · 11 points · by caitsith01 · 2 comments
• Second Life's Message Queue Evaluation Notes · 11 points · by Harkins · no comments
• Is Michael Arrington building a Digg killer? · 11 points · by fromedome · 19 comments
• Ask HN: Do you vouch for the accuracy of links you submit? · 10 points · by tokenadult · 13 comments
• Dear HN: Totally new map UI for TrailBehind - Please Break It · 10 points · by andrewljohnson · 12 comments
• Inside a Google Data Center [video] · 8 points · by dwynings · no comments
• News Corp Fires Columnist for Reviewing Pirated Movie · 7 points · by lukas · 5 comments
• Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory · 7 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• FCC needs fifth net neutrality principle · 7 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Protovis: A graphical toolkit for visualization with the Canvas tag · 7 points · by halo · no comments
• Solution to the God-Einstein-Oppenheimer Dice Puzzle · 7 points · by tokenadult · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Supplement for a CS degree? · 7 points · by devin · 4 comments
• Harvard's CS171: Visualization (with videos via Flash and iTunes) · 7 points · by andreyf · no comments
• Safe: A gem enabling simple backups for your Ruby apps · 7 points · by _pius · 1 comment
• Why teenagers are moody, scientists find the answer · 6 points · by peter123 · 4 comments
• Rumor: iPhone OS 3.0 to include video editing tools · 6 points · by kivivi · 3 comments
• P-complete and the limits of parallelization · 6 points · by habs · no comments
• Do you own Facebook? Or does Facebook own you? · 6 points · by razorburn · no comments
• Ask HN: Good online magazines, anyone? · 6 points · by ekpyrotic · 8 comments
• Lenovo discontinues automatic System Update for ThinkPads · 6 points · by asnyder · 4 comments
• Setting up nginx to reduce load and memory usage for your Django / Python website. · 6 points · by iamelgringo · 5 comments
• Put "Web 2.0" Out to Pasture · 6 points · by VonGuard · 6 comments
• Ask HN: How much documentation is enough? · 6 points · by mooders · 2 comments
• 10 Useful Flash Components for Graphing Data · 5 points · by kivivi · 1 comment
• The future of our cities · 5 points · by aditya · no comments
• Ask HN: Advantages of immutable variables besides concurrency · 5 points · by boundlessdreamz · 4 comments
• Wolfram|Alpha: Searching for Truth (Stephen Wolfram talks with Rudy Rucker) · 5 points · by anthonyrubin · 1 comment
• (Simple, Applied) Ternary Search Tree in Python · 5 points · by mbrubeck · no comments
• Ruby Strikes Back · 4 points · by oldmoe · no comments
• Military Robots and the future of War (TED) · 4 points · by keltecp11 · no comments
• The creepy “Child Robot” · 4 points · by dawson · no comments
• Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta · 4 points · by winanga · no comments
• Ask HN: which OS (win, OSX, linux) works best on 64-bit edition? · 4 points · by urlwolf · 6 comments
• Refuctoring · 4 points · by habs · no comments
• Ask HN: Carnegie Mellon or Stanford · 4 points · by abii · 12 comments
• Bacteria eat CO2 to store energy · 4 points · by sibartgr · 1 comment
• Why 3d movies hurt your eyes and make you nauseous · 4 points · by lukas · 2 comments
• Proposal for Canonical Short URL Auto-Discovery · 4 points · by _pius · 1 comment
• Pixar's gender problem · 4 points · by hernan7 · 3 comments
• Tiny business idea.. · 4 points · by nosse · 6 comments
• Tutorial: Building an embedded Linux system with a web server · 4 points · by edawerd · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Is buying market research worth it? · 4 points · by dnewcome · 5 comments
• Are URL Shorteners A Necessary Evil, Or Just Evil? · 4 points · by vaksel · 13 comments
• AT&T May Start Negotiating with Apple to Prevent Skype Calls over iPhone · 4 points · by jamesjyu · 2 comments
• Kindle 2 Petition - Everyone Should have access to E-books · 3 points · by noel_gomez · 2 comments
• Anybody From The San Diego Area? · 3 points · by JustinK101 · no comments
• Viruses Make A Battery · 3 points · by muon · no comments
• 3D Graphics 101: Affine Transforms · 3 points · by jmathes · no comments
• Changes in Amazon Associates Program · 3 points · by newsit · no comments
• Facebook Completes Rollout Of Haystack To Stem Losses From Massive Photo Uploads · 3 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• "Optimistic typing" as an alternative to static typing · 3 points · by KentBeck · no comments
• Colleges Face a Financial Aid Crunch · 3 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Ask PG: Feature or Business Question from Investors · 3 points · by phil_KartMe · 2 comments
• Google way back then · 3 points · by dnewcome · no comments
• Dejavu, a pythonic ORM (PyCon presentation) · 3 points · by olifante · 1 comment
• HTML to PDF Converter Online - Now Even Faster · 3 points · by flair259 · 1 comment
• UK Internet records to be stored for a year · 3 points · by iamelgringo · 2 comments
• Nifty little javascript regex tool · 3 points · by geuis · no comments
• Being a software startup in a recession · 3 points · by johns · no comments
• IBM asking employees to outsources themselves · 3 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Zecco says it was a bug, not a prank · 3 points · by chris11 · no comments
• Exception paradox · 3 points · by frisco · no comments
• 1% preferential access outweighs the cost of helping others · 3 points · by baltoo · 2 comments
• Scratching Relieves Itch by Quieting Nerve Cells · 3 points · by yagibear · no comments
• Ask HN: Can someone please explain the logic of Google vs Newspapers? · 3 points · by knightinblue · 8 comments
• Convincing the Body to Clear its Own Biochemical Waste · 3 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Rev=canonical: url shortening that doesn't hurt the internet · 3 points · by markup · 1 comment
• Behind The A.P.’s Plan To Become The Web’s News Cop · 3 points · by _pius · no comments
• NPR Interviews the Guy Who Helped Blow Up Wall Street · 2 points · by sutro · no comments
• Brad Feld: Early VC decisions based on complex forecasts is foolish · 2 points · by dwynings · no comments
• Research Links Poor Children's Stress and Brain Impairment · 2 points · by physcab · no comments
• How would you market Windows? · 2 points · by technologizer · 3 comments
• Web Startups To Feature At CeBIT Sydney · 2 points · by geedot · no comments
• Digg I Want My PageRank Back · 2 points · by alexpopescu · 3 comments
• The URL Shortener-SEO Cage Match · 2 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Should you cater to younger workers? · 2 points · by techdog · no comments
• Twitter Support is Dead · 2 points · by elliottcable · no comments
• Fill a hole (and don't be surprised if someone else is doing it too) · 2 points · by pclark · no comments
• Only the Beginning · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Facebook Begins Testing Virtual Currency · 2 points · by mcxx · no comments
• Tips To Help Your Website Convert · 2 points · by auston · no comments
• The Zipper Data Structure [pdf] · 2 points · by wolfish · no comments
• Ask HN: The best way store thousands of Images on a server · 2 points · by barredo · 12 comments
• Will there be more or less ad networks in the future? · 2 points · by jeremyliew · no comments
• Can organic cropping systems be as profitable as conventional systems? · 2 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Google and Big Music Labels Bet on Free Downloads in China · 2 points · by rms · no comments
• Rubular: a Ruby regular expression editor and tester · 2 points · by bryanwoods · no comments
• 8 Ways to Simplify Your Home Network · 2 points · by insomniamg · no comments
• List of Programming and Web Development Scripts · 2 points · by sinbsd · no comments
• Revolution Money Raises $42 Million For Alternative Payment Service Nobody Is Using · 2 points · by nickb · 2 comments
• FriendFeed’s redesign combines publishing and IM better than Facebook or Twitter · 2 points · by kennyroo · no comments
• EntityCube · 2 points · by njrc · 1 comment
• Single-celled paramecia may communicate by "seeing" photons emitted by other paramecie · 2 points · by cos · no comments
• A Hospital is Offering Digital Health Records · 2 points · by mhb · 1 comment
• Rube Goldberg Device [video] · 2 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• YouTube, Sony Pictures in talks over feature films · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Gates Proposes Radical Overhaul of Pentagon Arsenal · 2 points · by Anon84 · 2 comments
• Japan Venture Capital Funds Face Mergers as IPOs Fade · 2 points · by noor420 · 1 comment
• Twitter is Email Marketing 2.0 · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• The Methuselah Foundation spins off the SENS Foundation (CSO Aubrey de Grey) · 2 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• DownloadHelper - Media download Firefox extension · 2 points · by mr_loopz · no comments
• Web use drops 40% as copyright law goes live in Sweden · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• John Hope Franklin · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Top 8 April Fools websites of 2009 · 1 points · by ahrjay · no comments
• What is Biz Stone doing? · 1 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Ask HN: Micro-engineering schools? · 1 points · by rjett · no comments
• PBwiki Web 2.0 Expo Talk (Why To Start a Company) · 1 points · by bkbleikamp · no comments
• GeN - an open-source system for learning generative models of relational data · 1 points · by dnewcome · no comments
• My initial impression of Blueprint CSS Framework · 1 points · by knieveltech · no comments
• T-Mobile to sell Android tablet and home phone next year · 1 points · by lunchbox · no comments
• Web Developers Wanted · 1 points · by thaironius · no comments
• Could FeedBurner Be Replaced by PostRank.com? (Redux) · 1 points · by wheels · no comments
• Blog ranking - April 2009 · 1 points · by known · no comments
• The exquisite torture of best practices · 1 points · by pelle · no comments
• Linux Servers Take Bigger Hit · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Organize your life with Noter2 · 1 points · by appleJ · no comments
• The economics profession must bear a lot of the blame for the current crisis · 1 points · by tome · no comments
• Dr. Ping: Full automatic problem fixing framework · 1 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• Why IBM Needs Sun · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Web app security vulnerabilities and preventions · 1 points · by sagargolla · no comments
• Needle in a Haystack: Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos · 1 points · by arjunb · no comments
• Xss overview · 1 points · by sagargolla · no comments
• Research Links Poor Kids' Stress, Brain Impairment · 1 points · by weiser · no comments
• Don't Blame Google And Scribd For Your Own Business Model Problems · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Great Visualization: Web Trends Map 4 (Final Beta) · 1 points · by winanga · no comments
• Was Paul Baran the Inventor of the Internet? The Wired Interview · 1 points · by miked · no comments
• Two proposals for Link Shorteners, re: Schachter · 1 points · by trickjarrett · no comments
• New cells in the adult brain migrate long distances by crawling along blood vessels · 1 points · by acro · no comments
• Hyperlinking the Real World (Redux) · 1 points · by kivivi · no comments
• Internet service providers to record all emails and calls · 1 points · by kivivi · no comments
• Ask HN: Who is the Laughing Man IRL? · 1 points · by mlLK · no comments
• YouTube - Design Coding · 1 points · by kivivi · no comments
• YouTube - Learning chinese - "where can I find a place to live?" · 1 points · by menkey18 · no comments
• The Tools of Technomadics · 1 points · by keenerd · no comments
• Twitter Gadget for Gmail · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• [Mankiew Book Chapter] A Dynamic Model of Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Zuerich: a good place for startups? · 1 points · by arihelgason · no comments
• Data Centers get 'black box' flight data recorder · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Both of us own 50% of our new startup? Wait a minute · 1 points · by alvinlai · no comments
• The Guardian ranks highest amongst UK newspapers for Online Reputation · 1 points · by spxdcz · no comments
• Smart People are less Stressed. · 1 points · by rokhayakebe · 1 comment
• Extensing Bash Auto-Completion · 1 points · by iuselinux · no comments
• Proposal for a semi-transparent URL shortener · 1 points · by jgrahamc · no comments
• Video: New Microsoft commercial makes Giampaolo happy for $1,500 · 1 points · by ericbieller · no comments
• 24 Hours of Geotagged Photos from Flickr · 1 points · by jakozaur · no comments
• Ask HN: What tools do you use to monitor your servers? · 1 points · by coderholic · 5 comments
• If Steve Jobs Had a Facebook Profile... · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Rebates as a business tool for online marketing · 1 points · by omarchowdhury · no comments
• History teacher spends his spare time dreaming up new inventions and making them come true · 1 points · by noor420 · no comments
• Using Drupal Module Install Scripts to Simplify Site Deployments · 1 points · by tagger23 · no comments
• Virtual Business Card... · 1 points · by mlLK · 1 comment
• Networking in an Uncertain Economy · 1 points · by mlLK · 1 comment
• The Failed Understanding of the Information Age · 1 points · by dominiek · no comments
• World's Best Programmer is... [w/ Challenge] · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• US refuses to release docs about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement it is negotiating · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Books and Blogs For Startups · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• When did you last read a print newspaper? (Me, I can't remember.) · 1 points · by technologizer · 2 comments
• Video of Ryan Singer of 37Signals giving a talk on Value Judgements in Interface Design · 1 points · by _pius · no comments
• A Cloudy Future · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Japan child robot mimicks infant learning · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Fast Takeoff: Exponential, or faster? · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Android Isn't a Phone OS Because in the Future There Will Be No Phones · 1 points · by Anon84 · 1 comment
• Security Threat Analysis: Interview With Dino A. Dai Zovi · 1 points · by yaakov · no comments
• Twitter Art: The most inspirational 33 backgrounds · 1 points · by mancuso5 · no comments
• California Dreamin · 1 points · by dedalus · no comments
• Interspire Shopping Cart 5.0 - biggest upgrade ever for this e-commerce solution software · 1 points · by mg1313 · no comments
• Research to determine whether art is in the eye of the beholder · 1 points · by blogimus · no comments
• Ask HN: Are there any good books on statistical quant analysis? · 1 points · by pjharrin · 3 comments
• IJCAI-09 AI Video Competition · 1 points · by njrc · no comments
• When Startups monetize Babbel switches on paid courses · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Hal, Call Your Office - Computers That Act Like Physicists · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Is the Almighty Dollar Doomed? · 1 points · by noor420 · no comments
• Open source licenses, virtual worlds and business, do they mix? · 1 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• FreeCreditReport.com vs. AnnualCreditReport.com · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• The Return to Attending a More Selective College [pdf] · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• The New York Times announces a Real Estate API · 1 points · by eisenkr · no comments
• Climate Change Ponzi Scheme · 1 points · by pmjordan · 2 comments
• Cybercrime 2.0: When the Cloud Turns Dark · 1 points · by njrc · no comments
• Font Face Replacement Embedding Techniques and Resources · 1 points · by jorenrapini · no comments
• Ask HN: Review My WebApp - Recipe Puppy - Search recipes by ingredients and/or keyword · 1 points · by kbrower · 6 comments
• On Florida Real Estate, Ponzi Schemes and Twitter · 1 points · by spencermiles · no comments
• Microsoft Online Still Sucking Wind After All These Years · 1 points · by AndrewWarner · no comments
• What Is The Value Of A Human Life? (audio) · 1 points · by wave · no comments
• Is Web 2.0 Abandoning the UGC Ship? · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Newspapers can reduce traffic by 32% by simply asking Google to stop sending them traffic · 1 points · by shafqat · no comments
• Geek Chic: Google’s Culture of Efficiency · 1 points · by naish · no comments