Hacker News Way Back Machine

• How to get a Pilot's License in (just about) a week · 180 points · by joshwa · 58 comments
• Brilliant talk by John Cleese on creativity. · 170 points · by pistoriusp · 35 comments
• Protesters Gather At Google; 600 Employees Sign Petition, Organizers Claim · 141 points · by mcantelon · 102 comments
• Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work (2001) · 138 points · by decadentcactus · 57 comments
• Threads (in Ruby): Enough Already · 116 points · by wycats · 36 comments
• Scott Aaronson explains his $200k bet (8 Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong) · 106 points · by kam · 16 comments
• Ask HN: How have you learned a speaking language? · 95 points · by kyro · 111 comments
• America: Land of Loners? · 90 points · by jamesbritt · 26 comments
• The Python yield keyword explained · 89 points · by iamelgringo · 14 comments
• The Oracle-Google Mess · 85 points · by stanleydrew · 24 comments
• Worlds first 20 minute voice call from a Free Software GSM stack on a phone · 83 points · by bluesmoon · 10 comments
• Barefoot shoes try to outrace the black market · 81 points · by edw519 · 55 comments
• Oracle v Google: Why? What does Oracle hope to gain? · 70 points · by bensummers · 53 comments
• The Last Journey of a Genius · 62 points · by sr3d · 13 comments
• The End Of Stuff · 60 points · by alexandros · 33 comments
• Hotkeys for Hacker News · 59 points · by daleharvey · 16 comments
• Ask HN: What can kill Facebook? · 57 points · by twidlit · 123 comments
• Darwin (programming game) · 49 points · by Sandman · 7 comments
• Is Portugal's Liberal Drug Policy a Model for US? · 48 points · by cwan · 17 comments
• Ask HN: Sorting massive text files? · 44 points · by JBerlinsky · 68 comments
• When Polymorphism Fails · 44 points · by raju · 22 comments
• Why most smart people are better at solving other people’s problems… · 37 points · by adammichaelc · 55 comments
• Illumos's response to Oracle killing OpenSolaris · 37 points · by mapleoin · 11 comments
• Cobol on cogs · 32 points · by catalinist · 8 comments
• The longest tweet? · 31 points · by catalinist · 24 comments
• 4Food: Restaurant adds game mechanics to lunch · 29 points · by jmtame · 10 comments
• Ask HN: Suggestions for Starting with Ruby on Rails? · 26 points · by NathanKP · 19 comments
• Joe Nocera on Hurd & HP · 24 points · by julius_geezer · 3 comments
• E Ink touts e-readers with color, capacitive touch · 22 points · by surki · 3 comments
• Modified Google Analytics XSS · 19 points · by holdenc · 3 comments
• Android Lawsuit Is Really Just Oracle Flirting With Google · 19 points · by yigit · 6 comments
• Why Does College Cost So Much? · 19 points · by cwan · 25 comments
• Ask HN: How would you monetize a dubious website (e.g. 4chan)? · 17 points · by anemecek · 15 comments
• DIY Autonomous Lego Drone · 16 points · by todayiamme · 1 comment
• Longest and Shortest Type Name in .NET 4.0 using LINQ · 16 points · by bunglebooz · 7 comments
• The House Inside a Hill - Villa Vals, Switzerland · 15 points · by organicgrant · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Advice on starting an outsourcing webdev company · 13 points · by mootothemax · 3 comments
• Brian Kernighan: What would Orwell do? · 10 points · by helwr · 1 comment
• 'Persuasive' technologies to help you be good · 10 points · by pg · no comments
• iHackerNews.com: mobile HN, with voting, article reader, comments... · 10 points · by ronnier · 7 comments
• Study: A Look At Hard Drive Reliability In Russia · 9 points · by e1ven · no comments
• Brad Delong counters Megan McArdle Stock Myth Article · 9 points · by yequalsx · no comments
• Mongrel2 Superpoll Step 2 · 9 points · by spahl · no comments
• Apple manager arrested in million dollar kickback scheme · 9 points · by milesf · 1 comment
• Free and Low Cost Design in the Cloud · 8 points · by jaybol · no comments
• Why Waiting Until A New Business Model Is Proven Doesn't Work · 7 points · by yanw · no comments
• How the No-Glasses-Required 3d on the Nintendo 3DS works · 7 points · by e1ven · 2 comments
• Betting on Incubators to Create Jobs · 7 points · by mrbird · no comments
• Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough · 7 points · by dwynings · no comments
• Google and the Search for the Future · 7 points · by razorburn · 1 comment
• Krati - Fast, Persistent, Append-only Data Store for the JVM · 6 points · by strlen · no comments
• How To Design a Maintainable Web Page · 6 points · by jakubgarfield · 1 comment
• One Hundred Fears of Solitude · 5 points · by Gibbon · no comments
• The evolution of a button · 5 points · by slater · 1 comment
• A House by the Park: chronology of the design and construction of a modern home · 5 points · by mshafrir · 2 comments
• P ≠ NP (part 1) · 4 points · by IdeaHamster · no comments
• Daylight saving time and Timezone best practices · 4 points · by bluesmoon · no comments
• How a 16-yo Kid Made His First Million Dollars Following His Hero, Steve Jobs · 4 points · by stretchwithme · no comments
• Ask HN: Start Up or Sell Out? · 4 points · by rodyk · 10 comments
• Jonah Lehrer: The Dismal Psychology of Power · 4 points · by cwan · no comments
• Understanding how Python's "for" statement works · 4 points · by mnemonik · no comments
• No, Google Didn’t Remove Oracle From Its Search Results · 4 points · by edw519 · 1 comment
• Hundreds of Colleges Fail to Make the Grade on Financial Responsibility · 4 points · by cwan · no comments
• Documentary reveals the unhealthy profits of the pharmaceutical industry · 4 points · by gruseom · no comments
• How TED became the new Harvard · 4 points · by robg · no comments
• Github Blog - Design updates · 3 points · by mickeyben · no comments
• Demystifying events in node.js · 3 points · by shawndumas · no comments
• Test your browser's HTML5 prowess with the HTML5 test · 3 points · by danishkhan · no comments
• VocalKit: voice recognition library for iPhone · 3 points · by jcdreads · no comments
• Editorial - The Google/Verizon Payment Plan · 3 points · by donohoe · no comments
• Reset Windows Passwords with Sticky Keys · 3 points · by TGJ · no comments
• Secrets Of Superstar Programmer Productivity: Habit [video] · 3 points · by dmoney · no comments
• Grep through memcached · 3 points · by storborg · 2 comments
• Initial Thoughts on Oracle vs Google Patent Lawsuit - Miguel de Icaza · 3 points · by woan · no comments
• The Mystery of Steve Jobs’ Plateless Benz · 3 points · by jaybol · no comments
• Render Any HTML5 Video in ASCII · 3 points · by tzury · 1 comment
• Examples of Onomatopoeia · 3 points · by jennifertaylor · no comments
• Twilight, the Anti-Fan and the Culture Wars · 3 points · by grovulent · 2 comments
• Ask HN:Alternative to archiving email on Gmail · 3 points · by isaacsu · 3 comments
• Space and the Synchronic A-ram (8 page PDF on new style of parallel programming) · 3 points · by bunglebooz · no comments
• Crowsourcing Financial Whistleblowing · 3 points · by zmmz · no comments
• Quantitative Finance Reading List - Theoretical Foundations · 3 points · by shogunmike · no comments
• Machine Learning Algorithm for the Netflix Prize (Hadoop, Java, Python) · 3 points · by coderdude · no comments
• Do Not Track: Not as Simple as it Sounds · 3 points · by wglb · no comments
• I Don't Write Unit Tests Because.... : The Excuses · 3 points · by desigooner · no comments
• Why your startup should be using MongoDB · 3 points · by mLewisLogic · no comments
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics Website · 3 points · by mhb · no comments
• Startups Or Behemoths: Which Are We Going To Bet On? · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• Twitter Rolling Out "You Both Follow" Feature · 3 points · by Tichy · no comments
• Google to use HTML5 in Gmail · 3 points · by js4all · 2 comments
• Diary of a Zergling · 3 points · by mapleoin · no comments
• Thoughts on Peer Index · 3 points · by ashish_0x90 · no comments
• How to predict a successful Google product (Hint: it’s the name) · 3 points · by Mystitat · no comments
• Apple manager arrested in kickback scheme · 3 points · by Hagelin · no comments
• Sex, Smartphones and Statistics · 3 points · by thesyndicate · no comments
• Facebook Survey · 3 points · by cmelbye · 2 comments
• 10kb HTML5 web app contest, sponsored by MS, $3000 top prize · 3 points · by user24 · 3 comments
• Linux KVM Update from LinuxCon · 3 points · by doki_pen · 1 comment
• Ruby is in Grave Danger · 3 points · by anilbioma · 1 comment
• For the first time in 20 years, he no longer clips every newspaper box score · 3 points · by robg · no comments
• Google Europe is hiring UNIX sysadmins (Dublin, London, Zurich) · 3 points · by ez77 · 2 comments
• A Brief History of Java · 3 points · by desigooner · no comments
• A Warning About a Weak Link in Secure Web Sites · 3 points · by ez77 · no comments
• The End of Outsourcing (As We Know It) · 3 points · by joelhaus · no comments
• Surrender Monkey or Not, Google Remains Last, Best Hope for Net Openness · 3 points · by jaybol · no comments
• Ask HN: Is there a centralized list of angel/superangel investors? · 3 points · by msencenb · 4 comments
• The FCC and the bandwidth wars · 2 points · by yanw · no comments
• Open The Index And Speed Up The Internet · 2 points · by helwr · no comments
• 'Grammar vigilantes' fined for fixing sign at Grand Canyon · 2 points · by jackowayed · no comments
• Good failure versus bad failure · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation Seeks Education Founders · 2 points · by mjfern · no comments
• Cheap & Proud: MyUSACorporation · 2 points · by abalashov · 2 comments
• The Maes-Garreau Point · 2 points · by gamble · no comments
• App Store Update Approval: A Proposal · 2 points · by jsolson · no comments
• SEO is harder than you think · 2 points · by kkowalczyk · no comments
• Why robots don't dance · 2 points · by dmoney · no comments
• Twitter Basic Auth to end in 3 days. R U ready? · 2 points · by perivision · no comments
• How Funware Revolutionizes the Business · 2 points · by vyrotek · 1 comment
• Civility, Neutrality, and Google · 2 points · by wglb · no comments
• Ask HN:Royalty free iPhone/iPad Flight Control-like game source for $100 USD. · 2 points · by inodeman · no comments
• 10 Things CEOs Need to Know About Design · 2 points · by sthomps · no comments
• Words (Radiolab Episode) · 2 points · by ugh · no comments
• 50 Viral Images The Web Shared In 2010 · 2 points · by olefoo · no comments
• Capital Factory Demo Day 2010 is on September 8, 2010. · 2 points · by gdltec · no comments
• BBC: HTML5 ‘Starting to Sail Off-Course’ · 2 points · by yanw · no comments
• Optional Parameters · 2 points · by rueleonheart · 1 comment
• How Return of the Jedi should have ended. · 2 points · by neiljohnson · no comments
• Kiwi device to make broadband 50X faster · 2 points · by tjpick · no comments
• Sealed Classes · 2 points · by rueleonheart · no comments
• ATS 0.2.1 released -linear string type, more examples and library improvements · 2 points · by bunglebooz · no comments
• An Improved Bespin-based IDE for AppJet · 2 points · by js4all · no comments
• Apple facing battle for iTV rebrand · 2 points · by AlexMuir · no comments
• German Hacker News: Novus Ordo · 2 points · by macco · no comments
• Math: Voronoi Diagram · 2 points · by sarosh · no comments
• Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom Casualties · 2 points · by georgecmu · 1 comment
• Solar flares and electromagnetic dangers to the power grid · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Tell HN: Win A "Free Year" on zferral.com to integate our API · 2 points · by jeffepp · 1 comment
• Google Needs to Know What Oracle Really Wants With Android · 2 points · by stretchwithme · 2 comments
• Mongomatic: A New Ruby MongoDB Library Hits The Scene · 2 points · by desigooner · no comments
• PET: Python Entre Todos | 1st Edition Spanish Python Magazine · 2 points · by iamelgringo · no comments
• Calendar About Nothing: Tracking Open Source Contributions · 2 points · by tswicegood · no comments
• Worlds first voice call from a free GSM stack · 2 points · by mcantelon · no comments
• Chinese Localization Gotchas · 2 points · by felipe · no comments
• Lots of useful shell scripting tips or Useless Use of Cat Award · 2 points · by georgecmu · 1 comment
• Consoul (Lasse Gjertsen 2009) · 2 points · by evo_9 · 1 comment
• Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. · 2 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• Ask HN: help debug mapme, noob map app · 2 points · by messel · 2 comments
• Memory Inception: Creating A Great User Experience For Your Product · 2 points · by cwan · no comments
• Modelling dice combinations in Haskell, visualising distributions · 2 points · by samstokes · no comments
• How I Document my Business Model Hypotheses · 2 points · by ashmaurya · no comments
• Gambling geniuses. · 2 points · by filmschool · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What is your favorite font? · 2 points · by ajaimk · 3 comments
• Three small sales tips that you really need to know · 2 points · by Maven911 · no comments
• YAPC::NA Presentations (Perl Conference) · 2 points · by Another1 · no comments
• "It's a hardware problem" is a programmer problem · 2 points · by gdp · no comments
• Best C introduction? · 2 points · by invertedlambda · 1 comment
• Oracle kills OpenSolaris officially. Unofficially. · 1 points · by primesuspect · no comments
• Trajectory of a Bomb · 1 points · by duck · no comments
• Embrace Technical Debt · 1 points · by scg · no comments
• Why does FireFox blank screens when it can't connect? · 1 points · by one010101 · 3 comments
• Greenfoot's Greenroom: What a Bonanza · 1 points · by saundby · no comments
• The post-Hurd HP opportunity · 1 points · by gthank · no comments
• Manifesto · 1 points · by harkain · no comments
• 2010 UIST Student Innovation Contest Announcement · 1 points · by elblanco · no comments
• GTUG Campout: Silicon Valley (live wave) · 1 points · by ndimopoulos · no comments
• TechCrunch: 360 viewers for Facebook Live? · 1 points · by wolfrom · 1 comment
• How to cheat on online programming tests · 1 points · by kranner · no comments
• SISAL: A Safe and Efficient Language for Numerical Calculations · 1 points · by helwr · no comments
• Is Using BlackBerry Away From Work Overtime? · 1 points · by e1ven · no comments
• An example of how biased and closed Slashdot discussions have become · 1 points · by jeswin · no comments
• On Triage and Verifying Crowdsourced Reports · 1 points · by tomh · no comments
• Expires_at ActionController patch (cache) · 1 points · by mek · no comments
• UK IVA Information · 1 points · by jorgdeken · no comments
• Headcounters: my first wordpress plugin · 1 points · by mek · 1 comment
• Apps for the Army Challenge Winners · 1 points · by phreeza · no comments
• Robonaut 2 -The legless android to become the 1st human-like robot in space · 1 points · by urbanmbeatz · no comments
• The end of online privacy · 1 points · by GeoffWozniak · no comments
• Partial Classes · 1 points · by rueleonheart · no comments
• Inside source confirms Verizon iPhone, with new antenna · 1 points · by matthewphiong · no comments
• What's New on the Internet · 1 points · by NuNet · 1 comment
• Simple CSS Tricks: Gradients & Curved Divs · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Google Vs Oracle: Thoughts on being evil · 1 points · by chegra · no comments
• Anyone remember autoduel? · 1 points · by filmschool · no comments
• The Razor’s Edge · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Charles Miller on Google/Verizon · 1 points · by mikepurvis · no comments
• Slide to unlock · 1 points · by Kilimanjaro · no comments
• Oracle vs. Google over Java in Android is only the start · 1 points · by Sandman · no comments
• Oracle America vs. Google – Software Patents on Trial? · 1 points · by bensummers · no comments
• MongoDB - What's this all about? · 1 points · by basicxman · no comments
• World's first 20 minute voice call from a Free Software GSM stack on a phone · 1 points · by ralph · no comments
• Did Google punish Oracle by removing them from the search index? · 1 points · by rbarooah · no comments
• How to Get 5 Million People to Read Your Website - Matthew Inman, Oatmeal · 1 points · by mattgratt · 1 comment
• Apple manager arrested in kickback scheme · 1 points · by px · no comments
• Deolalikar P vs NP paper - Polymath1Wiki · 1 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Phishing LinkedIn Messages - first one that fooled me into clicking in years · 1 points · by andrewljohnson · no comments
• Trusted Sources · 1 points · by mikecane · no comments
• Understanding Python Decorators · 1 points · by jsharpe · no comments
• The String Theory - David Foster Wallace on Tennis · 1 points · by tortilla · no comments
• Microsoft's trivial patent on two-pass compression · 1 points · by alecco · 1 comment
• F-150 Jet Truck · 1 points · by helwr · no comments
• Tips for Writing Good Documentation · 1 points · by audreyw · no comments
• Function Overloading · 1 points · by rueleonheart · no comments