Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Face detection in pure PHP (without OpenCV) · 125 points · by nreece · 15 comments
• Ask HN: Math for hackers. · 102 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 56 comments
• Website Performance Tutorials · 79 points · by champion · 14 comments
• Erik Naggum, R.I.P. · 76 points · by imgabe · 41 comments
• HTC Hero - Full Flash, Skype over 3G, custom Android UI, multitouch. · 70 points · by nailer · 51 comments
• Posterous Acquires Fellow Y Combinator Alum Slinkset · 68 points · by ed · 24 comments
• Startup Law 101 - What it means to own x% of a company · 68 points · by grellas · 2 comments
• Encrypt-then-MAC · 65 points · by cperciva · 49 comments
• The Billion Dollar HTML Tag · 61 points · by 1SockChuck · 29 comments
• Outlook’s broken—Let’s fix it · 58 points · by tortilla · 42 comments
• Chris Anderson's Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism · 55 points · by razorburn · 36 comments
• Should You Go Beyond Relational Databases? · 52 points · by olegp · 30 comments
• Ask PG: Any plans to make the YC talks public? · 49 points · by trickjarrett · 16 comments
• Buffett: Apple Withheld "Material Fact" On Steve Jobs Health · 47 points · by jakarta · 47 comments
• Bruce Schneier: Fixing Airport Security · 44 points · by lamnk · 19 comments
• $100 Laptop Becomes $5 PC · 41 points · by razorburn · 9 comments
• You can now share files on FriendFeed · 40 points · by zeedotme · 14 comments
• Anecdote Driven Development, or Why I Don't Do TDD · 39 points · by 10ren · 11 comments
• PyPy: JIT progress, 50% faster baseline than CPython · 35 points · by empone · 4 comments
• The eternal optimism of the Clear mind · 35 points · by twampss · 18 comments
• Test-Driven Design: not for the early stages of development · 35 points · by yungchin · 11 comments
• ZeniMax Media Acquires id Software · 35 points · by jrbedard · 12 comments
• The Ultimate Modern Desert House · 32 points · by shard · 12 comments
• Is a Proof a Proof If No One Can Check It? · 32 points · by kqr2 · 29 comments
• Army Exoskeleton Suit Gives Man Superhuman Strength · 31 points · by kkleiner · 22 comments
• EA's new motto: please pirate our games... er, storefronts · 30 points · by vaksel · 21 comments
• Linux: It doesn't get any faster · 29 points · by nreece · 27 comments
• Do you really want to tax ability? · 27 points · by anamax · 30 comments
• Transparency · 26 points · by davi · 9 comments
• Help convince Media Browser's author to charge for his awesome product · 26 points · by jasonkester · 18 comments
• The Startup Entrepreneur's Guide To Risk Management · 26 points · by nreece · 3 comments
• Facebook Launches A Live Stream Box, Partners With Ustream · 26 points · by gibsonf1 · 7 comments
• IPhone 3GS JavaScript Performance Blows Away Rivals, Approaches MacBook Speed · 25 points · by gibsonf1 · 9 comments
• Iranian government using crowd-sourcing to identify protesters · 25 points · by siavosh · 8 comments
• Bill Gates: “Our Most Potent Operating System Competitor is Linux” · 24 points · by rms · 33 comments
• Arc New Features · 24 points · by revorad · 8 comments
• Email Address Length FAQ · 24 points · by nreece · 18 comments
• Doing the opposite of everyone is valuable · 23 points · by jackchristopher · 9 comments
• Google Banishes Nicholas Carr From The Index · 22 points · by quoderat · 15 comments
• Why We Need Steve Jobs · 21 points · by edw519 · 38 comments
• Android gets Flash support · 20 points · by stevejalim · 11 comments
• SSN Required To Buy Palm Pre · 20 points · by gasull · 22 comments
• Hunting the Elusive First "Ms." (proposed in 1901) · 19 points · by gruseom · 4 comments
• Mob Wars CEO: Twitter Is Run by Hippies · 19 points · by peter123 · 21 comments
• There’s That Facebook “Everyone Button” We Told You About · 19 points · by vaksel · 2 comments
• Canadian Politicians Reverse Course On DMCA · 18 points · by gasull · 1 comment
• Panasonic Now Forces You To Use Their Batteries · 17 points · by TallGuyShort · 24 comments
• Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog : The Power of Word in Outlook · 16 points · by justinweiss · 1 comment
• Please review my site: Pinkdy.com (fertility calendar) · 15 points · by antirez · 35 comments
• An Analysis of MMORPG Player Demographics and MMORPG Player Stereotypes · 15 points · by clryan · 8 comments
• German Court Slams Rapidshare With $34 Million Fine · 15 points · by vaksel · 6 comments
• The Power Of Not Being Positive · 15 points · by jackchristopher · no comments
• A Simple Twitter App with Ruby on Rails - Messages With Ajax · 14 points · by zeedotme · 2 comments
• Waste heat from computers to warm buildings · 14 points · by swombat · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Tool development as a job applicant filter? · 14 points · by absconditus · 11 comments
• Ask HN: Is there a key-time-value database? · 14 points · by yellowbkpk · 12 comments
• Mozilla working to defend web against XSS attacks · 12 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book · 12 points · by firebug · 8 comments
• The Ruby on Rails CMS Dilemma · 10 points · by nreece · 5 comments
• Summer school? Reading books? Camp? Computer games might be a better choice · 10 points · by noheartanthony · 6 comments
• Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs · 10 points · by pchristensen · no comments
• The Flight of the Startup · 9 points · by gthank · 1 comment
• Methodist University Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Liver Transplant · 8 points · by mronge · 1 comment
• Engineers Are The Best Deal - So Stock Up On Them · 7 points · by vaksel · no comments
• 25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers · 7 points · by BRadmin · 1 comment
• 50 Guerrilla Marketing Tactics You Should Be Using · 6 points · by swdesignguy · no comments
• Not up to norm · 6 points · by muon · 4 comments
• Ask HN: How To Add Video To Ramamia (Upload AND Webcam) · 6 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 7 comments
• Social Skydiving with a Code Monkey · 5 points · by darkxanthos · no comments
• Imaginary Erdős Number · 5 points · by fsniper · no comments
• Do Fakes on eBay Save Antiquities? · 5 points · by robg · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how do you get introductions from investors decline? · 5 points · by coopr · 2 comments
• How cloud vendors can be evil? · 5 points · by mohit · 4 comments
• Bing and Google Agree: Slow Pages Lose Users · 4 points · by yungchin · no comments
• Ask HN: How to get started with making a twitter app? · 4 points · by quizbiz · 2 comments
• Bill Joy after Sun (2003) · 4 points · by newsio · no comments
• Mac Dock Icon Spelling · 4 points · by zeedotme · no comments
• Microsoft has decided to acquire Yahoo one employee at a time · 4 points · by Flemlord · 1 comment
• The Wal-Mart of Weddings: David’s Bridal outfits one-third of America’s brides · 4 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Start-up Symbiosis · 4 points · by terpua · no comments
• EU Advisory Group Proposes Tighter Privacy Regulation On Social Networks · 4 points · by FluidDjango · no comments
• The Trouble with Brands · 4 points · by quizbiz · 2 comments
• IEEE contest to showcase homegrown hackery · 4 points · by thirdstation · no comments
• Programming Paradigms for Dummies · 4 points · by discreteevent · no comments
• An Introduction to Autoresponders · 4 points · by azwebcoder · no comments
• Cheap way to make intro/how-to videos for a website? · 4 points · by justinchen · 1 comment
• Climbing the ladder to longevity: Critical enzyme pair identified · 4 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Blast from the demoscene past · 4 points · by benhoyt · no comments
• Work 40 hours for your employer and another 20 hours improving yourself. · 4 points · by jamongkad · no comments
• Ask HN: Why was my submission title changed? · 3 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Don't let endianness byte you · 3 points · by benhoyt · no comments
• Python testing frameworks · 3 points · by mace · no comments
• On the limitations of dumb but fast... · 3 points · by nice1 · no comments
• (quick tool I wrote) we help you get the twitter name you want · 3 points · by int2e · 3 comments
• EU regulators lay out limits on privacy for social networks · 3 points · by aj · no comments
• The Turing Test and Prejudice · 3 points · by jgrahamc · no comments
• Amazing collection of Free PHP Frameworks and CMS · 3 points · by shahzadvu · 1 comment
• Poor people are not lifeless bricks. · 3 points · by digamber_kamat · no comments
• Harvard cuts 275 jobs, cites drop in endowment · 3 points · by gibsonf1 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Thoughts about qui.tw (geolocation shortener) · 3 points · by hungryblank · 3 comments
• The Right to Walk Away · 3 points · by abefortas · no comments
• Verizon CEO Seidenberg’s Words of Entrepreneurial Wisdom · 3 points · by newacc · no comments
• Better Python package management using source and version control systems · 3 points · by scorpion032 · no comments
• How Kiva Robots Help Zappos and Walgreens · 3 points · by kungfudoi · 1 comment
• PHPUnit Mastery | Engineering Blog - Genius.com Marketing SaaS · 3 points · by rausanka · no comments
• Unravelling the Canadian Copyright Policy Laundering Strategy · 3 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• IPhone App Developers: Do Not Fear the Lite · 3 points · by icombat · no comments
• Facebook now offers way to share stuff with everyone or just a specific list. · 3 points · by zeedotme · no comments
• Ask HN: How to build an app/service that makes all users feel equally smart? · 3 points · by amichail · 17 comments
• Stunning pictures Taken From Space of Volcano Erupting · 3 points · by trs90 · no comments
• Admob is a waste of space · 3 points · by axiom · 2 comments
• How to change your PC's power supply · 3 points · by abennett · 7 comments
• Can a non-engineer start a tech company? · 3 points · by farmerwu · 3 comments
• Handy netmask reference · 3 points · by thrawn · 1 comment
• Google Wave Joins EtherPad in Real-time Collaboration · 2 points · by 10ren · no comments
• A calculus for causality? · 2 points · by emmett · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Do you use Wolfram Alpha? · 2 points · by raphar · 7 comments
• “Facebook: The Movie” Enters Production This Year · 2 points · by _pius · no comments
• TechTrotter: A Journey To Discover The World's Technology Hubs · 2 points · by CollegeMogul · no comments
• Deep in Bedrock, Clean Energy and Quake Fears · 2 points · by andres · no comments
• Augmented Reality & Motion Capture Shopping App · 2 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Visual Decision Making · 2 points · by shard · no comments
• Design For Mobile: resources for designing and building mobile apps and sites · 2 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Stay safe online. Lie flat in a ditch. · 2 points · by IsaacSchlueter · no comments
• Mad Avenue Blues (the day the media died) · 2 points · by dotcoma · no comments
• Ask HN: Literate Programming · 2 points · by dimitar · 4 comments
• Triumph of the Default Configuration · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Dutch propose general internet tax as solution to dying newspapers. · 2 points · by furyg3 · 2 comments
• Requests to the Right Ear Are More Successful Than to the Left · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• How to provide quality customer support for less · 2 points · by vincent_vega · no comments
• The Truth About Writers · 2 points · by michael_dorfman · 1 comment
• Create Flash Websites With Ease: Wix · 2 points · by shahzadvu · no comments
• Google Blog: Speed matters · 2 points · by Maro · no comments
• Azure is base for MS's 'Hohm' foray into Energy Monitoring · 2 points · by FluidDjango · no comments
• Apocalypse Not: Behind the Swine Flu Hysteria · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Ask HN: Other pay-as-you-go hosters like NearlyFreeSpeech? · 2 points · by NonEUCitizen · no comments
• Social gaming summarised in 70 tweets. · 2 points · by shabda · no comments
• Pentagon approves creation of cyber command · 2 points · by timothychung · no comments
• Symbian mobile OS: evolving toward open · 2 points · by pavlov · no comments
• 2nd-Best Weight Loss Plan in the World · 2 points · by techdog · no comments
• Understand the Scale vs. Profitability Trade-Off · 2 points · by joubert · no comments
• How To Achieve Success With Adsense Arbitrage · 2 points · by azwebcoder · no comments
• Apple's iPhone 3GS: What It Costs to Make · 2 points · by newacc · 1 comment
• The Three Eclipses in July and August 2009 · 2 points · by newacc · 1 comment
• How celebrities stay famous regardless of talent · 2 points · by muon · no comments
• Robotics Manufacturer Sarcos - Creating Real Life HALO War Suits · 2 points · by keltecp11 · no comments
• Cisco: Smart Grid May Be 1,000 times larger than the Internet · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Fixing TextMate Project Refresh Slowness · 2 points · by champion · no comments
• Game Design & Musical Play · 2 points · by bisceglie · no comments
• Plastic packaging as energy for soldiers · 2 points · by DTrejo · no comments
• China Disable all domain that end with "google.com" · 2 points · by lispython · 2 comments
• China blocks Google website · 2 points · by liuliu · no comments
• Things Android Market Must Change · 2 points · by JereCoh · no comments
• Web 2.0/Social Media: Really guys, it's pretty simple · 2 points · by blasdel · 1 comment
• Nickel and diming · 2 points · by baha_man · no comments
• Independent Director: The Tie Breaker · 2 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Changing Of The Guard: Jeff Weiner Takes CEO Spot At LinkedIn · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Ask HN: Script to collect iTune sales stats? · 2 points · by andrewljohnson · 1 comment
• Slow death or rapid growth for Second Life? · 2 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• Social Media Kills the Database · 2 points · by xefyr · no comments
• Costs in iPhone 3GS · 2 points · by yread · no comments
• Microsoft launches free smart home energy monitor · 2 points · by johnnymart · no comments
• Secrets of the "Clear" airport security line | Brad Ideas · 2 points · by mblakele · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Free or very cheap marketing suggestions for startups · 2 points · by ddbb · 5 comments
• Social Skydiving Day Two: Still Haven't Embarassed Myself · 2 points · by darkxanthos · 1 comment
• Celebrating The Birthday Of Alan Turing · 1 points · by jrbedard · no comments
• The YouTube Martyr · 1 points · by noonespecial · 1 comment
• Dancing plagues and mass hysteria · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• Contemporary Styles - What's Next? · 1 points · by darwinx111 · no comments
• A Danish tech firm harnesses the power of the autistic brain · 1 points · by gruseom · no comments
• 18 Superb Photoshop and Design Tutorials · 1 points · by darwinx111 · no comments
• Politicians Accepting Insurance Donations Less Likely To Support Public Option · 1 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• Hospital in Memphis Says it Did Jobs’s Surgery · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Ruby Scripting Language Use Is Up By 40% · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Ask HN: Anyone have experience with FireHost? · 1 points · by rgrieselhuber · 1 comment
• Four mid-range servers compared · 1 points · by renai42 · no comments
• Strategies in the Search for ET (Google tech talk) · 1 points · by bemmu · no comments
• Iran's Web spying aided by Nokia and Siemens · 1 points · by gasull · no comments
• Stored Procedures or Server Side Scripting? (in Drizzle) · 1 points · by bensummers · 1 comment
• How to be a Better Improviser · 1 points · by rgrieselhuber · no comments
• Flying car takes off in upstate New York · 1 points · by newacc · no comments
• 50 interview questions answered like you always wanted to answer them · 1 points · by CubeGuy · 2 comments
• Coming Soon: The Facebook Movie · 1 points · by kitcar · no comments
• Request for API scripts & a dynamic advertising aggregator · 1 points · by messel · 3 comments
• Webzzle releases new widgets to enrich blogs : Explore to know more · 1 points · by webzzle · no comments
• Knight News Challenge: Local Journalism Tool Development · 1 points · by CalmQuiet · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Please comment on my new project infully.com · 1 points · by growt · 1 comment
• Should You Stay At Your Cushy Job? · 1 points · by ojbyrne · no comments
• A Salute to the Wheel · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Improving User Retention with Achievements · 1 points · by tortilla · no comments
• EPO Ironman Contest · 1 points · by danielionescu · no comments
• Steve Jobs Recovering Well From Liver Transplant · 1 points · by pierrealexandre · no comments
• Free Symbol Signs · 1 points · by sanderb · no comments
• Excercises in Generated Prose · 1 points · by sp332 · 1 comment
• The Iran Crisis and 4GW · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Money makes the (Greek) world go round · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Text inputs with rounded corners using jQuery (without image) · 1 points · by corgan1003 · no comments
• Spot Runner Cofounder Shaw Awarded Millions In Arbitration · 1 points · by newsio · no comments
• Flash comes to Android · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Twitter Users Buy More Music Online Than Average Surfers, Study Says · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Should I even bother with an SRS & Tech Writer? · 1 points · by cmmarse · no comments
• Alice: No Wonder · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Fragmentation in the iPhone App Store · 1 points · by donmcc · no comments
• Bing, Google Squared, Wolfram Alpha, and Google Wave reviewed · 1 points · by rfreytag · no comments
• Muziboo: Share Your Songs With the World (useful tools review) · 1 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• What is a "work for hire" and how does it affect my startup? · 1 points · by grellas · no comments
• The Government has a database for most everything · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Steve Jobs recovering after liver transplant · 1 points · by hernan7 · 1 comment
• Yet another Microsoft Gimick · 1 points · by blackvine · 1 comment
• SenSEO Firefox Extension · 1 points · by gasull · no comments
• U.S. patent office shortfall worsens · 1 points · by alexjmann · 1 comment
• Questions You Should Ask Yourself About Your Marketing · 1 points · by azwebcoder · no comments
• A Conversation with Ivan Seidenberg- Chairman and CEO of Verizon · 1 points · by rjett · no comments
• The Key to Innovation in India: Co-Location · 1 points · by kungfudoi · no comments
• Future Mods for Our Minds and Bodies · 1 points · by Sandman · no comments
• How to Correct Spelling Errors in Multiple Languages Using InDesign · 1 points · by tagger23 · no comments
• Your Eyes Cheat Your Brain · 1 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Ask HN: Games where the more random you are the higher you score? · 1 points · by amichail · 5 comments
• The Life And Awesomeness Of Steve Jobs · 1 points · by fromedome · no comments
• Marketing lessons from the local panhandler · 1 points · by byrneseyeview · no comments
• Hitler's Stealth Fighter - Horten Ho 229 · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• Making More Money on the Internet with Content, Visitors, and Clickbank · 1 points · by azwebcoder · no comments
• Microsoft Hohm - Home Energy Usage Tracking · 1 points · by chwolfe · no comments
• Jonathan Heiliger of Facebook: Bridging the Gap Between Dev and Operations · 1 points · by msacks · no comments
• Ask HN: Personal Bills Management (hosted) recommendation? · 1 points · by dotpavan · 2 comments
• Memphis doctor confirms Steve Jobs' liver transplant · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• War Book reveals how Britain planned to cope with nuclear attack · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Actual metrics from a Facebook RPG. Interesting read... · 1 points · by Tw1zzler888 · 2 comments
• Startup Advice from NBA Legend Earl "The Pearl" Monroe - KEEP IT REAL · 1 points · by pageman · no comments
• Why Twitter is Not Useful For Most of Us. YET. · 1 points · by jayb · no comments
• Debugging MySQL Stored Procedures · 1 points · by kungfudoi · no comments
• Is Entrepreneurship Really That Easy? · 1 points · by firebug · no comments
• Drive (Courtesy of Marc Andreessen) · 1 points · by brett1211 · 1 comment
• A Million App Downloads For Palm. A Million iPhone 3GSs For Apple. · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Not so Heavy and definitely not Crap. · 1 points · by Autre · no comments
• 5 Firefox extensions developers should use · 1 points · by csomar · no comments
• How To Fake Your Way To Billions · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Another delay to the production of the 787 Dreamliner is a setback for Boeing · 1 points · by __ · 1 comment
• Google announces adsense for mobile apps · 1 points · by axiom · no comments
• When you want to take a picture with no free hands · 1 points · by shard · no comments
• Palm App Catalog Hits a Million Downloads · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• How To Succeed in the Coming Social Gaming Explosion · 1 points · by ALee · no comments
• Adultery Rampant Among South Carolina Governors. This Must Be Craigslist’s Fault · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Protesting Using Computers = Cyberwar · 1 points · by ddbb · no comments