2013-05-12 front | Hacker News

Stories from May 12, 2013

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

1.		Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is (qz.com)
		394 points by angelohuang on May 12, 2013 \| 156 comments
2.		A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009) (james-iry.blogspot.com)
		213 points by ldubinets on May 12, 2013 \| 33 comments
3.		Samsung is hurting Android (trustedreviews.com)
		193 points by YeahKIA on May 12, 2013 \| 111 comments
4.		0 second visits according to Google Analytics (paweljaniak.co.za)
		168 points by vidyesh on May 12, 2013 \| 57 comments
5.		Why education startups do not succeed (avichal.wordpress.com)
		153 points by sajid on May 12, 2013 \| 45 comments
6.		Learn Web Penetration Testing The Right Way (pentesterlab.com)
		151 points by morphics on May 12, 2013 \| 24 comments
7.		How a nation of junkies went cold turkey (newrepublic.com)
		145 points by krakensden on May 12, 2013 \| 110 comments
8.		Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was (messynessychic.com)
		138 points by ttuominen on May 12, 2013 \| 23 comments
9.		The Startup Story I Want To Hear (whattofix.com)
		139 points by DanielBMarkham on May 12, 2013 \| 62 comments
10.		Why babies in every country on Earth say 'mama' (theweek.com)
		135 points by Lightning on May 12, 2013 \| 86 comments
11.		Angry young Indians: What a waste (economist.com)
		130 points by pajju on May 12, 2013 \| 108 comments
12.		The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) (stroustrup.com)
		130 points by lispython on May 12, 2013 \| 152 comments
13.		Call Mom Maybe (blog.twitter.com)
		128 points by kirillzubovsky on May 12, 2013 \| 35 comments
14.		Should you submit to Hacker News? (lahiri.me)
		127 points by mayank on May 12, 2013 \| 58 comments
15.		Shortly: a Serverless Pastebin Service - All Data is Stored in the URL (stackednotion.com)
		124 points by edtechdev on May 12, 2013 \| 74 comments
16.		A rant about some of the nice things in the NT kernel (neosmart.net)
		116 points by ComputerGuru on May 12, 2013 \| 87 comments
17.		Engineering the $325,000 Burger (nytimes.com)
		109 points by swampthing on May 12, 2013 \| 122 comments
18.		How Colleges Are Selling Out the Poor to Court the Rich (theatlantic.com)
		102 points by georgefox on May 12, 2013 \| 65 comments
19.		Prototype Android apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript (jaunesarmiento.me)
		106 points by jamesflorentino on May 12, 2013 \| 20 comments
20.		How Facebook ruined comments (at least for me) (time.com)
		98 points by technologizer on May 12, 2013 \| 41 comments
21.		Declarative Data Visualization library (akngs.tumblr.com)
		91 points by pajju on May 12, 2013 \| 9 comments
22.		Haskell style list comprehensions in Ruby (gist.github.com)
		87 points by ldubinets on May 12, 2013 \| 28 comments
23.		Chromebook can make a surprisingly sweet machine for a developer (pbrisbin.com)
		83 points by mzehrer on May 12, 2013 \| 78 comments
24.		HTML5 vs Flash Video: Battery performance analysis (ne.ro)
		81 points by notregistering on May 12, 2013 \| 20 comments
25.		Contextinator: Divide your web browsing into projects (vt.edu)
		75 points by _ankit_ on May 12, 2013 \| 23 comments
26.		Google SMS search has been shut down (productforums.google.com)
		75 points by duked on May 12, 2013 \| 55 comments
27.		Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class (salon.com)
		74 points by anielsen on May 12, 2013 \| 62 comments
28.		HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article? (quantisan.com)
		77 points by plam on May 12, 2013 \| 71 comments
29.		How To Win At Email (nikilster.com)
		76 points by nikilster on May 12, 2013 \| 48 comments
30.		Mir in Kubuntu (martin-graesslin.com)
		71 points by Tsiolkovsky on May 12, 2013 \| 33 comments
		More

HN For You