Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? · 268 points · by icey · 168 comments
• Python 2.7 released · 152 points · by cool-RR · 40 comments
• The Last Question by Isaac Asimov · 92 points · by greenlblue · 23 comments
• A regular expression to check for prime numbers · 89 points · by kqr2 · 13 comments
• The difference between iPhone + Android: Great since day one · 85 points · by thesethings · 101 comments
• UPS was founded by 2 teenagers, 1 Bicycle, and $100 borrowed from a friend · 79 points · by grinich · 25 comments
• Git for Computer Scientists · 70 points · by Mathnerd314 · 17 comments
• Defer: Taming asynchronous javascript with coffeescript · 69 points · by gfxmonk · 17 comments
• They Did Their Homework (800 Years of It) · 61 points · by drallison · 21 comments
• Nu: Lisp on Objective C. (think Clojure for Cocoa) · 58 points · by jashmenn · 23 comments
• Youtube comments susceptible to XSS · 56 points · by DanBlake · 45 comments
• Overclocking SSL · 54 points · by kgutteridge · 14 comments
• What happened to studying? · 54 points · by ilamont · 69 comments
• Ask HN: How can I get the most out of SICP? · 53 points · by seancron · 29 comments
• How to read code · 52 points · by omergertel · 11 comments
• iTunes accounts hacked by shady developer? · 50 points · by jeb · 20 comments
• Flash Ported to iPad · 50 points · by tomerico · 28 comments
• Ask HN: Review Cash Curve, our free webapp. · 42 points · by tmbeihl · 19 comments
• Ask HN: How much do you program? · 42 points · by kashif · 23 comments
• The Candlemakers' Petition · 39 points · by dangoldin · 27 comments
• Speed of eating 'key to obesity' · 38 points · by chegra · 33 comments
• Ask HN: What data set would you like to see/use, but doesn't exist? · 37 points · by jlangenauer · 73 comments
• Computer program deciphers a dead language that mystified linguists · 37 points · by ph0rque · 12 comments
• Total Immersion: How I Learned to Swim Effortlessly in 10 Days and You Can Too · 37 points · by paraschopra · 26 comments
• Designing the Face of Forrst · 36 points · by mikeyur · no comments
• Basics of probability and statistics · 35 points · by helwr · 15 comments
• How much change is in a vending machine? · 33 points · by wglb · 18 comments
• Ask HN: Non-coding, single founders? · 32 points · by techless · 48 comments
• Making Your Mark On The Web Is Easier Than You Think · 32 points · by grep · 3 comments
• Choosing a First Machine Learning Project: Start by Reading or by Doing? · 30 points · by danger · 6 comments
• Don't rely solely on your code base's latest snapshot. Rely on its history. · 28 points · by timn · 10 comments
• DailyBooth.com builds community through photos · 28 points · by pg · 1 comment
• YouTube Hacked · 27 points · by rythie · 1 comment
• Python’s httplib uses print for debugging. Oh, it hurts… · 27 points · by ihodes · 15 comments
• Things CEOs Need to Know About Design · 27 points · by dirtyaura · 2 comments
• CAKE (JavaScript scenegraph library for canvas) · 26 points · by teamonkey · 2 comments
• Mammatus: Use DNS NS failover to create HA Web Service. · 26 points · by tricknik · 20 comments
• Mercurial 1.6 released · 24 points · by jsrn · 2 comments
• Slave Master: How Pornography Drugs & Changes Your Brain · 23 points · by reedlaw · 19 comments
• Ghetto Testing: Avoiding products nobody wants · 22 points · by failquicker · 11 comments
• The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains · 21 points · by jseliger · 16 comments
• Cory Doctorow: What I Do · 19 points · by tomh · 6 comments
• Solve XSS by signing SCRIPT tags · 19 points · by jgrahamc · 15 comments
• Complex, Multicellular Life from Over Two Billion Years Ago Discovered · 18 points · by machrider · 1 comment
• The data singularity is here · 17 points · by helwr · no comments
• The Chaocipher revealed · 17 points · by michael_dorfman · 7 comments
• Reddit totally changes Google results for "Carl Herold". Remarkable SEO · 17 points · by mikedmiked · 2 comments
• Google Apps vs. Google Accounts Parity Coming · 17 points · by thafman · 3 comments
• M.C. Escher Art Recreated Using LEGO Bricks (5 Structures) · 17 points · by zecg · 1 comment
• The Rumsfeld Hazard · 17 points · by j_baker · 24 comments
• Signs of Crappy PHP Software · 16 points · by lox · 40 comments
• Ask HN: Does anybody know any outsourcing success stories? · 16 points · by kranner · 29 comments
• Top Mistakes of Massive CSS · 15 points · by jackowayed · 14 comments
• Comedy Central censors Futurama's jab at Apple · 14 points · by albertzeyer · 6 comments
• Making every millisecond count. JVM performance tuning in the real-world (video) · 13 points · by ks · no comments
• Android bandwagon attracting developers and advertisers · 13 points · by grellas · 5 comments
• Machine learning revolutionizes software development · 13 points · by cageface · 6 comments
• High Altitude Photography Project · 12 points · by pedalpete · 1 comment
• Open Source Design: Can Non-Devs Contribute to Open Source Software Projects? · 12 points · by chrissiebrodgan · 5 comments
• Ask HN: How do you market an iPhone App? · 11 points · by rickharrison · 7 comments
• Ask HN: Which web sites and services do you use on a regular basis? · 11 points · by photon_off · 9 comments
• How To Read Code · 10 points · by ronnier · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Downsides to using Reddit's source code? · 10 points · by hiesenburg · 1 comment
• So where do I signup for Bootstrappers Anonymous? · 10 points · by MaysonL · 4 comments
• Rendering a ridiculously large Buddhabrot (Lisp source included) · 9 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• Encrypted Google · 9 points · by vog · no comments
• Quality & Gumption (Hacking vs. Programming) · 9 points · by ihodes · 4 comments
• They did their homework (800 years of it) · 8 points · by joubert · no comments
• (In Data Mining) Do not Buy a Car if you Cannot Drive · 8 points · by gtzi · no comments
• Ask HN: Who do you outsource to? · 8 points · by cme · 5 comments
• Totally like whatever, you know? - Speak With Conviction · 8 points · by zmmz · 1 comment
• FreeBSD, Building a Computing Cluster · 7 points · by helwr · 1 comment
• Apex Predators · 7 points · by helwr · 1 comment
• Ask HN: do you have a five year plan? · 7 points · by jaxn · 8 comments
• Human-competitive results produced by genetic programming (Open Access) · 7 points · by sadiq · 2 comments
• Help, my iPhone app made it into the New York Times, what now? · 7 points · by c1sc0 · 21 comments
• Does Your Startup Have a Good Story? · 7 points · by kinlane · no comments
• My work in progress: Footprint Analytics · 6 points · by endlessvoid94 · 3 comments
• Ask HN: How to get important people to talk to me? · 6 points · by k33n · 4 comments
• The Death of a Civil Servant (Lev Grossman) · 6 points · by jseliger · no comments
• Happy Fourth Of July From Google With Rube Goldberg Doodle · 6 points · by thafman · 1 comment
• ‘Minority Report Interface’ That Blew People’s Minds at TED (video) · 5 points · by kareemm · no comments
• Unusual quantum states may shake up quantum computing · 5 points · by yanw · no comments
• Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript · 5 points · by biafra · 1 comment
• A Tale of Two Town Houses (2007) · 5 points · by jseliger · no comments
• Quora, Udemy - A new era of "human capacity startups" · 5 points · by nlwhittemore · no comments
• Philippines, Developer Profile with Brian Quebengco of Inovent Design · 4 points · by Cmccann7 · no comments
• They eat gamma-rays · 4 points · by ilkhd2 · no comments
• Making Android development more enjoyable · 4 points · by vrodic · 1 comment
• Ask HN: tools to create feature-level comparison matrices? · 4 points · by felciano · 3 comments
• Setup a Peer-to-Peer Team colloborative space in seconds · 4 points · by codemechanic · 1 comment
• Donna Dubinsky: The seven lives of Palm computing · 3 points · by mikecane · no comments
• PageRank calculation with MPI on a gigabit pc cluster · 3 points · by helwr · no comments
• Scientists to present car for blind drivers next year · 3 points · by jamesbritt · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Virtual assistants/marketers for startups? · 3 points · by hyung · 1 comment
• VentureRate - Share and rate startup ideas · 3 points · by psyklic · 1 comment
• Where the World's Millionaires Live · 3 points · by known · no comments
• Swingify (python script) as a Cloud App · 3 points · by michael_dorfman · no comments
• NewScientist's Enigma brain teasers · 3 points · by kbob · no comments
• The 10 Founding Fathers of the Web · 3 points · by twapi · no comments
• Linode – VPS Hosting · 3 points · by kinlane · no comments
• Read a Classic · 3 points · by goodside · no comments
• DroidX or Droid 2? · 2 points · by dillon · 1 comment
• Inside A Storage Allocator · 2 points · by dsc · 1 comment
• A fully LINQified RayTracer · 2 points · by seancron · 1 comment
• Facebook Games May Lead Payment Startups to $3.6 Billion Market · 2 points · by hko · no comments
• 36 hours to port Lemmings to iPhone · 2 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Now you can have batteries facing either way · 2 points · by JacobAldridge · no comments
• Warren Buffet's Pledge to Donate 99% of Wealth [pdf] · 2 points · by marcamillion · 2 comments
• Paleo Art · 2 points · by helwr · no comments
• Ecuadorean drug runners build fully-functional submarine · 2 points · by abalashov · no comments
• Ttk Visibility and Awareness. · 2 points · by davidw · no comments
• Sanpsta.com - thumbnails on the fly · 2 points · by foo_gz · 5 comments
• The Pinocchio Problem · 2 points · by vog · no comments
• How BlackBerry Can Get Fresh Again · 2 points · by thafman · no comments
• Ask HN: How did Google build their July 4th doodle? · 2 points · by neovive · 1 comment
• An Interaction Designer's bible by the co-founder of IDEO · 2 points · by zweinz · no comments
• Terrafugia: land at the airport, fold your wings up and drive home · 2 points · by mickeyben · 1 comment
• Add Music To Your Workflow To Improve Results · 2 points · by grep · 1 comment
• Interview with Andy Grove (2001) · 2 points · by Rod · no comments
• iPads in the board room · 2 points · by kgutteridge · no comments
• Structal, a Ruby-like language in PHP · 2 points · by messel · no comments
• First video game on TV (1969) · 2 points · by sk_0919 · 1 comment
• Why the cloud is critical to Apple's TV Strategy · 2 points · by rythie · no comments
• Ask HN:what to improve again on my mobile webapp, care to help? · 2 points · by Concours · 1 comment
• Css3 : one more step towards flash and js. · 2 points · by behuman · no comments
• The next 100 million iOS devices · 2 points · by drawkbox · no comments
• "Humies:" awards for human-competitive results from an evolutionary algorithm · 2 points · by necubi · no comments
• The untold story of the Microsoft antitrust case (2000) · 2 points · by Rod · no comments
• What do banking crises have to do with consumption? · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Craig Newmark on U.S. Gov Smart Phone Apps You Should Know About · 2 points · by dreambird · no comments
• Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit - Gnome · 2 points · by znmeb · no comments
• Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit - IceWM · 2 points · by znmeb · no comments
• Lockheed Martin's HULC exoskeleton [video] · 2 points · by matt1 · no comments
• The Entrepreneur’s Declaration of Independence · 2 points · by danec · no comments
• YouTube Hacked - Right Time Right Place? · 2 points · by dcawrey · no comments
• New technology could replace HDMI with ethernet cables · 2 points · by nivethav · 3 comments
• Communism and the financial crisis · 2 points · by javanix · no comments
• MIT's do-it-yourself Android optometry app puts new glasses in your pocket · 2 points · by danishkhan · no comments
• Still having trouble explaining video chat to your grandmother? · 2 points · by danishkhan · no comments
• Artificial Cells- Playing God? Or Just Good Science? · 1 points · by jasonlbaptiste · no comments
• Dropbox Launches API · 1 points · by kinlane · no comments
• Comparison of programming languages · 1 points · by j_baker · no comments
• Ask HN: What's the deal with "Cash for Gold"? · 1 points · by mikeknoop · 6 comments
• Email Infrastructure in the Amazon Cloud · 1 points · by kinlane · no comments
• A Private Social Network for Cell Phones · 1 points · by helwr · no comments
• Mashable Pulls A Hallmark: June 30 Is Now Social Media Day · 1 points · by dnwalters · no comments
• IPad 2.0 should have 1GB of RAM · 1 points · by mlongo · no comments
• Ask HN: Building Credit Score? · 1 points · by zroti · 1 comment
• Genes Are Secret to Longevity, Scientists Can Predict Using Genome · 1 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• Followup thoughts on the Bilski decision, by Mozilla lawyer Luis Villa · 1 points · by mbrubeck · no comments
• Democrats push for new Internet sales taxes · 1 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• The Battle of Cannae · 1 points · by bdr · no comments
• HPs approach to Open Source · 1 points · by zmmz · no comments
• Newsrack for iPhone – Video Review · 1 points · by michaelmayer · no comments
• Nearly $2bn available for two solar energy projects in US · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• History of computers : My Collection · 1 points · by KishoreKumar · 1 comment
• The Loser’s Script · 1 points · by keheliya · no comments
• Firefox tab conundrum · 1 points · by motters · no comments
• Graphics Gems Repository · 1 points · by svag · no comments
• Hacknight Trailer · 1 points · by nrli · no comments
• YourAM: Schedule Appointments In A Smart Way · 1 points · by quadedge · no comments
• History of (computer) storage · 1 points · by godber · 1 comment
• Legacy System Prevents Pay Cut for CA Workers. · 1 points · by bdb27 · no comments
• Copying is Stealing · 1 points · by Sandman · 1 comment
• XSS on youtube · 1 points · by 3ds · no comments
• The Biggest Obstacle · 1 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Halt the Pain of Interface Flames · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Slashdot Science Story | Poor Vision? There's an App For That · 1 points · by vfpamp · 2 comments
• The Confidence Game: a commentary on the Ackman-MBIA book · 1 points · by jteo · no comments
• Copyright infringement is not theft. · 1 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• Ask HN: Best solution for streaming video from Mac to HDTV? · 1 points · by rob · 2 comments
• NOAA Models Long-Term Oil Threat to East Coast and Gulf · 1 points · by J3L2404 · no comments
• Numerus clausus · 1 points · by helwr · no comments
• Deadlines are Everything, and How To Be Amazing · 1 points · by jseliger · no comments
• Tips on Finding and Approaching Angel Investors · 1 points · by jg2009 · no comments
• The Poison of Arrogance (Google and Navx) · 1 points · by drallison · 1 comment
• Where have all the MySQL DBAs gone? · 1 points · by spudlyo · 1 comment
• Ways iPhone Users Get Ripped Off · 1 points · by Freebytes · 1 comment
• The Knox Trail · 1 points · by blogimus · no comments
• Stepping into ASP.NET MVC source code with Visual Studio debugger · 1 points · by gpeipman · no comments
• We actually interviewed Dvorak on our podcast · 1 points · by jayro · no comments
• Ask HN: How to turn $10,000 into $100,000 in a relatively short period of time? · 1 points · by 0x47 · 7 comments
• Ask HN: Who (in America) is working today? · 1 points · by iamdave · 1 comment
• Frank R. Nicholas · 1 points · by srose · no comments
• Founders of the web · 1 points · by idiginous · no comments
• Python Sponsored Sprints Initiative · 1 points · by mgrouchy · no comments
• Netflix Business Plan For The Next 20 Years · 1 points · by dirtyaura · 1 comment
• Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit - KDE · 1 points · by znmeb · no comments
• 'The Shallows' by Nicholas Carr 'Has The Internet Rewired Your Brain?' (excerpt) · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• Runaway Russian spaceship docks with space station · 1 points · by helwr · no comments
• Henrietta Lacks’s ‘Immortal’ Cells · 1 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• Haters, jayters and the art of resilience · 1 points · by Crack · no comments
• Patriotism · 1 points · by yewweitan · no comments
• SMART@znmeb - Born on the Fourth of July · 1 points · by znmeb · no comments
• Frash lets Flash content play on iPad whether Jobs wants it or not · 1 points · by danishkhan · no comments
• Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion · 0 points · by slackito · no comments