Hacker News Way Back Machine

• How Not To Promote Your New Startup · 174 points · by tptacek · 76 comments
• A Form of Madness - Dive Into HTML5 · 161 points · by SlyShy · 25 comments
• Why git is so fast (or why Java is not as fast as C) · 139 points · by ssp · 107 comments
• Cost of Health Care By Country, as Compared to Life Expectancy · 113 points · by alexandros · 104 comments
• A review of probability theory · 106 points · by leibniz · 13 comments
• 50 Things we know now that we didn't know this time last year · 82 points · by malvosenior · 34 comments
• Using nginx as a load balancer · 68 points · by mickeyben · 16 comments
• Fred Wilson's Investment Themes for 2010 · 60 points · by cwan · 17 comments
• List of unusual Wikipedia articles · 55 points · by infinity · 13 comments
• How Little Exercise Can You Get Away With? · 50 points · by robg · 5 comments
• Ed Catmull on Surfacing Failures / Remaining Original at Pixar [2007] [video] · 49 points · by jeremyw · 8 comments
• Sex and shopping - it's a guy thing · 47 points · by alexandros · 32 comments
• The Recovering Programmer · 41 points · by 10ren · 4 comments
• Longest Common Subsequence algorithm in Python · 41 points · by white_eskimo · 1 comment
• Hit "I'm feeling lucky" on a blank Google.com/ncr page · 41 points · by nopassrecover · 7 comments
• You will fail · 40 points · by DanielBMarkham · 23 comments
• Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005) · 38 points · by arpit · 8 comments
• Steam Hardware Survey: December 2009 · 35 points · by bugs · 12 comments
• Mongo3: Sinatra based admin console for mongoDB · 35 points · by tortilla · 3 comments
• Carnegie Mellon Bio-Inkjet Printer Creates Muscle and Bone · 34 points · by Flemlord · 3 comments
• Charity: Who Cares? A Visual Guide to Giving · 34 points · by alexandros · 23 comments
• Picol, a Tcl interpreter in 550 lines of C · 32 points · by jdp · 1 comment
• Re: Linux Date Command gives wrong year with +%g · 31 points · by billpg · 13 comments
• Ask HN: Review my holiday project · 30 points · by kd5bjo · 34 comments
• Using Rare Words to Estimate Search Engine Index Sizes · 29 points · by fauigerzigerk · 4 comments
• The most useful packages in Go · 28 points · by marketer · 1 comment
• Apply game mechanics to your app (video) · 28 points · by macmac · 7 comments
• Top-Down operator precedence parsing · 27 points · by mnemonik · 9 comments
• The worst case scenario happening when starting a company · 27 points · by maxklein · 13 comments
• SandForce SSD controller beats Intel X-25M by compressing data before storing · 26 points · by Alex3917 · 18 comments
• Set your code free · 26 points · by mcantelon · 28 comments
• Towards a new entrepreneurship · 25 points · by dshah · 4 comments
• Does the brain like ebooks? · 24 points · by yannis · 14 comments
• Kevin Mitnick's business card is a lock picking set · 23 points · by 3ds · 6 comments
• An Unfinished Idea: Open Source Code Review As A Social Game · 22 points · by twampss · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Hacker CEOs, what do you use for number crunching? · 18 points · by xal · 1 comment
• Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers · 17 points · by timr · 11 comments
• Things startups do and don't need · 16 points · by neilc · 22 comments
• Creating Movies with PyPlot / PyLab · 16 points · by TriinT · no comments
• Hottest IT skills for 2010 · 15 points · by Sandman · 13 comments
• Ask HN: Phone Support Number for Startups · 15 points · by kyro · 16 comments
• Harsh lessons we may need to learn again · 15 points · by bensummers · 14 comments
• LinkedIn Wants Users to Connect More · 15 points · by grellas · 17 comments
• BSD and Linux Differences · 14 points · by liangzan · 6 comments
• Programmers Should Invest · 13 points · by mojuba · 18 comments
• How to Achieve Painless Registration · 12 points · by latif · 9 comments
• Working with Java Arrays - Clojure · 12 points · by bgray · no comments
• Turning down the noise in the blogosphere · 11 points · by helwr · no comments
• What Traffic is on a TOR Relay? · 11 points · by vnutz · no comments
• Google and India Test the Limits of Liberty · 11 points · by kareemm · no comments
• On the new french piracy law and fixing old media · 10 points · by fredoliveira · no comments
• Decision theory and the Underpants bomber · 10 points · by wallflower · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Any Internet retailers of physical goods here? · 9 points · by retailnewb · 4 comments
• Namebench: Google’s 20% Project To Find The Fastest DNS Server · 8 points · by azharcs · 2 comments
• Lessons learned from learning new programming languages · 8 points · by r11t · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Best way to learn C · 8 points · by jrichter · 13 comments
• CKAN: the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network · 8 points · by mcantelon · no comments
• 2009 Ruby Survey Results · 8 points · by liangzan · no comments
• Attractor demo in Javascript · 7 points · by dhotson · 7 comments
• TechCrunch List Of Top Tech Products 2009 · 7 points · by shmichael · 1 comment
• Ten Technologies That Will Rock 2010 · 7 points · by ajaimk · 3 comments
• An Undocumented Princetonian · 7 points · by robg · 1 comment
• OCZ's Vertex 2 Pro Preview: The Fastest MLC SSD We've Ever Tested · 7 points · by blasdel · 3 comments
• Disneyland with the Death Penalty · 6 points · by b-man · no comments
• Ask PG: Could you please reduce multi-downvoting by same person? · 6 points · by amichail · 19 comments
• The Essential Startup Reader: 10 Lessons In Entrepreneurship · 6 points · by hshah · 1 comment
• Mathematical Basis of Hallucinations · 6 points · by orborde · no comments
• Computer Vision Video Lectures · 5 points · by marshallp · 1 comment
• Why Apple Was My Company of The Decade by Om Malik of GigaOM · 5 points · by hshah · no comments
• Set bite-sized goals · 5 points · by mboyle · no comments
• Making College ‘Relevant’ · 5 points · by robg · 1 comment
• VOIP + Cloud = Better Political Campaigns · 5 points · by michaelrkn · 8 comments
• The Nature of the Firm · 4 points · by 10ren · no comments
• Ask HN: Should newbie programmers invest there time in new Languages? · 4 points · by rick_2047 · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Functions: how long is too long? · 4 points · by blintson · 12 comments
• Iran Wages War on its 'Star Students' · 4 points · by paulcaron · no comments
• Ask HN: Getting a grip on economics · 4 points · by nopassrecover · 8 comments
• Bill Gates' Workflow (2006) · 4 points · by jackchristopher · no comments
• The Tarantino Mixtape · 3 points · by J3L2404 · no comments
• Aspiring web developer ends up homeless in San Francisco · 3 points · by anigbrowl · no comments
• "I Hoped You Would Fail" · 3 points · by melito · 3 comments
• Hot startups to watch in 2010 - Scoble · 3 points · by moses1400 · no comments
• Facial Recognition Door Lock and Time Clock for Less than $500 · 3 points · by kkleiner · no comments
• HN Suggestion: "add comment and upvote" button? · 3 points · by bkbleikamp · 1 comment
• My poorly remembered and partially imagined predictions from Jan 1, 2000 · 3 points · by joshstaiger · no comments
• Ask HN: Great programming books you read in 2009? · 3 points · by programmer7 · 3 comments
• Libcpu x86 front-end · 3 points · by penberg · no comments
• Moon Hole Might be Suitable for Colony · 3 points · by DanielBMarkham · 1 comment
• Blogger's rights · 3 points · by hvasishth · 1 comment
• Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce · 3 points · by Arsene · no comments
• You Don’t Mean Average, You Mean Median · 3 points · by kareemm · no comments
• How many of you are looking for your next startup? · 3 points · by DanBlake · 2 comments
• The Decade's Top Quotations · 2 points · by bia · no comments
• Mag+ Prototype for a Digital Magazine · 2 points · by paulitex · no comments
• Ask HN: Please suggest a good CMS for a freelance journalist · 2 points · by digamber_kamat · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Please post your Arduino goodness · 2 points · by ErrantX · no comments
• What's your site's users' bandwidth? · 2 points · by bluesmoon · no comments
• Stay Productive - A guide to indirect productivity · 2 points · by bpick · no comments
• On issues like global warming and evolution, scientists need to speak up · 2 points · by tokenadult · 2 comments
• Blogscope · 2 points · by riffer · 1 comment
• What would you like to see in eCommerce software? · 2 points · by leftnode · no comments
• Ask HN: What does your workflow look like? · 2 points · by quizbiz · no comments
• Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration · 2 points · by Arsene · no comments
• Creating value through negotiation · 2 points · by KentBeck · no comments
• Ask HN: In terms of the economy, are we any better off than in Sept of 2006? · 2 points · by csmeder · 2 comments
• Getting Things Done: An Entrepreneurial Prerequisite · 2 points · by lrm242 · no comments
• AT&T wants out of landline business · 1 points · by elptacek · no comments
• Why Gowalla and Foursquare are kicking Google’s ass – The check-in model · 1 points · by dirtyaura · no comments
• Floating in the Digital Experience · 1 points · by asnyder · no comments
• About Open Source Stewardship · 1 points · by zapnap · no comments
• “Modern browsers” nearly doubled in 2009; IE6 lost 38% of its user base · 1 points · by mwsherman · no comments
• Causation and Hill’s Criteria · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Usability Post gets a redesign · 1 points · by taitems · no comments
• How Geeks (and Non-Geeks) Can Help Iranians Online · 1 points · by yters · no comments
• Antacid Tablet: Expect the expected from Apple · 1 points · by blasdel · 1 comment
• XML Namespaces: naming instances vs types · 1 points · by 10ren · no comments
• A public service announcement on decades. · 1 points · by blasdel · no comments
• 2010 with a Tin Foil Hat · 1 points · by franciscocosta · no comments
• US Startups with Immigrant Founders Wiki · 1 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• Hotel WiFi Should Be a Right, Not a Luxury · 1 points · by ajaimk · 1 comment
• TenYears: The Biggest Product Flops of the Decade · 1 points · by ajaimk · no comments
• Cultured Perl: Flickr, a business's bst frnd · 1 points · by draegtun · no comments
• Introvert's Paradise · 1 points · by Klondike · no comments
• CanvasDemos - Applications and tutorials for the HTML5 canvas element · 1 points · by superberliner · no comments
• Apple competitors betting tablets will take off · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Candy to the Imagination, a Day Trip to Manhattan · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Reality Check: Blogs Haven’t Lost Their Mojo · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Beyond traditional bank loans, specifically for small business · 1 points · by Cinnamon · no comments
• Heads you win, tails... you win. You can beat the toss of a coin & here's how · 1 points · by alexjmann · 1 comment
• Can Microfinance Make It in America? · 1 points · by smharris65 · no comments
• Posterous API: A wishlist · 1 points · by gtracy · no comments
• The Intoxication of "Greatness" · 1 points · by jordancooper · no comments
• OnLive 48 Mins Video Demonstration · 1 points · by oneplusone · no comments
• The Existential Crisis of Magazines Online · 1 points · by _pius · no comments
• Perfect principles are for bargaining · 1 points · by mnemonik · no comments
• A Computer Scientist's View of Life, the Universe, and Everything · 1 points · by primodemus · no comments
• Audi e-tron: Taking the e-train · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• Detect language of a string with MacRuby · 1 points · by ivey · no comments
• Mortgage Modifications Are Seen as Adding to Housing Woes · 1 points · by kmod · no comments
• What bloggers need is a union · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• 2009's Most Obvious Discoveries · 1 points · by ivey · no comments
• Full Disclojure on Vimeo · 1 points · by bgray · no comments
• Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Chrome overtakes Safari to become #3 browser · 1 points · by anigbrowl · no comments
• The Mobile Challenge · 1 points · by iamwil · no comments
• Web tools aim to open the gates to academic research · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Small Tips and Blips To Create Your Brand · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• What Startups can learn from Lady Gaga · 1 points · by gosuri · 5 comments
• YouTube's Top Launches of 2009 · 1 points · by shmichael · no comments
• Is Google planning to launch a tablet of their own? · 1 points · by anderzole · no comments
• Rumored Chrome OS Tablet · 1 points · by charlesmarshall · no comments
• Negativity: A flaming bag of crap on the entrepreneur's porch · 1 points · by mboyle · no comments
• 15 Reasons To Live For The Next 10 Years · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• Concern as China clamps down on rare earth exports · 1 points · by mcantelon · no comments
• The Palestinian Perspective (Google Tech Talks) · 1 points · by touseefliaqat · no comments
• Spam Trapping · 0 points · by ivey · no comments