Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Make a Mess, Clean it Up · 158 points · by snprbob86 · 20 comments
• I made a native Python module for MS Word docx · 144 points · by nailer · 25 comments
• My latest flash game, Robokill 2 · 122 points · by reitzensteinm · 62 comments
• How to write and deploy a Lisp Webapp · 101 points · by smanek · 7 comments
• All my methods take 316 arguments, and I like it that way · 97 points · by anonjon · 86 comments
• Secret language · 95 points · by stakent · 24 comments
• Minimalism · 86 points · by ihumanable · 43 comments
• Students Ace Textbook Physics While Struggling With Basic Understanding (video) · 72 points · by vinutheraj · 77 comments
• Libcpu · 70 points · by fogus · 5 comments
• Programmer Competency Matrix · 69 points · by sliceghost · 40 comments
• Fraud U: Toppling a Bogus-Diploma Empire · 61 points · by Anon84 · 30 comments
• Intercourse and Intelligence · 52 points · by pwnstigator · 73 comments
• Zynga and the End of the Beginning · 50 points · by rampr · 9 comments
• Twilio (phone call web API) is crazy fun: MicroISV on a Shoestring · 49 points · by stakent · 4 comments
• The Fifth Underhanded C Contest is Now Open · 49 points · by marcus · 10 comments
• It's hard to change a little. It's much easier to change a lot. · 47 points · by jonnytran · 6 comments
• Ask HN: What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? · 45 points · by rbanffy · 66 comments
• Gone Nomad? Try Coworking. · 45 points · by billymeltdown · 15 comments
• Open Source Obligations · 44 points · by bensummers · 12 comments
• Twilio Raises $3.7 Million For Powerful Telephony API · 44 points · by immad · 15 comments
• Cross-domain privacy vulnerability using CSS, in all browsers · 40 points · by mbrubeck · 6 comments
• GitHub Flavored Markdown · 37 points · by chaostheory · 15 comments
• Terrastore - Scalable, elastic, consistent document store · 37 points · by tyler · 14 comments
• Follow up to "Functional Programming Doesn't Work" · 35 points · by steveklabnik · 34 comments
• Giles Bowkett: No New Languages In 2010; New Businesses Instead · 34 points · by ph0rque · 14 comments
• Microsoft.com - Careers: Linux/Open Office · 32 points · by wglb · 34 comments
• Why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees? · 31 points · by pchristensen · 33 comments
• Ask HN: How do you get in your "productive" mode? · 31 points · by hajrice · 41 comments
• The 4 Metrics of User Acquisition and the Customer Bull’s Eye · 31 points · by brezina · 4 comments
• T-Mobile "Officially" Confirms Google Phone · 30 points · by Flemlord · 4 comments
• Google Nexus One docs get leaked: $530 unsubsidized, $180 with plan · 29 points · by transburgh · 50 comments
• About cracking GSM: 1479_26C3.Karsten.Nohl.GSM.pdf · 29 points · by ip2trama · 9 comments
• How Jason Cohen Built And Sold Smart Bear Software · 29 points · by dshah · 7 comments
• C# Brainteasers · 27 points · by edw519 · 6 comments
• Court: iPod hearing loss your fault, not Apple's · 27 points · by jacquesm · 24 comments
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car vs. Zipcar · 25 points · by anderzole · 28 comments
• The Mother Lode of Data on the Mobile Internet · 25 points · by prakash · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Simple Explanation of Bayesian Logic · 25 points · by DanielBMarkham · 19 comments
• Kodak, Bill Gates and efficient markets · 21 points · by tortilla · 10 comments
• The Next White Whale · 21 points · by dboyd · 16 comments
• Crowdsourcing a real-time solution to air terrorism · 21 points · by mmaunder · 29 comments
• Dissertations on His Dudeness... (Big Lebowski) · 20 points · by d4ft · 9 comments
• UK Conservative Party Offers £1 Million Prize for crowdsourcing platform · 20 points · by larryfreeman · 20 comments
• Life Plan · 19 points · by spencerfry · 13 comments
• Enchilada Programming Language · 19 points · by aerique · 12 comments
• Ideone.com - code pastebin with execution in many languages · 19 points · by bensummers · 10 comments
• The Twelve Most Tarnished Brands in Tech · 18 points · by technologizer · 9 comments
• Ask HN: Your favorite tiny feature? · 17 points · by blintson · 18 comments
• YouTube’s Quest to Suggest More, So Users Search Less · 17 points · by peter123 · 2 comments
• Miller, key to obtaining 14,700 tons of silver Manhattan Project · 16 points · by bootload · 2 comments
• 2 guys + 6 cups of coffee + 12 hours = 1 iPhone app · 16 points · by Sukotto · 4 comments
• Ask HN for Feedback: Twidl.it ver 0.5 · 16 points · by twidlit · 11 comments
• The Temporarily Disappearing Estate Tax · 16 points · by cwan · 41 comments
• Visualization of #code2009 by programming language · 16 points · by r11t · 5 comments
• Vowpal Wabbit: fast, scalable, useful learning algorithm · 15 points · by marshallp · 2 comments
• How Algal Biofuels Lost a Decade in the Race to Replace Oil · 15 points · by cwan · no comments
• L.A. Gangs Seek Profit in Peace · 14 points · by cwan · 13 comments
• Nagios Monitoring for Erlang · 14 points · by twampss · no comments
• Tyler Durden’s Rules For Writing In The Zone · 14 points · by dan_sim · 5 comments
• PE Fund for Litigation · 13 points · by cwan · 11 comments
• California: Failed State · 12 points · by robg · 27 comments
• Singularity Proponent Ray Kurzweil Reinvents the Book, Again · 12 points · by ca98am79 · 21 comments
• Siebel’s Stealth Carbon Startup C3 Lands $26M And Condoleezza Rice On Board · 12 points · by andrewpbrett · no comments
• Ask HN: Finding unwanted domains a good home? · 12 points · by kngspook · 17 comments
• Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So · 12 points · by bensummers · 4 comments
• Adia: A Week With Clojure And MongoDB · 12 points · by icey · no comments
• Adia: (very) new webframework for Clojure · 12 points · by macmac · 1 comment
• Why America and France have very different experiences with immigration · 11 points · by cwan · 6 comments
• S3 Versioning Beta · 11 points · by drp · 1 comment
• JSON as a Universal DB Model DSL · 9 points · by chasingsparks · 9 comments
• Stack Overflow Has Open Sourced Markdown/C# · 8 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Dressing for Success, Again · 8 points · by ryanwaggoner · 1 comment
• After Branding · 8 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Scott Brown on Why Some Memes Never Die · 8 points · by prat · 2 comments
• The Beautiful Art of Japanese Web Design · 8 points · by woork · 3 comments
• Natural Log: handwritten mathematics recognition system from MIT · 7 points · by henning · 3 comments
• Science Center sued for rejecting anti-evolution film · 7 points · by prat · 18 comments
• States with the highest taxes also rank as the unhappiest? · 7 points · by cwan · 17 comments
• Coding Guidelines for Prolog · 7 points · by fogus · no comments
• IPhone Analytics Recommendation. · 7 points · by tmpk · 4 comments
• Comet with Node.js and V8 · 7 points · by pkrumins · no comments
• Ask HN feedback: Twitter chrome client with conversations and realtime updates · 6 points · by sandaru1 · 1 comment
• What 'Once in a blue moon' literally means · 6 points · by pavel · 6 comments
• Xbox gaming platform may soon span Web, console, mobile · 6 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• Iron claims to be a "privacy-oriented" fork of Chrome... · 6 points · by blasdel · no comments
• U.S. Ranks 20th in Tax Support for R&D · 5 points · by cwan · no comments
• How do you legally punish half a conjoined twin? · 5 points · by dbreunig · 2 comments
• Arduino and Mac OS X software · 5 points · by J3L2404 · 2 comments
• Why Adobe’s mobile strategy is fundamentally flawed · 5 points · by arpit · 6 comments
• PayPal Ripe For A Fall; Here's How To Topple Them · 5 points · by dstorrs · 2 comments
• How Googlebot views your site · 5 points · by ckunte · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Service that negotiates and switches between companies on your behalf. · 5 points · by 1ts · 12 comments
• Ask HN: What are various incentive models on the Web? · 5 points · by gosuri · 2 comments
• Yes, You Should Eliminate Your Vacation Policy · 5 points · by TravisLS · 1 comment
• Local "Hacker News" for NY hackers -- just launched by the NY Tech Meetup · 5 points · by t3mp3st · no comments
• Simplistic heat-maps using Vecto · 5 points · by mnemonik · 2 comments
• 5 things that make your social network monetize like crap · 5 points · by bigstartups · no comments
• Google might soon be the heart of the robotics industry · 4 points · by marshallp · 4 comments
• Life on the List · 4 points · by icey · no comments
• Review my iPhone app: eyes-free dialing with SketchDial · 4 points · by thdd · 5 comments
• GIS tech gives communities more services by showing discrimination patterns · 4 points · by ashley · no comments
• 100,000 taskelets. Python Vs Go · 4 points · by plinkplonk · 1 comment
• Bruce Schneier on TSA Absurdity and the Need for Resilience · 4 points · by cwan · no comments
• What Makes Us Happy · 4 points · by sliceghost · no comments
• The Known Universe [video] · 4 points · by lrm242 · 1 comment
• What’s strategic for Google? · 4 points · by prakash · no comments
• Google One-letter Suggestions · 4 points · by JangoSteve · no comments
• JSbin: collaborative Javascript editor/pastebin with major library support · 4 points · by mcantelon · no comments
• Ask HN: Hacker News Clone/Social News software? · 4 points · by crux · 5 comments
• To Recruit the Best, Admit Weaknesses · 4 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Apple's Heuristics: The Good, the Bad, Some Ugly · 4 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Netflix Envoy Pitches Online Films to Wary Studios · 3 points · by jakarta · no comments
• Why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees? · 3 points · by theashworld · no comments
• Kim Peek, Inspiration for ‘Rain Man,’ Dies at 58 · 3 points · by wallflower · no comments
• The Sovereign-Debt Default Bomb · 3 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• PaJes, Simple JavaScript Templating Library for generating HTML · 3 points · by saroskar · 3 comments
• HN Jobs: Web Designer · 3 points · by mediarosh · no comments
• Three Potential Twitter App Acquisition Targets for 2010 · 3 points · by Svetlana · no comments
• Atwood forks Markdown · 3 points · by michael_dorfman · 1 comment
• Ask HN Readers: Advertising on HN? · 3 points · by jamesbressi · 4 comments
• Quick question. CL, Clojure, Erlang, Haskell. Which one to choose for Web dev · 3 points · by tweetur · 9 comments
• Mobile-phone culture: The Apparatgeist calls · 3 points · by yan · no comments
• Russia May Try to Deflect Asteroid With Spacecraft · 3 points · by transburgh · no comments
• An unobtrusive registration and login form · 3 points · by uggedal · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Private Domain Name Registration · 3 points · by alanthonyc · 2 comments
• UKI – Simple UI Kit for web apps · 3 points · by jp_sc · no comments
• App Store Cranking · 2 points · by fonosip · 1 comment
• Is it too late to catch up? · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Ten Years: Biggest Losers in Tech · 2 points · by Flemlord · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Best corporate caterers in the Bay Area? · 2 points · by ramanujan · no comments
• Improving Data Compression Fidelity Without Sacrificing Speed · 2 points · by helwr · no comments
• Chinese Co Refuses To Pay Goldman Sachs $80 Million In Derivative Losses · 2 points · by chaostheory · 1 comment
• The True Odds of Airborne Terror Chart - Odds of Airborne Attacks · 2 points · by kmod · no comments
• The "pharma shill" gambit · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Edison's 163 Questions · 2 points · by ssp · no comments
• The 50 worst gadgets of the decade · 2 points · by anderzole · no comments
• Ex-Seagate employee claims company stole MIT research, tried to cover its tracks · 2 points · by anderzole · no comments
• Exploitable Bug Detector · 2 points · by bugspy · no comments
• Ask HN: Good books on Investing stocks · 2 points · by yr · no comments
• Trick question: while( x -- 0 ) // x goes to 0 · 2 points · by sown · no comments
• Imeem fined 1.77M · 2 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• Five ways to generate momentum in your venture or angel round · 2 points · by sliceghost · no comments
• Reinventing the MacBook Air · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• ASK HN: Green certification on HN · 2 points · by prat · 1 comment
• The Cheapest Reliable Alternative · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• 26C3: How you can build an eavesdropper for a quantum cryptosystem · 2 points · by wglb · 1 comment
• Bug Driven Development: Samurai Debugging Reinvented · 2 points · by jbandi · no comments
• How Prices Compare on Different App Stores · 2 points · by iiijjjiii · no comments
• People’s Processor: Embrace China’s Homegrown Computer Chips | Magazine · 2 points · by socratees · no comments
• Tangerine Seams · 2 points · by Sean_McPhail · no comments
• What China learned from Japan's 1980s bubble · 2 points · by senthil_rajasek · no comments
• California’s Central Valley may soon go nuclear · 2 points · by transburgh · no comments
• Ask about HN: Caching in place? · 2 points · by jrockway · no comments
• The Billy Mays method for picking startups · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Evernote Reaches Two Million Lifeloggers, Half Of Them Are On The iPhone · 2 points · by prakash · no comments
• Thomson Reuters NewsScope Archive - Machine readable news · 2 points · by wglb · no comments
• UCS Satellite Database · 2 points · by elblanco · no comments
• Writing APIs to Wrap APIs · 2 points · by bkudria · no comments
• 2010, the year of Internet Tablets. · 2 points · by techposter · no comments
• If you are waiting for the decade to end, you have already missed it · 2 points · by shib71 · 1 comment
• TSA subpoena, seize computer of blogger who publishes their security directives · 2 points · by mcantelon · 1 comment
• Russia Plans to Save Earth From Rogue Asteroid · 2 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Mobile Phones Reduce Kidnapping · 2 points · by dbreunig · no comments
• Time For A Slow-Word Movement · 2 points · by dmv · no comments
• What Is The Definition of An Angel Investor? · 2 points · by pchristensen · no comments
• Ask HN: Real time PubSub-type notification API service? · 2 points · by dotBen · 1 comment
• The Hardest Working People on the Planet · 2 points · by oliviakuhn · 1 comment
• The European Commission and Oracle-Sun · 2 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Dependency Injection vs. Virtual Classes · 2 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Professor describing the revolutionary turbo-encabulator · 1 points · by blintson · no comments
• The Third Age of Gadgets nears its end · 1 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• Physics of Wireless Broadband · 1 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Space Suits · 1 points · by dmoney · no comments
• Consumer groups try to block Google purchase of AdMob · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• Announcing the 2010 Singularity Institute Research Challenge ($100k matching) · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Holiday doodles ala Google · 1 points · by ckunte · no comments
• Rfc3833:2004;hack:2008 · 1 points · by hostsfile · 1 comment
• Technology Predictions Are Mostly Bunk · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Ask HN: What the heck is a Community Operating System? · 1 points · by shotgun · no comments
• Earnest advice to a billion dollar corporation from a three hit a week blog · 1 points · by samyxp17 · no comments
• Ginkgo biloba does not appear to slow rate of cognitive decline · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Organic and PPC Attractiveness: two new metrics for a scientific SEO strategy · 1 points · by paraschopra · no comments
• Top 30 Young Entrepreneur Blogs of 2009 · 1 points · by coffee · no comments
• Shemail: Easier HTML Emails in Rails · 1 points · by Jim_Neath · no comments
• Violation of R5RS in many compliant Schemes · 1 points · by apgwoz · no comments
• Leaked Nexus One Documents: $530 Unlocked, $180 With T-Mobile · 1 points · by IgorPartola · no comments
• Computers can only do what you tell them to do · 1 points · by oscardelben · 1 comment
• JQuery, Ajax, PHP and MySQL Projects · 1 points · by blackcrow · no comments
• Stylized Information will be the Sole Survivor · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• WebKit Inspector Audit View · 1 points · by sant0sk1 · 1 comment
• Against Reflective Equilibrium (or, What is ethics for?) · 1 points · by wglb · no comments
• My Wish for 2010: A Personal Dashboard for the Social Web [GigaOm] · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• Rationale Thinking and the Scientific Method · 1 points · by oscardelben · no comments
• Essential Windows Tricks · 1 points · by abennett · no comments
• Class Instance Variables · 1 points · by duck · no comments
• The story of How I made thousands flipping sites, and then blew it all · 1 points · by feint · no comments
• The pros and cons of “insider” VC rounds · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Bringing the San Telmo Market Experience to Etsy · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• ProSwitcher - WebOS-like backgrounding on the iPhone · 1 points · by joshwa · no comments
• Cocksure: Banks, battles, and the psychology of overconfidence. · 1 points · by prat · no comments
• Smart Sincere Syndrome · 1 points · by billswift · no comments
• Solar Thieves: Solar Security Is the Latest Business Opp · 1 points · by iiijjjiii · no comments
• Super Simple Way To Use Google Maps API Geocoding Service · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• Kentico CMS 5.0 offers enterprise level functionality · 1 points · by sinbsd · no comments
• Why it's smart to publish Realtime RSS now · 1 points · by iiijjjiii · no comments
• Ask HN: My app images are displayed for another app review. · 1 points · by janj · 1 comment
• How Algal Biofuels Lost a Decade in the Race to Replace Oil · 1 points · by d4ft · no comments
• Should your fake tan be taxed? · 1 points · by coolnewtoy · no comments
• Twitter to browser streaming with node.js and HTML5 WebSockets. · 1 points · by ag · no comments
• 5 focal mechanisms · 1 points · by davi · no comments
• Windows Mobile and Xbox Live coming together · 1 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• What Is Your Personal Profit Per Hour? · 1 points · by lwc123 · no comments
• When Your Company Culture Isn't Ready for Social Media · 1 points · by coolnewtoy · no comments
• The Case for an e-Congress: Who Says Proximity Ensures Good Governance? · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Why you should fire yourself · 1 points · by coolnewtoy · no comments
• Registered_companies size vs. citizen size · 1 points · by nato1138 · no comments
• Amazing Stories of How Toys Developed · 1 points · by gry · no comments
• 8 Amazing Jquery Plugins For Twitter · 1 points · by henriwijaya · no comments
• Ask HN: Dealing with comment overload · 1 points · by csomar · no comments
• Installing Redis on CentOS 4 · 1 points · by prosa · no comments
• How A Nigerian Scammer Hacked Our Gmail Account And Spammed Some Of You · 1 points · by dangoldin · no comments
• What can I find out about you if I know your email address? · 1 points · by petewarden · no comments
• A look into the life of a Product Marketing Manager · 1 points · by atk · no comments
• Scvngr raises 4 million (DreamIt '08) · 1 points · by keltecp11 · no comments
• How to Land the Jobs of the Future · 1 points · by pavel · no comments
• After DJ, here's JD: Java Decompiler. It's Awesome · 1 points · by zander · no comments
• IPhone app removed for not being raunchy enough · 1 points · by anigbrowl · no comments
• A new $35M fund to back young entrepreneurs’ buyouts · 1 points · by bigstartups · no comments
• Great mathematicians of the early modern period. · 1 points · by davidmbrownjr · no comments
• Raise funds for Charities with GiveATweet · 1 points · by ramarnat · no comments
• The First 30 Days: Lessons I've Learned From Launching a Design Blog · 1 points · by christhurman · no comments
• One Simple Goal: A Daily Goal to Get Things Done · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Eight trends to look for in 2010 · 1 points · by TidwellXML · no comments
• 30 Days to Success · 1 points · by _pius · no comments
• Mark Pincus on Charlie Rose · 1 points · by pclark · 1 comment
• Cloud Games-on-Demand:Brilliant example of Cloud UI without Delays · 1 points · by taranfx · no comments
• A Cheat Sheet for Keeping Resolutions · 1 points · by dannyr · no comments
• Twilio raises 3.7 million · 1 points · by yan · no comments
• Syncretism · 1 points · by cool-RR · no comments
• Chimps use cleavers and anvils as tools to chop food · 1 points · by tdedecko · no comments
• Happiest States Revealed by New Research · 1 points · by tdedecko · no comments
• Xbox 360 Natal Half-Life 2 Video Leaked? · 1 points · by fiaz · no comments
• Video captcha - waiting for implementation · 1 points · by jakozaur · no comments
• Why NYC is not ready for the iPhone · 1 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Fun with MacRuby: Detecting The Language of a String · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Working with Python and RabbitMQ · 1 points · by emson · no comments
• A Cheat Sheet for Keeping Resolutions · 1 points · by jedwhite · no comments
• Why Most Web Frameworks Suck · 1 points · by bgray · no comments
• Ada Programming · 1 points · by chipsy · no comments
• Build Brands with Luck and Persistence · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• AT&T asks FCC to set date to scrap old phone system · 1 points · by tshtf · no comments
• When mini benchmarks are important · 1 points · by rayvega · no comments
• Why Buffett is Betting on the Railroads · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• The Year's Biggest Ideas in Economics · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Deciding What to "Watch" on Github · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• Inspecting dead Ruby process with GDB · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• V8: an open source JavaScript engine · 1 points · by bgray · no comments
• Time and Again, the Calendar Comes Up Short · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Uses for take/drop-while · 1 points · by bgray · no comments
• Esther Dyson: Tales of Cosmonaut Training · 1 points · by peter123 · no comments
• How Game Titles Work · 1 points · by blasdel · no comments