Hacker News Way Back Machine

• How to Teach a Child to Argue · 217 points · by dsil · 54 comments
• How To Build Something Real (In Your Spare Time) · 155 points · by thomanil · 41 comments
• Curing Python's Neglect · 149 points · by twampss · 91 comments
• eieio · 136 points · by soundsop · 13 comments
• Excerpts From the Diary of an [iTunes] App Store Reviewer · 124 points · by tumult · 24 comments
• Kurt Gödel is Laughing His Ass Off Right Now · 96 points · by chadaustin · 58 comments
• Why Women Have Breasts · 90 points · by IsaacSchlueter · 64 comments
• Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology · 86 points · by Flemlord · 29 comments
• What I learned from screwing up my first ebook launch · 73 points · by ahoyhere · 31 comments
• Nate Lawson Breaks Google Keyczar's HMAC Crypto Signatures · 62 points · by tptacek · 24 comments
• Obfuscate Your Company · 53 points · by Derferman · 38 comments
• Database of hidden settings for Mac OS X · 51 points · by mmc · 13 comments
• Bye-bye kindle · 47 points · by TweedHeads · 48 comments
• Real Programmers... · 46 points · by marcog1 · 17 comments
• Ask HN: What to do about distracting mental chatter? · 45 points · by jpeterson · 49 comments
• Nikola Tesla--The Man Who Lit Up the World · 44 points · by jgrahamc · 13 comments
• Amazon Payments now supports recurring payments · 39 points · by songism · 13 comments
• PatchMatch: amazing interactive content-aware image editing (SIGGRAPH 09) · 39 points · by bd · 4 comments
• Why my vote goes to the Pirate Party · 36 points · by kqr2 · 8 comments
• Django-Based Blog on Google App Engine Tutorial, Part 1 · 35 points · by unfug · 5 comments
• Opera 10 Browser UA string format changed to accomodate bad applications · 32 points · by aj · 21 comments
• 17th century Damascus sabres contained carbon nanotubes · 32 points · by rogercosseboom · 17 comments
• Ask HN: No-names, tell your story on how you got PR coverage · 32 points · by kineticac · 63 comments
• Git Hub Serves More Ruby Gems Than Rubyforge · 30 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 17 comments
• Born free: Open-source software in the recession · 29 points · by __ · 5 comments
• The Scribd Story and the Trip Method · 27 points · by marketer · 20 comments
• Ask HN: please review my technology. · 25 points · by casta · 25 comments
• Twitter analytics using mathematica · 25 points · by sayhello · no comments
• The Future of Manufacturing, GM, and American Workers (Part I) · 25 points · by dangoldin · 19 comments
• Create an AI on Your Computer · 24 points · by kkleiner · 8 comments
• Twitter's peak load is only 200 tweets per second · 24 points · by boundlessdreamz · 26 comments
• Outrageous Canadian research study on Internet piracy is itself pirated. · 24 points · by dxjones · 3 comments
• One Cheeseburger Equals 15,000 Google Searches in CO2 Emissions · 23 points · by erdemozkan · 26 comments
• Despite crazy rules, America is still a great place to do business · 20 points · by tyn · 3 comments
• Knuth is so revered among computer scientists that they won't cash his checks. · 19 points · by TriinT · 12 comments
• Google Wave API · 19 points · by pageman · 7 comments
• Why our 'amazing' science fiction future fizzled · 19 points · by mshafrir · 24 comments
• Palm Pre Review · 19 points · by mshafrir · 6 comments
• How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project · 18 points · by pushingbits · 8 comments
• A Different Look at Software Design · 18 points · by visitor4rmindia · 11 comments
• Sept. 24, 1993: Beautiful ‘Myst’ Ushers In Era of CD-ROM Gaming · 18 points · by ahoyhere · 13 comments
• Building your team pre-financing · 17 points · by swombat · 4 comments
• Another Perl success story: The Swedish pension system · 17 points · by nixy · 14 comments
• SATA 3.0 Released, Solid-State Drives Rejoice · 17 points · by vaksel · 7 comments
• Free State Project tries to hack NH government · 17 points · by ilamont · 22 comments
• Server Fault now in public beta · 17 points · by gus_massa · 1 comment
• Please review my web application: http://safe.mn/ · 16 points · by jusob · 5 comments
• Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace · 16 points · by robg · 9 comments
• The Complexity of Songs by Knuth · 15 points · by amichail · 7 comments
• Free or Cheap Tools for Start-ups · 14 points · by jmonegro · 4 comments
• Google Wave is not Email - its so much more. · 14 points · by Spyckie · 13 comments
• Is Pornography the New Tobacco? · 14 points · by cpr · 16 comments
• Twitter-based game from iList — Spymaster · 13 points · by blazamos · 7 comments
• Henry Blodget is a Dope · 13 points · by SamAtt · 9 comments
• A cute technique for avoiding certain data race conditions · 12 points · by threadman · 1 comment
• Dustbot the street cleaning robot · 12 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 7 comments
• Q and A with Ballmer Discussing Bing · 11 points · by robg · 7 comments
• Recursion Is Easy To Understand · 11 points · by wallflower · 5 comments
• How do you get ahead in an industry that can’t see its own future? · 11 points · by robg · 4 comments
• The History of the Integrated Circuit · 11 points · by aquateen · no comments
• Forrester's Andy Jaquith Dissects Obama's New CyberSecurity Policy · 10 points · by tptacek · 1 comment
• Facebook's New Home · 10 points · by peter123 · 7 comments
• Yahoo Meme (Twitter knockoff) · 9 points · by mshafrir · 14 comments
• Ok HN, You Were Right. Unpaid Internships Are Wrong · 8 points · by physcab · 14 comments
• Room in a Box - Modular Furniture. · 8 points · by spkthed · 1 comment
• SiCortex after 7 years (fresh postmortem) · 7 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Ask HN: reliable domain registration · 7 points · by something · 8 comments
• Eproject 1.5 released (file collection or "project" management for emacs) · 7 points · by jrockway · no comments
• Apple Lisa Operating System Reference Manual (from 1983) · 7 points · by bensummers · no comments
• So That’s Why Hulu Hates Boxee · 6 points · by chanux · 2 comments
• Thorn—Robust, Concurrent, Extensible Scripting on the JVM · 6 points · by nixy · no comments
• Ask HN: Review my POC to detect spam accounts on twitter · 6 points · by sucuri2 · 7 comments
• 5 Startup Lessons From the Recession · 6 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Ask YC: Anyone at WWDC this year? · 6 points · by yan · 11 comments
• Can you copyright a tweet? · 5 points · by winanga · 12 comments
• Spymaster - Twitter-based MMORPG · 5 points · by bkudria · 3 comments
• Computing: Unlocking the cloud · 5 points · by mjfern · no comments
• Watching Sergey Wander: A Sliver of Insight Into Google? · 5 points · by amilr · 3 comments
• Seeking tech cofounder/collaborator-Adventure travel startup · 5 points · by colellm · 8 comments
• It's Time For Microsoft To Face Reality About Search And The Internet · 5 points · by fromedome · no comments
• 'Power' move by male students ruffles U. of C. · 4 points · by ryanwaggoner · 1 comment
• Why don't search engines incorporate Wikipedia article headings? · 4 points · by amichail · no comments
• Best Buy Wants To Fund Your Startup · 4 points · by ciscoriordan · 1 comment
• Rumors of our Demise are Greatly Exaggerated (Rubinius) · 4 points · by justinweiss · no comments
• Make-It-Green: Yahoo Green contest · 4 points · by SingAlong · no comments
• Google Open Source Blog: Web Storage Portability Layer API · 4 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Hobbyists Rebuild Wall-E, One PVC Pipe at a Time · 4 points · by naish · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Any startups hiring in the UK · 4 points · by uk_worker · 2 comments
• Ask HN:When to expect reply to emails? · 4 points · by yearsinrock · 6 comments
• Ask HN: I'm doing a series of lectures on entrepreneurship - what should i say? · 4 points · by mixmax · 12 comments
• Pet Projects · 4 points · by fogus · 2 comments
• One Man's Historic Hard Disk · 4 points · by asciilifeform · no comments
• Panic's software is 50% off until midnight · 4 points · by grinich · no comments
• Announcing Alchitect · 4 points · by Zelphyr · 5 comments
• Pay With Facebook Is In The Wild · 4 points · by vaksel · 4 comments
• How do you build an aggregator? · 3 points · by mg1313 · 4 comments
• 10 Ways to Rapid Development · 3 points · by jeckel · no comments
• Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 · 3 points · by s3graham · no comments
• Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 · 3 points · by tlrobinson · 1 comment
• The iPhone and Web APIs · 3 points · by carlosrr · no comments
• Science in Our life and day to day activity · 3 points · by akshar200 · 1 comment
• Are we in control of our own decisions? (video) · 3 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• AdSense is now an Unsupported Product · 3 points · by martinbtt · no comments
• Alastair Reynolds wonders if we could do a better job of looking into history · 3 points · by mattculbreth · no comments
• Do you find WolframAlpha inflexible and unhelpful re: question phrasing? · 3 points · by CalmQuiet · 2 comments
• POPCOUNT, the "NSA Opcode." · 3 points · by asciilifeform · 2 comments
• Apple vs. Microsoft - A Website Usability Study · 3 points · by tortilla · 2 comments
• Track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen · 3 points · by csbartus · 1 comment
• Professor used group semi-ignorance to pick stocks [translated] · 3 points · by colinprince · 5 comments
• Can Apple manage without Steve Jobs? · 3 points · by jacek · 1 comment
• Meet GigaOM Pro, Our Subscription-Only Research Service · 3 points · by Mistone · 1 comment
• Ask HN: WIPO Complaint for a domain name · 3 points · by boolean · no comments
• Ask HN: How would you define Hyper Local Advertising? · 3 points · by keltecp11 · 1 comment
• How to beat Page's Law? Pretend you're coding for a Vic-20 · 3 points · by technologizer · 3 comments
• OCR = 0nline P0ken 0pticaL Chanacter Recogrition · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Becoming a better developer, day 4: Lean a New Programming Language · 3 points · by coliveira · no comments
• The Million Dollar Programming Prize · 3 points · by mace · 2 comments
• Ask HN: How do background check sites get their data? · 3 points · by ashishk · 1 comment
• Could we move Mars or Venus into Earth's orbit and live there? · 3 points · by rglovejoy · 1 comment
• Reminders by SMS using a clean UI · 3 points · by Jeedee · 1 comment
• Dancing links, by Knuth · 2 points · by sanj · no comments
• The peril of positive thinking · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Quinoa: A Sacred, Super Crop · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Viral Video Hoax, or Proof of Impending Cyber Apocalypse? · 2 points · by ajbatac · 2 comments
• The Transparency Dilemma · 2 points · by queensnake · no comments
• Developing Instinct · 2 points · by llimllib · no comments
• Superconducting chips to become reality · 2 points · by toni · no comments
• Why I don't like Twitter · 2 points · by akshar200 · 2 comments
• How charging for articles could hobble the future of journalism · 2 points · by mjfern · 1 comment
• California prepares for 'the Big One' · 2 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• AFP: Blogging guru chips away at Great Firewall of China · 2 points · by chanux · no comments
• SourceForge Acquires Open Source Data Community Ohloh · 2 points · by davidw · 1 comment
• Examples of Data Visualization · 2 points · by webmasterish · no comments
• Virginia bans smiling at DMV to aid facial recognition · 2 points · by ujeezy · 1 comment
• RPath Paves Easy Way to Port Apps to Cloud · 2 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Functional programming is not all-or-nothing · 2 points · by grandpa · no comments
• Ask HN: Running a car on water. Plausible or just more bad internet science? · 2 points · by cubicle67 · 9 comments
• Why You Need to Learn SALES · 2 points · by coglethorpe · no comments
• Making contact / A kid from Harlem reaches toward extraterrestrials · 2 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Palm Pre impersonates an iPod to trick iTunes to sync · 2 points · by cscott · no comments
• New Mac clone maker to open retail store in Calif. · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Altruism repays the best-connected individuals · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Cross-Domain Data with Rack and Rails · 2 points · by csbartus · no comments
• Rosenhan experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Why YouTube Can’t Cost $1.65M a Day · 2 points · by bkrausz · no comments
• Theorists reveal path to true muonium · 2 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Google Wave is Coming for your ERP · 2 points · by VonGuard · no comments
• Ask HN: any astonishing stories of startups built in the cloud? · 2 points · by midtownninja · no comments
• Bond Vigilantes Confront Obama as Housing Falters · 2 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Finding Freelance Programmers · 2 points · by jmonegro · 1 comment
• Golden Ratio, Fibonacci and Clojure · 2 points · by ossenabled · no comments
• Post-Consumer Prosperity · 2 points · by frankus · no comments
• Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships · 2 points · by mjfern · no comments
• BakerTweet: announcing via Twitter when freshly baked goods are ready. · 2 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• The Walking Dead: Yahoo 360 Officially Closes, Again · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Video: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings On The Economics Of Movie Streaming · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Games: Another reason why Twitter needs filters · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Designing a Better Can Opener · 2 points · by huhtenberg · no comments
• How is the HN community as a whole different from your social circle? · 2 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• Microsoft Details How It'll Cripple 'Windows 7 Starter' For Netbooks · 2 points · by fromedome · 1 comment
• FASTWEB Race announces Steve Souders and Ben Rushlo as Judges · 2 points · by msacks · no comments
• Highlights from Palm's interview with All Things Digital about the Pre · 1 points · by ra88it · no comments
• Persuasive Games: I Want My 99¢ Back · 1 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Out For a Ride & Poetry in the Wind · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Design Strategy video from Continuum · 1 points · by ieatpaste · no comments
• Giving the poor a means to work · 1 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Why do Chicago VC's lag so far behind others? · 1 points · by tboxer854 · 4 comments
• Microsoft launches Bing.com as its new search engine · 1 points · by newacc · no comments
• Get Twitter Messages As IMAP Server in Python · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Cancer Meds Wiped Off Man's Fingerprints · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Mozilla Education · 1 points · by toni · no comments
• Is our biology to blame if we're not the sociable type? · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• Is Wave Bloatware? · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• The Twitterverse v0.9 by @BrianSolis & @Jess3 · 1 points · by Mistone · no comments
• Optfunc - use introspection to turn Python functions in to command line scripts · 1 points · by simonw · no comments
• The 1Kb CSS Grid, Part 1 · 1 points · by mindaugas · no comments
• Hiding secret messages in internet traffic · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Minsh: the Tweetsphere as an Underwater Virtual World · 1 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• Ask HN: Interesting electronics stores in Hong Kong/Shenzhen · 1 points · by dhess · no comments
• R2D2: Rutgers’ System for Faster Internet on the Road · 1 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• GitHub.js · 1 points · by judofyr · no comments
• The Network Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• The book, Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway is out · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• CalculemusCelebrating 25 years of celebrating computation (Old article) · 1 points · by muon · no comments
• Unlocking the cloud · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• Hands-on impressions of Nokia’s N97 [video] · 1 points · by mrspin · no comments
• From Improving Usability with YSlow to the MI of Google's Wave · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Student Nano Interview · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Hacking to Great Guitar Rock Songs · 1 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Publish2 - collaborative reporting tools · 1 points · by pageman · no comments
• JavaFX Crayon Physics · 1 points · by csantini · no comments
• In his zeal to fix capitalism, Barack Obama must not stifle America’s dynamism · 1 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• Iraqi Teen Solves 300-Year-Old Math Puzzle in Four Months · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• China Puts Its Faith In Solar Power With Huge Renewable Energy Investment · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Prism: I Like It, What Do You Think? · 1 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• How I Won The DFJ $250K East Coast Venture Challenge · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Why Comcast Has To Worry About Hulu, Part 2: Hulu Desktop · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Social Gaming Scores in the Recession (Zynga) · 1 points · by tortilla · no comments
• If Rives Controlled The Internet · 1 points · by erdemozkan · no comments
• Why Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg are wrong about naming Web 3.0 “Web 3.0″ · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Ask HN: Link for the new Text Replacement Technology posted the other day? · 1 points · by mannylee1 · 1 comment
• The Secret Art of Futamura Projection · 1 points · by silentbicycle · 1 comment
• So Much For Twitter’s Trending Topics To Indicate Breaking News · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• The Online Social Network of Teens · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Java SE 6 Update 14 Released · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Need Testers · 1 points · by dottertrotter · no comments
• Internet map in February 1982 · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• IE 8 & Ubuntu · 1 points · by chanux · no comments
• Agile's Natural Disciplines · 1 points · by adamc · no comments
• Whitehouse - Cyberspace Policy Review [pdf] · 1 points · by rdj · no comments
• Interesting Web 2.0 Jobs with those Pickup Artists from "The Game" · 1 points · by money-cowboy · 1 comment
• Where's Wally/Waldo for Twitter · 1 points · by martinrue · no comments
• Geary Cube puzzle, another Bram and Oskar collaboration · 1 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• Quick and dirty linux GUI programming · 1 points · by chanux · no comments
• Hyper Local Newspaper Franchise Announced · 1 points · by keltecp11 · no comments
• The entire Flickr Shape files released in to the public domain · 1 points · by aj · no comments
• A UK startup brings Light, low-cost e-reader. · 1 points · by chanux · no comments
• Online Security: White House Establishes New Cyber Czar Position · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Lasers are making solar cells competitive · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Golf - A client side, accessible javascript web framework · 1 points · by justinweiss · no comments
• An Inconvenient Talk: Dave Hughes’s guide to the end of the fossil fuel age · 1 points · by toffer · no comments
• Dustbot the street cleaning robot · 1 points · by ph0rque · 1 comment
• NDAs are a pain. Can we fix this? · 1 points · by cmos · 2 comments
• Goog-411 Now Tells You Intersections · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• WSJ: Crazy Compensation and the Crisis · 1 points · by dxjones · no comments
• CocoaHeads Amsterdam Beginner iPhone Development Presentation · 1 points · by koenbok · no comments
• Visualizing Music through Canvas (Needs FF 3.5Beta or Chrome 2) · 1 points · by aj · no comments
• Google Wave: Another step toward XMPP powering the real time web · 1 points · by daleharvey · no comments
• Why Is Space 3D? · 1 points · by asciilifeform · no comments
• Palm Pre syncs with iTunes · 1 points · by jpwagner · no comments
• Microsoft’s Bing Vs Google: Head To Head Search Results · 1 points · by pierrefar · no comments
• Financial Detail vs Team Capability · 1 points · by mooders · no comments
• Neuroimaging: Separating the Promise from the Pipe Dreams · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• People By Nature Are Universally Optimistic, Study Shows · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Microsoft puts Bing on a truck · 1 points · by rayvega · no comments
• Facebook Revs Up For Payment Platform With Updated Terms · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Ask HN: Single-page Apps... What's your experience with GWT? · 1 points · by huyng · no comments
• Why Women Pretend To Be Stupid · 1 points · by keltecp11 · 2 comments
• What Google Wave Means for Facebook · 1 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Todays Networks not Ready for Enterprise Cloud - Panel on Video · 1 points · by TechPundit · no comments
• Google Timing · 1 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Is Google Wave Evil? (or the importance of a decentralized Wave ecosystem) · 1 points · by swannodette · 4 comments
• Ask NH: How Techmeme is built? · 1 points · by mg1313 · no comments
• New research reveals how meditation changes the brain · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• How long could a black hole remain in the center of the earth? · 1 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• Scam Design - 25 Examples And Worst Practices · 1 points · by mancuso5 · no comments