Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Learn from my misery: Don't buy a nook. · 178 points · by there · 59 comments
• _why the lucky stiff on The Setup · 116 points · by mickeyben · 39 comments
• Amplifying C · 112 points · by cesare · 43 comments
• Marine Heavy Gunner dev notes - 'Nobody picked up that it was a parody' · 102 points · by dan_sim · 30 comments
• Hello hypervisor, I'm geohot (PS3 hacked by the guy who hacked the iPhone) · 92 points · by aw3c2 · 17 comments
• How to Steal a Botnet · 92 points · by pkrumins · 22 comments
• Learning from Wakemate - Smart announcements · 90 points · by aditya · 30 comments
• Facebook Snatches User’s Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International · 83 points · by rms · 52 comments
• US states redrawn so as to have equal populations · 75 points · by pc · 34 comments
• Beware Developers: App Removed From App Store At Request of Competition · 71 points · by alex_c · 31 comments
• Richard Stallman on The Setup · 70 points · by mqt · 103 comments
• Secrets of Looking Good on the Dance Floor · 66 points · by mhb · 33 comments
• Why We Should Boycott ComScore · 64 points · by dchest · 15 comments
• WakeMate (YC S09) Shipping Delayed · 58 points · by dwynings · 55 comments
• Power corrupts, but it only corrupts those who think they deserve it. · 55 points · by cwan · 13 comments
• Video, Freedom And Mozilla · 55 points · by felixmar · 65 comments
• Activist ejected from "public" meeting on secret copyright treaty for tweeting · 53 points · by rms · 25 comments
• Paypal Freezes Wikileaks's Accounts (Scroll down to donate) · 53 points · by oomkiller · 31 comments
• Facebook Gives Harman His Name Back, Apologizes · 51 points · by icey · 10 comments
• Unlimited Free Calling with Google Voice · 50 points · by IsaacSchlueter · 7 comments
• Google’s Founders File to Sell 5 Million Shares Each · 48 points · by fjabre · 30 comments
• Matrioshka Brains: computing at the limits of physics · 47 points · by motters · 26 comments
• The world's most evil entrepreneur? · 39 points · by marklittlewood · 22 comments
• The World's Most Southerly ATM · 38 points · by sown · 10 comments
• Ask HN: Help a YC startup improve your mobile media experience · 38 points · by thomaspun · 6 comments
• The Internet of 2009 in numbers · 34 points · by dkasper · 14 comments
• Thesixtyone Unveils a Gorgeous Redesign, Users Predictably Revolt · 34 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 29 comments
• Classic computer science problems solved in JavaScript · 33 points · by zakj · 12 comments
• Humans were once an endangered species · 33 points · by soundsop · 15 comments
• PS3 finally properly hacked? · 32 points · by ulvund · 9 comments
• Asynchronous CPU, MIPS · 30 points · by jacquesm · 23 comments
• Some Musings on Mathematics · 29 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 11 comments
• Kenya Hara On Japanese Aesthetics · 29 points · by dmytton · 22 comments
• Let's Toss for It - A Surprising Curb on Political Greed · 28 points · by panic · 4 comments
• Hack your watch - Texas Instruments releases watch with wireless dev kit · 28 points · by phatboyslim · 11 comments
• General Public Busybody Theory · 25 points · by fogus · 9 comments
• Sniffing images in 350 lines of C · 24 points · by csantini · 1 comment
• The Geometry for Perfect Parking · 24 points · by amelim · 9 comments
• How to disrupt Wall Street · 24 points · by zackattack · 9 comments
• How a swashbuckling breed of computer scientists nearly destroyed Wall Street · 23 points · by jakarta · 21 comments
• Pat Metheny's Orchestration: A mechanically controlled jazz ensemble · 22 points · by drhodes · 6 comments
• Debunking Dvorak vs QWERTY myths · 22 points · by gnosis · 27 comments
• Build a blog in Common Lisp, 3 part Tutorial · 22 points · by alrex021 · 2 comments
• OCaml, Batteries Included 1.0.0 released · 21 points · by Yoric · 10 comments
• Right-Wing Flame War · 21 points · by Flemlord · 11 comments
• Legal analysis of the personhood granted to corporations · 20 points · by ashley · 27 comments
• DNS Pre-fetch Exposure on Thunderbird and Webmail · 19 points · by mike-cardwell · 2 comments
• Google traffic spikes · 18 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Facebook Settings Every User Should Check · 17 points · by mshafrir · 9 comments
• Ask HN: What do you do w/ a big idea, when you are working on something else? · 17 points · by vaksel · 17 comments
• Git Magic [pdf] · 16 points · by Anon84 · 5 comments
• Optimising the Haskell program "HLint" (30 secs to 1.3 secs) · 16 points · by dons · 3 comments
• Tor Project suffers hack attack · 15 points · by tsecuritytimes · 4 comments
• Google Co-Founders Plan To Sell Up To 10 Million Shares Over Next Five Years · 14 points · by aresant · 2 comments
• Djata: A Django REST Data API App · 14 points · by tlrobinson · 4 comments
• The Importance of Role Models · 14 points · by cwan · 2 comments
• The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak · 13 points · by inmygarage · 1 comment
• The Official Patron Saint of the Internet · 11 points · by vinutheraj · 5 comments
• Moscow's Stray Dogs Evolving Greater Intelligence, Including Subway Mastery · 10 points · by s3graham · 1 comment
• Nick Carr: Everybody's appy nowadays · 10 points · by yarapavan · 3 comments
• Microsoft cites Apple Macs as a defense in Xbox antitrust case · 10 points · by cwan · 5 comments
• Meet the Maker of Apple's Other Tablet · 9 points · by mshafrir · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Do you read newspaper/newspapers everyday? · 9 points · by kloc · 16 comments
• Define 'Correct'. Conways 'life' and the central clock · 9 points · by jacquesm · 5 comments
• Ask HN: What makes you happy? · 9 points · by daveisconfused · 5 comments
• The social behavior incentive: how your app can be as addictive as Facebook · 9 points · by mocy · 13 comments
• Global Music Consumption Study · 9 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Paypal has locked Wikileaks' account · 8 points · by plaes · 5 comments
• Scala for Haskell programmers · 8 points · by dons · 4 comments
• CNN's 360° video of Port-au-Prince · 8 points · by dandelany · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Do musicians profit from RIAA lawsuits? · 7 points · by dnsworks · 3 comments
• Understanding the web to make search more relevant · 7 points · by Concours · no comments
• A programming religion? · 7 points · by hackerboy · 9 comments
• Ask HN: market size -- how to estimate? · 7 points · by sabat · 1 comment
• Techies and Normals · 6 points · by bhousel · no comments
• GoWalla About to Pass the 100,000 User Mark · 6 points · by hshah · no comments
• Promoting books with free copies: On Kindle, Best Sellers Don’t Need to Sell · 6 points · by jcdreads · 5 comments
• Replicating 'Build a startup in 7 days' challenge? · 6 points · by senthilnambi · no comments
• Larry Page and Sergey Brin wearing...suits. · 6 points · by kloncks · 1 comment
• Poison and Progress · 6 points · by cwan · no comments
• Web development’s next decade · 6 points · by r11t · no comments
• 63% of Internet readers will like this · 6 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Why Amazon won't launch its own tablet, but will use Apple's · 5 points · by brianmckenzie · no comments
• Ask HN: Socializing or making friends without the internet? · 5 points · by punkrockgeekboy · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Cheapest place to buy a .com domain · 5 points · by quizbiz · 8 comments
• Currency for iPhone: So Simple, Yet So Powerful · 5 points · by michaelmayer · no comments
• DoGood: Browser Plug-In for Responsible Advertising · 5 points · by J3L2404 · 3 comments
• Case Study of a Business Model With Built In Exponential Growth Factor · 5 points · by ankeshk · 1 comment
• Why would a 3 days old site gets indexed and then de indexed by google · 5 points · by nll · 6 comments
• NYTimes Skimmer · 5 points · by tdonia · 6 comments
• NVidia GF100 Fermi silicon cost analysis · 5 points · by profquail · 1 comment
• How to disrupt Wall Street · 5 points · by hymanroth · no comments
• A Big-Picture Look at Google, Microsoft, Apple And Yahoo · 4 points · by brooklynick · no comments
• Ask HN: Comparison of type systems? · 4 points · by Mathnerd314 · no comments
• Quote For The Day · 4 points · by robg · no comments
• Ask YC: Licensing your startup's code? · 4 points · by anonsellout · 1 comment
• Dealing with corruption · 4 points · by corruption · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Is email address the wrong choice for usernames? · 4 points · by dnsworks · 4 comments
• Simple Moving Average · 4 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Ask HN: offline billboard ads for online sites? · 4 points · by epi0Bauqu · 1 comment
• Timesplice 3D Effect Examples · 4 points · by wallflower · 1 comment
• Life is Short Get a Mac | SaveDelete · 4 points · by yogeshmankani · 1 comment
• How Islamic inventors changed the world · 4 points · by AndrewDucker · no comments
• Fossil SCM's revision data is clean/accessible SQLite, ripe for hacking with · 4 points · by mcantelon · no comments
• Ask HN: How to sell/auction a domain name? · 4 points · by ajg1977 · no comments
• Why (and how) to stop google from showing cached versions of your site. · 4 points · by Modernnomad84 · 1 comment
• UK Raises Its Terror Threat Level to 'Severe' · 3 points · by J3L2404 · 3 comments
• Webbynode Takes on Heroku with Rapid App Deployment · 3 points · by jmonegro · 2 comments
• The Brompton: The bike every commuter wants · 3 points · by J3L2404 · 2 comments
• Why Bushwhacking Your (Video Game) Players Is A Bad Idea (Jeff Vogel, Avernum) · 3 points · by angelbob · no comments
• 360° video (street-view style video) - drive through Port-au-Prince · 3 points · by jodrellblank · no comments
• Forbes 100 Best Companies to Work For (and what makes them the best) · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• What is Dozenal Counting? · 3 points · by gnosis · no comments
• Fast conversion of bitmaps to SVG · 3 points · by techdog · no comments
• Engineer’s Guide to Drinks · 3 points · by pieceofpeace · 1 comment
• 12 Monkeys. No… 8. Wait, sorry, I meant 14. · 3 points · by baha_man · no comments
• Our Boredom, Ourselves · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Flowtown – meet your customers · 3 points · by franciscocosta · no comments
• Geolocation, question · 3 points · by secretjudge · 4 comments
• Can the Web save newspapers? · 3 points · by alex_c · 1 comment
• The coming U.S. population boom will bring new economic vitality · 3 points · by jseliger · 5 comments
• Why Twitter Matters · 3 points · by overgard · no comments
• Spare the Rod and Spoil the Programmer · 3 points · by blasdel · 2 comments
• Paper map zooms in as you unfold it · 3 points · by sown · no comments
• Ask HN: Anybody tried Ginkgo Biloba? · 3 points · by mattiss · 5 comments
• Google founders to sell stock, cede majority control by 2014 · 3 points · by anderzole · no comments
• Amulet 3, an asynchronous system-on-a-chip, ARM compatible · 3 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• China fires back at cyber attack charges · 3 points · by tomh · no comments
• MTVs Jersey Shore As An Example Of Game Theory · 3 points · by noelchurchill · 3 comments
• OpenCL in Macruby · 3 points · by rubenfonseca · no comments
• Ask HN: I'm collecting learning resources - care to share some ? · 3 points · by thibaut_barrere · 4 comments
• Humans May Be Biologically Able to Run 40 MPH, New Study Shows · 2 points · by fjabre · no comments
• Apple tablet could earn $3 billion in a year · 2 points · by aresant · no comments
• Facebook's New Oregon Data Center · 2 points · by pakistanjan · no comments
• Infographic: Moore's Law, Then and Then and Now-ish · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• One Of These Venture Firms Is Not Like The Other - WSJ · 2 points · by jkopelman · no comments
• TI hits home run with Chronos sportswatch wireless dev kit · 2 points · by profquail · no comments
• Browser analytics · 2 points · by Concours · no comments
• CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy drones · 2 points · by chunkyslink · no comments
• 3-D Gaming Is Waiting for Its Avatar · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Oracle/Sun: Ideas are mergerproof · 2 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Designers Unearth Apple Tablet Prototypes - From 1983 · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Report : PS3 finally been compromised? · 2 points · by computinggeek · 1 comment
• Safer Helicopters: Crash, bang, wallop · 2 points · by riffer · no comments
• Deleted twitter names · 2 points · by fairy · 1 comment
• Technology Predictions (Cisco) [pdf] · 2 points · by vas_popovski · 1 comment
• ILLIAC, an early clockless cpu design · 2 points · by jacquesm · 3 comments
• How Important Speed is for Web and Home Applications · 2 points · by somagrand · no comments
• Ask HN: product roadmap drawing app? · 2 points · by Travis · no comments
• Transparency Tracker · 2 points · by ams1 · no comments
• Who is GNU founder Richard Stallman? · 2 points · by anderzole · no comments
• Brain-reboot time · 2 points · by s3graham · no comments
• How Under Armour founder Kevin Plank is taking on the industry's biggest players · 2 points · by physcab · 1 comment
• Building a Twitter Bot · 2 points · by yannis · no comments
• K-9 Mail 2.4, an opensource email client for Android came out today · 2 points · by obrajesse · 3 comments
• Ruby Rendering in WebKit · 1 points · by jeff18 · no comments
• The First Tweet From Space and Other Twitter Firsts · 1 points · by ALee · no comments
• Infoblox Opines on Infrastructure 2.0 · 1 points · by pakistanjan · no comments
• The First Tweet From Space and Other Twitter Firsts · 1 points · by fjabre · no comments
• Communication networks inspired by slime mould · 1 points · by mark_h · 1 comment
• The 2 sides of 3D TV · 1 points · by anderzole · no comments
• 2009/2010 OMOP Cup: Methods Competition · 1 points · by mblakele · no comments
• Android will be at the 2010 Game Developers Conference · 1 points · by pufuwozu · no comments
• Eastern US Could Get 20% Electricity From Wind In 2024 · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Reuters: Expert finds vulnerabilities in Microsoft browser · 1 points · by tsecuritytimes · no comments
• What if America’s Urban Economies Were National Ones? · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Is It Cheating to Use Wolfram Alpha for Math Homework? · 1 points · by moserware · 1 comment
• Free Checking Could Go the Way of Free Toasters · 1 points · by sown · no comments
• From Monographs to Story-Telling: New Forms of Communication in the Big Shift · 1 points · by kylemathews · no comments
• Why are we condemning Jeff Zucker & NBC over Leno ? · 1 points · by rob_r0 · no comments
• All Your Twitter Bot Needs Is Love · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Tests reveal 'bomb detector' cannot work · 1 points · by tragiclos · no comments
• How would you run your company? · 1 points · by senthilnambi · 4 comments
• "Google builds loyal following in China" · 1 points · by dubcomesaveme · no comments
• Google PuWeb Analytics Success Measurement For Government Websites · 1 points · by Concours · no comments
• WakeMate Blog (good suggestion for healthy sleep) · 1 points · by carterschonwald · no comments
• Metric time · 1 points · by maxwell · no comments
• Freaked-Out Tweets After Earthquakes Help Scientists · 1 points · by mgh2 · no comments
• A Caution Flag for the Right to Repair Act · 1 points · by gnosis · no comments
• The World’s Most Important 6 Second Drum Beat · 1 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• Modeling Railways with Slime Mold · 1 points · by bramanga · no comments
• New charger can tap electricity from WiFi · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Slime Mold Grows Network Just Like Tokyo Rail System · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Calculators are Needlessly Bad · 1 points · by gnosis · no comments
• Squeak by Example · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• The Management f-Laws · 1 points · by rmdstudio · no comments
• What the Enterprise wants from Django · 1 points · by Torn · no comments
• Can this Easter Egg get him/her fired? · 1 points · by shrikant · no comments
• Acknowledge the rage · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• StreetScene Is The Next Video Generation Street View · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• Interesting Page At Youtube · 1 points · by rroy1590 · no comments
• How to Present at Big Meetings without Going Down a Rat Hole · 1 points · by vas_popovski · no comments
• Making Family Board Games Electronic · 1 points · by pmjordan · no comments
• Google Are Really Pushing Their Privacy Policy onto Everyone · 1 points · by insomniamg · no comments
• Tweets From Space Will Not Fix Twitter’s Problems · 1 points · by Paton · no comments
• Kngine Launch The First Version Of Kngine : Web 3.0 Search Engine · 1 points · by MSlim · no comments
• Hi-Res Flyover of Haiti Aids Recovery and Research · 1 points · by unignorant · no comments
• 95% of email is spam · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• CodePlex now supporting native Mercurial · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• 5 steps to reorganize "Categories" on your blog · 1 points · by kreci · no comments
• 3D Graphics for Next-Generation WWW · 1 points · by hackhead · no comments
• Fixed media based pricing #fails, Market Knowledge Systems will be our answer · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• AT&T fires back at analyst who claimed its network investments were lagging · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Simulators Prepare Soldiers for Explosions of War · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• YouTube Rentals beta released · 1 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Ofcom to approve DTT content protection method · 1 points · by J3L2404 · no comments
• Amazon Allows Some Publishers and Authors to Opt Out of E-Book DRM · 1 points · by J3L2404 · no comments
• Truth and clarity in arithmetic · 1 points · by gnosis · no comments
• The Third & The Seventh [video] · 1 points · by Mathnerd314 · no comments
• Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams[1 hour video] · 1 points · by b-man · no comments
• Hacking signs: Anamorphic images to assist navigation in car parks · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• Apple gets greener with solar device patent · 1 points · by aresant · no comments
• Fostering (and protecting) Innovation In China And The US · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Auto Technology That Kills · 1 points · by ektimo · no comments
• How to Steal a Botnet (Video Lecture Summary) · 1 points · by MaysonL · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Viability of business models staged on Google Earth? · 1 points · by gangevine · 2 comments
• Follow Rank and Follows in Common for Twitter, a GreaseMonkey Script · 1 points · by iirving · 1 comment
• Subscribers Text Counter – WordPress Plugin · 1 points · by kreci · no comments
• Mobile Trends 2020 · 1 points · by zen53 · no comments
• Google Search Gets Interactive With Google Gravity · 1 points · by dcawrey · no comments
• Even your chihuahua can tweet · 1 points · by briancooley · no comments
• Tell HN: Mobile job board - Taphire.com · 1 points · by obaid · no comments
• Social Media with Real Business Consequences: Foursquare · 1 points · by kieransmith · no comments
• Role Models · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• ZUI Interface Library - Piccolo2D Java v1.3 RC1 released · 1 points · by bliss · no comments
• Towards Community Standards for Ethical Behavior in Computer Security Research · 1 points · by infinity · no comments
• Tablet computer market to boom: Deloitte · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Songs for Robots · 1 points · by J3L2404 · no comments
• If $5.99 app no.38 on top grossing list how much has it made? · 1 points · by developer123 · no comments
• Google Chrome: Add a Send Link Button to the Bookmarks Bar · 1 points · by mhb · no comments
• Random thoughts on the sexes · 1 points · by btilly · no comments
• Maybe You Need Some More Testosterone Over There · 1 points · by tshtf · no comments
• Ray Kurzweil's Predictions for 2009 (from 1998) · 1 points · by mmastrac · 2 comments