top 50% 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

Strace - The Sysadmin's Microscope

http://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/strace_the_sysadmin_s_microscope

15 years ago

109 upvotes – 24 comments

E-books Are Not That Easy

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2012/01/e-book-publishi.php

15 years ago

106 upvotes – 82 comments

NASA’s open source projects

http://code.nasa.gov/

15 years ago

102 upvotes – 18 comments

Interview Programming Problems Done Right

http://www.cforcoding.com/2012/01/interview-programming-problems-done.html

15 years ago

92 upvotes – 79 comments

Ask HN: What's your experience with remote working? as employees/employers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3428195

15 years ago

89 upvotes – 99 comments

What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?

http://edge.org/responses/what-scientific-concept-would-improve-everybodys-cognitive-toolkit

15 years ago

87 upvotes – 53 comments

Want a Job? Go to College, and Don’t Major in Architecture

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/want-a-job-go-to-college-and-dont-major-in-architecture/

15 years ago

86 upvotes – 63 comments

Blogging for Hackers

http://alexn.org/blog/2012/01/05/blogging-for-hackers.html

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 37 comments

SPDY of the Future Might Blow Your Mind Today

http://www.belshe.com/2011/11/17/spdy-of-the-future-might-blow-your-mind-today/

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 27 comments

HBO to Netflix: We’re taking our ball & going home

http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/05/time-to-torrent-more-boardwalk-empire

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 87 comments

Node.js stdlib ported to CoffeeScript (6,501 additions, 15,896 deletions)

https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/2472

15 years ago

★ 34.3k
79 upvotes – 46 comments

Boxer is a Slick App That Brings DOS Gaming to Your Mac

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/01/05/boxer-is-an-awesome-free-mac-app-that-lets-you-relive-your-dos-playing-days/?awesm=tnw.to_1CSrb&utm_campaign=social%20media&utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_source=Twitter&utm_content=Boxer%20is%20an%20awesome%20free%20Mac%20app%20that%20lets%20you%20relive%20your%20DOS%20playing%20days

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 30 comments

High Performance Database Joins in Python with pandas

http://wesmckinney.com/blog/?p=414

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 3 comments

BitTorrent takes on Dropbox with personal file sharing

http://gigaom.com/2012/01/05/bittorrent-share-app/

15 years ago

72 upvotes – 19 comments

Raph Koster - Rigid programming philosophies are the devil

https://plus.google.com/u/0/103271590817770839429/posts/JbD3eyRGUgU

15 years ago

69 upvotes – 16 comments

All cellphones in Chile must be sold unlocked

http://www.theverge.com/mobile/2012/1/4/2681271/chile-sim-unlock-january-16th

15 years ago

63 upvotes – 21 comments

Kodak Teeters on the Brink

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203471004577140841495542810.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

15 years ago

62 upvotes – 37 comments

The Death of the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) in Competitive Markets

http://blog.groovehq.com/post/13829640150/the-death-of-the-mvp-minimum-viable-product-in

15 years ago

61 upvotes – 36 comments

A tiny tool to make using GitHub for code reviews a tiny bit easier

http://reviewth.is/

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 15 comments

Groupon shares fall as merchants cut back on deals

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/05/BUJ61MKQ2A.DTL&type=tech

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

Why Twilio Will Kill AT&T

http://soentrepreneurial.com/2012/01/05/why-twilio-will-kill-att/

15 years ago

54 upvotes – 43 comments

Justin.tv Moves Domains from GoDaddy

http://blog.twitch.tv/2012/01/05/twitchtv-moves-domains-from-godaddy/

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments

Vanilla Java: Using a memory mapped file for a huge matrix

http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2011/12/using-memory-mapped-file-for-huge.html

15 years ago

53 upvotes – 11 comments

SV Angel, Founder Collective put $850K In Customer Retention SaaS Custora

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/sv-angel-founder-collective-and-others-put-850k-in-customer-retention-saas-custora/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 7 comments

The Plan for Code

http://open.nasa.gov/blog/2012/01/04/the-plan-for-code/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 7 comments

The MicroPHP Fallacy

http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/01/microphp-fallacy.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 35 comments

Virginia Tech unveils HokieSpeed, a powerful new supercomputer for the masses

http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2012/01/010512-engineering-hokiespeed.html

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 17 comments
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