Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Tr.im is now in the process of discontinuing service · 104 points · by tlrobinson · 115 comments
• Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin · 89 points · by emontero1 · 104 comments
• The challenges of Creating a Civilization Web Game · 81 points · by roschdal · 74 comments
• Programming · 73 points · by prakash · 18 comments
• In which I switch on a 30 year old computer and it just works · 71 points · by jgrahamc · 28 comments
• Sketchbooks aren't about being a good artist, they're about being a good thinker · 58 points · by grinich · 18 comments
• Vitamin D slashes risk of cancers by 77 percent (2007) · 49 points · by MikeCapone · 50 comments
• Droplet: An Arduino-based wireless display (e.g. weather, twitter, news) · 48 points · by profquail · 6 comments
• Ask PG: When should founders start taking a salary? · 46 points · by prpon · 24 comments
• Jobs vs. Gates: Who's the Star? (2006) · 43 points · by terpua · 17 comments
• Google Wave's Web of Protocols (diagram and commentary) · 42 points · by jaaron · 13 comments
• So you think you are a Rockstar Coding Ninja? · 37 points · by edw519 · 27 comments
• Which Search Engine Do You Choose In The Blind Test? · 34 points · by jmonegro · 21 comments
• Ask HN: "How to make something people want?" · 31 points · by apsurd · 27 comments
• The poor man’s Bash Tab-completion · 31 points · by mustpax · 13 comments
• Is 23,148,855,308,184,500 a magic number, or sheer chance? · 30 points · by kirubakaran · 3 comments
• Shipping (circa 1995) · 30 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Minimum Viable Product Detailed Case Study · 28 points · by _pius · 5 comments
• Ask HN: How to reduce sloppy mistakes? · 28 points · by Everest · 39 comments
• The Rasterbator - Create huge, rasterized images from any picture. · 27 points · by bearwithclaws · 23 comments
• Clojure: An Atom Feed in Ten Minutes · 25 points · by unignorant · 1 comment
• Design notebook suggestions? · 25 points · by mechanician · 27 comments
• How I Learned To Quit The iPhone & Love Google Voice · 25 points · by paul9290 · 13 comments
• Ask HN: What would you love to work on? · 25 points · by gaia-forming · 33 comments
• What Is The Real Reason Dell Is Discontinuing 12-inch Netbooks? · 24 points · by vaksel · 25 comments
• A Run-down of Free Software Project Hosting Sites · 24 points · by fogus · 6 comments
• Pressure-sensitive keyboard · 23 points · by mark_h · 12 comments
• Visualizing Sorting Algorithms · 22 points · by unignorant · 3 comments
• Are science fiction/fantasy writers insane? · 20 points · by renai42 · 9 comments
• Some Basic Truths About Broadband (Economics) · 19 points · by amutap · 11 comments
• Worldwide Slump Makes Nigeria's Online Scammers Work That Much Harder · 18 points · by miked · 6 comments
• Io language · 18 points · by known · 4 comments
• Fred Wilson: Doubling down (in VC/PE) · 18 points · by cwan · 8 comments
• What computers can't do · 18 points · by TriinT · 6 comments
• My Advice to Fox & MySpace on Selling Content – Yes You Can · 17 points · by terpua · 3 comments
• The billion dollar genius ego dilemma · 17 points · by shalmanese · 8 comments
• Write when inspired · 17 points · by tomh- · 10 comments
• Don't be a Lonely Planet Entrepreneur- startup mythology's death of capitalism · 16 points · by colinplamondon · 4 comments
• As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History · 14 points · by newacc · 6 comments
• Are the Glory Days Long Gone for I.T.? · 14 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• NIST Demonstrates Sustained Quantum Processing in Quantum Computers · 14 points · by ca98am79 · 3 comments
• Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging · 13 points · by mgcreed · 1 comment
• Should Programming Work be Billed in Hours? · 12 points · by nsoonhui · 17 comments
• Design first, then code. · 12 points · by hajrice · 22 comments
• A Failure of Understanding - A response to "The Start-Ups We Don't Need" · 12 points · by blasdel · 9 comments
• A Nuclear Fusion Startup · 11 points · by bmunro · no comments
• Patriot Scientific acquires Chuck Moore's patents including shboom · 11 points · by jacquesm · 8 comments
• Maker Faire coming to New England this September · 11 points · by asmithmd1 · no comments
• The Case Against Apple Is Just As Much A Case For Apple · 11 points · by vaksel · 17 comments
• Students Pay Services to Obtain Internships · 10 points · by ALee · 8 comments
• Ask HN: Hot & Useful software skills for novice converts? · 10 points · by ashr · 24 comments
• Polymath4 (”Finding Primes”) now officially active « What’s new · 9 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Google Moves Rejected Google Voice App Online · 9 points · by Xichekolas · 10 comments
• TwitterLand - All the best Twitter-related APIs in one Ruby gem · 8 points · by _pius · no comments
• Ask HN: SICP says "Program == Language Evaluator" What does this mean? · 8 points · by hackingsicp · 11 comments
• Startup Idea? Something I'd like to See: Cheap J2ME "device" · 8 points · by davidw · 10 comments
• Lunch with the FT: Jared Diamond · 8 points · by jakarta · no comments
• Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program · 8 points · by tsondermann · 4 comments
• Review: Coders at Work · 8 points · by fogus · 1 comment
• So what do I do with my idea? I mean, it is so great! · 7 points · by Eliezer · 1 comment
• Ask HN: JSON or XML, questions about an idea ? · 7 points · by jacquesm · 15 comments
• When are we going to stop writing code? · 7 points · by gdp · 33 comments
• The Everything Disease: A Forensic Analysis of the Popularity of Pokemon · 7 points · by blasdel · 7 comments
• Are Information Technology's Glory Days Over? · 7 points · by steiger · 3 comments
• Microsoft Sells Razorfish for a Whopping $500+ Million · 6 points · by GVRV · no comments
• Anatomy of a Parasitic Computer (2002) · 6 points · by TriinT · 1 comment
• Wavelets and Subband Coding (free ebook) · 5 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Safe-r Bash Scripting · 5 points · by kyleburton · 1 comment
• Predicting the Unpredictable · 5 points · by terpua · no comments
• In the Air - Gladwell on ideas (2008) · 5 points · by GavinB · no comments
• Let's Bring Combustion Out Of The 18th Century · 5 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• How Old-Technology Companies Can Extend Their Lives · 4 points · by peter123 · no comments
• DSLs in Erlang · 4 points · by locopati · no comments
• Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 9.04 · 4 points · by joschi · 2 comments
• Let me put that in one page for you - makes multipage articles one page · 4 points · by vaksel · 1 comment
• Introduction to how and why 'free' web business models work · 4 points · by madmotive · 4 comments
• Focus less on solar: The Grand Energy Transition (gaseous energy revolution) · 4 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• The killer app for DNA sequencing: online dating. · 4 points · by amichail · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Any good free HTML/CSS templates for a Web app administration GUI? · 4 points · by BerislavLopac · 3 comments
• Rivals bid to snatch green domain · 4 points · by davecardwell · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Could one get sued for helping people remember names? · 3 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• Apps That Make Sharing Large Files A Snap · 3 points · by mgcreed · 4 comments
• Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security · 3 points · by newacc · no comments
• Introduction to the Occam programming language [pdf] · 3 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• Interesting resource for people interested in PID controllers · 3 points · by jgrahamc · no comments
• UK national ID card cloned in 12 minutes · 3 points · by gasull · 2 comments
• Macworld cover design process on video · 3 points · by qeek · no comments
• Python: Double or single quotes? · 2 points · by henryprecheur · no comments
• The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation · 2 points · by michaelfairley · no comments
• What's In a Design, Apple? · 2 points · by kennethreitz · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Help with this 301 redirect? · 2 points · by brandnewlow · 5 comments
• Icombinator down for two days. Any alternatives? · 2 points · by mannylee1 · no comments
• Error messages are not for end users. And certainly don't belong on iPhone apps · 2 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Luxury resort offers $19 room _ minus bed and TP · 2 points · by newacc · 1 comment
• Next-Generation Human Resources and Recruiting Software · 2 points · by mingyeow · no comments
• Starbucks: Howard Schultz vs. Howard Schultz · 2 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Voca, UK's largest payment processing engine running Spring · 2 points · by systems · no comments
• Safe, threaded design and inter-thread communication · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• A Proposed Medical Privacy Act And Why We Need One · 2 points · by jzdziarski · no comments
• Cost of US Letter Delivered to Your Neighbor vs. Kiwi Delivered From New Zealand · 2 points · by mhb · 3 comments
• Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Best intro to c#/.net/wpf book? · 2 points · by altano · 3 comments
• Get LimeWire for Your Platform - Lime Wire · 2 points · by seanyrocks · no comments
• Alternative Unemployment Measures · 2 points · by gasull · no comments
• The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems (pdf) · 2 points · by TriinT · no comments
• COBOL - still doing the business · 2 points · by mseebach · no comments
• The Tao of Debugging · 2 points · by jgrahamc · no comments
• GPT partition table, needed for disks larger than 2TB · 2 points · by ars · no comments
• PyGame - Parallax Scrolling in 2D games · 1 points · by ncrovatti · no comments
• Rue Metalanguage: Thue + Regex · 1 points · by bkudria · no comments
• Adaptive Websites · 1 points · by Titanous · no comments
• Mistaking Invention for Innovation · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Mini robot that can travel through the human body · 1 points · by ajg1977 · 1 comment
• Poor Password Management Eclipses Virus Problem · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• How to cause an earthquake · 1 points · by TriinT · no comments
• The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) · 1 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Concept Review Request: Stop Arguing Now · 1 points · by indiejade · 1 comment
• And You Thought a Prescription Was Private · 1 points · by newacc · no comments
• Ask HN: Who were the people behind the milestones in Computing ? · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• 1-year free Harvest subscription for 1 new company each month · 1 points · by aditya · no comments
• Top Down vs. Bottom Up · 1 points · by mattmcknight · no comments
• Cantor, Boltzmann, Gödel and Turing: four suicidal geniuses · 1 points · by TriinT · no comments
• New Nokia maemo based tablet surfaces · 1 points · by kasunh · no comments
• Bicycle for Internet Addicts · 1 points · by eren · no comments
• I Want To Love Firefox 3.5, But It Keeps Crashing On Me · 1 points · by amutap · 1 comment
• The Microsoft Reaction Experience · 1 points · by kennethreitz · no comments
• The Million dollar speaker - would you spend 5 Million for Surround-sound? · 1 points · by suprgeek · no comments
• TwitterFreq - Graphs Your Tweets Based On When You Sent Them · 1 points · by scottjackson · 1 comment
• Debunked LINQ Myths · 1 points · by _giu · no comments
• Five principles of good social software design · 1 points · by bearwithclaws · no comments
• Health Insurance and the Power of Reputation · 1 points · by unignorant · 1 comment
• Hold it: Cuba has run out of toilet paper for the next 5 months · 1 points · by miked · no comments
• Boost Your Memory Power with a 30-Second Eye Exercise - Memory - Lifehacker · 1 points · by AjJi · 1 comment
• Make a camera for your cat · 1 points · by gus_massa · no comments
• Printable Batteries Should Arrive Next Year · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Pinning down the fleeting Internet: Crawler stores historical data for searching · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• Near realtime face detection on the iPhone w/ OpenCV port [w/code,video] · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Ask HN: What do you want in a tech event? · 1 points · by bscofield · no comments
• The danger of vague claims · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Ferengi Programmer and the Dreyfus Model · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Implement or Die · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Barefoot running: enthusiasts swear by weird-looking shoes · 1 points · by adamhowell · no comments
• Village that never was is finally on Google Maps, but in the wrong place · 1 points · by andyking · no comments
• Homebuilt USB CPU tachometer · 1 points · by profquail · no comments
• How Hashtags are Remaking Conversations on Twitter · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Progression of the Inevitable: on the simultaneity of invention · 1 points · by blasdel · no comments
• PHP Twitter - Add twit easy with PHP - Plaats een Twit met PHP · 1 points · by gewoon · no comments
• Ten questions for Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Man vs Mutt · 1 points · by genepope · no comments
• Bowline: An MVC Framework for GUI, Cross-Platform Desktop Apps in Ruby · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Online journal publishing only papers that have been rejected · 1 points · by thrawn · no comments
• Why Twitter Needs Brand Tweehab and Lessons for Startups · 1 points · by quant · no comments
• Malaysian Government Wants Internet Filtering · 1 points · by gasull · no comments
• CopyGator - Catching duplicate content & plagiarism in the Blogosphere. · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• DNA Molecular Manufacturing Today · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Why We Don't Document Our Software · 1 points · by jeffspost · no comments
• Gaming documentary: Second Skin · 1 points · by joubert · no comments
• How to work a crowd · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• How I Learned To Quit The iPhone And Love Google Voice · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Tell HN: Camtasia (popular screencasting software) coming to Mac on Aug 25th · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• What knocked out Twitter? Attacks on blogger · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Ask HN for feedback: iCal Analyzer computes calendar stats · 1 points · by diN0bot · 1 comment
• Why can't local government and open source be friends? · 1 points · by davecardwell · 2 comments
• Top 100 SVM Publications · 1 points · by chromophore · no comments
• Notes on Bioinformatics (PDF) · 1 points · by chromophore · 1 comment
• Windows Mobile 6 vs iPhone OS · 1 points · by kennethreitz · 1 comment
• What's Better? Revolution or Innovation? · 1 points · by kennethreitz · no comments
• An idea’s value is directly proportionate to the time you invest on it. · 1 points · by gtzi · 3 comments