Hacker News Way Back Machine

• What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google · 262 points · by davidw · 97 comments
• Show HN: My latest pet project, pydroid · 109 points · by meese_ · 50 comments
• Built By Google · 99 points · by stakent · 35 comments
• Paypal is evil · 99 points · by joshowens · 39 comments
• PHP Bug: #50696: number_format when passed a 0, returns null · 95 points · by chaostheory · 48 comments
• Philip Greenspun Visits Berkeley · 91 points · by rglovejoy · 71 comments
• A Democracy of Netbooks · 72 points · by Anon84 · 46 comments
• Don't Be A Hero · 68 points · by icey · 20 comments
• How much to charge for your Web App? · 68 points · by chanux · 36 comments
• The New Cavemen Lifestyle · 66 points · by rglovejoy · 64 comments
• The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A coming in hardcover later this year · 63 points · by michael_dorfman · 15 comments
• Electricity From WiFi Signals · 52 points · by ajaimk · 21 comments
• Apple Tablet Being Developed For HealthCare Industry · 49 points · by jasonwilk · 34 comments
• The case of the unbootable Mac mini · 48 points · by mshafrir · 18 comments
• Art vs. Computer Science · 47 points · by r11t · 37 comments
• How America Can Rise Again · 47 points · by robg · 22 comments
• Prisoners of Parole · 45 points · by frankus · 22 comments
• Pneumatic tube network at Stanford · 45 points · by gnosis · 9 comments
• Ask HN: What languages used to write computer languages? · 44 points · by gvb · 53 comments
• Hacking status (linked from an interesting HN discussion) · 44 points · by andrewljohnson · 17 comments
• Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Customs about Privacy are Evolving · 44 points · by niyazpk · 57 comments
• 100 most influential works in cognitive science of the 20th century · 42 points · by brennannovak · 16 comments
• Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing · 41 points · by mhb · 53 comments
• Quantum computer calculates exact energy of molecular hydrogen · 41 points · by acangiano · 21 comments
• Vitamin D deficiency increasingly common · 40 points · by cwan · 35 comments
• The college admissions scam · 40 points · by ilamont · 48 comments
• Product Discovery not Software Development · 39 points · by enki · 5 comments
• The Company That Paid $300K To Not Make Millions on Guitar Hero · 37 points · by ALee · 4 comments
• Lean Analytics For Startups · 36 points · by prakash · 6 comments
• Gore's Choice · 35 points · by adamhowell · 1 comment
• SSH Tunneling through web filters · 33 points · by r11t · 27 comments
• Google's Eric Schmidt on why bankers deserve little sympathy and Obama does · 32 points · by berrow · 29 comments
• Qb.js: An implementation of QBASIC in Javascript (part 1) · 30 points · by niyazpk · 11 comments
• The Case for Endless Oil · 29 points · by cwan · 33 comments
• The Copyright Bubble · 29 points · by earle · 1 comment
• Pirate Coelho · 28 points · by yannis · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Clojure best practice for web applications? · 28 points · by jacquesm · 10 comments
• Ask HN: Should one buy the N1 ? · 27 points · by Murkin · 60 comments
• Tex Source Code · 25 points · by dangoldin · 14 comments
• An Awesome Introduction to Program Verification with Coq · 24 points · by dons · 2 comments
• The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun [video] · 22 points · by lrm242 · 3 comments
• New evidence there may have been life on Mars · 20 points · by japaget · 5 comments
• 750 Words · 19 points · by ams1 · 28 comments
• Immigrants invest in U.S. businesses in exchange for visas · 17 points · by iamelgringo · 27 comments
• USB 3.0 SuperSpeed gone wild at CES 2010, trumps even your new SSD · 17 points · by jacquesm · 7 comments
• Tony Hsieh talks HR at Zappos · 17 points · by siculars · 1 comment
• There are very few good product, design, and marketing people in tech... · 16 points · by hshah · 3 comments
• How The EU Lets Startups Slip Through Its Fingers · 15 points · by dwynings · 4 comments
• There's no need for a new Xbox, says Microsoft · 15 points · by Flemlord · 8 comments
• Visualizing Your Commit History · 13 points · by patio11 · 1 comment
• An open letter to Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein · 13 points · by fredoliveira · 12 comments
• Slim’s Prototyping Station · 13 points · by gnosis · 3 comments
• Looking at registration patterns in Django · 13 points · by coleifer · no comments
• Is Google Good for History? · 12 points · by MaysonL · 1 comment
• "top" clone for MySQL · 12 points · by r11t · 8 comments
• Is It Worth Being Wise? · 12 points · by prakash · 6 comments
• My top blog content during 2009 · 11 points · by jgrahamc · 3 comments
• The Power of Magical Thinking · 11 points · by robg · 6 comments
• TechStars forces you to get great at presenting · 10 points · by TrevorBurnham · 5 comments
• Look Into My Eyes... · 10 points · by nonrecursive · 7 comments
• Haskell IO without monads · 9 points · by dons · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Does your lawyer attend your Board meetings? · 8 points · by jack7890 · 6 comments
• JSMeter Project · 8 points · by niyazpk · 8 comments
• Customer Development and the Lean Startup · 8 points · by nethergoat · no comments
• IEEE Spectrum: 25 Microchips That Shook the World · 8 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Wow, what a flickr stream · 7 points · by pkrumins · no comments
• The Americanization of Mental Illness · 7 points · by tokenadult · 3 comments
• IT headhunters considered harmful · 7 points · by j_baker · 1 comment
• Hadoop and Parallel Dataflow Programming · 7 points · by jhammerb · no comments
• Military Is Deluged in Intelligence From Drones · 7 points · by designtofly · no comments
• Ask HN: Review my new learning website: Crunch Course · 7 points · by imp · 11 comments
• On Language Design: Magic Variables in Compojure · 7 points · by jacquesm · 1 comment
• What Could Kill an Elegant, High-Value Participatory Project? · 6 points · by mnemonik · no comments
• Biased Locking in the JVM · 6 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Become a better programmer by taking a shower · 6 points · by leftnode · 7 comments
• Stealing is easy: being original is hard · 6 points · by bensummers · 1 comment
• Semi-Realtime Satellite Desktop Backgrounds · 5 points · by russss · no comments
• Bamboo Bicycles · 5 points · by NonEUCitizen · no comments
• Taking apart your answering machine won't tell you anything · 5 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Commit Facebook suicide with suicidemachine.org · 5 points · by po · no comments
• Is it time to reimagine your product / service? · 4 points · by aditya · no comments
• Low levels of vitamin D may explain higher death rates among blacks? · 4 points · by cwan · no comments
• How I learned to stop worrying and love static metaprogramming · 4 points · by gnosis · 1 comment
• Cable Cost are going High · 4 points · by huzail923 · 10 comments
• Current Crop of Smartphones: A Cost and Feature Comparison · 4 points · by r11t · 1 comment
• CES Chief Says That Obama Administration is Stifling Innovation · 4 points · by profquail · 8 comments
• HaXe - haXe Introduction · 3 points · by flashingpumpkin · 2 comments
• Electric saw detects fingers so it knows when to stop · 3 points · by ptn · 3 comments
• USGS Develops Twitter-Based Earthquake Detection System · 3 points · by siavosh · no comments
• 6.5 earthquake strikes off California coast · 3 points · by Technophilis · no comments
• Should I market my product right after launch? · 3 points · by prateekdayal · no comments
• Light Touch interactive projector turns any flat surface into a touchscreen #CES · 3 points · by jacopogio · no comments
• Forced to Innovate · 3 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Comparison: drawing straight lines on mobile touchscreens · 3 points · by mjs · no comments
• Ask HN: Is there a A/B- or multivariate testing solution for Google Adwords ads? · 3 points · by Sujan · 3 comments
• Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate 1 Officially Available for Download · 3 points · by kosofalla · no comments
• World's Greenest Homes: Hong Kong Space Saver : Video : Planet Green · 3 points · by thirdusername · no comments
• Ask HN: Desktop + Laptop, or just Laptop? · 3 points · by asnyder · 4 comments
• Cloud delusions at the turn of the decade · 3 points · by r11t · no comments
• Beerbotprime, a robot that might get you a date. · 3 points · by bsdpunk · no comments
• Stanford Magazine Article on Don Knuth: Love at First Byte (2006) · 3 points · by yarapavan · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Where to go to find good Django devs? · 3 points · by fjabre · 2 comments
• How Mark Pincus won best CEO at the Crunchies · 2 points · by langer · no comments
• Surviving a Job Promotion: when a developer is promoted to team lead · 2 points · by estherschindler · no comments
• When it makes sense to INCREASE Burn rates · 2 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• In Detroit, Entrepreneurs See Opportunity in Hard Times · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Belief in Hell makes economies grow · 2 points · by yters · 1 comment
• Acire: Delivering A World Of Python Snippets · 2 points · by J3L2404 · no comments
• 8% of Human Genetic Material Comes from a Virus · 2 points · by elptacek · 3 comments
• Boring Meetings? Get Out the Water Guns · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Treat Your Customers Like Children (or your Children like Customers) · 2 points · by stakent · no comments
• The geek's way of finding wallpapers that fit your screen resolution · 2 points · by archon810 · 2 comments
• Finding 'Beautiful' Symmetry Near Absolute Zero · 2 points · by rms · no comments
• You are your own(ly) limit. · 2 points · by bpick · 2 comments
• A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness · 2 points · by rms · no comments
• Why Low Overhead = Creative Mindset · 2 points · by ruang · no comments
• Ask HN: Any reason dead links can still be flagged? · 2 points · by mrduncan · 1 comment
• Apple tablet reps spotted at LA hospital · 2 points · by transburgh · 1 comment
• Telepathic Random Life with Electronic Psychedelics Paint Together · 2 points · by flamoot · no comments
• "Epic" Lean Startup Post - Customer Development and the Lean Startup · 2 points · by vlBeta · no comments
• Simon Peyton Jones on How to give a good research talk · 2 points · by vorador · no comments
• Formatting Multipart Formdata in Erlang · 2 points · by twampss · no comments
• Wireless power from WiFi · 2 points · by jamesjyu · 1 comment
• How far out can ET hear us? · 2 points · by Asmodeus · no comments
• Mozilla to abandon Firefox extensions? · 2 points · by computinggeek · no comments
• Book: Introduction to Economic Analysis. · 2 points · by mahmud · 1 comment
• Music recommendation algo in Gremlin using the live WebOfData and LinkedData · 2 points · by petern · no comments
• That Old College Lie · 2 points · by limist · 1 comment
• Search engine and Django · 2 points · by trusko · 2 comments
• Ask HN: How important is university ranking to CS PhD graduate opportunities? · 2 points · by anon_phd · 1 comment
• The Problems with Turning Civilization into Software · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Jump into freelancing Get your first job · 1 points · by kreci · no comments
• Torture Kids Instead (Robin Hanson) · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Settimeout.net: personal time-delayed RSS feed · 1 points · by samps · no comments
• Has the Internet Changed the Way We Think? · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• The Sport of Business · 1 points · by rob_r0 · 1 comment
• How to get the spark back (from an electronic musician) · 1 points · by henning · no comments
• Faith, Risk, and Uncertainty · 1 points · by epkann · 1 comment
• FCC Commissioners Pessimistic on Net-Neutrality Prospects? · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• India by way of London · 1 points · by bpick · no comments
• John Wooden on true success · 1 points · by 3dFlatLander · 1 comment
• German Spiegel on Google Goggles' Face Recognition and More · 1 points · by stakent · 1 comment
• Armin Ronacher: DVCS Ponies · 1 points · by stakent · 1 comment
• Cannondale's electronic suspension system, hands-on · 1 points · by siculars · 1 comment
• Firefox vs thunderbird · 1 points · by prasanth · no comments
• Touchless Mobile Interface · 1 points · by shmichael · no comments
• From Silicon Valley to Stockholm: Meeting the US Ambassador to Sweden · 1 points · by stse · no comments
• Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together · 1 points · by maheshs · no comments
• Date Your Ideas Before Going to Bed With Them · 1 points · by dwynings · no comments
• Why are we not making more use of the Internet to cope with Snow disruptions? · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Outsourced Thinking Is Today’s Biggest Problem · 1 points · by dwynings · no comments
• Steve Jobs Magazine Covers Through The Ages · 1 points · by sinzone · no comments
• Tell HN: Promote my iPhone app a little bit, and get it for free · 1 points · by andrewljohnson · no comments
• Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Survivor of 2 Atomic Blasts, Dies at 93 · 1 points · by Evgeny · 1 comment
• Why Google and Apple Win · 1 points · by mun411 · 1 comment
• We need a NEW really-Private sort-of-Facebook = · 1 points · by jacopogio · 3 comments
• Ford’s Bet: It’s a Small World After All · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Trend of the decade: Decentralized process · 1 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Metaprotocols: minimize restrictions on communication network evolution · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• The Dictated Blog Post · 1 points · by stakent · 1 comment
• Multicultural Critical Theory. At B-School? · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Ask HN: Which tools you use to develop your webapp? · 1 points · by pkc · 8 comments
• Weekend project: Schemaless Mongo ORM for Rails 3.0 · 1 points · by mantas · no comments
• Qbasic with Javascript · 1 points · by d4ft · no comments
• What is a Start up · 1 points · by OoTheNigerian · no comments
• Google's Nexus One and a Google Tax in France · 1 points · by drallison · no comments
• A Transforming Trend -- The Natural User Interface · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Unsolved Brain mysteries · 1 points · by anderzole · no comments
• Best Practices To Develop Perfect Websites for iPhone and Mobile Devices · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• The fear mongering security specialist · 1 points · by timurlenk · no comments
• How the Scientist Got His Ideas · 1 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Ask HN: Why didn't Ubuntu come up with the AppStore? · 1 points · by igorlev · 5 comments
• Angel Investor Term Sheet Evoution - HD video · 1 points · by basilpeters · no comments
• Spynet · 1 points · by spynet · no comments
• Software Category · 1 points · by jojo · no comments
• Secure Passwords sans SSL · 1 points · by jmonegro · 2 comments
• Write for Ten - write about anything for 10 minutes · 1 points · by jmonegro · no comments
• The Edge Annual Question 2010. How is the Internet changing the way you think? · 1 points · by tnai · no comments
• Nibbler · 1 points · by superberliner · no comments
• Location Does Not Matter | Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby · 1 points · by jackowayed · no comments
• Europe tying traffic fines to income level · 1 points · by lmkg · 3 comments
• How to be a good boss in bad times (May 2009) · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• How to solve the 36 Cube puzzle · 1 points · by danielh · no comments
• The Protein Debate (4-paper collection) · 1 points · by chipsy · no comments
• China Tries a New Tack to Go Solar · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Boston Consulting Group: Battery Costs will Stall Shift to Electric Vehicles · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Performance of ruby 1.9.1 string matching methods · 1 points · by termie · 1 comment
• Epidemiologist: How to Stop a Vampire Epidemic · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• The Coming Tornado: Cloud in the Enterprise · 1 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• Google's Nexus One phone: trouble in paradise? · 1 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• 'We could do better,'- Google open-source boss comes clean on Android · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Developer's experience augmenting reality on the iPhone · 1 points · by adamhowell · no comments