Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Balsamiq Makes 1.6 Million with 70% Profit in 2009 · 262 points · by nsoonhui · 122 comments
• Intel's "cripple AMD" function · 212 points · by kierank · 80 comments
• How to convert email addresses into name, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation · 144 points · by maxklein · 64 comments
• The most under-hyped, but most important, technology since seat belts · 115 points · by MaysonL · 134 comments
• Wooden Combination Lock · 109 points · by J3L2404 · 5 comments
• Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke · 82 points · by benl · 1 comment
• You Should Waste 50% of Your Time · 69 points · by timf · 10 comments
• 10 predictions for the world of January 1, 2020 · 68 points · by peter123 · 73 comments
• The Craziest F***ing Bug I've Ever Seen · 68 points · by wycats · 26 comments
• Why Save MySQL Now? · 64 points · by jp_sc · 49 comments
• NASA uses GIT as the SCM for their Open Projects · 60 points · by laktek · 11 comments
• Why Self-Discipline Is Overrated · 59 points · by anuleczka · 13 comments
• Twenty years on Japan is still paying its bubble-era bills · 52 points · by pg · 26 comments
• Ask HN: review my app - a minimalist's to-do organizer · 51 points · by k7d · 47 comments
• How to Run a Meeting Like Google · 45 points · by Flemlord · 19 comments
• It is unquestionably the future · 41 points · by Eliezer · 15 comments
• The next big thing will start out looking like a toy · 41 points · by prakash · 20 comments
• DjangoCon Talk Videos Starting to Go Up · 39 points · by kingkilr · 4 comments
• Ask HN: How good are freelance programming sites? · 39 points · by gnosis · 14 comments
• The Elements - A Perfect Coffee Table Book for Nerds · 38 points · by 3pt14159 · 9 comments
• Interesting Technologies for Web App Developers in 2010 · 37 points · by laktek · no comments
• Mathematics behind Hadoop-based systems · 35 points · by nathanmarz · 1 comment
• The clothes don't make the man (boy) · 34 points · by bootload · 31 comments
• Is There Any Doubt That Gov Chooses the Winners? · 34 points · by euroclydon · 7 comments
• Jison: Bison in JavaScript · 31 points · by mnemonik · 5 comments
• Using Clojure Incanter with MongoDB · 31 points · by macmac · no comments
• Using WIP branches to save every edit · 30 points · by rlm · 10 comments
• I Love the GPL (Except When it Applies to Me) · 29 points · by blasdel · 45 comments
• A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts · 28 points · by latif · 6 comments
• Understanding and dealing with overbearing Asian parents · 28 points · by rglovejoy · 16 comments
• Ask HN: Weekend update -- What weekend projects are you up to? · 27 points · by sunir · 49 comments
• When programmers are real programmers or just know how to do it dudes · 26 points · by snitko · 19 comments
• Thoughts On Becoming Self-Sufficient and Defeating Personal Homelessness · 26 points · by colinprince · 12 comments
• Why content sites are getting ripped off · 25 points · by akshat · 9 comments
• HN Request: Please add links to comment threads to @newsycombinator posts · 23 points · by kortina · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Seeking a cofounder · 21 points · by chrischen · 43 comments
• Peter Michaux: Living an xkcd Cartoon · 21 points · by mnemonik · 5 comments
• Scheme Videos (Lectures and Talks) · 20 points · by fogus · 1 comment
• Why "trending topics" are so spectacularly useless · 20 points · by sdfx · 9 comments
• A Backup Solution? · 19 points · by wglb · 24 comments
• Fred Wilson: Affiliate Marketing Undervalues The Link · 18 points · by stakent · 24 comments
• A Fruitful Decade for Many in the World · 18 points · by cwan · 3 comments
• Zynga Investor Calls Scamville Debate Irrelevant And Unfair · 18 points · by peter123 · 3 comments
• The Science Behind Failed Resolutions · 18 points · by robg · 4 comments
• A decade's worth of IPv4 addresses · 18 points · by r11t · 6 comments
• Google and HTC Working On a Chrome OS Tablet · 17 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• New Ways to Make Money Online · 15 points · by ojbyrne · 5 comments
• Pedantry isn't boring – it's essential · 14 points · by blasdel · 6 comments
• Why Twitter Will Endure · 14 points · by robg · 32 comments
• Can you private message peeps on Hacker News? · 14 points · by trixjo · 23 comments
• Now Ruby(MRI) has dtrace support · 14 points · by r11t · 6 comments
• Principles for a Black Swan-Proof World (.PDF) · 12 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Lessons learned launching our first product · 12 points · by zyang · no comments
• Data Explosion Remakes Retailing · 10 points · by ashley · no comments
• Magnetic Bearings That House Their Own Controls · 10 points · by AndrewWarner · 4 comments
• The surprising history of copyright and the promise of a post-copyright world · 9 points · by arto · no comments
• Use Carbon to send events to a background app · 9 points · by J3L2404 · 1 comment
• Impact of 'iSlate' Could Rival iPhone · 9 points · by physcab · 16 comments
• Google Nexus One Hands On (with Video) · 7 points · by marcamillion · 1 comment
• Message in a Bottle (2007) · 7 points · by latif · no comments
• Martial Arts for Geeks? · 7 points · by weak-geek · 6 comments
• 'Oldest' computer music unveiled [2008] · 7 points · by paulgerhardt · 2 comments
• Bitly.tv; "See what the world is watching" · 6 points · by mahmud · 2 comments
• 2010 List of Surprises and Predictions · 6 points · by jboydyhacker · 1 comment
• Cloud Computing Instrumental in IT Recovery for 2010 · 6 points · by havoyan · 2 comments
• Victorian Infographics · 6 points · by mshafrir · no comments
• Hilbert’s Second Problem, Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems... · 5 points · by fogus · no comments
• Project Stack Push/Pop · 5 points · by telemachos · 2 comments
• Get your Github news feed in Tweetie · 5 points · by technoweenie · no comments
• Data geeks: I need data on musical acts. Where to look? · 5 points · by sheraz · 2 comments
• How the leopard got its spots · 5 points · by alecst · no comments
• InDefero - Issue tracking, code review, source browser for git, hg and svn · 5 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Redesigning the boarding pass · 5 points · by whalesalad · 1 comment
• Bono's Ten for the Next Ten · 5 points · by griftah · 3 comments
• Googlle Opens A School In India. Wait. Read That Name Again. · 4 points · by vaksel · no comments
• The world doesn't need an Apple tablet, or any other · 4 points · by jacquesm · 7 comments
• Hackers Weigh In: 8 Big Things to Do with a Mini Server · 4 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• A year without getting into a car · 4 points · by NonEUCitizen · no comments
• For Some of Japan’s Jobless, Homes Just 5 Feet Wide · 4 points · by timr · no comments
• Daniel Suarez - Daemon: Bot-Mediated Reality · 4 points · by nir · 2 comments
• A status theory of blog commentary · 4 points · by mnemonik · no comments
• Scheduling Algorithms for Procrastinators [Google Docs PDF] · 4 points · by bkudria · no comments
• Optimizing HTML · 4 points · by nreece · no comments
• Ask HN: What do you think about this idea? · 3 points · by mfalcon · 6 comments
• The Arrogant VC: Why VCs are disliked by entrepreneurs, Part 2 · 3 points · by peter123 · no comments
• What Were the Science Breakthroughs of 2009? · 3 points · by kadavy · no comments
• On Failure · 3 points · by elliottkember · no comments
• Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons' · 3 points · by tdedecko · 1 comment
• Brainhacking: How to Learn 2000 Japanese Characters In A Month · 3 points · by najafali · 1 comment
• Gretl: Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library · 3 points · by mahmud · 1 comment
• Google's evil policy on shutting down blogs · 3 points · by petewarden · 1 comment
• Ask HN: I have the domain hackerbrain - what would you like to see on it? · 3 points · by adrianwaj · 4 comments
• JILL - Java Implementation of Lua Language · 3 points · by r11t · no comments
• The USA has little to lose by confronting China's trade polices · 3 points · by rodyancy · 1 comment
• Designing Software For Social Traction · 3 points · by r11t · no comments
• Smile You've got cancer · 3 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• China seizes 8,500 tonnes of smuggled waste tires from U.S. · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Books of the Decade · 2 points · by kadavy · no comments
• What Should We Teach Software Developers · 2 points · by AlfredTwo · no comments
• Researchers develop tiny autonomous piezoelectric energy harvester · 2 points · by ashley · no comments
• Nexus One rooted. · 2 points · by chanux · no comments
• Airport Security Is a Computer Problem · 2 points · by thinkcomp · no comments
• Pimp my programming language · 2 points · by bootload · no comments
• How fault tolerant is your team? · 2 points · by blackcat786 · no comments
• Ask HN: Where is the Tivo social network? · 2 points · by conquest · 2 comments
• How we handle real time alerting on large server log datasets · 2 points · by dmytton · no comments
• Top Things to Know About Amazon RDS · 2 points · by meddah · no comments
• 7 Tools To Optimize The Speed of Your Website · 2 points · by merrick33 · no comments
• Side Effects of Simple · 2 points · by swies · no comments
• Is vim just for programmers? - vim_use · 2 points · by UsNThem · no comments
• Mandelbrot Set in Python · 2 points · by Rod · no comments
• Gemcutter's top 110 Ruby Gems · 2 points · by r11t · no comments
• Statistics about Palestinian · 1 points · by touseefliaqat · no comments
• The fundamental energy advances of the past 12 months · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Census uses partnerships to count hard-to-reach people · 1 points · by s-phi-nl · no comments
• When To Rewrite · 1 points · by fogus · no comments
• Momentum and The Web · 1 points · by mnemonik · no comments
• Marketing Inbound · 1 points · by laktek · no comments
• The Falcon Programming Language · 1 points · by JakeIsAVirus · no comments
• MC Escher come to life: Mouse eating plant pic · 1 points · by rjurney · no comments
• Pbzip2, how do I love thee? · 1 points · by timf · no comments
• What not to worry about in the 2010s · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• PXZ - Parallel LZMA compressor · 1 points · by wmf · no comments
• Technologies That Will Rock 2010 · 1 points · by r5416 · no comments
• Walking a hay maze: unintended exploitable data hidden in plain sight · 1 points · by icefox · no comments
• Can music predict the stock market? · 1 points · by ankeshk · no comments
• Programming in a Vacuum · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• How to set up the ideal Wordpress PHP development environment in Eclipse · 1 points · by jedwhite · no comments
• The E-commerce Framework · 1 points · by martinnormark · no comments
• Magnetic Memory · 1 points · by wistech · no comments
• Elastic Lists for Movies - Please review.. · 1 points · by cosmok · 1 comment
• Five Quick New Year Resolutions for Designers and Developers · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• The 3 phases of the web: browsing, searching, recommending. · 1 points · by erikstarck · no comments
• Is program proving viable and useful? · 1 points · by samstokes · no comments
• Smart phone apps can find you, follow you · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Meet the lipstick entrepreneur · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions · 1 points · by quizbiz · no comments
• Californians have the opportunity to fix state · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Ludicrous Bear Story, We Don't Get the Net · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Startup Engineers: Learning the Core · 1 points · by kleinsch · no comments
• You Are Not a Gadget · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• How to Crack the Self-Awareness Paradigm · 1 points · by quizbiz · no comments
• Anthropogenic Biomes: A Framework for Ecology & Earth Science · 1 points · by shewbrid · no comments
• Mind Reading · 1 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Some thoughts on content distribution · 1 points · by jgorauskas · no comments
• 'Ties' helps track down errors from large Rails logs · 1 points · by JangoSteve · no comments
• The Web Designer Wheel · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• "Die Gedanken Sind Frei": Free Software and the Struggle for Free Thought · 1 points · by bitdiddle · 1 comment
• Using Thunderbird 3 for Todo Lists · 1 points · by leibniz · no comments
• Evaluating Tools for Developing with SOAP in Python · 1 points · by gthank · no comments
• Cognitive Biases, Positive Black Swan Events and Startups · 1 points · by stakent · no comments
• Forget RIAS, I want native/web hybrids · 1 points · by g0atbutt · no comments
• Top Ten Digital M&A Deals For 2010 · 1 points · by langer · no comments
• Siracusa: Antacid tablet · 1 points · by tvon · no comments
• A Systemic Problem with Sales Attribution · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Tokyo Cabinet as a Key-Value Store · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• A defense of the GPL · 1 points · by r11t · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What are the best services to promote young musicians? · 1 points · by BerislavLopac · no comments
• Suggest HN: Standard file locations for website info · 1 points · by fnid · 1 comment
• Embed images in stylesheets · 1 points · by meddah · no comments
• Beating the Sunk Cost Fallacy · 1 points · by pmichaud · no comments
• Patented: Resolution of abbreviated text in an electronic communications system · 1 points · by fauigerzigerk · no comments
• How to unlock the bootloader on your Nexus One · 1 points · by whalesalad · no comments
• Coupons for Overnight Prints. Save on Bcards · 1 points · by cgherb911 · 1 comment
• The Cut Scene - Video Game Blog by Variety on Variety.com · 1 points · by billpg · no comments
• 7 Ways to Improve your Public Speaking (at web conferences) · 1 points · by jot · no comments
• MyPay demonstrates how not to do good security user experience . · 1 points · by olefoo · no comments
• Working With People Who Make You Uncomfortable (by Mike Speiser) · 1 points · by dennykmiu · 1 comment
• The CIA's not-for-profit Venture Capital Firm · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• Incoming U.S. fliers from 14 countries now to be patted down and fully searched · 1 points · by _pius · no comments