Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Ben Folds Chatroulette Piano Ode to Merton · 219 points · by MikeCapone · 59 comments
• Good sleep, good learning, good life · 152 points · by JesseAldridge · 61 comments
• Google Code University · 150 points · by va_coder · 6 comments
• Please review my web-based Emacs color theme generator · 126 points · by pogos · 50 comments
• The Complete iPhone Development Toolbox · 115 points · by collistaeed · 19 comments
• JavaScript: what is "this"? · 96 points · by juvenn · 47 comments
• Why writing software is not like engineering · 91 points · by nishantmodak · 72 comments
• Contributing to Open Source projects · 84 points · by mqt · 22 comments
• "Twitter" in 1935 · 79 points · by CWIZO · 18 comments
• James Randi comes out of the closet at 81 · 77 points · by MikeCapone · 39 comments
• Develop for Android with Scala · 75 points · by gecko · 20 comments
• Hackers, architects, and superheroes: 3 ways to be an excellent programmer · 73 points · by araneae · 10 comments
• America’s Real Dream Team · 66 points · by raju · 34 comments
• The best bank in the US · 65 points · by pw · 50 comments
• Steve Jobs and Flash Get Personal · 46 points · by dwwoelfel · 4 comments
• How I Judge Investors · 46 points · by MediaSquirrel · 6 comments
• Ruby Scales, and It’s Fast – If You Do It Right · 42 points · by jmonegro · 22 comments
• Scaling MySQL to 700 million inserts per day · 39 points · by bluesmoon · 28 comments
• Facebook Game Idea Generator · 38 points · by triptych · 18 comments
• Ask HN: How to sell? · 36 points · by salesnewb · 26 comments
• Tell HN: Meet Cloudomatic, an easy way to discover SaaS apps. (StartupWeekend) · 34 points · by jasonlbaptiste · 22 comments
• Apple pulls $349.99 game after developer bashes App Store at GDC · 34 points · by cookiecaper · 12 comments
• Ioke - strongly typed, dynamic, homoiconic, prototype-based JVM language · 33 points · by smikhanov · 11 comments
• RSense - Emacs, Vim, etc. code completion for Ruby · 30 points · by gleb · 5 comments
• Why Everything Is Becoming a Game · 29 points · by Wump · 10 comments
• Zynga Was PayPal’s Second-Largest Merchant in 2009 · 28 points · by sinzone · 3 comments
• Cassandra 0.5.0 released · 27 points · by bootload · 8 comments
• I will be losing my Job today... · 26 points · by bryan1 · 22 comments
• Paul Krugman, the Nobel prize winner who threatens the world · 25 points · by thafman · 28 comments
• The Age Old Question: Can A Non-Technical Founder Run A Startup? · 25 points · by sthomps · 29 comments
• CrazyEgg To The Rescue Again · 24 points · by wglb · 9 comments
• AMD Contest: What Would You Do With 48 Cores? · 23 points · by 0xdeadc0de · 32 comments
• Ask HN: How does a Jr. to Mid-Level programmer find work? · 22 points · by hdx · 30 comments
• Ask HN: I will work for free ... · 22 points · by swdev · 56 comments
• Passing the Microsoft Interview · 21 points · by skorks · 14 comments
• Google Maps: Which Highway is Which? · 21 points · by j053003 · 9 comments
• The rise of the app entrepreneur · 19 points · by mgcreed · 8 comments
• The most important class I ever took was theatre - Part 2. · 18 points · by bpick · no comments
• Performance Comparison - C++/Java/Python/Ruby/Jython/JRuby/Groovy (2008) · 18 points · by d0mine · 8 comments
• The Internet of Things · 18 points · by yanw · 2 comments
• The Nexus One is a Failure (Fat Chance) · 18 points · by cschanck · 24 comments
• Exploiting hard filtered SQL Injections · 18 points · by hachiya · 14 comments
• Faster List Intersection Using Skip Pointers · 17 points · by skorks · 3 comments
• Why Blippy Will be Huge: Popularity Modeling and the Music Business · 17 points · by inmygarage · 8 comments
• Impel - HTML5 Javascript ORM · 17 points · by tortilla · 11 comments
• Like chat roulette but with 8 random people at once and less wieners · 16 points · by chenosaurus · 19 comments
• The Microwave Mortuary · 16 points · by chaosmachine · 3 comments
• John Hopkins Researchers Find Cheap Acne Drug Prevents HIV Breakout · 15 points · by chaostheory · 2 comments
• The 1987 Max Headroom Pirating Incident · 15 points · by grrow · 5 comments
• Must-See Movies for Entrepreneurs · 15 points · by faramarz · 22 comments
• China state media accuses Google of political agenda · 14 points · by cwan · 29 comments
• Windows PowerShell Cookbook · 14 points · by skorks · 6 comments
• Kojo - Scala for Kids · 14 points · by skorks · 4 comments
• Iceland prepares for [possible] second, more devastating volcanic eruption · 14 points · by benpbenp · 4 comments
• Health Bill Would Add 3.8% Tax on Investment Income · 13 points · by known · 48 comments
• HNRFS: Help me help you; whats missing from your day? · 13 points · by dzlobin · 12 comments
• On Passwords · 13 points · by tortilla · 21 comments
• HYPE Framework by Joshua Davis and Branden Hall · 12 points · by some1else · 9 comments
• Toyota Recall Videos - Stopping Procedure · 11 points · by cesare · 4 comments
• India at the forefront of a new arms race? · 11 points · by dnsworks · 30 comments
• Video Games: the addiction · 10 points · by alecco · no comments
• DC Code-a-thon for government citability needs coders AND librarians · 9 points · by AnneTheAgile · 3 comments
• Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem for dummies · 9 points · by helium · 3 comments
• Self control is bolstered by abstract thinking · 9 points · by j_baker · no comments
• The Chinese Dollar Peg -- the New Chinese Opium · 8 points · by jboydyhacker · 1 comment
• "x86 Open64 Compiler Suite" optimizes for AMD *and* Intel Processors · 8 points · by briansmith · no comments
• The Problem with Threads · 8 points · by davi · 3 comments
• FYI IE9 (probably) won't support WebSockets · 7 points · by nailer · 6 comments
• The Physics of Alice in Wonderland · 7 points · by waterlesscloud · 1 comment
• How to Be Brilliant · 7 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• Java Clojure Interop: Integrating Clojure into Your Java Project · 7 points · by va_coder · 2 comments
• The New Startup Arms Race · 7 points · by bootload · 2 comments
• Jsawk is like awk, but for JSON · 6 points · by timf · no comments
• Ask HN: What is Not a startup? · 6 points · by twidlit · 7 comments
• Happy Birthday Twitter (4th Birthday) · 6 points · by vijaydev · no comments
• Awesome in-depth investigation of Nexus One (and other HTC) batteries · 6 points · by whalesalad · no comments
• Using close script tag In A JavaScript Literal · 6 points · by paraschopra · 6 comments
• Dressing for nerds · 6 points · by seshagiric · 13 comments
• The iPad will save you · 6 points · by pavs · no comments
• The iPod of Baby Tricycles · 6 points · by jonsteinberg · 3 comments
• The Golden Touch · 6 points · by pg · no comments
• Ending the Internet’s Trench Warfare · 6 points · by thafman · 5 comments
• 5 Ways to Add Time To Your Days · 6 points · by yanw · 4 comments
• My latest anti-java rant · 5 points · by scumola · 47 comments
• Startup Hacks: Build your idea notebook · 5 points · by rafaelc · no comments
• Politics, free trade, violence · 5 points · by rbanffy · 3 comments
• The Future of Money: It’s Flexible, Frictionless and (Almost) Free · 4 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• Paying young people for their performance · 4 points · by apsec112 · no comments
• Rework is Brilliant · 4 points · by aaronbrethorst · no comments
• Port Scanner in Clojure · 4 points · by va_coder · 1 comment
• What’s that eggy smell in the server room? · 4 points · by noarchy · no comments
• All types are not compared equally (part 2) · 4 points · by skorks · no comments
• Tell HN: I will work for free ... part 2 · 4 points · by swdev · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Japanese search engine query data or query feed? · 4 points · by ChaitanyaSai · no comments
• Silicon Valley’s All Twttr [2006] · 4 points · by dwynings · no comments
• Ask HN: Domain Name Dilemma · 4 points · by kloc · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Review hyperlocal Q&A site askaro.com · 4 points · by ubaldo · 2 comments
• The Great Reputation Recalc Begins · 4 points · by phsr · no comments
• Subpixel Rendering · 4 points · by huhtenberg · no comments
• Ask HN: What is a startup exactly? · 3 points · by twidlit · 3 comments
• How LEGOs are made · 3 points · by Flemlord · 1 comment
• Fury as Google puts the SAS's secret base on Street View · 3 points · by jfornear · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Do you know anyone who got a Google university award? · 3 points · by urlwolf · no comments
• Ruby's first-class functions make printf-debugging obsolete · 3 points · by lsb · 13 comments
• Painting the Mona Lisa with MS Paint · 3 points · by ptn · no comments
• Are web mapping tools stagnating? · 3 points · by cilantro · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Downvoting etiquette · 3 points · by sshumaker · 3 comments
• Chinese netizens' open letter to the Chinese Government and Google · 3 points · by yanw · no comments
• 8 studies demonstrating the power of simplicity · 3 points · by j_baker · no comments
• Interesting keywords on Google's Go language · 3 points · by lfelipe82 · no comments
• Developer discloses non-html5 IE7 browser in the new Windows Phone 7 Series · 2 points · by mortenjust · no comments
• Multicore requires OS rework, Windows architect advises · 2 points · by setori88 · no comments
• Visas for Foreign Entrepreneurs · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Can We Design Cities for Happiness? · 2 points · by bluesmoon · 2 comments
• Skype – London Offices · 2 points · by oscarman · no comments
• Code Reading as a Team Activity · 2 points · by skorks · no comments
• Financial Shenanigans: the Repo 105 · 2 points · by wglb · no comments
• Game Developers are Better Than Everyone Else? · 2 points · by slicedlime · no comments
• Stuck web designer · 2 points · by hans222 · 4 comments
• Make your hard disk as a personal webdrive that you can access from anywhere · 2 points · by codemechanic · no comments
• 2 Apps Are Better Than 1 · 2 points · by jonpaul · no comments
• IBM launches Smartcamp accelerator contest in Boston · 2 points · by shedd · no comments
• CrunchBang Linux 10 “Statler” Alpha 1 released · 2 points · by sinbsd · no comments
• PhpSysInfo · 2 points · by nreece · 1 comment
• The IRS Emailed Me Back · 2 points · by markpneyer · no comments
• Entity Framework 4.0: Creating objects of correct type when using lazy loading · 1 points · by gpeipman · no comments
• Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influence on Twitter · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Do Animals Commit Suicide? · 1 points · by mhb · no comments
• A Custody Battle, Supersized, Over Marvel Superheroes · 1 points · by rglovejoy · no comments
• Scientists Step Closer to Real Invisibility Cloak · 1 points · by bluesmoon · no comments
• New Model Captures Spread of Personal Information through Social Networks · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Ask HN: Is anyone else getting the french version, when going to webmaster labs? · 1 points · by vaksel · no comments
• Quicksilver Update Improves Performance & Stability · 1 points · by samratjp · no comments
• Startup Seed Raising Skilzzz · 1 points · by sinzone · no comments
• Sling streaming TV onto Blackberry PDA · 1 points · by antonhy · no comments
• 50 Essential apps for web publishers · 1 points · by yurylifshits · no comments
• Google Ganja or Mapping Marijuana · 1 points · by iamwil · no comments
• They’re Not Waiting for an Invitation to Evite’s Party · 1 points · by adora · no comments
• Novell rejects "inadequate" $2B takeover bid · 1 points · by alexkay · no comments
• The confusion of the first years of the Fedora Project (an IRC dialogue) · 1 points · by mapleoin · no comments
• The Role of Online Universities · 1 points · by BurgherJon · no comments
• Ali G Harvard commencement speech · 1 points · by helwr · no comments
• The 5 Best Ebook Search Engines · 1 points · by woork · no comments
• Ask HN: Good UML tutorial through examples · 1 points · by digamber_kamat · no comments
• Virtual Cash Vs. Real Cash, do they have the same power? · 1 points · by chegra84 · no comments
• Smartphone as ATM: Deposit a check by taking its photo · 1 points · by darshan · 1 comment
• Clinical trial shows Sage may improve memory. · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• Chromium Bug Tracking Thread Regarding MRU Tab Ordering · 1 points · by andrewparker · no comments
• IPad Parody Highlights Device Shortcomings [video] · 1 points · by Mark_F · no comments
• Show HN: create-a-password.appspot.com · 1 points · by kaffeinecoma · 2 comments
• Creating a New State of Matter · 1 points · by fanfantm · no comments
• Plans for broadband: Pipe Dream · 1 points · by rnicholson · no comments
• Website's instant posts of Wall St research banned · 1 points · by wglb · no comments
• Not Mashable · 1 points · by dhotson · no comments
• Dealing with the negative consequences of overloaded operators in C++ · 1 points · by briansmith · 1 comment
• Streaming March Madness On The Web · 1 points · by jmarbach · no comments
• Writing better code: it’s imperative that you are declarative · 1 points · by andrewhare · 1 comment
• Why should you spent your life trying to get more money? · 1 points · by eduf · no comments
• The 100 essential websites · 1 points · by mgcreed · no comments
• YouTube: iPad model making, ten parts · 1 points · by mikecane · no comments
• Afghanistan/nato: opium, business as usual · 1 points · by zbygniew · no comments
• Ask HN: Breaking the Blank Canavas · 1 points · by hans222 · 1 comment
• U.S. Rig Count Surpasses Prior Bubble Peak (Chart) · 1 points · by jboydyhacker · no comments
• Beware of Success · 1 points · by tgnguyen · no comments
• Brain scans could be marketing tool of the future · 1 points · by blhack · no comments
• Interesting graph -net effect on (US) deficit from major reconciliation bills · 1 points · by credo · no comments
• Concurrency in Erlang & Scala: The Actor Model · 1 points · by blhack · no comments
• ZeuS botnet code keeps getting better… for criminals · 1 points · by Tomasino · no comments
• JavaScript: Better and Faster · 1 points · by r11t · 2 comments
• Are Google fans too cheap to pay for anything? · 1 points · by andrewmayne · no comments
• Happy Birthday Twitter · 1 points · by DarrenMills · no comments
• Should Your Startup Give Performance-Based Warrants? · 1 points · by dwynings · no comments
• What's Next In Marketing & Advertising · 1 points · by faramarz · no comments
• Initial/Trivial Node/Express/Django+Apache benchmarks · 1 points · by alnayyir · no comments
• Early galaxy went through 'teenage growth spurt,' scientists say · 1 points · by toni · no comments
• So what is Google actually good at? · 1 points · by Specstacular · no comments
• If ET Calls, Who Speaks For Humanity? · 1 points · by nreece · no comments
• Look forward in anger (on personal animosity in Silicon Valley) · 1 points · by salar · 1 comment
• Now that we have in-app purchasing, are trial periods a smart thing to do? · 1 points · by ow · no comments
• What Avatar Can Teach Us About Humanity? · 0 points · by goldforger · no comments
• Top Funny T-Shirts · 0 points · by prabodh · no comments