Hacker News Way Back Machine

• $12.50 to quote 5 words of an AP story · 154 points · by mcantelon · 66 comments
• Why I am Not a Professor, or The Decline and Fall of the British University · 124 points · by edw519 · 124 comments
• How Different Groups Use Their Time · 108 points · by kingkawn · 38 comments
• How Learning a Second Language Changed My Life · 107 points · by cyunker · 79 comments
• Apple Expects Google Voice App Developers To Pay Refunds Out Of Pocket · 82 points · by vaksel · 67 comments
• Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp · 71 points · by op · 49 comments
• WikiLeaks published secret information about Icelandic meltdown · 70 points · by edw519 · 8 comments
• The truth about grit · 56 points · by robg · 29 comments
• College: An Overpriced Monopoly (by Kent Pitman) · 56 points · by joubert · 41 comments
• Fake ATM doesn't last long at Defcon · 55 points · by abennett · 14 comments
• Firefox Achieves One Billion Downloads, 31% Marketshare · 53 points · by Flemlord · 7 comments
• The Scheme Programming Language 4th edition online · 52 points · by fogus · 6 comments
• Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates · 51 points · by quizbiz · 37 comments
• Orbit Your Own Satellite For $8,000 · 44 points · by edw519 · 15 comments
• My Adwords Are Turned Off · 42 points · by patio11 · 19 comments
• Kissing the App Store Goodbye · 38 points · by edw519 · 23 comments
• Greetings from Beautiful Mountain View, Calif. · 37 points · by 100k · 16 comments
• King Size Linodes Now Available · 36 points · by alexitosrv · 22 comments
• Can We Please Kill This Meme Now · 33 points · by ams1 · 18 comments
• Weapons 8% of US exports of durable goods, up from 3% in 2000 · 32 points · by Flemlord · 23 comments
• Your 'Big Idea' Sucks · 31 points · by Oompa · 13 comments
• Python Scientific Library · 30 points · by kasunh · 14 comments
• Alan Kay: "An oral culture of assertions held around an electronic campfire?" · 27 points · by michael_dorfman · 10 comments
• Presenting the Linode Library · 27 points · by falava · 5 comments
• Words I Would Love To See Banned From Press Releases · 25 points · by edw519 · 14 comments
• Life in a World of Pervasive Immorality: The Ethics of Being Alive · 25 points · by blasdel · 22 comments
• Firefox: it's just too darned expensive · 25 points · by jgamman · 26 comments
• Lying With Statistics · 25 points · by iamwil · 6 comments
• Use AJAX to filter Kayak's employees · 25 points · by jack7890 · 14 comments
• Math-hattan: How math lovers see the City · 24 points · by bootload · 7 comments
• Nissan unveils world's first mass-market electric car, the Leaf · 23 points · by newacc · 28 comments
• Ask HN: What should we do? · 21 points · by alexk · 17 comments
• The Lost Tools of Learning: Grammar, Dialectic, Rhetoric (1947) · 21 points · by benhoyt · 8 comments
• DIVINE Project - Create Websites From Photoshop To Wordpress · 20 points · by toni · 4 comments
• FCC asks Apple why they rejected the Google voice app · 18 points · by ars · 4 comments
• IRB on Android · 18 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• The Secret Ingredient in Silicon Chips comes from North Carolina · 18 points · by dan_the_welder · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Why is the number of greatest magnitude on the left? · 17 points · by blintson · 29 comments
• Ask HN: A simple tcp monitor ? · 17 points · by jacquesm · 15 comments
• Bootkit bypasses hard disk encryption · 16 points · by edw519 · 4 comments
• Twitter DM email parsing (with source code) · 15 points · by jazzychad · 1 comment
• Real men program in C · 15 points · by Anon84 · 36 comments
• The different reasons for company code contributions · 15 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Factor compiler improvements · 15 points · by falava · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How would you monetize a social media site? · 14 points · by rumpelstiltskin · 19 comments
• One Year of Stack Overflow · 13 points · by soundsop · 1 comment
• Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End fails to thrill · 13 points · by renai42 · 9 comments
• "Developing iPhone apps now means postponing a better and more capable web" · 13 points · by chris24 · 3 comments
• Scalability and Performance Best Practices · 13 points · by alrex021 · 3 comments
• Google Apps + OpenID = identity hub for SaaS · 12 points · by blasdel · 1 comment
• Google Maps accused of unfair competition in France(for being free) · 12 points · by vaksel · 21 comments
• Evoloution's Third Replicator · 11 points · by rosser · 3 comments
• Nuclear Fusion Startup · 10 points · by Flemlord · 6 comments
• PyNomo - create nomographs using Python · 10 points · by TriinT · no comments
• When Does a Depression or a Recession End? · 9 points · by newacc · 1 comment
• The Death of Journalism: How Gawker Ripped Me Off · 9 points · by alaskamiller · no comments
• Ask HN: A date conundrum · 9 points · by ErrantX · 7 comments
• Panel Wants Deep Space, Not Landings as U.S. Goal · 9 points · by edw519 · 5 comments
• Actual Cost To Make Popular Gadgets · 9 points · by ravindra1982 · 3 comments
• Playing computer games can improve your eyesight, experts say · 9 points · by ravindra1982 · 5 comments
• 4store - Scalable RDF storage · 8 points · by osi · 1 comment
• What You Need To Know About JavaScript Scope · 8 points · by edw519 · 5 comments
• How wars, plagues, and urban disease propelled Europe’s rise to riches · 8 points · by bd · 4 comments
• Dr. TweetLove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the @Ev Bomb · 8 points · by dwynings · 2 comments
• Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon · 8 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What do you hate using but are forced to use? · 7 points · by anonbonjovi · 8 comments
• List of freely available programming books · 6 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Building A Real Mobile Web · 6 points · by wheels · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Online backup without a computer? · 6 points · by salvadors · 28 comments
• New image search engine · 6 points · by access_denied · 6 comments
• We Are All Software Companies Now · 6 points · by lmoorman · no comments
• Ebay: Like Amazon, only more profitable? · 5 points · by cwan · 5 comments
• The University of Alberta GAMES Group · 5 points · by TriinT · no comments
• P=NP, relativisation, and multiple choice exams · 5 points · by michael_nielsen · no comments
• Tahoe-LAFS: the first secure cloud storage platform · 5 points · by zooko · no comments
• Three Israeli Femme-preneurs To Keep an Eye On · 5 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• Now Is The Time To Haggle · 5 points · by quoderat · 1 comment
• As I once thunk · 5 points · by wheels · no comments
• Ask Hn: Review needed for my Firefox chat extension · 4 points · by hinoglu · 6 comments
• Atom : a domain specific language for hard realtime applications · 4 points · by fogus · no comments
• Ask HN: How to protect/copyright code/essays/papers published on my site? · 4 points · by wizardofoz · 9 comments
• Code sharing is an economic surplus phenomenon. · 4 points · by asciilifeform · no comments
• Spam now accounts for 92% of all email, all-time record · 4 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Best word to describe this process? · 4 points · by kamehameha · 25 comments
• Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard · 4 points · by pufuwozu · no comments
• Pizza Hut’s Delicious iPhone App Tops 100,000 Downloads In Two Weeks · 4 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• Games of No Chance · 4 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Gulf Of Tonkin: 45 Years Later · 4 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Django integration for serving FCKEditor's upload and file browse pages · 4 points · by megaman821 · no comments
• Weird things said in job interviews · 4 points · by access_denied · no comments
• NASA Tests Internet in Space · 4 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• Rare All-Female Ant Society That Reproduces By Cloning Discovered · 4 points · by ravindra1982 · 2 comments
• UK Plans To Monitor 20,000 Families' Homes Via CCTV · 4 points · by gasull · no comments
• Playnice: Make your iPhone actually work with Google Latitude · 4 points · by natfriedman · no comments
• Linux package management review · 4 points · by falava · no comments
• The Fall of Christian Lacroix: Desire to be an artist killed brand · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• Radical ideas on 'Cash for Clunkers' · 3 points · by ruchi · no comments
• Functional (kinda) PHP with Phunctional · 3 points · by wooby · 1 comment
• URL Shortener for HN w/ Bookmarklet · 3 points · by leftnode · 4 comments
• Rounded rectangles are literarally easier on the eyes · 3 points · by jrrl · no comments
• Quick and Dirty Business Hacks · 3 points · by mspeiser · no comments
• Anatomy of an Entrepreneur | Trends, entrepreneurship, startups, survey · 3 points · by scarface548 · 1 comment
• NIH in the WSGI World · 3 points · by jp_sc · no comments
• Color Scheming for Designers (and Developers) · 3 points · by jmorin007 · no comments
• Excellent Downloadable eBooks To Teach Yourself Linux · 3 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Hackers and Fighters · 3 points · by jp_sc · 1 comment
• Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning - Telegraph · 3 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• First View of the Dark Side of the Sun · 3 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• How To Write A Simple Application · 3 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Easy Bookmarking of Hacker News Links · 3 points · by boundlessdreamz · no comments
• JqGrid 3.5 with jQuery UI ThemeRoller Themes · 3 points · by profquail · no comments
• Philip Wadler: What does logic have to do with Java? [video] · 3 points · by parenthesis · no comments
• Heuristics for Blessing Software Packages · 2 points · by fogus · no comments
• Netvibes inspired jQuery Portal Framework - JPolite · 2 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• Reversing and exploiting an Apple keyboard firmware update · 2 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Google chrome style for Firefox 3.5 · 2 points · by etix · no comments
• NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 2.3 Released · 2 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• Best practices for software development projects · 2 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• 3D video using same technology as Google streetview. · 2 points · by mixmax · no comments
• How to save money by embracing free, open technology · 2 points · by dforbin · no comments
• Scientific Linux · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Ask HN: Can you Monetize Celebrity Gossip Sites? · 2 points · by DanielBMarkham · 9 comments
• Can China Save the World? · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries · 2 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• NASA - Harnessing the Sun · 2 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• Scientists discover secret of why dachshunds have short legs · 2 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• NASA - NASA High Definition Video: Partially Restored Apollo 11 Video · 2 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• Photo Journal : Apollos Historic Lunar Landing · 2 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• Emerging Technologies For Voluntary Cyborgs · 2 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• New flat flexible speakers might even help you catch planes & trains · 2 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• Bionic eye cam to shine a light on society · 2 points · by ravindra1982 · 5 comments
• A few words on why I like the Helvetica Typeface · 2 points · by imjustcreative · no comments
• Evolver.com automates 3D Avatar and digital clone creation · 2 points · by jpirkola · no comments
• Barron’s Makes Waves With Vague Tapplet Rumors · 2 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Various statistics on why companies contribute to the opensource community. · 2 points · by socratees · 1 comment
• Zellr.com - Maximize Your Twitter Profile · 2 points · by lepunk · no comments
• SUSE Studio Launch · 2 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• Solving medical problems in developing countries through crowdsourcing · 2 points · by baran · no comments
• Defense Deparment turns to Defcon for new recruits · 1 points · by abennett · no comments
• iPhone and iPod touch need a way to tell you when they are about to fall. · 1 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• Charlie and the Fuzzing Factory · 1 points · by kowsik · no comments
• Vote: Crowdsoucing Final Logo Decision for "Clean Economies" · 1 points · by CollegeMogul · no comments
• Rationality and Game Theory · 1 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Black Hat Conference 2009 Proceedings · 1 points · by wmf · no comments
• Apple keyboard firmware hack demonstrated · 1 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• A Prolegomena to the Future of Open Source and Open Education · 1 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• The Ultimate Guide To Speeding Up Firefox 3.5 · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• A documentary on gene modified food crops & patenting. · 1 points · by socratees · no comments
• Growing incubation periods in iPhone App Store · 1 points · by CoryOndrejka · no comments
• Industry awaits Ottawa's high-tech plan · 1 points · by awk · no comments
• Nissan Unveils Its Electric Car, The LEAF, And Its Plan To Change The World · 1 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• The Wal-Martification of Microsoft · 1 points · by terpua · no comments
• Rate my startup (TwitterLift.com) · 1 points · by curtisspope · 3 comments
• How to enforce copyright: What to do when your online content is being stolen · 1 points · by rms · no comments
• The Debate Uncertainty Principle: Existentialism vs. Confidence · 1 points · by blasdel · no comments
• When Political Pundits Try To Interpret Terms of Use · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Britain would be breaking the law if they prevented "Hacker" extradition · 1 points · by inovica · no comments
• Ask HN: Mobile Broadband sateside · 1 points · by ErrantX · 1 comment
• When the Government Knows Who Calls Who · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• What is a good optimization algorithm? A data-driven method. · 1 points · by sadiq · no comments
• Boot On BTRFS With Debian · 1 points · by joschi · no comments
• Zuse and the first computer · 1 points · by mikejuk · no comments
• Discriminating Between Interesting and Actionable Info · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Hard science, thermodynamics, and the low carb myth · 1 points · by chandler · no comments
• All storms are perfect · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Product is Just the Beginning · 1 points · by prosa · no comments
• Final build of Windows Phone shown off · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Gaia In The Light Of Modern Science · 1 points · by quoderat · no comments
• Defense Deparment eyes hacker con for new recruits · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Enough is Enough: A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism · 1 points · by dmoney · no comments
• Students Settle with TurnItIn · 1 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Please review Epic Beard, a community-powered site · 1 points · by lleger · no comments
• OpenAFS Distributed Filesystem · 1 points · by andeka · no comments
• One in Three Is A Music Pirate · 1 points · by gasull · no comments
• Process Control Network Security: New Problems · 1 points · by Pomliane · no comments
• Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• PyPaste - no nonsense access to pastebins · 1 points · by ideamonk · no comments
• Opportunity Rover Finds Possible Meteorite · 1 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• Look, new cities will soon have WiMAX · 1 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• Limitations and egos · 1 points · by amohr · no comments
• Is proprietary Mac hardware killing Windows battery life? · 1 points · by mwsherman · no comments
• Don't try to innovate if you are unwilling to change · 1 points · by gengstrand · no comments
• Where Mathematics meets the Internet (1998) · 1 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Creative Google Logos · 1 points · by letscounthedays · no comments
• Presentation: The Zeitgeist Movement Orientation · 1 points · by mbenjaminsmith · no comments
• 11-Word Extracts May Infringe Copyright In Europe · 1 points · by gasull · no comments
• Microsoft kills Windows 7E, puts IE back in upcoming OS · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• The Three Python Tenors Sing “Threads” and “State of Mind” · 1 points · by yread · no comments
• Calling routines from a Fortran Library using Python · 1 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Hackers expose weakness in trusted sites · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• How Apple can mess with your life · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Python Wrapper Tools: A Performance Study · 1 points · by mace · no comments
• Design Community Supporters · 1 points · by mancuso5 · no comments
• Ad-supported music will not save a troubled industry · 1 points · by cawel · no comments
• Why is supply and demand so confusing? · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Google Voice, FCC questions Apple and AT&T · 1 points · by omfut · no comments
• MacTastik Weekly - Snow Leopard · 1 points · by hbien · no comments
• John Chambers of Cisco - Treasure Your Setbacks · 1 points · by newacc · no comments
• Apple, labels stir up deluxe digital Cocktail · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Origin Story · 1 points · by mshafrir · no comments