top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-06-07

The $4 Million Complaint Call

http://www.inc.com/ron-burley/4-million-complaint-call.html

14 years ago

474 upvotes – 89 comments

5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/11795-5-million-farmers-sue-monsanto-for-77-billion

14 years ago

461 upvotes – 213 comments

Select2 - A better way to make select boxes (with jQuery)

https://github.com/ivaynberg/select2

14 years ago

★ 20 MIT
369 upvotes – 57 comments

Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address

http://xip.io/

14 years ago

312 upvotes – 121 comments

Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/flame-crypto-breakthrough/

14 years ago

286 upvotes – 121 comments

Dear Heroku: Quit blaming all of us when you fail. Do this instead…

http://blog.pardner.com/2012/06/dear-heroku-dammit-quit-blaming-all-of-us-when-you-fail-do-this-instead/

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 125 comments

Why Django Sucks

https://speakerdeck.com/u/kennethreitz/p/flasky-goodness

14 years ago

271 upvotes – 194 comments

Encrypted Chat Developer Detained, Interrogated at US Border

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/101174/claim-encrypted-chat-developer-detained-interrogated-at-us-border/

14 years ago

248 upvotes – 146 comments

SPDY Review by Opera Software

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012AprJun/0498

14 years ago

225 upvotes – 65 comments

Designing GitHub for Windows

https://github.com/blog/1151-designing-github-for-windows

14 years ago

207 upvotes – 38 comments

Testing 3 million hyperlinks, lessons learned

http://samsaffron.com/archive/2012/06/07/testing-3-million-hyperlinks-lessons-learned

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 55 comments

Jetpants: a MySQL toolkit for managing billions of rows and hundreds of DBs

http://engineering.tumblr.com/post/24612921290/jetpants-a-toolkit-for-huge-mysql-topologies

14 years ago

191 upvotes – 23 comments

Pin is Australia’s first all-in-one payment API

https://pin.net.au

14 years ago

184 upvotes – 94 comments

Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Lone Survivor Added to Humble Indie Bundle V

http://www.humblebundle.com/?additions

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 66 comments

Md5crypt is no longer strong enough

http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/md5crypt_eol.html

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 136 comments

Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/

14 years ago

173 upvotes – 113 comments

Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever.

https://gimmebar.com

14 years ago

159 upvotes – 76 comments

Change your Last.fm password

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/06/07/change-your-last-fm-password-now-there-may-have-been-another-security-breach/

14 years ago

150 upvotes – 146 comments

"RIP Good Times": Silicon Valley's Cuban Missile Crisis

http://daltoncaldwell.com/rip-good-times-a-perspective

14 years ago

143 upvotes – 118 comments

Peter Thiel on "Founder as Victim, Founder as God"

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/24578683805/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-18-notes-essay

14 years ago

127 upvotes – 43 comments

CWI cryptanalist discovers new cryptographic attack in Flame spy malware

http://www.cwi.nl/news/2012/cwi-cryptanalist-discovers-new-cryptographic-attack-variant-in-flame-spy-malware

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 25 comments

From being a programmer to becoming an entrepreneur - Lesson 0

http://blog.sidu.in/2012/06/engineering-to-business-lesson-0.html

14 years ago

118 upvotes – 26 comments

Heroku is down

http://www.heroku.com/?test

14 years ago

117 upvotes – 98 comments

Show HN: Proxino -- Monitor and Debug your JavaScript

https://www.proxino.com/

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 48 comments

Working away: consider it for your startup

http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blog/2012/06/06/working-away-consider-it-for-your-startup/

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 33 comments

A Cheap 12-Core, 30-Watt Ubuntu Cluster

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTExNTM

14 years ago

90 upvotes – 32 comments

Why We Don't Believe in Science

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/brain-experiments-why-we-dont-believe-science.html

14 years ago

89 upvotes – 105 comments

Tesla investor Steve Jurvetson drives off in the first Model S

http://gigaom.com/cleantech/tesla-investor-steve-jurvetson-drives-off-in-the-first-model-s/

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 66 comments

IE10's 'Do-Not-Track' Default Dies Quick Death

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/default-do-not-track/

14 years ago

77 upvotes – 64 comments

Against live-tweeting at conferences

http://jasonlefkowitz.net/2012/06/against-live-tweeting/

14 years ago

74 upvotes – 49 comments

Would Steve Jobs have applied to Y Combinator?

http://slidetocode.com/2012/05/18/ycombinator-ambition/

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 70 comments

Zipkin - distributed tracing by Twitter (aka Google Dapper)

https://github.com/twitter/zipkin

14 years ago

★ 17.4k Java Apache-2.0
70 upvotes – 9 comments

HBO says no, for now, to fans who want a web-only option

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/hbo-says-no-for-now-to-fans-who-want-a-web-only-option/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 82 comments

The New Twitter Logo in CSS

http://labs.upperdog.se/twitter-logo-in-css/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 40 comments

Facebook Launches Simple Mobile Payments

http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2012/06/facebook-launches-simple-mobile-payments.php

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 56 comments

Vooza

http://www.vooza.com/m.html

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 37 comments

Other Examples of Craigslist Spam Tactics [NSFW]

http://ezliu.com/craigslist/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 31 comments

How Cloudfuji (S11) uses Cloud Foundry to make open source Apps big business

http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/2012/06/07/cloudfuji-accelerates-delivery-of-its-open-source-application-store-with-cloud-foundry/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 16 comments

DTrace in the zone

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2012/06/07/dtrace-in-the-zone/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 3 comments

Flutter (YC W12) Raises $1.4 Million For Gesture Recognition Tech

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/07/flutter-raises-1-4-million-seed-gesture-recognition-app/

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 6 comments

You Can Make Video Games

http://youcanmakevideogames.com/

14 years ago

52 upvotes – 37 comments
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