Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005) · 174 points · by vaksel · 116 comments
• Burnout · 131 points · by sant0sk1 · 23 comments
• Minimalistic (vim-like) web browser based on Webkit · 100 points · by mindaugas · 28 comments
• Can I Set Up An LLC To Avoid Personal Liability In A Lawsuit? · 95 points · by brlewis · 27 comments
• A short list of things I don’t like about Python · 95 points · by mace · 67 comments
• Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator · 81 points · by Corrado · 4 comments
• How Perl 6 just sells itself (excerpt from IRC) · 75 points · by draegtun · 59 comments
• 1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell · 74 points · by ksvs · 21 comments
• Creative anti-debugger technique in Spotify for Windows · 65 points · by tkiley · 19 comments
• Use RunPee.com to know when to go to the bathroom during a movie · 64 points · by shard · 26 comments
• Why Isn't Paypal More Successful? · 55 points · by terpua · 53 comments
• What People Search First at Duck Duck Go (with an HN subset) · 55 points · by epi0Bauqu · 16 comments
• Penny Auctions: They're Gambling · 51 points · by w1ntermute · 29 comments
• How To Use Twitter and Not Be a Douchebag · 50 points · by twism · 11 comments
• Ask HN: Outdoor jobs for geeks? · 49 points · by Tichy · 39 comments
• Users Love Microsoft, Yahoo Search -- When It's Branded With A Google Logo · 48 points · by lukas · 33 comments
• Why Accountants are Dull and Guitarists are Glamorous · 43 points · by mixmax · 29 comments
• Scaling Memcached: 500,000+ Operations/Second · 41 points · by cyberian · 9 comments
• Business Intelligence Rap Video · 38 points · by robertjmoore · 2 comments
• How to Be a Better Entrepreneur in the Next 30 Minutes · 37 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 13 comments
• Achieving Fame, Wealth And Beauty Are Psychological Dead Ends, Study Says · 34 points · by villageidiot · 32 comments
• What a Texas town can teach us about health care · 34 points · by jakarta · 8 comments
• The New Résumé: Dumb and Dumber · 31 points · by prakash · 21 comments
• Growing a Language, by Guy Steele [video] · 30 points · by vorador · 3 comments
• Amusing ourselves to death - Huxley vs Orwell · 30 points · by cloudhead · 17 comments
• The Cutting Edge · 29 points · by io · 7 comments
• Memcpy() concurrency curiosities · 29 points · by Anon84 · 7 comments
• Using Git with Vim · 29 points · by mindaugas · 2 comments
• Facebook Takes $200 Million From Russian Investors At $10 Billion Valuation · 29 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 35 comments
• Ask HN: Which persistent in-memory database to use? · 28 points · by paraschopra · 24 comments
• How Game Design Can Revolutionize Everyday Life · 28 points · by peter123 · 7 comments
• Nate Silver: Random, Pretentious Observations from Europe · 27 points · by rms · 19 comments
• Liberated and Unhappy · 27 points · by robg · 26 comments
• The New New Economy: More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity · 26 points · by peter123 · 10 comments
• Google Talk for Developers · 26 points · by mcantelon · 15 comments
• Simple predictor of supreme court cases: which side is asked more questions · 24 points · by fleaflicker · 8 comments
• Porsche on the financial brink · 21 points · by hardik · 17 comments
• Contenture Launches. Micropayment-Based Freemium Model · 21 points · by vaksel · 14 comments
• Wolfram Alpha tips for webmasters and sysadmins · 20 points · by dcurtis · 1 comment
• What should you ask the VC? · 20 points · by wheels · 1 comment
• Aided by Poker Devotees, Lawmaker Pushes to End the Ban on Online Gambling · 20 points · by mshafrir · 11 comments
• Waterfall: The European Way Of Starting Companies · 18 points · by enki · 24 comments
• A History of the London Tube Maps · 18 points · by muon · 6 comments
• Ask PG: Could YC admissions be replaced with a very small shell script? · 17 points · by dfranke · 12 comments
• Repurpose, A Mini Documentary About Hardware Hacking & Hackerspaces · 17 points · by kqr2 · 2 comments
• High-Tech Start-Ups Put Down Roots in New Soil · 16 points · by jseliger · no comments
• Beyond Basic Web Development: Tools for developers · 16 points · by danw · no comments
• Ask HN: best languages to learn as a newcomer · 16 points · by stevejalim · 40 comments
• Business lessons from The Wire · 15 points · by Danmatt · 4 comments
• MIT visualization of cellphone data flow during Obama's inauguration · 15 points · by anigbrowl · 2 comments
• Too much cola zaps muscle power · 15 points · by rams · 28 comments
• $10bn - Is Facebook overvalued? · 15 points · by cyno · 25 comments
• Nokia's Ovi app store goes live · 14 points · by aj · 19 comments
• Bespin: Code in the Cloud · 14 points · by iamwil · 5 comments
• “Super-recognizers” have an uncanny ability to recognize and remember faces · 14 points · by fleaflicker · 10 comments
• Facebook Takes $200 Million Investment At $10 Billion Valuation · 14 points · by crsmith · 6 comments
• When 1.3 Billion People Are Too Many · 13 points · by vaksel · 5 comments
• The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online · 13 points · by ph0rque · 5 comments
• Patients On Hookworm Therapy Swear By Treatment · 13 points · by ph0rque · 6 comments
• Hadoop Summit (June 10th) · 13 points · by sh1mmer · 1 comment
• Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same · 12 points · by terpua · 2 comments
• Big brother: UK camera grid to track cars via license plates · 12 points · by pmikal · 8 comments
• Scan Uncovers Thousands of Copycat Scientific Articles · 11 points · by dxjones · 2 comments
• The Problem of Design by Negation · 11 points · by eru · 3 comments
• Ask HN: how to monetize email list? · 10 points · by ryanwaggoner · 5 comments
• Rooks reveal remarkable tool use · 10 points · by tdonia · 10 comments
• Spark Capital: Why We Think Education is Ripe for Innovation · 10 points · by mpc · 2 comments
• In Hot Pursuit of Fusion (or Folly) · 9 points · by physcab · 3 comments
• Reasons Why Heroku is a Game Changer · 9 points · by sant0sk1 · 2 comments
• JQuery's latest stab at competence · 9 points · by scarface548 · 23 comments
• Ask HN: If you have access to an IDE, why would anyone use a text editor? · 9 points · by kamehameha · 24 comments
• Ask HN: mass-manufacture plastic · 8 points · by dobloon · 12 comments
• Time Review of Geoffrey Miller's Spent: Skim · 8 points · by mshafrir · 3 comments
• Ask HN: C vs C++ · 8 points · by rumpelstiltskin · 22 comments
• Chuck Moore: Forth, The Last Ten Years and The Next Two Weeks · 7 points · by wingo · 6 comments
• Ask HN: Rate This Newspaper Advertisement Application Platform · 6 points · by keltecp11 · 3 comments
• Automated garbage collection is rubbish · 6 points · by prakash · 4 comments
• We need an email tax · 6 points · by robg · 8 comments
• The best-kept secret in programming conferences, especially in a down economy · 6 points · by draegtun · no comments
• What is happiness? · 6 points · by robg · 1 comment
• Encoding images in tiny messages; don't align values at bit boundaries · 6 points · by lambda · 1 comment
• The ACL is dead (Talk at CUSEC by Zed Shaw) · 6 points · by jpwagner · 6 comments
• Startup Idea: A butler for your idle computer · 6 points · by yaj · 7 comments
• Ask HN SF: Hacker Hoops? · 5 points · by sutro · no comments
• Twitter mulls new hires, new homepage · 5 points · by daviday · no comments
• Thanks, HN · 5 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• Satellite data can suggest when and where epidemics will strike next · 5 points · by robg · no comments
• Klout: Exclusive Interview With Joe Fernandez About Social Media Influence · 5 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• Ask HN: How do you prefer to run background jobs for a website/service? · 5 points · by billymeltdown · 3 comments
• Ask HN: What is the best way to protect your website from hackers? · 5 points · by ujjwalg · 8 comments
• Start-up Cost Projections For First Time Entrepreneurs · 5 points · by peter123 · no comments
• A profile of computer pioneer Gary Kildall [video] · 5 points · by acangiano · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Who's going to Google I/O? · 5 points · by dannyr · 1 comment
• Beginners Guide to Behavioral Targeting · 4 points · by paraschopra · no comments
• From The Past To The Future: Tim Sweeney Talks · 4 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Do you think the whois rules need to be modified? · 4 points · by vaksel · 4 comments
• Sending large datasets to Amazon? Use the Post Office · 4 points · by vaksel · no comments
• OpenX Keeps On Growing, Raises $10 Million More · 4 points · by crocus · 1 comment
• Tired of Erlang Innards · 4 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• When Does Facebook Stop Being a Startup and Start Being A Government? · 4 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Socialism and the 'net · 4 points · by knieveltech · 2 comments
• Ask HN: What would happen if public libraries only had ebooks? · 4 points · by amichail · 8 comments
• Ask HN: What big discoveries can be attributed to Elite schools? · 4 points · by physcab · 10 comments
• Full disclosure lockpicking · 4 points · by arih · 1 comment
• Extraordinary Skill Sets · 3 points · by babyshake · no comments
• AP: Google increasingly battles Facebook in search · 3 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Microsoft May Rename Live Search 'Bing': Massive Ad Campaign Planned · 3 points · by tokenadult · 3 comments
• Awk for JSON, in bash. · 3 points · by vagancia · no comments
• JS.Class - Ruby-style JavaScript · 3 points · by iamwil · 1 comment
• SSD Update: Vertex Gets Faster, New Indilinx Drives, Intel/MacBook · 3 points · by mblakele · 1 comment
• Ann Arbor's start-up culture v. collapse in Warren, Michigan · 3 points · by quizbiz · 1 comment
• Contextual Twitter Bots - A new frontier · 3 points · by zemaj · no comments
• F5 and the Cloud · 3 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Polaris' Dog Patch Lab---the Entrepreneur's Kennel · 3 points · by bobbud · no comments
• The Myth of Macroinnovation · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Making Sure First Day on Job for New Hires Doesn't Suck · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• Ask HN: Outsourced SQL Providers? · 3 points · by SamAtt · 6 comments
• Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soul Craft · 3 points · by ksvs · no comments
• Advancements in Brain Control: Wheelchairs that Move by Thought · 3 points · by kkleiner · 1 comment
• Dig The New Breed (CPAN Testers redesign) · 3 points · by draegtun · no comments
• From The Past To The Future: Tim Sweeney Talks (EPIC: Unreal, Gears of War) · 3 points · by 10ren · no comments
• Obama's Web Transparency: not for everybody · 3 points · by toni · 1 comment
• The 4 levels of making code work · 3 points · by imgabe · no comments
• Ask HN: Is my corporation protected? · 3 points · by Anon123123 · 3 comments
• The protocols powering the real-time web · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Microsoft’s Bing Logo Leaked By Way Of Favicon? · 3 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Texting May Be Taking a Toll · 3 points · by mshafrir · 2 comments
• Paul Polak: Global Poverty Fighter · 3 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Erlang Driver Walkthrough with Berkeley DB in C · 3 points · by luccastera · no comments
• Premium MDN Cocoa Podcast Episodes Are Now Free · 3 points · by intregus · no comments
• Will Users Score at the Bing? · 3 points · by trs90 · no comments
• Steven Chu Addresses the National Labs · 3 points · by DaniFong · no comments
• How Jim Collins Tracks His Workday · 2 points · by mrduncan · no comments
• Prevailing theory of aging challenged in Stanford worm study · 2 points · by amichail · no comments
• Koowa is Joomla's Missing MVC Core · 2 points · by rmdstudio · no comments
• Code layout experiments · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Comparing data from 2 database tables · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• How to be more creative · 2 points · by bored · no comments
• What is a Browser? · 2 points · by timothychung · no comments
• Can high-tech/social media motivate more responsible life choices? · 2 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Craigslist is Newspapers’ Silent Killer · 2 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Study: “Social Media is not a valid marketing tool” —Knowledge Networks · 2 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• If I Could Go Back In Time & Give Myself Some Advice, This Would Be It · 2 points · by epi0Bauqu · 1 comment
• Changing the Art on the White House Walls · 2 points · by daviday · no comments
• Is Immutable Data Slow? · 2 points · by chique · no comments
• Amazon's effort to transform the book business with Kindle · 2 points · by mjfern · no comments
• Kindle Notes And Highlights Now Accessible On the Web · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• The Life and Death of Congressional Bills, Visualized · 2 points · by cjoh · no comments
• Yahoo, Twitter, Google talk BOSS [video] · 2 points · by hendler · 1 comment
• A Novel Language, Spoken, Written, Optimal & Naturally Computer Friendly · 2 points · by messel · 3 comments
• How we use iChat and SubEthaEdit to collaborate on a book · 2 points · by peter123 · 3 comments
• It’s official: Facebook raises $200M from Russian investor · 2 points · by terpua · no comments
• Avoid using metaprogramming (seriously) · 2 points · by jmonegro · 1 comment
• Facebook valued at $10bn · 2 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 3 comments
• Teamwork · 2 points · by rglullis · no comments
• A vertical web in a widescreen world · 2 points · by DLarsen · 8 comments
• James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution (1946) · 2 points · by eru · no comments
• The Raygun Gothic Rocketship · 2 points · by Mistone · no comments
• Ask HN: Rails Searching Ferret or Sphinx? · 2 points · by dawie · 3 comments
• Evolutionary ideas shape technological revolutions · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Twitter poses risks for papers · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Mozilla Takes Cloud Coding For a Spin · 2 points · by pideon · no comments
• The ABCs of securing your wireless network · 2 points · by vp · no comments
• WindyCitizen.com offers a way forward for local news · 2 points · by brandnewlow · 2 comments
• Canonical developers aim to make Android apps run on Ubuntu · 2 points · by eugenejen · no comments
• Virus Tamed To Destroy Cancer Cells But Leave Healthy Cells Unharmed · 2 points · by utnick · 1 comment
• The Republic of the Internet · 2 points · by ErrantX · 1 comment
• Psystar (Unlicensed Mac clone manufacturer) goes bankrupt · 2 points · by jmtulloss · no comments
• Wired For War (Robotics For Warfare) · 2 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• What do liberal and conservative attitudes signal? · 2 points · by awans · no comments
• Is Russian ownership of Facebook a threat to National Security? · 2 points · by pj · 5 comments
• Google Code Blog: Transforming Your Calendar with LuckyCal and Google's APIs · 2 points · by sanj · no comments
• How to hide privacy violations in a privacy disclosure statement · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Twitter, Prediction Markets and Profits · 2 points · by spxdcz · no comments
• Glimmer - Microsoft loves JQuery just like we do · 2 points · by ramonlima · no comments
• IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation · 2 points · by gasull · no comments
• When Word of Mouth Got a Permalink - Companies, Customers and Twitter · 2 points · by johns · no comments
• How to Make a Twitter Bot Popular · 1 points · by numbchuckskills · no comments
• Why Darwin failed · 1 points · by mronge · no comments
• Twitter Heads To Hollywood, Plans To Develop TV Show · 1 points · by mshafrir · no comments
• RT: @Microsyntax Sets Out To Make Sense Of #twittergrammar · 1 points · by cyberian · no comments
• The biggest potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystal you've ever seen · 1 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• MP3 Players: How Loud Is Too Loud? · 1 points · by rams · no comments
• The ultimate application & download engine · 1 points · by dotmatrix · no comments
• Servinity.com To Shut Down May 30th · 1 points · by keltecp11 · no comments
• Streams: Layers and Data · 1 points · by shuleatt · no comments
• Amplifeeder: FriendFeed's Much Hotter Sister · 1 points · by TomOfTTB · 1 comment
• Ben Franklin and Early Experiments in Cloud Computing · 1 points · by Zoasterboy · no comments
• CiscoWorks TFTP Directory Traversal Vulnerability · 1 points · by ciscozine · no comments
• Is PHP or Ruby on Rails better? How to pick a language/framework · 1 points · by bandhunt · no comments
• LogoGala.com Review - Logo Design Inspiration and Information · 1 points · by imjustcreative · no comments
• Nokia store opens for business · 1 points · by andrewljohnson · no comments
• World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On Lisp · 1 points · by aj · 3 comments
• YouTube about to make money? · 1 points · by sahaj · no comments
• Reducing the Tab Clutter - Mozilla Design Challenge Entry · 1 points · by frosty · no comments
• Smashwords, Ebooks for indies, offers revenue model · 1 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Cocoa with Love: Simple methods for date formatting and transcoding · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• Setting Up A PXE Install Server For Multiple Linux Distributions On Debian Lenny · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• Windows Vista SP2 is live, ready to download · 1 points · by sdfx · no comments
• Steve Blank: Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same · 1 points · by lrm242 · no comments
• Preparing to peer into a black hole - directly · 1 points · by demallien · 1 comment
• Creating a TetriNET Bot · 1 points · by matt1 · no comments
• Grandma errors, and splling mistakes... · 1 points · by illumen · no comments
• Apple Planning $1 Billion iDataCenter · 1 points · by 1SockChuck · no comments
• Reflecting on Three Years as a Bootstrapped Startup · 1 points · by newmediaclay · no comments
• US #1 Manufacturer Globally, Exports 2x More than China · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• SimpleCDN Attacks Consultants · 1 points · by hostester11 · no comments
• Twollars: An Innovative Approach to Fundraising on Twitter · 1 points · by eisokant · no comments
• NVidia founder talk about starting a company · 1 points · by mvbma · no comments
• Sell Your Knowledge on the Side · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Beyond Detroit: On the Road to Recovery, Let the Little Guys Drive · 1 points · by naish · no comments
• Pidgin-WebKit: Use Adium Message Styles with Pidgin · 1 points · by mdasen · no comments
• Ask HN: article about travelling for programmers · 1 points · by u296 · 1 comment
• Microsoft Kumo (Live Search) to be Renamed "Bing" · 1 points · by sker · no comments
• Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• How MIT Accelerates Clean Energy Entrepreneurship · 1 points · by CollegeMogul · no comments
• More tech IPOs in 1st half of 2009 than in all of 2008 · 1 points · by daviday · no comments
• Scotland On Rails Presentations Now Online: 27 Videos · 1 points · by aditya · no comments
• Video game industry sales down 17 percent--again · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• ThinkBalm Immersive Internet Business Value Study · 1 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• Nokia Ovi Store Launch Is A Complete Disaster · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Publishing profitably rather than just publishing · 1 points · by AaronChua · no comments
• Preventing Skynet: just say “no” to genocidal artificial intelligence · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Things You Don’t Need to Do In the Clouds · 1 points · by crocus · no comments
• Android Full Screen on Ubuntu · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Ask HN: Proper way to report an error in a paper · 1 points · by __tmpid · 3 comments
• Spellcheck your HTML with Aspell, Rake, and CI · 1 points · by wastedbrains · no comments
• Scientists identify genes behind ageing process · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Should You Take Dumb Money? · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Phishers Now Hitting Twitter · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Chicago's Awesome McDonald’s Cycle Center (Video Tour) · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• MySpace Devjam today at SF in a few hours .... · 1 points · by code_devil · no comments
• Tesla Model S · 1 points · by neilc · no comments
• SSD Prices - New JMicron Flash Controller, 32nm NAND Flash · 1 points · by mblakele · no comments
• IDN Spoofing *still* an issue + proof of concept [own post] · 1 points · by thinkgareth · no comments
• Twitter's Biz Stone: Thoughts On Repositioning Twitter, Search Ads,... · 1 points · by skolgen · no comments
• Obama's OpenGov site now live · 1 points · by rayvega · no comments
• New lower costs for music digital stream in the UK · 1 points · by pierrefar · no comments
• How Juxtapoz magazine sparked a lowbrow art revolution · 1 points · by splat · no comments
• Flock 2.5 Delivers the Promise of Social Media on the Web · 1 points · by linuxmag · no comments
• Poverty’s Two-Way Street · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Starbucks & ATT: Multi-Channel User Experience Gone Wrong · 1 points · by thingsilearned · no comments
• Next iPhone edition(s) may be tailored to host-country's telecoms · 1 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Facebook VS. Tonido · 1 points · by codemechanic · no comments
• Becoming a better developer in 30 days - day 1: read other people's code · 1 points · by coliveira · no comments
• Leaked AT&T slide deck reveals Android, webOS, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile · 1 points · by newsit · no comments
• Steve Blank - Startup advice, one-size-does-not-fit-all · 1 points · by agrinshtein · no comments
• ".. a console version of Diablo III isn’t out of the question." · 1 points · by cturner · 1 comment
• Business of Software microISV survey · 1 points · by mattjung · no comments
• Facebook Takes $200 Million Investment from Russian Investment Firm · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• NYTimes Appoints First Social Media Editor · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Wedding 2.0: When weddings go geek · 1 points · by abennett · no comments
• Targeted Ads In An Unusual Location: A Bus Stop · 1 points · by abossy · no comments
• Ask HN: Ooyala .. how are they supposed to make money · 1 points · by climber · no comments
• Start-Up in Berlin sucht Teammitglieder - Web Developer / Designer · 1 points · by zsaqa · no comments
• Love the Product, Hate the Company: Cable Monopoly · 1 points · by stcredzero · no comments
• How To Build a 'Dynamic' Config Class in PHP · 1 points · by najafali · 2 comments
• Fast Followers: What Do The Backstreet Boys And Bratz Dolls Have In Common? · 1 points · by mollylynn · no comments
• Interview with Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification · 1 points · by amilr · no comments
• Digital Water Pavilion · 1 points · by davidblair · 1 comment
• Twitter OAuth Library in Twisted Python · 1 points · by dunglas · no comments