Hacker News Way Back Machine

• The story of my startup (and the Google/YouTube API trap) · 352 points · by TotlolRon · 119 comments
• Worst. Puzzle. Ever. · 152 points · by lisper · 44 comments
• Hacking Stephen Fry's Twitter Account · 143 points · by michael_dorfman · 37 comments
• GSM encryption broken · 89 points · by tfincannon · 43 comments
• Replicating the Google Wave layout in 100 lines of js code with UkiJS · 68 points · by mcantelon · 35 comments
• Predictions for 2010 · 65 points · by treblig · 39 comments
• Programmer Conned CIA, Pentagon Into Buying Bogus Anti-Terror Code · 64 points · by phsr · 32 comments
• 'gravity wells' - depiction of relative gravity in the solar system · 63 points · by sharpn · 12 comments
• TSA Security Directive SD-1544–09-06 · 63 points · by cwan · 116 comments
• Researchers Create Gold Aluminum, Black Platinum, Blue Silver · 63 points · by prat · 40 comments
• Torrent Search Engines Unlawful, U.S. Judge Says · 59 points · by phsr · 49 comments
• Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out (2005, Neal Stephenson) · 53 points · by lincolnq · 14 comments
• Ask HN: Rate my startup idea "Be Caller Nine" · 48 points · by jazzychad · 28 comments
• ATT to NYC: No iPhone for you... · 46 points · by telemachos · 27 comments
• On Commit Messages · 45 points · by edw519 · 23 comments
• HackerMusic · 44 points · by bkudria · 11 comments
• MapReduce: A Flexible Data Processing Tool (AKA Dean and Ghemawat strike back) · 44 points · by bbgm · 5 comments
• Decoding Climate Change with Perl, gnuplot and Google Earth · 43 points · by Anon84 · 34 comments
• LÖVE 0.6.0 (lua game library) is released · 42 points · by phren0logy · 15 comments
• Mathematical embarrassments are problems that should be solved already · 41 points · by blasdel · 6 comments
• Ask HN: Where do I go from here? · 40 points · by VolatileVoid · 25 comments
• Announcing the Firefox 4 Design Challenge – The Home Tab · 39 points · by abraham · 36 comments
• Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet · 39 points · by wglb · 30 comments
• The Unbearable Complexity of Climate · 38 points · by azgolfer · 36 comments
• The New, Terrifying, No-Electronics US Flight Security Rules · 37 points · by Flemlord · 58 comments
• Happy Birthday, Linus · 36 points · by k7d · 12 comments
• Amazon S3 file system with improved caching: the itch I scratched over Christmas · 36 points · by russross · 9 comments
• Poor man's profiler · 35 points · by emilis_info · 2 comments
• Why are modern scientists so dull? · 34 points · by bootload · 20 comments
• Google's Chrome OS is a Commitment Mechanism · 34 points · by stanleydrew · 20 comments
• Apple orders 10-inch tablet displays and robust glass panels · 32 points · by anderzole · 34 comments
• Ask HN: How long after launch did you get your first customer? · 32 points · by hajrice · 22 comments
• Alky Postmortem · 31 points · by daeken · 18 comments
• Freakonomics: The Quiet Danger of Non-Inflation-Adjusted Stock Returns · 31 points · by cwan · 13 comments
• GNU Emacs is on Bazaar now · 30 points · by indy · 26 comments
• Announcing Jetpack 0.7 · 29 points · by edw519 · 9 comments
• John Mackey and Whole Foods · 29 points · by kqr2 · 25 comments
• The Secret Lives of Amazon's Elves · 28 points · by cwan · 5 comments
• Information Arbitrage: How I Invest · 28 points · by alexjmann · 13 comments
• Berkeley High May Cut Out Science Labs · 27 points · by absconditus · 12 comments
• Project 880: The Avatar that almost was · 27 points · by epall · 4 comments
• Twitter AMQP WebSocket Example (no polling) · 27 points · by rubenfonseca · 2 comments
• Ruby statement modifiers behave differently than conditional statements · 26 points · by angilly · 26 comments
• The Great Fish Oil Experiment · 25 points · by jseifer · 11 comments
• MapReduce: A Flexible Data Processing Tool · 25 points · by ypavan · 2 comments
• What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? · 24 points · by icey · no comments
• 'Search Neutrality' is neccessary to promote growth and innovation · 23 points · by jsm386 · 18 comments
• JQuery Autosave · 23 points · by jmonegro · 3 comments
• Why Startups Fail and Why We Should’ve Too · 23 points · by brk · 2 comments
• Seven Computer Science Game-Changers from the 2000’s, and Seven More to Come · 22 points · by mad44 · 3 comments
• Hacker News Twitter list · 22 points · by tlrobinson · 35 comments
• A Recap of Cool Libraries for Ruby · 20 points · by JangoSteve · 8 comments
• Thoughts on James Cameron’s Avatar and “Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out” · 20 points · by pchristensen · 20 comments
• Thoughts on James Cameron’s Avatar · 19 points · by jseliger · 25 comments
• Google Caffeine - Faster realtime search index · 18 points · by mgrouchy · 2 comments
• Attaching SLR lenses to an iPhone · 18 points · by nishantmodak · 4 comments
• North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due to Core Flux · 17 points · by transburgh · 8 comments
• Being a web startup shouldn't be good enough for you · 16 points · by jmacd · 2 comments
• Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications · 16 points · by peter123 · 10 comments
• A New High-Tech Battle - Which 3-D Glasses Are Best? · 15 points · by peter123 · 9 comments
• Ask HN: Tricks for choosing which features to charge for? · 15 points · by mcav · 6 comments
• Are Old Scientists Less Innovative? · 14 points · by kmod · 2 comments
• Ask HN: How would you invest/manage $20K in startup seed money? · 14 points · by anonymous007 · 6 comments
• Gravity Wells · 14 points · by jeff18 · no comments
• BakaBot - it lives in a small websocket based chatroom. Latest Chrome needed. · 11 points · by ideamonk · 3 comments
• Ask HN: A free "cell phone" for use within a few miles of home? · 11 points · by staunch · 8 comments
• Willpower · 11 points · by yan · 4 comments
• The Decade With No Name · 11 points · by dwynings · 19 comments
• Reweighting a graph for faster shortest paths (A*) · 10 points · by fogus · no comments
• Nate Lawson's list of interesting talks at 26th Chaos Communication Congress · 10 points · by jjguy · 1 comment
• The Saga of Eric the Red and the Anthropology of Innovation: A Parable · 10 points · by yarapavan · no comments
• Advice to people implementing dynamic dns with easydns.com · 8 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Guy Steele: Types and Run-time Types · 8 points · by kssreeram · 1 comment
• The Odds of Airborne Terror · 8 points · by dannyr · 1 comment
• Last One Out, Please Turn On The Light · 8 points · by wenchuan · 2 comments
• Story Card Faster Than The Speed Of Pivotal Tracker (slurper and slurper.vim) · 8 points · by rbxbx · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Completely crazy idea for an image classification system? · 8 points · by jacquesm · 2 comments
• The state of game development in the Midwest · 8 points · by dustyd · no comments
• The Decade in Design · 8 points · by boucher · 1 comment
• Why Terrorists Leave Me Bullish On Apple · 7 points · by sthomas · 13 comments
• IBM Backs Open Source "Eye OS" for the 'Private Cloud' · 7 points · by yarapavan · no comments
• Facebook social scam · 7 points · by pieratt · 5 comments
• Fare: Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday 2010-01-25 Ryan Culpepper on PLT Scheme Macros · 6 points · by wglb · no comments
• SSH ProxyCommand · 6 points · by r11t · 1 comment
• Why an exploding monetary base may not lead to inflation · 6 points · by cwan · no comments
• The Speculative Prehistory of the iPhone · 6 points · by vaporstun · no comments
• Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites · 5 points · by bengebre · no comments
• Six Uncomfortable Answers · 5 points · by wyclif · no comments
• Ask HN: Monthly Subscription Plan vs Annual Subscription Plan? · 5 points · by prateekdayal · 9 comments
• Is Running Bad for Your Knees? Maybe Not · 5 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• How JBoss did it · 5 points · by paraschopra · no comments
• Privacy Theater: Why Social Networks Only Pretend To Protect You · 5 points · by prakash · no comments
• David Salomon: Biographies in Data Compression [pdf] · 5 points · by yarapavan · 1 comment
• Ten years of BlackBerry · 5 points · by kuda · no comments
• Recipe for How To Lose To Terrorists · 4 points · by blasdel · no comments
• What a Dumb Decade: The 87 Lamest Moments in Tech · 4 points · by dragonquest · no comments
• Creating easy to remember passwords · 4 points · by Rabidgremlin · 3 comments
• 10 Beautiful Sketches for Website Prototypes · 4 points · by woork · 1 comment
• The power and decline of imagination · 4 points · by j_baker · 2 comments
• NYT Op-Chart: Picturing the Past 10 Years · 4 points · by yarapavan · no comments
• Planetary Gravity Wells Compared · 4 points · by NathanKP · 1 comment
• Detroit's vacant factory land to sprout farms · 4 points · by tjsnyder · 2 comments
• Sugru - plastiscine meets blue-tack meets glue · 4 points · by evancaine · 1 comment
• Analyzing Facebook’s Forthcoming ReDesign · 3 points · by hshah · no comments
• Foldit: new computer game enabling you to contribute to scientific research · 3 points · by mad44 · no comments
• Top Two Branding Secrets from Steve Jobs · 3 points · by fogus · no comments
• Ask HN: Is this a good “non-profit” idea? · 3 points · by mwsherman · no comments
• Scientific Controversies and Hot-button Issues · 3 points · by wglb · no comments
• What are your hobbies? · 3 points · by gosuri · 4 comments
• Machine centric software development · 3 points · by sushrutbidwai · no comments
• I wrote a Twitter client in Emacs Lisp · 3 points · by artagnon · no comments
• The myth of talent · 3 points · by jteo · no comments
• The Nobel Laureate Versus the Graduate Student · 3 points · by ypavan · 1 comment
• Preserving My Favorite HN Links · 3 points · by riffer · no comments
• The Arrogant VC: Why VCs are disliked by entrepreneurs · 3 points · by richardburton · no comments
• Ask PG: are Y Pipes machines banned from fetching rss · 3 points · by lunatech · 2 comments
• Game Theory, Airport Security and Best Responses · 3 points · by andrewpbrett · no comments
• The future of the Audit is in your hands · 3 points · by pelle · no comments
• It's not the rats you need to worry about · 3 points · by hajrice · no comments
• Ask HN: Please critique (harshly if necessary) Movie Tracker · 3 points · by hoffmabc · 9 comments
• Where to go from being a young, intermediate Programmer? · 3 points · by bad_alloc · 3 comments
• Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications · 3 points · by pchristensen · no comments
• Did Positive Thinking Kill Your Career? · 3 points · by absconditus · 1 comment
• It's not the rats you need to worry about · 3 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Blackberry is very popular among students · 3 points · by arithmetic · no comments
• TechStars Boston Application Tips · 2 points · by dshah · no comments
• Twilight of the Efficient Markets · 2 points · by tokenadult · 1 comment
• In Las Vegas, Sports Books in a Pocket · 2 points · by ojbyrne · no comments
• Emacs + Snow Leopard Font Fanagling · 2 points · by mattking · no comments
• Are people more willing to pay for digital goods on mobile devices? · 2 points · by jeremyw · no comments
• AT&T website stops selling iPhones in New York City? · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Freeing Factor from gcc's embrace-and-extend C language extensions · 2 points · by fogus · no comments
• Bill Watterson on his art, life, and Calvin and Hobbes · 2 points · by jsomers · no comments
• IxEdit: On-the-fly Interaction Design Tool · 2 points · by oneplusone · no comments
• Flexing the boundaries of flash memory · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Browse the Artifacts of Geek History · 2 points · by Wilduck · no comments
• Terry Tao: A demonstration of the non-commutativity of the English language · 2 points · by ypavan · no comments
• Infamous Chinese pirates launch Ubuntu that looks just like Windows XP · 2 points · by mlLK · 5 comments
• The fine art of not knowing: comments from great scientists · 2 points · by henning · no comments
• Nudging Privacy - The Behavioral Economics of Personal Information [pdf] · 2 points · by stakent · no comments
• Apple's 10 Dumbest iPhone App Rejections · 2 points · by EtsyBetsy · no comments
• Out of Print Book Download: Assemblers And Loaders by David Salomon · 2 points · by ypavan · no comments
• Are interpreted languages fast enough? · 2 points · by tmikew · no comments
• You Care Too Much What Other People Think · 2 points · by nate · 2 comments
• The Sky’s the Limit for China’s DIY Aviators · 2 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Meta level debugging · 2 points · by mrud · no comments
• The Best of Inc. Magazine, 2009 · 2 points · by mrduncan · no comments
• Can Public-Funded Entrepreneurship Work? · 2 points · by tdoggette · no comments
• Tell PG: Email alerts. · 2 points · by hajrice · 3 comments
• 405Gb of "leaked" video == epic open source release · 2 points · by cliveholloway · no comments
• Microsoft Student Web Development contest for Illinios · 2 points · by AlfredTwo · no comments
• Akira Remotely Controls Computers Using Dropbox · 2 points · by drewr · no comments
• Arduino-powered Baby Bouncer · 2 points · by mcantelon · no comments
• Amazon e-books outsell physical tomes on Christmas Day · 1 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• How to save the newspapers: (yet another) proposal · 1 points · by rwl · no comments
• Scientific Controversies and Hot-button Issues · 1 points · by danger · no comments
• Freeze GridView Columns and Headers in ASP.Net CSS · 1 points · by pons_saravanan · no comments
• Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts · 1 points · by gnosis · no comments
• Main Page - Social Patterns · 1 points · by efader · no comments
• CrowdSourcing · 1 points · by samh · no comments
• Yahoo Compliance Guide for Law Enforcement · 1 points · by lucifer · 1 comment
• When Does the New Decade Start? · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• IPhone game downloads to hit record high between Christmas and New Year's · 1 points · by Frocer · 1 comment
• Start Page - Linux Mint · 1 points · by abuser · no comments
• The future of zombies · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Asp .Net Ajax AutoComplete Textbox with Database · 1 points · by pons_saravanan · no comments
• Disinfectants 'train' superbugs to resist antibiotics · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Friction feedback loop · 1 points · by KevBurnsJr · no comments
• 1997 interview with James Cameron · 1 points · by helwr · 1 comment
• China’s Harmony Express Now World’s Fastest Train · 1 points · by sailormoon · no comments
• Red Flag Linux: Official distro of the CCP Bureau of Culture · 1 points · by rms · 5 comments
• Disinfectants 'train' superbugs to resist antibiotics · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 1 comment
• Failx3, Win · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Tedford Bets on Rising Inflation · 1 points · by bioweek · no comments
• Any Hacker News readers @ 26C3 in Berlin? · 1 points · by rotw · no comments
• Advanced programmable transitions with Javascript · 1 points · by DXL · no comments
• Dec. 28, 1879: Tay Bridge Collapses, Alas · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Scientific Controversies and Hot-button Issues · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• Who Implemented PubSubHubbub · 1 points · by julien · no comments
• Aol radio · 1 points · by hajrice · no comments
• Fret War: Play a randomly generated piece of music. · 1 points · by zitterbewegung · no comments
• Amazing Real Time World Clock · 1 points · by IncidentalEcon · 1 comment
• [patent]Counting leading 0/1 in 32bit word · 1 points · by chmike · no comments
• Latest dumb Apple tablet debate: What's in a name? · 1 points · by abennett · no comments
• Social networking: 6 things to consider before you share it all · 1 points · by abennett · no comments
• Shu Ha Ri · 1 points · by gthank · no comments
• Venture Capital 2010: Hot (and cold) sectors to watch · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Advice to Myself as a Young Man · 1 points · by mattmcegg · no comments
• The Tyranny of Stucturelessness · 1 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Linked Data Product Development Lab · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Ask HN: How to do dynamic real-time adverts ? · 1 points · by ig1 · no comments
• ITunes App Store downloads skyrocket 900% on Christmas · 1 points · by anderzole · no comments
• Editor Sampling · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• Ask HN: Recommendations for an accountant in Toronto? · 1 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• Purported Google Chrome OS netbook specs don’t quite add up · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Bloggers & Image Needy: meet Sprixi for relevant & free images · 1 points · by jamesbressi · no comments
• The left fold: week in review: alternate STLs, teaching, and zombie AI · 1 points · by alec · no comments
• Information Can Be Sold and Bought in "Dallas" · 1 points · by icey · no comments
• Win Business Plan Competitions To Gain Moola And Momentum · 1 points · by markpeterdavis · no comments
• Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications · 1 points · by icey · no comments
• Simplest way to test your web pages in different browsers · 1 points · by gosuri · no comments
• AT&T halts online sales of iPhone in NYC area · 1 points · by pmikal · no comments
• Whatever happened to The Future? · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Why Do People Write for Wikipedia? · 1 points · by dustingetz · 1 comment
• How do you get a $4 million second round from Google Ventures at age 21? · 1 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Being online: Group identities and social network identities · 1 points · by stakent · no comments
• Benchmarking JSR-223: JRuby, Rhino, Groovy and Jython · 1 points · by berrow · no comments
• Continuous Try Server Integration · 1 points · by sah · no comments
• AT&T halts (online) iPhone sales in New York · 1 points · by anigbrowl · no comments
• Software's Dirty Little Secret · 1 points · by lstoakes · no comments
• Several takes on how to cull your library · 1 points · by hexis · no comments
• More Than a Game: Testing Your Blood Alcohol · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Amazon: Kindle Is Most Gifted Item Ever · 1 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• How Google became Microsoft: A decade of hits, misses and gaffes · 1 points · by paulbaumgart · no comments
• Why Sitemaps and Website Navigation Plans Matter - Creately · 1 points · by charanjit · no comments
• Lenovo's wireless Multimedia Remote with Keyboard sneaks out for retail · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• 4 year-end predictions for government 2.0 · 1 points · by k7d · no comments
• The Product Guy: Superfine in 09 · 1 points · by theproductguy · no comments
• New York Characters in Sound and Images (also see UI on NY Times homepage) · 1 points · by mjfern · no comments
• Light effect wallpaper in Photoshop · 1 points · by psdeluxer · no comments
• Increasing Your Clients' Revenue Is The Quickest Way To Win More Clients · 1 points · by CharlesPal · no comments
• The Information in Option Volume for Future Stock Prices · 1 points · by elboheme · no comments
• Greetings From Future Camp - Singularity University · 1 points · by mawhidby · no comments
• Ableton suspends development (of music SW) to focus on bug fixes · 1 points · by anigbrowl · no comments
• Google Is About To Get Caffeinated With A Faster Search Index · 1 points · by hajrice · no comments
• Popup & Focus URL Hijacking · 1 points · by abraham · no comments
• Pushing the boundary of Real Time Web with Twitter and XFactor · 1 points · by jzting · no comments
• Simplicity in Good Web Design : Advantages & How -to · 1 points · by hajrice · no comments
• Introducing BitMe.Me -- a Bitly-based meme tracker · 1 points · by DanLivesHere · no comments
• Ask HN: Is it wise to build products on twitters API? · 1 points · by samwise · 2 comments
• Advocacy groups urge FTC to bar Google-AdMob deal · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Running Selenium tests in parallel: Clojure · 1 points · by alrex021 · no comments
• Seven Computer Science Game-Changers from the 2000’s, and Seven More to Come · 1 points · by Methos · no comments
• Wimpy Evidence for Dark Matter Particles · 1 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Twitter & Facebook: introductions are not necessary · 1 points · by sallywu · no comments
• TenYears: Single Most Innovative Product of the Decade · 1 points · by wgj · no comments
• Checklist for New Products · 1 points · by breck · no comments
• How to Get a Glowing Recommendation Letter · 1 points · by adamo · no comments
• How to target a product for startups · 1 points · by kineticac · no comments
• Say Goodbye to Linux Reboots with Ksplice · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• Library for constructing complex Regular Expressions from simpler expressions · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• Neutrino may have triggered dark energy · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• China Unveils the World’s Fastest Super High-Speed Train · 1 points · by epall · no comments
• How to use Google Closure's goog.require and goog.provide with your own code · 1 points · by btipling · no comments
• Amazing speech by a war veteran · 1 points · by JBiserkov · no comments
• 6 Lessons from a guy who changed Media as we know it. · 1 points · by kgopal · 1 comment
• The Future belongs to the few of us still willing to get our hands Dirty. · 1 points · by robjamaz · no comments