top 50% 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

If I were a single founder...

http://www.foysavas.com/blog/2011/08/30/if-i-were-a-single-founder.html

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 49 comments

Impressive JPEG Recompression

http://www.jpegmini.com/main/shrink_photo

15 years ago

122 upvotes – 61 comments

Developing Multiplayer HTML5 Games with Node.js

http://smus.com/multiplayer-html5-games-with-node

15 years ago

108 upvotes – 17 comments

Asynchronous ruby framework for websockets, eventsource and streaming

http://cramp.in

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 14 comments

World's 7 billionth person about to be born

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article2412108.ece

15 years ago

78 upvotes – 37 comments

Review of the TSA X-ray backscatter body scanner safety report

http://myhelicaltryst.blogspot.com/2010/11/tsa-x-ray-backscatter-body-scanner.html

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 37 comments

Of Gravatars and Robohashes

http://www.codingthewheel.com/internet/of-gravatars-and-robohashes

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 13 comments

Index Ventures Leads $4 billion Valuation Round In Dropbox

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/index-leads-4-billion-valuation-round-in-dropbox/

15 years ago

74 upvotes – 49 comments

Let’s Suck at GitHub Together

http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/101-lets-suck-at-github-together/

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

Groupon Co-founders invest $4M in fast-growing E la Carte (YC S10)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/e-la-carte-raises-4m-from-groupon-co-founders-to-bring-tablets-to-the-restaurant-tableside-experience/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 26 comments

Instant Websites for Nonprofits | Bellstrike

http://bellstrike.com/

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 20 comments

Launchpad Toys (YC S11) Looks To Create The Next Generation Of Learning Toys

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/29/yc-funded-launchpad-toys-looks-to-create-the-next-generation-of-early-learning-toys/

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 5 comments

ORMs don’t kill databases. Developers do.

http://www.arrangeactassert.com/orms-dont-kill-databases-developers-do/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 51 comments

Rebuilder of Colossus, Tony Sale, dies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14720180

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 10 comments

Introducing Apache Mahout

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-mahout/

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

A Git user’s first (and hopefully last) foray into SVN-land

http://blog.garlicsim.org/post/9583964892/a-git-users-first-and-hopefully-last-foray-into

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 89 comments

Wacom’s Inkling Captures What You Draw On Paper Digitally

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/wacom-inkling/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 27 comments

Offer HN: FREE: I'll make your first 10 cold calls

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2943170

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Simple version control for designers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2941589

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

50,000 dutch nurses use NFC phones daily

http://movesonrails.com/journal/2011/8/30/50000-dutch-nurses-use-nfc-phones-daily.html

15 years ago

51 upvotes – 19 comments

WikiLeaks springs a leak: full database of diplomatic cables appears online

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/wikileaks-springs-a-leak-full-database-of-diplomatic-cables-appears-online.ars

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 4 comments

Java creator James Gosling joins ocean robot maker Liquid Robotics

http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/30/java-creator-james-gosling-joins-ocean-robot-maker-liquid-robotics/

15 years ago

47 upvotes – 9 comments
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