Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Oracle to buy Sun · 249 points · by justinsb · 121 comments
• Stephen Hawking 'very ill' · 144 points · by rms · 57 comments
• Why it is so hard to stay focused these days—and what to do about it · 67 points · by jseliger · 31 comments
• Atlassian Confluence $5 for 5 users · 64 points · by Jakob · 13 comments
• Underbelly: What haughty startup bloggers don't tell you · 64 points · by lrm242 · 17 comments
• The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown · 59 points · by ffernan · 19 comments
• Twitter and Posterous · 58 points · by brlewis · 22 comments
• ISP modifying .torrent file contents to add local seed · 55 points · by swombat · 14 comments
• Peeping into Memcached · 52 points · by danielrhodes · no comments
• The Google Bay · 49 points · by dotcoma · 21 comments
• Ask HN: How much do you exercise a day/week? · 47 points · by rockstar9 · 89 comments
• Link by Link - Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book · 45 points · by twampss · 15 comments
• Ask HN: A languishing startup with a great product - thoughts? · 42 points · by jodrellblank · 24 comments
• New jQuery Plugin - ImageSwitch, amazing effect with simple code · 40 points · by hieuuk · 12 comments
• The Edit Distance Problem · 39 points · by Rod · 13 comments
• Database giant Oracle has agreed to buy Sun Microsystems · 38 points · by gaius · 5 comments
• Jackie Chan: China Has A Problem With Its “Suzhi” · 38 points · by si2 · 32 comments
• Programming newbies make apps for iPhone · 37 points · by gibsonf1 · 28 comments
• URL Shorteners – the herpes of the web · 36 points · by nreece · 17 comments
• Advice from Kleiner Perkins, Hummer Winblad, ... · 35 points · by mattjung · 3 comments
• Oracle Agrees to Acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4B · 34 points · by pierrefar · 10 comments
• How I Did It: Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com (2006) · 34 points · by byrneseyeview · 12 comments
• The Unintended Consequences of Startups - Docstoc CEO · 33 points · by cera · 19 comments
• Hacker News meetup in San Francisco (Wed Apr 22nd 6:00pm Revolution Cafe) · 32 points · by abarrera · 8 comments
• 60 Minutes - Cold Fusion Is Hot Again · 31 points · by keltecp11 · 31 comments
• Google Similar Images First Look · 29 points · by vaksel · 15 comments
• H-1B visa use cuts U.S. programmer, software engineer wages by up to 6% · 28 points · by Harkins · 35 comments
• What if Smalltalk were invented today? · 28 points · by BigZaphod · 9 comments
• He makes $1 million crowdsourcing sources · 27 points · by wallflower · 6 comments
• Facebook's Recruiting and Retention Problem · 27 points · by daviday · 32 comments
• Hackers: Intern for the Summer, Get Paid for a Year · 27 points · by LukeG · 60 comments
• Empty Walls · 26 points · by baha_man · 4 comments
• Why voice-acting in games is bad · 26 points · by quoderat · 6 comments
• Business Secrets Of The Trappists · 25 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• Reid Hoffman: My Rule of Three for Investing · 25 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• JQuery: When does a library become a language? · 23 points · by nreece · 22 comments
• Reporting Crashes in IMVU: Who threw that C++ exception? · 22 points · by implicit · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Career path for developers · 22 points · by hunterjrj · 17 comments
• Pitching for beginners · 22 points · by swombat · 1 comment
• The Winners of the Apps for America Open Gov Contest · 20 points · by cjoh · 1 comment
• Brain-Doping at the Lab Bench · 20 points · by kkleiner · 5 comments
• Proposal: using bacteria to change sand into sandstone · 20 points · by ph0rque · 5 comments
• Ask HN: What would you do if you knew the future? · 18 points · by rivo · 30 comments
• The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday Silicon Valley · 18 points · by terpua · 3 comments
• Have we arrived in the post-Windows era? · 18 points · by jamesjyu · 10 comments
• Google Labs: Similar Images and Google News Timeline · 18 points · by coglethorpe · 1 comment
• Internet Archive wants book copyright indemnity like Google · 17 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Ask HN: tracking a criminal down electronically · 16 points · by YuriNiyazov · 17 comments
• Introduction to W3C Widgets · 15 points · by ossreleasefeed · no comments
• Digg Ditches Microsoft To Sell Its Own Ads · 15 points · by coglethorpe · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Who else is going to Geeknrolla? · 14 points · by swombat · 12 comments
• Why Oracle Won't Kill MySQL · 14 points · by newmediaclay · 7 comments
• Adobe deal puts Flash into many of TV-top chips · 13 points · by CalmQuiet · 3 comments
• Brad Fitzpatrick and Brett Slakin's pubsubhubbub · 13 points · by mbrubeck · no comments
• America's Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire · 13 points · by senthil_rajasek · 7 comments
• Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective. Python Code Samples · 12 points · by scorpion032 · 1 comment
• Court decides "fair use": Turnitin.com not violating student copyright · 12 points · by dxjones · 15 comments
• The Future of Networked Warfare Begins with Apple · 12 points · by Jakob · 2 comments
• What Good Are Economists Anyway? · 12 points · by ccarpenterg · 10 comments
• Pushed By Celebrities, Twitter Is Poised To Double Its Monthly Traffic Once Again · 12 points · by vaksel · 14 comments
• Is This the Time to Chase a Career Dream? · 11 points · by darragjm · 5 comments
• Oprah ads 1 million+ users to Twitter. · 11 points · by coglethorpe · 10 comments
• The State of the Smartphone: iPhone is Way, Way Ahead · 11 points · by Anon84 · 2 comments
• Google News Timeline Offers A New Way To Search The Past · 11 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• High school students and hackers: both are prone to distraction · 11 points · by jseliger · no comments
• Genetic Algorithms: Evolving Human Faces · 10 points · by lbrandy · 10 comments
• How Twitter Helps Me (Specific Use Cases) · 10 points · by epi0Bauqu · 17 comments
• The Ins and Outs of Growing a Business · 10 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Cold fusion: it's the helium, stupid · 10 points · by lisper · 11 comments
• Tweeting Becomes a Summer Job Option · 9 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Caustic Graphics' ray tracing accelerator - explanation and demo video · 9 points · by pavlov · 1 comment
• One difference between VCs and Entrepreneurs · 9 points · by peter123 · 3 comments
• 5 Things You’ll Miss by Not Working In An Office · 9 points · by peter123 · 4 comments
• Bilingual babies are precocious decision-makers · 9 points · by wynand · 11 comments
• Exchange 2010 beta: Screenshots · 8 points · by renai42 · 5 comments
• Ask HN: How do people prefer to pay online in your country? · 8 points · by lucumo · 9 comments
• Google's new captcha method · 8 points · by j_baker · 1 comment
• Online Blogger 'Minerva' Found Not Guilty · 8 points · by lots · 1 comment
• David Simon: Newspapers could emulate HBO and charge for content · 8 points · by rms · 10 comments
• Ask HN: Thoughts on 40Billion.com · 8 points · by keltecp11 · 9 comments
• Oracle buys Sun: understanding the impact on open source · 8 points · by kqr2 · 3 comments
• Anatomy of Linux Dynamic Libraries · 8 points · by mace · no comments
• How the man in a van outsmarted Microsoft · 7 points · by nreece · 5 comments
• Small windmills put to the test · 7 points · by ph0rque · 1 comment
• Three Key Ideas on Freemium Business Model · 7 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• YouTube - A Narrative History of BSD by Kirk McKusick · 7 points · by vorador · no comments
• Ruby Proxies for Scale, Performance and Monitoring · 7 points · by igrigorik · 1 comment
• Enterprise Software Sales as Corporate Pathology · 6 points · by mattmcknight · no comments
• A 100mbs connection in Stockholm is $11 a month · 6 points · by quoderat · 10 comments
• 10 Great Entrepreneurs Talk about their Start-up Days · 6 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Premiree - More premium, less free · 6 points · by hwijaya · no comments
• Ask HN: Why do I have to type print "x: "+str(x) in Python? · 6 points · by noaharc · 13 comments
• The story behind the Hudson River plane crash reconstruction · 6 points · by gcheong · no comments
• Set-Top Boxes To Die, Along With the Rest of Television · 6 points · by chacha102 · 1 comment
• Fixed price plans are coming to Assembla · 5 points · by mattmcknight · 3 comments
• Hollywood Has A Great Online Distribution Model... If You Hate Selection · 5 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• 9 ways for cs students to earn extra money · 5 points · by phn1x · 1 comment
• Oracle tried to buy open-source MySQL · 5 points · by vijaydev · 2 comments
• Ballmer, IBM reportedly surprised by Oracle-Sun deal · 5 points · by peter123 · no comments
• PowerShell: condemned to reinvent · 5 points · by snprbob86 · 1 comment
• In Defense of the Dark Ages · 5 points · by dangoldin · 1 comment
• Windows 7 RC Goes to Partners · 4 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Recent obscure western and sci-fi movies · 4 points · by jgrant27 · 1 comment
• The newspaper industry just gave away another free meal, do they have any left? · 4 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• The hobby economy · 4 points · by robg · no comments
• $10k Contest: Champion the 3D Web Using COLLADA · 4 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• G1 Garbage Collector · 4 points · by vijaydev · 1 comment
• Critical turning point can trigger abrupt climate change · 4 points · by ph0rque · 4 comments
• Simple Single Sign-On for PHP · 4 points · by dshah · no comments
• The HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) Cybernetic Suit - only $4200 · 4 points · by ca98am79 · 8 comments
• My first ruby script...Or...How I watch death · 3 points · by bsdpunk · no comments
• Bringing Programming to End Users · 3 points · by mlLK · no comments
• Why do our time estimations suck · 3 points · by nreece · no comments
• Microsoft Gambles on Windows 7 'Starter' · 3 points · by brk · 1 comment
• Good programmers are good sysadmins are good programmers · 3 points · by ltratt · 5 comments
• Rate my web app (albumbud.com, up now) · 3 points · by thasmin · 4 comments
• Hawking hospitalized · 3 points · by Allocator2008 · 1 comment
• How Not To Conduct an Online Poll · 3 points · by BobbyH · no comments
• Ask HN: Best User Registration & Password Management Package · 3 points · by wadew · 2 comments
• Scala for Java Refugees · 3 points · by vorador · no comments
• Follow quality of Java code throughout time · 3 points · by ogaudin · no comments
• Ask HN: Now that Oracle owns Sun, do you think Postgres will take off · 3 points · by johng · 5 comments
• Oracle: SELECT * FROM Sun - lwn analysis of the acquisition · 3 points · by davidw · 3 comments
• Jeeves is back · 3 points · by smwhreyebelong · 1 comment
• Study Finds Pirates Buy 10x More Music Online than Non-Pirates · 3 points · by Flemlord · 3 comments
• How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write · 2 points · by kennyroo · 1 comment
• Twitter startups ideas from the Web · 2 points · by AaronChua · no comments
• Ask HN: Non-YC interview, how much biz planning did you do? · 2 points · by rdy2rock · no comments
• @linux_log : follow the linux kernel commit log · 2 points · by tjake · 3 comments
• Out-of-Body Experience? Your Brain Is to Blame · 2 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Great way to typeset an equation for use in internet discussions · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Older generations adopting new technologies faster than young · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• I used to hate my job as a network admin, So I drew a diagram... · 2 points · by bsdpunk · no comments
• Ask.com brings back Jeeves in the UK. I'd love to see him here, too. · 2 points · by technologizer · 1 comment
• UK Gov Urged to Back Innovative High-Tech Companies · 2 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Google tips FCC about new YouTube comment filtering system · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• THE INFLUENCE GAME: Drawing to an online straight · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Google App Engine for Java compared to VPS Java Hosting · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Erlang, Python and Twisted mashup using TwOTP · 2 points · by newsit · no comments
• Williams & Stone: The Twitter Revolution · 2 points · by Conceptual · 1 comment
• New start-up investor considered · 2 points · by geoffw8 · no comments
• Hacker Initials · 2 points · by beeker · no comments
• Betting on the poor boy: Whorf strikes back · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• When Does 'Close' Become Too-Close-to-Call? · 2 points · by _pius · 1 comment
• The Power of Passed Links (continued) · 2 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Scientific Python Programming Screencasts · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Ruby on Rails - Security Guide · 2 points · by swombat · no comments
• Why Sun Should Matter to You · 2 points · by zeedotme · no comments
• Irrationality is the real invisible hand · 2 points · by razorburn · 4 comments
• Google Appengine System Status · 2 points · by mshafrir · no comments
• Treating configuration values as templates · 2 points · by mbrubeck · no comments
• Toby Seagaran on Freerisk · 2 points · by eduardoflores · no comments
• Convert shortcomings into advantages without lying · 2 points · by d0mine · no comments
• Putting the Toothpaste Back into the Tube · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Ask HN: If your startup ever goes public, what stock symbol would you use? · 2 points · by vaksel · 6 comments
• EveryBlock: more accurate mapping · 2 points · by ccarpenterg · no comments
• Stock market tanks 2.5 percent. Was recovery a dead-cat bounce? · 2 points · by coglethorpe · 2 comments
• Suspect in Craigslist robberies... · 2 points · by v_ragha · no comments
• Imagine a merger [between countries], by Scott Adams · 2 points · by andreyf · 1 comment
• Your Users Don’t Care · 2 points · by dcancel · no comments
• Performance optimization: The first thing to do · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• What do you think of the recent Ashton/Oprah/CNN hype? · 1 points · by mingyeow · 1 comment
• Self-modifying code · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• RIP J G Ballard, fearless explorrer of inner space · 1 points · by intellectronica · no comments
• Nick Bolton At It Again - Set To Shake Up Aussie Domain Registration Industry · 1 points · by geedot · no comments
• Kadoink Seized By Creditors · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• What made me choose Rails? · 1 points · by Banzai10 · 5 comments
• Explaining Newsconomy -- Chapter Duplicate URLs and a Little More · 1 points · by mudge · no comments
• All That Twitters Isn't Gold: A Popular Web Application in Search of a Business Plan · 1 points · by mattmcknight · no comments
• Fascinating article on the spread of the global economic crisis · 1 points · by cgherb911 · no comments
• Liberation through Data Replication: Unison File Synchronizer · 1 points · by alexitosrv · 1 comment
• Research on what robotics platform to use, and final decision to make my own. · 1 points · by bsdpunk · no comments
• Ask HN: Protection for iPhone Development · 1 points · by phd_student · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Equiv of MIT/BSD License for Artwork · 1 points · by phd_student · 2 comments
• Somalia's Godfathers: Ransom-Rich Pirates · 1 points · by erlanger · no comments
• World Class - Rod Drury · 1 points · by startupnz · no comments
• As Costs Fall, Companies Push to Raise Internet Price · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Weekly Good News Wrap · 1 points · by gne1963 · no comments
• Zero1 Communications, the Magic Jack of Mobile Wireless · 1 points · by omfut · no comments
• Apple's new ads don't take on Microsoft's "Laptop Hunters" directly · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• What Should The New U.S. CTO Do? · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Alex Payne of Twitter: What we do with Urls is gonna change (57th min of video) · 1 points · by dannyr · no comments
• I just do theory (Winner of the 2007 Aaronson/Gasarch Complexity Theme Song Contest) · 1 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• Brightcove Basks In Light of Adobe's New Strobe · 1 points · by bobbud · no comments
• 35+ Interesting Twitter services and applications · 1 points · by ravindra1982 · 1 comment
• Visualizing sort algorithms with Canvas · 1 points · by ossreleasefeed · 1 comment
• How To Backup Your Browser’s Data · 1 points · by honeytech · no comments
• Open geographic tagging protocol · 1 points · by Barnabas · no comments
• How slow can Linux go? · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• One thousand protesters gather in Stockholm to protest Pirate Bay verdict · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• The secret trick to make IT projects easy · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Braille e-reader concept can't be far from reality · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Ask HN: Good introductory article on source control · 1 points · by jasonkester · 1 comment
• It's like load balancing. On Steroids. · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Sixty to zero · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Rate my web app · 1 points · by thasmin · 3 comments
• Social entrepreneurship flourishing in India · 1 points · by brkumar · no comments
• Obama's CTO: Not a Valley Insider, Not a Dev, and That's a Plus · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Oracle To Buy Sun For $7.4 Billion · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Can Visual Attention Truly Be Divided? · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Senseboard: Elegant portable keyboard substitute. · 1 points · by jodrellblank · no comments
• Adventures with Bioloid · 1 points · by brewski · no comments
• Typeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a Font of Ill Will · 1 points · by lvmisooners · no comments
• Software That Guards Virtual Playgrounds · 1 points · by hfitzger · no comments
• Free accounts now to use The Resumator - Paperless Hiring · 1 points · by theresumator · no comments
• Adobe Flash secures set-top deal · 1 points · by mcav · no comments
• The Casimir Effect and Nanomachines · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• All Marketers are Liars (Seth Godin Google Talk) · 1 points · by nonrecursive · no comments
• YouTube Testing Secret New Channels Beta · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Vordel XML Gateway provides visibility and security for enterprises connecting to cloud · 1 points · by ccpill · no comments
• New Mac Ads · 1 points · by cadalac · no comments
• Navigators To Truth · 1 points · by messel · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What are you doing to counter the recession? · 1 points · by satpalparmar · 1 comment
• Top Firefox Add-ons for Linux Users · 1 points · by linuxmag · no comments
• 10 Great Entrepreneurs Talk about their Start-up Days · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Text Messaging Emerging as Tool for Air Traffic Communications · 1 points · by lots · no comments
• Bound to Burn: Focus on Higher Carbon Sequestration Rates · 1 points · by skmurphy · no comments
• Personal finance is not about more willpower · 1 points · by hwijaya · no comments
• CTRL+F and Outlook 2010: will Microsoft follow Google into design by engineers · 1 points · by johns · no comments
• A simple guide for protecting your virtual privates... digital underpants howto · 1 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• VCs Maintain A Voice By Setting Thresholds · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Thwart Social Media Identity Theft · 1 points · by muimui · no comments
• AT&T needs Apple more than Apple needs AT&T · 1 points · by eli · no comments
• JQuery Image Effects - Hover Effect w/ jQuery & CSS - jQuery Tutorial · 1 points · by hieuuk · no comments
• Managing Assets on Amazon CloudFront · 1 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Tech Groups Praise Obama Pick for CTO · 1 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• Setting up Rails and Nginx using Passenger on Ubuntu · 1 points · by wolfish · no comments
• NetFlix History Analyzer · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Comparative Advantage · 1 points · by tokenadult · 1 comment
• 100 Useful, Free, Open Courses and Lectures for Small Business Owners · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Terracotta Network Attached Memory for Web App Session Clustering and Replication · 1 points · by msacks · 1 comment
• Oracle Wants To Be The Apple Of The Enterprise, But It Just Became IBM · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Just get out of the way · 1 points · by eru · no comments
• Getting product pricing right · 1 points · by mixmax · no comments
• How Twitter accelerates the damage-control cycle · 1 points · by BobbyH · no comments
• The Hexadecimal Equivalent Chart · 1 points · by codenique · no comments
• Web Color Basics · 1 points · by codenique · no comments
• 'Beginner's luck' may lay trail to Cleopatra tomb · 1 points · by utnick · no comments
• Unix To PowerShell - Fold · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Agreement reached on common 'plug' for electric cars · 1 points · by ccarpenterg · no comments
• Binary Search · 1 points · by adr · no comments
• More buildout notes · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• Active Facebook Users By Country · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Our approach to design and development processes · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Live At The Google Labs Press Event: Real Image Analysis · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Check your PHP UTF-8 Checklist · 1 points · by danspam · no comments
• Startup Founders: Should You Divide Equity Equally? · 1 points · by aditya · no comments
• Long hours put workers at risk of dementia · 1 points · by newsit · no comments
• Exhibit A: Why the Digg bar was a bad idea, you tick off your creators · 1 points · by brandnewlow · no comments
• Writing Block Methods with automatic Resource Cleanup · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Apple's Mac Business To Shrink For First Time Since 2003 · 1 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• KDE3.x being brought back with Kubuntu 9.04 · 1 points · by jonursenbach · 2 comments
• Picking Letters, 10 a Day, That Reach Obama · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Search for research papers filtered by popular websites using google power.. · 1 points · by mshenoy4573 · 3 comments
• Economic Blogger Who Angered Seoul Is Acquitted · 1 points · by HSO · no comments
• There is Too Much Venture Capital...Not Too Little · 1 points · by fnazeeri · no comments
• First view: 128 qubit Rainier chip · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Philippine's Supreme Court Used Wikipedia As A Reference · 1 points · by Neoryder · no comments
• Increasing Sprint Review Attendance with Cupcakes · 1 points · by rausanka · no comments
• Extending Java's Semaphore to Allow Dynamic Resizing · 1 points · by rausanka · no comments
• BitTorrent trackers closing en masse after Pirate Bay verdict · 1 points · by quoderat · no comments
• Ask HN: Movement to get regulators to force Oracle to spin off / sell MySQL? · 1 points · by numair · 1 comment
• Memcached Performance on Sun's Nehalem System · 1 points · by clear · no comments
• Jack Bogle's latest quest · 1 points · by joe_bleau · no comments
• Mac legend Andy Hertzfeld's Google Timeline Search · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• What If Marijuana Were Legal? Possible Outcomes · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Apple Rejects App For Using An Icon That Resembles An iPhone · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments