top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-08-16

Stanford Offers 13 classes, including AI, for free

http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx

15 years ago

517 upvotes – 55 comments

Developer open-sources 200+ hr project after client refuses to pay

https://github.com/fredwu/angel_nest

15 years ago

★ 773 Ruby
413 upvotes – 131 comments

Stanford Fall 2011 - Introduction to Databases

http://www.db-class.org/

15 years ago

387 upvotes – 44 comments

Stay away from This* (thiswebhost.com)

http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/jk195/stay_the_fuck_away_from_this_thiswebhostcom/

15 years ago

374 upvotes – 167 comments

Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning

http://www.ml-class.org/

15 years ago

349 upvotes – 23 comments

SSH productivity tips

http://blogs.perl.org/users/smylers/2011/08/ssh-productivity-tips.html

15 years ago

330 upvotes – 65 comments

SpaceX to fly to International Space Station in November

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_SPACEX_SPACE_STATION_?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-15-18-55-31

15 years ago

253 upvotes – 57 comments

58,000 Sign Up for Stanford AI Course

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/science/16stanford.html?_r=1&hp

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 94 comments

Balls

http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/balls

15 years ago

208 upvotes – 111 comments

$80 Android Phone Sells Like Hotcakes in Kenya, the World Next?

http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/16/80-android-phone-sells-like-hotcakes-in-kenya-the-world-next/

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 97 comments

The Arduino Solution to Selectively Mute Over-Exposed Celebrities

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/08/enough-already-the-arduino-solution-to-overexposed-celebs.html

15 years ago

190 upvotes – 48 comments

MarketBrief (YC S11) Makes Obtuse SEC Documents Human-Friendly

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/15/yc-funded-marketbrief-makes-obtuse-sec-documents-human-friendly/

15 years ago

177 upvotes – 54 comments

How GitHub Works: Hours are Bullshit

http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-hours/

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 48 comments

How LinkedIn used Node.js and HTML5 to build a better, faster app

http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/16/linkedin-node/

15 years ago

159 upvotes – 73 comments

Undeletable Cookies

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/08/new_undeletable.html

15 years ago

157 upvotes – 47 comments

Firefox 6 for web developers

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/08/firefox6/

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 31 comments

Science Exchange (YC S11): A Central Database For Core Research Facilities

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/16/yc-funded-science-exchange-a-central-database-for-core-research-facilities/

15 years ago

136 upvotes – 26 comments

Court allows Samsung Galaxy Tab to again sell in Europe

http://gigaom.com/mobile/court-allows-samsung-galaxy-tab-to-again-sell-in-europe/

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 57 comments

Whyday is Friday

http://www.shopify.com/technology/3822402-whyday-is-friday

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 29 comments

Amazon announces AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/08/16/announcing-aws-govcloud-us/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 35 comments
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