Hacker News Way Back Machine

• My $3.3M Mistake · 251 points · by sivers · 44 comments
• ServerFault launches - it's StackOverflow for sysadmins · 135 points · by spolsky · 27 comments
• InQuickER: See the ER doc in 15 minutes or less, or your ER visit is free · 102 points · by tkiley · 96 comments
• You are the problem: the reason why so many startups don't get venture funding · 82 points · by wheels · 30 comments
• Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise. · 77 points · by TiredOfCoding · 110 comments
• How Not to Do Web Site User Registration · 68 points · by vollmond · 49 comments
• Building a Hackintosh Apple Can't Sue You For · 62 points · by codeodor · 53 comments
• Eric Drexler: How to Learn About Everything · 59 points · by ph0rque · 11 comments
• Popular languages on GitHub ranked by number of bytes stored · 57 points · by sant0sk1 · 32 comments
• Tim O'Reilly: Google Bets Big on HTML 5 · 55 points · by Anon84 · 32 comments
• OpenBSD Develops Its Own SMTP Server · 53 points · by boundlessdreamz · 22 comments
• Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round With USV (YC W09) · 53 points · by judegomila · 11 comments
• MacBook Multitouch · 52 points · by soundsop · 11 comments
• Farmers Didn't Invent Tractors. They Were Busy Farming. · 49 points · by neilc · 14 comments
• Rich Hickey on Clojure's Features and Implementation · 46 points · by dpapathanasiou · no comments
• Why underdogs should take more chances · 43 points · by naish · 13 comments
• Command Lines · 38 points · by mcav · 18 comments
• Hacking the IRS with gold coins · 37 points · by Gibbon · 48 comments
• The Axiom of Choice is Wrong (2007) · 35 points · by rw · 19 comments
• The Simple Math of Everything · 34 points · by asciilifeform · 12 comments
• Adam D'Angelo, former Facebook CTO starts new company: Alma Networks · 33 points · by prakash · 8 comments
• Zero-Knowledge Sudoku: Verifying solution without looking at it. · 32 points · by amichail · 11 comments
• Ask HN: IRC channel for Hacker News? · 32 points · by javert · 11 comments
• Rate my startup: Socialmod - take the pain out of UGC moderation · 31 points · by maccman · 15 comments
• 1964 Antique modem surfs the web · 31 points · by vaksel · 5 comments
• Animals can tell right from wrong · 30 points · by hko · 29 comments
• What You Don’t Know Makes You Nervous · 29 points · by robg · 2 comments
• Recent git features · 29 points · by pieter · 2 comments
• Why Church chose lambda · 28 points · by vorador · no comments
• Revolutionary Espresso Book Machine launches in London · 28 points · by absconditus · 15 comments
• Is Posterous the New TwitPic? · 27 points · by crsmith · 4 comments
• Practice makes perfect · 27 points · by amilr · 6 comments
• Weebly Launches Free WYSIWYG Virtual Storefronts · 27 points · by jmorin007 · 12 comments
• Wikipedia + Youtube + Flickr = Navify · 27 points · by aston · 12 comments
• Line-profiler: line-level profiling for python · 26 points · by anuraggoel · 1 comment
• Best Visual Illusion of the Year: The break of the curveball · 26 points · by trs90 · 4 comments
• Proving something exists nonconstructively using probability. · 26 points · by amichail · 8 comments
• 80legs is hiring full-time developers and interns · 24 points · by jdrock · 3 comments
• Google’s “Oprah Moment”: An Android Phone For Everyone At Google I/O · 24 points · by rms · 14 comments
• Managed Assembly - Hacker News / Twitter / Stack Overflow hybrid · 22 points · by abl · 3 comments
• LavaPS - a contribution to "calm computing" · 22 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 5 comments
• Ask HN: business guy tries to build a website - qrisper.com · 21 points · by junglee · 41 comments
• Digg dumps Shouts for Facebook, Twitter and email · 19 points · by muimui · 5 comments
• Just do the Demo · 19 points · by ciscoriordan · 5 comments
• Why topsy is going to kick all sorts of ass · 18 points · by aditya · 15 comments
• Factor's implementation of polymorphic inline caching · 18 points · by MaysonL · 9 comments
• People Over 55 Are Quitting Facebook · 16 points · by ciscoriordan · 9 comments
• The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters (2007) · 15 points · by teej · 6 comments
• GM Gas-Electric Hybrid Car Ad From... 1969 · 14 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• Air Force Looks for ‘Core Algorithms’ of Human Thought · 13 points · by vaksel · 4 comments
• Financial Collapse and Energy - Something Other than a NINJA Problem · 12 points · by ph0rque · 16 comments
• EFF 'Teaching Copyright' to Correct Entertainment Industry Misinformation · 12 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Anybots QA live broadcasting Google I/O · 12 points · by justin · 2 comments
• Topsy Search Launches: ReTweets Are The New Currency Of The Web · 11 points · by cyberian · 10 comments
• US Energy Secretary: paint roofs white to fight global warming · 11 points · by daviday · 26 comments
• Secure Cookie Auth with CouchDB · 11 points · by jdp · 3 comments
• Twitter Founders Say They're In for the Long Haul · 11 points · by dkasper · 5 comments
• How IBM Plans to Win Jeopardy · 11 points · by mqt · no comments
• Land deals in Africa and Asia: Cornering foreign fields · 11 points · by Anon84 · 4 comments
• Netbeans for PHP gets an enthusiastically positive review · 10 points · by dxjones · 16 comments
• Japan's earthquake rescue robot (and more) [video] · 10 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 3 comments
• How to use pulsars for interstellar navigation · 10 points · by TriinT · 3 comments
• The Coyotos Secure Operating System · 10 points · by fluffster · 3 comments
• So you want to learn Python? · 9 points · by astrec · 2 comments
• Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine · 8 points · by rms · 1 comment
• Tipfight adds competition to charity fundraising · 8 points · by ivankirigin · 4 comments
• Why you won't be building your killer app on a distributed hash table · 8 points · by jawngee · 2 comments
• The cost side of freemium · 8 points · by prakash · no comments
• Ask HN: What determines whether the down-mod is enabled? · 7 points · by asciilifeform · 11 comments
• 25 and over · 7 points · by quoderat · 3 comments
• Meet the complete mouse - whole mouse genome sequence published · 7 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• YouTube costs Google $2 million per day · 7 points · by zeedotme · 15 comments
• Are social networks destroying knowledge? · 6 points · by mspeiser · 1 comment
• Free Conference Calls, Who pays? · 6 points · by omfut · no comments
• Ask HN: Python cloud hosting? · 6 points · by bravura · 5 comments
• How Washington Can Support Entrepreneurs · 6 points · by aaronsw · 17 comments
• Better incentives can improve online advertising · 5 points · by mspeiser · 1 comment
• Squeak Smalltalk and Seaside come to the iPhone · 5 points · by mindaugas · no comments
• CrowdSourcing- The New Social Media Mantra to Sell Better · 5 points · by luckystrike · 1 comment
• Ideas I would like to see funded. What about you HN? · 5 points · by rokhayakebe · 6 comments
• Ask HN: I want to pay people, not just accept payment. What are my options? · 5 points · by mr_luc · 5 comments
• When random isn't fair · 5 points · by oxyona · no comments
• Unnovation · 5 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Startup Company Culture · 5 points · by davidw · no comments
• StatPlot Launches: Visualize Sports Stats · 5 points · by RobbieStats · 2 comments
• Ask HN: New Web Customers and Ballpark Estimates · 5 points · by matttah · 2 comments
• Blogola: The FTC Takes On Paid Posts · 4 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Complete multitasking system using coroutines (Python) · 4 points · by cbetz · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Anybody have experience with building hobby robots? · 4 points · by jamongkad · 3 comments
• When Belief in the System Fades (California Tax Rebellion) · 4 points · by winanga · no comments
• I am wondering why not all websites enabling this great feature GZIP? · 4 points · by lmacvittie · 1 comment
• My Graduation Speech by Neil Postman · 4 points · by absconditus · 2 comments
• Engineered monkeys successfully pass on genetic modifications to offspring · 4 points · by javanix · no comments
• Bartz Wants To Buy Social And Video Startups · 4 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Ask HN: Startup advice for Norway, and co-founders there? · 4 points · by roschdal · no comments
• Ask HN: Startup, Project, or something else ... · 4 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 5 comments
• Soccerbots learn how to fall gracefully · 4 points · by blogimus · no comments
• Trading coding for designing · 4 points · by okouam · 3 comments
• The Art of Commit Messages · 3 points · by DarkShikari · no comments
• Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Twitter · 3 points · by kf · 1 comment
• Beyond RAID · 3 points · by jbyers · 2 comments
• High finance vs. human nature · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• The Why of Lambda · 3 points · by codeodor · no comments
• How to make your place in the world · 3 points · by hwijaya · no comments
• Five places featured in The Geek Atlas that you've never heard of · 3 points · by jgrahamc · no comments
• Ask Pg / HN Community: Problem with HN submission/comments ... OR is it me? · 3 points · by newacc · 7 comments
• 9 Month Old Critical Java Vuln. Still Not Patched in Mac OS X · 3 points · by chaosmachine · 2 comments
• Google Web Elements and Google's Iceberg Strategy · 3 points · by agrinshtein · no comments
• Curveball optical illusion · 3 points · by javanix · no comments
• Techcrunch’s Twitter Obsession : An Analysis · 3 points · by boundlessdreamz · no comments
• FlightAware: Mashing up real-time flight data using open source · 3 points · by jparise · 1 comment
• Floating-Point Perils · 3 points · by sliced_lime · 1 comment
• Hubble's final servicing mission · 3 points · by mshafrir · 1 comment
• High-Level CPU Challenge · 2 points · by kmavm · 1 comment
• Of Luddites, Learning, and Life · 2 points · by absconditus · 2 comments
• Gumblar Virus Mutation Makes Google-Search Toxic · 2 points · by pideon · no comments
• Implement jQuery from Google Ajax Libraries API. · 2 points · by sinu9i · no comments
• Illegal downloads soar as hard times bite · 2 points · by winanga · no comments
• Ask HN: Statistics of mobile web use anyone? · 2 points · by jpirkola · 1 comment
• Take away software setup · 2 points · by Tihy · no comments
• O rule + golden proportion for calculating the gutter in the grid · 2 points · by vladocar · no comments
• Time to Cash Out: Why Paper Money Hurts the Economy · 2 points · by naish · no comments
• Will the US adopt a national sales tax? · 2 points · by splat · 2 comments
• Does your disaster recovery work? · 2 points · by abennett · no comments
• What TweenBots Can Teach About Federating Tasks · 2 points · by tagger23 · no comments
• The American Experiment · 2 points · by absconditus · 1 comment
• How to name a website by Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose · 2 points · by eastsidegringo · no comments
• Email signatures: Adding the suffix 'MBA' is very telling · 2 points · by vaksel · 2 comments
• Designing Reusable Classes, Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (1988) · 2 points · by ynd · no comments
• Method Chaining · 2 points · by gdee · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Is Twitter non-existent among my age group? · 2 points · by Scriptor · 4 comments
• Google creates Web Elements for easy news feeds · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• GM Defends the Volt, Attacks Smaller Electric Car Start-Ups (Tesla, Fisker, etc) · 2 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing [2006] · 2 points · by colonhyphenp · no comments
• Weak Have Stronger Hearing · 2 points · by rams · no comments
• JsChat - open source, json based chat system · 2 points · by grk · no comments
• Becoming a better developer, day 2: Write Shorter Methods · 2 points · by coliveira · no comments
• 12 LogoType Designs - Have you Seen These Series - Part 1 · 2 points · by imjustcreative · no comments
• Random Number Generators: A Survival Guide for Large Scale Simulations · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Ask HN: Review my WebApp: SongTwit - Share Music on Twitter · 2 points · by danhak · no comments
• Make the Most of your Spare Storage with Freeware Servers · 2 points · by codemechanic · no comments
• UNIX Rosetta Stone (admin commands across *NIX flavors) · 2 points · by mmc · no comments
• OpenSocial's Failed Promise: Only 0.7% of Apps Have Crossed Networks · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Ask YC: best ISP in Bay Area? · 2 points · by myoung8 · 2 comments
• Use a Wii Balance Board with Linux · 2 points · by kqr2 · 1 comment
• Using WiMAX to replace a phone?[-] · 1 points · by kingofpain · no comments
• Seven questions about Microsoft's Zune HD, now that it's official · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• Amazon Connect coming soon? · 1 points · by phil_KartMe · no comments
• Ghostery - Over a million installs · 1 points · by dcancel · no comments
• Topsy: New, Twitter Inspired Search Engine Debuts · 1 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• The tyrant who tweets · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• On Plug-ins and Extensible Architectures · 1 points · by buluzhai · no comments
• With Jobs Scarce, Age Becomes An Issue (Not the Way You Think) · 1 points · by ojbyrne · no comments
• Mark Zuckerberg And Yuri Milner Talk About Facebook’s New Investment (Video) · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Exploding debt threatens America · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Hints of a Tech Gold Mine in the Stimulus Package · 1 points · by mjfern · no comments
• Zune HD is official, heading your way this Fall · 1 points · by cellis · 2 comments
• Five Designers' Visions for Cities at Sea · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• What open source could learn from proprietary platforms · 1 points · by brl · no comments
• History of AOL Warez · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Stress: a simple workload generator for POSIX systems · 1 points · by pert · no comments
• What is Facebook Actually Worth? · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Refactoring: The 5 main questions: Why? When? What? How? Who? · 1 points · by albertoG · no comments
• Last.fm Denies Data-Sharing Accusations, Again · 1 points · by dunk010 · no comments
• Code Harvesting · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Von Neumann probe: self-replicating spacecraft · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• ‘Relational Theory of Space’ · 1 points · by buluzhai · no comments
• Laser-printed PIN Mailer Vulnerability Report · 1 points · by eru · 1 comment
• Cool Objects Sleep on the Couch [slideshare] · 1 points · by dan_sim · no comments
• Sad news: Temporaryinbox.com appears dead. · 1 points · by yummyfajitas · no comments
• Visible Measures rides Susan Boyle's coattails to viral video fame · 1 points · by waderoush · no comments
• Cool App: ShoutNow: Make Yourself Heard With Instant Voice Messaging · 1 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• XP Lessons From The Field · 1 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Best Practices in Implementing High Performance Drupal · 1 points · by tagger23 · no comments
• A fistful of Twollars · 1 points · by eisokant · no comments
• Design: Ease of Control, or Challenge of Relationship? · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Topsy, nicely done twitter based search engine · 1 points · by Tichy · 1 comment
• Zensify’s iPhone app shows key word trends across your social graph · 1 points · by Bastianlehmann · no comments
• Sunspot: A Solr-Powered Search Engine for Ruby · 1 points · by linuxmag · no comments
• Time Inc.'s Gimmicky New Personalized Magazine Is Actually Awesome · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Geeks Invade Government With Audacious Goals · 1 points · by Anon84 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How does twitter allow multi-byte messages · 1 points · by worldhello · 1 comment
• Our urban future · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Simple tool to match schedules for meetings, etc. · 1 points · by ReTelTech · no comments
• Canonical giving Ubuntu the gift of Android apps · 1 points · by habs · no comments
• Is marketing an art or a science? · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Why Contenture could be good for bloggers and simple web apps · 1 points · by pelle · no comments
• Programming is a lot like writing (and a bit on management too) · 1 points · by mannicken · no comments
• Nokia Ovi - 25 Mistakes · 1 points · by raganwald · no comments
• Mapping Great Debates: Can Computers Think? · 1 points · by stanleydrew · no comments
• Developers, analysts, have high expectations for Google I/O · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Live from Google I/O 2009 · 1 points · by blazamos · 1 comment
• Android, iPhone Dominate Mobile Browsing in April 2009 · 1 points · by ksvs · no comments
• Twitter Guys: We’ll Still Be Running This Company in 5 Years · 1 points · by raghus · 2 comments
• How Scouting For Pro Baseball Players Is Like Scouting For Top Business Execs · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Microsoft to Netbooks: Stay Tiny Or Pay the Price · 1 points · by ksvs · no comments
• Shuttle VIA Nano completely fanless box · 1 points · by ableal · no comments
• Rich mobile browser Skyfire launches version 1.0 · 1 points · by hko · no comments
• Inside Patagonia's fabric lab: recycling fabrics · 1 points · by sleepingbot · no comments
• Formal Proof · 1 points · by fluffster · no comments
• Example of bad programming · 1 points · by SteveOS · no comments
• Of labels and limits · 1 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Mint Map: Real Estate by State · 1 points · by heed · no comments
• XMM-Newton takes astronomers to a black hole’s edge · 1 points · by toni · no comments
• UI Changes in Windows 7 RC (b/w build 7000 and 7100) · 1 points · by aj · no comments
• Need ETL Developers · 1 points · by utefan001 · no comments
• Motorcycle Maintenance and the Matter with Kansas · 1 points · by rw · no comments
• PyXMLFAQ -- Python XML Frequently Asked Questions · 1 points · by alexk · no comments
• Data: Perceptions of VC Industry are Broken · 1 points · by dedalus · no comments
• "Can we trust a result if people must pay to criticize it?" · 1 points · by asciilifeform · no comments
• Agents which haggle and resolve conflict · 1 points · by blogimus · no comments
• "Capitalism sells... practical items as tribal power fetishes." · 1 points · by asciilifeform · no comments
• Animating Balloons · 1 points · by ojbyrne · no comments
• Troll on Cloud Computing Mailing List Actually cc's Valleywag on a Flame · 1 points · by _pius · no comments
• Commercial Software Results: Follow Up · 1 points · by worthlessgenius · no comments
• Last.fm Denies Data-Sharing Accusations, Again · 1 points · by malvosenior · no comments
• Dailymotion Launches Support for Open Video Formats and Video HTML Tag · 1 points · by Brentley_11 · 1 comment
• EFF : Teaching Copyright · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• String Pattern Matching: Welcome to Dynamic Programming · 1 points · by darkxanthos · no comments
• Weebly Takes On E-Commerce · 1 points · by jakewolf · 1 comment
• HN menu bar too bright: I see a green bar above all other text. · 1 points · by Goose90053 · 5 comments
• Koordinates: an NZ geodata company · 1 points · by jgamman · no comments
• CrowdMind · 1 points · by mshafrir · no comments
• Meta Magazine · 1 points · by abefortas · no comments
• Why You Should Go Back to a Day Job · 1 points · by webtickle · no comments
• Eric Schmidt: It's not easy being "Googzilla" (video) · 1 points · by physcab · no comments
• Google Kills a Sacred Cow · 1 points · by prakash · no comments