Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Budget Puzzle: You Fix the US Budget · 190 points · by ojbyrne · 135 comments
• According to the IRS you are a private contractor employed by Google · 174 points · by mikecane · 116 comments
• The curse of being a gifted child · 107 points · by MikeCapone · 46 comments
• Nice cheat sheet collection · 106 points · by bemmu · 15 comments
• TSA Agent about to scan pilot's daughter: "Heads up, got a cutie for you." · 105 points · by jarin · 29 comments
• Peter Martin: Google does something really good. · 103 points · by jedwhite · 28 comments
• Minecraft sales cross 600k mark · 99 points · by bjonathan · 40 comments
• Should We Do Y Combinator? We're further along than most · 98 points · by dariusmonsef · 40 comments
• Students Read Hacker Monthly For Free · 91 points · by bearwithclaws · 36 comments
• HTML5 3D demos · 87 points · by bjonathan · 19 comments
• Ask HN: is the pushdown of TSA backscatter stories algorithmic or manual? · 87 points · by jedwhite · 17 comments
• Why the U.S. needs a new visa for foreigners who want to start businesses here. · 79 points · by zugumzug · 18 comments
• 4chan Users Try to DDoS Tumblr, Tumblrs Raid 4chan in Revenge · 73 points · by ssclafani · 33 comments
• When The Speed Of Light Is Too Slow: Trading at the Edge · 69 points · by limist · 66 comments
• How to Say Nothing in 500 Words · 69 points · by mcantor · 30 comments
• Ask HN: What do geeks in Palo Alto do on weekend nights? · 65 points · by vishaldpatel · 54 comments
• An exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood discovered · 63 points · by bsk · 29 comments
• Ask PG: How much did the lunch with you sell for? · 63 points · by bradly · 21 comments
• The irony of the US economy: no jobs and no one to hire · 63 points · by will_critchlow · 92 comments
• Twitter Goes JSON-Only With One API · 62 points · by sinzone · 46 comments
• Who rules America · 59 points · by known · 29 comments
• Letting your mind wander is a major cause of unhappiness · 56 points · by tsmall · 22 comments
• In June the U.S. House passed bill to ban full-body scanners as primary method · 56 points · by jlujan · 10 comments
• The Price 20-Somethings Pay to Live in the City · 51 points · by fun2have · 50 comments
• The Ins and Outs of Clojure: Part One · 50 points · by ihodes · no comments
• Creators Admit Unix, C Hoax · 49 points · by vog · 7 comments
• Anything is Possible (in a Startup) · 49 points · by jkopelman · 6 comments
• Ask HN: Good Reading/Immersion in Mathematics · 48 points · by jawee · 31 comments
• Ask HN: Modern approach to web application development with Common Lisp · 44 points · by kung-fu-master · 25 comments
• AWS Compute Cluster #231 on Top 500 · 44 points · by whakojacko · 19 comments
• Ask HN: Mobile dev - Bypass apps and go straight to HTML5? · 42 points · by hymanroth · 54 comments
• Optimize your website for iPhone in 10 minutes. · 41 points · by sahillavingia · 13 comments
• Ask HN: Your tips/hacks for great academic writing · 41 points · by scorchin · 23 comments
• Ask HN: What do you love about your office? · 40 points · by qixxiq · 44 comments
• Hierarchical File Systems are Dead · 37 points · by signa11 · 54 comments
• Ask HN: Where can I find free/cheap financial data? · 37 points · by pwhelan · 10 comments
• Submit your startup. Get Featured. Get Feedback. · 37 points · by pghimire · 12 comments
• TSA Opt-Out Day, Now with a Superfantastic New Twist · 37 points · by rimantas · 2 comments
• Github outage official status updates · 36 points · by zbanks · 9 comments
• 'Naked Scanners': Lobbyists Join the War on Terror · 34 points · by hornokplease · 7 comments
• Top Democrat backs 1099 requirement repeal · 33 points · by carbocation · 10 comments
• I am a hacker, not a decorator - Design candies are not for me · 33 points · by Sparklin · 27 comments
• Minecrafted (Minecraft for iPhone) · 32 points · by bjonathan · 17 comments
• Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar · 30 points · by edanm · 6 comments
• For Sale: The Library of Edward Tufte · 30 points · by epo · 8 comments
• Github is down :( · 28 points · by famousactress · 9 comments
• Help Us Find a New MIT Media Lab Director · 28 points · by px · 13 comments
• Congrats Heroku: 100,001 deployed apps · 27 points · by chasingsparks · 7 comments
• Questionable Science Behind Academic Rankings · 27 points · by J3L2404 · 16 comments
• 3D Video Capture with Kinect [VIDEO] · 26 points · by bjonathan · no comments
• Berkeley University Course on Starcraft Theory and Strategy · 26 points · by adambyrtek · 19 comments
• Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich? · 25 points · by nice1 · 46 comments
• The unsung development miracles of our time: Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria · 25 points · by cwan · 15 comments
• Ask HN: Looking for a really lightweight Linux distro for my netbook · 24 points · by mcrittenden · 44 comments
• Android holes allow secret installation of apps · 23 points · by mike_esspe · 5 comments
• Applications for tenure track CS position restricted to women only · 22 points · by Female · 25 comments
• Microsoft Altered Windows Sales: Moved $259 million from other units · 22 points · by raganwald · 4 comments
• Creativity and confidence propels founder of Groupon, Andrew Mason · 21 points · by edw519 · 3 comments
• An unexpected benefit of mailing lists · 21 points · by mise · 2 comments
• Closures as life · 20 points · by tmsh · 8 comments
• Ask HN: Technical, Business, or Designer · 20 points · by lachyg · 35 comments
• The Challenge of Being Google · 20 points · by atularora · 1 comment
• A VC: Fragmentation · 19 points · by bjonathan · 5 comments
• File a complaint with the ACLU | TSA Pat-down abuse · 19 points · by coffee · no comments
• Operations at Twitter: Scaling Beyond 100 Million Users (Video) · 18 points · by 619Cloud · 18 comments
• One on One: Tim Wu, Author of The Master Switch · 18 points · by J3L2404 · 2 comments
• The fight to secure Alan Turing's papers for Bletchley Park museum · 15 points · by ghalfacree · no comments
• The Shadow Scholar: The man who writes your students' papers tells his story · 15 points · by philwelch · 2 comments
• Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says · 15 points · by linhir · 15 comments
• What's wrong with having '.' in your $PATH? · 15 points · by invisiblefunnel · 26 comments
• OpenOffice.org for Kids · 15 points · by IgorPartola · 4 comments
• America: The Grim Truth · 15 points · by jteo · 1 comment
• Video of 3 year old being frisked by TSA against her will · 13 points · by mcantelon · 4 comments
• Help choose a sort order for the Stack Overflow homepage · 13 points · by icey · 1 comment
• Howto: Copy/Tee/Clone network traffic using iptables · 13 points · by bluesmoon · 1 comment
• Even Netflix Can’t Avoid Android Fragmentation · 13 points · by rmah · 25 comments
• Paper Is Good...(paper industry spreading FUD about reading online?) · 13 points · by tomh · 2 comments
• Did Tumblr Just Reverse Take Down 4Chan? · 13 points · by thiele · 8 comments
• The Phone Call Is Dead · 12 points · by bwaldorf · 17 comments
• On Language: Web · 12 points · by robg · 2 comments
• Man opts out of porno scanner and grope, told he'll be fined $10K · 11 points · by MarinaMartin · 1 comment
• Littlecosm - A Massively Multiplayer Twitter Client · 11 points · by iantimothy · 4 comments
• Google engineer: Raise leaker exposed us to mugging · 11 points · by wiks · 12 comments
• What the Internet knows about you · 11 points · by matt1 · 5 comments
• Animation Industry Finds a Home in Singapore · 11 points · by J3L2404 · 1 comment
• Smurfs Sneak into Apple's App Store, Rob Parents · 10 points · by slaven · 6 comments
• Pure virtual destructors in C++ · 10 points · by kapilkaisare · 9 comments
• PHP Port of Docco (First Release) · 9 points · by rossriley · 1 comment
• 101 Great Computer Programming Quotes · 9 points · by pghimire · 1 comment
• The historical roots of inequality · 9 points · by cwan · 3 comments
• Computer Science Research Trends · 9 points · by hiteshiitk · 1 comment
• My Open Letter to the SEC · 9 points · by MediaSquirrel · 6 comments
• Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital: "Target Big Markets" · 9 points · by paul · 2 comments
• REST Architecture – Simplified · 9 points · by abhirakshit · no comments
• Any web start ups need design work? · 9 points · by riskish · 11 comments
• Capitalism's tough reality for many Russians · 8 points · by exit · 2 comments
• TSA checkpoint groping · 8 points · by daimyoyo · 1 comment
• Alternative Periodic Tables · 8 points · by bluesmoon · 1 comment
• How Durable Are Information Monopolies On The Internet? · 8 points · by tav · 3 comments
• Web Typography Tips for Newbies · 8 points · by vladocar · no comments
• MeeGo phone demoed on incredibly powerful hardware · 8 points · by macco · 5 comments
• GitHub is Temporarily Offline · 8 points · by safij · 1 comment
• Buy, Sell And Help Support Art With Artsicle · 7 points · by techcocktail · no comments
• The result of 48 hours of programming at StartupWeekend · 7 points · by jaredbrown · 2 comments
• Tell HN: My event has been a success. · 7 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · 1 comment
• What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common · 7 points · by bjonathan · no comments
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs · 6 points · by VeXocide · no comments
• A pizza with Randal Schwartz · 6 points · by h3rald · no comments
• Ask HN: Who says tax breaks create jobs? · 6 points · by forkandwait · 4 comments
• C Programming Style - Paul Krzyzanowski · 5 points · by zengr · no comments
• Jeff Jarvis on How Young People Use Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace · 5 points · by dreambird · 1 comment
• What if the largest countries had the biggest populations? · 5 points · by olalonde · 1 comment
• Google's "company town" · 5 points · by grellas · no comments
• On Erlang, State and Crashes · 5 points · by timf · 1 comment
• Why there are so few design founders · 5 points · by jcoop · no comments
• Barriers to entry eventually break · 5 points · by davewiner · no comments
• HTML5 canvas globalCompositeOperation demo · 4 points · by beej71 · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Major Forms of Social Gaming? · 4 points · by JCThoughtscream · 2 comments
• Going Too Fast · 4 points · by rafaelc · 3 comments
• How Email Apps Will Help You Learn To Love Your Inbox Again · 4 points · by wiks · 1 comment
• F# for game development · 4 points · by rlmw · 2 comments
• Who breaks a Twitterer upon a wheel? · 4 points · by bjonathan · no comments
• Hierarchical File Systems are Dead · 4 points · by whopper_ · no comments
• How to Make the Dollar Sound Again · 4 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Cancel Christmas? Dissecting a Tax Drama? · 4 points · by mikecane · no comments
• How To Wind Up In An Office Chair, Fixing IE6 Bugs Even If Your Skills Rock · 4 points · by pw · no comments
• The iPadification of OS X – Part II · 4 points · by atularora · no comments
• Getting Your Ship Together · 4 points · by stuartkhall · no comments
• Exabyte-scale Data at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN · 3 points · by msacks · no comments
• Paper Airplane launched into Space · 3 points · by adebelov · no comments
• Singel-Minded: How Facebook Could Beat Google to Win the Net · 3 points · by Mithrandir · no comments
• GoDaddy Makes .CO the Default for New Domain Names · 3 points · by domino · 1 comment
• Massively Distributed Browser-based Javascript Map Reduce Framework. · 3 points · by rbranson · no comments
• Scientists claim body scanners at U.S. airports may be dangerous · 3 points · by mcantelon · 1 comment
• Fedora bars SQLNinja hack tool · 3 points · by Garbage · no comments
• Advice on good research practices · 3 points · by db42 · no comments
• Google software patents startle UK nerds · 3 points · by Mithrandir · no comments
• TSA employees singling out young women? · 3 points · by csmeder · 2 comments
• F# for game development · 3 points · by bsk · no comments
• Testing is just like washing your hands · 3 points · by szopa · no comments
• The Two Things · 3 points · by wooby · no comments
• Ask HN: How to choose a UPS / calculate power for a home office? · 3 points · by snow_mac · 1 comment
• GitHub down. · 3 points · by jawngee · no comments
• How Einstein Academy Started Solving Its Math Problem · 3 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• Ask HN: What are some good examples of small companies beating big companies? · 3 points · by karcher6554 · 1 comment
• GoDaddy Switches Back to .Com as Default Search Option · 3 points · by terrellm · no comments
• Videos and slides from Hadoop World NYC 2010 · 3 points · by teoruiz · no comments
• Introducing the First Spot Market for Cloud Computing Capacity · 3 points · by enomaly · 3 comments
• Microsoft Kin to make a feature phone comeback? · 2 points · by evo_9 · no comments
• Ask HN: What do I do next? · 2 points · by mysteryleo · 11 comments
• Stats on active members on Facebook page? · 2 points · by coreyweb · no comments
• Self-Repair Manifesto · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Three (Lousy) Photos Look To Be The First Taken With The Nexus S · 2 points · by Renji · no comments
• Can an American with no official connections to Europe register a .eu domain? · 2 points · by SkyMarshal · no comments
• Isn't "Hypomanic Entrepreneur" Redundant? · 2 points · by _pius · no comments
• Microsoft future brightens - still challenging · 2 points · by atularora · no comments
• My startup pivot idea. Comments? · 2 points · by fezzl · 3 comments
• Learning Genera · 2 points · by fogus · no comments
• Ask HN: What is the total employment of all YC companies? · 2 points · by nextvalley · no comments
• How do game designers keep players engaged after the've hit the last level? · 2 points · by bjonathan · no comments
• Ask HN: Joomla vs Wordpress for website Migration · 2 points · by kreedskulls · 2 comments
• Ask NN: Do you use NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit)? · 2 points · by zeynel1 · 1 comment
• Closures as objects · 2 points · by tmsh · no comments
• Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory · 2 points · by kapilkaisare · no comments
• How TV Superchef Jamie Oliver's 'Food Revolution' Flunked Out · 2 points · by duck · no comments
• Why Businesspeople Need to Become Designers · 2 points · by mgh2 · no comments
• CDE: automatic packaging of Code, Data, and Environment · 2 points · by Garbage · no comments
• Ask HN: How do I promote my teaser page? · 2 points · by crafterbob · 3 comments
• Twitter joke trial: conviction for joke tweet about blowing up airport upheld · 2 points · by philk · no comments
• Welcome to your hamster cage · 2 points · by davewiner · no comments
• Forget GDP: These Are the Most Advanced Countries in the World · 2 points · by wiks · no comments
• Urban Terror moving away from open source · 2 points · by spcmnspff · no comments
• Ask HN: Choosing paid review and pitching bloggers · 2 points · by sammville · 8 comments
• Auto industry's fastest microprocessor is 128Mhz, with 3MB of flash · 2 points · by zdw · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Should it be illegal to discriminate against poor writers/speakers? · 2 points · by amichail · 5 comments
• No One Cares What it Does -- They Only Care What They Get · 2 points · by clicksaw · no comments
• 7 Interesting HN Startup Month Apps · 2 points · by iuguy · 1 comment
• Rocket scientist converts stereo into 3D sound · 2 points · by VeXocide · no comments
• China Media Express: A Wall Street drama · 2 points · by tortilla · no comments
• Stop Wasting People’s Time and Start Setting Agendas · 2 points · by kapilkaisare · 2 comments
• U.S. building next wave of supercomputers · 2 points · by mcav · no comments
• Polyglot in Coffeescript and Python · 2 points · by tuxcanfly · no comments
• New Facebook "Browser" --or an Affront to Google · 2 points · by candre717 · no comments
• Google engineer: Raise leaker exposed us to mugging · 2 points · by icey · no comments
• Introducing the Freakduino-Chibi · 2 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• Dotconomy: Economic indicators from the web · 2 points · by bjonathan · no comments
• Wikipedia Mad Libs · 2 points · by wikifun · no comments
• NSFW: I’m Some Random Tech Entrepreneur and I Approve This Confusing Message · 2 points · by ajaimk · no comments
• As Glaciers Melt, Science Seeks Data on Rising Seas · 2 points · by gatsby · no comments
• Why is Tumblr Growing So Fast? · 2 points · by blackrabbit · no comments
• Oil will run dry before substitutes roll out: study · 2 points · by wiks · no comments
• The unrevolution · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• China grabs top spot in supercomputing ranking · 2 points · by kamechan · no comments
• The awesomeness manifesto · 2 points · by kamechan · no comments
• The customer is not right, says closed upscale Boston food market · 2 points · by dctoedt · no comments
• China: "Do as we say, not as we do" · 2 points · by miles · no comments
• 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles [Defcon Video] · 2 points · by zmmz · no comments
• What Burma and France have in common, and why? · 2 points · by chrismealy · no comments
• 28 years of research into how human intention affects physical reality · 2 points · by rfugger · no comments
• Maxwell's demon may be possible, with information converted to energy. · 2 points · by RiderOfGiraffes · no comments
• Paul English on early Kayak and how hiring impacts traction · 2 points · by vkdelta · no comments
• A simple solution to eliminating terrorism on planes. · 2 points · by amichail · 3 comments
• Node.js Roundup · 2 points · by safij · no comments
• The walking office. [video] · 2 points · by chaostheory · no comments
• Benefit of Thought · 2 points · by yewweitan · no comments
• There Are Always Greener Pastures · 2 points · by bradleyjoyce · no comments
• AOL Unveils “Project Phoenix,” Its New Webmail App · 2 points · by davidedicillo · no comments
• Book Review - Life - By Keith Richards · 1 points · by jedwhite · no comments
• Apple envisions interactive, augmented reality iPhone multiplayer games · 1 points · by evo_9 · no comments
• United States Frequency Allocations chart. · 1 points · by gsivil · no comments
• The Enticement of Free Wireless · 1 points · by gsivil · no comments
• Whack-a-Rectangle · 1 points · by wglb · no comments
• Apple I computer could sell for £150,000 · 1 points · by jaybol · no comments
• Minor leak, major headache · 1 points · by wglb · no comments
• What if Oracle Wins? · 1 points · by gherlein · 2 comments
• Firesheep, enterprise software and other broken models · 1 points · by atularora · no comments
• Generating buzz: 43 bits of advice from entrepreneurs/PR peeps/journos · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Fixture Macros · 1 points · by puredanger · no comments
• Germany Was Right When It Called Our Financial Policy "Clueless" · 1 points · by lotusleaf1987 · no comments
• Startup Quote: Nolan Ryan, team president, Texas Rangers · 1 points · by raychancc · 1 comment
• HTML5 vs. Flash: Where does Adobe Stand? · 1 points · by Garbage · no comments
• Homepage redesign options - Your inputs please · 1 points · by sainib · 4 comments
• China to unveil its own large jetliner, hopes to compete with Boeing and Airbus · 1 points · by ronnier · no comments
• What are the best ways to analyze a market? · 1 points · by askar · 1 comment
• Board Meetings: How do you run a good board meeting? · 1 points · by bjonathan · no comments
• Ask HN: Where to find a good graphic designer · 1 points · by zbruhnke · 4 comments
• Ontologies of Algorithm Implementations · 1 points · by kapilkaisare · 1 comment
• Windows Phone 7 beats iPhone 4 and Android ... in a grilling contest (video) · 1 points · by bluesmoon · no comments
• A query from down under: How do our universities *really* compare? · 1 points · by gavinballard · 3 comments
• Neuromarketing - Ads That Whisper to the Brain · 1 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• Apple-Twitter Partnership a Win-Win: Why Didn't Facebook Take the Deal? · 1 points · by kingsidharth · no comments
• Ask HN: Why most of the great websites are so simple design-wise? · 1 points · by gsivil · 8 comments
• An Invisible Killer Substance. How It's Creeping Around In Your Very Own Home. · 1 points · by sbmws · no comments
• Thoughts on Rapid Prototyping · 1 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• Ask HN: Compelling reasons for having a website · 1 points · by langmeire · 2 comments
• HTML5 Localstorage and sync across devices · 1 points · by rishabhverma · no comments
• How TV Superchef Jamie Oliver's 'Food Revolution' Flunked Out · 1 points · by aaronbrethorst · no comments
• Get a free copy of The Macintosh Way · 1 points · by macco · no comments
• How Choice Impairs Your Visitors · 1 points · by bluesmoon · no comments
• 6 Tips for Designing with Lines · 1 points · by bluesmoon · no comments
• Microsoft future brightens - still challenging · 1 points · by gibsonf1 · no comments
• Google and Facebook battle for the ads sales: who controls the net? · 1 points · by PanMan · 1 comment
• Startup comment wanted: a new geographical information sharing community · 1 points · by xji · no comments
• Your Online Data Might Not Belong To You · 1 points · by niekmaas · no comments
• Saudi Arabia blocks Facebook over moral concerns · 1 points · by bsk · no comments
• Finding a Needle in Haystack: Facebook's Photo Storage Details · 1 points · by hiteshiitk · no comments
• Permission and Open Subscription Protocols · 1 points · by messel · no comments
• Leaves of Grass · 1 points · by robg · no comments
• Quantitative Easing Explained · 1 points · by Citizen8 · no comments
• Skypemail Monday? · 1 points · by atularora · no comments
• NoSQL Market: from NoWhere to $1.8 Billion by 2015 · 1 points · by jollyroger · no comments
• Rise to the Challenge at RiSE4fun.com · 1 points · by gspyrou · no comments
• Emerging Technology: Virtual Events · 1 points · by jollyroger · no comments
• How software upgrades build brand loyalty · 1 points · by aaw · no comments
• There Is No Bubble · 1 points · by frederickcook · no comments
• IE CSS Compatibility List (Microsoft) · 1 points · by tarellel · no comments
• Windows Azure, SQL Azure, OData and Office 365 Sessions at Tech*Ed Europe 2010 · 1 points · by rogerjenn · no comments
• 10 great WP plugins · 1 points · by bbelderbos · 1 comment
• A small spat highlights a big issue: who owns your online identity? · 1 points · by hornokplease · no comments
• My Journey to Programming Enlightenment: How do I get back? · 1 points · by Periodic · no comments
• Say No to Null Checks · 1 points · by abyx · 4 comments
• Object Oriented Programming in JavaScript · 1 points · by tswicegood · no comments
• Ask HN: Where can I find the most comprehensive history of Pandora up until now? · 1 points · by karcher6554 · no comments
• The Third Dimension of Tissue Engineering · 1 points · by MikeCapone · no comments
• The Ultimate Play Cheat sheet · 1 points · by abp · no comments
• Max Hardberger: Repo man of the seas · 1 points · by mootothemax · no comments
• Weekend Project: Qitika Sage · 1 points · by JamieLewis · 1 comment
• Indian Telecom Minister Accused of a scam of $40 billion · 1 points · by ganjupatel · no comments
• Facebook's obvious strategy for bankrupting Google · 1 points · by robinhouston · no comments
• Possible next-Gen streetlights, glowing trees using gold nanoparticles · 1 points · by arch_hunter · no comments
• Private Beta Key for a new app maker · 1 points · by itsdeshazer · no comments
• Producing An Album On The iPad? Yup, There’s An Artist For That · 1 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• New app maker private beta (tweet '#icanapp' for the beta key) · 1 points · by itsdeshazer · 2 comments
• Geocide · 1 points · by michaelfairley · no comments
• The End of NoSQL? · 0 points · by Garbage · 1 comment