Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Why I gave away my company to charity · 328 points · by sivers · 83 comments
• Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad · 258 points · by dreeves · 98 comments
• Analyzing Y Combinator · 169 points · by ig1 · 61 comments
• Ack - better than grep, a power search tool for programmers · 152 points · by mustpax · 33 comments
• No one gets fired for hiring IBM - how our pitch was stolen from us · 106 points · by dabeeeenster · 43 comments
• Google Dictionary · 106 points · by chanux · 69 comments
• Saying "NO" · 91 points · by fogus · 31 comments
• Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos · 84 points · by Torn · 25 comments
• Three lessons I learnt from porting Diablo · 83 points · by petewarden · 24 comments
• Ask HN: alternatives to EtherPad? · 71 points · by jeff18 · 59 comments
• Mint Explains Why The Real Unemployment Rate Is 17.2 Percent · 68 points · by transburgh · 17 comments
• Apple App Store Surprise: Giving credit where credit is due · 66 points · by vlucas · 18 comments
• Rails 3 : Vaporware To Awesome · 65 points · by r11t · 48 comments
• Free vector and raster map data at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales · 62 points · by fortes · 6 comments
• Blogs Are Godless Communist Bullshit · 59 points · by ph0rque · 7 comments
• Sugru - hack things better · 56 points · by laika4000 · 12 comments
• A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles · 54 points · by prabodh · 10 comments
• Python Moratorium: Let's think about this · 54 points · by saturdayplace · 20 comments
• JQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released · 50 points · by johns · 11 comments
• Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View · 49 points · by cesare · 13 comments
• Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them · 48 points · by nreece · 21 comments
• Google Public DNS vs OpenDNS vs Your ISP's DNS: Find out which is fastest · 45 points · by Lightbody · 21 comments
• The 37signals Manifesto (original site from 1999) · 44 points · by revorad · 19 comments
• Facebook's creepy privacy · 44 points · by jgrahamc · 27 comments
• Like Slime, for Vim · 43 points · by b-man · 19 comments
• One Million Years of Isolation · 42 points · by kqr2 · 10 comments
• String Interpolation in Clojure · 40 points · by fogus · 5 comments
• Source: Google Is Acquiring AppJet, The Company Behind EtherPad (YC S07) · 40 points · by mikek · 11 comments
• Explaining to BBC Newsnight some of the problems with the CRU code · 39 points · by jgrahamc · 30 comments
• Can Anyone Stop Facebook? · 38 points · by edw519 · 51 comments
• Fortress · 36 points · by wglb · 12 comments
• How Did Israel Become the “Start-Up Nation”? · 35 points · by cwan · 39 comments
• If e-mail had a baby: notification messages · 35 points · by jlong · 18 comments
• GamePro burns developers on $5000 programming contest · 33 points · by tengkahwee · 10 comments
• Erjang is a virtual machine for Erlang, which runs on Java · 32 points · by fogus · 14 comments
• Research shows that people project their own beliefs onto God. · 27 points · by AndrewDucker · 15 comments
• What happened to Second Life? · 27 points · by jonmc12 · 25 comments
• Android Sales Figures After Placing 3rd in the Android Developer Challenge 2 · 26 points · by edawerd · 10 comments
• Ask HN: If you didn't have to worry about healthcare, would you start a company? · 25 points · by jasongullickson · 105 comments
• X86 assembly encounter · 24 points · by jwr · 7 comments
• CL Filtered Functions · 22 points · by brewski · 2 comments
• Bing just crashed · 21 points · by aresant · 17 comments
• Google Now Personalizes Everyone’s Search Results (Even Logged Out) · 21 points · by pierrefar · 14 comments
• Facebook Beacon Class Settlement · 18 points · by mshafrir · 6 comments
• Go Forth and WikiReadit · 18 points · by benhoyt · 4 comments
• Inefficiencies are what make you special · 18 points · by dabent · 6 comments
• What’s worked and what hasn’t: Commission on payments · 18 points · by breck · 1 comment
• The Muggle Coder · 16 points · by nuclear_eclipse · 11 comments
• The HR Acquisition · 15 points · by nathanh · 8 comments
• Brands That Will Disappear In 2010 · 14 points · by vas_popovski · 18 comments
• Rules for growing your blog · 14 points · by ihumanable · 6 comments
• Another Linux file notification subsystem · 13 points · by unwind · 2 comments
• "Bandwidth hogs" join unicorns in realm of mythical creatures · 12 points · by MikeCapone · 4 comments
• Version 1 Sucks, But Ship It Anyway · 12 points · by fogus · 7 comments
• Stylefeeder parses shopping trends by city -- some cool charts · 11 points · by waderoush · no comments
• Apple solves my MacBook Pro battery problem · 10 points · by ciscoriordan · 12 comments
• CrunchPad partner plans media event to demo the device. · 9 points · by iantimothy · no comments
• Is Strategic Money an Oxymoron? · 9 points · by sinzone · no comments
• Commercial tool cracks Bitlocker (Used on Win7 and Vista Enterprise) · 9 points · by makmanalp · 9 comments
• Why Scientific Fraud is on the Rise · 9 points · by dreambird · 8 comments
• Geeks trump alpha males as algorithms dominate Wall Street · 8 points · by r11t · 12 comments
• GirlInYourShirt Partners with TapInko - Launches GirlsInYourShirt · 8 points · by keltecp11 · 3 comments
• Slimmed down YouTube "Feather" (beta) · 8 points · by xenonite · no comments
• What Makes a City Startup Friendly? · 8 points · by dabent · 15 comments
• Apple in advanced acquisition talks with Lala · 8 points · by cardmagic · 2 comments
• IPhone unpopular? After 2 weeks, only 5 iPhones sold in Chinese online store · 7 points · by dailo10 · 9 comments
• An In-Depth Look At Pivot, Microsoft’s Newest Data Visualization Tool · 7 points · by novicecoder · no comments
• Zappos.com Sells 6-30% More Merchandise When Accompanied By Video Demos · 7 points · by prakash · no comments
• Confirmed: Google Acquires AppJet, The Maker Of EtherPad · 7 points · by sinzone · no comments
• What's Linear Algebra? · 6 points · by breck · 4 comments
• Seeking a Symbol for ‘This Ad Knows About You’ · 6 points · by aj · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Please review our garage startup · 6 points · by zyang · 7 comments
• Exercise Boosts Telomerase, Reduces Erosion of Telomeres · 6 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Why do games as an entertainment medium elicit this kind of cultural shame? · 6 points · by ivankirigin · 12 comments
• Australian govt bullies scientist to alter a peer reviewed paper · 6 points · by nice1 · 1 comment
• Does every startup need a Steve Jobs? · 6 points · by adityakothadiya · no comments
• Farmville has more users than twitter, but it's more addicting than fun · 6 points · by MarkN · 1 comment
• The $700 billion man · 6 points · by jakarta · no comments
• Google Global Translate Service Coming Over the Next 24 Hours · 5 points · by dreambird · 1 comment
• AWS Launches the Northern California Region · 5 points · by ghempton · 1 comment
• Mathematical Notation Gets an Upgrade · 5 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Munsell Color Space data files · 5 points · by martian · 7 comments
• Are you a weasel negotiator? · 5 points · by martian · 1 comment
• Next Gen Data Center Management Should be more Like Facebook · 5 points · by pakistanjan · no comments
• Gboard: A Keyboard Just for Gmail Users · 5 points · by alexandros · 2 comments
• Harold "Doc" Edgerton · 4 points · by adoyle · 1 comment
• 10 Web trends to watch in 2010 · 4 points · by eam · no comments
• JQuery Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy · 4 points · by mnemonik · no comments
• Woz says he’ll give me some of his Facebook shares · 4 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• MySQL sync for Google AppEngine: run SQL against AppEngine data & more · 4 points · by enkoxx · no comments
• Unu Cracks a Wall Street Journal Conference Site, Not WSJ.com · 4 points · by Prefect · no comments
• Inside User Research at YouTube · 4 points · by dan_sim · no comments
• The Pentagon invites you to play its red balloon game · 4 points · by vas_popovski · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Should I be worried about this? · 4 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 2 comments
• Organovo Has Its First Commercial 3D Bioprinter · 4 points · by kkleiner · no comments
• Ask HN: Where to promote a product to non-programmers? · 4 points · by mattm · 3 comments
• A Look At the Safety of Google Public DNS · 4 points · by aj · no comments
• Ask HN: How do you inform users of new features? · 4 points · by jsatok · 4 comments
• How to Write a Spelling Corrector · 3 points · by dannyr · no comments
• Facebook class settlement: An email they sent me · 3 points · by sh1mmer · no comments
• 30-year Scandinavian study shows no link between cellphones and brain tumours · 3 points · by KiwiNige · no comments
• How I minimize distractions · 3 points · by samaparicio · no comments
• Facebook’s Killer Feature: The Mutual Friends List · 3 points · by nickbilton · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Is it a good or bad time to launch during the holidays? · 3 points · by csuper · 3 comments
• Ask HN: We Need a Bug Tracking Software Recommendation · 3 points · by Scott_MacGregor · 2 comments
• Ask HN: What is my website? · 3 points · by sgibson12 · 4 comments
• Web-TV Divide Is Back in Focus With NBC Sale · 3 points · by timr · no comments
• Online UML Diagramming Tool from Creately · 3 points · by charanjit · no comments
• Facebook like "View all Collapsed Comments" with jQuery and Ajax · 3 points · by rikbold · no comments
• Programming, is it still fun for you? · 3 points · by wtfdeveloper · 1 comment
• Loneliness spreads in social networks · 3 points · by nreece · no comments
• Microsoft, Google Take Maps in New Direction · 3 points · by tokenadult · 4 comments
• Sports Illustrated Tablet Demo 1.5 (video) · 3 points · by ujjwalg · no comments
• IPhone app development with Ruby web services · 3 points · by aditya · no comments
• Ask HN: Startup co-founder doing consulting on the side, IP issues · 3 points · by obelix · 4 comments
• No tumour link to mobile phones, says study · 3 points · by petesalty · no comments
• 100 Phone Calls · 3 points · by cmars232 · no comments
• MIT's Red Balloon Challenge team · 3 points · by svjunkie · 7 comments
• JQuery Wins .net Magazine’s Open Source Application of the Year · 3 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Statistics to English translation: "significant" does not mean important · 3 points · by jmount · no comments
• Salon.com looks back at paywalls · 3 points · by selven · no comments
• Facebook Connect Will Be “Everywhere” on MySpace Next Year · 3 points · by mjfern · no comments
• Ask HN: Reasonable expectations for designers? · 3 points · by anonemployer · 3 comments
• Etherpad Goes to Google - Just Another Silicon Valley Soap Opera · 3 points · by einarvollset · 8 comments
• The MIT Red Balloon Challenge Pyramid Scheme · 3 points · by splat · 1 comment
• Refactoring A Cyclomatic Complexity Script · 3 points · by r11t · no comments
• Ask HN: IE Javascript Engine Simulator? · 3 points · by dpapathanasiou · 3 comments
• Why Web Designers Should Know Code · 3 points · by thechangelog · no comments
• ‘Three Cups of Tea’ advice for Obama · 3 points · by curtis · 1 comment
• Old News: News Site Design · 2 points · by MrAlmostWrong · no comments
• About problem formulations and ordered permutations · 2 points · by _pius · no comments
• Launchbox plagiarizing YC? · 2 points · by chrischen · 4 comments
• Demo an iPhone app on your TV · 2 points · by J3L2404 · no comments
• Amputee Gets Real-Feeling, Thought-Powered Cybernetic Fingers · 2 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Design Blogs · 2 points · by warvo · 2 comments
• Are TLD's Necessary? · 2 points · by Rusky · 3 comments
• Ask HN: ZumoDrive vs. Dropbox · 2 points · by kentf · 6 comments
• Pondering Google’s Move Into the D.N.S. Business (links to HN) · 2 points · by frisco · 1 comment
• Tell HN: Moniker is down · 2 points · by jacquesm · 1 comment
• Leaked climate docs: the schools involved investigate · 2 points · by glymor · no comments
• Search engine names: 10 types plus mashonyms · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Ask HN: Commenting on own link submissions · 2 points · by Kliment · 3 comments
• Intel’s Single-Chip Clus... (sorry) Cloud · 2 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Google CEO: Small biz key to recovery (video) · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Intel hopes 48-core chip will solve new challenges · 2 points · by dimm · no comments
• Ask HN: What do you think of DropZap v1.1? What should I improve for v1.2? · 2 points · by amichail · no comments
• India's Next Global Export: Innovation · 2 points · by ypavan · no comments
• Standup Timer Android App · 2 points · by jjudge · 1 comment
• Tool of the day: Create Usability Tests in a Flash With IntuitionHQ · 2 points · by greengirl512 · no comments
• An Average of the World's Flags by Population · 2 points · by vonvonvon · no comments
• Where are the female scientists in research articles? · 2 points · by toni · no comments
• Louis Gray's FTC Disclosure Badges · 2 points · by rizzn · no comments
• McLuhan Thinks Webcams Are Stealing Our Souls. Seriously. · 2 points · by dreambird · no comments
• Bing - A note about today’s outage · 2 points · by phsr · no comments
• Secret CIA 'Magic' Manual Reveals Cold War Spy Tricks · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Beware Social Media Snake Oil · 2 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Is anyone doing the DARPA Network Challenge? · 2 points · by Ye-Ha · 1 comment
• About the Open Angel Forum - 1st event LA Jan 14th · 2 points · by pchristensen · 2 comments
• Face Detection isn't enough to reliably detect faces · 2 points · by jodrellblank · no comments
• Add RPMForge to CentOS or other yum using distro · 2 points · by bsdpunk · no comments
• Will fusion fade ... or finally flare up? · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• An energy answer in the shale below? · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• PhotoelasticTouch Combines 3D Shapes With Touchscreens · 2 points · by manvsmachine · no comments
• Eureqa discovers equations from data sets (incl Newton's 2nd law of motion) · 2 points · by lzimm · 1 comment
• Resource-Oriented Architecture: The Rest of REST · 2 points · by bkudria · no comments
• Freemium: Can Spotify learn from Evernote? · 2 points · by CrazedGeek · no comments
• Screencast: Like Slime for Vim · 2 points · by JakeIsAVirus · no comments
• Axiomatic Theories of Truth · 2 points · by infinity · no comments
• How To Set Up The Ultimate At-Home Trading Station · 2 points · by tortilla · 2 comments
• Tools for Competitive Intelligence · 2 points · by ujjwalg · no comments
• Build iPhone Apps & Run Unity 2 on your PC- Enter the OSX86 Project · 2 points · by diamondTearz7 · no comments
• AntiX-M8.5 beta release is available for testing - Linux Critic · 1 points · by mikkfamily · no comments
• Elimination with Matrices · 1 points · by Anon84 · 1 comment
• Facebook Beacon settlement · 1 points · by makmanalp · 1 comment
• Workstation Show and Tell · 1 points · by warvo · 2 comments
• Google Translated Search · 1 points · by mark_h · 1 comment
• Faster Scripts - listing of slow third party JS · 1 points · by praxxis · no comments
• Introducing FasterScripts.com Share Your Performance Experience · 1 points · by wifelette · no comments
• Test your Django skills · 1 points · by shabda · no comments
• Infographic: A hierarchy of digital distractions · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Mobile.twitter.com launches (set UA to Mobile Safari first) · 1 points · by sandofsky · no comments
• Former Kaplan Exec Plots to Re-Make Test-Prep Industry Online · 1 points · by akkartik · no comments
• Arduino dual core · 1 points · by t3rcio · no comments
• Twitter Blog: New mobile site · 1 points · by aditya · no comments
• Non-Expert Annotations for Natural Language Tasks (w/MTurk) · 1 points · by dmv · no comments
• Is Bing.com broken for everyone else too? · 1 points · by vyrotek · 2 comments
• The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Our RSS feed has moved · 1 points · by ciscoriordan · no comments
• Tradebot Ventures · 1 points · by daniel-cussen · no comments
• Google Launches Public DNS Resolver · 1 points · by aj · no comments
• Friendster to be sold by Month's End - source · 1 points · by ojbyrne · 1 comment
• Best Business Books of 2009 · 1 points · by quizbiz · no comments
• The Most Influential Websites in the World · 1 points · by quizbiz · no comments
• ANYONE can "cook" · 1 points · by mbriyo · no comments
• Intel’s New 48 Core Processor Won’t Change Your Life · 1 points · by aj · no comments
• IRS "Accepting Gifts" · 1 points · by known · 2 comments
• Designer Within Reach: Yves Béhar · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• How to congfigure your PC to use Googles new public DNS system · 1 points · by anupsharma · no comments
• Email Standards Project: HTML standards for email, by the Campaign Monitor folks · 1 points · by benhoyt · no comments
• Intel Launches Atom Store for Developers · 1 points · by Chirag · no comments
• Fossil: distributed version control in a single executable · 1 points · by urlwolf · no comments
• Google Expands Its Reference Section With Its Own Dictionary · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Collaborative Decision-Making and Wasabi Gelato · 1 points · by mikasissonen · 1 comment
• Entrepreneurs: Stop Innovating, Start Minnovating · 1 points · by ananthrk · no comments
• Cost of living database · 1 points · by bhseo · no comments
• Grid computing tunes tiny transistors for future chips · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Google & Facebook Find Allies in Digital Identity Battle · 1 points · by shmichael · no comments
• KHTTPd Benchmark results · 1 points · by known · 2 comments
• Basecamp circa 2004 · 1 points · by paraschopra · 1 comment
• BBC News - Google set to offer property dimension to UK mapping · 1 points · by rajeshrajappan · no comments
• Next-Gen Data Center Management Should be Modeled on Social Networking · 1 points · by lmacvittie · no comments
• Eight interesting techniques to test how a project is going · 1 points · by gojko · 1 comment
• New Solar Plane Takes First Test Flight · 1 points · by plane · 1 comment
• How well do you trust your code? · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 1 comment
• Linkedin and twitter join forces · 1 points · by wisdomtalks · 1 comment
• Hi, My Name Is Mike And I’m A FishVille Addict · 1 points · by prabodh · no comments
• Error Correction: An Urgent Need for Files · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• 101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School · 1 points · by dan_sim · no comments
• Feel Irrational? So does Pi. · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• How to Kill a Business · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Top Ten Discoveries of 2009 (according to National Geographic) · 1 points · by sleepingbot · no comments
• Good or Bad Times Ahead for Tech Startups? · 1 points · by dabent · no comments
• How Facebook is changing the rules of online retail · 1 points · by dabent · no comments
• Thank You, Sir · 1 points · by dabent · no comments
• The Demise of Newspapers: A Market Failure? · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Climategate: The Smoking Code? · 1 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• CrunchPad Breaks Cover at Media Event Next Monday - Crunchpad pics video demo · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• DNS pre-resolution · 1 points · by cool-RR · no comments
• Document Transparency Made Easy with pTools and Riverdocs · 1 points · by mikkfamily · no comments
• Works in Progress · 1 points · by cluiggi · no comments
• Messaging matters: The AND 1 ToChillin · 1 points · by spencerfry · no comments
• Will gadget revolutionize our reading habits? · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Characteristic of good project manager · 1 points · by karol_zielinski · no comments
• World Economic Forum honors Bay Area techies · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• ExpressionEngine users get a first look at 2.0 with new public beta · 1 points · by mikkfamily · no comments
• Map of Wikipedia coverage by country · 1 points · by huangm · no comments
• Screen reader user survey on web accessibility · 1 points · by qeorge · no comments
• DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 113 - iRule Contest Recap · 1 points · by joepruitt · no comments
• UFO investigations unit closed by Ministry of Defence · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• Browser Plug-in Adoption Percentage? (2nd try) · 1 points · by asnyder · 1 comment
• Optimize your blog’s loading speed with Google’s Site Performance Tool · 1 points · by MrAlmostWrong · no comments
• GPSD and Code Excellence · 1 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• What Google Gains from Google Public DNS · 1 points · by MrAlmostWrong · no comments
• Sun-Tanned Russian Raises $1 Million For Stealth Mobile App “Friends Around Me” · 1 points · by novicecoder · no comments
• Picol - Pictorial Communication Language · 1 points · by martian · no comments
• Top 5 Longevity and Anti-Aging Advances of 2009 · 1 points · by newsit · no comments
• Study Finds Wind Turbines Have No Significant Impact on Property Value · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Trust, But Verify · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Banks and information technology: Silo but deadly · 1 points · by davidw · no comments
• Lehrer: Dopamine and Market Bubbles · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Apple Ordered to Pay Opti $21.7M for Infringement · 1 points · by adeelarshad82 · no comments
• Presto Porn Apps on the iPhone · 1 points · by adeelarshad82 · no comments
• Real Time Web with XMPP · 1 points · by rglullis · no comments
• Focused audience aggregator sites good/bad? · 1 points · by rashdash · no comments
• Developers Disappointed with Android · 1 points · by prabodh · no comments
• What is happening in Spain with the Internet · 1 points · by samaparicio · no comments
• PayPal 'Admits' to Phishing Users · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• From Favoring Software Patents to Nokia's Visions of Modular Innovation · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• Researchers Build Artificial Immune System to Solve Computational Problems · 1 points · by troystribling · no comments
• Snap Circuits SC-300; for those asking about learning electronics 101 202 · 1 points · by yu · 1 comment
• Oracle Feels Heat, Tries to Redefine Kitchen · 1 points · by TidwellXML · no comments
• On GitHub and how I came to write the fastest Python JSON module in town · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• 2000 to 2010. A Decade Of Wonders · 1 points · by basdog22 · no comments
• Google’s Sidewiki extends blog-style comments to every piece of the web · 1 points · by thinksketch · no comments
• Ask HN: What do you think about the people behind ObjectMentor? · 1 points · by nurall · no comments
• New company, new history · 1 points · by prabodh · no comments
• Wordpress 2.9 will bring easy solution for Repairing and Image Editing · 1 points · by hiralove · no comments
• OpenBSD Hardware Hackathon h2k9 Summary · 1 points · by there · no comments
• 4 Common Venture Capital Myths · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Building a NYC subway car · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• VC firms could see tax hike · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• GleeBox: Keyboard glee for your web · 1 points · by ankit_ · no comments
• Twitter Test:It's easy to increase your followers but does it provide any value? · 1 points · by CharlesPal · no comments
• Organization by Mess and Contact Hygiene · 1 points · by jonsteinberg · no comments
• Apple Told To Pay Patent Troll OPTi $21.7 Million · 1 points · by mattmcknight · 1 comment
• Google Visual Search Coming for Android Phones · 1 points · by pufuwozu · no comments
• Richard Branson joins the space race · 1 points · by davecardwell · no comments
• Hands On with Google's Public DNS · 1 points · by adeelarshad82 · no comments