top 50% 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

GIMP Single-Window Mode Almost Ready, Hardware Acceleration Planned

http://ostatic.com/blog/gimp-single-window-mode-almost-ready-hardware-acceleration-planned

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 59 comments

In other acquisition news, Samsung Mobile hires cyanogen

http://phandroid.com/2011/08/15/in-other-acquisition-news-samsung-mobile-buys-steve-cyanogen-kondik-for-an-undisclosed-amount/

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 13 comments

Let Over Lambda—50 Years of Lisp

http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/toc

15 years ago

97 upvotes – 9 comments

The Making Of Dwarf Fortress (2008)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3549/interview_the_making_of_dwarf_.php?print=1

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 7 comments

Why I love Lisp

http://pupeno.com/2011/08/16/why-i-love-lisp/

15 years ago

95 upvotes – 12 comments

Rails 3.0.10 Released

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/2373312

15 years ago

94 upvotes – 30 comments

When is a URL shortener not a URL shortener?

http://qntm.org/twit

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 27 comments

Usability in Icons

http://stiern.com/articles/usability/usability-in-icons/

15 years ago

85 upvotes – 40 comments

Why people irrationally reject cleaned sewer water, and how to change their mind

http://www.wbur.org/npr/139642271/why-cleaned-wastewater-stays-dirty-in-our-minds

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 87 comments

Full-time Geeks Shouldn't Ignore Physical Impact of the Craft

http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/08/full-time-geeks-shouldnt-ignore.html

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 57 comments

Stanford's Has Long Offered Free Entrepreneurship Lectures

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 9 comments

With Help From Jodie Foster, SETI Resumes Search for Alien Life

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/08/16/jodie-foster-funds-seti-2011-08-16/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Parallelism as a First Class Citizen in C and C++

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/08/09/parallelism-as-a-first-class-citizen-in-c-and-c-the-time-has-come/

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 38 comments

Linux snickers at Microsoft's victory declaration

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linux-snickers-at-microsofts-victory-declaration/9405

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 48 comments

Researchers use accelerometers to keylog an Android smartphone

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/92946-a-wiggly-approach-to-smartphone-keylogging

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 10 comments

Command-Q

http://clickontyler.com/blog/2011/08/commandq/

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 52 comments

Crazy easy dialogs for iOS devs: QuickDialog

https://github.com/escoz/QuickDialog

15 years ago

★ 3k Objective-C
65 upvotes – 24 comments

The future of Lisp

http://blog.8thlight.com/steven-degutis/2011/08/15/future-of-lisp.html

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 49 comments

Minority Report preCog like software "sending the police before there’s a crime"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/us/16police.html?_r=1

15 years ago

64 upvotes – 24 comments

$310 Xiaomi Phone: 1.5GHz dual-core,1G RAM,4GB ROM,480x854 4',MIUI+Android2.3.5

http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/16/xiaomi-m1-with-miui-os-a-310-phone-with-1-5ghz-dual-core-soc-a/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 28 comments

Cisco Sued By Chinese Political Prisoners Over 'Golden Shield'

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/fighting-chinas-golden-shield-cisco-sued-over-jailing-and-torture-of--dissidents-20110816-1ivkv.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Test Post/Get endpoints easily from your browser

http://www.httpposttool.com

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

Defending Android

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/15/precious-bodily-patents/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 25 comments

What's rising faster than health care? College costs

http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2011/08/11/7349127-good-graph-friday-whats-rising-faster-than-health-care-college-costs

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 70 comments

Ten Rules for Web Startups (2005)

http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments

Android App Inventor Saved: Finds a New Home at MIT

http://www.hackeducation.com/2011/08/16/android-app-inventor-saved-finds-a-new-home-at-mit/

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 4 comments

Taiwan's HTC sues Apple over patents

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/16/us-apple-htc-idUSTRE77F38E20110816

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 19 comments

Deolalikar’s Claim[ed P!=NP Proof]: One Year Later

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/deolalikars-claim-one-year-later/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 9 comments

Funny entries in last.fm's robots.txt

https://www.last.fm/robots.txt

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 14 comments
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