Hacker News Way Back Machine

• 6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, 13x requests/sec · 107 points · by EvilTrout · 35 comments
• Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day · 90 points · by jawngee · 19 comments
• News News: Faster, Fewer Flamewars · 82 points · by pg · 58 comments
• American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all · 80 points · by winanga · 29 comments
• WebKit gets a new JavaScript profiler courtesy of 280 North (YC W08) · 80 points · by boucher · 16 comments
• Python Autocompletion for Vim, Emacs and TextMate · 76 points · by jenningsjason · 15 comments
• JWZ, on Garbage Collection · 74 points · by abstractbill · 29 comments
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming · 72 points · by streblo · 22 comments
• Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation · 67 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 26 comments
• A Selection Of Thoughts From Actual Women (regarding GoGaRuCo) · 66 points · by sant0sk1 · 145 comments
• How to Work the Room · 62 points · by Celcius · 19 comments
• Flight Control (#1 paid app) iPhone Game Sales Numbers · 54 points · by defunkt · 11 comments
• Generalizing from one example · 53 points · by jibiki · 6 comments
• Ask YC: Cheap alternatives to Aeron chairs? · 52 points · by ashishk · 69 comments
• Reddit.TV launches - what do you think, Hacker News? · 50 points · by kn0thing · 33 comments
• Python: Intro to Decorators · 48 points · by dgallagher · 3 comments
• Examples of “Lazy Registration” · 45 points · by tortilla · 25 comments
• 60% of Twitter Users Quit Within the First Month · 43 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 44 comments
• Great funding model: Adopt a line of code · 41 points · by geeko · 27 comments
• SHA1 collisions down to 2^52 [pdf] · 40 points · by durin42 · 23 comments
• An email from a very confused guy who can’t find a job · 38 points · by oscardelben · 39 comments
• TextMate Basics Tutorial · 35 points · by twampss · 15 comments
• India buys 250k OLPCs · 35 points · by nigelbruin · 12 comments
• Talk about StackOverflow · 35 points · by twampss · 2 comments
• Perl saved my vacation · 34 points · by mudge · 14 comments
• Ask HN : How can I estimate my market? · 33 points · by csomar · 9 comments
• How Scala Changed My Programming Style · 33 points · by coglethorpe · 20 comments
• Acxiom: the company that knows if you own a cat or if you're right-handed · 30 points · by vaksel · 11 comments
• Is Fatigue Really Just All In Our Heads? · 29 points · by peter123 · 14 comments
• Ask YC/PG: Quantitative success of YC so far? · 27 points · by ryanwaggoner · 10 comments
• With YQL Execute, the Internet becomes your database · 27 points · by timtrueman · 8 comments
• XP Mode in Windows 7 is a scam · 27 points · by ableal · 12 comments
• TokuDB claims to speed up MySQL by an order of magnitude · 26 points · by lisper · 18 comments
• A former FDA commissioner went dumpster diving to find out why we overeat · 26 points · by robg · 15 comments
• Not the post (Josh Susser) wanted to write · 26 points · by ph0rque · 4 comments
• A Sneak Preview of Wolfram Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine (archived video) · 25 points · by ziploc · 10 comments
• The Venture Capital Math Problem · 23 points · by AlleyRow · 7 comments
• Tutorial for building high-quality Tk (Tcl, Ruby or Perl) user interfaces. · 23 points · by pmarin · 5 comments
• Entrepreneur interviews you must listen to · 22 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Pr0n on the Couch · 22 points · by _pius · 1 comment
• HAProxy can block a 100,000-connection-per-second DoS · 22 points · by wmf · 6 comments
• Preparing for Chaos - the Life of a Startup · 21 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• Apple May Have Two iPhones For Verizon · 21 points · by seren6ipity · 13 comments
• Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss · 20 points · by vorador · 31 comments
• Segway Founder Puts Stirling Engine In Hybrid Car [video] · 20 points · by physcab · 3 comments
• STEPS allows TCP in 200 LoC, Javascript in 170, self-hosting in 1000 (Alan Kay) · 19 points · by emmett · 3 comments
• Pulitzer winner's key lesson learned: Demos, not memos · 18 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Java sucks (1997) · 18 points · by dfox · 23 comments
• Cool no-touch electrostatic 3D Interface [video] · 17 points · by iamelgringo · 3 comments
• Analysis: How Far Do Projects Launched At Startup Weekends Travel? (Not Very Far) · 17 points · by terpua · 10 comments
• IAC Buys UrbanSpoon Based On Good Recommendations · 16 points · by mshafrir · 2 comments
• New Friendfeed design and email features · 16 points · by craigbellot · 4 comments
• MLB is about to make a million dollars off an iPhone app · 15 points · by peter123 · 11 comments
• Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.30 - File systems: New and revamped file systems · 15 points · by ffernan · 1 comment
• iPhone App Development Notes from Bill Clementson · 15 points · by gcv · 1 comment
• Providing Dynamically Changeable Physical Buttons on a Visual Display · 15 points · by swombat · 2 comments
• Glimmer: a jQuery Interactive Design Tool · 13 points · by johns · 3 comments
• Adobe Wants to Reshape Online Video · 13 points · by brandonkm · 7 comments
• Five reasons why this developer won't switch to Mac · 13 points · by rbanffy · 35 comments
• What I learned building [Pulitzer winning] PolitiFact · 13 points · by iamelgringo · 2 comments
• ESR agrees with RMS about "Software As Service" · 12 points · by billswift · 12 comments
• Tripadvisor dominates Google for hotel searches · 12 points · by noor420 · 3 comments
• For international entrepreneurs: 3 can't miss meetings when visiting Silicon Valley · 12 points · by alain94040 · 3 comments
• A Perfectionist Defines Tesla’s Design Language · 12 points · by jasongullickson · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Early Stage Startup Accounting? · 12 points · by aikiai · 5 comments
• Amazon Buys Maker of iPhone E-Book Reader Stanza · 11 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Nahum Sharfman, Founder Of Shopping.com, Dies In A Plane Crash · 11 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Futuristic Design Concepts We Wish Were Real · 11 points · by abossy · 5 comments
• On Engendering Strong Reactions, Merbist's statement about the presentation furor · 10 points · by knowtheory · 11 comments
• Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into Google Books Deal · 10 points · by physcab · 10 comments
• Bank Nixes Use of Social Networking Sites in Hiring Process · 9 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• PerlCritic in your browser (for a team) · 9 points · by chorny · no comments
• Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior · 9 points · by mattmcknight · 2 comments
• Web Start-up Ideas by ex-TechCrunch writer · 9 points · by stp · no comments
• Ask HN: where are your favorite places? · 9 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 8 comments
• Respect the Browser - Lessons from JSConf 2009 · 8 points · by luigi · no comments
• Imposing a proprietary Operating System to the students · 8 points · by RenardP · 13 comments
• Reinventing the Book in the Age of the Web · 8 points · by mariorz · 1 comment
• The VC Industry Is Too Fat and the Exits Are Too Thin · 8 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• New Stock platform · 8 points · by cashua · 14 comments
• Kickstarter: Fund Ideas and Endeavors · 6 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Specter social (senate) graph · 6 points · by sanj · 5 comments
• New drool-worthy WebOS screenshots emerge · 6 points · by transburgh · 12 comments
• Has the GPL out-lived its usefulness? · 6 points · by r11t · 10 comments
• DNA structure and not only sequence is important · 6 points · by sachmanb · 2 comments
• Do It Yourself Biohacking - Part II · 6 points · by kkleiner · no comments
• FriendFeed by Email - Posterous competitor? · 6 points · by joepestro · 3 comments
• The house Steve Jobs doesn't want to call home · 6 points · by peter123 · 7 comments
• Looking for hacker room mates in SF · 5 points · by anon87 · 1 comment
• We are working towards launching a human being into space · 5 points · by eru · 3 comments
• AWS in Education · 5 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Live stream on YouTube: the President's First 100 Days News Conference · 5 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• UberVU (the conversation tracking engine) just launched the public API today · 5 points · by mg1313 · 2 comments
• Learning from StackOverflow.com · 5 points · by babyshake · 1 comment
• Office 2010 preview · 5 points · by tortilla · 1 comment
• Analog Computer Bouncing Ball · 5 points · by Rod · no comments
• Search Engine Optimisation Basics Guide · 4 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• My app is now in the iTunes store. Besides submitting a lite version, what else should I do? · 4 points · by amichail · 5 comments
• Dropzone · 4 points · by johnw · 2 comments
• Plotting GPS data extracted from millions of Flickr photos to generate a map · 4 points · by matthiasl · no comments
• PR wars: Palm Pre could go on sale 24 hours before next gen iPhone unveiled · 4 points · by mrspin · 7 comments
• Script It: Convert A List Apart articles to PDFs · 4 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Apple Takes Over ESPN.com’s Frontdoor - Again · 4 points · by dell9000 · 2 comments
• Google: Experimental Flu Trends for Mexico · 4 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• Google Flu Trends: Mexico · 4 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Social experiment Tjetter, created in 48 hours. · 4 points · by tjit · 1 comment
• Swine flu: Statistical model predicts spread in U.S., more insights from IU · 4 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Building a Great Brand. · 3 points · by mspeiser · no comments
• My School Project: Generating Random Numbers with Kitchen Appliances · 3 points · by omarish · no comments
• U.S. Report On Who Gets a Vaccine First - Hackers Need Not Apply · 3 points · by mlapeter · 2 comments
• Free Streaming Eating Into Digital Music Sales? · 3 points · by hlewis · no comments
• Flawless Business Plan Seeking Teleportation Scientist · 3 points · by frisco · no comments
• Infinity--they keep making more of it · 3 points · by terpua · no comments
• Bolivia is to Lithium as Saudi Arabia is to Oil. · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Path to enlightenment · 3 points · by caissyd · 3 comments
• Split (A/B) Testing Plugin for Rails · 3 points · by _pius · 1 comment
• IPhone apps a hot acquisition market · 3 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• Touch Screens with Pop-up Buttons · 3 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• Amazon's Web Services Go To School · 3 points · by noaharc · no comments
• 7 JavaScript Differences Between Firefox & IE « Web Design Articles & Tutorials · 3 points · by joepestro · no comments
• Ask HN: How to get a decent paying job, as a college student in Mexico? · 3 points · by burnedouthacker · 1 comment
• Hunting down duplicated java code with Sonar · 3 points · by ogaudin · no comments
• Will the real exception_notification please stand up? · 3 points · by mariorz · no comments
• Working remotely... from China. Advice? · 2 points · by gaoshan · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Legal Blurbs (terms/privacy policy) - backed by formal entity? · 2 points · by blizkreeg · 1 comment
• Forget microdonations, adopt a line of code · 2 points · by jlees · 1 comment
• Should I register my business · 2 points · by ubern00b · 1 comment
• Warner Music just picked on the wrong lawyer · 2 points · by bbgm · no comments
• @googleresearch · 2 points · by eduardoflores · no comments
• JavaScript: The Great Part · 2 points · by voodootikigod · 2 comments
• Oracle-Sun deal renews calls for OpenOffice.org's independence · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Copying Databases across Platforms with Python's SQLAlchemy · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• JQuery Performance Rules · 2 points · by jerryji · no comments
• Mapping of the Swine Flu Discussion · 2 points · by arjunb · no comments
• Another Consumer Confidence Index Rockets Higher · 2 points · by gne1963 · no comments
• Quitting in style to do your own thing via computer game. · 2 points · by amichail · no comments
• Joe Marshall's take on Guido Van Rossum's post on tail recursion (Part II) · 2 points · by l0stman · no comments
• 100 DVDs on a Disk is on the horizon · 2 points · by TechCombo · no comments
• State of the Union's Cyber Security: "broken", "embarrassing" · 2 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Without Cafeteria Trays, Colleges Cut Water Use, and Calories · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Lessons Learned Building an Index of the WWW · 2 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Marketing Mistakes · 2 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Doing the Dishes · 2 points · by brm · no comments
• What's the Plural of 'Virus'? · 2 points · by habs · 4 comments
• Miro Adoption Center (clever fundraising technique, adopt a line of code) · 2 points · by polvi · no comments
• No bluffing: State trying to pull plug on online gambling · 2 points · by johns · no comments
• New version of YSlow Possibility to turn off certain checks · 2 points · by JustAGeek · 1 comment
• Things JSConf got right that every conference needs to learn from · 2 points · by typicaljoe · 1 comment
• How To Increase Engagement And Build Community · 2 points · by _pius · no comments
• Apple Needs Verizon More Than Verizon Needs Apple · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• Presentation Porn: Matt and I are both jerks · 2 points · by midnightmonster · no comments
• Entrepreneurial DNA: Do You Have it? · 2 points · by hellacious · no comments
• Rejection: Some Colleges Do It Better Than Others · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• The Art of Selling Your Firm · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Virginia Tech professor, WWII code-breaker Irving Good dies · 2 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• And the winner is… the Apache License · 2 points · by davidw · no comments
• The Quest for Computable Knowledge -- A Short Timeline · 2 points · by jeremyw · no comments
• Computers with humanlike capacity to remember · 2 points · by njrc · 1 comment
• Identity thieves take aim at Facebook users · 2 points · by tokenadult · 1 comment
• FriendFeed Beta Becomes FriendFeed Regular. Hope You Like Real-time. · 2 points · by VizionQuest · no comments
• Google Awarded Patent for its Data Center Barges · 2 points · by 1SockChuck · no comments
• Is quitting Twitter more popular than re-tweeting? · 2 points · by tokenadult · 2 comments
• Linux Defenders, Red Hat call for prior art to counter Microsoft patents · 2 points · by ilamont · no comments
• From iLightswitch to iBurrito, Stanford Students Concoct iPhone Apps · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Why President Obama Needs to Tweet · 2 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Microsoft introduce social networking site Vine · 2 points · by TechCombo · no comments
• The Rise of ``Worse is Better'' · 2 points · by benreesman · no comments
• Blowing up an arc · 2 points · by Rod · no comments
• Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big · 2 points · by twoz · no comments
• Sudont: like sudo, except doesnt do what you tell it to · 2 points · by xtat · 3 comments
• RIAA’s Hostile Takeover of the Internet · 2 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Designing cities for satellite imagery · 1 points · by mariorz · no comments
• REST is not perfect for everything · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Large Collection of Free Data about Cities · 1 points · by jonmc12 · 1 comment
• The Rise Of jQuery · 1 points · by jonmc12 · no comments
• New Apple online ad rickrolls NYTimes readers · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Deposition in Apple options backdating case gives glimpse of the real Jobs · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth · 1 points · by mattmaroon · no comments
• Hacking Human Nature to Fight Spam. · 1 points · by mlspeiser · no comments
• Associated Content to launch multimedia publishing platform · 1 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Startup Internship: Acquia Searching for LAMP Developers · 1 points · by CollegeMogul · no comments
• Are famous people super conservative when it comes to the latest Web 2.0 phenomenon? · 1 points · by amichail · 7 comments
• Cable companies want to make you pay to watch shows on Hulu, etc. · 1 points · by quoderat · no comments
• Contracts for your next Agile Software Project · 1 points · by AgileArtem · no comments
• [video] Obama on the Necessity of Science · 1 points · by Spyckie · 1 comment
• Windows 7 RC: Screenshots · 1 points · by renai42 · no comments
• An Early Peek Under The Palm Pre's Hood · 1 points · by mjfern · no comments
• Facebook BRRRRR with Coca-Cola · 1 points · by arnoldsmithh · no comments
• Packaging design inspiration for graphic designers · 1 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• AOL's "Socialthing" deployed across its network · 1 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Is Social Media a Hostile Work Environment? · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Mind Your Own Business · 1 points · by csbartus · no comments
• Why Desktop Linux Sucks and What We Can Do About It · 1 points · by worthlessgenius · no comments
• SubVirt: Implementing malware with virtual machines · 1 points · by eru · no comments
• How to Botch a Job Interview · 1 points · by techdog · 1 comment
• The perfect animal kingdom metaphor for the GOP · 1 points · by Qshio · 1 comment
• Twitter's lack of loyalty--an Achilles' heel? · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• MySpace hires former Sling, Userplane executives · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• TechCrunch don't know what they're talking about · 1 points · by mtw · 1 comment
• To MySQL gurus: how to get InnoDB to release space? · 1 points · by bemmu · 4 comments
• Popular WordPress Plugins · 1 points · by honeytech · no comments
• Agile Software Development: There’s even a manifesto · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Kickstarter Launches Another Social Fundraising Platform · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• China's Google Street View · 1 points · by est · no comments
• Transparency means nothing without justice · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Most Common Reasons Why CEOs Fail: Venture Capital’s Perspective · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Doesn’t Graphic Design/Layout Affect Scanning Patterns? · 1 points · by mattmcknight · no comments
• Why Pirates Buy More Music and Music Labels Fail · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Swedish factory fined $3,000 for robot attack · 1 points · by mattmichielsen · no comments
• Internet “Brownouts” Expected From 2010 · 1 points · by ajbatac · no comments
• A neural net that diagnoses epilepsy · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• How To Survive Decision Making · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Conductor Raises $10 Million For SEO Management And Optimization Technology · 1 points · by andreyf · no comments
• What I have learned from StockTwits · 1 points · by AaronChua · no comments
• Cablevision power play: 101Mbps Internet, no caps, $99 · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Codefest 3.0 in Montreal this weekend · 1 points · by mtw · no comments
• How job seekers rate Microsoft, Apple, Google, IBM and others · 1 points · by rayvega · no comments
• SendForge.com · 1 points · by knoppixmeister · no comments
• Amazon Gets ‘Em While They’re Young · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• How Entrepreneurs Are Feeling in Downturn · 1 points · by erdemozkan · no comments
• How To SEO For Apple’s App Store · 1 points · by tortilla · no comments
• Get Facebook on Your Desktop with New Official App · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Your Facebook Profile Makes Marketers’ Dreams Come True · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Specialists discuss what they believe are the biggest myths of the web · 1 points · by sachmanb · 1 comment
• A Layman Comparison of Java vs Scala · 1 points · by KrisJordan · no comments
• The $2M Dog Biscuit · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Why isn't Wolfram Alpha a Google Killer? · 1 points · by Readmore · no comments
• AOL plan to build ad sales slammed by 20% Q1 revenue drop · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Hey Google, Free The Orphans · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Ask HN: Would you recommend Gigya, AddThis, or any other similar service? · 1 points · by troyto · no comments
• Panda Introducing Free Cloud Antivirus · 1 points · by honeytech · no comments
• AOL Posts 23 Percent Decline In Revenues During 1st Quarter As It Prepares For Spin-Off · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• The Era of Adapting Quickly · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Why the action flick always gets watched first · 1 points · by beza1e1 · no comments
• Women who are cleaning up America's mess · 1 points · by dreamz · no comments
• Eucalyptus: The Library, to go on your iPhone or iPod Touch · 1 points · by th0ma5 · no comments
• Using MacPorts: An Open Source Software Collection · 1 points · by arthurk · no comments
• Innovations inspired by Star Trek · 1 points · by ffernan · 1 comment
• Failure is a Process, Not a Destination · 1 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Jobless? Hack for the summer in NY. · 1 points · by bradleyhb · no comments
• At present, there are around 100 people in the US who have nuclear powered pacemakers · 1 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• Does Every Animal Have Its Own Kind of Flu? · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Ask HN: How to convince my parents to buy me a good chair? · 1 points · by burnedouthacker · 7 comments
• Microsoft's "Pink" smartphone could rival iPhone on Verizon · 1 points · by ffernan · no comments
• Radeon HD 4770--The First 40nm Desktop GPU · 1 points · by ffernan · no comments
• Tim writes a book · 1 points · by razorburn · no comments
• Phishing Attack Underway At Facebook. Don’t Sign In To Fbaction.net · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Harvard Posts The Wolfram Alpha Preview Video (1h45m) Without A Single Shot Of The Service · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Unix To PowerShell - Find · 1 points · by joepruitt · 1 comment
• White House Flickr stream is Creative Commons licensed for remixing w/ attribution · 1 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• We Are All Pufferfish · 1 points · by abie · no comments
• Pioneers get arrows in their backs · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Gmail Runs Faster In Google Chrome? · 1 points · by honeytech · 1 comment
• Zimbra Desktop Email Client 1.0 (Get It Free) · 1 points · by honeytech · 1 comment
• Make Money Sharecropping Your Face · 1 points · by ahpeeyem · no comments
• CompletionService - Under-appreciated Java Classes Part I · 1 points · by rausanka · no comments
• Ask HN: What book would you recommend for learning CSS? · 1 points · by doronrotem · 1 comment
• Why can't we concentrate? · 1 points · by anthonyrubin · no comments
• Partnerships Based on Service, Not Size · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• An idea for an iphone app to combat the swine flu. · 1 points · by amichail · 4 comments
• How Wolfram Alpha May Trump Google · 1 points · by hhm · 1 comment
• Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Silicon · 1 points · by frisco · no comments
• Microsoft Bob Rides Again · 1 points · by ableal · 2 comments
• All The Little Things · 1 points · by socalsamba · no comments
• Two nanotech optical cloaking prototypes · 1 points · by rw · no comments
• [video] Keving Smith discusses Superman Returns (Great story, 20min) · 1 points · by enduser · no comments
• Erlang follows Jeet Kune Do principles · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments