2012-06-05 front | Hacker News

Stories from June 5, 2012

Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day, month, or year.

1.		Kids should be building rockets and robots, not taking standardized tests (slate.com)
		526 points by krschultz on June 5, 2012 \| 196 comments
2.		Salt, We Misjudged You (nytimes.com)
		314 points by gruseom on June 5, 2012 \| 158 comments
3.		Loading half a billion rows into MySQL (derwiki.tumblr.com)
		295 points by conesus on June 5, 2012 \| 99 comments
4.		On{X}: The Coolest Thing to Happen to Android. Courtesy of… Microsoft Israel? (techcrunch.com)
		252 points by cenanozen on June 5, 2012 \| 99 comments
5.		Why Diablo 3 is less addictive than Diablo 2: a scientific explanation (alexc.me)
		222 points by alex_c on June 5, 2012 \| 192 comments
6.		Gmail security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
		226 points by alecbenzer on June 5, 2012 \| 111 comments
7.		The Tesla Gun (hackerfriendly.com)
		221 points by lelf on June 5, 2012 \| 29 comments
8.		Fred Wilson's response to "Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies" (avc.com)
		214 points by hendler on June 5, 2012 \| 78 comments
9.		The Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack (cloudflare.com)
		189 points by neilwillgettoit on June 5, 2012 \| 48 comments
10.		Mathics - A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica with support for Sage (mathics.org)
		189 points by clockwork_189 on June 5, 2012 \| 57 comments
11.		Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing (holovaty.com)
		183 points by martey on June 5, 2012 \| 65 comments
12.		Google Acquires Quickoffice (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		183 points by jganetsk on June 5, 2012 \| 51 comments
13.		What's it like to work at GitHub? (opensoul.org)
		172 points by bkeepers on June 5, 2012 \| 36 comments
14.		JQuery++ (jquerypp.com)
		166 points by marcloney on June 5, 2012 \| 24 comments
15.		New to Ruby? Tips for the new Rubyist. (jasimabasheer.com)
		155 points by kaiwren on June 5, 2012 \| 64 comments
16.		Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition (railstutorial.org)
		152 points by mhartl on June 5, 2012 \| 44 comments
17.		Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users (scalingphpbook.com)
		143 points by stevencorona on June 5, 2012 \| 104 comments
18.		Firefox 13 Released - Homepage + Speed Improvements (blog.mozilla.org)
		144 points by daleharvey on June 5, 2012 \| 82 comments
19.		Selling your company doesn’t make you happy (ryancarson.com)
		134 points by ryancarson on June 5, 2012 \| 58 comments
20.		Tim Berners-Lee: If I can't give power to web apps, they can't compete (w3.org)
		134 points by _urga on June 5, 2012 \| 73 comments
21.		How tiny insects survive the rain (bbc.co.uk)
		124 points by thinker on June 5, 2012 \| 25 comments
22.		Why I stopped working on the Bongard Problems (foundalis.com)
		107 points by bfrs on June 5, 2012 \| 106 comments
23.		The new way to land a job at Facebook (kaggle.com)
		103 points by svm33 on June 5, 2012 \| 77 comments
24.		Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling' (rollingstone.com)
		102 points by llambda on June 5, 2012 \| 50 comments
25.		Facebook 'boring'? 1 in 3 users are tuning it out (cnet.com)
		95 points by Garbage on June 5, 2012 \| 99 comments
26.		Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep Thought (blakemasters.tumblr.com)
		90 points by r4vik on June 5, 2012 \| 12 comments
27.		Justin Bieber, Venture Capitalist (forbes.com)
		86 points by Lednakashim on June 5, 2012 \| 36 comments
28.		San Francisco Tech Boom Brings Concerns (nytimes.com)
		86 points by olegious on June 5, 2012 \| 64 comments
29.		Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong (2008) (scottaaronson.com)
		79 points by ColinWright on June 5, 2012 \| 13 comments
30.		Bill Murray on taking chances and saying "No" (ninjasandrobots.com)
		78 points by nate on June 5, 2012 \| 24 comments
		More

HN For You