Hacker News Way Back Machine

• WebGL Water Simulation · 463 points · by devongovett · 85 comments
• Ask HN: How can I do something meaningful? · 278 points · by DotOrg · 152 comments
• Perlis Languages · 236 points · by pepijndevos · 35 comments
• The quick website launch checklist · 235 points · by shabda · 44 comments
• Issac Asimov: What Is Intelligence, Anyway? · 232 points · by rblion · 58 comments
• A writer leaves Microsoft Word · 195 points · by gw666 · 154 comments
• False confessions · 180 points · by j-g-faustus · 66 comments
• MIT Scientists Develop a Drug to Fight Any Viral Infection · 141 points · by schintan · 40 comments
• 2005 Zuckerberg Didn't Want To Take On The World · 140 points · by JJMalina · 49 comments
• JavaScript Physics Engine · 140 points · by bauchidgw · 22 comments
• The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse · 126 points · by jedwhite · 135 comments
• Quake Engine source review · 123 points · by jenningsjason · 15 comments
• The Queensway Syndicate: tens of billions in revenue; unknown owners. · 118 points · by pc · 18 comments
• Show HN: Crash into Python · 107 points · by grncdr · 14 comments
• Do trees communicate? Networks, networks · 105 points · by miraj · 21 comments
• Steve, Please Buy Us A Carrier · 101 points · by siglesias · 42 comments
• Eric Ries: “Don’t Be In A Rush To Get Big, Be In A Rush To Have A Great Product” · 97 points · by aorshan · 30 comments
• The Elusive Big Idea · 77 points · by jakevoytko · 36 comments
• Cool Illusion - Motion Induced Blindness · 76 points · by dean · 4 comments
• Schizophrenic Computer Points to New Theory of Disease · 69 points · by caustic · 18 comments
• Maybe It’s Time for Plan C · 65 points · by jarek · 14 comments
• Try Forth · 61 points · by grifaton · 17 comments
• MyBART Hacked By Anonymous · 60 points · by llambda · 32 comments
• Lies of B-School · 59 points · by krat0sprakhar · 25 comments
• Dark matter may be an illusion caused by the quantum vacuum · 58 points · by cwan · 22 comments
• List of Important Publications in Computer Science · 58 points · by vinutheraj · 6 comments
• Who is Using Node.js And Why? Yammer, Bocoup, Proxlet and Yahoo · 58 points · by tq41 · 26 comments
• Can You Trademark a Color? · 56 points · by dean · 31 comments
• Game theorists offer a surprising insight into the evolution of fair play · 55 points · by molbioguy · 24 comments
• Jonathan's Card Experiments And Outcomes · 53 points · by robryan · 87 comments
• On Porous Paywalls · 47 points · by bond · 9 comments
• Are You Perceived as a Low Status Techie? · 46 points · by barce · 39 comments
• Motion Induced Blindness · 43 points · by DanielRibeiro · 7 comments
• Long Beach Police Chief Confirms Detaining Photographers · 41 points · by scottshea · 21 comments
• Where did viruses come from? · 35 points · by vynch · 8 comments
• Nintendo's pressure to make iOS games · 34 points · by iamclovin · 58 comments
• Ask HN: Career Change to something without computers · 32 points · by mattm · 43 comments
• 1981: U.S. Postal Service announces E-COM email · 31 points · by mikecane · 11 comments
• Do waterfalls play chess? and other stories · 28 points · by casta · 1 comment
• Cryptographic stenography could thwart Internet censorship · 27 points · by aneth · 10 comments
• Font Dragr: Test custom fonts in the browser. No code, just drag and drop. · 27 points · by fourspace · 6 comments
• The Path · 27 points · by thesyndicate · 1 comment
• Bringing solar light bulbs to the world · 24 points · by thedoctor · 12 comments
• PlantLab Revolutionizes Farming: No Sunlight or Windows, Less Water, Better Food · 23 points · by ph0rque · 8 comments
• Why I hate the Kindle · 21 points · by ColinWright · 61 comments
• Show HN: I've created a third place. (for getting to know HNers) · 20 points · by jsmoov · 33 comments
• How soon does a bike pay back its initial carbon footprint? · 19 points · by jseliger · 25 comments
• Tohoku Tsunami Creates Antarctic Icebergs · 18 points · by ikirill · no comments
• BART vs. Anonymous · 16 points · by bkudria · 5 comments
• Hello World: Israel is Out-Classing You in Civil Disobedience · 15 points · by Joshim5 · 20 comments
• Doing a project with my retired father · 15 points · by daniel71l · 4 comments
• Make money first, then do good. · 15 points · by fiesycal · 1 comment
• Text-only dot matrix LCD animation · 15 points · by paulasmuth · 4 comments
• Brother Needs Help Learning to Program · 14 points · by chirp · 13 comments
• Ask HN: What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? · 13 points · by inovica · 8 comments
• Then people wonder why Apple is suing companies for copying them · 13 points · by davidedicillo · 8 comments
• Selling my Android game: week 1 · 12 points · by bendmorris · 3 comments
• PayPal's Peter Thiel reveals plan to launch floating country off San Francisco · 11 points · by Auguste · 1 comment
• Photos of a Prototype MacBook Pro with Integrated 3G Cellular Modem · 11 points · by ashishgandhi · 4 comments
• Are software patents the "scaffolding of the tech industry"? · 11 points · by abraham · 3 comments
• Ask HN: How many lines of code per day? · 10 points · by swix · 12 comments
• Test if any website is Blocked in Iran in real-time · 9 points · by howaboutit · 5 comments
• Jonathanscard: A social experiment, or not? · 9 points · by danielodio · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Is freelance statistics/machine-learning consulting viable? · 9 points · by HN-regular · 10 comments
• Redefine mass transit in New York - Chief Technology Officer of bus system · 9 points · by ryanmjohnson · 2 comments
• Ask HN: physical prints: how do they do it? · 8 points · by petervandijck · 1 comment
• The Prince Who Blew Through Billions · 8 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Richard Feynman: What Is Science? · 8 points · by wallflower · 2 comments
• Technology offers 50 ways to leave your lawyer · 8 points · by friism · no comments
• Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Transform It · 7 points · by ph0rque · no comments
• The Internet has all but destroyed the market for films, music and newspapers · 7 points · by cageface · 2 comments
• How the NYT paywall is working · 7 points · by bootload · no comments
• Rapper, The Game, uses Twitter to incite telephone flash mob agst police · 7 points · by asanwal · no comments
• Crowdfunding for new Common Lisp portability layer: Madeira · 7 points · by uros643 · no comments
• Top 15 java threading interview questions asked in Investment banks · 7 points · by revti · 2 comments
• Hyperpolyglot · 7 points · by rfreytag · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Good books and resources about computer simulations. · 7 points · by TeMPOraL · 2 comments
• What if fats actually dont make us fat · 7 points · by vynch · 1 comment
• Ask HN: Using search ads to target potential employers Good or Bad? · 7 points · by taylorlb · 6 comments
• Astronaut Photographs Perseid Meteor... From Space · 7 points · by xd · no comments
• Int a[] = {1,2,}; Weird comma allowed. Any particular reason? · 6 points · by AlienWebguy · 2 comments
• Glorious Images Of Apple’s New Spaceship Headquarters · 6 points · by rblion · 4 comments
• Groupon getting pummeled daily in Israeli deal market, Buy2 leads · 6 points · by creativeone · 7 comments
• Playtomic's log processing - from nothing to a billion events a day · 6 points · by benologist · no comments
• Response to Sam Odio · 6 points · by kaptain · 3 comments
• Building my first startup - Day #0 · 6 points · by mixreadBlog · no comments
• Tailorstore - custom clothes shop done the right way · 5 points · by viraptor · 1 comment
• The Carbohydrate Hypothesis of Obesity: a Critical Examination · 5 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• BitCoin ATM · 5 points · by feydr · no comments
• Jonathan's Card: a Q&A Sam Odio's blog · 5 points · by antr · 3 comments
• 10 Reasons You Should Quit your Job · 5 points · by kiteloop · 1 comment
• History Of The Stack Exchange API, Mistakes · 5 points · by chuckharmston · no comments
• Gmail Paper · 5 points · by kyro · no comments
• Anonymous stages Bart protest · 5 points · by lukejduncan · no comments
• The Lesson of Dropbox: Usage = Value · 5 points · by chrisyeh · no comments
• Is _blank (HTML) basically an un-necessary popup? · 5 points · by msacks · 5 comments
• The Ugly Future Is Speeding Toward Us · 5 points · by Cmccann7 · no comments
• Physics engine for After Effects · 5 points · by ranza · no comments
• C++0x Is Unanimously Approved · 5 points · by whatgoodisaroad · no comments
• Ask HN: Why is my avg going down... · 4 points · by runT1ME · 5 comments
• Americans Elect - Internet Politics for the U.S. Through A Third Party · 4 points · by swampthing · no comments
• Top ten brains of the digital future · 4 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• Checkpoint/restart (mostly) in user space · 4 points · by spahl · no comments
• John Carmack Interview: GPU Race, Intel Graphics, Ray Tracing, Voxels · 4 points · by psykotic · 1 comment
• Books/Blogs/Suggestion on planning and developing Web Application/Website? · 4 points · by idiotb · 3 comments
• [video] Guerrilla Guide to Pure Functional Programming · 4 points · by ahmicro · no comments
• Mental Malware: The Psychology of Korean Advertisements · 4 points · by iuguy · no comments
• Euclideon & Unlimited Detail - Real-time demo · 4 points · by kombine · 1 comment
• Measuring the value of search · 4 points · by miraj · 2 comments
• Don't mind me, just building my house · 4 points · by lawlit · no comments
• Good noob marketing advice · 4 points · by cek · no comments
• Mind map software options for Linux · 4 points · by g-garron · no comments
• College or UnCollege? · 4 points · by sbashyal · 6 comments
• ToutApp.com: An innovative approach to email templates · 4 points · by weston · no comments
• MacOS passes linux as favored software development environment · 4 points · by gautamc · no comments
• Stanford video lectures on algorithms, machine learning, etc. · 4 points · by dlo · no comments
• Prototypes for Iphone Apps · 3 points · by pknla · 4 comments
• Study: social media doesn't correlate with unrest, economic austerity does · 3 points · by gasull · no comments
• Linden Lab Launching Separate New SL-Light Experience for Web & Tablets Soon · 3 points · by ilamont · no comments
• Tubalr.com - On the fly youtube playlist, no registering required. Input wanted · 3 points · by cjstewart88 · 10 comments
• Ask HN: What are the top US schools teaching entrepreneurship and business? · 3 points · by zol · 5 comments
• Ask HN: Would HN be better without votes and with tagged streams? · 3 points · by jayfuerstenberg · 6 comments
• A Computer Absolutely Can Be Sexy - Jonathan Ive · 3 points · by lawlit · 2 comments
• Python metaclasses by example · 3 points · by wglb · no comments
• Productivity Tools | David Seah · 3 points · by dpatru · no comments
• Should you meet with VCs early for feedback? · 3 points · by asanwal · no comments
• Why did Google choose Python? · 3 points · by desushil · 1 comment
• Where has your dollar bill been? · 3 points · by natasham25 · 3 comments
• How fast is PyPy? · 3 points · by abhishektwr · no comments
• More about new Apple Campus in Cupertino · 3 points · by nhebb · no comments
• Infographic: 30 years of personal computing · 3 points · by moritzplassnig · no comments
• How should a Professor Incentivize Classroom Attendance? · 3 points · by akarambir · 2 comments
• How algorithms shape our world · 3 points · by BasDirks · 1 comment
• Bill Gates' reading list includes a book on molecular biology · 3 points · by sid6376 · 4 comments
• Swarm robots attack your bookshelf, win AAAI Oscar · 3 points · by tathagatadg · 1 comment
• Why some e-books cost more than the hardcover · 3 points · by omergertel · no comments
• Show HN: I've made a tough math game and I want to share it with you folks · 3 points · by ilija139 · no comments
• Ask HN: How to Retrieve an Expired Posting on Craigslist · 3 points · by candre717 · no comments
• AOL's Postmaster Hacked · 3 points · by ainsleyb · no comments
• AOL website hit by hacker · 3 points · by diggericon · no comments
• Anyone know what happened to EAccelerator? · 3 points · by jcborro · 3 comments
• A lock for Javascript. Wait... a WHAT? · 3 points · by spolu · no comments
• Did space storms drive us mad? · 3 points · by kennyroo · 1 comment
• The batman equation · 3 points · by TalGalili · 1 comment
• What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management · 3 points · by inshane · no comments
• Ask HN: About launching a .FM music web service · 3 points · by atarian · 1 comment
• Detroit could be the next big startup city · 3 points · by rmason · no comments
• Creativity for Entrepreneurs · 3 points · by jaltucher · 1 comment
• More Stuff is not the Right Stuff · 2 points · by spolu · no comments
• Squirrels Do 17 Percent of the Damage to Fiber Optic Network · 2 points · by raganesh · no comments
• Solar heat for oil wells: Mirrors in glasshouses… · 2 points · by mblakele · no comments
• Collapsing Communities · 2 points · by fogus · no comments
• Is the Internet a free-for-all? · 2 points · by rblion · no comments
• How to Hack Your Wii for Homebrew in Five Minutes · 2 points · by dean · no comments
• The Secret of Creation Lies in the Wave · 2 points · by dmoney · no comments
• Amazon applies for patent to help protect falling phones with airbags · 2 points · by hippich · no comments
• The advantages of pessimism (Alain de Botton) · 2 points · by soitgoes · no comments
• Pros and cons of living in SoMa as a Startup · 2 points · by martinshen · no comments
• Hoare: A Half-Century of Computing · 2 points · by MaysonL · no comments
• Chinese Government Finds 22 More Fake Apple Stores - MacRumors.com · 2 points · by rjim86 · no comments
• BCCAPI: A library for creating secure, fast Bitcoin clients on Android · 2 points · by chopmo · no comments
• The remote-local computing cycle · 2 points · by johnwaterwood · no comments
• ClojureScript AJAX , or is that AJACS? · 2 points · by icey · no comments
• The Official C#.NET Alpha-Geek Quiz · 2 points · by bhartzer · 3 comments
• The FT's decline · 2 points · by ekpyrotic · no comments
• Ask HN: What are the technologies used by Anonymous & Lulzsec? · 2 points · by anononon · 2 comments
• Security baseline - Part I - ISM4Startups · 2 points · by dbuizert · no comments
• Aside. the world's first magazine only made with HTML5. · 2 points · by noinput · no comments
• Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? · 2 points · by flocial · no comments
• Google+ sends users to Yahoo/Hotmail to import Facebook friends · 2 points · by techscruggs · 1 comment
• Innovation Inspired · 2 points · by dean · no comments
• An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States · 2 points · by svedlin · no comments
• Food Jing Wins Taipei’s Inaugural Startup Weekend · 2 points · by jby382 · no comments
• Pub/Sub in JavaScript · 2 points · by bruth · no comments
• Is It Time for a New Job? · 2 points · by orky56 · no comments
• Turn your LinkedIn profile into an infographic · 2 points · by instakill · no comments
• Adobe Releases Media Player 1.0, Launches Adobe TV · 2 points · by tedibushi · no comments
• As Anonymous threatens BART, stakes rise in feud over cell service cutoff · 2 points · by j_baker · no comments
• Before You Ride That Bike, Know the Sexual Risks · 2 points · by jseliger · no comments
• The secret behind Google's "realtime" search · 2 points · by sqrt17 · no comments
• IdeaPaint: Dry Erase Boards everywhere · 2 points · by ColinWright · 1 comment
• A very simple Twitter app -- Retweet Stats ( Alpha ) · 2 points · by atsiddiqui · no comments
• JQuery challenge - draw tally marks on click event · 2 points · by AlienWebguy · no comments
• Office of the Federal Register now has API · 2 points · by dmor · no comments
• Mobile Web Development JavaScript Frameworks · 2 points · by jggube · no comments
• Doron Zeilberger's Collection of Quotes · 2 points · by tokenadult · no comments
• Starting to finish · 1 points · by kentf · no comments
• Reddit and community journalism · 1 points · by DanielRibeiro · no comments
• PillowChat: How Not to Build a Chat Room with jQuery, PHPillow, and CouchDB · 1 points · by NickC_dev · no comments
• Bacterial Fuel · 1 points · by tambourine_man · no comments
• Movim 0.3 is out · 1 points · by Off · 1 comment
• Morocco awarded African Country of the Future 2011/2012 · 1 points · by lawlit · no comments
• Jeff Bezos patents retro jets, and airbags, for telephones · 1 points · by acak · 1 comment
• Philadelphia has a Curfew to Fight Teen Flash Mobs · 1 points · by michaelpinto · no comments
• Dell: Apple should close shop (1997) · 1 points · by dabit · 1 comment
• 22 more "fake" Apple Stores found in China · 1 points · by dean · no comments
• How to increase profits with loss leaders · 1 points · by Hsoub · no comments
• Ten Million-Dollar Start-Up Mistakes · 1 points · by Arkid · no comments
• The true price of publishing · 1 points · by jamesbritt · no comments
• Hands-On With the IBM 5150, Thirty Years Later · 1 points · by bootload · no comments
• Ask HN: Do up and down arrows not working in GMail now? · 1 points · by ww520 · no comments
• Not a business at all · 1 points · by tmandarano · no comments
• Mibbit hack Compromised · 1 points · by invisbleeditor · no comments
• Canonical Launches Ubuntu One Music Streaming App For iPhone & iPod · 1 points · by dkd903 · no comments
• Terabytes of Downloadable Patents (USPTO/Google) · 1 points · by ahalan · no comments
• Romance Novels, Filled With Passionate Love and Torrid Sex, Mislead Women · 1 points · by meow · no comments
• When Google Wanted To Sell To Excite For Under $1 Million — And They Passed · 1 points · by ahalan · no comments
• Skillshare vs. Betterfly: a battle of vision and execution · 1 points · by grantgrant · no comments
• Show HN: images search for Twitter · 1 points · by abava · no comments
• Using R and Ruby - slides from February LRUG · 1 points · by eaxitect · no comments
• Reddit and community journalism · 1 points · by asanwal · no comments
• Honour and Morality in Jonathan's Card · 1 points · by grovulent · no comments
• Daily Red Meat Raises Risk for Diabetes, Large Study Says · 1 points · by spottiness · no comments
• Startups: profit, passion, purpose · 1 points · by sundars · no comments
• Using mind maps for design · 1 points · by pdeva1 · no comments
• A Computer Absolutely Can Be Sexy - 1999, Jonathan Ive, Apple Inc. · 1 points · by lawlit · no comments
• What’s the big idea? · 1 points · by mkr-hn · no comments
• Cryptocat releases Chrome extension that does integrity checks on crypto code · 1 points · by magikarp · no comments
• N9 Swipe undocumented feature; activate sane behavior · 1 points · by mikecane · no comments
• The Death of Booting Up · 1 points · by pwg · 1 comment
• How to sell Androids · 1 points · by UtestMe · no comments
• Google+ Posts Now Appear in Google Search Results · 1 points · by ot · no comments
• % followers vs % countries with .ge. 1 follower: power law · 1 points · by ColinWright · 1 comment
• A Rational Argument for the Existence of the Human Soul · 1 points · by ph0rque · 2 comments
• Innovation inspired by nature · 1 points · by cek · no comments
• Maximum Demand Tariff and its relationship with power factor and load factor · 1 points · by lsiu · no comments
• Bell Labs Innovations (Video Song) · 1 points · by dangoldin · 1 comment
• Show HN: A Forum Aggregator - http://beta.agalanche.com · 1 points · by mkinnan · 3 comments
• Can the Massachusetts video game industry hit restart? · 1 points · by ilamont · no comments
• US Software Patents: Can they be worse for EU startups? · 1 points · by danmaz74 · no comments
• TurboGears 2: Setting up on Windows · 1 points · by driscollis · no comments
• Open Source CNC machine on Kickstarter · 1 points · by X-Istence · no comments
• Video Game Snobbery Started a Long Time Ago · 1 points · by evo_9 · no comments
• Typekit hand-hinted fonts · 1 points · by iaskwhy · 1 comment
• Steve Jobs presents Apple’s new Campus to the Cupertino City Council (6/7/11) · 1 points · by lawlit · no comments
• MSnRS/1HH: How to make a Twitter Bot in less than 1h · 1 points · by spolu · no comments
• Ask HN: What language do you think has the best FFI? · 1 points · by lawfulfalafel · 1 comment
• Does Cinemax’s iPad app violate Apple’s no-porn policy? · 1 points · by nextparadigms · no comments
• My Favorite Apps/Games · 1 points · by seanandroid · no comments
• Moving in & Making Posters · 1 points · by jenius · no comments
• Sketching for iPad · 1 points · by tomazstolfa · no comments
• 911 May Soon Allow Texts, Photo Messages · 1 points · by MichaelApproved · no comments
• Are we the Web? · 1 points · by nextparadigms · no comments
• The Programmer Training & Talent Deficiency · 1 points · by msacks · 1 comment
• What are some best viral marketing techniques for a B2C startup? · 1 points · by gdhillon · no comments
• CCC Camp 2011 talks are online · 1 points · by rb2k_ · 1 comment
• Anonymous defaces BART website & releases user info · 1 points · by bkerensa · 1 comment
• Manifesto of the appalled economists · 1 points · by kephra · 1 comment
• The history of HiFi · 1 points · by zoowar · no comments
• What I'm Building and Why · 1 points · by williamldennis · no comments
• Performance Issues with Lion and 2010 MacBook Pros · 1 points · by alexknight · no comments
• Five months at WeWork Labs · 1 points · by mjshampine · no comments
• Four types of human capital · 1 points · by sebkomianos · no comments
• Linux 3.1-rc2 released · 1 points · by NARKOZ · no comments
• How the New York 'Times' Came Back From the Brink · 1 points · by kareemm · no comments