Hacker News Way Back Machine

• How to Be Persuasive · 160 points · by mixmax · 26 comments
• What Solitary Confinement Does to the Brain · 95 points · by JabavuAdams · 27 comments
• Ask HN: What apps are essential for mac? · 84 points · by phn1x · 142 comments
• Ask HN: "Dumbing yourself down" around your peers? · 73 points · by ilitirit · 111 comments
• Amazing JS rainbow effect · 53 points · by alexkearns · 19 comments
• Tell HN: PG's 6 Unexpected Advantages of "Cheapness" in a Startup · 52 points · by dwynings · 45 comments
• Ask HN: What do you eat? · 51 points · by pj · 109 comments
• Why did the peoples of the New World fail to invent the wheel? · 47 points · by soundsop · 30 comments
• An easy way to use GNU Screen over SSH · 41 points · by Anon84 · 10 comments
• Socks - A javascript UI toolkit inspired by Shoes · 40 points · by desheikh · 9 comments
• What To Look For In A Co-Founder · 34 points · by collistaeed · 4 comments
• Kon-Boot CD:110KB Floppy image/CD ISO to remove your Windows admin and Linux root pwd · 32 points · by est · 18 comments
• Humans are driven to endlessly acquire. · 32 points · by peter123 · 7 comments
• Wolfram and Lisp Recollections · 29 points · by asciilifeform · 17 comments
• Sony Pictures CEO: nothing good ever came from the Internet · 28 points · by hernan7 · 26 comments
• Superduper Slow Jar Command (embarassing bug in the jar code) · 28 points · by ks · 19 comments
• Ask HN: What Web frameworks exist around Python? · 28 points · by deane · 30 comments
• Laws to Save Journalism (or The Most Unintentionally Funny Thing I've Read All Day) · 27 points · by TomOfTTB · 26 comments
• Eric Drexler: How to Understand Everything (and Why) · 27 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• Hack Your Own CNC Machine · 27 points · by dag · 3 comments
• Ask HN: The HN karma paradox · 26 points · by johnnybgoode · 40 comments
• Linux - disk usage (du) human readable and sorted by size · 25 points · by csm888 · 2 comments
• A Bad Time to Be A Professional · 25 points · by tokenadult · 25 comments
• What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You? · 24 points · by tokenadult · 7 comments
• Sample Google Chrome Extensions ‎(Chromium Developer Documentation)‎ · 21 points · by jmonegro · 17 comments
• 32bit Windows can use more than 3GB of RAM, MS just doesn't want you too · 21 points · by asmosoinio · 20 comments
• The Plumber’s Guide to Finding & Keeping Clients · 21 points · by tomh · 6 comments
• A Financial Prophet Online Is Vilified in Reality · 20 points · by credo · 6 comments
• Using http:// and .com is madness · 19 points · by madmotive · 49 comments
• Why the free software community cares about The Pirate Bay · 18 points · by brl · 37 comments
• Ever notice how the page refreshes every time you highlight something on posterous? · 17 points · by myoung8 · 7 comments
• Economic Lessons the U.S. Forgot · 17 points · by robg · 8 comments
• The AWS Start-Up Tour · 16 points · by soundsop · 1 comment
• Career damaging self description · 15 points · by abennett · 6 comments
• Ask HN: Why is WolframAlpha serving rendered text images instead of plain text? · 15 points · by esonica · 35 comments
• STS-125 Atlantis and Hubble Solar Transit · 14 points · by cubix · 1 comment
• Yajl-ruby: A streaming alternative to the JSON gem (in C) · 13 points · by brianmario · 1 comment
• Mapping Foreclosures in the New York Region · 13 points · by dangoldin · 8 comments
• Meetings, Version 2.0, at Microsoft · 12 points · by robg · 3 comments
• Case Study: Optimizing Matrix * Vector Multiplication for SSE · 12 points · by JabavuAdams · 1 comment
• Is Memcached a Good or Bad Sign for MySQL? · 11 points · by vladocar · 13 comments
• Ask HN: start on my own or negotiate with the employer? · 11 points · by caustic · 11 comments
• Ask HN: How do I customize code coloring in emacs? · 11 points · by andrewljohnson · 8 comments
• Facebook's latest raise to cash out employees is disgusting · 9 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 13 comments
• Luxury vs. premium · 9 points · by peter123 · 5 comments
• Saudi files for 'killer' tracking chip patent · 9 points · by bsgamble · 11 comments
• Top Programming Fonts · 8 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• How Our Primary Source of News & Information Changed in the last 200+ Years · 7 points · by peter123 · 3 comments
• Using Emacs - the good and the bad · 6 points · by adamc · 1 comment
• Unmasking Social-Network Users · 6 points · by sinzone · no comments
• Ask HN: Building a simple utility site to build pre-launch traffic? · 6 points · by dugmartin · 2 comments
• Dennis the Denver dentist and Laura the Louisiana lawyer · 6 points · by neilc · 3 comments
• Buddhist Phenomenolody - by mathematician Henk Barendregt · 5 points · by rsheridan6 · no comments
• Hire HN: experienced guy in symbian (c++ and j2me) is needed · 5 points · by tzury · 2 comments
• Making money from ebooks - non scam · 5 points · by jteo · 7 comments
• Jump Into The Stream · 5 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Paravirtualization With Xen On CentOS 5.3 (x86_64) · 5 points · by joschi · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Website to give to charity anonymously, useful to you? · 4 points · by ljlolel · 5 comments
• If W. Antarctic Ice Sheet melts, how high will sea levels rise? · 4 points · by sinzone · 1 comment
• Web Development Trends For 2009 · 4 points · by rnesh · 1 comment
• RTI Inc. seeks to built robot that will forage and "eat" for energy · 4 points · by mcantelon · 2 comments
• Now We Can Rig Up Twitter "Groups" · 4 points · by brm · 6 comments
• China's new "secure" OS · 3 points · by pookleblinky · 1 comment
• Wolfram gets the correct answer to a simple maths question · 2 points · by vinnyg · 1 comment
• Avoiding the JavaScript trap · 2 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• Wolfram Alpha Launch on Justin.tv · 2 points · by AndrewWarner · no comments
• Ask HN: iPhone button - email friend · 2 points · by climber · 1 comment
• AMD taunts Intel, hoists EU flag · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Husk Group of Students wins MIT Clean Energy Innovation Prize · 2 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• WolframAlpha Fails to Impress · 2 points · by techdog · no comments
• Get a free usability review of your web app · 2 points · by forcer · no comments
• Physics News · 2 points · by abit · no comments
• Symfony Components Site Launched · 2 points · by fsniper · no comments
• Opportunities in next generation media · 2 points · by AaronChua · no comments
• First Direct Detections Of Biological Particles Within Ice Clouds · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Re-wiring the brain [video] · 2 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Some Interesting Wolfram Alpha Queries. · 1 points · by Rickasaurus · no comments
• The dangers of being really, really tired. · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Six Apart Announces Wordpress Plugins · 1 points · by buluzhai · no comments
• Wolfram Alpha error message · 1 points · by donmcc · 2 comments
• Hot in recession: Chocolate, running shoes, Spam · 1 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Twitter: We Will make money by the end of the year · 1 points · by code_devil · no comments
• E.O. Wilson, James Watson, and Charlie Rose discuss Charles Darwin · 1 points · by DavidSJ · no comments
• Does your programming make it harder for you to deal with an imperfect world? · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• Missed out on RailsConf 2009? Me too. Here's how I caught up · 1 points · by LBRapid · no comments
• Wolfram Alpha and Screen Scraping · 1 points · by mariorz · 1 comment
• Entrepreneurs can change the world [Video] · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 1 comment
• WolframAlpha Spits Out Search Data…with Quirks · 1 points · by sinzone · no comments
• Ten principles for a black-swan-robust world. #1 small companies that fail fast · 1 points · by dirtyaura · no comments
• My Computer Programmer Career Report/Essay · 1 points · by CodeJustin · 1 comment
• New e-readers will end black and white era · 1 points · by toni · no comments
• Creating Your Vision, Mission, Strategy and Plan · 1 points · by dreamz · no comments
• Submit a Story to Yahoo Buzz - Yahoo Buzz · 1 points · by lookblue · no comments
• Wolfram's Beta · 1 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Will designer brains divide humanity? · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Growth Strategies of Inc. 500 · 1 points · by paulodeon · no comments
• False Dilemma · 1 points · by rams · 1 comment
• A Quick Look plugin for source code with syntax highlighting · 1 points · by ronnieliew · no comments
• Monadic parser library for JavaScript · 1 points · by toni · no comments
• Zappos CEO – It’s all about Happiness · 1 points · by code_devil · no comments
• Ask HN:Help, Looking for Rental house in SV · 1 points · by jdileo · 1 comment
• Volume and diversity: the future's bright for news online · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• RSS Stress (Info Overload) (even without HN) · 1 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Why we love and hate meetings · 1 points · by sachmanb · 2 comments
• How Policy Gets Made: A Primer · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments