Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Futurama Writer Created And Proved A Brand New Math Theorem Just For Episode · 242 points · by ghurlman · 31 comments
• The Most Isolated Man on the Planet · 206 points · by grellas · 76 comments
• Ruby Koans. Best way to learn Ruby. · 170 points · by milesf · 18 comments
• Punk Mathematics · 139 points · by sz · 17 comments
• Scott Adams: How I (Almost) Saved the Earth · 122 points · by flybrand · 48 comments
• Foursquare iPhone app sends passwords in plain text, don't use · 119 points · by bitanarch · 52 comments
• Fabulous: Python library for printing images and fancy text to the terminal · 105 points · by tta · 14 comments
• Meditation boosts part of brain where ADD, addictions reside · 97 points · by evo_9 · 25 comments
• The Google Unemployment Index · 90 points · by keyle · 22 comments
• The Bowling Pin strategy · 86 points · by bjonathan · 10 comments
• The Stock Market Is Still for Suckers · 82 points · by Anon84 · 76 comments
• Prosecutors withdraw warrant for WikiLeaks founder Assange · 82 points · by tshtf · 68 comments
• Gaming Foursquare with 9 lines of Perl · 82 points · by jmillerinc · 24 comments
• Smear campaign against Wikileaks begins · 79 points · by shrikant · 153 comments
• Android is a Viable Revenue Stream - Advanced Task Manager application · 76 points · by arron61 · 27 comments
• Portal as a required college text · 76 points · by ptomato · 44 comments
• Why Drinks Taste Better When Sipped Through A Straw · 74 points · by jamesbressi · 20 comments
• Is Urban Loneliness a Myth? · 74 points · by kareemm · 19 comments
• An 18 Billion Mile Journey is almost complete. · 70 points · by sprout · 9 comments
• Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape · 65 points · by blntechie · 65 comments
• Google Acquires Like.com · 60 points · by sajithw · 16 comments
• The Islamic Inspiration for the Original World Trade Center Design · 49 points · by mhb · 29 comments
• Charles Stross: Where we went wrong · 46 points · by rsaarelm · 39 comments
• East India Company brand returns after 135-year absence · 44 points · by kvs · 19 comments
• Clojure multi-methods · 43 points · by puredanger · 5 comments
• Film-less Photography (first digital camera - 1975) · 39 points · by sep · 3 comments
• Learning Ruby with the Edgecase Ruby Koans · 35 points · by Dylanfm · 3 comments
• The Programmer Hierarchy · 34 points · by jarrodvanda · 15 comments
• Factor programming language (modern Forth) · 34 points · by jacquesm · 19 comments
• File IO in Every Language · 32 points · by SandB0x · 14 comments
• RIM Must Switch To Android Now, Before It's Too Late · 32 points · by keltex · 61 comments
• Chile Wants to Borrow US Entrepreneurs for $40,000 · 31 points · by organicgrant · 23 comments
• Counter-Example to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem Found · 31 points · by jperras · 7 comments
• Introducing AppMake: An AppEngine Makefile · 30 points · by mchadwick · 1 comment
• Yaron Minsky: Effective ML (video) · 29 points · by logicalstack · 2 comments
• All Systems Are Go: An Interview with Rob Pike · 28 points · by enneff · 3 comments
• What's frustrating with XML? · 28 points · by julien · 25 comments
• For Pianist, Software Is Replacing Sonatas · 27 points · by robg · 5 comments
• Brewer's CAP Theorem · 23 points · by mace · 1 comment
• ProSwitcher author talks about iPhone multitasking and ceases its development · 20 points · by barredo · 21 comments
• The meaning of life is to populate the universe · 18 points · by nazariusk · 26 comments
• WikiLeaks founder no longer suspected of rape · 18 points · by borisk · no comments
• Jack Horkheimer, the "Star Hustler", passes away · 18 points · by japaget · 4 comments
• Ask HN: How did you learn a new language as an adult? · 17 points · by rokhayakebe · 13 comments
• Zynga in Hot Water with San Francisco City Attorney Over 'Mafia Wars' Marketing · 16 points · by jaybol · 11 comments
• How the Curiosity rover will land on Mars from a sky crane · 16 points · by dctoedt · 2 comments
• Icons of the Web · 16 points · by mshafrir · no comments
• 10K Apart Contest: Cheating by Compressing Your JavaScript and CSS to PNG Images · 16 points · by sr3d · no comments
• Why Apple's iTV Will Change Everything · 16 points · by sant0sk1 · 13 comments
• Julian Assange rape charges dropped · 16 points · by Sandman · 4 comments
• Google’s email nastiness · 16 points · by px · 10 comments
• Ask HN: What Programming Languages do you use and for what? · 15 points · by r0h4n · 18 comments
• Prosecutors withdraw warrant for WikiLeaks founder, say rape claim unfounded · 15 points · by _pius · no comments
• Lady Java Video Marks Exact Point Where Geek Culture Jumped The Shark · 13 points · by bwaldorf · 9 comments
• Taxpayers on the hook for $3 trillion in pensions · 13 points · by startuprules · 7 comments
• Why is there not a Square Root button in calc.exe? · 13 points · by duck · 23 comments
• Ask HN: When will the toolbar madness end? · 12 points · by d_r · 14 comments
• Agile people still don't get it · 12 points · by stesch · 6 comments
• MarineTraffic.com - Live Ships Map · 11 points · by gtzi · 1 comment
• Ask HN: I love astronomy and I would like to do something about it. · 11 points · by jk8 · 9 comments
• Google web security expert posits the "Millenium Prizes" in web scanning · 11 points · by tptacek · 11 comments
• Is Assange the target of a U.S. smear campaign? · 10 points · by jacquesm · 1 comment
• Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled · 10 points · by Throlkim · 1 comment
• Dominos UK (pizza) has a fake Verisign SSL Seal · 10 points · by corin_ · 5 comments
• Deep Read: Nassim Taleb (The Black Swan Guy) : Planet Money · 9 points · by joelhaus · 8 comments
• Linux distribution popularity trends plotted · 8 points · by wyclif · no comments
• Chop-Shop Workers and Bootstrappers: Chile Really Wants You · 8 points · by nico · 1 comment
• The age of nations is over. The new urban age has begun. · 8 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• New Big Brother: Market-Moving Satellite Images · 8 points · by ca98am79 · 1 comment
• Querying Netflix OData Service using Silverlight 4 · 7 points · by jarrodvanda · no comments
• Want to give up development and start a company. · 7 points · by devmonk · 8 comments
• My experience with programming books · 6 points · by Macha · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Any recommendations on how to improve a homepage bounce rate? · 6 points · by maserati · 6 comments
• Remember when being a geek meant something? · 6 points · by randomwalker · 3 comments
• The Cost of Distraction: What Kurt Vonnegut Knew · 6 points · by revorad · no comments
• Google Is Anakin, Verizon Is The Emperor, And The Dark Side Is Winning · 6 points · by evo_9 · no comments
• NoSQL and You · 6 points · by mathgladiator · no comments
• Introducing a New Theory: The Recommendularity · 5 points · by deltapoint · no comments
• Dotfiles Are Meant to Be Forked · 5 points · by holman · no comments
• The End of Management · 5 points · by zixan · no comments
• UV light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked · 5 points · by sep · no comments
• What's the opposite of Inbox Zero? Cause that's what I have. I win. · 5 points · by raghus · no comments
• Meditation For A Stronger Brain · 5 points · by jamesbritt · 1 comment
• What Spreads Faster Than Bedbugs? Stigma · 5 points · by timr · 6 comments
• Why Big Companies Almost Never Notice Disruptive Innovation · 5 points · by jaybol · 1 comment
• HTML5: Local Storage oddities & tips · 4 points · by jdavid · no comments
• Now, a dating site for the 'ugly' · 4 points · by nreece · 2 comments
• Useful C# .NET Extension method: T.Dump(); · 4 points · by mythz · no comments
• Burn the Ships · 4 points · by messel · no comments
• Lady Gaga sings about Java programming · 4 points · by bachel · no comments
• This is where 85% of people in India live · 4 points · by known · 3 comments
• Coming Clean · 4 points · by teamonkey · no comments
• Kurzweil still doesn’t understand the brain · 4 points · by ugh · 1 comment
• Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother · 4 points · by wil2k · 3 comments
• How to Use Amazon Web Services to Make a Video on Demand Service · 4 points · by Anon84 · no comments
• Some relational algebra with datatypes in Clojure 1.2 · 4 points · by puredanger · no comments
• The neuroscientist paralysed by love · 4 points · by cwan · no comments
• Funny use of a like button for a game · 3 points · by jamesjyu · no comments
• Facebook Feeling Unfriendly Toward ‘Social Network’ · 3 points · by donohoe · no comments
• Ask HN: What if the iPad came from Microsoft, first? · 3 points · by twidlit · 4 comments
• Combo framed HN story/comments reader · 3 points · by mgkimsal · no comments
• Ask HN: Small side-project with clear user tunnel? · 3 points · by sdrinf · no comments
• Fastest/Easiest Recurring Billing Solutions for Web Apps · 3 points · by rcavezza · no comments
• History of World GDP · 3 points · by borisk · 1 comment
• Harvard confirms misconduct by morality researcher · 3 points · by chegra · no comments
• Daily reminder of awesome you are for $10/month · 3 points · by julien · 2 comments
• Interesting exports from a Kaspersky dll, remove competitor software. [PIC] · 3 points · by alrex021 · no comments
• Being Nice Is Good Business · 3 points · by stackthat · no comments
• Julian Assagne's Story · 3 points · by todayiamme · no comments
• OpenGL 4.1 review · 3 points · by pmjordan · no comments
• Sometimes, The Better You Program, The Worse You Communicate · 3 points · by aycangulez · 1 comment
• Why Doesn't the World Care About Pakistanis? Because they live in Pakistan. · 3 points · by lallysingh · 2 comments
• Indian Govt Issues Notice To Google over Insights for Search · 3 points · by wtne · no comments
• Sweden drops rape accusation against founder of WikiLeaks · 3 points · by michael_dorfman · no comments
• Ask HN: What happened to diaspora? · 3 points · by random42 · 1 comment
• Why so many colleges are education-free zones. · 3 points · by cwan · no comments
• What’s new at SXSW Interactive for 2011 · 3 points · by gdltec · no comments
• Digginthefuture predicts future stories on Digg. · 3 points · by rjvir · no comments
• Iran Starts to Fuel up First Nuclear Power Plant · 3 points · by kargdt · no comments
• Arecibo message · 3 points · by helwr · no comments
• Cure for the Common Webfont - Alternatives to Arial (and Helvetica) · 3 points · by joshuacc · 1 comment
• Ask HN: How to start programming? · 3 points · by pcora · 5 comments
• Using Gradients on Buttons Correctly · 2 points · by UXMovement · no comments
• Ask HN: Android app made 1st on front page of reddit. · 2 points · by mattwdelong · no comments
• History Of The World Wide Web · 2 points · by shoesfullofdust · 1 comment
• Unwarranted assumptions in telecoms · 2 points · by moraitakis · no comments
• And The Facebook Checkin Abuse Begins · 2 points · by dabent · no comments
• Best books for a Ruby beginner, plus general feedback · 2 points · by wihon · no comments
• The Hollywood Stock Exchange · 2 points · by keyle · no comments
• The Little Things - Start up lessons learned from StarCraft 2 · 2 points · by Danae · no comments
• Ask HN: will googles app-store be a viable option to getting a Merchant Account · 2 points · by csmeder · 3 comments
• A Happy Birthday Despite Grim News · 2 points · by dfield · no comments
• The median isn't the message (what to do if you're told you have cancer) · 2 points · by henning · no comments
• The 'X' Guy · 2 points · by krugrj · no comments
• What Comes After Sketching? UX Advice for Developers. · 2 points · by zmmz · no comments
• What is the longest word in the English language without a repeated letter? · 2 points · by rayvega · no comments
• Infographic: The Geosocial Universe · 2 points · by kodeshpa · no comments
• Ask HN: Has anyone developed a submission widget for HN? · 2 points · by dshah · 1 comment
• Ask HN: best php deployment setting · 2 points · by hyuen · 1 comment
• Your Code Says a Lot About You · 2 points · by msquared · no comments
• Generating large Excel files with Ruby · 2 points · by bjhess · no comments
• Alpha Release of core Enlightenment Foundation Libraries · 2 points · by billiob · no comments
• Ask HN: What do you do when you have a lot of waiting time? · 2 points · by fezzl · 2 comments
• ASP.NET MVC HTML5 Toolkit · 2 points · by gspyrou · no comments
• Virtual reality tackles tough questions · 2 points · by chaosdesigner · no comments
• History of REST, SOAP, POX and JSON Web Services · 2 points · by mythz · no comments
• Edit, run HTML and JavaScript online · 2 points · by csomar · no comments
• The Golden Age of Innovation · 2 points · by DanielBMarkham · no comments
• Can abstract thinking be taught? · 2 points · by caustic · no comments
• Harvard Finds Scientist Guilty of Misconduct · 2 points · by ssn · no comments
• Snowclone search example · 2 points · by Raphael · 1 comment
• Who Should Get A Life? · 2 points · by sfg · no comments
• Clojure, concurrency and silver bullets (good comment thread) · 2 points · by gtani · no comments
• JavaScript Grows a Mustache · 2 points · by shawndumas · 1 comment
• 2010 User-Agent Blacklist · 2 points · by jmillerinc · no comments
• Assange: Conspiracy or coincidence · 2 points · by ErrantX · no comments
• Math For Primates(Podcast) · 2 points · by mgrouchy · no comments
• A Backup Strategy for a Photographer & Cameraman · 2 points · by wiredfutureman · no comments
• How to e-mail a professor · 2 points · by v4us · no comments
• Don't Touch My Code · 2 points · by reynolds · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Which superpower would you choose, invisibility or flight? · 2 points · by mawhidby · 2 comments
• Andrew Wilkie's website is feeling the strain · 2 points · by samh · no comments
• Ask HN: Trusting contract developers with codebase? · 2 points · by ptaoussanis · 2 comments
• Avoiding artificial gameplay restrictions · 2 points · by joshuacc · no comments
• Ask HN: What tools/programming languages do you recommend for kids? · 2 points · by zemanel · 2 comments
• TeXample: TikZ and PGF Examples · 2 points · by xtacy · no comments
• The Power of GPU May Threaten the World’s Password Security System · 2 points · by pcora · no comments
• Ask HN: What would you change about Python for scientific computing · 2 points · by equark · no comments
• HN: good interdisciplinary MS/PhD programs for tech/culture? · 2 points · by Volscio · 6 comments
• Millenium Problem: Navier-Stokes solved? · 2 points · by klavierspieler · 1 comment
• Map of Upcoming Ruby Conferences · 2 points · by EzGraphs · no comments
• Steam Hardware & Software Survey: July 2010 · 2 points · by wwortiz · no comments
• How ancient kings invented a powerful idea: diplomacy · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Migration Could Triple Populations in Some Wealthy Nations · 2 points · by cwan · 1 comment
• The ultimate resource for GSM handset information. ... · 2 points · by gsmslot · no comments
• Ask HN: Search metrics question · 2 points · by wturner · 6 comments
• How to Be Frugal and Still Be Asked on Dates · 2 points · by jedwhite · no comments
• Eventually Consistent - Revisited · 2 points · by mace · no comments
• Functional Javascript · 2 points · by shawndumas · no comments
• Ask HN: Transition to working at a VC firm - worth it? · 2 points · by throwaway120 · 1 comment
• Video: Chrome 6 vs Firefox 4 vs Opera 10.6 vs Safari 5 · 2 points · by dcawrey · no comments
• Loving objects to learn to like them. · 2 points · by jamieknght · no comments
• The new App Store for iPhone Developers, Buy Source Code, IP Licenses.Rocks!!! · 1 points · by tetrisman · no comments
• Stating the JA-Problem · 1 points · by flybrand · no comments
• Facebook Places Video · 1 points · by ebun · no comments
• Vuvuzelas joins bromance, chillax, tweetup in the new Oxford Dictionary · 1 points · by samratjp · no comments
• Fields Medal, Nevanlinna Prize, Gauss Prize, Chern Medal 2010 · 1 points · by pravinkenator · 1 comment
• The Computer Boys Take Over: Programmers and the Politics of Technical Expertise · 1 points · by chrismealy · no comments
• The Book of You · 1 points · by olefoo · no comments
• Acer may delay tablet PC launch for another quarter to wait for Android 3.0 · 1 points · by borisk · no comments
• N.J. authorities indict 34 in Lucchese crime family bust (May, 2010) · 1 points · by helwr · no comments
• New Job, New Blog « Allison Randal · 1 points · by draegtun · no comments
• Brian lam: left my phone at lunch... · 1 points · by aaronbrethorst · 1 comment
• Ask HN: mailing list management service with API? · 1 points · by recurser · no comments
• Television - Run away from it... · 1 points · by maheshs · no comments
• "Google: the Movie" to go into production · 1 points · by zmmz · no comments
• Foursquare’s Crowley: The Giants Are “Generic,” We Are Fun. I Wonder Who... · 1 points · by js4all · no comments
• Bugs at YC application form · 1 points · by niico · no comments
• Which Licence is Best for the Future? · 1 points · by sasvari · no comments
• WikiLeaks founder charged with rape, molestation in Sweden · 1 points · by chegra · no comments
• By 2029 no computer will have passed the Turing Test. · 1 points · by chrislloyd · 2 comments
• The Optimal Number of Friends in the Information Age · 1 points · by ludwigvan · no comments
• JRuby 1.5.2 Released · 1 points · by rnicholson · no comments
• Church plans Quran-burning event · 1 points · by chegra · no comments
• Ask HN: HoyKeys for iPad - my new app · 1 points · by QuantumDoja · no comments
• Ask HN: QA service? · 1 points · by jjudge · 1 comment
• What is Curation? · 1 points · by CIOpedia · no comments
• MBA vs CFA · 1 points · by known · no comments
• Tech Wildcatters to Host Baylor Angel Network · 1 points · by bradleyjoyce · no comments
• California close to issuing IOUs - again · 1 points · by startuprules · no comments
• How do you educate your teammates without seeming condescending or superior? · 1 points · by d0mine · no comments
• Whales and Lobsters: Facebook and Twitter and CASH, oh my · 1 points · by revorad · no comments
• The End of Management · 1 points · by bengebre · no comments
• Making Sense of Python Unicode · 1 points · by conesus · no comments
• Scala 2.8 collections overview · 1 points · by cageface · no comments
• Arch Linux in my Acer Aspire One · 1 points · by RBerenguel · 1 comment
• How not to appraise developers · 1 points · by neiljohnson · no comments
• Ask HN: What you think of password card? · 1 points · by randomstrings · no comments
• What’s the difference between Ubuntu’s package managers? · 1 points · by SandB0x · no comments
• Man invents machine to convert plastic into oil. [video] · 1 points · by stilist · no comments
• Designing for the Mind · 1 points · by arpit · no comments
• Facebook's Awesome Promotion of Places - How to Get Features "In The River" · 1 points · by dell9000 · no comments
• Web of Stories - Great creators talk about their lives · 1 points · by michael_nielsen · no comments
• PR2 Robot Video Competition: The Results · 1 points · by beambot · no comments
• The story behind Warships - an iPhone app's path to 1 million downloads · 1 points · by lowkey · 1 comment
• Harvard Thinks Big · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Look-Alike Medical Tubes Kill Patients · 1 points · by dmlorenzetti · no comments
• "The State of Mobile" event at Kicklabs in SF · 1 points · by danielodio · no comments
• How Bad Is Ebay Fraud? · 1 points · by jaybol · no comments
• Replace Teachers With Tracking Devices · 1 points · by tommynazareth · no comments
• Thre reports of the death of mean reversion are premature · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• An interview with Max Keiser: 'America, a walking dead-zombie country' · 1 points · by jedan · no comments
• Take your pulse with your phone · 1 points · by cma · 1 comment
• The Rise and Rise of the Digital Dashboard · 1 points · by pmjoyce · no comments
• Dr. Kaku Wants Your Thoughts on Science Fiction Movies and Characters · 1 points · by da5e · no comments
• Gigant Bubbles · 1 points · by gus_massa · no comments
• $20.000 gamer PC · 1 points · by gorm · 3 comments
• How to “visualize” the competition · 1 points · by rafaelc · no comments
• Addicted Gamer Sues Game-Maker, Says He is ‘Unable to Function’ · 1 points · by da5e · no comments
• How relevance ranking works in Sphinx full-text search engine · 1 points · by morganpyne · no comments
• 810092048 · 1 points · by shawndumas · 3 comments
• The life of luxury · 1 points · by rafaelc · no comments
• Underscore.lua · 1 points · by shawndumas · no comments
• McAfee’s pre-deal grant to CFO… · 1 points · by px · no comments