Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Ask HN: What's a Non-Programmer to do? · 152 points · by gsaines · 78 comments
• Facebook, TipJoy, the Deal that Didn’t Happen and the Hire that Did · 97 points · by pakafka · 74 comments
• I'm OK, the bull is dead: Communication skills for engineers · 96 points · by rubentopo · 25 comments
• A Django website that took (a lot) more than 20 minutes. · 91 points · by jacquesm · 18 comments
• 4Chan launches embarrassing attack on devout Christians on Facebook · 68 points · by mgcreed · 117 comments
• What’s Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC · 66 points · by cwan · 24 comments
• Why I'm Not a Writer (1996) · 58 points · by jseliger · 20 comments
• Thanks to the HN community · 54 points · by grellas · 15 comments
• Cheating the App Store: PR firm has interns post positive reviews for clients · 54 points · by vaksel · 23 comments
• The Notes What Spawned JQuery (2005) · 48 points · by fogus · 7 comments
• New Free Online Book (by me): Essentials of Metaheuristics · 47 points · by SeanLuke · 7 comments
• RestMS · 41 points · by setori88 · 19 comments
• Think twice before naming your new programming language · 38 points · by gnargeot · 16 comments
• A video of a laser doing crazy weird things · 36 points · by ujjwalg · 7 comments
• Share your ideas · 35 points · by evancaine · 61 comments
• Svgweb - Scalable Vector Graphics for Web Browsers using Flash · 33 points · by mkuhn · 9 comments
• Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret · 33 points · by prakash · 24 comments
• FB Hires TipJoy Co-Founder Ivan Kirigin After Backing Away From Acquisition · 32 points · by vaksel · 6 comments
• Interactive Unicode Table · 28 points · by nudded · 6 comments
• Ancient Man Didn't Exactly Live in Harmony With the Land · 25 points · by scapegraced · 15 comments
• Researchers crack network latency nut with new algorithm · 20 points · by lyime · 2 comments
• Nice Proof of a Geometric Progression Sum · 20 points · by nreece · 8 comments
• Ask HN: What would you do with a Class C IP block? · 20 points · by rms · 22 comments
• Protein folding as a game to help science · 19 points · by Todd · 2 comments
• The Secret Life of Machines · 18 points · by GHFigs · 5 comments
• James Dyson’s ‘Wrong Garden’ Fountain Inspired By MC Escher · 18 points · by cwan · 4 comments
• Ask PG: Do you ever fund startups outside of normal Y Comb. funding cycles? · 17 points · by jlgosse · 12 comments
• How Tim O'Reilly Aims to Change Government · 17 points · by vibhavs · 8 comments
• Israeli scientists find way to combat forged DNA · 16 points · by soundsop · 3 comments
• The Real Truth about Apple and Google and Arrington · 16 points · by eelco · 4 comments
• Intel acquires two multicore software firms, Cilk & RapidMind · 16 points · by prakash · 9 comments
• Autonomous exploration and mapping of abandoned mines [pdf] · 15 points · by henning · 2 comments
• Lisp hacks · 15 points · by bearwithclaws · no comments
• Ask HN: Mashable getting worse? · 15 points · by ujjwalg · 12 comments
• Interview with Paul Buchheit on the FriendFeed acquisition · 15 points · by niels · no comments
• Malware Turns Software Compilers into Virus Breeders · 14 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Rate my startup - customizable, downloadable books for children. · 14 points · by readingteacher · 22 comments
• Can you solve Seth Godin's math problem? · 14 points · by Chrisroad · 22 comments
• HN Greasemonkey script: Show user reputation(karma and age) in comments · 13 points · by helium · 24 comments
• The New-Media Crisis of 1949 · 13 points · by gruseom · 1 comment
• Google, Apple and AT&T: Enough Blame to Go Around for Everyone · 13 points · by rizzn · 1 comment
• Valve's Approach to Playtesting: The Application of Empiricism (PDF) · 12 points · by eswat · 2 comments
• The Mother of Cobol · 12 points · by mikejuk · no comments
• Ask HN: Access to the Corpus - What Would You Do? · 12 points · by BrandonWatson · 29 comments
• Scott Rafer: Couldery Shouldery - Lookery Postmortem · 11 points · by waleedka · 2 comments
• Books For Entrepreneurs · 11 points · by cwan · 5 comments
• Worth of Programming Challenges and event ? · 10 points · by l0nwlf · 10 comments
• Sweden Launches Criminal Probe of Pirate Bay Sale · 10 points · by gasull · no comments
• News.YC No points display script. · 9 points · by shabda · 2 comments
• Sticky Light - non imaging photodetector · 9 points · by movix · 6 comments
• Your IT Company's Biggest Enemy · 9 points · by rams · 7 comments
• Ask HN: Should I get a Master's in CS? · 8 points · by anonymous94 · 12 comments
• Mental Fatigue and Getting to the Next Level of Performance · 8 points · by profquail · 2 comments
• How Google Serves Data from Multiple Datacenters · 7 points · by paulsb · no comments
• A Step Forward for Microbial Machines · 6 points · by cwan · no comments
• Criminals Prefer Firefox, Opera Web Browsers · 6 points · by iamelgringo · 4 comments
• Euclid, Schmeuclid · 6 points · by Jebdm · 3 comments
• Bootstrapping & coffee · 6 points · by aimxhaisse · 1 comment
• How To: Kick Your Torrent Addiction With Usenet · 6 points · by _pius · 1 comment
• Graph Theory in Practice (2000) · 5 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Stop the autoconf insanity Why we need a new build system · 5 points · by soundsop · 2 comments
• Mechanical Lock Companies and Security Engineering: A Failure of Imagination · 5 points · by mbrubeck · no comments
• Computability and Complexity · 5 points · by llimllib · no comments
• Computer Science and Game Theory: A Brief Survey (2007) [pdf] · 5 points · by TriinT · no comments
• The Snorkel gene: Key to Increasing World-Wide Rice Production? · 5 points · by URSpider94 · 1 comment
• Exploring OAuth-Protected APIs · 5 points · by mbrubeck · no comments
• Planar, a new AI for the Tactical Amulet Extraction Bot (nethack playing bot) · 5 points · by SwellJoe · no comments
• Ask HN: If you had to remake ratemyprofessors.com, what would you write it in? · 4 points · by dzlobin · 13 comments
• Stochastic computing with biomolecular automata (2004) · 4 points · by TriinT · no comments
• What is the best tool to draw an idea? · 4 points · by abhishekdesai · 14 comments
• Anyone want to crack my secret message? · 4 points · by chrischen · no comments
• Singapore: A Model of Judgment for the United States? · 4 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• Tech giants unite against Google · 4 points · by davecardwell · 1 comment
• Machinarium Is Coming In October 2009 · 4 points · by jumpidea · 2 comments
• Online radio service wins ruling over license fees · 4 points · by toni · 1 comment
• DIY ECG Machine On The Cheap with Python · 4 points · by profquail · 1 comment
• Twitter Developing Location-Based API · 4 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Lift Web Framework · 3 points · by wave · no comments
• DirectCompute in Windows 7 - Microsoft's answer to Snow Leopard / OpenCL · 3 points · by ajg1977 · no comments
• My Idea of Health Care Reform · 3 points · by twampss · no comments
• Yammer’s Big Night: Launches Threaded Conversations, iPhone App, And More · 3 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Manifesto on Creativity · 3 points · by tsenart · no comments
• How Differential Gear works · 3 points · by bearwithclaws · 2 comments
• Apple answers fcc questions · 3 points · by l0nwlf · no comments
• YouTube - Project Natal: Meet Milo. · 3 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• For Twitter, Sharing Data with Google Would Be Suicide · 3 points · by cwan · 2 comments
• Ask HN: CraigsList alternative idea? · 3 points · by hajrice · 2 comments
• Structural Pattern Matching in Java · 3 points · by fogus · 1 comment
• Don't Be an Open Source Douchebag · 3 points · by sliced_lime · no comments
• Researchers create robots that can learn to lie and deceive, on purpose · 3 points · by malvosenior · no comments
• Musical sorting algorithms · 3 points · by hc · no comments
• Textbook Price Comparison Engine · 3 points · by atomicflare · 2 comments
• ILike, Lookery, Google Voice: Recent platform lessons from app developers · 3 points · by andrew_null · no comments
• PC Pro’s top 10 hard disk destruction methods · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Paper Review of "Hints On Computer System Design" · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• Stanford's Iphone Application Programming class online, for free · 2 points · by dzlobin · 1 comment
• Startup Day 2009, Seattle, Sat 09/26/2009 - $100 registration ends today · 2 points · by zaatar · 1 comment
• Can bing be trusted? · 2 points · by gengstrand · no comments
• Rails Rumble 2009 Kicked Off Tonight - Sneak Peak from SF · 2 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• NASA May Outsource Amid Budget Woes · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Microsoft appeals for stay of Word injunction · 2 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• From Universe to Multiverse · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Reconsidering relevance (google talk) · 2 points · by urlwolf · 1 comment
• I Used to Believe · 2 points · by gnosis · 1 comment
• CSS 3 Progress - hbox and vbox in practice · 2 points · by mbrubeck · no comments
• Monitor a site and send an email in 5 lines of code · 2 points · by rebtut · no comments
• What I learned at the Lean Startup Workshop · 2 points · by petewarden · no comments
• Raygun Gothic Rocketship counts down to its launch · 2 points · by saundby · no comments
• Thoughts on .tel and WebFinger · 1 points · by plaggypig · 1 comment
• App Store Exposed: Notes Of Interest From Apple’s Statement To The FCC · 1 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Why AT&T Killed Google Voice · 1 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• An Emptied Flask Makes for Empty Promises · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Hard problem of consciousness raises questions of enormous practical importance · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• StreamToMe iPhone App Released · 1 points · by twampss · 1 comment
• Small-scale drug posession legal in Mexico · 1 points · by dzlobin · no comments
• New Media Conference & Competition organized by the Economist · 1 points · by anigbrowl · no comments
• Built a fouondation in Java, now what? · 1 points · by yairharel · 5 comments
• Real Time Search Over Federated Networks · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Stackoverflow v Experts-Exchange traffic · 1 points · by ajg1977 · no comments
• Wordpress plugin | Clickpass Documentation · 1 points · by tijmen · no comments
• From VC-Entrepreneur Interactions to the Unimportance of Facebook · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• IPA: ASCII Style · 1 points · by rr110 · no comments
• CSS Template from scratch · 1 points · by iCMS · no comments
• Working with Ogg Theora and the video tag · 1 points · by tjr · no comments
• Jobspice: Solution to your resume nightmares · 1 points · by dzlobin · 1 comment
• Welcome to TwitterBar · 1 points · by gordo · no comments
• Why AT&T Killed GoogleVoice · 1 points · by digamber_kamat · no comments
• Shoutcast 5.1 Surround Sound Streams? · 1 points · by DesignVisa · no comments
• What Everybody Should Know About Installing And Using Java On Ubuntu · 1 points · by askorkin · no comments
• TWiSTRecap - Mixergy, Darrin Clement of Maponics · 1 points · by SRSimko · no comments
• Freesheet model seen as no longer viable · 1 points · by kenshi · no comments
• Kazaa founder turns music piracy crime fighter · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• How Google Rank Pages [experiment] · 1 points · by csomar · no comments
• Autonomous machines prompt debate · 1 points · by spooneybarger · no comments
• New Palm Pre Ad from Bell looks identical to the iPhone Ads · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Monster HD Screen at Cowboys Stadium... Mid-game Fail · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Saturday Afternoon Serials · 1 points · by DanielBMarkham · 1 comment
• Vista, running IIS7 and Apache on same port · 1 points · by cosmicnet · no comments
• Sketchpad - Adobe Illustrator circa 1963 · 1 points · by calvin · 1 comment
• How to Add Social Media to Your Enterprise · 1 points · by gengstrand · no comments
• Fix Missing Cmd + Reft CMD + Right bug in Textmate on Snow Leopard · 1 points · by alexknowshtml · no comments
• Pixel Qi color screen for kindle-like ebook readers · 1 points · by GavinB · no comments
• Inspired Interview: Derek Herman – The Man Who Built Envato · 1 points · by mancuso5 · no comments
• Turkey’s AkAkce now ’scrobbling’ print competitors for price comparison · 1 points · by idriscin · no comments
• Not just Facebook. 4Chan hack Christian’s social network, email, Paypal accounts · 1 points · by mgcreed · no comments
• Green, green gras of home... · 1 points · by envitar · no comments
• Relationships in Early-Stage Investing: Riskier, Harder, More Rewarding · 1 points · by mgcreed · no comments