Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Personalized Porn [SFW] · 238 points · by blackswan · 62 comments
• Middle school evacuated because of a science project · 126 points · by georgecmu · 101 comments
• No Comment · 108 points · by EricBurnett · 65 comments
• Dear Flash plugin, love OSX · 99 points · by g0atbutt · 65 comments
• Making A Living (Barely) On The iPhone App Store (aka The Numbers Post) · 87 points · by adamhowell · 16 comments
• Not enough women are arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks · 87 points · by AndrewDucker · 88 comments
• The Men Who Live Forever · 62 points · by chaostheory · 26 comments
• The lost script: 1000-year-old African/Arabic writing system · 53 points · by davi · 17 comments
• The girl who conned the Ivy League · 52 points · by Fixnum · 18 comments
• Programming with proportional fonts is great · 48 points · by brokenmusic · 50 comments
• Ask PG & HN: Hardware VCs · 46 points · by ComputerGuru · 16 comments
• Yahoo knew of attacks before Google, kept mum · 45 points · by briansmith · 27 comments
• Cool Augmented Reality App for Fixing Cars · 44 points · by mishmax · 14 comments
• Chaining vs. Nesting · 43 points · by frankus · 19 comments
• JQuery moved from Google Groups to Zoho Forum · 41 points · by scorpion032 · 25 comments
• Data Sorcery with Clojure · 37 points · by va_coder · no comments
• The Best Hiring Tip · 36 points · by alizaki · 26 comments
• Brian Williams: Why Jon Stewart Is Good For News · 35 points · by jonmc12 · 11 comments
• Send the ISS to Mars · 34 points · by tocomment · 19 comments
• The repetitive and boring gameplay in WoW is probably intentional. · 34 points · by amichail · 37 comments
• A global fiasco brewing in Japan. (Will the US follow?) · 32 points · by cwan · 45 comments
• How Netflix loaded 1 billion rows into SimpleDB · 32 points · by petewarden · 16 comments
• A Simply Neat Example of Function Pointers in C · 31 points · by ilovecomputers · 22 comments
• Google vs. Apple · 31 points · by k7d · 23 comments
• How to Take a Caffeine Nap · 30 points · by feint · 20 comments
• Charts & Graphics: 10 excellent books · 30 points · by Anon84 · 4 comments
• "No Waiting Room" and Queuing Theory · 28 points · by bensummers · 7 comments
• DARPA: U.S. Geek Shortage Is National Security Risk · 26 points · by cwan · 28 comments
• Howto: Mac OSX on KVM · 25 points · by garply · 13 comments
• Review of Let over Lambda by Doug Hoyte · 24 points · by vii · 3 comments
• Does length matter? It does for video · 24 points · by gsaines · 2 comments
• Reasons to Ditch Your Digital SLR · 21 points · by cwan · 23 comments
• Daring blogger tests the limits in China · 19 points · by cwan · 9 comments
• Google upgrading to Ext4, hires former Linux Foundation CTO · 19 points · by ez77 · 3 comments
• We need to talk about email clients. · 18 points · by bensummers · 44 comments
• Ubuntu primes music service · 17 points · by RK · 6 comments
• This winter break, I built a python-powered robot telescope. · 16 points · by substack · 1 comment
• Deploying Sinatra On Ubuntu: In Which I Employ A Secretary · 15 points · by stakent · 10 comments
• Moscow police were sold fake CCTV cameras, streaming recordings. · 15 points · by mahmud · 7 comments
• Randy Pausch: Really achieving your childhood dreams · 15 points · by richardburton · 8 comments
• ‘Airline pilot’ protocols in finance · 15 points · by jakarta · 2 comments
• The Air Umbrella · 15 points · by delano · 11 comments
• The Aurora IE Exploit That Penetrated Google in Action · 14 points · by Prefect · 2 comments
• Great Engineers - where are they? · 14 points · by prakash · 20 comments
• Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle · 12 points · by spivey · 7 comments
• Google Plans To Buy Its Way Into Real Estate · 12 points · by fjabre · 2 comments
• The IE exploit used to hack google · 11 points · by y0ghur7_xxx · 3 comments
• YelpSquare · 11 points · by jonsteinberg · 3 comments
• Open Source Entrepreneurship · 11 points · by jonsteinberg · no comments
• The Chocolate Scientists · 11 points · by chrislloyd · 1 comment
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow · 10 points · by thristian · 2 comments
• The dangers of a high-information diet · 9 points · by muon · 5 comments
• The Invisible Things Lab's blog: Another TXT Attack · 9 points · by stakent · 5 comments
• Fred Wilson: The Quandary · 9 points · by stakent · 4 comments
• OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty, Walks Free · 9 points · by onoj · 4 comments
• German government warns against using MS Explorer · 9 points · by nice1 · no comments
• Ask HN: please review my website (textbook reviews) · 9 points · by needthebook · 6 comments
• Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns · 8 points · by shin_lao · no comments
• Options for Parallel Compression · 8 points · by wglb · 1 comment
• China begins massive monitoring/censoring of SMS traffic · 8 points · by mcantelon · 8 comments
• Ruby Fibonacci Shootout · 7 points · by vthakr · 13 comments
• Reflecting on our "SourceSafe Must Die" Campaign · 7 points · by bensummers · 1 comment
• How The EFF Lost Its Way By Defending Hate Mongers And Tunnel Rats · 7 points · by vijayr · 2 comments
• Developer Must Haves · 7 points · by adrianwaj · 8 comments
• VMware Adds Zimbra: The Q&A · 7 points · by prakash · 7 comments
• Ask HN: Is the SSL/Certificate Authority business a scam? · 7 points · by olalonde · 10 comments
• Haiti: OSM and Sat Imagery for Free iPhone App · 7 points · by ortelius · 2 comments
• Small by Choice, Whether Clients Like It or Not · 6 points · by jteo · no comments
• Voices of the ancients · 6 points · by baha_man · no comments
• Postabon (NYC, lisp-based, startup) is hiring a front-end dev · 6 points · by smanek · no comments
• A proof that penguins rule the universe · 6 points · by infinity · no comments
• Looking back at Hotwired · 5 points · by access_denied · no comments
• Innovation and startups: Ten lessons from my days at Valve · 5 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• Stifling Innovation · 5 points · by johnl · 1 comment
• Cocoa/Lisp Tutorial · 5 points · by wglb · 1 comment
• Naïve Parallelization: C++ (OpenMP) and Haskell · 5 points · by dons · no comments
• Should we encourage self-promotion and lies? · 5 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Google Go : A Primer · 4 points · by jim_lawless · no comments
• Jules Verne Was (Almost) Right · 4 points · by epall · 1 comment
• Research: Even obviously manipulative compliments are remarkably effective · 4 points · by ankeshk · no comments
• Ask HN: Education Reform Movies? · 4 points · by rick_2047 · 3 comments
• Setting up backups with tarsnap · 4 points · by streety · no comments
• 24 Questions for Elementary Physics · 4 points · by pieceofpeace · no comments
• PSP Go introduced into in-flight entertainment · 4 points · by computinggeek · no comments
• Ask PG: Why has fallentimes fallen off the leaderboard? · 4 points · by jgrahamc · 3 comments
• Carnegie Mellon's Never Ending Language Learner · 4 points · by prat · 1 comment
• Eliminating the Need for Search · 4 points · by prakash · no comments
• Start with Output · 4 points · by fogus · no comments
• Justice Scalia and Orthogonality in an Oral Argument · 4 points · by saikat · no comments
• How to brag · 4 points · by robg · no comments
• The state of Haskell-Torrent · 4 points · by voxcogitatio · no comments
• Big Fat Lies with Gary Taubes · 3 points · by acangiano · no comments
• Ask HN: Your favorite guide/learn-to · 3 points · by ThinkWriteMute · 4 comments
• German Government: Stop Using Internet Explorer · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• Misdirected cookies? · 3 points · by sutro · no comments
• Yahoo's Plan for the Social Web in 2010 · 3 points · by suprgeek · no comments
• Computers and Mathematics: Problems & Prospects by Ron Graham · 3 points · by Technophilis · no comments
• U.S. Keeps Science Lead, But Other Countries Gain · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• Ask HN: How to become an escrow service provider? · 3 points · by tupsi · no comments
• Buy Virtual Corn in Farmville and Donate Real Food to Haiti · 3 points · by koolkid · 1 comment
• Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up. · 3 points · by geeko · no comments
• Ask HN: Kindle v/s ipod touch · 3 points · by digamber_kamat · 9 comments
• Excellent infographic about App Store metrics · 3 points · by tomh · no comments
• How to add your blog in Technorati & What are the benefits · 3 points · by hiralove · 1 comment
• Schneier on Security: Fixing Intelligence Failures · 3 points · by stakent · no comments
• Network flaw causes scary Web error · 3 points · by gibsonf1 · 2 comments
• Nike Launches Impressive Hyper-Local iPhone App · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame. · 3 points · by niyazpk · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Interesting software jobs in Chicago? · 3 points · by chicagoan · 2 comments
• Exploring real-time Haiti USGS Earthquake data [...] using Python · 3 points · by jcsalterego · no comments
• Penalty Clauses and the Nexus One · 3 points · by saikat · no comments
• Silicon Prairie News - Highlighting entrepreneurs on the Silicon Prairie · 3 points · by dustyd · no comments
• The value of a point · 3 points · by EricBurnett · 3 comments
• Boston Arcology Is a Climate Change-Ready Floating Mega-Structure · 3 points · by fjabre · 1 comment
• Recession Special: NASA cuts space shuttle price · 3 points · by profquail · no comments
• Mathematics in India · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Scientists turn stem cells into pork · 2 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• Facebook Now Running Virus Scans on Users' PCs · 2 points · by paulgerhardt · 2 comments
• Complaints rolling in about Google Nexus One · 2 points · by Flemlord · 1 comment
• Willow Garage to Give Away 10 PR2 Robots · 2 points · by beambot · no comments
• "Aurora" exploit in Google Attack Now Public · 2 points · by anderzole · no comments
• QT on Google Native Client · 2 points · by leoc · 4 comments
• Waterproof your gadgets on the cheap · 2 points · by NonEUCitizen · no comments
• The Cloud Elasticity Myth · 2 points · by pakistanjan · no comments
• Yahoo Was Also Targeted in Hacker Attack · 2 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Can Google Beat China? · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Homicide in Philadelphia as a Networked Process · 2 points · by agconway · no comments
• Code Used in Google Attack Now Public · 2 points · by mindplunge · 1 comment
• Xobni takes over Twitter's old offices · 2 points · by AndrewWarner · no comments
• About Integer Overflows · 2 points · by niyazpk · no comments
• Guide to testable code · 2 points · by digamber_kamat · no comments
• Youtube: Aurora Vulnerability Exploit (Attack on Google/Adobe) · 2 points · by Sejanus · no comments
• Rehabilitation beats punishment for Juveniles · 2 points · by j_baker · no comments
• Facebook's Version Of Retweets · 2 points · by vijaydev · no comments
• Staying connected in post-earthquake Haiti · 2 points · by wglb · no comments
• Javascript Regex Cheat Sheet · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Despite iPods and Walkmen, Rates of Hearing Loss Dropping · 2 points · by glidersan · no comments
• The Rsync Algorithm from author Andrew Tridgell [2000] · 2 points · by breck · 1 comment
• Only The Paranoid Are Scared Of TV Everywhere · 2 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• 'Electrosensitives' tortured by tower that had been switched off for 6 weeks · 2 points · by petewarden · no comments
• How would you fix the repetitive and boring gameplay of today's (MMO)RPGs? · 2 points · by amichail · 3 comments
• Don’t let another startup throw you off your game · 2 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Confessions of a Knowledge Worker · 2 points · by gengstrand · no comments
• Do you use desktop widgets? If so - what other than calendar & weather? · 2 points · by dell9000 · 3 comments
• 67% Say News Media Have Too Much Influence Over Government Decisions · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• The Open Dinosaur Project · 2 points · by d4ft · no comments
• German government warns against using MS Explorer · 2 points · by habs · no comments
• Santa Barbara Start Up that prevents Loss · 2 points · by cgherb911 · no comments
• Funding Innovation · 2 points · by tortilla · 1 comment
• Australia unveils new Cyber Security Operations Centre, 2400 attacks last year · 1 points · by catweasel · no comments
• Ask HN: Is QuikPitch as shady as it looks? · 1 points · by TrevorBurnham · 1 comment
• What is new in jQuery 1.4, features for a happy programming · 1 points · by pupunzi · no comments
• Free Google Voice Calls to Haiti · 1 points · by bgray · no comments
• Yelp Enables Check-Ins On Its iPhone App; Foursquare, Gowalla Ousted As Mayors · 1 points · by newhouseb · no comments
• VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding · 1 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• Infrastructure 2.0 In The News · 1 points · by pakistanjan · no comments
• FCC orders wireless mike changes to make room for next-gen wireless services · 1 points · by codyrobbins · no comments
• It is 6 minutes to midnight | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists · 1 points · by mcav · no comments
• Cloud Light Presents: Mr. Dump All Your Crap In the Cloud Guy · 1 points · by blasdel · no comments
• CES 2010 TV Trends - 3D, Ridiculously Thin and Connected · 1 points · by kmod · 1 comment
• China, where U.S. Internet companies often fail · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• By 2013, Phones Will Overtake PCs As Most Common Web Access Device · 1 points · by Flemlord · no comments
• Bing's URL shortener (binged.it) has a longer domain name than bing.com · 1 points · by chris24 · no comments
• Putting a price on the emotional benefits of having a pro sports team in town · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Apple vs. Google · 1 points · by baguasquirrel · no comments
• Lumix GF1 Fieldtest · 1 points · by tel · no comments
• I Have Talent · 1 points · by kingkilr · no comments
• Ask HN: Do darker pixels use less power? · 1 points · by walkon · 3 comments
• Yahoo knew of cyber attacks before Google · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Official post from Russia re their Oracle/Sun anti-monopoly investigation · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• C reference counting and you · 1 points · by nudded · no comments
• Attack code used to hack Google now public · 1 points · by alrex021 · no comments
• Don't forget about desktop security · 1 points · by stakent · no comments
• Adaption to the Shifting Economy · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Everything I need to know I learned from D&D · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Net neutrality and the economic value of the internet: lots of people · 1 points · by ashley · no comments
• U.S. Dethroning Russia as (Natural) Gas King · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Recursive Regular Expressions · 1 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Haiti: "Money is worth nothing right now; water is the currency" · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• God's control panel · 1 points · by anderzole · no comments
• The ‘Right Stuff’ to Be a Doctor · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Crisis Camp Haiti - Techies unite to help Haiti · 1 points · by niks · no comments
• Apple fights back: Seeks to ban all imports of Nokia phones · 1 points · by anderzole · no comments
• Monkey tool usage: Hammer and Anvil [video] · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Knowledge is out, focus is in, and people are everywhere · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Stack Overflow: New, Improved Comments with @reply · 1 points · by niyazpk · no comments
• OGF Open Cloud Computing Interface Spec · 1 points · by dizz · no comments
• Techies unite to brainstorm help for Haiti · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Foursquare is changing the world · 1 points · by Paton · no comments
• Hackers create tremors online by 'poisoning' Haiti quake searches · 1 points · by brennannovak · no comments
• Why you, why now? · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Tech changes and the entrepreneur: How to keep up · 1 points · by dennykmiu · 1 comment
• And thou shalt not discriminate ... · 1 points · by wael · no comments
• Attention deconcentration: on free diving and flow · 1 points · by edwardog · no comments
• Google and China: Silicon Valley Is No Longer King · 1 points · by kvs · 2 comments
• Advertising distilled: selling chances of user leaving your site · 1 points · by dirtyaura · no comments
• Funding innovation and various creative peaks · 1 points · by robg · 1 comment
• How To Add Captions To Your YouTube Videos · 1 points · by SmallBizBrief · no comments