Hacker News Way Back Machine

• AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters because..." · 259 points · by johns · 102 comments
• How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter · 248 points · by maxklein · 188 comments
• Official reasons why Adobe doesn't open-source Flash · 98 points · by swombat · 64 comments
• The Building Blocks of Ruby · 93 points · by wycats · 39 comments
• Ask HN: Steady 4-5% on $5 million? · 78 points · by rumpelstiltskin · 106 comments
• Window that morphs into a balcony · 70 points · by CWIZO · 21 comments
• Adobe's response to Flash Crash · 67 points · by zain · 44 comments
• What My User Survey Taught Me · 61 points · by stakent · 9 comments
• Python Machine Learning Code Repository · 58 points · by copernicus · 8 comments
• Google Overtook Apple In WebKit Code Commits · 57 points · by vladocar · 12 comments
• Paul English of Kayak on Hiring, Venture Capital, Time Management, NDA's, etc. · 57 points · by prakash · 4 comments
• How to harvest Facebook profiles from emails without logging in · 55 points · by pskomoroch · 13 comments
• Average faces are not more attractive. Their skin is just smoother · 51 points · by ssp · 7 comments
• A Rigged Game · 50 points · by MediaSquirrel · 12 comments
• Interview with Daniel Brusilovsky, The Writer That TechCrunch Terminated · 47 points · by AndrewWarner · 27 comments
• Show HN: PatchBin.com - Pastebin for patches + comments + code review. · 45 points · by antileet · 13 comments
• Common Errors in College Math · 45 points · by dwwoelfel · 9 comments
• Money making dreams and the reality · 44 points · by ambiate · 26 comments
• Is it possible to opt out of social networking? · 40 points · by indiejade · 29 comments
• Solar Panel Drops to $1 per Watt Milestone · 39 points · by cwan · 14 comments
• CLisp on Nokia N900 · 38 points · by alrex021 · 3 comments
• Using Game Mechanics To Teach Users MS Office · 38 points · by patio11 · 18 comments
• Choice is Beauty: Why I'm leaving Apple Mobile for Android · 37 points · by messel · 35 comments
• The New Dating Game · 34 points · by alexandros · 15 comments
• Facebook Repeatedly Deleting Hong Kong Opposition Groups · 33 points · by ilamont · 2 comments
• HTML5 is not about the death of Flash, but the return of browser innovation · 32 points · by stevenwei · no comments
• JavaScript memory leak patterns · 32 points · by BudVVeezer · 7 comments
• The Four Cs of JavaScript · 29 points · by wgj · 4 comments
• Providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere. · 28 points · by access_denied · 13 comments
• New errors in IPCC climate change report - Telegraph · 27 points · by bgurupra · 24 comments
• Plasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills · 27 points · by maggit · 1 comment
• A day without X (server) · 26 points · by dangoldin · 13 comments
• Why a Small Change in Gender Ratios Has a Large Effect · 25 points · by mhb · 6 comments
• Dentists to replace drills with plasma jets · 25 points · by cwan · 19 comments
• Understanding Clojure’s PersistentVector implementation · 23 points · by alexk · 1 comment
• In Paris, the customer is not always right · 23 points · by transmit101 · 27 comments
• Google Chrome extension displays the latest Twitter reactions for a web page · 21 points · by r11t · 6 comments
• Sisc Scheme on Dalvik VM · 20 points · by zitterbewegung · 5 comments
• John Gruber on the “Auteur Theory of Design” from Macworld 2009 · 19 points · by anderzole · 4 comments
• Is Om Malik sad? · 18 points · by nader · 8 comments
• Paul Carr on Macmillan vs Amazon · 18 points · by MikeCapone · 3 comments
• Controversies over the term Engineer · 17 points · by blogimus · 24 comments
• Keeping Customers Up-to-Date on Development: Cultured Code · 17 points · by snewe · 4 comments
• VC accused of blackmail · 16 points · by yannis · 2 comments
• Rails 3 beta: First impressions on a new app · 16 points · by nathanhumbert · 1 comment
• To keep Flash relevant, Adobe must resort to the nuclear option · 15 points · by techdog · 10 comments
• Cartoon: IE6 RIP · 15 points · by vladocar · 5 comments
• Apple iPad’s Tiny SIM Is Just There to Mess With You · 13 points · by brk · 20 comments
• Flash, HTML5, Mobile Apps and the Open Web · 13 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Is there an API for HN ? · 13 points · by olalonde · 9 comments
• Open Angel Forum San Francisco March 4th · 13 points · by jasonmcalacanis · 4 comments
• Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VCs have a Gender Problem · 12 points · by cwan · 18 comments
• Computers that aren't computers · 11 points · by cjbprime · 3 comments
• Call to genocide: radio in Rwanda · 10 points · by b-man · 15 comments
• Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode: or, How Not to Design Authentication · 9 points · by evdawg · 2 comments
• Google Buys Super Bowl Ad? · 9 points · by vladocar · 5 comments
• Using your mac without the mouse · 9 points · by ankit_ · 3 comments
• Homepage A/B Testing Lessons from the Olympic Store · 9 points · by aresant · no comments
• Promoting your iPhone app in print · 8 points · by alex_c · 4 comments
• Inside FarmVille's Sinister Underbelly · 8 points · by ilamont · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Approaching day job's customers about startup? · 7 points · by k123 · 7 comments
• China jails man 13 years for running porn Web site · 7 points · by cwan · 2 comments
• Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC’s have a Gender Problem · 7 points · by alexandros · 3 comments
• What Rupert Murdoch Still Doesn’t Get About the Internet · 6 points · by hshah · no comments
• Online Dating Services Are Taking a Scientific Approach · 6 points · by peter123 · no comments
• Electrical engineering · 6 points · by pencil · 20 comments
• How To Grow A Twitter Audience · 6 points · by edragonu · 2 comments
• Phillips Exeter Academy Mathematics Course Materials · 6 points · by tokenadult · 9 comments
• Chatroulette - video chat with strangers · 5 points · by abthomson · no comments
• Leaves Show Looped Networks May Be Better Than Branched · 5 points · by absconditus · no comments
• Buy Now, Pay Later (Maybe With Your Allowance) · 5 points · by chris123 · 2 comments
• BIOS · 5 points · by pencil · 10 comments
• You really can be bored to death, scientists discover · 5 points · by wyclif · no comments
• Software can be unsafe at any speed · 5 points · by ilamont · 2 comments
• Aircruise - a clipper in the clouds · 5 points · by alexk · 8 comments
• Ask HN: Appropriate levels of email contact? · 5 points · by dnsworks · 2 comments
• An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility · 5 points · by bensummers · 1 comment
• Siri Brings Artificial Intelligence to the iPhone · 4 points · by prakash · no comments
• Pascal Costanza's Highly Opinionated Guide to Lisp · 4 points · by floater · no comments
• Six Thinking Hats · 4 points · by tigerthink · 2 comments
• Did you know Flash doesn't work on 64-bit browsers? · 4 points · by aresant · 3 comments
• Does anyone else take a "sloppy first copy" approach to projects? · 4 points · by GeneralMaximus · no comments
• Ask HN: Actual chances of seeing the space shuttle from afar · 4 points · by quizbiz · 2 comments
• JooJoo (ex-crunch-pad) IPad killer - pre order available · 4 points · by tzury · 3 comments
• One Step Back For Mankind · 4 points · by DanielBMarkham · 14 comments
• New Attack on Threefish · 4 points · by wglb · no comments
• The Large Display Paradox · 4 points · by helwr · 2 comments
• Help fund an open source implementation of the Bussard nuclear reactor · 4 points · by mcantelon · no comments
• Kids Say the Darndest Things: Teens In Tech 2.0 Video · 4 points · by skennedy · 3 comments
• Why Vehicle To Grid is a horrible idea · 4 points · by billpg · 2 comments
• AI's Evolved for Alternate Psychic Substrate Drugged in Service of Art · 4 points · by brilanon · no comments
• Degree vs. Deviousness: Story of an Investment Banking Wannabee · 4 points · by contagionhealth · no comments
• Climate scandal professor considered suicide · 3 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Space: The Boring Frontier · 3 points · by gnosis · no comments
• Javascript - Why The this Keyword Breaks · 3 points · by ido · no comments
• The Riddle of Consciousness · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Ask HN: Hacking Android, what's out there? · 3 points · by old-gregg · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Do you feel a need for reviewmyidea.com? · 3 points · by alexk · 6 comments
• Yelp Walked Away From $700 Million Microsoft Offer · 3 points · by aresant · no comments
• Ask HN: Please review my Business Briefing · 3 points · by azeemazhar2 · 6 comments
• Planet Google: From Philosophies to Market Shares · 3 points · by tortilla · no comments
• America's Fiscal Crisis: Getting Keynes Only Half Right · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• What happens if China's 'bubble' pops? · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• Jack Foster and Archie Lamb: Music Entrepreneurs · 3 points · by jajilore · no comments
• Pharocasts: free screencasts about Pharo, Seaside, and Smalltalk · 3 points · by henning · no comments
• Founder and CEO of WatchMojo: How To Make Money In Online Video · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• Solar-Powered Circuits Charge by Sunlight in Real-Time · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Ask HN: Wait for the new I-phone or Nexus? (My Contract is up) · 2 points · by esornoso · 4 comments
• The Value of An Organ · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Adobe CTO promises better Mac performance in Flash 10.1 · 2 points · by radley · no comments
• CraigsList architecture by Jeremy Zawodny · 2 points · by dennisgorelik · no comments
• SQL query tool/library for static files in Python · 2 points · by samuelks · no comments
• Topics in High-Performance Messaging · 2 points · by copernicus · no comments
• White Hat Experience (img) · 2 points · by ambiate · 1 comment
• Super Bowl Coin Toss, Mathematically · 2 points · by mshafrir · no comments
• Computational Aesthetics & Adobe's Creative Technologies Lab · 2 points · by anamax · no comments
• DirectX vs OpenGL revisited... revisited · 2 points · by nickelplate · no comments
• Gstreamer plugins legal in USA? · 2 points · by rayvega · no comments
• Rumored Windows Phone 7 details · 2 points · by indy · no comments
• Singapore:A Totally Do-It-Yourself Library without a Customer Service Desk · 2 points · by ippisl · no comments
• China jails man 13 years for running porn Web site · 2 points · by jacquesm · 2 comments
• ASP.NET MVC Performance II: Optimizing resources · 2 points · by gpeipman · no comments
• NBC complete removes Conan Obrien · 2 points · by geuis · no comments
• Java's checked exceptions were a mistake (2003) · 2 points · by alexk · no comments
• Biggest Spanish ISP wants to charge Google, Yahoo and Bing · 2 points · by lassej · no comments
• What to do About Erlang's Records? · 2 points · by waterlesscloud · no comments
• Secret London Facebook Group Amasses 180,000, Morphs Into Startup · 2 points · by alexandros · 1 comment
• Google overcomes Apple in Webkit Commits · 2 points · by snewe · 1 comment
• Dumb-ass Features and Really Agile Management · 2 points · by paulgrayson · no comments
• Facebook Gifts Get Real · 2 points · by themichael · no comments
• Josh Hackler – A semester in Oviedo, his love for wine and spain = Spanish Vines · 2 points · by jajilore · no comments
• Nevada state could lay off all general fund workers and still have deficit · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Ask HN: Product "to-do" lists · 2 points · by skennedy · 6 comments
• Conversational Stories · 2 points · by nreece · no comments
• As Early as March: Freeing Up Commercial White Space for Wireless Broadband · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• What Your Choice of Search Engine Says About You · 1 points · by trs81 · no comments
• Eugene Kleiner (Founder Kleiner Perkins) · 1 points · by dondemarco · no comments
• Experience Matters: Flash, iPhone, and Beyond · 1 points · by elblanco · no comments
• Nick's Mathematical Puzzles · 1 points · by dwwoelfel · no comments
• Hey auto · 1 points · by badri · no comments
• My Thoughts On Techcrunch And Daniel Brusilovsky - 1938 Media · 1 points · by nir · no comments
• Record your Desktop with Linux Tools · 1 points · by kurtedelbrock · no comments
• Linux.conf.au: Hackability for disability support devices · 1 points · by mark_h · no comments
• StartupDigest: A weekly email of startup events in your area · 1 points · by Alex3917 · no comments
• The Risks Digest · 1 points · by saurabh · no comments
• Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options · 1 points · by gnosis · 3 comments
• Aaron Wall: Scraping & Incentivized Mechanical Turk Driven 'Content' · 1 points · by stakent · 1 comment
• Orange County Choppers' Hybrid Motorcycle · 1 points · by shard · no comments
• Ruby blocks and closures · 1 points · by ochronus · no comments
• Google to Air "Search Stories" Ad During Super Bowl · 1 points · by Technophilis · no comments
• Superformula - Parametric shapes · 1 points · by gurtwo · no comments
• Writing object to object mapper: first implementations · 1 points · by gpeipman · no comments
• Rob Hopkins: Getting over oil, one town at a time · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• First Mobile Phone Linus Does Not Hate · 1 points · by steve19 · 2 comments
• Upgrading a World of Warcraft account ends in tears · 1 points · by billpg · no comments
• Glenn Buchan and Kilian Palop: Adspad - A creative way to target students · 1 points · by jajilore · no comments
• Scientists Make A Quantum Computing Leap Forward · 1 points · by Sandman · no comments
• Nanobubbles 'jackhammer' cancer cells · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Hive Media Games is Proud to Announce Angela's World for the iPhone · 1 points · by zombiesandbacon · no comments
• SwapKit, iPhone local data sharing library, reaches 1.0. · 1 points · by millenomi · no comments
• Game developers move to iPhone, ignore Wii · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Is There a Limit to Our Public-Ness? Tech · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Dr. Michio Kaku's Photos - Albert Einstein · 1 points · by alexk · no comments
• Compare Health Care Plans · 1 points · by va_coder · no comments
• JSBin - Collaborative JavaScript Debugging · 1 points · by mkilling · no comments
• Anatomy of The Perfect Sidebar · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• A new (beta) IT news aggregator. · 1 points · by ochronus · no comments
• Talk about iPad on Charlie Rose with Walt Mossberg, Michael Arrington,... · 1 points · by nader · no comments
• Ubuntu Now Calls Google Docs the Standard · 1 points · by dcawrey · no comments
• Archetypes and personalities of the financial crisis · 1 points · by albertsun · no comments
• Deconstructing Creativity: The 4 Roles You Need to Play to be Fully Creative · 1 points · by edragonu · no comments
• Building fun into your software designs · 1 points · by kareemm · no comments
• Ask HN: Innovative ideas in security domain ? · 1 points · by digamber_kamat · no comments
• How To Manage And Upgrade Your Life Device Drivers · 1 points · by edragonu · no comments
• Win the War, Write the History · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Why Did RAVAN Lose? · 1 points · by yogeshmankani · no comments
• Tell HN: Can you figure out what type of attack it is? · 1 points · by bgurupra · 3 comments
• GleeBox Add-on Eases The Strains of Browsing in Firefox or Chrome · 1 points · by ankit_ · no comments
• Weave Rich, personalized experiences across the web · 1 points · by bdfh42 · no comments
• Ask HN: Ethics of writing HN conversation digests on my blog? · 1 points · by olalonde · 2 comments
• Robots evolve to learn cooperation, hunting · 1 points · by nuba · no comments
• Goal Progress Review With Your Goal Buddy+Ready To Use Worksheet · 1 points · by thesecondact · no comments
• The Garage and the Penthouse · 1 points · by dmv · no comments
• Massive Explosion at Connecticut Power Plant · 1 points · by mhb · 1 comment
• Project Idea: AJAX without writing a single line of Javascript · 1 points · by olalonde · no comments
• Running a Ruby application with jruby-complete · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• Review: Twitter Reactions Extension · 1 points · by dcawrey · no comments
• Microsoft dropping FAST search for Linux, Unix · 1 points · by shalinmangar · no comments
• Torrent Sites Blamed For Twitter Attack · 1 points · by mariorz · no comments
• Digital asses in the computing industry · 1 points · by blasdel · no comments
• Europe Risks Another Global Depression · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Text editor for Mac with UTF-8 encoding option · 1 points · by anothermike · 6 comments
• How should I value prospective angel investments? · 1 points · by aditya · no comments
• Alan Greenspan defends his record · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Rumored Windows Phone 7 details surface ahead of MWC launch · 1 points · by elblanco · no comments