Hacker News Way Back Machine

• The Git Parable (building a Git-like system from the ground up) · 147 points · by mojombo · 20 comments
• Dear American Airlines... · 136 points · by kyro · 87 comments
• A Life Offline · 130 points · by imgabe · 83 comments
• Ruby on Rails and the importance of being stupid · 120 points · by lackbeard · 92 comments
• Amazon EC2 gets statistics, auto scaling and elastic load balancing · 115 points · by ropiku · 42 comments
• How to make your application viral - A guide to getting users · 112 points · by swombat · 32 comments
• Top Programming Fonts · 68 points · by danbenjamin · 49 comments
• Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim · 67 points · by sdfx · 44 comments
• Ask HN: Your Hacker Workspace · 61 points · by dryicerx · 86 comments
• The Death of Richard Dawkins: A short story by Steve Yegge · 59 points · by mstevens · 20 comments
• Django tip: Caching and two-phased template rendering · 58 points · by mace · 6 comments
• Djng - a Django powered microframework · 56 points · by simonw · 19 comments
• Django Command Extensions · 53 points · by samueladam · 6 comments
• Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost · 51 points · by sprsquish · 14 comments
• Computational complexity lectures by Fields medalist Tim Gowers. · 50 points · by amichail · 7 comments
• Adium adds support for IRC and Twitter... · 50 points · by forsaken · 17 comments
• Scribd Invites Writers to Upload Work and Name Their Price · 49 points · by robg · 12 comments
• All Medical Science is Wrong within a 95 % Confidence Interval · 49 points · by jackchristopher · 41 comments
• Mixed Feelings · 46 points · by geuis · 7 comments
• Resty - a bash REST client · 44 points · by wooby · 4 comments
• Preparing For A First Meeting With Me · 44 points · by peter123 · 20 comments
• Launch a Business, Not a side Project · 43 points · by GVRV · 13 comments
• ESR: Is Danish Dying? · 43 points · by mdemare · 24 comments
• Financial secrets of the world's poorest people. · 43 points · by robg · 21 comments
• Finally, CSS based gradient text, no images · 43 points · by oni0n56 · 23 comments
• Ask HN: Review our startup - www.webnotes.net · 38 points · by peterlai · 27 comments
• 'Youth Magnet' Cities Hit Midlife Crisis · 32 points · by tortilla · 15 comments
• Steve Blank: Founders and dysfunctional families · 32 points · by wyday · 11 comments
• Facebook Launches OpenID Support - Users Can Now Login With Gmail Accounts · 31 points · by peter123 · 8 comments
• Protein sequencing gone awry: 1 sample, 27 labs, 20 results · 29 points · by jgamman · 7 comments
• Lawyers: To Save Newspapers, Let's Destroy Pretty Much Everything Else Good · 23 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• Report: Mint Considers Selling Anonymized Data from Its Users · 23 points · by tortilla · 22 comments
• Ask HN: Best way for a small (3 person) team to collaborate with source code? · 22 points · by billclerico · 24 comments
• The Risk of Debt · 22 points · by agrinshtein · 3 comments
• Hack && Ship · 21 points · by raju · 1 comment
• StockTwits raises $800K round · 21 points · by byrneseyeview · 23 comments
• Coding Horror: Why Isn't My Encryption.. Encrypting? · 20 points · by Anon84 · 22 comments
• Canadian scientists create powerful new lithium battery material · 20 points · by naish · 2 comments
• Ruby on OSX Slides · 19 points · by koenbok · no comments
• 300,000 hits per second make Indian election website crash · 18 points · by vaksel · 25 comments
• Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs · 17 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 8 comments
• Harvard prof tells judge that P2P filesharing is "fair use" · 17 points · by pmikal · 4 comments
• Study: Potential criminals deterred by longer sentences · 16 points · by selki · 11 comments
• Ask HN: where do you draw the patent research line? · 15 points · by stevejalim · 15 comments
• How Much Should an E-Book Cost? · 15 points · by raju · 32 comments
• I don't want to register before downloading · 15 points · by ossreleasefeed · 7 comments
• The Greatest Human Achievements · 15 points · by nuclear_eclipse · 16 comments
• Wolfram Alpha Isn't Google, So Stop Comparing Them · 15 points · by astrec · 7 comments
• Ask HN: How much time do you spend on the work vs. the rest of your life? · 14 points · by zeedotme · 11 comments
• Better Web Readability Project - CSS Library · 14 points · by vladocar · 11 comments
• Ask HN: best time to submit a story? · 14 points · by davidbnewquist · 8 comments
• Tell HN: Monetization Meetup (May 18, 2009) at Googleplex (Bldg #43) · 13 points · by code_devil · 6 comments
• House HN: Looking for hacker roommate in Chicago near Loop · 13 points · by brandnewlow · 11 comments
• Eric Schmidt’s Keynote Address At Carnegie Mellon [video] · 13 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Growing on trees: A profitable rainforest · 13 points · by chaostheory · 7 comments
• The Debian PGP Disaster That Almost Was · 13 points · by tptacek · no comments
• The shape of Planet Earth · 12 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Ask HN: Thoughts on OpenID? · 12 points · by aichcon · 11 comments
• Ask HN: What is the big idea with algorithms? · 12 points · by mlLK · 25 comments
• Ask HN:applications you would love to see in cell phones · 11 points · by yearsinrock · 16 comments
• Ask HN: alternative for paypal · 11 points · by csomar · 11 comments
• Peter Thiel On Valleywag; It’s the "Silicon Valley Equivalent of Al Qaeda" · 11 points · by ca98am79 · 5 comments
• Open letter from Craigslist to the Attorney General of South Carolina · 11 points · by jlm382 · no comments
• Copying Lines, not killing · 11 points · by twampss · 19 comments
• Real Time Confusion: Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook · 10 points · by zeedotme · no comments
• Ask HN: I've Got a Project, You Tell Me The Language · 10 points · by physcab · 32 comments
• From Moore's Law to Barrett's Rules · 10 points · by robg · 3 comments
• Wpost Opinion on Bailing Out Newspapers · 10 points · by tdonia · 9 comments
• The iPhone Application Builder · 9 points · by dpapathanasiou · 2 comments
• Yahoo Mobile Abandons Its Smartphone App To Focus On The iPhone · 9 points · by rv · 3 comments
• For Wired, a Revival Lacks Ads · 8 points · by arghnoname · 2 comments
• Psst Need the Answer to No. 7 on the Physics Exam? Click Here. · 8 points · by babyshake · 1 comment
• IPhone Accessory Development · 8 points · by tritchey · 7 comments
• ICEpdf - Open Source Java PDF · 7 points · by markerdmann · 4 comments
• SuperCollider - A real time audio synthesis programming language · 7 points · by toni · 4 comments
• Your Old Phone Could Change the World · 7 points · by nlwhittemore · no comments
• Microsoft Says Silverlight Installed More Than Firefox, Safari and Chrome Combined · 7 points · by TomOfTTB · 6 comments
• Accounting - Agile Project Management · 6 points · by DanielBMarkham · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Anyone have experience with forming a Vermont Virtual Company? · 6 points · by noodle · no comments
• The Maven Adoption Curve · 6 points · by moe · 3 comments
• Ask HN: the best way to protect IP for a startup? · 6 points · by pookleblinky · 2 comments
• Genetic Fitness May Explain Why Intelligent People Are Often Healthier · 5 points · by newsit · 11 comments
• Clojure Tutorial [pdf] · 5 points · by coglethorpe · 1 comment
• Ask HN: WebNotes Launches Web Annotation Research Product. Questions, Comments? · 5 points · by webnotes · no comments
• Ask HN: Must-attend events for a tech startup? · 5 points · by jlees · 1 comment
• Optimizing MySQL Performance with ZFS · 5 points · by mace · 1 comment
• MapReduce Tips · 5 points · by neilc · no comments
• How to go from a beginner to intermediate developer · 4 points · by timothychung · 3 comments
• Mendeley is gree academic software for managing and sharing research papers · 4 points · by ilitirit · no comments
• Cost Effective Web Development Techniques · 4 points · by tortilla · 7 comments
• A System for Handling Imposter Complaints · 4 points · by russell · 3 comments
• What's new in web2py 1.62.1 · 4 points · by mdipierro · 1 comment
• Lessons learned from a friend (Startup experience) · 4 points · by geeko · no comments
• Online life after death · 4 points · by geezer · 1 comment
• Twitter to launch business tools by year-end · 4 points · by mcxx · no comments
• A galactic mentor · 4 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Examples of the Wisdom of Crowds in Daily Life · 3 points · by brm · no comments
• Ask HN: Is email "modern" technology? · 3 points · by alanthonyc · 9 comments
• Ask News.YC: Thoughts on automating deployment of web based software application? · 3 points · by cosmok · no comments
• Finding What People Want: Experiences with the WebCrawler · 3 points · by buluzhai · no comments
• Ask HN: How much time of his time should a CEO in a 5 man team spend managing? · 3 points · by mingyeow · 5 comments
• Linux as desktop OS for trashware? · 3 points · by beeker · 5 comments
• Ship It Now Is The Best Time Ever To Start An Internet Company · 3 points · by jpirkola · 4 comments
• Fordham Law Students Teach Scalia About Privacy and the Web · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Rice Business Plan Competition Success Stories · 3 points · by beza1e1 · no comments
• A (nearly) complete implementation of the Twitter API in Perl · 3 points · by whackberry · no comments
• Eric Schmidt's Keynote Speech at Carnegie Mellon · 3 points · by hwijaya · no comments
• Unix To PowerShell - Md5 · 3 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• Baseball Tickets Too Much? Check Back Tomorrow · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Why I Let My Students Use Facebook During Class · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Summer Work for a College Student Hacker · 3 points · by Oompa · 1 comment
• Why people fall victim to scams – OFT research · 3 points · by alexfarran · no comments
• Plug and Play startup incubator eyes $20M for seed fund · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Why did the "BrainTeaser" iPhone puzzle become so popular? · 3 points · by amichail · 4 comments
• The Future of Programming: Ignorance and Superstition? · 3 points · by raganwald · no comments
• The Brain Drain That Should Worry US Business · 3 points · by mjfern · no comments
• The Search For The Moose - Larry Lessig · 3 points · by rcharleswhite · no comments
• SoupCycle - Organic Soups Delievered by Bike in Portland · 3 points · by geoffk · no comments
• Using Clojure and Ext/JS · 2 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Subreddit for interesting Wolfram Alpha queries. · 2 points · by amichail · no comments
• If The Watchdogs Are Saved: Ethical Repercussions Of A Newspaper Bailout · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• House HN: Looking for Hacker Roomies In SF · 2 points · by mingyeow · no comments
• A Web That Speaks Your Language · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Ask HN: Best working file format for writing open source books? · 2 points · by compay · 5 comments
• NYTimes.com Apple Ads · 2 points · by quizbiz · 2 comments
• How Internet Content Distribution & Discovery Are Changing · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Physical UX: "Flying Across America: The Airline Passenger Experience" · 2 points · by replicatorblog · no comments
• Facebook like multi Toggle Comment Box with jQuery and PHP. · 2 points · by sinu9i · no comments
• Experiences from India's recent election · 2 points · by ananthrk · no comments
• Ask PG: Why when I go to /CLASSIC does it show "Unknown"? · 2 points · by ScottWhigham · 1 comment
• IZotope and the iPhone - exploring mobile apps for interactive music marketing · 2 points · by waderoush · no comments
• It Still Feels Like 1975, Buffett's Actions Included · 2 points · by buffettwatcher · no comments
• Amazon CloudWatch: automatic EC2 scaling · 2 points · by inklesspen · 1 comment
• Trump on Trump: Testimony Offers Glimpse of How He Values His Empire · 2 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• UserVoice Raises Funding, White-Labels User Feedback Facilitator · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Ask HN: Gut feeling on name change? bug.gd renaming to errorhelp.com · 2 points · by thorax · 4 comments
• Canadian research team reports major breakthrough in lithium battery technology · 2 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Hackers 'launch attack' on Facebook · 2 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• How do you do concrete interviews for non-technical people? · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Ask HN: With DocStoc's Paid Upload Release, When Will Scribd Respond? · 2 points · by sscheper · 1 comment
• Why you should write a business plan. · 2 points · by roberte3 · no comments
• Facebook’s fbFund ‘09 Names First Batch Of Winners · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Big Brother in Japan? University tracks students via free iPhones · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• The Beginning of the End of Business As We Know It · 2 points · by jgilliam · no comments
• Web Sites Help Bring Together Entrepreneurs and Investors · 2 points · by donna · no comments
• On Simulation-Reality Prediction · 2 points · by fsniper · no comments
• Working to Rule · 2 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Perl-Coding Test Subjects Needed for ThinkGeek Science Experiment · 2 points · by absconditus · no comments
• How Not to Manage Innovation · 2 points · by mjfern · no comments
• Cleaning up Wordpress comment tables · 2 points · by toni · no comments
• Google's First TV Campaign · 1 points · by meterplech · no comments
• Clojure, parallel execution and closures · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Closures in Clojure · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Who's behind the US financial meltdown · 1 points · by dreamz · no comments
• Web 2.0 logo 2009 chart (flipped & dead companies) · 1 points · by newsit · no comments
• Electric vehicles offer rides in the green lane · 1 points · by nav · no comments
• Wolfram - Macsyma/lisp anecdote (posted on Nov 2002) · 1 points · by justlearning · 1 comment
• Minimum Viable Product: Case Study Me · 1 points · by nikiscevak · no comments
• The View From Aileen Street · 1 points · by babyshake · no comments
• A project to research social interactions around gaming · 1 points · by buluzhai · no comments
• Alex Payne — Reading The Web on Kindle 2 · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• Search Engine Spiders Presentation · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Get Ready For Real Time Digg, Whatever That Means · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Heroku 0 to 60 in 15 minutes [Tutorial] · 1 points · by tortilla · no comments
• Google announces new search tools to counter-fight Wolfram Alpha · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• ColoRotate: Home - Colors Come to Life in 3D · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• After canceling my cable TV subscription, I realized that online TV is much better · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Moving between directories quickly in a multi-terminal environment? · 1 points · by iperry · no comments
• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video (video) · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Cool video of (jailbroken) iPhone working with Bluetooth keyboard · 1 points · by bsgamble · no comments
• "What Should I Work On Today?" A very entrepreneurial problem... · 1 points · by brett1211 · no comments
• Office 2010 Technical Preview: Screenshots · 1 points · by renai42 · no comments
• Why We Spend Coins Faster Than Bills · 1 points · by kqr2 · 1 comment
• Ask HN : Open source hardware rising up What do you think? · 1 points · by madaerodog · 4 comments
• Amazon CTO on background of CloudWatch · 1 points · by don420 · no comments
• Nokia N97 on its way for June 2nd release for North America · 1 points · by engadgeteer · no comments
• Greedy (IT) Algorithms · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• As Alaska Glaciers Melt, It’s Land That’s Rising · 1 points · by pierrefar · no comments
• Do you have any regrets about not going or going to college for programming? · 1 points · by CodeJustin · 2 comments
• Magnitude-4.7 quake rattles nerves near LA · 1 points · by mariasimpson · no comments
• Twitdoc: Share Documents Effortlessly on Twitter · 1 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• Www.sitepaste.com - free web site constructor · 1 points · by knoppixmeister · no comments
• GraphModels - Renders a graphical overview of your project or specified apps. · 1 points · by samueladam · no comments
• Wolfram Alpha - Am I doing it wrong? · 1 points · by tocomment · 3 comments
• Data Structures and Algorithms · 1 points · by habs · no comments
• New Media Lessons From Guitar Hero · 1 points · by kidmercury · no comments
• Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science · 1 points · by buluzhai · no comments
• WolframAlpha is Not Another Cuil · 1 points · by nsoonhui · no comments
• Expand Your Twitter Network In Less Than 15 Lines of Ruby · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Yahoo Mobile Developer Awards: Koprol’s Rafeequl wins 1st place · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• The Need for More Lack of Understanding · 1 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Answers to questions from Twitter on teen practices · 1 points · by mbrubeck · no comments
• An almost convincing start for Wolfram Alpha · 1 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Control Flow Features and Readability (Ruby) · 1 points · by sandal · 1 comment
• Linked Data is Blooming: Why You Should Care · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Noisy.app, a Pink and White noise generator for OS X · 1 points · by mmc · no comments
• CSS styleable jQuery mp3 player plugin · 1 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• Media Diet: How I gave up RSS for a week and became far more productive · 1 points · by peterbraden · no comments
• The Poor Have Financial Discipline · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• How Meditation Improves Attention · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• A Theory of Moderation · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• What happens to your digital life when you die? · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• How To Pitch VCs Remotely · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Designers · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• IndyBudget's Deficit · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Communicating Values: Show, don't Tell · 1 points · by lrm242 · no comments
• "Children's neural connections are more governed by proximity" · 1 points · by hendler · no comments
• Live science: "How the Brain Changes as We Grow Up" [VID] · 1 points · by hendler · 1 comment
• Using computing to teach computing (Hint: Don't use the "P" word) · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Napster to launch new music subscription plan · 1 points · by dreamz · no comments
• Near Far in Science Fiction · 1 points · by AlleyRow · no comments
• Ruby pong with audio, using shoes and bloopsaphone · 1 points · by adminmyserver · no comments
• OpenStreetMap: The Free Wiki World Map · 1 points · by dpapathanasiou · no comments
• Strange Bedfellows: The Linux Foundation and Microsoft · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Sniffing out Great Ideas, Company Culture and Demographics · 1 points · by bbuffone · no comments
• Psychiatry and the Human Condition · 1 points · by barry-cotter · no comments
• US Dollar redesigns · 1 points · by nate · no comments
• Self promotion just got a little stranger · 1 points · by knieveltech · no comments
• Trees are Air Pollution Sentinels · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Book giveaway - 'Mashup Patterns: Designs and Examples for the Modern Enterprise' · 1 points · by abennett · no comments
• Creative Commons Releases Facebook App: Choose a License for Your Content · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Failure is good · 1 points · by ErrantX · no comments
• Google CEO Tells Carnegie Mellon's Class of 2009 What They Can't Do · 1 points · by CollegeMogul · no comments
• How To Draw Attention To Your Executive Summary · 1 points · by daveambrose · no comments
• Why Good Products Matter · 1 points · by adamsmith · no comments
• Gnip Adds Facebook Data To Its API Mashup · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• What Happened To TechCrunch's Sequoia China Bribery Allegation? · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• (Erik Benson) Buster McLeod leaving the Robot Co-op, starting Enjoymentland · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Alternative to Wolfram Alpha? · 1 points · by gjizzle · no comments
• A proof that the Halting Problem is undecidable in verse. · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• If not in the Valley, at least compete with it · 1 points · by mcxx · no comments
• Facebook Apps Will Make More Money Than Facebook In 2009 · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• FbFund Finalist List Shows the Future of Facebook is Facebook Connect · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• When is the best time to launch Pre anyway? · 1 points · by darwinw · no comments
• Apple Begins Stress Testing Push Notification Servers · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• The IAB Sets Some Standards For Social Ads · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• The Foundation of Reality: Information or Quantum Mechanics? · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Small steps leading to a small step for a man ... · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 1 comment
• Optimizing a word game - 80-100X performance improvement · 1 points · by nathanwdavis · no comments
• Obama’s Favorite Mutual Fund · 1 points · by dreamz · no comments
• EconTalk: Boldrin on Intellectual Property · 1 points · by maw · no comments
• Selling Wine Without Bottles - The Economy of Mind on the Global Net · 1 points · by twoz · no comments
• Focus on Marketing: With training, staff can be your best marketers · 1 points · by dreamz · no comments
• Band Metrics Announces Music Data Exchange Format (MDEF) · 1 points · by pageman · no comments
• An RPG you play through Twitter · 1 points · by logicshop · no comments
• If all startup problems are unique, what's the point of VCs? · 1 points · by brett1211 · no comments
• The Android 1.5 developer experience · 1 points · by Sandman · no comments
• Utilize Tech Conferences for Launching Startups? · 1 points · by kineticac · 3 comments
• Imageless loading spinners (use FF 3.5b4 to view) · 1 points · by chris24 · no comments
• Google and Twitter Just Makes Sense · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• If I could only say 'O' like Mr. Whitefield · 1 points · by abefortas · no comments
• Exit Strategies Videos for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors · 1 points · by basilpeters · no comments
• Create a custom Apple iPhone icon for your site · 1 points · by niels_olson · no comments