Hacker News Way Back Machine

• "If you move your mouse pointer continuously... the query may not fail." · 155 points · by iamelgringo · 29 comments
• The man who could have been richer than Bill Gates · 89 points · by acangiano · 41 comments
• Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say · 76 points · by lrm242 · 20 comments
• New Yorker cover painted using iPhone (Brushes app) · 62 points · by tortilla · 8 comments
• Netbook powered by 8 AA batteries · 58 points · by vaksel · 34 comments
• Simple wins · 56 points · by dan_sim · 16 comments
• Life Size Katamari · 54 points · by iamwil · 3 comments
• GitHub's Hg-Git mercurial plugin · 52 points · by mattculbreth · 17 comments
• Slashdot discovers Lisp · 51 points · by michael_dorfman · 25 comments
• Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds · 45 points · by tyn · 7 comments
• Sammy: JavaScript framework inspired by Sinatra · 42 points · by mbrubeck · 3 comments
• You and Your Research · 40 points · by raganwald · 13 comments
• Incanter is a Clojure, R-like statistical computing and graphics environment · 39 points · by mindaugas · 2 comments
• Management and mathematics · 38 points · by abhinav · 9 comments
• Python's CleverCSS · 38 points · by iamelgringo · 10 comments
• What Emacs Commands Do You Use Most and Find Most Useful? · 36 points · by apgwoz · 9 comments
• Facebook/Twitter too shall pass · 34 points · by CalmQuiet · 31 comments
• Faking It (The Undereducation of an Overachiever) · 31 points · by villageidiot · 14 comments
• Clojure JNA - access C libs from Clojure · 31 points · by lhorie · 3 comments
• Lego does Frank Lloyd Wright · 30 points · by mnemonicsloth · 9 comments
• Some music in Haskell · 30 points · by zzkt · 1 comment
• Success Breeds Success in Startups · 25 points · by quizbiz · 6 comments
• After the Car Crash · 25 points · by dan_the_welder · 15 comments
• Coming soon: First pictures of a black hole · 24 points · by swombat · 1 comment
• The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates (2004) · 23 points · by rms · 4 comments
• How to: add features to Firefox with Mozilla's new Jetpack · 23 points · by soundsop · 2 comments
• Choosing between Webkit and Mozilla · 23 points · by hexis · 1 comment
• How Sesame Street Changed the World · 22 points · by iamelgringo · 7 comments
• Apple said to be building $1 billion server farm · 22 points · by Anon84 · 23 comments
• Education Killed The Creativity [In Me] · 22 points · by AdilD · 23 comments
• Ask HN: A site like Hacker News, but about art? · 22 points · by nahumfarchi · 17 comments
• Ongoing · The Web vs. the Fallacies · 21 points · by eugenejen · 2 comments
• Why Mass Customization Isn’t Mainstream · 19 points · by ph0rque · 7 comments
• Don't go native UI on your mobile web app · 18 points · by toni · 7 comments
• Adobe claims rtmpdump 'can be used' to infringe · 17 points · by abl · 8 comments
• The App Store Hype Gets A Dose Of Reality · 17 points · by peter123 · 12 comments
• What Would You Do with a $40 Computer? · 16 points · by ciscoriordan · 12 comments
• In Defense of Distraction · 16 points · by branden · 6 comments
• Solar PPA's: "Free" Rooftop Solar Installs Financed From Monthly Electric Bill · 16 points · by tptacek · no comments
• Here's a Hacker News Feed with the main link being the comments · 15 points · by AndrewDucker · 8 comments
• In South Korea, All of Life Is Mobile · 14 points · by HSO · 3 comments
• Alan Kay: Worlds: Controlling the scope of side effects [pdf] · 14 points · by llimllib · 4 comments
• Kinds of attention · 14 points · by prakash · 2 comments
• The Loongson-2 MIPS Lemote Yeeloong Netbook · 13 points · by rbanffy · 3 comments
• Ad Revenue on the Web? No Sure Bet · 13 points · by jwt · 3 comments
• American billionaire club wants to curb overpopulation · 13 points · by soundsop · 24 comments
• Peeved at Auto-Warranty Calls, a Web Posse Strikes Back · 13 points · by mshafrir · 1 comment
• Map the Fallen · 11 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Is A Terminator Scenario Possible? · 10 points · by jpirkola · 7 comments
• Ruby Currying · 10 points · by batasrki · 4 comments
• The journalism bubble · 10 points · by jseliger · no comments
• Ask HN: FAQ Pages useful? · 9 points · by kineticac · 14 comments
• Ask HN: Examples of good Ruby API design (gems, stdlib classes etc.) · 9 points · by nc · no comments
• Maybe It’s Time to Look at Windows Home Server · 8 points · by codemechanic · 3 comments
• Repurpose : Video documentary about hardware hackers at Foulab in Montréal · 8 points · by jrbedard · 1 comment
• Hints of a New Market for Cheap, Power-Sipping Servers · 7 points · by mshafrir · 4 comments
• Why is everyone saying "fail" all of a sudden? · 6 points · by talison · no comments
• Leaked Palm Pre Gesture Guide · 6 points · by amilr · 1 comment
• Why doesn’t Wired magazine practice what its editor preaches? · 6 points · by lukas · 1 comment
• New Garbage Collectors Designed With Parallelism in Mind · 5 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Spain wants open source on school laptops · 5 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• On the information alarmageddon · 5 points · by robg · no comments
• PubMail, a newsletter app for messagepub.com · 5 points · by lux · 1 comment
• Paid Conversations, Credibility & The FTC · 4 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Payoff Over a Web Singing Sensation Is Elusive · 4 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• 60% of companies still use IE6 as their default browser (plus poll) · 4 points · by stevejalim · 5 comments
• Going Dutch, Not So Fast · 4 points · by aahendriksen · 2 comments
• LEED's Latest Overhaul: Itself · 4 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Why We Freak Out at Freaks · 4 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Twitter plans a TV competition series · 4 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• Rails Migration Memory Therapy · 4 points · by eVizitei · 2 comments
• Web App Version detection using file fingerprinting · 4 points · by sucuri2 · no comments
• Konrad Zuse's "Plankalkül": The First High Level Language [pdf] · 4 points · by davatk · no comments
• Ask HN: How to keep my data, apps, config movable between computers · 4 points · by bk · 3 comments
• Indesign Vs. QuarkXPress · 3 points · by darwinx111 · no comments
• Lawrence Lessig: The Solipsist and the Internet · 3 points · by rms · 1 comment
• The Science of Voodoo: When Mind Attacks Body · 3 points · by nostrademons · no comments
• Bending a language to your will · 3 points · by vladev · 7 comments
• Do Users Really Even Exist? · 3 points · by gaika · no comments
• 12 Year Old Gives a Google Tech Talk on JQuery · 3 points · by boundlessdreamz · no comments
• Safari 4 beta leaves data, privacy trail in its wake · 3 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Become a Hero Plumber · 3 points · by toni · no comments
• Reading Ruby's Standard Library for Fun and Profit · 3 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• College conundrum: Less out-of-state students · 3 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• Speed vs. Certainty in A/B Testing (w/ spreadsheet model) · 3 points · by snakelemma · no comments
• List of resources for first-time entrepreneurs · 3 points · by jlees · no comments
• EU nations approve highly skilled visa plan · 3 points · by NonEUCitizen · 1 comment
• Intel celebrates geeks in great ad · 3 points · by jeremyw · no comments
• Password Recovered Secret Questions · 3 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Flare: Tokyo-Cabinet-based DHT with transparent redundancy and partitioning · 3 points · by mbrubeck · no comments
• Ask HN: Free Software in the Cloud? · 3 points · by zacharypinter · 2 comments
• How to Read the Output of the Scientific Method · 3 points · by reasonattlm · no comments
• CueCat 2.0? · 3 points · by MotorMouths · 3 comments
• An Open Letter to 20th Century Businesses · 3 points · by quizbiz · no comments
• Sonic the Hedgehog on the iPhone · 2 points · by cyberian · no comments
• Refactoring legacy projects using scaffolding · 2 points · by sachmanb · no comments
• Participate in the making of a product: from concept to creation · 2 points · by indiejade · 1 comment
• The Age of Optimization · 2 points · by picasso81 · no comments
• How much can a web developer expect to earn? · 2 points · by abinoda · 4 comments
• Useful jQuery plugins for Web Designers. · 2 points · by sinu9i · no comments
• The Hacklab.to toilet. Now on twitter. · 2 points · by st3fan · 1 comment
• A Third Revolution in DNA Nanotechnology · 2 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• A coming world that's 'a whole lot smaller' · 2 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Sokoban Solver in Prolog · 2 points · by eru · no comments
• Lappiz: Simplifying student's lives · 2 points · by Fixe · no comments
• Mac vs. PC - A Tool for Every Job · 2 points · by darwinx111 · no comments
• IPhone apps are Google's biggest threat in mobile search · 2 points · by madh · no comments
• Ning: The future of online social networking? · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Full Screen Image Gallery Using jQuery and Flickr · 2 points · by markerdmann · no comments
• First Principles of Interaction Design · 2 points · by pogos · no comments
• Luddism, Transhumanism & Evolution · 2 points · by oldspice · no comments
• InDesign Tutorials · 2 points · by darwinx111 · no comments
• The Fear... of the Internet · 2 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Brainstorming search engine: when queries are themselves answers. · 2 points · by amichail · no comments
• Taking Solow Seriously - Does Neoclassical Steady State Growth Really Exist? · 2 points · by barry-cotter · no comments
• In-N-Out Burger's Six Lessons For Startups · 2 points · by srini · 1 comment
• Entrepreneur pushes idea of air-powered cars · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Yves Behar's supercharged motorcycle design · 1 points · by amilr · no comments
• Building Talent in a Time of Layoffs · 1 points · by quizbiz · no comments
• Lazy man's 404 page · 1 points · by bigboss · no comments
• Father of WWW Advocates Linking · 1 points · by gengstrand · no comments
• Life’s a Patch · 1 points · by frichard1974 · no comments
• How Useful is Tufte for Making Maps? (2007) · 1 points · by floatingatoll · no comments
• The Internet in 1969 · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Python compiler package... I can think of a few better variable names · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Andrew Lipson's Lego Sculptures: Escher, Rodin, Dilbert and more. · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• Building Successful Global Teams · 1 points · by mattjung · no comments
• Microsoft Aims Big Guns at Google, Asks Consumers to Rethink Search · 1 points · by amilr · 3 comments
• One Tweet Over the Line · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• List of Really Useful JavaScript Libraries · 1 points · by w3avenue · no comments
• First (Pixel Qi) screens out of the fab · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Useful Tools Tool of the Day: Share Files Via Twitter with FileTwt · 1 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• Moral Hazard - Regulatory Response could allow Meltdown to Happen Again · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• "Fireproof" Shows Technology's Impact On Religion, Courts · 1 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Don't eat the Marshmallow yet (TED) · 1 points · by pistoriusp · no comments
• The ginsu knife of sales letters · 1 points · by jslogan · 3 comments
• Interactive CouchDB · 1 points · by _pius · no comments
• Quick Blogging Learnings · 1 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• Twitterfeed Failure Affects Thousands Of Companies · 1 points · by dc2k08 · no comments
• For the Fallen · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• BBC Blast Studio: An experiment in creativity · 1 points · by edd · no comments
• My now open source class for using MySQL with PHP · 1 points · by nick007 · 1 comment
• The Art of Starting a Project on Time · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Random Observations - Part 6 · 1 points · by karjaluoto · no comments
• Clerks: inspirational startup from a totally different industry · 1 points · by mannicken · 2 comments
• Twitter coming to television in form of series · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Farkie: Snatch Videos, Pics, Stylesheets and More From Any Website · 1 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• Google Searches Used To Convict Hit-And-Run Driver · 1 points · by vang3lis · no comments
• Puzzling Pogby · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Smart Heuristics · 1 points · by HSO · no comments
• Don't Leave Me Hanging On The Phone · 1 points · by barry-cotter · no comments
• So that's where all action movies come from · 1 points · by barry-cotter · no comments
• VentureLoop advertises venture-funded startup jobs · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Artist Draws New Yorker Cover on His iPhone · 1 points · by replicatorblog · no comments
• Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose · 1 points · by abhinav · no comments