top 20 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

Google and OpenDNS made the web faster for everyone today

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/94408-does-your-web-feel-faster-today-thank-the-global-internet-speedup

15 years ago

154 upvotes – 62 comments

Practical Nerd: The hidden price of “free”

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/practical-nerd-hidden-price-free

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 88 comments

An update on attempted man-in-the-middle attacks

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/08/update-on-attempted-man-in-middle.html

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 78 comments

Linear algebra for game developers

http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/07/linear-algebra-for-game-developers-part-1/

15 years ago

143 upvotes – 30 comments

HP to produce one more batch of Touchpads

http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/The-Next-Bench-Blog/More-TouchPads-on-the-Way/ba-p/68749

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 126 comments

Contracts For CoffeeScript

http://disnetdev.com/contracts.coffee/

15 years ago

139 upvotes – 34 comments

Heroku Postgres

https://postgres.heroku.com

15 years ago

132 upvotes – 77 comments

The lost world of physicality

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/08/lost-world-of-physicality.html

15 years ago

131 upvotes – 97 comments

Stanford CS course on digital photography

http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178-11/

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 25 comments

Weird, Birdlike Mystery Drone Crashes in Pakistan

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/08/weird-birdlike-mystery-drone-crashes-in-pakistan/

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 44 comments
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