Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Performance comparison between EC2, Slicehost, Linode, Rackspace Cloud, Prgmr · 365 points · by uggedal · 146 comments
• Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers · 276 points · by mqt · 97 comments
• The confessions of a semi-successful author · 96 points · by niyazpk · 51 comments
• Erlang for Skeptics · 81 points · by mace · 29 comments
• You'll never get what you want · 75 points · by elliottkember · 11 comments
• On Becoming a Quant · 66 points · by kobs · 17 comments
• Richard Dawkins: Viruses of the Mind · 60 points · by bootload · 41 comments
• How many problems does this solution create? · 56 points · by eswat · 18 comments
• CRU Admits to Dumping Raw Climate Data · 53 points · by mnemonicsloth · 76 comments
• Data Mining with R · 53 points · by fogus · 4 comments
• What did 'Life of Brian' ever do for us? · 51 points · by rglovejoy · 32 comments
• The man who smuggled himself into Auschwitz · 48 points · by dwynings · 20 comments
• Secrecy in science is a corrosive force · 45 points · by cwan · 16 comments
• Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid · 44 points · by prakash · 32 comments
• Ask HN: Things you wish you'd learned about programming in college? · 44 points · by wooby · 62 comments
• Steve Wozniak: How I Invented the Personal Computer (Video) · 40 points · by ctingom · 15 comments
• Climate change cover-up? You better believe it · 39 points · by Daishiman · 47 comments
• Some Thoughts On Email After Dealing With 500 Emails · 38 points · by prakash · 15 comments
• Y Combinator, but with 20x the red tape · 37 points · by ciscoriordan · 55 comments
• Confreaks RubyConf 2009 Videos · 37 points · by johnpignata · 5 comments
• Gladwell, on creeping determinism · 36 points · by staticshock · 23 comments
• Ask HN: Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not? · 34 points · by brlewis · 73 comments
• Mapping Out Your Web Startup · 33 points · by dwynings · 6 comments
• Getting Started with Testing in Django · 31 points · by mace · no comments
• Let's just add in a little virality · 31 points · by jkopelman · 11 comments
• Ask HN: How to consistently generate traffic and new customers for Ramamia? · 31 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 48 comments
• Accessing GMail through Python · 30 points · by TriinT · 11 comments
• The U.S. Can't Manufacture the Kindle · 28 points · by Cinnamon · 16 comments
• Card shuffling, mathematical modeling, and Markov chains · 24 points · by TriinT · 5 comments
• Parking (Tickets) in Boston · 22 points · by j_b_f · 7 comments
• Rands in Repose: Up to Nothing · 22 points · by filament · 1 comment
• Notepod: The sketchbook for your app ideas · 21 points · by tiffani · 8 comments
• The Law of Late Projects · 19 points · by adamo · 1 comment
• Distributed concurrent applications in Clojure · 19 points · by va_coder · no comments
• Pyscheme: Scheme in Python · 18 points · by soundsop · 5 comments
• Furious investors warn troubled Dubai it will 'never raise a penny again' · 17 points · by fiaz · 17 comments
• Why MBAs should not sign the Harvard Business School oath · 15 points · by vrobancho · 21 comments
• How new media has led to a polarization into blockbusters and niche content · 15 points · by anigbrowl · no comments
• New Website Publicizes iPhone App Rejections · 14 points · by edw519 · 4 comments
• The new Reia: now without rainbow-farting Domo-kuns · 14 points · by pufuwozu · 2 comments
• Google-Microsoft battle hurts consumers · 13 points · by edw519 · 19 comments
• Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares · 13 points · by wheels · 1 comment
• Leaked emails won't harm UN climate body, says chairman · 11 points · by envitar · 14 comments
• Ask HN: Will you be my Advisor? · 10 points · by DanielBMarkham · 18 comments
• Best nations for expats · 10 points · by known · 4 comments
• War Is Peace: Can science fight media disinformation? · 10 points · by bootload · 11 comments
• iPhone upgrades - a one-way control-freak street · 9 points · by cesare · 3 comments
• All the OS you need which is not much · 9 points · by jonsteinberg · 5 comments
• No fiber please · 8 points · by bensummers · 4 comments
• Microsoft's top coders talk about IDEs and Managed Code. · 7 points · by AndrewDucker · 1 comment
• Newsweek on the cooling world · 7 points · by robotrout · 6 comments
• Magnetic Heat Shield Could Augment/Replace Traditional Ablative Materials · 6 points · by cwan · no comments
• A Virtual Gramophone · 6 points · by njn · 2 comments
• Alternatives to Objective C for iPhone Application Development · 6 points · by _pius · no comments
• Ask HN: Is it acceptable not to pay interns? · 5 points · by jackman002 · 10 comments
• How to start a career in the startup industry? · 5 points · by rgp · no comments
• Cloud computing, circa 1965 · 5 points · by shorbaji · no comments
• The end of MVC. Seems to be banished · 5 points · by CrystalBlood · 6 comments
• Human Family Tree: Shallow Roots [2006] · 4 points · by rokhayakebe · no comments
• Ask HN: How did you generate income during college? · 4 points · by quizbiz · 5 comments
• Santa uses R · 4 points · by araneae · no comments
• The five secrets of innovation · 4 points · by mkuhn · no comments
• Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology · 4 points · by rms · 1 comment
• Site with API docs for a all major languages (javascript, python, html, css...) · 4 points · by geeko · no comments
• The Imperfect is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation · 3 points · by vrobancho · 1 comment
• The Dreamlifter: Boeing's mega plane · 3 points · by picasso81 · no comments
• Ask HN: Good free eBook recommendations for travel? · 3 points · by keltex · 2 comments
• Password Manager - Any suggestions? · 3 points · by adamo · 9 comments
• Interactive Map: Food Stamp Usage · 3 points · by geezer · no comments
• Productivity and Procrastination · 3 points · by shmichael · 1 comment
• WordPress has become the first Greenscroll friendly blogging system. · 3 points · by greenscroll · 8 comments
• Help me to get PaperTrail out the door · 3 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Ask HN: Which are some of the most expensive off-the-shelf sw products? · 3 points · by digamber_kamat · 3 comments
• Real time, real discussion, real reporting: choose two · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• China is a Communist country, but I have yet to meet an actual Communist · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• Facts to fit the theory? Actually, no facts at all · 3 points · by alexkay · 2 comments
• When Information Overwhelms Facts · 3 points · by verisimilitude · no comments
• Journalism Schools Can Push Coverage Beyond Breaking News · 2 points · by riffer · no comments
• Block Google and consumers will lose · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• Googlegooglegooglegoogle: four tiled googles. · 2 points · by pmarin · no comments
• Pub fined £8,000 for customer's illicit downloads in UK · 2 points · by devilangel · 1 comment
• The Airtight Inbox: A Day In the Life Of an Email Productivity Evangelist · 2 points · by spiky_simon · 1 comment
• As a web designer, are you leaving money on the table? · 2 points · by woork · no comments
• Will cloud services always remain a bad deal? · 2 points · by Tichy · 2 comments
• This is my keyboard... · 2 points · by random_guy · no comments
• Product design debt versus Technical debt · 2 points · by baran · no comments
• MIT Economist Confirms: Health Bill Reduces Costs, Improves Coverage · 2 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• HCoop: The Internet Hosting Cooperative · 2 points · by carterschonwald · no comments
• Food stamps help feed 1 in 8 Americans and 1 in 4 children · 2 points · by Alex3917 · no comments
• Hard core multicore with TestNG · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• The global governance of apocalypses · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe · 1 points · by kqr2 · no comments
• Powering the Dubai Overshoot · 1 points · by ojbyrne · no comments
• Flash, Erlang and Realtime Collaborative Interfaces · 1 points · by mrinal_wadhwa · no comments
• Finally: Social science data that could be all about you · 1 points · by anuleczka · no comments
• FSF works with PayPal to the benefit of the free software community · 1 points · by tjr · no comments
• Investment Scale in Seed-Stage Startup Funding · 1 points · by pchristensen · no comments
• Government Data and the Invisible Hand · 1 points · by timf · no comments
• Reversible business models · 1 points · by Chirag · no comments
• Hacking analog tape: the doctor who theme music · 1 points · by clutchski · 1 comment
• Ask HN: rate my social experiment on Twitter · 1 points · by c1sc0 · no comments
• Watch Out Foursquare, Facebook is Poised To Dominate Geo · 1 points · by Wump · no comments
• Marketing Activity, Blogging and Sales · 1 points · by vrobancho · no comments
• The Copenhagen Diagnosis (2009) · 1 points · by mmphosis · no comments
• The new divide: Walled v. open · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• What We Shouldn't Learn From Steve Jobs · 1 points · by vorador · no comments
• Doing the right thing at Ben & Jerry's · 1 points · by Scott_Culture · no comments
• We call it OPA · 1 points · by Yoric · no comments
• News Reading: Add-ons for Thunderbird · 1 points · by troussardi · no comments
• Getting meta · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Dwelling on the point · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Intuition, Peformance, and Scale · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• TED Talk: Lessons from the 1918 flu · 1 points · by stcredzero · 1 comment
• Linux Mint 8 has been released - Linux Critic · 1 points · by sinbsd · no comments
• Why is Intel having so much trouble shipping its solid-state drives? · 1 points · by mwsherman · no comments
• Ask HN: Review my web app BuyersVote.com · 1 points · by barmstrong · no comments
• The challenge of creating a new category · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Why websites look so ugly · 1 points · by andrew_null · 1 comment
• Godfather of spam gets 4 years in prison · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Psystar promised investors huge clone sales, actually sold only 768 · 1 points · by tvon · no comments
• Marketing Predictions for 2010 · 1 points · by sinzone · no comments
• Secrets of innovation · 1 points · by sinzone · no comments
• Asyncronous Message Systems · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Thefacebook | Welcome to Thefacebook · 1 points · by sinzone · no comments
• iDroid App Rejected By Apple. Well, Duh. · 1 points · by Wump · no comments
• Attributes of Effective Teams · 1 points · by Cinnamon · no comments
• Ask YC: How do I use Flash to let users upload videos from their webcams? · 1 points · by ljlolel · no comments
• Top most famous hackers · 1 points · by vixen99 · no comments
• Law of unintended consequences: Twitter billboard · 1 points · by anigbrowl · no comments
• Must have Mac OS X Software · 1 points · by beeker · no comments
• JQuery Lesson Series: How to Add Options to Plugins · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• A world awash in debt · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Retrospectives · 1 points · by DavidSJ · no comments
• Cleveland Hopkins Airport shuttle passengers treated to yoga · 1 points · by wallflower · no comments
• The Museum of Lost Interactions · 1 points · by wallflower · no comments
• ZSync Open Source OS X/iPhone Syncing Library · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Google and News Corp. Do Need Each Other · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Monetizing Episodic Content · 1 points · by jackowayed · no comments
• Gift Ideas for Gadget Lovers · 1 points · by codemechanic · no comments
• Dave's Automated Webster · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Synthesis report of policy-relevant climate science · 1 points · by mikebike · no comments
• Free Souls captured and released by Joi Ito · 1 points · by wallflower · no comments
• How to distribute elements horizontally using CSS · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• Refreshingly balanced perspective on climate change · 1 points · by mightybyte · no comments