Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Homepage of Berkshire Hathaway, 17th biggest company in the world · 163 points · by hop · 116 comments
• What's Going on at the Bay Bridge · 114 points · by soundsop · 18 comments
• Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model · 111 points · by ypavan · 49 comments
• Dustin Curtis's new web app · 111 points · by dougp · 100 comments
• Google's Robots.txt Updated for Halloween (scroll to the end) · 95 points · by byrneseyeview · 18 comments
• You Aren't Average · 55 points · by byrneseyeview · 32 comments
• The Shocking State of Contemporary "Mathematics" · 55 points · by andreyf · 40 comments
• Comfort Noise · 54 points · by chaosmachine · 10 comments
• Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font · 54 points · by spudlyo · 11 comments
• French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality · 51 points · by robg · 47 comments
• Hadoop, Pig, and Twitter (NoSQL East 2009) · 48 points · by r11t · 7 comments
• Hivelogic - Top Programming Fonts · 48 points · by adambyrtek · 44 comments
• Engadget reviews the Motorola Droid · 47 points · by unalone · 33 comments
• "Turn a recycling bottle bank into an arcade game and guess what happens...." · 45 points · by amichail · 8 comments
• Ask HN: Why downvote? I honestly do not get it. · 41 points · by rokhayakebe · 123 comments
• How habitable is the Earth? · 37 points · by cwan · 10 comments
• "Only 25% of the cell phone users had noticed the clown" · 35 points · by MikeCapone · 18 comments
• Ask HN: What artists do you like? · 34 points · by jamesbritt · 84 comments
• NoSQL East 2009 day 2: Pig/Twitter, Cascading, Neo4j, Redis, Sherpa/Yahoo · 30 points · by uggedal · 6 comments
• Startup Visa · 30 points · by tspiteri · 9 comments
• Ask HN: Alternatives to New Mogul? · 29 points · by jeremyw · 12 comments
• Circular loom weaves carbon fibre pillars for Toyota Lexus · 22 points · by suprgeek · 10 comments
• "Ayn Rand's Revenge" - NYTimes Book Review of new Rand biography · 20 points · by andrewpbrett · 38 comments
• Ask HN: Can you make a voting/rating system without logins? · 19 points · by barmstrong · 38 comments
• Why virtual economies defy the rules of your old college textbooks · 18 points · by gursikh · 9 comments
• Wandering the web stacks, or, fighting intellectual atrophy on the internet · 17 points · by jsomers · 2 comments
• Do Professors Matter? · 15 points · by cwan · 12 comments
• Desertec · 14 points · by envitar · 4 comments
• Game Design: Using numbers and stats to tune the play experience · 14 points · by mark_skaggs · no comments
• DrScheme's Halloween "Easter Egg" · 14 points · by cruise02 · 1 comment
• High-definition audio cell phone system deployed in Moldova · 13 points · by rms · 7 comments
• The Valley of My Dreams: Why Silicon Valley Left Boston’s Route 128 In The Dust · 12 points · by wave · 10 comments
• How I got to learn to type · 11 points · by Tihauan · 8 comments
• Google Ready To Offer Navigation App For iPhone if Apple Agrees · 11 points · by Flemlord · 9 comments
• 13 world class mathematicians on doing mathematical research · 11 points · by ypk · 3 comments
• Continuously variable transmission could lead to cheap wind power · 10 points · by cwan · no comments
• What the world would look like if light traveled slowly (interactive simulation) · 10 points · by idlewords · 12 comments
• Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web? · 9 points · by newacc · 16 comments
• Joe Armstrong: Systems that Never Stop (and Erlang) · 9 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• What If The Federal Government Was An Average Household? · 9 points · by lwc123 · 22 comments
• Encouraging entrepreneurship via policy? · 8 points · by aarghh · 7 comments
• RSS for Twitter Lists · 8 points · by voidfiles · 7 comments
• Writing to Learn · 7 points · by fogus · no comments
• Why is Apple treading water with the Apple TV? · 7 points · by mwsherman · 5 comments
• 50 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do · 7 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• Colored smoke vortices collide ... [video] · 7 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• Jon Skeet is an MVP Again · 6 points · by gthank · no comments
• Digg caught red handed faking ad votes? · 6 points · by kapauldo · 14 comments
• HTML5, a 3 minute guide · 6 points · by r11t · no comments
• Getting the most out of a laptop battery · 6 points · by idlewords · 2 comments
• Ares booster damaged on return · 6 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 7 comments
• Rob Pike's Structural Regular Expressions in Python · 6 points · by blasdel · 1 comment
• NYT's First 5,000 Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud · 5 points · by fogus · no comments
• Ask HN: Learn Web design and frontend programming · 5 points · by msort · 2 comments
• A Concise and Precise Definition of P-Value (a vaccine discussion) · 5 points · by carterschonwald · 1 comment
• Why computers suck at math · 5 points · by edw519 · 2 comments
• Gilad Bracha: Atomic Install · 5 points · by mrfabbri · no comments
• Malleable Media · 5 points · by swannodette · 1 comment
• Halloween Jokes, Twitter & Google · 4 points · by Prefect · no comments
• Peter Bell: Founders should meet candidates for first 200 positions · 4 points · by cwan · no comments
• Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained [pdf] · 4 points · by cj_basu · no comments
• Google: We're not making Android hardware · 4 points · by mechanical_fish · 3 comments
• 17 Awesome Rich Text Editors · 4 points · by basdog22 · no comments
• "Valleywag got everything wrong" Peter Norvig on Google hiring article · 4 points · by joubert · no comments
• Idea HN: HTML5 Development Environment · 4 points · by windsurfer · 4 comments
• US government opens $9m cyber security center · 4 points · by newacc · 2 comments
• Typography Needs To Be Felt · 4 points · by merttol · no comments
• Making Privacy Policies not Suck · 3 points · by mbrubeck · no comments
• KISSUnit: Really simple Javascript tests · 3 points · by fizx · 3 comments
• Smartphone Showdown: iPhone 3GS vs Motorola Droid · 3 points · by zhyder · no comments
• ICANN Approves Domain Names We Can't Type · 3 points · by mcargian · 1 comment
• AIG may get saved... by Credit Default Swaps · 3 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• Innovation Open House @ HubSpot – My Notes · 3 points · by hundredwatt · no comments
• Panchatantra story for Indian Software Engineers · 3 points · by digamber_kamat · no comments
• Fat Facebook Fine Won't Ward Off Spam, Analysts Say · 3 points · by kakooljay · 1 comment
• Controversy erupts over lunar lander XPrize · 3 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Search Your Tweets With TweetSaver · 3 points · by polomasta · no comments
• How long should your “trial” period run? · 3 points · by peter123 · 1 comment
• A Material Based on Sharkskin Stops Bacterial Breakouts (with pic) · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Modular Interactive UIs with JavaScript - drag and swap sections easily · 3 points · by suprgeek · no comments
• Moving past the era of web-safe fonts · 3 points · by greg · no comments
• I believe in angels · 3 points · by ax0n · no comments
• Pinocchio -- extensions for the 'nose' unit testing framework · 3 points · by stakent · no comments
• Doc Searls: Toward post-journalism journalism · 3 points · by chuck_taylor · no comments
• Grady Booch on Design Patterns, OOP, and Coffee · 3 points · by aditya · no comments
• New Resource for Google Chrome Extensions · 2 points · by hackhead · no comments
• A Nerd in a Cave · 2 points · by _pius · no comments
• Internationalized Domain Names · 2 points · by vijaydev · no comments
• Twitter account breaking news to be sold for 6 figures, 1.36 million followers · 2 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• AS3 Shoutcast stream parser/player · 2 points · by jgalvez · no comments
• Sustainable farming: interview with Bill Mollison · 2 points · by dpatru · 1 comment
• Updated privacy policy etc for Facebook | Facebook Site Governance · 2 points · by carterschonwald · no comments
• Disease Proposed As Major Barrier To Mars And Beyond · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Ask HN: How do you manage phone(s), email(s), IM, TWT, FB, etc. together? · 2 points · by contact5 · 2 comments
• The Most Extraordinary Thing · 2 points · by ypavan · no comments
• Erlang/OTP Master's Theses · 2 points · by silkodyssey · no comments
• Brian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad · 2 points · by morpheism · no comments
• Mocking/Stubbing Frameworks, How'd They Do That? · 2 points · by darkxanthos · no comments
• Hackpact - Toplap · 2 points · by justlearning · no comments
• Richard Clarke: War From Cyberspace · 2 points · by rbc · no comments
• Motorola's Droid May Be a Boon for iPhone Owners · 2 points · by newacc · no comments
• Leaked docs confirm Droid Eris details: November 6 for $99 · 2 points · by vegasbrianc · no comments
• Rejecta Mathematica | Caveat Emptor (a journal for rejected papers) · 2 points · by carterschonwald · no comments
• How You Like Me Now? · 2 points · by jv2222 · no comments
• Product Review: Das Keyboard Model "S" · 2 points · by jseliger · no comments
• The Essence Of Hacking · 1 points · by rams · no comments
• Google Debuts “Comparison Ads” Aimed At Mortgage Market · 1 points · by kakooljay · no comments
• Solid State Disk will change the storage world… · 1 points · by spidaman · no comments
• Reason #562 newspapers are doomed: One of them bought this... · 1 points · by brandnewlow · 2 comments
• Ask HN: where do I find newspaper circulation figures? · 1 points · by loveatlonglast · no comments
• Fiscal support services for independent artists · 1 points · by teeja · no comments
• 5 great business books to read · 1 points · by newacc · 1 comment
• 700 die from swine flu this week · 1 points · by daniel-cussen · no comments
• XML or S-expressions? · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• Hints of Missed Chance to Pursue Galleon Case · 1 points · by newacc · no comments
• EWD32: Meditations on Advanced Programming · 1 points · by omouse · no comments
• Hello-Wien Linux live-cd for console users released · 1 points · by mrud · no comments
• Ask HN: Life insurance? · 1 points · by zavulon · 3 comments
• Things Google has taught us · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Metadata in State Documents Is Public Record, Court Rules · 1 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Practical composability for trustworthy architectures · 1 points · by morpheism · no comments
• Scary SQL Server stuff · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Microsoft Office Accounting dies this November · 1 points · by vijaydev · no comments
• Happy 40th Birthday, Internet · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• CSS on window borders experimental layout language · 1 points · by sandaru1 · no comments
• How much backwards compatibility is too much? · 1 points · by thristian · no comments
• More Fun = Less Stress · 1 points · by sinzone · no comments
• Robin Hanson Argues from Authority · 1 points · by ypk · no comments
• Cisco Juniper War – Juniper Networks Launches New Strategy · 1 points · by rizzn · no comments
• The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations · 1 points · by nrr · no comments
• 5 Must Read Presentations about CSS Coding · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• Microgrids: A $2.1B market in the making? · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• UK's Royal Mail threatens site offering taxpayer-funded postcode data for free · 1 points · by petercooper · no comments
• Companies That Avoid Venture Capital · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• I'm having way too much fun reading a programming book - Beginning Scala · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• How to Improve your Wordpress Theme with 9 Useful Plugins · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• A people's history of the internet: from Arpanet in 1969 to today · 1 points · by superberliner · no comments
• Tutorials · 1 points · by w3avenue · no comments
• Windows 7: How Slow Can You Go? · 1 points · by kakooljay · no comments
• Windows Users Should Wait to Upgrade, Firm Warns · 1 points · by kakooljay · 1 comment
• Novell to Los Angeles: Drop Dead · 1 points · by kakooljay · no comments
• Fonts for Designers Series Issue no. 2 · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• How Google Voice Is Growing · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• BHeard · 1 points · by Ye-Ha · no comments
• Confession Of An Entrepreneur: Don’t Feel Too Lonely, You Are Not Alone.. · 1 points · by Sahar_Sarid · no comments
• Hacking DNA · 1 points · by tspiteri · no comments
• Book-A-Minute · 1 points · by known · no comments
• To Minify or Not To Minify · 1 points · by mcav · 1 comment
• For The Future Of The Media Industry, Look In The App Store · 1 points · by ralph2009 · no comments
• Facebook Finally Strikes It Rich -- in Court · 1 points · by yannis · no comments
• Useful Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 9.10 · 1 points · by r11t · no comments