Hacker News Way Back Machine

• What Startups Are Really Like · 382 points · by apu · 119 comments
• What we actually know about software development, and why we believe it’s true · 133 points · by ZeroGravitas · 54 comments
• Ask HN: Statistics for hackers? · 99 points · by haliax · 31 comments
• Ask HN: Getting users · 87 points · by vaksel · 64 comments
• Sun's ZFS lead developer on the reason behind Apple dropping ZFS · 85 points · by bensummers · 8 comments
• X264's abstraction layer for cross-platform x86 assembly: now free to use · 75 points · by DarkShikari · 12 comments
• First Rule of Programming Is Don't Program · 68 points · by cyman · 87 comments
• Seven Languages in Seven Weeks · 62 points · by fogus · 40 comments
• Ask HN: Your favorite Startup School moments? · 59 points · by projectileboy · 60 comments
• Confessions of a Long-Distance sailor · 57 points · by justlearning · 16 comments
• Mu is a lightweight JavaScript library to use Facebook Connect on your site. · 51 points · by daakus · 1 comment
• One shot of gene therapy and children with congenital blindness can now see · 50 points · by Anon84 · 5 comments
• How The Pursuit of Truth Led Me To Selling Viagra · 46 points · by dedalus · 4 comments
• Billionaire (Sergey Brin) Aids Charity That Aided Him · 46 points · by Technophilis · 29 comments
• Hadoop Training Videos · 45 points · by fogus · no comments
• Search vs. Recommendations, or Authoritative and Related Sources in a Graph · 43 points · by wheels · 1 comment
• Programming language choice - sometimes there is none. · 39 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 33 comments
• Photos of all the Speakers from YC Startup School 2009 - Thanks YC · 35 points · by rantfoil · 7 comments
• Lucid programming language · 33 points · by stefano · 8 comments
• The Best Quotes from Startup School · 31 points · by gaborcselle · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Any designers here in for a rushjob on a fun project ? · 26 points · by jacquesm · 13 comments
• Web Sockets specification (IETF Internet Draft) · 25 points · by jsrn · 4 comments
• JL's interview with Mark Zuckerberg (~transcript, not word for word) · 24 points · by rms · 3 comments
• Britain's Surveillance Society · 24 points · by jseliger · 9 comments
• Success Lessons From The Man Who Was Lost In the Jungle · 22 points · by Jimega36 · 10 comments
• Someone who is like Data in real life · 22 points · by amichail · 2 comments
• Why do bankers make so much money? · 21 points · by cwan · 14 comments
• Ask HN: How do you rent apartments in SF when self-employed? · 20 points · by akkartik · 41 comments
• The iPhone app industry · 20 points · by bd · 1 comment
• Hulu To Actually Add Premium Pay Content While Keeping Current Content Free · 18 points · by w1ntermute · 11 comments
• Google Analytics data of being slashdotted and posted here. · 18 points · by mrcharles · 20 comments
• A critique of the Atlantic Magazine article, Does the Vaccine Matter? · 18 points · by nkurz · 6 comments
• Learning to Love Insider Trading · 17 points · by splat · 21 comments
• To vim or not to vim · 17 points · by gnosis · 21 comments
• Strange Loop 2009 Keynote: Minimalism in Computing (Slides) · 16 points · by grosales · 3 comments
• Dedicated to software that sucks less · 16 points · by mmphosis · 4 comments
• Global warming: Moral vs Economic solutions · 16 points · by raphar · 20 comments
• Global economy has no substitute for falling dollar · 15 points · by cwan · 12 comments
• Ask HN: Anyone want to sightsee around the valley on Monday? · 15 points · by matt1 · 19 comments
• Real Life Prisoners Dilemma with $100k at Stake [vid] · 15 points · by bokonist · 11 comments
• A very old gcc "bug" · 14 points · by vinutheraj · 19 comments
• Good investment for a tech guy? · 13 points · by landlord · 29 comments
• Reworking Python's Global Interpreter Lock · 13 points · by jparise · no comments
• Cocoa with Love: Memory and thread-safe custom property methods · 13 points · by twampss · no comments
• NASA to pay commercial firms to launch astronauts? · 13 points · by petewarden · 8 comments
• Does the New iMac Foretell the Next Apple TV? · 12 points · by newacc · 9 comments
• Startup School: Tony Hsieh On Delivering Happiness · 11 points · by alexjmann · 1 comment
• Flu shots aren’t good science · 11 points · by scottw · 27 comments
• Three effective tips to get started with conversion rate optimization · 10 points · by paraschopra · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Startup school 2009 videos ? · 9 points · by yr · 2 comments
• Sun isn't just that small RDBMS... · 8 points · by bensummers · no comments
• John Dvorak reverses entire career, says Microsoft should copy Apple · 7 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Hit testing for arbitrary paths on the iPhone · 7 points · by baroova · 1 comment
• Compiler Bug · 6 points · by vinutheraj · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What can you do with bad reviews? · 6 points · by launic · 9 comments
• How High Will Real-Time Search Fly? · 5 points · by newacc · no comments
• The Genie language · 5 points · by ivan_i · no comments
• Against storage infrastructure complexity · 5 points · by gcv · no comments
• Ask HN: Review My Startup. Bookhu.com: The Gender Compatibility Engine for Books · 5 points · by pmjoyce · 10 comments
• Ask HN: help students with entrepreneurship class project - survey · 5 points · by grk · 3 comments
• The Ehrenfeucht Game and First Order Logic · 5 points · by infinity · no comments
• The Most Important C++ Books...Ever · 5 points · by TheElder · no comments
• Ask HN: How do you make decisions between cofounders? · 5 points · by zaidf · 10 comments
• Choosing Who Survives in a Flu Epidemic · 4 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• HN: Everyone meetup (post startup school) · 4 points · by HelenL14 · no comments
• Where’s the Value in Tech Recruiting? · 4 points · by boggles · no comments
• Ask HN: Where can I find meta.News.YCombinator.com · 4 points · by tzury · 5 comments
• Emily Howell, the virtual composer making waves in the computer world · 4 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Do startups usually equally split the company amongst founders? · 4 points · by chrischen · 3 comments
• NASDAQs new iPhone App is Slick - Includes StockTwits · 4 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• The DVR vs Internet Video · 3 points · by thejo · 2 comments
• Choose Your VC Investor Carefully · 3 points · by wheels · 1 comment
• Video: Symbian Executive Rips into Google’s Android · 3 points · by genieyclo · no comments
• Non-programming books for Programmers: The Superorganism, Hölldobler & Wilson · 3 points · by cortesi · no comments
• Young entrepreneurs get tips from Facebook, Twitter · 3 points · by araneae · no comments
• A/B Testing, Too Little Too Soon? [pdf] · 3 points · by mahmud · 1 comment
• Experts see rebounding economy shedding jobs · 3 points · by skmurphy · 3 comments
• Symbian Foundation opens smartphone kernel source code · 2 points · by karthikm · no comments
• The Economics of Pick-your-own Orchards · 2 points · by idlewords · 1 comment
• Paul Buchheit: Been at your job too long? QUIT · 2 points · by ypk · no comments
• Sequoia Capital: The economy’s not so grim after all · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Lifter: Converts XLS files on the Web into XML · 2 points · by dpapathanasiou · no comments
• Beware of VC Seagulls, who shit on you and then fly away · 2 points · by mcxx · 1 comment
• Silicon Valley Office Vacancy Rate over 19% · 2 points · by daniel-cussen · 1 comment
• Chinese govt funding Silicon Valley returnees start-ups · 2 points · by felipe · 1 comment
• Fundamental Laws · 2 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• The past, present and future of AI · 2 points · by karthikm · no comments
• What Comes After Hard Drives? · 2 points · by jhammerb · 1 comment
• Faster, Better, Cheaper Search Engines · 2 points · by acangiano · no comments
• The problem with Twitter is that it’s got a thoroughly shitty user experience · 2 points · by blasdel · 2 comments
• Prosecutors Turn Tables on Student Journalists · 2 points · by pasbesoin · 1 comment
• Very fresh perspective on the real time web · 2 points · by sheldonwt · no comments
• Introduction to Ring Theory · 2 points · by infinity · no comments
• The Löwenheim-Skolem Theorem · 2 points · by infinity · no comments
• Brazen Careerist’s Ryan Paugh on Authenticity and Transparency · 2 points · by rizzn · no comments
• FP for MooTools: decorators, preconditions, currying, arity dispatch, etc... · 2 points · by swannodette · 1 comment
• Court case shows limits of anonymous blogging · 2 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Notable deaths in IT during 2009 · 1 points · by abennett · no comments
• Squareone: Make money posting to Slashdot · 1 points · by tocomment · no comments
• Google supports false advertising? · 1 points · by Recontemplation · 5 comments
• Icahn to Yahoo’s Board: My Work Here is Done · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• Ask HN: Good product sites? · 1 points · by holdenk · no comments
• UN Youtube Channel · 1 points · by christopherolah · no comments
• Homoiconic Example In Many Programming Languages · 1 points · by mmphosis · no comments
• Are Seattle Entrepreneurs Wimps? · 1 points · by flashinfremont · 1 comment
• Real Time Web Considered Harmful...Or Not · 1 points · by dstorrs · no comments
• ?q=0x20+in · 1 points · by juliusdavies · no comments
• Dual-Pivot Quicksort algorithm in O(n log(n)) - A Java implementation · 1 points · by suprgeek · no comments
• HN Poll: What bug tracking software do you use? · 1 points · by tmpk · 2 comments
• Cappuccino: the jake branch · 1 points · by kain · no comments
• Free money too good to be true · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Google vs Microsoft, who will win? · 1 points · by leecho0 · 1 comment
• Lutefisk and Loot: Tax Records Open in Norway · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Biofuel Crops Seen Contributing To Global Warming · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• The £10,000 playlist · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Retinal Implants With a New Design · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• WWII codebreaker worried about sleep-talking · 1 points · by gorbachev · no comments
• Gene Therapy Helps Blind Children See · 1 points · by dstorrs · no comments
• Hackers target Guardian jobs site · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• Move at a Pace You Can Sustain · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Reversing Aging: Interview with Aubrey de Grey, CSO of SENS Foundation · 1 points · by dstorrs · no comments
• World’s First BitTorrent Powered Live Streamed Concert · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Real-time event chat startup Hot Potato raises $1M · 1 points · by pakafka · no comments
• Overseas Chinese return to start companies · 1 points · by bedris · no comments
• Spike and Rea discuss the big issues · 1 points · by samh · no comments
• Startup School 2009: Divvyshot · 1 points · by zaveri · no comments
• Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World · 1 points · by theanti9 · no comments
• The Geek DefenseDo criminals with Asperger's syndrome deserve special treatment? · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• New CNN.com Goes Live: What Do You Think? · 1 points · by rhartsock · no comments
• Play Framework 1.0 OSX Installer Package · 1 points · by ConceptDog · no comments
• How to check commit comments on SVN Commit? · 1 points · by vijaydev · 1 comment
• Is blog reading mainstream? · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Making the Grade Isn't About Race. It's About Parents. · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Bass as a weapon: Can overly loud bass damage your hearing? · 1 points · by jerklogic · no comments
• The Rubik's Cube is not an original puzzle. · 1 points · by amichail · no comments
• How to handle a smaller print-book business (effects of e-books) · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• What the Web Sockets Protocol means for web startups · 1 points · by mmaunder · no comments
• Prosperity without Growth Report [pdf] · 1 points · by fnid · no comments
• Alternate Programming Business Model: Driving Affiliate Traffic With Shareware · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• Iphone appstore SEO - how to improve your app ranking · 1 points · by jamescoops · no comments
• Bad Working Conditions, part 2 · 1 points · by wvenable · 2 comments
• Is saving really for suckers? · 1 points · by daniel-cussen · no comments
• Ask HN: Windows 7 worth the upgrade from XP? · 1 points · by Maro · 2 comments
• Seattle expected to be key market for electric cars · 1 points · by chuck_taylor · no comments
• Why the Nook will top the Kindle · 1 points · by superberliner · no comments
• Whitehouse.gov now powered by open source Drupal · 1 points · by sharjeel · no comments
• This week in search 10/24/09 · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Godzilla crypto tutorial · 1 points · by sordidarray · no comments
• Product Review: Evoluent Vertical Mouse · 1 points · by jseliger · no comments
• Introduction to Tilings and Tesselations · 1 points · by infinity · no comments
• Singularity Summit - Michael Nielsen's Quantum Computing 101 · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• The Topology of Crystallographic Groups · 1 points · by infinity · no comments
• A Tiling Database · 1 points · by infinity · no comments
• New computer paradigm has the potential to speed up computer operations by 100x · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Art Inspired by Polynomiography · 1 points · by infinity · no comments
• Nonexistent Objects · 1 points · by infinity · no comments
• Amazon Pulls Cork on Wine Business · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Microsoft Offers Windows 7 Via USB for Netbooks · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments