top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-01-05

Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3071-why-we-dont-hire-programmers-based-on-puzzles-api-quizzes-math-riddles-or-other-parlor-tricks

15 years ago

605 upvotes – 423 comments

A Redditor's insightful message for discouraged students

http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/o37te/smart_but_unmotivated_in_school_thoughtful_post/

15 years ago

414 upvotes – 103 comments

Nokia Maps 3D (WebGL)

http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/

15 years ago

271 upvotes – 90 comments

Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews

http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/2-billion-beyond.html

15 years ago

251 upvotes – 159 comments

The Future of CouchDB

http://damienkatz.net/2012/01/the_future_of_couchdb.html

15 years ago

247 upvotes – 91 comments

Why Don’t Smartphones Have A “Guest Mode”?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/04/why-dont-smartphones-have-a-guest-mode/

15 years ago

245 upvotes – 203 comments

Spain threatened with trade blacklist for not passing SOPA style law

http://torrentfreak.com/us-threatened-to-blacklist-spain-for-not-implementing-site-blocking-law-120105/

15 years ago

239 upvotes – 38 comments

California State Senator Proposes Funding Open-Source Textbooks

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/05/1615210/california-state-senator-proposes-funding-open-source-textbooks?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

235 upvotes – 49 comments

App Engine charges $6,500 to update a ListProperty on 14.1 million entities

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/f85aa58e54ebb8ae#

15 years ago

221 upvotes – 141 comments

Web Giants Consider 'Nuclear Option' Blackout to Fight SOPA

http://www.talkincloud.com/web-giants-consider-nuclear-option-blackout-to-fight-sopa/

15 years ago

205 upvotes – 60 comments

Vint Cerf: Internet Access Is Not a Human Right

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/opinion/internet-access-is-not-a-human-right.html?_r=1&hpw

15 years ago

176 upvotes – 96 comments

It Is Time To Stop Pretending To Endorse The Copyright Monopoly

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120102/16374417254/it-is-time-to-stop-pretending-to-endorse-copyright-monopoly.shtml

15 years ago

171 upvotes – 106 comments

Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease

http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/01/05/3638890/stephen-hawking-to-turn-70-defying.html

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 88 comments

Ask HN: Oops, I just sold my startup to a piano company. Now what?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429376

15 years ago

151 upvotes – 72 comments

Sweden recognises new file-sharing religion Kopimism

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16424659

15 years ago

141 upvotes – 44 comments

The Future of Apache CouchDB

http://blog.cloudant.com/the-futue-of-couchdb/

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 18 comments

Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store

http://log.burningrobot.com/post/15352652288/one-month-on-the-ios-app-store

15 years ago

135 upvotes – 60 comments

What's new in Linux 3.2

http://h-online.com/-1400680

15 years ago

130 upvotes – 20 comments

Rackspace Open Sources Dreadnot

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2012/01/05/rackspace-open-sources-dreadnot/

15 years ago

120 upvotes – 6 comments

Why I Won't Hire You

https://www.golemtechnologies.com/blog/why-i-wont-hire-you-and-how-to-win-the-interview

15 years ago

111 upvotes – 124 comments
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