top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-05

Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4067297

14 years ago

645 upvotes – 185 comments

Kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/06/maker_faire_and_science_education_american_kids_should_be_building_rockets_and_robots_not_taking_standardized_tests_.html

14 years ago

526 upvotes – 196 comments

Salt, We Misjudged You

http://nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/we-only-think-we-know-the-truth-about-salt.html

14 years ago

314 upvotes – 158 comments

Loading half a billion rows into MySQL

http://derwiki.tumblr.com/post/24490758395/loading-half-a-billion-rows-into-mysql

14 years ago

295 upvotes – 99 comments

On{X}: The Coolest Thing to Happen to Android. Courtesy of… Microsoft Israel?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/05/onx/

14 years ago

252 upvotes – 99 comments

Gmail security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/06/security-warnings-for-suspected-state.html

14 years ago

226 upvotes – 111 comments

Why Diablo 3 is less addictive than Diablo 2: a scientific explanation

http://www.alexc.me/a-scientific-explanation-why-diablo-3-is-less-addictive-than-diablo-2/417/

14 years ago

222 upvotes – 192 comments

The Tesla Gun

http://hackerfriendly.com/the-tesla-gun/

14 years ago

221 upvotes – 29 comments

Fred Wilson's response to "Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies"

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/06/some-perspective.html

14 years ago

214 upvotes – 78 comments

The Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-four-critical-security-flaws-that-resulte

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 48 comments

Mathics - A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica with support for Sage

http://www.mathics.org/

14 years ago

189 upvotes – 57 comments

Google Acquires Quickoffice

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/google-quickoffice-get-more-done.html

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 51 comments

Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/streetview/

14 years ago

183 upvotes – 65 comments

What's it like to work at GitHub?

http://opensoul.org/blog/archives/2012/06/05/whats-it-like-to-work-at-github/

14 years ago

172 upvotes – 36 comments

JQuery++

http://jquerypp.com/

14 years ago

166 upvotes – 24 comments

New to Ruby? Tips for the new Rubyist.

http://www.jasimabasheer.com/posts/meta_introduction_to_ruby.html

14 years ago

155 upvotes – 64 comments

Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition

http://news.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-screencasts-2nd-editio

14 years ago

152 upvotes – 44 comments

Firefox 13 Released - Homepage + Speed Improvements

http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/06/05/firefox-has-a-redesigned-home-page-and-new-tab-experience-that-make-browsing-the-web-faster-and-easier/

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 82 comments

Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users

http://www.scalingphpbook.com/

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 104 comments

Tim Berners-Lee: If I can't give power to web apps, they can't compete

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMar/0464.html#start464

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 73 comments

Selling your company doesn’t make you happy

http://ryancarson.com/post/24480936689/selling-your-company-doesnt-make-you-happy

14 years ago

134 upvotes – 58 comments

How tiny insects survive the rain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18294324

14 years ago

124 upvotes – 25 comments

Why I stopped working on the Bongard Problems

http://www.foundalis.com/soc/why_no_more_Bongard.html

14 years ago

107 upvotes – 106 comments

The new way to land a job at Facebook

https://www.kaggle.com/c/FacebookRecruiting

14 years ago

103 upvotes – 77 comments

Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/accidentally-released-and-incredibly-embarrassing-documents-show-how-goldman-et-al-engaged-in-naked-short-selling-20120515

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 50 comments

Facebook 'boring'? 1 in 3 users are tuning it out

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57447316-93/facebook-boring-1-in-3-users-are-tuning-it-out/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 99 comments

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep Thought

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/24464587112/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-17-deep-thought

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 12 comments

San Francisco Tech Boom Brings Concerns

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/us/san-francisco-tech-boom-brings-jobs-and-worries.html?_r=1&hp&pagewanted=all

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 64 comments

Justin Bieber, Venture Capitalist

http://www.forbes.com/global/2012/0604/celebrity-100-12-justin-bieber-investments-venture-capitalist.html

14 years ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong (2008)

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304

14 years ago

79 upvotes – 13 comments

Oracle has paid Google more in legal fees than it could win in damages

http://news.techeye.net/business/oracles-google-java-show-trial-cost-more-than-it-couldve-won

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 20 comments

Bill Murray on taking chances and saying "No"

http://ninjasandrobots.com/bill-murray-on-saying-no-and-taking-chances

14 years ago

78 upvotes – 24 comments

Payments Gateway Provider Braintree Going International

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/05/accel-backed-payments-gateway-provider-braintree-goes-international-with-expansion-into-30-new-countries/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 20 comments

Obvious Goes Beyond Meat

http://obvious.com/beyondmeat.html

14 years ago

72 upvotes – 76 comments

Significant improvements coming in Linux 3.5

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Significant-improvements-coming-in-Linux-3-5-1598702.html

14 years ago

71 upvotes – 14 comments

Sean Parker's "Airtime" launched to Public

https://www.airtime.com/

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 47 comments

Introducing jQuery++

http://www.bitovi.com/blog/2012/06/introducing-jquerypp.html

14 years ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Why business needs people with Asperger’s syndrome, ADD and dyslexia

http://www.economist.com/node/21556230?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/inpraiseofmisfits

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 55 comments

RJSON: compress JSON to JSON

http://www.cliws.com/e/06pogA9VwXylo_GknPEeFA/

14 years ago

62 upvotes – 41 comments

Scribd quietly growing like crazy (and profitable)

http://tikhon.weebly.com/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 30 comments

Steve Jobs on the File System

http://oleb.net/blog/2012/06/steve-jobs-on-the-file-system/

14 years ago

58 upvotes – 66 comments
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