Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage · 225 points · by maheshs · 42 comments
• The Social Network Bust: What I learned from my job interview with Facebook · 199 points · by msacks · 86 comments
• Your content is distracting users from ads · 197 points · by paolomaffei · 49 comments
• Ask HN: Good books? · 181 points · by bherms · 167 comments
• Hunter S. Thompson's brutally honest Canadian job request · 138 points · by rbxbx · 49 comments
• Tell HN: Read Maxim and other trashy "guy" rags. · 117 points · by mahmud · 57 comments
• Ask HN: Living overseas with a profitable online business · 113 points · by SteveC · 95 comments
• Mark Zuckerberg's Most Valuable Friend · 108 points · by wallflower · 29 comments
• Wheretheladies.at Shows You Where The Ladies Are At · 107 points · by bkudria · 59 comments
• How HTML5 came into existence. · 99 points · by AndrewDucker · 14 comments
• Sir, can you help me with this? · 98 points · by sprout · 55 comments
• David Byrne: Don't Forget the Motor City · 95 points · by jericsinger · 23 comments
• How we got 100,000 visitors without noticing · 80 points · by StavrosK · 51 comments
• Web designer from Argentina realigns new Twitter. · 71 points · by armandososa · 14 comments
• BlindType has been acquired by Google · 70 points · by Uncle_Sam · 18 comments
• Ask HN: Learning advanced math · 70 points · by linhir · 42 comments
• Let's do more computer science · 69 points · by davewiner · 24 comments
• JQuery Webcam Plugin - Communicate with a webcam directly from JS · 67 points · by benjaminfox · 25 comments
• If Web 1.0’s Kryptonite Was the Bust, Web 2.0 Kryptonite Was the Grind · 62 points · by thiele · 15 comments
• Subtle bug in Google can get you banned · 61 points · by jacquesm · 28 comments
• Ask HN: How do you decide which idea to start on? · 56 points · by newsisan · 33 comments
• Adventures of developing an MP3 decoder in Python · 56 points · by IgorPartola · 28 comments
• A few key problems in Redis persistence · 51 points · by wglb · 4 comments
• Ask HN: What does everyone use for a referral system? · 49 points · by expertcs · 20 comments
• The OS Doesn’t Matter… · 49 points · by mjfern · 66 comments
• Ask HN: How do Hackers kill time when bored on weekend? · 49 points · by ashitvora · 95 comments
• The Postmortem (Fred Wilson's opinion about Wesabe) · 48 points · by bjonathan · 1 comment
• List of statutory minimum employment leave by country · 48 points · by Ras_ · 52 comments
• The real reason "Wesabe lost" (to Mint) · 47 points · by QuantumGood · 41 comments
• Should Entrepreneurs Bet It All On The Billion Dollar Exit, Or Cash Out Small? · 46 points · by bond · 32 comments
• IBM opening new Computer Science focused High School in NYC · 46 points · by flipp · 13 comments
• Something, Something, Something, Detroit · 46 points · by evo_9 · 15 comments
• A simple guideline for blogging · 45 points · by acangiano · 14 comments
• Ask HN: Can you recommend a virtual personal assistant agency? · 44 points · by conflagration · 16 comments
• Ask YC: How do I make the most out of Startup-school? · 44 points · by curiousyogurt · 12 comments
• How to be successful: steal ideas and copy people · 42 points · by bartman · 10 comments
• Python `select` module - well explained step by step · 41 points · by tzury · 6 comments
• Neat Introductory Graph Theory Solutions · 40 points · by Locke1689 · 11 comments
• Fun with Clojure: Turning Cats into Dogs in Hanoi · 40 points · by wooby · 7 comments
• Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? · 36 points · by djhworld · 121 comments
• Automagically Generated Summaries of MIT OCW Algorithms Lectures · 30 points · by riffer · 15 comments
• What Steve Jobs Learned in the Wilderness · 29 points · by asnyder · 6 comments
• What makes the US health care system so expensive · 29 points · by iamelgringo · 15 comments
• Programmerless programming is just a mirage · 29 points · by edw519 · 28 comments
• Ask HN: Explain to non-techies what you do: Programmer? Developer? Engineer? · 28 points · by jayliew · 61 comments
• Ask PG: Do you expect "The Social Network" to impact # of YC applications? · 24 points · by amichail · 13 comments
• Ask HN: How do you maintain a good balance between a high and low-tech life? · 22 points · by devmonk · 18 comments
• Crunch Time at AOL · 22 points · by gvb · 13 comments
• Verizon agrees to refund customers $90 million for wrongful data charges · 20 points · by lotusleaf1987 · 4 comments
• Comparison of disk encryption software · 19 points · by MikeCapone · 2 comments
• Windows Live Essentials 2011 out · 18 points · by wiks · 13 comments
• The Plane Finder AR: An App Threatens Airline Security? · 18 points · by uptown · 19 comments
• Ask HN: How worthwhile is Startup School? · 17 points · by pjmurray · 15 comments
• Subscriptions: Braintree vs. Chargify/Recurly, etc. · 17 points · by tgiles · 13 comments
• Ask HN: Strange: Why haven't TI graphing calculators dropped in price? · 16 points · by gaggle · 22 comments
• What to do with a site that accidentally got popular? · 16 points · by mrspeaker · 19 comments
• The Japan Syndrome · 15 points · by iamelgringo · 2 comments
• Let's nominate Salman Khan to speak at TED · 14 points · by kn0thing · 3 comments
• Rebooting Computer Lib/Dream Machines · 14 points · by MaysonL · 4 comments
• The 'UNIX' system in Jurassic Park was, in fact, UNIX · 14 points · by wickedchicken · 8 comments
• Ask HN: Share dilution · 14 points · by coryl · 8 comments
• Printing Facebook Gives A Whole New Meaning To The Term “Facebook Wall” · 13 points · by wherespaul · 2 comments
• Adidas Gives Up On iAds Because Steve Jobs Is Too Much Of A Control Freak · 12 points · by lotusleaf1987 · no comments
• Forget Revenue. Relevance Is The New Currency. · 12 points · by zeedotme · 23 comments
• Why Are Chinese Millionaires So Stingy? · 11 points · by askar_yu · 19 comments
• Old GCC easter egg (aka implementation-defined behavior) · 11 points · by vog · 6 comments
• Could You Do Genius Quality Work? · 11 points · by lionhearted · 14 comments
• Tired of academia, gonna work for Google · 10 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• Adidas Second to Drop Out of Apple's iAd Platform · 8 points · by tzury · 1 comment
• Unconventional Ideas for learning new Language? · 8 points · by touseefliaqat · 9 comments
• Japanese ghost towns · 8 points · by edge17 · 1 comment
• Tips for running a hackathon · 7 points · by giu · no comments
• What Can Search Predict? · 6 points · by bjonathan · 1 comment
• How Differential Steering Works (1937) · 5 points · by Yahivin · no comments
• A Chat with Aaron Swartz (2007) · 5 points · by omaranto · no comments
• Why I Write Concept Software · 5 points · by r11t · no comments
• Pawned. Gamification and Its Discontents · 5 points · by bensummers · no comments
• The Supply and Demand of College Admissions · 5 points · by KeepTalking · no comments
• 256 Must Read Articles for Tech Entrepreneurs · 5 points · by shedd · no comments
• Joseph Stiglitz: the euro may not survive · 5 points · by ggasp · 2 comments
• What 'Waiting For Superman' Got Wrong · 5 points · by rafaelc · 2 comments
• Good Advice For Computer Science Students · 5 points · by zengr · no comments
• “…beard removal (virtual shaving), beard synthesis, and beard transfer.” · 4 points · by jm3 · 4 comments
• Malcolm Gladwell: Twitter Doesn't Work · 4 points · by transmit101 · 1 comment
• MIT 6.189 Multicore Programming Primer by Mike Acton · 4 points · by Keyframe · no comments
• What Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher get wrong about Harvard—and Facebook. · 4 points · by amichail · 1 comment
• Using GUIDs in Rails - Guidification · 4 points · by shedd · no comments
• Adam Savage Presents Problem Solving: How I Do It · 4 points · by tswicegood · no comments
• Ask HN: What are some good expensive toys? · 4 points · by charlesju · 4 comments
• Ask HN: How do you see privacy on Internet ? · 4 points · by skbohra123 · 5 comments
• A Basic RayCaster · 4 points · by smysore · no comments
• Math and Programming for Programmers · 4 points · by cookiecaper · no comments
• IE9, XP, and Apple · 4 points · by alanh · 3 comments
• Verizon Wireless to Pay Up to $90 Million in Refunds · 4 points · by donohoe · no comments
• Women in Science · 3 points · by jseliger · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Do you volunteer for any community activity? Where? How? · 3 points · by codedivine · 11 comments
• Naïveté vs. Experience · 3 points · by mnemonik · no comments
• How to Make Your Product Images Beautiful With the Rule of Thirds · 3 points · by UXMovement · 1 comment
• Ask Hacker News: Economics of Karma Points · 3 points · by Kaizyn · 5 comments
• VoIP Abuse Project Blacklists Attackers · 3 points · by wglb · no comments
• Top Must Have For a Start-up · 3 points · by niyazpk · no comments
• Millionaires on Unemployment? There Must Be a Better Way · 3 points · by lotusleaf1987 · 3 comments
• Three Ways to Protect EC2 Instances from Accidental Termination and Loss of Data · 3 points · by pablohoffman · no comments
• Google App Engine (GAE) vs Amazon Elastic Computing (EC2) vs Microsoft Azure · 3 points · by wiks · no comments
• Laptop stand for sitting/standing (Nottable) · 3 points · by h34t · 1 comment
• We Got a Mention Now Let’s Panic · 3 points · by rmah · 2 comments
• Khan Academy Vision and Social Return (video) · 3 points · by aycangulez · no comments
• Dropbox never deletes cache files · 3 points · by newman314 · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Getting started with automated trading? · 3 points · by jhuckestein · 6 comments
• A well-stated rebuttal of the case for expanding patents · 3 points · by grellas · no comments
• 47% Americans never retire · 3 points · by known · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Please recommend an open-source SMTP server · 3 points · by eserorg · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Subscription Based Service · 3 points · by stepbak84 · 2 comments
• Ask HN: Public Liability Insurance · 3 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• New Twitter.com has rate limits too · 3 points · by zeedotme · no comments
• I have an API that despite recent efforts still exploits the visited link bug. · 3 points · by getCompStyle · 2 comments
• At Risk From the Womb · 3 points · by talbina · 1 comment
• Evan Davis meets Warren Buffett - 1 of 6 · 3 points · by MikeCapone · 1 comment
• Hack: Milling machine playing MacGyver theme · 3 points · by Ras_ · no comments
• Ruby, C, and Java are pass-by-value, Perl is pass-by-reference · 3 points · by r11t · 1 comment
• Anyone need a ride to startup school? · 3 points · by ashleyreddy · no comments
• Ask HN: What kinds of kernel designs are best for multicore processors? · 3 points · by astroguy · 4 comments
• The Social Network Movie vs Facebook's True Story · 3 points · by paulbaumgart · no comments
• Martyrs, or How to be Miserable and Inefficient · 3 points · by thesyndicate · no comments
• Being Contrarian is About to Go Mainstream · 3 points · by lionhearted · 1 comment
• How Gareth Edwards Shot ‘Monsters’ On An Incredibly Low Budget · 3 points · by evo_9 · 2 comments
• Best analysis of fractional reserve banking ever · 3 points · by lisper · 1 comment
• Apple may surpass Exxon as most valuable company · 3 points · by davidedicillo · no comments
• Interview with John Cooney, a leading Flash game developer · 3 points · by alexkearns · no comments
• The death of digg is not exagerated · 3 points · by achille · 2 comments
• Little Geeks on the Prairie · 3 points · by bootload · no comments
• Bracelets Can Go Viral Too · 3 points · by rafaelc · no comments
• Ask HN: Co-founder equity question: Always even split? · 3 points · by engdinn · 8 comments
• Ask HN: Error reporting software · 2 points · by cme · 3 comments
• 1969: The World's First Artificial Heart · 2 points · by napierzaza · 1 comment
• A Code for Chaos · 2 points · by donohoe · no comments
• Apple, Future’s Unstoppable Juggernaut · 2 points · by esornoso · no comments
• Ask HN: Suggestion on career path to pursue · 2 points · by jayp08 · no comments
• Cyber wars · 2 points · by nirai · no comments
• Company Structure And Scaling · 2 points · by jcroberts · no comments
• Education: Embrace the Money Pit · 2 points · by camz · no comments
• Taobao FileSystem open sourced · 2 points · by thijsterlouw · no comments
• Neurosurgeons use MRI-guided lasers to 'cook' brain tumors · 2 points · by lotusleaf1987 · no comments
• Rate my app discover Facebook fallen friends. · 2 points · by popschedule · 1 comment
• Download Video from Facebook without any Software · 2 points · by wiks · no comments
• Time to Move On From The Desktop? · 2 points · by mjfern · no comments
• Shows HN: One Million Tweeps Project · 2 points · by chegra · 2 comments
• Java compiler bug with generics · 2 points · by mcharkin · no comments
• The problem with learning and college · 2 points · by MDMStudios · no comments
• Help use decide what to build for rails rumble 2010 · 2 points · by andrewnez · 1 comment
• The specialist vs. the generalist · 2 points · by instakill · no comments
• I am more than my genome, I am my connectome · 2 points · by achew22 · 1 comment
• 256 colors in your terminal? Old. Lets go for 16777216 of them · 2 points · by trapd00r · no comments
• IBM High School Will Churn Out IT Pros · 2 points · by edw519 · no comments
• 12 Point Elevator Pitch Strategy · 2 points · by vs2 · no comments
• Creating an Effective Elevator Pitch: A Guide for Startup Companies · 2 points · by vs2 · 1 comment
• This is the ultimate in home flight simulation · 2 points · by ukdm · no comments
• List of important publications in computer science · 2 points · by darwinGod · 1 comment
• Google Android Phone Gallery · 2 points · by IgorPartola · 1 comment
• Facebook's plan to topple Google · 2 points · by jgilliam · no comments
• Average clouds weigh 200K+ lbs; Hurricanes: 108 Billion lbs · 2 points · by aspir · no comments
• The Definitive Guide To TechCrunch Disrupt In 88 Videos (TCTV) · 2 points · by davidedicillo · no comments
• The World Wide Web project · 2 points · by folz · no comments
• Your ecosystem · 2 points · by antigua · no comments
• Don't tell Google, Facebook or Twitter, Instant Search Hacked In 2+ Hrs · 2 points · by MII9 · 3 comments
• Peter Sunde: The Pirate Bay should die · 2 points · by ukdm · no comments
• Cloud Computing Hype and Backlash · 2 points · by wiks · no comments
• Iranians are banned from khanacademy.org by google · 2 points · by yassersouri · 4 comments
• Claypool: a small, fast, railable Javascript Application Framework · 2 points · by alrex021 · 1 comment
• Lance Armstrong's posterous · 2 points · by davidw · 1 comment
• Levi's Gives Struggling Town Cinderella Treatment · 2 points · by KeepTalking · no comments
• Catfish · 2 points · by mvklein · no comments
• U.S. Army establishes Cyber Command · 2 points · by ccarpenterg · 1 comment
• New York City to Change Street Signs From All Caps to Title Case · 2 points · by UXMovement · 2 comments
• Pop Montreal 2010 Pick: PyPy · 2 points · by jcsalterego · no comments
• Any Dutch/Belgian/German investors on HN? · 2 points · by DenBosch · no comments
• Verizon Will Refund $90 Million to Overcharged Data Users · 2 points · by lotusleaf1987 · no comments
• Bump (S09) Teams with Pulse to Share News Feeds Across Devices · 2 points · by cristinacordova · no comments
• Android Apps Caught Sending Private Data to Advertisers · 1 points · by rnicholson · no comments
• Researchers produce induced pluripotent human stem cells using skin cells · 1 points · by cwan · no comments
• Brainfuck Interpreter in one night · 1 points · by jchonphoenix · no comments
• The Day I UN-quit my job at Punchbowl.com · 1 points · by angilly · no comments
• ASK PG/HN: Question on advantages of applying early · 1 points · by serverdude · no comments
• 50 ideas for the new catonmat.net website · 1 points · by niyazpk · no comments
• Combustion engine internals [video] · 1 points · by borisk · no comments
• Stock IPOs: Emerging Markets Top Developed Nations for Share Offerings · 1 points · by lotusleaf1987 · no comments
• Whatever Happened to the Twins Who Sued Facebook? · 1 points · by lotusleaf1987 · no comments
• Documents Suggest CitiMortgage and Wells Fargo Also Commit Foreclosure Fraud · 1 points · by lotusleaf1987 · 1 comment
• Gas Will Be $5/Gallon, Consumer Spending Is Dead, And Housing Will Fall 20% More · 1 points · by lotusleaf1987 · 3 comments
• Taking a Sledge Hammer to Writer’s Block · 1 points · by jdvolz · no comments
• IE9 Tweaker lets you tweak Internet Explorer 9 · 1 points · by wiks · no comments
• Wheretheladies.at · 1 points · by bkudria · no comments
• Collective power of 4chan and Anonymous: the future of cyber protests · 1 points · by wiks · no comments
• How To Use an Abacus · 1 points · by po · 1 comment
• A sophisticated cyber-missile · 1 points · by maheshs · no comments
• Apathy of the Google extension review process... · 1 points · by itissid · 4 comments
• Learning simplified · 1 points · by known · no comments
• How To See Which Posts Are Popular For Any Website or Blog · 1 points · by oscardelben · no comments
• How Popular is the iPhone Anyway · 1 points · by MykalM · 2 comments
• Mint.com's Customer Acquisition Strategy (via @putorti) · 1 points · by kiyanforoughi · no comments
• Help me with an idea (digital / mobile publishing) · 1 points · by kolinko · 7 comments
• Ask HN: Wufoo not accepting new signups for some countries · 1 points · by grep · 1 comment
• What if the web really died? · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Stackexchange site for programmable logic; good idea? · 1 points · by theothersomeone · no comments
• Success Among the Elite · 1 points · by KeepTalking · no comments
• Defeating Amazon Kindle Book Filename Obfuscation · 1 points · by mikecane · 1 comment
• C# Passing values between namespaces - C# Programming · 1 points · by rsharma · no comments
• How round numbers influence goals · 1 points · by fleaflicker · no comments
• “Free Isn’t Free”: Microsoft Trying To Make Android More Costly With Patent Suit · 1 points · by pathik · no comments
• Twitblob — JSON Blob Storage for Twitter · 1 points · by lehmannro · no comments
• Georges Charpak, Physics Nobel Winner, Dies at 86 · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Turing Crackpottery - Good Math, Bad Math · 1 points · by billswift · 1 comment
• What Microsoft wants from Google · 1 points · by wiks · no comments
• The amazing power of networks · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Yahoo News Ask America~ · 1 points · by wiks · no comments
• Password Security tips · 1 points · by anantshri · no comments
• Talk by Facebook Engineering Director : USENIX 2010 Keynote · 1 points · by darwinGod · no comments
• Intellectual circadian rhythms (or, I'm creative at night.) · 1 points · by chasingsparks · no comments
• Phonebook Poisoning Attack · 1 points · by sharjeel · no comments
• 'o' shortcut for New Twitter · 1 points · by ankit_ · no comments
• Ask HN: anyone driving up from LA for Startup School? · 1 points · by sahillavingia · no comments
• Ambient/Instrumentals: Sample of my bros music creations on SoundCloud · 1 points · by messel · 1 comment
• Five thorns and four seeds · 1 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• Facebook not fan of movie: 'Social Network' fiction · 1 points · by evo_9 · no comments
• Rube Goldberg and the Irreducible Strangeness of Electricity · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Tomatoes and Election Season · 1 points · by cjoh · no comments
• Gliese 581 g · 1 points · by toxicflavor · 1 comment
• How we saved the day using the Play framework · 1 points · by icey · no comments
• Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University) · 1 points · by ggasp · no comments
• Inside a P2P legal settlement factory · 1 points · by anigbrowl · no comments
• Britain recognizes Druidry as religion for first time - CNN · 1 points · by ggasp · no comments
• Shhh, Don't Tell Yahoo Instant Search Hacked By Arizonan · 1 points · by MII9 · no comments
• Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions · 1 points · by r11t · no comments
• I'm looking for NYU's feeds · 1 points · by davewiner · no comments
• Eric Schmidt describes China as operating like a well-run company.. · 1 points · by InfinityX0 · no comments
• Pioneer anomaly: Known forces taken into account, an unexplained force remains · 1 points · by linhir · 1 comment
• The Birdfeed Easter Egg That Never Was · 1 points · by brm · no comments
• Austin-based Drake Industries Launches New Website and Expands Services · 1 points · by gdltec · no comments
• Nokia N8 gets lots of stick in early reviews, we wonder why · 1 points · by EastSmith · no comments
• Old Facebook articles? · 1 points · by Illgetthere · 3 comments
• Scrunched-up dimensions untangled · 1 points · by edw519 · no comments
• Communal Genius - Scenius · 1 points · by kes · no comments
• Whatcolor · 1 points · by bradleyjoyce · no comments
• Twisted Rocks · 1 points · by mace · no comments
• How Apple Stores Got It Right · 1 points · by evo_9 · no comments
• Birds of a Feather · 1 points · by yewweitan · no comments
• Congress Has Plans for an Internet Blacklist · 1 points · by wiks · no comments
• Distros and Test Suites · 1 points · by alexkay · no comments
• Ask HN: Working part time for equity? · 1 points · by throwaway101 · 3 comments
• How to Tweet Blog RSS Feed via HootSuite · 1 points · by hishaman · no comments
• Ask YC: Idea for making web app developing a no-brainer? · 1 points · by ideaman12 · 1 comment