Hacker News Way Back Machine

• U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition, with deadly consequences · 128 points · by yummyfajitas · 50 comments
• I Had Downtime Today. Here’s What I’m Doing About It. · 117 points · by soundsop · 12 comments
• DreamPie: The Python shell you've always dreamed about · 110 points · by niyazpk · 40 comments
• Making an RPG in Clojure · 87 points · by uggedal · 12 comments
• ACTA "internet enforcement" chapter leaks · 80 points · by dantheman · 52 comments
• An Adobe Flash developer on why the iPad can’t use Flash · 76 points · by pauljonas · 87 comments
• Mixergy is now a paid subscription service for interviews older than a week · 73 points · by samh · 136 comments
• Ruby is not a callable orientated language · 71 points · by adam-_- · 30 comments
• X.org lost $5000 from their Paypal account · 68 points · by plaes · 33 comments
• Fibonacci Flim-Flam · 65 points · by mhansen · 16 comments
• GemCutter.org becomes RubyGems.org (at last) · 64 points · by labria · 4 comments
• Two 4000 ft plumb bobs hung down a mine shaft, with baffling results (1901) · 59 points · by andrewljohnson · 13 comments
• Reddit: IAmA grad student who has tried nearly every "study"/"smart" drug · 59 points · by andrewljohnson · 55 comments
• Redis at Superfeedr · 54 points · by julien · 11 comments
• PyCon 2010 Videos Now Available · 51 points · by nailer · 6 comments
• Why the GPL does not apply to premium WordPress themes · 49 points · by dangrossman · 58 comments
• Sequel: A Database Toolkit for Ruby [GitHub] · 48 points · by emson · 20 comments
• Paul Buchheit’s lucky streak as an angel (and a founder) · 46 points · by prakash · 26 comments
• Why we don't trust Devil Mountain Software (Exo Performance backstory) · 46 points · by barrkel · 7 comments
• Millions of Unemployed Face Years without Jobs · 44 points · by pg · 96 comments
• Programmers becoming "starving artists" · 43 points · by codexon · 35 comments
• Premarital sex: An economic model of its rise and de-stigmatisation · 42 points · by daniel-cussen · 17 comments
• Things Every Programmer Should Know [wiki] · 38 points · by TrevorBurnham · 10 comments
• RightSide Capital- New Seed Fund Will Make 100-200 Investments Per Year · 35 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 6 comments
• Linux Wall Wart Works Wonderfully · 34 points · by codemechanic · 2 comments
• A day in the life of an Air Force drone pilot · 33 points · by ilamont · 24 comments
• Dragonegg Successfully Self-Hosts · 33 points · by jeff18 · 9 comments
• Ask HN: Would you use/participate in a translation site like this? · 32 points · by andrewljohnson · 36 comments
• Ten Challenges · 31 points · by b-man · 14 comments
• Op Amps For Everyone · 30 points · by dnewcome · 5 comments
• A collection of UNIX sysadmin tests · 29 points · by lut4rp · 7 comments
• Notes From the Field: I have seen the future of healthcare · 29 points · by ippisl · 41 comments
• Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated · 29 points · by vorador · 5 comments
• F# Code · 29 points · by DanielBMarkham · 3 comments
• SourceForge.net chooses Python, TurboGears and MongoDB · 28 points · by msacks · 9 comments
• Is America ungovernable? · 28 points · by darshan · 77 comments
• Time to reset some passwords · 28 points · by nathanh · 21 comments
• How A Desktop Background Can Improve Productivity · 27 points · by NathanKP · 26 comments
• Fred Wilson: The Golden Principles For Successful Web Apps · 27 points · by cwan · 6 comments
• Are dolphins sufficiently self-aware to deserve more ethical treatment? · 26 points · by cwan · 13 comments
• Afternoon Nap refreshes the brain's capacity to learn · 25 points · by eagleal · 11 comments
• On Winning the Dot-Com Lottery · 24 points · by tonystubblebine · 7 comments
• "Last Train from Hiroshima" author says he was duped · 23 points · by ilamont · 16 comments
• Element 112 is Named Copernicium (Cn) · 22 points · by splat · 3 comments
• Belgian coma 'writer' can't communicate · 22 points · by jaxc · 4 comments
• A tour of the open standards used by Google Buzz · 22 points · by alexandros · 5 comments
• My Recommendations for Ruby on Rails Hosting Services · 22 points · by acangiano · 23 comments
• Exo Research CTO still does not understand how OS file caching works in Windows · 21 points · by apower · 14 comments
• Building a Better Mailbox - A Tale of Determination · 21 points · by shedd · no comments
• A Fix for Discrimination: Follow the Indian Trails · 20 points · by edw519 · 5 comments
• Unlink Your Feeds · 20 points · by telemachos · 9 comments
• How to Incent Good User Behavior: Use Real Identity (ala LinkedIn, FB) · 19 points · by dell9000 · 11 comments
• On the Fundamental Nature of the Universe · 18 points · by markpneyer · 10 comments
• Life-like evolution in a test tube · 18 points · by edw519 · 4 comments
• The Impact of the Lambda Calculus (1997) [pdf] · 17 points · by gnosis · 1 comment
• Self-contained emacs · 17 points · by mariusae · no comments
• School district: Spy Webcams activated 42 times · 17 points · by jacquesm · 14 comments
• Scavengers of the Physical Universe · 17 points · by kiba · 14 comments
• Tactics to beat Akrasia (acting against one's better judgement) · 15 points · by yurifury · 7 comments
• "hella" proposed as SI prefix for 10^27 · 15 points · by dmoney · 2 comments
• Chinese booklet scanned at 1800 pages per hour · 13 points · by helwr · 2 comments
• For Professor, Fury Just Beneath the Surface · 12 points · by amichail · 5 comments
• AGPL != Awesome GPL · 11 points · by jchrisa · 29 comments
• Life Among the 'Yakkity Yaks': Autism and Innovation · 11 points · by tcskeptic · 2 comments
• The NYT’s blogs are set to be paywalled · 11 points · by alexandros · 8 comments
• From the Agony of JUnit to the Ecstasy of RSpec · 10 points · by kyleburton · 1 comment
• HN Melb/Aust meetup moved to Cho Gao... but it's on now · 9 points · by tomhoward · 1 comment
• Teach someone least squares - least squares learning tool · 9 points · by freebsd_dude · 1 comment
• Are 'Test Tube Babies' Healthy? · 9 points · by alexandros · 2 comments
• Ask HN: how to learn functional programming in Python · 9 points · by DeusExMachina · 12 comments
• Jimmy Wales on failure · 8 points · by tom_pinckney · 1 comment
• Daring Fireball – Money Machine? · 8 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 4 comments
• After 8 yrs & $400M in VC money, is K.R. Sridhar’s fuel cell ready to launch? · 8 points · by cwan · no comments
• Plugins and Extending Ruby Code, Examples from MongoMapper Plugin System · 8 points · by jnunemaker · no comments
• The future of public debt: prospects and implications · 7 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• Showing the world that facilitated communication is bogus · 6 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• How mathematical modeling may lead to predictive police work · 6 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• How to build a web service in 8 hours · 6 points · by erikstarck · no comments
• Ask HN: Is my web app idea worth the effort? · 5 points · by freebsd_dude · 4 comments
• Gmail is getting PGP Signatures (Feb 2009) · 5 points · by graywh · 6 comments
• Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business · 5 points · by DaniFong · 10 comments
• The AP Is Using Twitter To Send People To Facebook. Wait. What? · 5 points · by Concours · 2 comments
• Bill Gates at TED 2010 (Video) · 5 points · by marcamillion · no comments
• Wiimote-Controlled Robot Drum Circle Makes Human Hippies Obsolete · 5 points · by andrewljohnson · no comments
• Testing release of a platform for hosting pure functional web applications · 5 points · by alrex021 · 2 comments
• Mike Maples Talks Venture Capital And Thunder Lizards · 5 points · by tonystubblebine · no comments
• Eventlet: Asynchronous I/O with a synchronous interface · 5 points · by mace · no comments
• Investing in an open mobile development platform · 5 points · by erikstarck · 5 comments
• Does it matter who you get news from? · 5 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• Not being able to program a computer is like ... · 4 points · by AlfredTwo · no comments
• Comparing Colour Space Conversion Libraries · 4 points · by kinetik · no comments
• Ask HN: How can I find out ecommerce conversion rates for various verticals? · 4 points · by gracie · 3 comments
• Irate Foxconn workers set fire to factory · 4 points · by anigbrowl · no comments
• Rhino on Rails (inspired by Yegge's blog), implemented and used for a photoblog · 4 points · by andrewljohnson · no comments
• Reid Hoffman on Putting His Angel Days Behind Him · 4 points · by cwan · no comments
• Does a Startup Business Plan Really Matter? · 4 points · by eroach · 1 comment
• How a hobbit is rewriting the history of the human race · 4 points · by nice1 · no comments
• Scope, Garbage Collection and Closures in Javascript [slides] · 4 points · by hymanroth · no comments
• Why You Should Confess Everything Before You Get Caught · 4 points · by bhp · no comments
• Object-oriented vs. data-oriented programming · 4 points · by epall · no comments
• Something fishy with Google library project · 4 points · by helwr · no comments
• David Noël: On Spotify · 3 points · by ivankirigin · no comments
• Alter Ego: Online Gamers Revealed · 3 points · by davidedicillo · no comments
• The Technology Behind Four New Wonders at Disney World · 3 points · by pinstriped_dude · no comments
• Why minority students don't graduate from college · 3 points · by bootload · no comments
• Online advertising moves into the end game · 3 points · by shalinmangar · no comments
• Ask HN: List of all YC startups? · 3 points · by cb33 · 2 comments
• Vook, Maker of Multimedia E-Books, Raises $2.5 Million · 3 points · by unignorant · 2 comments
• Diagnosing Gollum · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• Robots and bees to beat the Taliban · 3 points · by alexandros · no comments
• What we don't understand [about UI complexity] · 3 points · by jcdreads · no comments
• Tell PG: Posting on HN is broken in Chrome · 3 points · by ig1 · 12 comments
• Penn State students raise $7.8 million in fight against pediatric cancer · 3 points · by adelevie · no comments
• Shift Happens · 3 points · by matt1 · no comments
• Buy tech company and ping pong table along with it · 2 points · by ww520 · no comments
• Google's Citytours Crash · 2 points · by dmly · no comments
• Titanic men took boat, left women (New York Times, May 11, 1912) · 2 points · by helwr · no comments
• Essay On Why Software Patents Are The Problem · 2 points · by middayc · no comments
• Breeding the million-dollar-cow · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Disposing of Radioactive Waste in Volcanoes? · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Meet Magic-1, The Homemade CPU · 2 points · by andrewljohnson · no comments
• Trade Shows/Expos in the US for Web Products? · 2 points · by stulogy · no comments
• The Game · 2 points · by tomerico · 1 comment
• Licensing my CMS commercially, without having to use a solicitor · 2 points · by stulogy · no comments
• The Surreal World of Chatroulette · 2 points · by peter123 · no comments
• The Ten Golden Principles For Successful Web Apps · 2 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Speedup 12 machine learning algorithms with mapreduce on multicore machines · 2 points · by moon_of_moon · 1 comment
• Poor man's CMS: CK Editor + Apache Sling integration in 64 lines of code · 2 points · by techdog · no comments
• Ask HN: You're a Internet millionaire. Why aren't you supporting life extension? · 2 points · by sailormoon · 2 comments
• My Social Identity. Which site did I leave it on, again? · 2 points · by wyclif · no comments
• Besides Mixergy, where else can you get long-form interviews with entrepreneurs? · 2 points · by thesethings · no comments
• MIT's Flyfire Turns Swarms of Autonomous LED Copters Into Floating 3-D Displays · 2 points · by pinstriped_dude · 1 comment
• Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis · 2 points · by wheels · no comments
• Implementing reload in Google Chrome · 2 points · by lordgilman · no comments
• Cisco and HP Divorce · 2 points · by pakistanjan · no comments
• The Real Story Behind Fusion Energy · 2 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Graph Algorithms with MapReduce (presentation) · 2 points · by herdrick · 2 comments
• Google’s challenges of freeing VP8 · 2 points · by robin_reala · 1 comment
• I forgot where I read this · 1 points · by kimfuh · 1 comment
• Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig Dies at 85 · 1 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• Google gets go-ahead to buy, sell energy · 1 points · by vladocar · no comments
• The Art of Selling an Expensive Watch · 1 points · by mishmax · no comments
• The Great California Wine Mystery · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Paul Erdos: An Infinity of Problems · 1 points · by helwr · no comments
• EZ-CSS - Yet another CSS framework. · 1 points · by saurabh · no comments
• Thoughts On Freebie Trading · 1 points · by smart · no comments
• Avoid the perils of coder customers · 1 points · by abyx · no comments
• Study: Ages of social network users · 1 points · by helium · no comments
• Dolly, Rejection and Radiohead Journalism · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• 50 caliber bullet impacts in slow motion · 1 points · by pinstriped_dude · no comments
• RHIC Collider Creates Quark-Gluon Plasma at 4,000,000,000,000 Degrees Celsius · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Wanted: System That Automatically Gauges Who Can Be Trusted · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Reaction to Cyber Shockwave · 1 points · by ekiru · no comments
• Leave Something Behind When You’re Gone · 1 points · by v4us · no comments
• Climate change may make plants more fragrant · 1 points · by pinstriped_dude · no comments
• Can you learn physics from a comic book? · 1 points · by pinstriped_dude · no comments
• How Many Primes · 1 points · by sublemonic · no comments
• Infographic: The 10 Most Expensive Pieces of Art Ever Sold · 1 points · by pinstriped_dude · no comments
• More, more: you know you want it · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• FINDING THE RIGHT COLLEGE FOR YOU · 1 points · by v4us · no comments
• Simple pager for ASP.NET MVC · 1 points · by gpeipman · no comments
• The Partnerka - The secret behind Blackhat Spam SEO · 1 points · by rantfoil · no comments
• Communicating Science in a Post-Newspaper Era (audio & transcript) · 1 points · by FluidDjango · no comments
• International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge · 1 points · by alexk · no comments
• Anxiety High [pdf 2Mb] · 1 points · by bootload · 1 comment
• Op-Ed Contributor - ThE I.R.S. vs. Tech Workers · 1 points · by bitdiddle · 1 comment
• Compiling HipHop-PHP on Ubuntu 9.10 · 1 points · by leftnode · no comments
• Another Behavioral Targeting Wordpress Plugin · 1 points · by cllaudiu · no comments
• 75% Of Paid Search Clicks & Dollars Goes to Google · 1 points · by SSB · no comments
• The Dark Side of Social Media and Privacy · 1 points · by buckpost · no comments
• Video Chat coming in future iPhones/iPads? · 1 points · by tcskeptic · no comments
• Chinese schools deny role in Google hack · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Connect A Million Minds · 1 points · by bhp · no comments
• You Can't Launch the Next Generation of Startups Without Women · 1 points · by fauigerzigerk · no comments
• Our kids may care about brands, but do brands really care about kids? · 1 points · by bensummers · 1 comment
• Stirling engine · 1 points · by yread · 2 comments
• CPU Benchmarks · 1 points · by known · no comments
• Free Code? Free Art? · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• Buzz Failed To Appreciate Users Have Differing Privacy Expectations · 1 points · by jmount · no comments
• Open sourcers fortify Ubuntu's Koala food · 1 points · by ableal · no comments
• Farmville players outnumber real farmers in the US by a ratio of 60 to 1 · 1 points · by niyazpk · no comments
• Fast-food breakfast sales decline as fewer head to work · 1 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• The wireless bandwidth crunch · 1 points · by dconti · no comments
• To Prevent, or Fix when Broken? (The Dentist vs. The Doctor) · 1 points · by unignorant · no comments
• Open Sourcing your software hurts your competitiveness as a researcher? · 1 points · by unignorant · no comments
• Minimum Viable Product WordPress Themes · 1 points · by Semetric · no comments
• The Food Lab: Fresh Ricotta in Five Minutes or Less · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Printing People Parts: World’s First Human Organ Bio-Printer · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China · 1 points · by known · no comments
• ScaleDB cloud storage engine for MySQL · 1 points · by sadiq · 1 comment
• New Critical Rationalism Blog · 1 points · by xenophanes · no comments
• OH at PyCon · 1 points · by siddhant · no comments
• Booyah MyTown Players: What to do After Level 40? · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Becoming asynchronous - The first step towards distributed applications · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• MobileMe gets slightly more compatible with Mobile Safari · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Google Buzz No Facebook, Twitter Killer, Google Exec Says · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Lanier's "mush" · 1 points · by gnosis · no comments
• VDbench: The Amazing Swiss Army Knife of Benchmarks · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• ShadyURL makes your link frightening · 1 points · by nealb · no comments
• The Architecture and Ambition of Craigslist · 1 points · by prakash · no comments
• Apple blocks screenshots, axes sexual content from App Store · 1 points · by kmod · 1 comment
• 3 calls to action you must have at the end of your lead generation white paper · 1 points · by jslogan · no comments
• How to include the fonts in your website legally · 1 points · by lewro · no comments
• Springtime renews optimism, will it be enough to jump start the economy · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Ask HN: How does Ookla Net Metrics (speedtest.net) works? · 1 points · by vkdelta · 3 comments
• HOW TO: Deal With Negative Feedback in Social Media · 1 points · by vladocar · no comments
• JavaScript Overload Patterns · 1 points · by mnemonik · no comments
• LEGO Robot Solves Any Rubik’s Cube In Less Than 12 Seconds (Video) · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Tech4000 · 1 points · by r5416 · no comments
• Swarm of Micro-Helicopters Could Create a Giant 3-D Display · 1 points · by prat · no comments
• The Power of Massive Twitter Accounts - Or Lack Thereof · 1 points · by alexandros · no comments
• Unknown hacker hijacks the website of Falkland Islands' newspaper · 1 points · by raphar · no comments
• RightSide Capital Announces New Seed Fund; 100-200 Investments/year · 1 points · by epi0Bauqu · no comments
• Interview with Vancouver startup cofounder on their recent LemonStand release · 1 points · by robotpony · no comments