top 10 hacker news stories for 2011-08-30

Early Photos of Y Combinator

http://www.ycombinator.com/yc05.html

15 years ago

368 upvotes – 69 comments

Why must you laugh at my back end?

http://blog.pud.com/post/9582597828/why-must-you-laugh-at-my-back-end

15 years ago

348 upvotes – 215 comments

How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers?

http://www.monbiot.com/2011/08/29/the-lairds-of-learning/

15 years ago

321 upvotes – 84 comments

87% of the U.S. Population are uniquely identified by {DOB, gender, zip}

http://latanyasweeney.org/work/identifiability.html

15 years ago

281 upvotes – 95 comments

VimConf

http://www.vimconf.org/

15 years ago

255 upvotes – 51 comments

Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun

https://www.ai-class.com/registration/

15 years ago

229 upvotes – 63 comments

Lessons from Valve - How to build a designer's paradise

http://m.garrettamini.com/2011/08/lessons-from-valve-how-to-build-a-designers-paradise/

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 21 comments

Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/japanese-breakthrough-will-make-wind-power-cheaper-than-nuclea

15 years ago

183 upvotes – 88 comments

Leak reveals US Government lobbied on behalf of Oracle.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/268523,cable-us-pressured-eu-to-approve-oracle-sun-merger.aspx

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 29 comments

Pakistan bans VPNs

http://tribune.com.pk/story/240736/virtual-watchdog-internet-users-banned-from-browsing-privately-for-security-reasons/

15 years ago

161 upvotes – 60 comments
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