Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Ask HN: More types of flagging? · 132 points · by pg · 166 comments
• YC-Funded Lingt Uses Games To Turn You Into A Language Learning Addict · 113 points · by transburgh · 60 comments
• What is DRM doing in my garage? · 100 points · by kmod · 9 comments
• Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? · 90 points · by iamelgringo · 82 comments
• Eye Contact · 83 points · by bootload · 52 comments
• Anatomy of a bad search result · 72 points · by blasdel · 12 comments
• Ask HN: Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. · 68 points · by amichail · 46 comments
• The Known Universe Scientifically Rendered For All to See · 66 points · by ccarpenterg · 20 comments
• Reading the Tattoos on People’s Faces · 64 points · by rglovejoy · 18 comments
• Nuclear Reactor Wall Charts · 64 points · by kqr2 · 10 comments
• Facebook 1: 0 Simon Cowell - Rage Against The Machine is UK #1 single for Xmas · 59 points · by handelaar · 40 comments
• Tell HN: Please read /noobstories and flag posts · 58 points · by cperciva · 9 comments
• Lessons I learned building an MPs' expenses crowdsourcing app for the Guardian · 57 points · by simonw · 32 comments
• Going to America: A Ponzi scheme that works · 56 points · by petercooper · 63 comments
• Goldmine of zsh information and tips/tricks · 55 points · by r11t · no comments
• Some highlights of Na’vi · 53 points · by waterlesscloud · 6 comments
• Steve Yegge's five essential phone-screen questions · 48 points · by vinutheraj · 28 comments
• Online Development Studio - CodeRun · 44 points · by jmonegro · 22 comments
• The Power of Origami · 42 points · by davatk · 3 comments
• Optimizing Wikipedia's Fundraising Banner Ads · 41 points · by sax · 14 comments
• When Developers Work Late, Should Manager Stay or Go? · 39 points · by edw519 · 21 comments
• Palm's Ares IDE builds on bespin · 38 points · by sax · 9 comments
• Oscar best picture changed from single vote to full preferential ranking · 37 points · by huangm · 26 comments
• New Model of the Universe Says Past Crystallizes out of the Future · 37 points · by ca98am79 · 10 comments
• The Arc challenge in Go · 32 points · by marketer · 10 comments
• Beating the Arc Challenge in Clojure · 32 points · by lbj · 4 comments
• Chat with the 17 year old hacker who hacked my blog · 31 points · by Zilioum · 15 comments
• Happstack 0.4: A scalable framework for developing web applications in Haskell · 29 points · by dons · 14 comments
• Bowing to Body Clocks, Some N.B.A. Teams Are Sleeping In · 29 points · by prakash · 17 comments
• What Will Future Space Battles Be Like? · 28 points · by mhb · 25 comments
• Western Digital’s Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins · 28 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• Google To Acquire DocVerse; Office War Heats Up · 27 points · by raghus · 8 comments
• Ask HN: anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? · 27 points · by nonrecursive · 22 comments
• Ask HN: anyone here moved from academia to corporate? · 26 points · by crocowhile · 14 comments
• The Arc Challenge in Ruby · 25 points · by wheels · 7 comments
• Accidentally the first commercial lunar satellite. · 21 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 10 comments
• Crystallographer faked data · 20 points · by yread · 4 comments
• Brittany Murphy Death & Google’s Real Time Search Results · 20 points · by matth · 6 comments
• Are Hot U.S. Startups The New Bling For Rich Russians? · 20 points · by transburgh · 4 comments
• Ask HN: How do you pitch a skunk-works project once the proof of concept works? · 19 points · by ineedcaffeine · 4 comments
• Facebook (PHP) is not very Copenhagen (Change to C++ to save planet) · 17 points · by waterlesscloud · 27 comments
• Latest Chromium builds for Mac OS X support Chrome Extensions · 15 points · by tlrobinson · 17 comments
• Text Laundering - Confuse Duplicate Text Detectors · 15 points · by ed · 5 comments
• Top Internet Startup Scalability Killers · 15 points · by hshah · 6 comments
• Google's approach to privacy · 14 points · by abraham · 1 comment
• Congestion-Priced Rapid Traffic Lane - Operator to Guarantee Minimum Speed · 13 points · by mhb · 3 comments
• Appengine-jruby: Google App Engine API Wrappers and Tools for JRuby · 12 points · by r11t · 2 comments
• The Physics of Energy Devices (F09 Compton Lecture) · 12 points · by terra_incognita · no comments
• Trading Deals, A Lost Art? · 12 points · by prakash · 1 comment
• Go Language Patterns · 11 points · by goplexian · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Books for writing a data-intensive Python webapp using CouchDB? · 10 points · by tdoggette · 1 comment
• US Air Force says decision-making attack drones will be here by 2047 · 9 points · by mcantelon · 24 comments
• A pragmatic look at the Copenhagen summit · 9 points · by anigbrowl · 5 comments
• Is there a Silicon Valley advantage? · 9 points · by vas_popovski · 3 comments
• Beware humans bearing gifts. · 9 points · by eastlinkage · 10 comments
• The iPhone 4G Predictions · 8 points · by martythemaniak · 9 comments
• Ask HN: Lesser known blogging apps? · 7 points · by gnosis · 10 comments
• Computing the maximum salary · 7 points · by J3L2404 · 2 comments
• Tenacity Versus Failing Early (and Often) · 7 points · by wheels · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Favorite encrypted VPN provider? · 7 points · by MikeCapone · 3 comments
• Are Hot U.S. Startups The New Bling For Rich Russians? · 7 points · by moses1400 · 1 comment
• Ask News.YC: highest rated submission with no comments? · 5 points · by _pius · no comments
• MongoHub (MongoDB gui) · 5 points · by tortilla · 1 comment
• Master Ruby Metaprogramming · 5 points · by IndianGuru · no comments
• Looking for Pre-Beta testers for new search engine · 5 points · by kapauldo · 5 comments
• Lecture Notes on Quantum Computing · 5 points · by michael_nielsen · no comments
• Holiday Reading: Free eBooks and Great Blogs · 4 points · by dawie · no comments
• Mysql 5.5 - with semi-sync replication applied from google · 4 points · by tim_sw · no comments
• Curry's Paradox · 4 points · by infinity · no comments
• Ask HN: Please review Wordey - Remembrance dictionary · 4 points · by kp812 · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Site to find developers / programmers? · 3 points · by ninjastar99 · 2 comments
• Our approach to design and development processes · 3 points · by prakash · no comments
• Tooth-mounted hearing aid. · 3 points · by eastlinkage · no comments
• A day in the Internet · 3 points · by mun411 · no comments
• Economies in Emerging Markets to exceed 50% of world for first time · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• Elementary Theme and Docky · 3 points · by tan1337 · 1 comment
• Preventing mission creep in your (MVC) Views, or, ignorance is bliss · 3 points · by mwsherman · 1 comment
• SPDY is an experiment with protocols for the web · 3 points · by superberliner · no comments
• The Uniqueness of Humans · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Whereby Statistics Improves Your Dart Game · 3 points · by hamilton · 1 comment
• Help us redesign this open source project · 3 points · by gengstrand · 1 comment
• Q: Can your community drive your business and product? · 2 points · by michaeljung · 1 comment
• Beijing’s crash program for clean energy · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• Why did the Nook need to be created? · 2 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Google, Bing open new criminal opportunities by adding Twitter, Facebook feeds · 2 points · by littlebug · no comments
• Perl 6 Feature Solving a Real Problem I · 2 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Google vs Microsoft on the browser, cloud, and mobile platforms · 2 points · by marklittlewood · no comments
• Revamped Routes in Rails 3 · 2 points · by Sapient · no comments
• Beyond Realtime Search: The Dawning Of Ambient Streams · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• As We May Think · 2 points · by _pius · no comments
• My Initiation at Store 5476 · 2 points · by mikek · no comments
• Ask HN: a standard microblogging format? · 2 points · by jganetsk · 1 comment
• PLT Scheme · 2 points · by alrex021 · no comments
• The Great Australian Internet Blackout · 2 points · by pufuwozu · no comments
• Snap and Search (No Words Needed) · 2 points · by dpapathanasiou · no comments
• Logical arrow of time and terminology · 2 points · by jackfoxy · no comments
• Majority of U.S. Cocaine Supply Cut with Veterinary Deworming Drug · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• An honest evaluation of a startup's year · 2 points · by petewarden · no comments
• 10 Uses for Blocks in C/Objective-C · 1 points · by jawngee · no comments
• The Turbo Encabulator · 1 points · by blasdel · 1 comment
• Piero Scaruffi's site · 1 points · by cool-RR · no comments
• Furious Eruption of Deepest Known Undersea Volcano · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• This e-commerce API lets artists embrace their inner developer · 1 points · by mhil · no comments
• Lunch with the FT: Michael O’Leary (Ryanair CEO) · 1 points · by jakarta · no comments
• Google is reported to be in talks to acquire Yelp · 1 points · by callmeed · no comments
• Two advertising agencies buying Pabst Blue Ribbon through crowdsourcing · 1 points · by mshafrir · no comments
• The Distribution Battle between Digital and Hardcover Books · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Free Hugs Campaign · 1 points · by eru · no comments
• Ask Hacker News: What is the % chance of cataclysmic climate change? · 1 points · by rms · 7 comments
• Riak - System Architecture · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• Five Most Addictive Games On Facebook · 1 points · by techack · no comments
• Opera 10.5 Internal Build Leaked - Has Per-tab Private Browsing · 1 points · by Indyan · no comments
• Winter solstice: A discussion of the astronomy for the nontechnical reader · 1 points · by dctoedt · no comments
• Bing Ballmer Says You’re Fired [video] · 1 points · by jkopelman · 1 comment
• Canonical announces commercial services for its version control system, Bazaar · 1 points · by fuad · no comments
• What is Forcing? · 1 points · by infinity · no comments
• The Life and Survival of Mathematical Ideas · 1 points · by infinity · no comments
• The Art of Mathematics · 1 points · by infinity · no comments
• Another Reason Why I Wish All My Friends Had iPhones: Blipr · 1 points · by amdev · no comments
• What if the Nexus One isn’t sold by Google? · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• 23 Useful adobe air desktop application · 1 points · by ravindra1982 · no comments
• Asteroid Apophis to pass closer than any other near-earth object - video · 1 points · by suprgeek · no comments
• Feedback Wanted--please review my iPhone App---Free Promo Codes · 1 points · by J3L2404 · no comments
• Store Twitter URLs in earth's oceans? · 1 points · by _pius · no comments
• Noninvasive Technique to Rewrite Fear Memories Developed · 1 points · by ca98am79 · 1 comment
• What makes us human? · 1 points · by motters · no comments
• U.S. information consumption in 2008 totaled 3.6 zettabytes · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Time-travelling browsers navigate the web's past · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Tamas K Papp's blog: A tour of xarray: part 1 · 1 points · by wglb · no comments
• Supervisor: easy daemon management · 1 points · by j_baker · no comments
• OnBoard : Sinatra based web interface to manage Linux-based network appliances · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• Measles: The Next Infection · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Don't fall in love with code, it will eventually break your heart. · 1 points · by OlafurW · no comments
• Ask HN: Why aren't links clickable in the text of a submission? · 1 points · by cmelbye · 2 comments
• JSONP and jQuery to quickly build powerful mashups · 1 points · by alrex021 · no comments
• The World Has Changed. Is Jigsaw Still Evil? · 1 points · by raghus · no comments
• Responding Faster To Complaints About Your Competitors | Techdirt · 1 points · by _pius · no comments
• The art of the pick-up · 1 points · by marvin · no comments
• Connect the Dots Between Your Online and Offline Marketing · 1 points · by drc1912 · no comments
• Origins of Life: (nucleo)Tide and warm water · 1 points · by J3L2404 · no comments
• Where Shall We Have Lunch? · 1 points · by ieure · no comments