Hacker News Way Back Machine

• Christmas tree made out of form elements (webkit) · 298 points · by hakim · 33 comments
• Death to .DS_Store · 287 points · by snielsen · 122 comments
• GoDaddy loses 72,354 domains this week alone · 224 points · by justinmares · 32 comments
• Decades later, a Cold War secret revealed · 185 points · by olegious · 38 comments
• Institutional memory and reverse smuggling · 150 points · by adulau · 36 comments
• Ask PG: 2012 Startup ideas you'd like to fund? · 144 points · by AznHisoka · 32 comments
• Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders · 131 points · by DanielRibeiro · 45 comments
• The momentum of Steve Jobs · 130 points · by ibrahimcesar · 11 comments
• Revisiting 2011 in 365 HN stories · 126 points · by earlyriser · 28 comments
• A Perl Regular Expression That Matches Prime Numbers · 123 points · by pkrumins · 27 comments
• ISO updates C Standard (Now we have C11) · 116 points · by kzrdude · 35 comments
• Donald Knuth on how he became good at math · 102 points · by grot · 31 comments
• Siege, a DBMS written in Haskell · 98 points · by DanWaterworth · 20 comments
• 802.11 Packets in Packets: A Standard-Compliant Exploit of Layer 1 · 79 points · by sp332 · 3 comments
• Why Rackspace oppose SOPA · 78 points · by samuel1604 · 16 comments
• Bulletproof your blog – survive the Hacker News effect · 67 points · by masnick · 46 comments
• A Textbook Buffer Overflow: A Look at the FreeBSD telnetd Code · 64 points · by thexploit · 23 comments
• Donald Knuth's advice to young people · 64 points · by antichaos · 16 comments
• How much of an iPhone is made by Samsung? · 56 points · by friism · 23 comments
• E-Books from NASA · 56 points · by yarapavan · 2 comments
• Tests Cast Doubts on iPad and Kindle Restrictions · 52 points · by jeffreymcmanus · 12 comments
• Could The Rebellion Against Traditional Publishing Actually Work? · 47 points · by sachitgupta · 46 comments
• Show HN: multicasting video chat site I built over xmas break · 47 points · by chenosaurus · 20 comments
• DefendTheInter.net: An illustrated guide on why the Internet needs saving. · 46 points · by halfwayglad · 14 comments
• Before Recruiting in Ivy League, Applying Some Math · 45 points · by dget · 4 comments
• Could Revolution Come to Putin's Russia? · 43 points · by tokenadult · 6 comments
• The Perl 6 Coding Contest · 40 points · by perlgeek · 2 comments
• Publishers vs. Libraries: An E-Book Tug of War · 38 points · by danso · 9 comments
• Berkeley Explains Why Google Trumps Microsoft · 38 points · by nextparadigms · 5 comments
• Idiomatic Perl 6 · 35 points · by draegtun · 11 comments
• Stock Options Boost Company Performance only when given to Executives · 34 points · by cwan · 18 comments
• Americans are stalking Australian dot-com start-ups · 31 points · by nreece · 3 comments
• Traffic sources: Forget what you think about tech PR · 31 points · by pjsullivan3 · 22 comments
• How Do Co-Founders Meet? 17 Startups Tell All · 28 points · by vipivip · 1 comment
• Why Hasn’t Safari Skyrocketed Like Chrome Has? · 26 points · by hshah · 40 comments
• The 12 bugs of Christmas · 23 points · by asfafaf · 3 comments
• Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed · 20 points · by tokenadult · 1 comment
• Politics: A Christmas Message From America's Rich · 18 points · by _pius · 1 comment
• Dan Ariely: "Why is the price anchor for apps so low?" · 16 points · by brianmackey · 5 comments
• Say no to your client · 14 points · by xuding · 3 comments
• The Louis C.K. Experiment is Flawed · 13 points · by amayne · 19 comments
• Cupcake Deemed 'Security Threat,' Confiscated By TSA · 13 points · by spahl · 2 comments
• Christmas: Brought to you by chinese slave labor · 12 points · by meadhikari · 7 comments
• HTML5 Game Contest for Pokki - Win $30k + GDC trip · 12 points · by memnips · 4 comments
• Facebook keeps you alive · 12 points · by refaelos · 5 comments
• The smell of Christmas · 12 points · by Aurametrix · 1 comment
• An illustrated guide to SOPA, PIPA, and why the Internet needs saving. · 11 points · by ovechtrick · no comments
• What Startup To Build? · 10 points · by llambda · no comments
• Goodbye GoDaddy · 10 points · by brettweaverio · 5 comments
• Go Daddy loses over 37,000 domains due to SOPA stance · 9 points · by bond · no comments
• Design Your Own Profession · 9 points · by miraj · no comments
• The truth behind SOPA and bills like it. Get your WTF glasses ready ಠ_ಠ · 9 points · by LUTOPiA · no comments
• 37 Signals Moving their domain off of Godaddy · 8 points · by sathishmanohar · no comments
• A hamiltonian cycle finder in awk and sed · 8 points · by ahh · no comments
• My Letter to the Senate on PIPA · 8 points · by netmau5 · 1 comment
• 2nd Place AI Challenge Bot Postmortem (Translated by Hand From Russian) · 7 points · by tvorryn · no comments
• Will Informal Learning Carry the Same Weight as College Degrees? · 7 points · by mikeleeorg · no comments
• Tell HN: It's Christmas · 7 points · by IgorPartola · 1 comment
• DeSopa – DNS Evasion to Stop Oppressive Policy in America · 7 points · by i-hacker · 1 comment
• The overjustification effect · 7 points · by mixmax · no comments
• Decision Architecture: Designing for Decision-Making · 7 points · by barredo · no comments
• Is anyone making money in the Chrome Web Store? · 7 points · by sodiumphosphate · 4 comments
• Rumor: Apple wants to launch 'iPad 3' on Feb. 24 birthday of Steve Jobs · 6 points · by evo_9 · 3 comments
• Feedback wanted: nodeJS framework for HTTP and Socket connections = actionHero · 6 points · by evantahler · 3 comments
• The Google Firefox search deal, Chrome and Lady GaGa · 6 points · by nikcub · no comments
• If Moms Can’t Find It, They Invent It · 6 points · by mjfern · no comments
• Is there a way to put our DVD collections on Amazon S3 and stream them? · 6 points · by ChrisNorstrom · no comments
• Everything I Ever Learned about JVM Performance Tuning At Twitter (video) · 6 points · by eneveu · 1 comment
• Merry Christmas from the TSA · 6 points · by spahl · no comments
• Yesterday, GoDaddy lost 21,000 domains · 6 points · by philipdlang · no comments
• Visualizing US Foreign Aid with D3.js · 6 points · by polyfractal · 3 comments
• Leaving Godaddy and need free reliable DNS? · 6 points · by andrewhillman · 4 comments
• Ask HN: Is there a Kickstarter for open source software projects? · 6 points · by travisfischer · 10 comments
• Realtime video chat built over Christmas break using Node.js · 6 points · by chapel · no comments
• Startup Directory for Mich-i-ganders · 5 points · by BallinBige · no comments
• What I Learned About the Web in 2011 · 5 points · by thespacebardude · no comments
• Ask HN: When do you use brute force vs complexity to solve a problem? · 5 points · by diminium · 1 comment
• Traditional MBA skill set is no longer enough · 5 points · by technology · 3 comments
• Ask HN: explain to me what piracy isn't · 5 points · by donnyg107 · 7 comments
• Ask HN: Where do I get an Android app icon? · 5 points · by veeti · 5 comments
• Ask HN: What software do you want to see open source? · 5 points · by lalaland · 4 comments
• Congress calls on Twitter to block Taliban · 5 points · by mjfern · no comments
• Donald Knuth: Lecturing on Science and Religion · 5 points · by aiscott · no comments
• Ask HN: Who's coming to 28c3? · 4 points · by JonnieCache · no comments
• Show HN: The Christmas App I Built for my GF · 4 points · by JacobIrwin · 2 comments
• In pictures: 2011 as seen from space · 4 points · by colinprince · no comments
• Asynchronous workflows in Clojure · 4 points · by DanielRibeiro · no comments
• Scott Adams looking for co-founders · 4 points · by pitdesi · no comments
• Google math love · 4 points · by heelhook · 1 comment
• A Quick and Painless Way of Sharing Screenshots with Dropbox · 4 points · by alexknight · 3 comments
• Easiest way to cut a pizza into 11 pieces? · 4 points · by aen · no comments
• South Park drawn by CSS3 · 4 points · by awsum · no comments
• Happy Holidays from Badass JavaScript -- An Animated Greeting Card · 4 points · by devongovett · no comments
• Nice View, and the Profits Surpass All Horizons · 4 points · by wallflower · no comments
• Are videos of Khan Academy really good? Khan vs Pro · 4 points · by KishoreKumar · 3 comments
• Ask HN: Name my startup? · 4 points · by scottschulthess · 18 comments
• Apple has plans to use hydrogen in batteries allowing iPhones and iPods · 4 points · by protomyth · 1 comment
• The $25 Raspberry Pi computer is coming next month · 4 points · by rayboyd · no comments
• Tell HN: The Twelve Days of Compu-Christmas · 4 points · by ScottBurson · 1 comment
• Implementing BrowserID identification on your website · 4 points · by jfoucher · no comments
• Private Beta Access to Geeklist for YC News Readers (code: YCREADERS1) · 4 points · by chrissanz · 10 comments
• JavaScript (ECMAScript) Harmony in Chrome · 3 points · by twapi · no comments
• Your Esoteric Language is Useless · 3 points · by blackhole · no comments
• Online Gambling Given a Boost in U.S. Ruling · 3 points · by compumike · no comments
• Setting up your own IPSEC VPN · 3 points · by thexploit · no comments
• Stunt: Driving a Real Car on a Vertical Loop · 3 points · by mrb · no comments
• How IBM Saw 2012 in 2007: Where’s My Mind-Reading Cellphone? · 3 points · by joeteplow · no comments
• Robocall SOPA supporters to get your voice heard against it · 3 points · by eknopf · no comments
• Inception becomes reality: People can teach themselves new skills in dreams · 3 points · by pier0 · 1 comment
• Configuration Management Vs Customized Images · 3 points · by brettweaverio · no comments
• I'm against SOPA... So I'll explain how to make soap with olive oil · 3 points · by adulau · 1 comment
• Ask HN: What accounting services do you use? · 3 points · by kal00ma · 3 comments
• 'Anonymous' Stratfor Hack Reportedly Start Of Weeklong Assault · 3 points · by jameswlake · no comments
• Time Inflation and Deflation Theory (TIDT) · 3 points · by mmontuori · no comments
• Oh, How I love My [InsertString: $sponsored_device] · 3 points · by pandemicsyn · no comments
• 2-Pane for Google Reader · 3 points · by joshguthrie · no comments
• Merry Christmas · 3 points · by rrohan189 · no comments
• Who is behind the killing of Twitter fail whale? · 3 points · by chrissanz · 1 comment
• Apple Ad: Santa using Siri · 3 points · by iapi · 1 comment
• Nintendo, Please Switch to iOS · 3 points · by evo_9 · 1 comment
• Chango: Make Music from Light and Motion · 3 points · by blucia0a · no comments
• Ask PG: what book did you give to your nephew? · 3 points · by karlzt · 1 comment
• A final look at GCHQ's top secret Oakley site in Cheltenham · 3 points · by DanBC · no comments
• Concept art gallery from independent videogame developer, Kyle Reimergartin · 3 points · by mosh · no comments
• Genomics as a Service - share data, apps, workflows. · 2 points · by dkural · no comments
• Bjork about television · 2 points · by arnklint · no comments
• Your Year in Review · 2 points · by GoldenPie · no comments
• Looking back on 2011 at Playtomic · 2 points · by benologist · no comments
• Orang-utans love iPads. · 2 points · by ryanmolden · no comments
• Android Apps and Games of 2011 · 2 points · by 4thmeal · no comments
• Ask HN: What should my first smartphone be? · 2 points · by fachoper · 12 comments
• $150 Brushless DC motor controller goes free/open source · 2 points · by Zachzor · no comments
• Stratfor.com hacked | Office of Inadequate Security · 2 points · by rbanffy · no comments
• Vim on Android - Bounty Offered · 2 points · by ConceitedCode · no comments
• The Mycology of Santa Claus · 2 points · by cleaver · no comments
• Trashoid Attack - An HTML5 game · 2 points · by TomGullen · 1 comment
• What is Wrong With Today's CMS · 2 points · by ghurlman · no comments
• GoDaddy's domain registration after SOPA: behind the numbers · 2 points · by mikeleeorg · no comments
• A Git User's Guide to Mercurial Queues (git's index) · 2 points · by mapleoin · no comments
• In 2012 I wish you will steal,break rules,sell house,starve yourself,die · 2 points · by tumpak · no comments
• How To: Install NginX, PHP-FPM, MySQL, PHP 5.3.3 & WordPress on Ubuntu · 2 points · by pranav4 · 1 comment
• Anonymous attacks Stratfor, $1M stolen/donated, mail leaked · 2 points · by dataphyte · no comments
• To Flirt In Cities, Birds Adjust Their Pitch · 2 points · by 6ren · no comments
• Slow Internet? How to Remotely use someone elses (faster) Connection · 2 points · by myfixlog · 1 comment
• The 2011 Perl 6 Coding Contest · 2 points · by stesch · 1 comment
• Using Google Docs for Blogging · 2 points · by prtk · no comments
• Show HN: Upload/download whatever files you want. Merry Christmas · 2 points · by Baba_Chaghaloo · no comments
• Y combinator Frenchified · 2 points · by rmestiri · no comments
• DO BANKERS inevitably go to hell? · 2 points · by goatcurious · 1 comment
• How IBM Saw 2012 in 2007: Where's My Mind-Reading Cellphone? · 2 points · by evo_9 · no comments
• Banks Struggle With Euro Contingencies · 2 points · by jacquesm · no comments
• The Software Crisis · 2 points · by JJMalina · no comments
• Coders take up USPTO's $50,000 challenge · 2 points · by chendo · no comments
• Why Should Google Take A Stand Against Verizon Over Wallet? · 2 points · by Technews24 · no comments
• How to improve your Reddit experience in a few short steps · 2 points · by metachris · 1 comment
• Couchbase and Cloudera’s New Hadoop Connector, First for NoSQL · 2 points · by espeed · no comments
• Celebration of My Failures: 6 more interviews that I failed (Part 2 of 2) · 2 points · by robbiea · no comments
• JSON Pointers - a syntax for identifying a specific value within a JSON document · 2 points · by tete · no comments
• New Freeware MKV/AVI/WMV slideshow creator software for Windows · 2 points · by maxsmirnoff · 1 comment
• My Web Hosting Provider Doesn't Support SOPA. How About Yours? · 2 points · by ldesegur · no comments
• Absurdly, people are still making money promising tickets to space... · 2 points · by noduerme · 1 comment
• Want to donate your time to charities? I'm working on a way to make it easy. · 2 points · by samlev · no comments
• Ask HN: Review my startup · 2 points · by padjosh · 6 comments
• The Internet Gets Physical · 2 points · by robg · no comments
• Happy Newtonmas · 2 points · by timr · no comments
• How atheists celebrate Dec. 25 · 2 points · by timr · no comments
• Chrome Engineer's Follow-Up on Google's Mozilla Funding · 2 points · by mmahemoff · no comments
• Interview with independent videogame developer, Kyle Reimergartin · 2 points · by mosh · no comments
• How India's 'untouchable' entrepreneurs use capital to fight caste · 1 points · by Mankhool · no comments
• We waste, so we should give · 1 points · by rayhano · 1 comment
• 12 Apps in 2012 · 1 points · by jnye131 · no comments
• Using HTML5 and Navite iOS within same app · 1 points · by RuchitGarg · no comments
• Galaxy Tab & Galaxy S Are No Show For Ice Cream Sandwich · 1 points · by techiediy · no comments
• Russian anti-Putin protests draw thousands to Moscow again · 1 points · by wslh · no comments
• 2011's most notable tech industry deaths · 1 points · by alphadoggs · no comments
• Best video of 2011 · 1 points · by grantgrant · no comments
• It does not matter to customers what your costs are · 1 points · by sathishmanohar · no comments
• JQuery Let it snow Yet another one · 1 points · by stereobooster · no comments
• RIM hits back in BBM trademark spat · 1 points · by iamandrus · no comments
• Best event networking advice- do your homework beforehand · 1 points · by olegious · no comments
• 60 Seconds Make A Lot Of Difference In The Tech World · 1 points · by Technews24 · no comments
• Find The Location Of Santa Claus On Christmas · 1 points · by Technews24 · no comments
• Ruling by Justice Dept. Opens a Door on Online Gambling · 1 points · by mikek · no comments
• Add And Remove WordPress User Profile Fields And Display Them Within Your Theme · 1 points · by teachingyou · no comments
• Tuning Linux IPv4 route cache · 1 points · by signa11 · no comments
• GoDaddy CEO criticized for killing an elephant [March 2011] · 1 points · by chrisrxth · no comments
• Apple Crash Reports to Jailbreak iPhone · 1 points · by i-hacker · no comments
• Ficklepeople.com - find the best reviews · 1 points · by jastoh · no comments
• Gift HN: Annual Tekpub subscription · 1 points · by m0nastic · 1 comment
• Merry Xmas: A progressive enhancement template for low-end phones · 1 points · by instakill · no comments
• Happy Holidays from Typemock · 1 points · by asfafaf · no comments
• More Then 3000+ Mail-ID Hacked By Sidex · 1 points · by sidex · no comments
• Our band was on tour all year, these songs came up the most. · 1 points · by therobotdevil · no comments
• Robert Scoble's amazing setup · 1 points · by g3orge · 1 comment
• Happy Christmas, TechZing Podcast Christmas Special · 1 points · by jv22222 · no comments
• On Reflection and 10 Questions · 1 points · by rrohan189 · no comments
• C’mon, Give the Gift of Supporting Your Favorite App/Startup · 1 points · by ivanbrezakbrkan · no comments
• Cheaters in the Steam Community Gaming Social Network · 1 points · by rdp · no comments
• 25 top network and IT industry news stories of 2011 · 1 points · by alphadoggs · no comments
• Newsmotion - Citizen Journalism · 1 points · by nyellin · no comments
• Show HN: Goal Setting Workshop on iPad/iPhone - free promo codes · 1 points · by kolinko · no comments
• Write library in Vala, get bindings for Ruby, Python, JavaScript, ... · 1 points · by bergie · no comments
• Fight SOPA and get a Prize · 1 points · by rmestiri · no comments
• Ask HN: a good lawyer for startups? · 1 points · by Lucadg · 2 comments
• Airsee.com: Free Live Video Broadcast & Interest based Chat · 1 points · by rajan_chandi · no comments
• New issue of Edge out now · 1 points · by evo_9 · no comments
• Would you learn a Skill or get A Business Degree? · 1 points · by GroupRefer · no comments
• Best Christmas Gifts for Computer Hackers · 1 points · by chendo · no comments
• TMDb movie database downloader - GitHub · 1 points · by alpb · no comments
• Java - Weak references and GC · 1 points · by hmottestad · no comments
• Reliance On Unknown Dependencies · 1 points · by brettweaverio · no comments
• Go Daddy pulls SOPA support · 1 points · by heyrhett · no comments
• Hate SOPA? 6 things you can do to stop it · 1 points · by sidww2 · 1 comment
• Snow Day · 1 points · by chrisleydon · no comments
• Skrillex: Happy Holidays Pirate My Music, I’ll Still Love You · 1 points · by fachoper · no comments
• Create a custom Siri API using SendGrid's Parse API · 1 points · by thinkingserious · no comments
• Time to reflect on the year · 1 points · by osivertsson · no comments
• ESpec: Behaviour driven development framework for Erlang · 1 points · by lucaspiller · no comments
• Monarch: Preventing Spam in Real-Time · 1 points · by zoowar · no comments
• How to Setup a Failure Tolerant Online Business (Redundancy and Auto-Healing) · 1 points · by dpaessler · no comments
• Consumer Trends · 1 points · by ychung · no comments
• Person of 2011: Weal Ghonim, Anonymous and Bradley Manning · 1 points · by ArabGeek · no comments
• BBVA Bank Will Donate a Meal Just For Clicking - Nothing Else Req'd · 1 points · by moses1400 · no comments
• Ask HN: A modern introduction to JavaScript? · 1 points · by Aqwis · 1 comment
• Christmas Launch · 1 points · by infocaptor · 1 comment
• From the Junk Drawer: The Broken Pixel Theory · 1 points · by jtaby · no comments