Hacker News Way Back Machine

• How twitter helped a technology consultant escape from an evil hospital · 132 points · by gluejar · 88 comments
• MIT Students Take Pictures from 93,000 ft on $150 Budget. · 125 points · by edw519 · 27 comments
• Paul Buchheit: Evaluating risk and opportunity (as a human) · 94 points · by paul · 27 comments
• On Saying No - The Power of Simply Answering, "No." · 78 points · by DarrenMills · 32 comments
• Netflix prize tribute: Recommendation algorithm in Python · 71 points · by fogus · 5 comments
• What is Erlang-Style Concurrency? · 62 points · by silentbicycle · 16 comments
• How Google Taught Me to Cache and Cash-In · 58 points · by timf · 24 comments
• Father of Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, Dies · 57 points · by healsdata · 22 comments
• What We Can Learn About Pricing From Menu Engineers · 57 points · by terpua · 37 comments
• The end of dumb software · 56 points · by wyday · 48 comments
• Integrating Django with Tornado's web server · 56 points · by apgwoz · 8 comments
• Fish - The friendly interactive shell · 55 points · by gnosis · 16 comments
• Writing Linux Kernel Modules in Haskell · 53 points · by dons · 2 comments
• Benchmarking Tornado vs. Twisted Web vs. Tornado on Twisted vs. Unicorn · 53 points · by acangiano · 23 comments
• Preview of WebKit’s WebGL / Canvas 3D · 50 points · by jeff18 · 4 comments
• Pong (130 lines in Clojure) · 46 points · by jayded · 9 comments
• Please review the new tarsnap website · 43 points · by cperciva · 58 comments
• 7 ways I’ve almost killed FreshBooks · 42 points · by aliasaria · 7 comments
• The 20 Dollar Millionaire · 42 points · by DarrenMills · 23 comments
• Norman Borlaug, Saved Millions from Starvation - Dies Aged 95 · 40 points · by rfreytag · 11 comments
• Raytraced metaballs in a 512b html file. (Not for IE.) · 34 points · by fadr · 9 comments
• Snow Leopard UI roundup · 34 points · by dmytton · 5 comments
• Norman Borlaug on Organic Farming · 34 points · by glymor · 64 comments
• Happy Programmer Day · 30 points · by emilis_info · 10 comments
• Advanced Floating Point Features (which most languages don't have) in Factor · 27 points · by plinkplonk · no comments
• For Sale: $20 Million Particle Accelerator, Never Used · 27 points · by mgh2 · 10 comments
• Gödel, Escher, Bach OCW lectures · 26 points · by grinnbearit · 4 comments
• NY Times serving up malware today · 25 points · by Tangurena · 13 comments
• Python based MIT 6.00 | Intro to Computer Science and Programming · 24 points · by kirubakaran · 6 comments
• Write Your Own Regular Expression Parser · 24 points · by apotheon · 7 comments
• Did we just turn down TechCrunch 50? · 24 points · by Major_Grooves · 10 comments
• All TI Signing Keys Factored · 23 points · by brianto2010 · 6 comments
• Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast · 22 points · by edw519 · 15 comments
• Using math to choose a mate · 21 points · by cwan · 6 comments
• JQuery for Beginners: Selectors, Hierarchies and Attributes, Oh My · 20 points · by simplrdes · no comments
• US Navy underwater laser development "changes everything" · 20 points · by cwan · 6 comments
• Sound Effects Library · 20 points · by mhb · 4 comments
• Redcar is moving to JRuby · 18 points · by siim · 3 comments
• Google Groups Used To Control Botnets · 18 points · by dimas · 1 comment
• Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Oil and Gas · 18 points · by yters · 8 comments
• Request for Beta Testers: TweetHook.com - twitter search webhooks · 17 points · by jazzychad · 3 comments
• JQuery Conference 2009, slides · 17 points · by yannis · no comments
• Why capitalism fails · 15 points · by robg · 52 comments
• First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered · 14 points · by dimas · 10 comments
• Differences between Y Combinator and Seedcamp · 14 points · by madmotive · 7 comments
• Energy saving light bulbs offer dim future · 14 points · by d0mine · 17 comments
• Erlang style programming in PLT Scheme · 13 points · by zzkt · 2 comments
• Earth may be constantly producing oil · 13 points · by yters · 60 comments
• Popular Search Engines in the 90’s: Then and Now · 12 points · by cwan · 10 comments
• Code reviews for fun & profit · 12 points · by j_baker · 1 comment
• Cyclical Nature of Peak Oil · 12 points · by windsurfer · no comments
• Wall Street’s Math Wizards Forgot a Few Variables · 11 points · by peter123 · 12 comments
• What HR Professionals Look For in a Programmer's Resume · 11 points · by DarrenMills · 9 comments
• Garbage Collection 2.0 vs. Web 3.0 · 11 points · by techdog · no comments
• Linux Kernel Modules in Haskell · 11 points · by nonexec · 1 comment
• Is there an Internet intercom? Need help for a friend and his mom. · 10 points · by geofffox · 12 comments
• Hard To Believe But Motorola Is Now A Software Company · 10 points · by medianama · 3 comments
• Billions Served: Norman Borlaug interview (2000) · 10 points · by glymor · 4 comments
• Scientists Clone Oldest Living Organism · 9 points · by dimas · 5 comments
• Is Happiness Catching? · 9 points · by cwan · no comments
• Unit Testing - Do Repeat Yourself · 8 points · by blazzerbg · 1 comment
• BBC - Music - Developers · 8 points · by iamelgringo · 8 comments
• Google Plans New Mirror For Cheaper Solar Power · 8 points · by newacc · 2 comments
• Over 100 Million Americans Have Smoked Marijuana -- And It's Still Illegal? · 8 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• SHRDLU · 7 points · by kirubakaran · no comments
• Capital Factory Demo Day: Five Startups on Display · 7 points · by tomh · 4 comments
• I'm Going To Scale My Foot Up Your Ass · 7 points · by siddhant · 1 comment
• Residential Windmills Face Opposition · 7 points · by mhb · 12 comments
• Does Software Development Have A Culture Of Rewarding Failure? · 6 points · by metafunctor · no comments
• Lets Not Let Silicon Valley Become Just Like Hollywood · 6 points · by dwynings · no comments
• Stop the Madness Called Email · 6 points · by gengstrand · 10 comments
• The Design of Concurrency Control Mechanisms · 6 points · by dtby · no comments
• Photo site Shutterfly goes mobile, acquires Tiny Pictures for $1.3M · 6 points · by dbul · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Podcasts? · 6 points · by cb33 · 4 comments
• Damn Small PHP Frameworks. Because size does matter. · 5 points · by edw519 · 5 comments
• Ask HN: How to communicate adaptability to employers? · 5 points · by rw · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Flash game devs, why don't you cover other people's games? · 5 points · by cousin_it · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Best way to get an internship in Silicon Valley or Bay Area · 5 points · by macco · no comments
• The Art of the Handshake · 5 points · by DarrenMills · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Remedy for sagging inspiration? · 5 points · by boggles · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Self-Study or Take a Class in Programming? · 5 points · by zds · 1 comment
• ConceptBase Now Available Under BSD License · 4 points · by dtby · no comments
• Internet Hoax Convinces Germany of U.S. Suicide Bombing · 4 points · by DarrenMills · 2 comments
• Writing Keyloggers - Full Length Tutorial · 4 points · by vismaya · no comments
• Baidu unfazed by Google's China inroads · 4 points · by newacc · 3 comments
• Unspoken truth about managing geeks · 4 points · by wheaties · no comments
• The Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and Happiness · 3 points · by ujjwalg · no comments
• What's with GoDaddy's web interface? · 3 points · by satyajit · 1 comment
• On elevator pitches: Your solution is not my problem · 3 points · by lucumo · 1 comment
• Motorola Cliq May Make Handset Makers Uncomfortable · 3 points · by newacc · no comments
• On the link economy · 3 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What's your favorite web application UI? · 3 points · by abinoda · 5 comments
• The Self-Educated Apple Genius · 3 points · by GiraffeNecktie · no comments
• 7 Package management meta-tools: survey and state of the art · 3 points · by Hank_Lenzi · 1 comment
• IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office · 3 points · by dimas · 1 comment
• Infocom Games Online · 3 points · by fogus · 1 comment
• DEADBEEF for the CAFEBABE · 3 points · by fogus · no comments
• Are Impossibility Proofs Possible? · 3 points · by fogus · no comments
• Facebook's OpenId implementation is dumb · 2 points · by amrith · no comments
• Pseudonyms as the future's essential privacy curtain · 2 points · by gluejar · no comments
• Augmented Reality App for Translating Chinese Characters [2002] · 2 points · by eas · 2 comments
• Facebook Releases Real-time Web Server Tech dubbed "Tornado" · 2 points · by DarrenMills · no comments
• On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services · 2 points · by strlen · 1 comment
• Eliminate Architecture · 2 points · by just1more · no comments
• The Programming Language Zoo · 2 points · by Gibbon · no comments
• Facebook lite is now available to all · 2 points · by tzury · no comments
• The Next Generation Company : Collaboration and Social Groups · 2 points · by javatoast · no comments
• Facebook's Opensource Repos on GitHub · 2 points · by tzury · no comments
• 10 TechCrunch50 grads: Where are they now? · 2 points · by adamhowell · no comments
• Ending Steriods in Sport: A Proposition · 2 points · by rfreytag · no comments
• Oxford Don, with one-to-one learning, 16th-century tutorial gets new life online · 2 points · by newacc · no comments
• Pinax 0.7 released, ready-to-run social network on Django · 2 points · by limist · no comments
• Surprise Discovery In Earth's Upper Atmosphere · 2 points · by dimas · no comments
• Swiss Precision Meets Messy Innovation · 2 points · by echair · no comments
• How to Really Measure Software Teams 3 · 2 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Browsers and battery life in Windows · 2 points · by slyn · no comments
• Hi-tech video camera used to capture dolphin slaughter · 2 points · by vijayr · no comments
• Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity - Norman Borlaug (1997) · 2 points · by skmurphy · 1 comment
• Heads up Apple, the Intel Netbook is unstoppable · 2 points · by malvosenior · no comments
• The Future of Social Networking: Fixing low SNR · 2 points · by codemechanic · no comments
• The Wall Street Journal 2009 Technology Innovation Awards · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Want to Sell More E-Tail? List Your Competitors’ Prices, Study Says · 2 points · by UsNThem · no comments
• Mew is a mail reader for Emacs · 2 points · by fogus · 1 comment
• SliTaz GNU/Linux · 2 points · by fogus · no comments
• Is virtual world boom our industrial revolution? · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• List of Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts & Keystrokes · 2 points · by fogus · 1 comment
• Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria "talk" (video) · 1 points · by ujjwalg · no comments
• Hubble Telescope Pictures · 1 points · by mun · no comments
• Bing advertising on Google? · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• When are you collecting too much data? · 1 points · by Gibbon · no comments
• The Wired Way · 1 points · by VladVuki · no comments
• How Facebook could replace Twitter – Friend or Follow · 1 points · by javatoast · no comments
• CodeKata: How to become a better developer · 1 points · by anthonymc · 1 comment
• A Turing Test for Computer Game Bots: Better AI for Games · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Company culture: it's actually pretty important. · 1 points · by t3mp3st · no comments
• What it's like seeing time · 1 points · by keltecp11 · no comments
• Good news for Microsoft · 1 points · by sibilsalim · no comments
• The Rule Of Least Power · 1 points · by yarapavan · 2 comments
• Only 84,000 dollar-millionaires in India · 1 points · by known · no comments
• How relevant is UML modeling today? · 1 points · by blazzerbg · 4 comments
• The duality of the web industry · 1 points · by ancide · no comments
• Is this the most ridiculous list of global VCs ever? · 1 points · by marklittlewood · no comments
• Recursion · 1 points · by mikejuk · no comments
• Dirt cheap: Techdirt bets on 'free' business models · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Betashop: 3 Keys To Being A Founder · 1 points · by betashop · no comments
• Why It Might Be Healthier to Sleep Alone · 1 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Lisp book - chapter preview (13-16) · 1 points · by stefano · no comments
• Reconciling Emacs Lisp and Scheme · 1 points · by PieSquared · no comments
• Secrets of the centenarians: Life begins at 100 · 1 points · by limist · no comments
• iPhone App Idea: Why not build a page-based "Audience Reaction Meter" for books? · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• A quick hack to measure iPhone OS distribution · 1 points · by PanMan · 1 comment
• Information FTL · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Carbon nanotubes could make efficient solar cells · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• How to Motivate Others and Yourself · 1 points · by rama_vadakattu · no comments
• The twenty · 1 points · by mgcreed · no comments
• Tenori-On Teardown · 1 points · by pingswept · no comments
• Skimble Helps You Plan And Track Your Gym Workouts and Outdoor Activities · 1 points · by satyajit · no comments
• How (not) to attract the best · 1 points · by ConceptDog · no comments
• Heads up Apple, the Intel Netbook is unstoppable · 1 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Developers deserve more equity in startups · 1 points · by danielharan · no comments
• Howto : Install openoffice3.1.1 on ubuntu9.04|LinuxMint Gloria · 1 points · by siliconvaley · no comments
• Network infrastructure is sexy again Nov 2008 · 1 points · by Punjabiwabi · no comments
• Ask HN: Looking for a shared overview / task app for teams, native and live. · 1 points · by cwilson · no comments
• Stop Complaining And Start Educating Potential Clients (Marketing) · 1 points · by nerdburn · no comments
• Ask Jeeves is on a mission to be indispensable · 1 points · by mgcreed · no comments
• Racing inet_ntoa · 1 points · by nonexec · no comments
• 9 worrying signs of Twitter obsession · 1 points · by gjizzle · 1 comment
• ‘Athens’ on the Net · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Job Posting - Head Navitas' Online 'Start-up' · 1 points · by JacobAldridge · no comments
• Video Games You Can Count On · 1 points · by UsNThem · 1 comment
• Whatever happened to public wi-fi? · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Eval-string or eval? · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• Four things Star Trek can teach us about Simulation Design · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• Does Your Diet Affect How You Consume Information? · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• Inside of a Dog - What Dogs See, Smell, and Know · 1 points · by fogus · no comments