Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Python to get Google-backed speedup · 158 points · by mv · 69 comments
• User gets fed up with bug; cracks program to fix it himself. · 126 points · by vaksel · 34 comments
• How I Learned French in One Year · 102 points · by antiform · 48 comments
• Ask HN: Would you guys visit a purely hacker-oriented version of HN? · 84 points · by jcapote · 85 comments
• What Opera is about to Unveil? · 61 points · by techdog · 26 comments
• A #1 iPhone game-app dev says: Don't expect to make a living from the AppStore · 55 points · by credo · 21 comments
• Why Amazon Vine is a Threat Worth Talking About · 54 points · by jbischke · 21 comments
• Integer Square Roots · 49 points · by chanux · 10 comments
• What Pair-Programing is Not · 44 points · by jcsalterego · 9 comments
• From C# on Mono, to Clojure on the JVM · 43 points · by mariorz · 32 comments
• The joy of electronic books · 42 points · by drewcrawford · 13 comments
• Ask HN: What web/desktop apps do you use to manage your startup? · 38 points · by acangiano · 23 comments
• The inside story of the Conficker worm · 38 points · by vaksel · 3 comments
• Neo4j - a Graph Database that Kicks Buttox · 36 points · by timf · no comments
• Podcast Interview with Peldi of Balsamiq (500K of revenue in only 10 months) · 35 points · by jayro · 4 comments
• How to blow your investor pitch · 35 points · by replicatorblog · 8 comments
• Knuth: Programs to Read · 34 points · by zkz · 7 comments
• Is multicore hype or reality? · 34 points · by iamelgringo · 14 comments
• Images of technical PDFs on the Kindle DX · 28 points · by mdweezer · 14 comments
• Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of Windows · 28 points · by vaksel · 22 comments
• Facebook | Username · 27 points · by mshafrir · 48 comments
• Daily Routines: How writers, artists, and others organize their days · 27 points · by kqr2 · 3 comments
• MySpace Is In Far Worse Shape Than Its New Executives Thought · 24 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 13 comments
• Seeking a Better Way of Living in Co-housing · 23 points · by robg · 4 comments
• Even Amid This Slump, Demand for Toyota Prius Is Insatiable · 22 points · by peter123 · 24 comments
• Single Logout: the other half of the identity equation · 22 points · by danw · 5 comments
• Let's reimplement Eurisko · 21 points · by kf · 25 comments
• The Crack-Up By F. Scott Fitzgerald · 19 points · by gabriel · 6 comments
• Google Launches Fusion Tables · 18 points · by vaksel · 4 comments
• High population density triggers cultural explosions · 17 points · by robg · no comments
• 4Chan Flooding YouTube with Childrens' Clips Containing Porn · 16 points · by ComputerGuru · 49 comments
• Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel · 14 points · by tokenadult · 37 comments
• Profiling Ruby With Google's Perftools · 12 points · by igrigorik · no comments
• How Venture Capital will change - and Soon · 11 points · by pj · 1 comment
• Why pretend to care about others when we have professional therapists? (2003) · 11 points · by tokenadult · 12 comments
• Inside GM: Mystery of Crap Interiors Solved · 11 points · by replicatorblog · 7 comments
• Banksy's latest art hack · 9 points · by surfarama · 1 comment
• Browser Innovations Started by Opera · 9 points · by iamelgringo · 5 comments
• DOM selectors API in Firefox 3.5 · 9 points · by timf · no comments
• Facebook Team Celebrates and Explains the Usernames Launch [video] · 8 points · by peter123 · 9 comments
• From the Generically-Named, an Appeal for a Facebook URL Aftermarket · 8 points · by robertjmoore · 3 comments
• Statistics for Large Numbers of Rare Events · 7 points · by kurtosis · no comments
• The First FaceSquatting? · 6 points · by marcusbooster · 1 comment
• Sniff Your iPhone's Network Traffic · 6 points · by sant0sk1 · 2 comments
• Extremely simple sort algorithm with sub-cubic expected running time. [pdf] · 6 points · by amichail · 6 comments
• Ask HN: I need a new OS for my Thinkpad T40. Can you help? · 5 points · by daveambrose · 10 comments
• How to Type with a Foreign Accent · 5 points · by rglovejoy · 3 comments
• Banach-Tarski paradox · 5 points · by tokenadult · 2 comments
• VC Series A Investments in Web Tech Grew Strongly In May · 5 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Disney charging ISPs for faster access · 5 points · by gasull · 2 comments
• DNA-like Molecule Replicates Without Help · 4 points · by ph0rque · 1 comment
• Great Funny Talk by Luis von Ahn on reCAPTCHA [video] · 4 points · by heed · no comments
• The App Store Needs A Genius Feature, ASAP · 4 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Stunning Portfolio Designs · 3 points · by jonphillips · no comments
• I’m Going to Harvard. Will You Sponsor Me? · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Apple's 2009 MacBook Pro: Battery Life to Die For · 3 points · by tortilla · no comments
• Is Your Body Yours? · 3 points · by messel · 1 comment
• Show that this extremely simple sort has sub-cubic expected running time. · 3 points · by amichail · 10 comments
• Githooks Ruby Gem · 3 points · by jeckel · no comments
• Digital Urban: Google 2009 - Advanced 3D Geo Apps for Web: Earth API · 3 points · by dsil · no comments
• Economic cycles tied to startups and Fortune 500 company founding · 2 points · by quizbiz · no comments
• Boy Hit by Meteorite · 2 points · by trs90 · no comments
• Computing beyond Turing · 2 points · by apr · no comments
• Apple tried to murder FireWire--and failed. For now. · 2 points · by technologizer · 4 comments
• Ask HN: What FaceBook 'ScreenNames' were you able to capture? · 2 points · by keltecp11 · 4 comments
• Student Invents Bottle Made of Paper (video) · 2 points · by keltecp11 · 2 comments
• First known object with 1 stable and 1 unstable equilibrium point · 2 points · by titusz · 1 comment
• Drastically reduce filesize of PSDs by adding white layer on top and zipping · 2 points · by niyazpk · 2 comments
• Facebook Usernames for sale to the highest bidder · 2 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• Facebook Usernames and OpenID · 2 points · by mcav · no comments
• Can Google Trends Predict Winners? · 2 points · by FollowSteph · no comments
• Ask HN: textbooks, references for crawl+ingestion architecture · 2 points · by diN0bot · 1 comment
• Intro to jQuery Plugins & Testing · 2 points · by bkbleikamp · no comments
• Air France pilots faced a cascade of failures · 2 points · by toffer · 2 comments
• IPhone Development: OpenGL ES from the ground up · 2 points · by weaksauce · no comments
• Google to launch microblogging search engine? · 2 points · by jakewolf · no comments
• Linux first to support USB 3 · 2 points · by kqr2 · 1 comment
• Everything you need to know about Twitter. In one tweet. · 2 points · by jv2222 · 1 comment
• Erasure Coding and Cold Storage · 2 points · by timf · no comments
• Trust, hostility, and the human side of Apple · 2 points · by mcav · no comments
• Samy, Their Hero (2005) · 1 points · by paulgb · no comments
• Loving Day · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Facebook Vanity Landrush Tonight At 9 pm PST: Here’s What You Need To Do · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan · 1 points · by justinweiss · no comments
• Nitroglycerin And Nitrogen Triiodide [video] · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• HP funds 60 researchers at 46 universities · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Twitter Sells $3 Million Of Computers For Dell · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• No 5-Hour iPhone Lines This Time · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Toodledo/rackspace outage, customer reaction · 1 points · by frossie · 1 comment
• CEOs go 'homeless' to raise awareness · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• MSNBC: iPhone3GS over Pre; Ignores AT&T ball-n-chain · 1 points · by CalmQuiet · 2 comments
• Alleged "Hacking-Terror" Effort (al Queda links) Thwarted · 1 points · by CalmQuiet · no comments
• Programming is not the right thing to do · 1 points · by arthurk · no comments
• SEO Tools for Firefox · 1 points · by zen53 · no comments
• Company alleges Chinese software has stolen code · 1 points · by newacc · 1 comment
• Can Oracle give Java a boost (and monetize it better)? · 1 points · by Kototama · no comments
• Media Misreports on Biased Pirate Bay Judge · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Cascading Failure (on Google's Malware Detection) · 1 points · by mcav · no comments
• Drawing 'Hello World' by generating disc I/O patterns · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Ask HN: Looking to furnish our new office in NYC. Any suggestions, inspirations? · 1 points · by kvs · 4 comments
• Mangle - View Manga on the Kindle · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Hivelogic - Anonymous Pro: a programming font with style · 1 points · by pope52 · no comments
• The Secret of Creating Monkey Island - An Interview With Ron Gilbert · 1 points · by dsil · no comments
• Startup lawyer in Phoenix? · 1 points · by swdesignguy · no comments
• What Open Source Shares With Science · 1 points · by csbartus · no comments
• Why Dell should buy Palm · 1 points · by csbartus · no comments
• How Will Robots See in 2018? [video] · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Apt-build — optimize your Debian/Ubuntu · 1 points · by gasull · no comments
• A Paimei tutorial - hands on pyDBG · 1 points · by gasull · no comments
• Lovelorn Programmer: When she only wants to Chat · 1 points · by techdog · no comments
• Breaking into more than 2,500 corporate PBX systems · 1 points · by gasull · no comments
• The Drug Lord Who Got Away · 1 points · by jakarta · no comments
• NSA ill-suited for domestic cybersecurity role · 1 points · by gasull · no comments
• The limit of "The Semantic Web" · 1 points · by fcerong · no comments
• How to Get Rich, Really Really Rich · 1 points · by messel · 3 comments
• Su.pr Offers Short Urls With Your Own Domain · 1 points · by muimui · no comments
• The Dangers of Becoming a Web Celebrity · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Live Times Wire · 1 points · by quizbiz · no comments
• Wikimapia Beta - "Let's describe the whole world" · 1 points · by quizbiz · no comments
• WordPress Versus Workflow · 1 points · by gengstrand · no comments
• What Open Source shares with Science · 1 points · by dsil · no comments
• Michael Sandel: Markets and Morals · 1 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Don LaFontaine: The Voice [video] · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Twitpocalypse: quick php bugfix · 1 points · by nader · no comments
• Twitter "twitpocalypse" affects Mac, iPhone apps · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments