Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Dropbox: Startup Lessons Learned [ppt] · 247 points · by huangm · 59 comments
• Zed Shaw is Writing A Book Teaching Beginner Python · 179 points · by sverrejoh · 111 comments
• Tell HN: Threads fast · 132 points · by pg · 26 comments
• Steve Wozniak has a little bit of fun at Gray Powell’s expense · 128 points · by anderzole · 89 comments
• Build Your Own Cellular Network · 106 points · by cwan · 15 comments
• Ask HN: Anybody else quitting Facebook over privacy concerns? · 78 points · by adammichaelc · 94 comments
• Choosing names for your computers · 77 points · by s-phi-nl · 86 comments
• Ask HN: Who is already sick of all of these "Like" buttons plastered everywhere? · 73 points · by theli0nheart · 50 comments
• Show HN: CanvasMol molecule viewer (JS + canvas demo) · 72 points · by bd · 11 comments
• Living With a Computer (1982) · 70 points · by atestu · 19 comments
• Dear John Letter to Coda · 66 points · by raimondious · 31 comments
• "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov · 65 points · by mahipal · 7 comments
• Ask HN: Your Dev Environment · 53 points · by evo_9 · 58 comments
• Why the name "dynamic programming"? · 51 points · by blasdel · 25 comments
• Nomic: "...a game in which changing the rules is a move." · 50 points · by elimisteve · 29 comments
• How Much Processing Power Does it Take to be Fast? · 49 points · by blasdel · 10 comments
• Why it's completely unnecessary to create one-line CSS selectors · 48 points · by thedz · 38 comments
• Mechanize 0.2.0 released · 48 points · by iamelgringo · 19 comments
• The iPad, the Newton, & the "Of Course" Model of Innovation Diffusion · 44 points · by ahoyhere · 31 comments
• Single Line CSS · 43 points · by gursikh · 41 comments
• New Banksy Film about street art · 42 points · by d4ft · 33 comments
• Ask HN: What is your favorite Javascript UI framework out there ? · 40 points · by olalonde · 42 comments
• Calculated Bets: how a CS prof developed a winning sports gambling system · 40 points · by henning · 18 comments
• Clojure 1.2(?) to get Annotations Support · 37 points · by kyleburton · 2 comments
• For a cleaner and safer internet (video) · 33 points · by seven · 17 comments
• Apple stocks worth over 40 times what they were 7 years ago today · 32 points · by ajaimk · 20 comments
• Tech Startups vs Rock Bands · 32 points · by shanedanger · 6 comments
• Google AppEngine – Java vs Python Performance Comparison · 29 points · by iamelgringo · 13 comments
• And Groupon Makes Three. What’s Russian Firm DST’s Secret Sauce? · 28 points · by sound · 12 comments
• Plainview - Fullscreen lightweight browsing experience · 26 points · by haxplorer · 22 comments
• Time to Audit Your Facebook Privacy Settings, Here's How · 26 points · by urlwolf · 11 comments
• MongoDB – From introduction to high level usage in C# with NoRM. · 25 points · by javery · 9 comments
• Scientist Finds PageRank-Type Algorithm from the 1940s · 25 points · by ca98am79 · 11 comments
• Apple closes the revenue, income gap with Microsoft to just $1 billion · 23 points · by miles · 22 comments
• Church Numerals in C++ (and Haskell) · 23 points · by dons · 10 comments
• Adobe abandons iPhone code tools · 23 points · by blahedo · 25 comments
• Structural Tags in HTML5 · 22 points · by gursikh · 4 comments
• How I Would Try to Hack Your Mint.com Account · 22 points · by jowens · 11 comments
• Push SMS w/ Google Voice + Python · 21 points · by rwitoff · 6 comments
• Researchers "Addicted" to Bogus Internet Studies · 21 points · by mathewi · 3 comments
• Welcome to the Likernet… like ‘er or not · 21 points · by gojomo · 8 comments
• A tour in ooc land · 20 points · by viraptor · 25 comments
• Browser performance comparison (2009) · 19 points · by haxplorer · 12 comments
• The benefits of using Google Closure · 19 points · by whalesalad · 1 comment
• Dropbox Android Beta App · 18 points · by johnnytee · 8 comments
• Whale poop is vital to ocean's carbon cycle · 18 points · by cwan · 2 comments
• @twitterapi's countdown to Basic Auth removal · 16 points · by twapi · 25 comments
• Are venture capitalists inflating the bubble? · 15 points · by gibsonf1 · 6 comments
• Inventing the “Three-Finger Salute” [ctrl-alt-del] · 15 points · by hibrian · 2 comments
• How lambdaj 2.0 brings (almost) real closures to Java · 15 points · by mariofusco · no comments
• Dapper, a Large-Scale Distributed Systems Tracing Infrastructure · 14 points · by hga · no comments
• XML to JSONP converter for consuming APIs · 13 points · by matthewcford · 5 comments
• Ask HN: How do you get started in enterpirse Java development? · 11 points · by vital101 · 12 comments
• Beanstalk, a Simple and Fast Queueing Backend · 11 points · by semmons · 1 comment
• ASK HN:Good web design? · 10 points · by mx2323 · 7 comments
• Tool of the Day: Titanpad: Etherpad Reincarnated · 10 points · by greengirl512 · 4 comments
• Meet Marty Cooper - the inventor of the mobile phone · 10 points · by J3L2404 · 1 comment
• JWZ's App Codesign Maze · 10 points · by J3L2404 · 7 comments
• Don Knuth: Computer-drawn Flowcharts (1963) · 10 points · by Rod · 4 comments
• Ask HN: What skills can a someone develop to become a great hacker? · 9 points · by thecombjelly · 9 comments
• Ask HN: GeoAPI or SimpleGeo? · 9 points · by nessence · 6 comments
• Ask HN: What do you think of our demo website? · 9 points · by shin_lao · 30 comments
• Jstle: a terse Javascript language for RDF graphs · 9 points · by dnewcome · 2 comments
• Everyone dials in - a trick for running distributed team meetings · 9 points · by natfriedman · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Ever advertised on a banner network like Fusion? · 9 points · by ahoyhere · no comments
• Apple also fired a Test Engineer for showing Woz an iPad · 9 points · by luminary · 3 comments
• The Real Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (Alan Kay, 2007) · 8 points · by johkra · 8 comments
• Dabblers and Blowhards · 7 points · by latif · no comments
• Founders die penniless in a bowling alley (Steve Blank 30m40s) · 7 points · by richcollins · no comments
• Ask HN: Lisp development for Android? · 7 points · by BerislavLopac · 2 comments
• Ask HN: How does Facebook prevent websites from clicking the "like" button? · 7 points · by photon_off · 1 comment
• Whirr, a library of cloud services proposal · 7 points · by helwr · no comments
• Steve Wozniak On Apple Security, Employee Termination, and Gray Powell · 7 points · by johns · 1 comment
• Genaille-Lucas rulers · 6 points · by splat · no comments
• Ask HN: Where the hell is all this recent hate on Gen Y'ers coming from? · 6 points · by devinus · 12 comments
• Hacks/Hackers Unite: The 48-hour iPad journalism project in SF · 6 points · by xdamman · no comments
• Ask HN: How do Startups Look for Employment Candidates? · 6 points · by iamdave · 1 comment
• Ditch the Biz Plan, Buy a Lottery Ticket · 6 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Ask HN: Feedback for seed fund in Mexico - AspireLabs.net · 6 points · by hugostevens · 7 comments
• Recap from Startup Lessons Learned Conference · 6 points · by skmurphy · 1 comment
• IPad App Maker "Good Reader" Makes $70,000 In 20 Days · 5 points · by aresant · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Language & web framework advice? · 5 points · by marilyn · 6 comments
• Three types of distributed system designers · 5 points · by soundsop · no comments
• Massachusetts moves funds from big banks in protest of credit card rates · 5 points · by marcamillion · no comments
• Archivists create emulated image of Rushdie's computer · 5 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Never Hire Job Hoppers. Never. They Make Terrible Employees · 5 points · by aj · 1 comment
• Nina Paley: My Decision To Turn Down Netflix Due To DRM · 5 points · by yanw · 2 comments
• In the tech world, porn quietly leads the way · 5 points · by niyazpk · no comments
• The tide has changed for Dutch dykes · 5 points · by sailormoon · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Know of any web frameworks that run on Python 3? · 5 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Picture storage web site? But not flickr or picasa! · 5 points · by yradunchev · 19 comments
• How BigTechCo's work inside · 5 points · by idiginous · 2 comments
• Introduction to Website Parasites (of the criminal hacker variety) · 5 points · by hga · 3 comments
• Never Hire Job Hoppers. Never. They Make Terrible Employees · 5 points · by ableal · 5 comments
• Research Gap Left Airlines Exposed to Volcano’s Blast · 5 points · by jakarta · no comments
• Twitter To Kill Basic Authorization, Developers Will Have To Opt OAuth · 5 points · by twapi · no comments
• Ask HN: Would you use Coda for iPad · 4 points · by Judson · 4 comments
• World Bank opens up data and developer API · 4 points · by colinprince · no comments
• How to Fool Face Recognition Systems With Make Up · 4 points · by jamesbressi · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Features of a Facebook alternative · 4 points · by rlm · 1 comment
• Mnmlist: society, reimagined: how to make it reality · 4 points · by v4us · no comments
• The Comprehensive GNU Radio Archive Network (CGRAN) · 4 points · by juvenn · no comments
• Ask HN: A tool to analyse the orders of growth · 4 points · by morphir · 2 comments
• Rackspace funds Riptano to offer commercial Cassandra support and services · 4 points · by olivers · no comments
• A Simple Online Single-Line/Multi-Line CSS Converter · 4 points · by JoelSutherland · 1 comment
• The Startup Lessons Learned Ebook · 4 points · by peterarmstrong · no comments
• The Sun Rises in the East · 4 points · by newsit · no comments
• Zed Shaw - How To Backpedal And Boost Like A Pro · 4 points · by diptanu · 1 comment
• How To Manage Large Applications with jQuery #jqcon · 4 points · by Serene · no comments
• Passivhaus standard for energy efficiency · 3 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• Is Palm Crumbling Before Our Eyes? · 3 points · by MykalMorton · no comments
• Ask HN: How to find side project friendly companies? · 3 points · by pantsd · 3 comments
• Möbius Music Box · 3 points · by raimondious · no comments
• Outfoxing the Counterfeiters · 3 points · by grellas · no comments
• Secrets of the biggest selling launch ever · 3 points · by niyazpk · no comments
• Charles Web Debugging Proxy · 3 points · by helwr · no comments
• Interview with Patrick McKenzie (patio11) - messa.tv · 3 points · by revorad · no comments
• Up or Out: Solving the IT Turnover Crisis · 3 points · by niyazpk · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What does it mean to have a 4.0 GPA? · 3 points · by maxklein · 4 comments
• 100-Year-Old Trick Squeezes Fiber-Optic Speeds from Copper Wires · 3 points · by helwr · no comments
• Libguestfs, library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images · 3 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Freelancing - How I handle client payments · 3 points · by mnemonicfx · no comments
• Ask HN: Any good email reminder startups? · 3 points · by ajaimk · 4 comments
• Augmented reality sculptures around the world · 3 points · by gasull · no comments
• Task-Centered User Interface Design · 3 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Twitter to Kill Basic Auth - Change to xAuth · 3 points · by mootymoots · no comments
• Scaling the Lean Startup (IMVU Case Study) · 3 points · by TimothyFitz · no comments
• Minimal Django · 3 points · by olifante · no comments
• Paypal To Offer In App Purchases On iPhone and Android · 3 points · by dwynings · no comments
• Goldman Emails Contradict Their Assertion That It Lost Money in Mortgages · 3 points · by mhb · 1 comment
• No, here's why Raphaël (RaphaelJS) really rocks · 3 points · by some0n3 · no comments
• You're Lucky Your Boss Doesn't Use Flash Dev Edition · 2 points · by k33n · 1 comment
• Opening Night at the US Imagine Cup Finals · 2 points · by AlfredTwo · no comments
• Lessons learned developing a practical large scale machine learning system · 2 points · by helwr · no comments
• Is All That Sitting Really Killing Us? · 2 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• Tk gui toolkit tutorial · 2 points · by s-phi-nl · no comments
• Silicon Valley Police Investigating Gizmodo For Stolen iPhone Prototype · 2 points · by kloncks · no comments
• Ask HN: server/computer naming schemes · 2 points · by dryicerx · 2 comments
• Generative Modeling Language · 2 points · by dangoldin · no comments
• Don’t Talk about Users · 2 points · by mbrubeck · no comments
• Facebook Insights: Not Scary and Not Effective (Yet) · 2 points · by marywallace · no comments
• GNU Accessibility Statement · 2 points · by tjr · no comments
• Thinkertoys illustrated · 2 points · by franx · no comments
• Death of 'Caveman' ends an era in Idaho · 2 points · by miles · 1 comment
• Photos of the Recent Icelandic Volcano Activity · 2 points · by olliesaunders · no comments
• Mnmlist: society, reimagined -- How to make your life better Part 1 · 2 points · by v4us · 1 comment
• The tech press isn’t either · 2 points · by thafman · no comments
• IBM scientists can fit 1000 3D maps of the earth on a grain of salt · 2 points · by jamescrowley · no comments
• Undercover persuasion by tech industry lobbyists · 2 points · by rooshdi · no comments
• Google Chrome Extensions for People Who Build Websites · 2 points · by mattyb · no comments
• Car that drives itself gets closer to reality · 2 points · by J3L2404 · no comments
• ModSecurity: Allowing Google Verification · 2 points · by aweber · no comments
• Virtualenv - Play safely with a Python · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• MailBrowser - Simple Gmail Plugin for Managing your Contacts · 2 points · by Ascendancy · no comments
• SEC Inspector General Will Investigate Timing of Goldman Case · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Elements Of Twitter Style · 2 points · by bensummers · no comments
• Church of Scientology blasts Russian government for L. Ron Hubbard ban · 2 points · by hachiya · no comments
• Adobe will accelerate Flash video using new Apple API · 2 points · by elblanco · no comments
• Ask HN: Startup ideas around 4G · 2 points · by shivam14 · 2 comments
• Sparking imperatives - how to fake lazy threads in Haskell · 2 points · by dons · no comments
• Disguised as A/B Testing · 2 points · by 99miles · no comments
• The Venture Capitalist Wishlist · 2 points · by ig1 · no comments
• Web Laureate Classic: "WISIA: Not What I Asked" · 2 points · by sallywu · no comments
• Plerts - Tap Your Social Safety Net for Medical and Personal Safety · 2 points · by prmac · 1 comment
• Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac Beta 2 Leaked. Apparently it’s Very Good. · 2 points · by dwynings · no comments
• Apple Hires IGN Editor As App Store Game Editorial Chief · 1 points · by mikecane · no comments
• Digg Introduces Clusto: The Cluster Management Tool · 1 points · by tdmackey · no comments
• House effort would legalize, tax online gambling · 1 points · by matt1 · no comments
• A Developer's Look Into The Secret World of Apple · 1 points · by syalam · no comments
• Impulse Buyers By the Numbers · 1 points · by jaybol · no comments
• TWiST #49 with Sky Dayton, Founder of Earthlink and Boingo · 1 points · by SRSimko · no comments
• Bootstrapping a Python project · 1 points · by twampss · no comments
• A.R. Rahman - iPad exporter, composer · 1 points · by kingkawn · no comments
• ZOTAC MAG: a small powerful computer · 1 points · by kreci · 2 comments
• Detecting malicious URLs: papers and a downloadable 700 MB data set · 1 points · by henning · no comments
• EURion constellation (It's on the new $100 and the one in your pocket) · 1 points · by jballanc · 1 comment
• Experimental GitX fork · 1 points · by basil · no comments
• Django Pluggables gone? · 1 points · by bmelton · no comments
• What’s Russian firm DST’s secret sauce? · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Javascript tribute to The Beatles · 1 points · by texeltexel · no comments
• Wordpress.com's new "Surprise Me" option · 1 points · by apphacker · 1 comment
• Climate scientist sues newspaper for 'poisoning' global warming debate · 1 points · by drallison · no comments
• Please review my site..... · 1 points · by jamal844 · 1 comment
• The Price of Admission · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Less.app, a GUI for LESS CSS · 1 points · by raimondious · 2 comments
• What the data crunchers know about you · 1 points · by awk · no comments
• Larry Ellison - What The Hell Is Cloud Computing? · 1 points · by BrentRitterbeck · no comments
• Ask HN: What is that "IS Lite" from Gartner? · 1 points · by tamersalama · no comments
• Active Essays on the Web (2009) · 1 points · by johkra · no comments
• Gizmodo Caught in Copyright Crossfire · 1 points · by potatolicious · no comments
• The problem with assuming interfaces are "intuitive" · 1 points · by adriand · no comments
• IPad App Maker Makes $70,000 In 20 Days · 1 points · by aj · no comments
• CashPilot Provides Easy Personal Accounting Software for iPhone Users · 1 points · by prmac · no comments
• Fish School by Duck Duck Moose Teaches Alphabet, Numbers, Shapes, Colors · 1 points · by prmac · no comments
• Top mistakes in bathroom design · 1 points · by pascalchristian · no comments
• Togaroga - Choosy developers choose interfaces · 1 points · by andrewhare · no comments
• Women prefer iPhone-males · 1 points · by helwr · no comments
• How To Become A Hacker · 1 points · by cianestro · no comments
• Must Read: Detailed Notes from Startup Lessons Learned Conference · 1 points · by rhl · no comments
• Fusion Garage only sold 64 JooJoo Devices? · 1 points · by Hagelin · 1 comment
• Linux Consulting: Seeing the Bigger Picture · 1 points · by aweber · 1 comment
• Odd man out · 1 points · by SlyShy · no comments
• The Small Incrmemental Operations Decisions · 1 points · by jonsteinberg · no comments
• Logic in the Limelight · 1 points · by jergosh · no comments
• All about software design feedback · 1 points · by ian1255 · no comments
• "Don't Mistake Activity for Achievement" · 1 points · by sscheper · no comments
• Why f8 was good for the open web · 1 points · by raju · no comments
• Installing an Intel X25-M SSD in a 15-inch Macbook Pro 2010 · 1 points · by colonhyphenp · 9 comments
• Hacking with Google ? · 1 points · by 1gn1t0r · no comments
• Viewing webcams online with Google · 1 points · by 1gn1t0r · no comments
• Ruby still growing? · 1 points · by rlf · no comments
• Looking for Feedback on an new product - Yelp for Lawyers · 1 points · by benhatten · 1 comment
• Little Pieces of a Big Dream: Stories from a Cancer Anxiety Study on Psilocybin · 1 points · by Alex3917 · no comments
• The Value of Social Media Ad Impressions · 1 points · by mgh2 · no comments
• Saurus PHP CMS goes open source · 1 points · by siim · no comments
• Cambridge Science Festival (MA) · 1 points · by J3L2404 · no comments
• Dreaming and Remembering · 1 points · by yan · no comments
• 98 right whales spotted off R.I. coast · 1 points · by J3L2404 · no comments
• IDuple Webtop · 1 points · by arihant · no comments
• Show HN: I wrote a natural language parser for coffee drinks · 1 points · by kylebragger · no comments
• Blippy Fail rant · 1 points · by zitstif · no comments
• HTC Walks Away From Palm Bid: Will Lenovo Bite? · 1 points · by wheels · no comments
• Should You Use a Hosted CMS? · 1 points · by Mistone · no comments
• Q&A: the Anti-iPhone : The Peek · 1 points · by waterlesscloud · no comments
• Ignore the Scoreboard · 1 points · by sage_joch · no comments
• Ads, Widgets & Analytics with jQuery - #jqcon 2010 · 1 points · by Serene · no comments
• IBM Many Bills: a web based visualization of 2009 U.S. congressional legislation · 1 points · by Rod · no comments
• Ajax without JavaScript · 1 points · by VeXocide · no comments
• Another Blippy credit card found in Google · 1 points · by duck · no comments
• What's a better Internet going to be like? · 1 points · by BurgherJon2 · no comments
• Weekly Chess Problems taken from the 'Steps Method' · 1 points · by thisisnotmyname · no comments
• Indexing and enumerating subsets of a given size · 1 points · by EricBurnett · no comments
• Video Games | The Other Blokes Blog · 1 points · by bwelford · no comments
• Multiplayer-social gaming platform for iPhone and Android phones · 1 points · by tahmid · no comments
• You can use dots (periods) anywhere in your Gmail username · 1 points · by samengland · 1 comment
• Gizmodo Caught In Copyright Crossfire · 1 points · by jaybol · no comments
• You Convert It · 1 points · by shawtylu · no comments
• Remo Software exhaustively reviewed by MacFormat · 1 points · by prmac · no comments
• The Drake Equation for the Multiverse · 1 points · by ca98am79 · no comments
• Web Sockets with Tornado and App Engine · 1 points · by stanleydrew · no comments
• Attribution in cyber attacks is difficult, but not impossible · 1 points · by mslagh · no comments
• Ask HN: What's up with Facebook Platform? · 1 points · by aaronblohowiak · no comments
• Two camera-packing iPod touch prototypes appear on eBay · 1 points · by blasdel · no comments