Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story. · 181 points · by sivers · 40 comments
• Hacker Hacker News - see just the programming/math/science links from HN · 164 points · by sqs · 56 comments
• SQL Databases Don't Scale · 100 points · by sant0sk1 · 108 comments
• Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs’ secret sauce (source code)? · 87 points · by hachiya · 37 comments
• Why IKEA Is Fed Up with Russia · 79 points · by cellis · 78 comments
• The Hydrogen Myth · 72 points · by TriinT · 37 comments
• Introducing our new venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz · 72 points · by kungfudoi · 10 comments
• This is the exploit equivalent of that guy who played the perfect game (2008) · 71 points · by req2 · 33 comments
• The Mythical Man Weekend · 66 points · by kolya3 · 35 comments
• Scala as long-term replacement for Java · 62 points · by fogus · 38 comments
• Physical reality of string theory demonstrated · 61 points · by ph0rque · 16 comments
• Finally... Goto in Javascript · 61 points · by aheilbut · 35 comments
• Erlang scores a marketing coup · 59 points · by leoc · 19 comments
• New algorithm guesses SSNs · 53 points · by fogus · 19 comments
• Mathematica vs. Matlab vs. Python · 52 points · by soundsop · 14 comments
• How high school students start thinking about code · 51 points · by llimllib · 44 comments
• Haml & Sass 2.2 Released · 51 points · by chriseppstein · 19 comments
• Professor Studies Social Customs in Video Games - Becomes Most Hated Player · 50 points · by TallGuyShort · 27 comments
• Passenger fixes faulty airliner · 45 points · by vaksel · 14 comments
• Details on Marc Andreessen’s New Fund · 42 points · by terpua · 1 comment
• Why Incompetence Spreads Through Big Organisations · 42 points · by Anon84 · 25 comments
• Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service With A New, Secret API · 42 points · by vaksel · 16 comments
• Use the same password on multiple sites safely · 41 points · by Confusion · 20 comments
• The Longevity Experiment · 40 points · by limist · 78 comments
• JSON: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Use It · 39 points · by jmonegro · 4 comments
• Decoding the HTML 5 video codec debate · 39 points · by nickb · 26 comments
• Would you want it if it were free? · 39 points · by brm · 5 comments
• Chris Anderson's Free Audiobook [zip] · 35 points · by PeterRosdahl · 6 comments
• Interview with Sam Odio, Founder of Divvyshot (YC W09) · 34 points · by zaveri · 5 comments
• Why web log analyzers are better than JavaScript based analytics · 33 points · by mindaugas · 30 comments
• Review my app coded in the past two days: BookBox · 32 points · by lkozma · 4 comments
• Ask HN: which functional language to learn? · 30 points · by vijayr · 47 comments
• Ask HN: What's the Purpose of Hacker News to You? · 29 points · by DanielBMarkham · 44 comments
• My Visual Resume · 29 points · by ajaimk · 37 comments
• Social Security Numbering System Vulnerable to Fraud, Researchers Say · 28 points · by tokenadult · 8 comments
• What if YouTube made the black empty space white? [PIC] · 27 points · by elzr · 17 comments
• Bouillon, the less known brother of Google Wave · 27 points · by gritzko · 1 comment
• Vijay Gill: Google Does Not Mock Bing · 24 points · by jaydub · 3 comments
• Ceph distributed object based filesystem · 24 points · by jacquesm · 2 comments
• Job Applications and the Entitlement Complex · 23 points · by gecko · 24 comments
• Enabling BIOS options on a live server with no rebooting · 23 points · by ice799 · 2 comments
• Computational performance — a beginner’s case study · 22 points · by nuclear_eclipse · 9 comments
• Happy 1000 days to HN · 21 points · by robg · 3 comments
• Wikipedia Mobile Officially Launches · 19 points · by mrduncan · 8 comments
• Spider Builds Decoy Imitations to Deflect Predators · 19 points · by ComputerGuru · 1 comment
• Web usability guidelines · 18 points · by kungfudoi · 6 comments
• Facebook revenue to be billions in 5 years: board member · 17 points · by vincentchan · 27 comments
• Bashreduce: A Bare-Bones MapReduce · 17 points · by frisco · 1 comment
• Where can you get two weeks of iTunes App Store data? · 17 points · by dbachelder · 4 comments
• The Best Kids’ Books Ever -- Summer Break and IQ · 16 points · by jseliger · 9 comments
• Example of fantastic customer service - BatchBlue · 16 points · by tsondermann · 7 comments
• (Where/When)'s Startup School 2009? · 15 points · by jpwagner · 3 comments
• Toy ray tracer in Python · 15 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• LA Metro API · 15 points · by iamwil · 4 comments
• Synchronizing AJAX: Event Pooling with jQuery · 14 points · by jasongullickson · 4 comments
• An exercise in riddle-solving · 14 points · by techdog · 10 comments
• Net Neutrality Gets Boost from Feds · 13 points · by ALee · 10 comments
• Sharurl: Lessons Learned Developing a New Startup · 13 points · by garyrichardson · 4 comments
• Top Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus · 13 points · by peter123 · 10 comments
• Take this job and shove it · 13 points · by edw519 · 14 comments
• Tech is too cheap to meter, It's time to manage for Abundance · 13 points · by Readmore · 15 comments
• In defense of DHH & the Rails community · 12 points · by blasdel · 9 comments
• Ask HN: Does the iPhone still need Flash support? · 12 points · by grinich · 32 comments
• How Inventors Always Get Screwed · 12 points · by asciilifeform · 16 comments
• Codex Sinaiticus · 12 points · by yu · 8 comments
• How To Increase Site Performance Through A/B Split · 12 points · by jmonegro · 7 comments
• Dear Malcolm: Why so threatened? · 12 points · by bootload · 10 comments
• HashValue: an object for holding MD5 and SHA hashes · 11 points · by twampss · 6 comments
• A Comparison of Open Source Search Engines · 11 points · by mblakele · 2 comments
• HN Guideline Reminder: Please remove numbers from post titles · 11 points · by sant0sk1 · 15 comments
• The speed, size and dependability of programming languages · 11 points · by known · 4 comments
• ACID versus BASE for database transactions · 11 points · by neilc · no comments
• Web Infrastructure is the Entry Ticket for Andreessen's New Fund · 8 points · by afrombie · 4 comments
• Syllabuzz: Tactile Design Made Real · 8 points · by sp332 · 1 comment
• Geek's tip for 'an ideal first date' - our own John Graham-Cumming on the BBC. · 8 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 1 comment
• Why you (probably) won’t be using Firefox a while from now · 8 points · by emontero1 · 30 comments
• Ways to get feedback from customers · 8 points · by geeko · 1 comment
• Computer Science: "an Alzheimer's patient who has forgotten more than he knows." · 7 points · by asciilifeform · 16 comments
• Google code cloud punts on-demand embarrassment · 7 points · by twampss · no comments
• Backtype (YC 08) releases a Tweetmeme Retweet Button Competitor · 7 points · by theforay · 1 comment
• Russian spacecraft landed on moon hours before Americans · 7 points · by adamcrowe · 4 comments
• Will Your ID Soon Be a Microchip Under Your Skin? · 6 points · by kkleiner · 18 comments
• What ho My hero, PG Wodehouse (by Stephen Fry, January 18, 2000) · 6 points · by grellas · no comments
• Wodehouse Saved my Life (by Hugh Laurie, May 27, 1999) · 6 points · by grellas · no comments
• The Rhetoric of the Hyperlink · 6 points · by bkudria · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Do you dislike PHP? · 6 points · by dimitar · 9 comments
• The Multisnake Challenge · 6 points · by mattmcknight · no comments
• BFG Python web framework 1.0 released · 6 points · by cguardia · 7 comments
• Will my video get 1 million views on YouTube? Not a chance. · 6 points · by amichail · 2 comments
• Music in the cloud comes to your desktop · 5 points · by nick007 · no comments
• Mark Cuban: Succeed By Free, Die By Free · 5 points · by PeterRosdahl · no comments
• Hi HN. What do you think about my new startup - Karminator.com · 5 points · by anoopengineer · 12 comments
• How And Why We Get Bored · 5 points · by edragonu · no comments
• Why Bing Is the Wrong Name · 5 points · by aminuit · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What's the best (free) log-based analytics package? · 5 points · by andrewljohnson · 1 comment
• Real-World Concurrency · 5 points · by reddiar · no comments
• Ask HN: What news sites are your favorites and why? · 5 points · by michaelawill · 10 comments
• For Firefox, a Challenging Future Awaits · 4 points · by packetloss · no comments
• Ask HN: What I must read to be python savvy? · 4 points · by pibefision · 5 comments
• Andreessen Launches $300M firm to do investments $50k and up · 4 points · by mattmcknight · no comments
• Will Microsoft ever convince anyone to dump another browser for IE 8? · 4 points · by technologizer · 8 comments
• Tech execs: how to reach “normal” users with PR and with TechCrunch/GigaOm et al · 4 points · by Shakescode · no comments
• Quantcast Shakes Up Online Ad-Targeting Model · 4 points · by Shakescode · 2 comments
• Journey by Indian Railway's a unique experience · 4 points · by digamber_kamat · no comments
• Some Insights into Marc Andreessen's New VC Firm, Andreessen Horowitz · 4 points · by markbao · no comments
• Incandescent Bulbs Return to the Cutting Edge · 4 points · by Tiktaalik · 1 comment
• 10 Crowdsourcing Marketplaces for All the Designers and Freelancers · 4 points · by mancuso5 · no comments
• Faster MySQL Backup Restoration · 4 points · by foobar2k · no comments
• Very simple bot blocking utility in php and iptables · 4 points · by jacquesm · 3 comments
• Twelve companies that are targeting early tech adopters · 3 points · by Shakescode · 1 comment
• Ten people and computers in commerce: Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge · 3 points · by bootload · no comments
• Nokia turns to Android in smartphone wars · 3 points · by dannyr · no comments
• Ask HN: Proof, order of operations and functional languages · 3 points · by nopassrecover · 6 comments
• Ask HN: Age preferences for grad school? · 3 points · by j2d2 · 1 comment
• Prepare Yourself For Ipod Video · 3 points · by nick007 · no comments
• ThiIsLike Shows an Editable Web of Associations · 3 points · by Shakescode · 1 comment
• Needed: Avoid Overwhelming Followers’ Streams (e.g., Twitter) · 3 points · by Shakescode · 1 comment
• Getting Around That Pesky Speed of Light Limitation · 3 points · by lmacvittie · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How to startup doing desktop apps · 3 points · by steilpass · 3 comments
• 'Mafiaboy': Cloud Computing Will Cause Internet Security Meltdown · 3 points · by mattjung · 1 comment
• Steve Jurvetson: Only investing in the unknown · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Do Men Take Too Many Risks? · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• IBM Milepost Compiler - Machine Learning for Embedded Programs Optimisation · 3 points · by dageroth · 4 comments
• Lessons Learned In The Downturn · 3 points · by pxlpshr · no comments
• Amazon Ordered To Pay Back $119mm In Taxes. More Tax Trouble May Be Ahead. · 3 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Useful Project Management tools · 3 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• Ask HN: Advice on an Idea · 3 points · by srid68 · 3 comments
• Not Lonely at All — Matt Mullenweg · 3 points · by chanux · no comments
• Flowers in Ultra-Violet - This is what the bees see · 3 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• A real-life Wall-E · 3 points · by FrancofileL · 1 comment
• Goldman Sachs trade secret thief claims codes were 'open source' · 3 points · by sweetdreams · 3 comments
• You Don't Need Tools · 3 points · by ilintner · no comments
• Simplicity · 3 points · by ddbb · 1 comment
• Developer Contest: Win a Netbook and $300 in Heroku credit · 3 points · by dmor · no comments
• Ask HN: Best 'Unknown' Tech/Web blogs · 3 points · by zeedotme · 2 comments
• Introduction to Message Queues and RabbitMQ · 3 points · by mxz · no comments
• Reforming American Health Care · 3 points · by Xichekolas · 1 comment
• Not so fast, maybe relational databases aren’t dead · 3 points · by amrith · no comments
• An argument for reconnecting with the space around us · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Is Interaction Design a dead-end job? · 2 points · by mgunes · no comments
• "Aging and Death are Good and Needed" is Still the Expected Opinion · 2 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Ask HN: track iPhone app page views · 2 points · by IonicWalrus · no comments
• Ask HN: Is there a hacker news search function? · 2 points · by si2 · 2 comments
• Entrepreneurs should help Entrepreneurs – Scaling the Power of Philanthropy · 2 points · by vincentchan · no comments
• LMMS - Linux MultiMedia Studio · 2 points · by siliconvaley · no comments
• An Updated List of Bad Company Names · 2 points · by theforay · no comments
• Google code cloud punts on-demand embarrassment · 2 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? (video) · 2 points · by nebula · no comments
• Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity · 2 points · by cake · no comments
• Wolfram Alpha: The Use Cases · 2 points · by mattjung · no comments
• What makes you weird? · 2 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• A Social Contract for Agile Development · 2 points · by cote · no comments
• Web pioneer Andreessen raises $300M for new venture capital firm · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Ryan Singer Interview · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• "Man Of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong" - Full Book · 2 points · by asciilifeform · no comments
• Need advice on business relationship · 2 points · by jimmyjones · 2 comments
• A market for G-rated (kid-safe) social networks? 'My Secret Circle' · 2 points · by Shakescode · 1 comment
• Jokob Nielsen: Building Respect for Usability Expertise · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Iran Declares War on 21st Century Media · 2 points · by jmonegro · 1 comment
• Ask HN: where are the clones? · 2 points · by jimbob1 · 3 comments
• How to Speed Up Your Rails App · 2 points · by wifelette · no comments
• Workers have daily smile scans · 2 points · by emontero1 · 1 comment
• Ruby Best Practices: A Review · 2 points · by r00k · no comments
• Researchers Test New 'Space Internet' System on International Space Station · 2 points · by TravisLS · no comments
• Marc Andreessen’s Burgeoning Blogging Empire: Invests In Talking Points Memo · 2 points · by ams1 · no comments
• BT Backs Off From Tracking Internet Customers · 2 points · by emontero1 · no comments
• Pairs of Celebrities Born/Died on the Same Day · 2 points · by sp332 · 3 comments
• Remotely debugging your iPhone Scheme apps with a REPL · 2 points · by jlongster · no comments
• Ask HN: Why would someone want to borrow my site? · 2 points · by NoBSWebDesign · 1 comment
• "Why Semantics?" - an excellent intro to semantic data · 2 points · by thomasfl · no comments
• Videos from Nosql meeting on various scalable data stores · 2 points · by mcantelon · no comments
• Lean Startup fbFund slides and video · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Betaspring · 2 points · by ghoti · 7 comments
• Daniel Schmitt of WikiLeaks interviewed · 2 points · by nickb · no comments
• Manufacturing Information for Software Engineers · 2 points · by tpgauthier · no comments
• From Hacker to microISV: Tagging, Building and Releasing · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• Simple Predictions are Best · 2 points · by yummyfajitas · no comments
• Google Search Ranking with RankNStein.com · 1 points · by zackadams · no comments
• Will a machine replace you? · 1 points · by awk · no comments
• Consumer Electronics Teardowns · 1 points · by timf · no comments
• Trend to Watch: Asia Rising · 1 points · by kungfudoi · no comments
• Just How Successful is the iPhone App Store? · 1 points · by mellis · 1 comment
• Webvan in the Clouds? · 1 points · by Punjabiwabi · no comments
• Teen hacker releases Windows and Mac jailbreaking programs for iPhone 3G S · 1 points · by kungfudoi · no comments
• Journalistic narcissism · 1 points · by timf · no comments
• Social Skydiving with a Code Monkey Day 13: Hard (with etherpad) · 1 points · by darkxanthos · no comments
• Personal Development With Dumbo - How To Make An Elephant To Fly · 1 points · by edragonu · no comments
• Google wants a bigger slice of the real-estate search business · 1 points · by zeedotme · no comments
• Neuromancer at 25: What It Got Right, What It Got Wrong · 1 points · by dantheman · no comments
• Details on Marc Andreessen’s New Fund · 1 points · by sarvesh · no comments
• Techie Life Issues Search · 1 points · by marshallp · no comments
• NaCL - DJB's new Crypto Library · 1 points · by pelle · no comments
• When do people start uploading images from their cameras? · 1 points · by sadiq · no comments
• Sanjay Bhargava on universal financial access and what it means for rural India · 1 points · by ideamonk · no comments
• Win a trip into Space · 1 points · by jackburke · no comments
• Rise of Web Video, Beyond 2-Minute Clips · 1 points · by newacc · no comments
• ‘Toy universe’ may solve mystery of life’s origins · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Nude photos in iPhone apps show trouble with policing Web content · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Backup plan to get NASA to moon cheaper · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Now you can "buy" Twitter followers · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• BeepMyStuff:Organize Your CD/DVD Collections W/Your Webcam (useful tools review) · 1 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• IPhone App Design: The Design of "Lent" · 1 points · by jasongullickson · no comments
• The Potential For Charities On Twitter · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• On Hearing and Speaking the Truth · 1 points · by jsj1971 · no comments
• API Design vs. API Usability · 1 points · by kungfudoi · no comments
• Terabytes Missing From The National Archives: Would the Cloud Be Safer? · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Pocket Cemetery: Virtual Graveyard for the iPhone · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• Ask HN Philly: Would you use this Start-Up? · 1 points · by keltecp11 · no comments
• The phone is the next generation's computer · 1 points · by swaroop · 1 comment
• Twitter censors Moonfruit? What does it mean for the future of Twitocracy? · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Volpi gets VC job after abandoning Joost's Web strategy · 1 points · by newsio · no comments
• Sphinx: Search Outside the Box 1/3 · 1 points · by samueladam · no comments
• Sphinx: Getting Practical 2/3 · 1 points · by samueladam · no comments
• Sphinx: Queries and APIs 3/3 · 1 points · by samueladam · no comments
• Infrared-Irradiated Treadmills to Burn Calories Faster · 1 points · by noheartanthony · no comments
• Open Source and the Cloud: Where’s the LAMP? · 1 points · by cote · no comments
• The pleasures of rereading books · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Shocking statistics about Swoopo · 1 points · by rambunction · no comments
• Build Safer Ruby Daemons with RobustThread · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Bail set at $750000 for ex-Goldman programmer · 1 points · by rjett · no comments
• BT Opts Not to Deploy Phorm Behavioral Ad System · 1 points · by Shakescode · no comments
• Culture Club: How Companies Bring Cool to the Workplace · 1 points · by abennett · no comments
• The first Photoshop icon · 1 points · by grinich · no comments
• EMC raises offer for Data Domain to $2.4 billion · 1 points · by ponnap · 1 comment
• Interview with Jason Fried from 37signals on FOX Business · 1 points · by PeterRosdahl · no comments
• Food Wars · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Ask HN: Why kill duplicate discussions? · 1 points · by jpwagner · 4 comments
• What MySpace's layoffs have to do with Corporate culture and a Sense of Purpose · 1 points · by AdilD · no comments
• Arxta - Artisanal Retro-Futurism crossed with Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism · 1 points · by pseale · no comments
• BARCamp Chicago 2009 · 1 points · by kungfooguru · no comments
• The Military Gets Its Own Online Gaming Network · 1 points · by sweetdreams · no comments
• How to create DOM elements and prevent memory leaks in IE · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Creating an iPhone Application - Tutorial 2 · 1 points · by InkweaverReview · 1 comment
• JScript Memory Leaks · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Customizing the Django Admin - Branding · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• A netbook for the price of a newspaper. · 1 points · by technologizer · no comments
• DOJ reviewing carrier deals with handset makers · 1 points · by newsio · no comments
• IPhone apps for fun and profit? · 1 points · by MicahWedemeyer · no comments
• Twitter and the end of television: we’re all building our own broadcast networks · 1 points · by noheartanthony · no comments
• Open-source bias alleged in European Commission planning document · 1 points · by ilamont · 1 comment
• Update: Refreshed Likexo · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• The reason why spies should only marry spies · 1 points · by sinbsd · no comments
• Taking Swype further: "typing recognition" on touch screens · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• Haskell Cabal in Ubuntu · 1 points · by johngunderman · no comments
• Bashreduce: A Bare-Bones MapReduce · 1 points · by linuxmag · 1 comment
• Prowl: Get Any Growl Notifications Via Push On Your iPhone · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · no comments
• Online Ad Spending Rises At Double-Digit Rates · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• The Salesman And The Statistician · 1 points · by avner · no comments
• Medieval Mosques Illuminated by Math · 1 points · by avner · no comments
• Introducing the Hive Mind · 1 points · by noheartanthony · no comments
• How Michael Jackson's Thriller changed music business · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• BIG-IP ASM v.10 Application Ready Security Policy Templates · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• UI, hardware limitations doom Nokia's latest attempt to hurt the iPhone · 1 points · by newsio · no comments
• Maybe The Palm Pre Isn’t Selling So Well, After All · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• What a waste of a wonderful domainname · 1 points · by satyajit · no comments
• Minimum wage increase to $7.25 slated for July 24 · 1 points · by mshafrir · 1 comment
• How Facebook Poaches From Google, Yahoo and LinkedIn · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Population Density · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Being part of the hive mind ... · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• Social Media Kills the Database · 1 points · by ironkeith · no comments
• Google Will Star in Emerging News Model · 1 points · by gasull · no comments
• Why is Facebook not putting on an F8 this year? · 1 points · by babyshake · 2 comments
• No Rest for the Wealthy · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Startup job postings? · 1 points · by theyoungceo · 1 comment
• Guth's Grand Guess (2002) · 1 points · by notdarkyet · no comments
• Revealed: Self-help mantras leave you unhappier than before · 1 points · by rams · no comments
• Vegetarians less likely to develop cancer than meat eaters, says study · 1 points · by rams · no comments
• Why Security Pros Should Master Google · 1 points · by Tangurena · 1 comment
• The Productivity Map - From Followers To Producers · 1 points · by edragonu · no comments