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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 ofโ€ฆ 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
๐Ÿ“š. Fake Trading Is Hard Work (archive.ph)
14 min read | by Matt Levine | saved 63 days ago | archive
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
๐Ÿ“š. When Do We Become Adults, Really? (archive.is)
12 min read | by Shayla Love | saved 10 hours ago | 12% read | archive
11.Google Street View: A wolf in sheepโ€™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
๐Ÿ“š. Making Uncommon Knowledge Common (kwokchain.com)
12 min read | by Kevin | saved 410 days ago | archive
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 doesnโ€™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
๐Ÿ“š. How Jitse Groen Won (linkedin.com)
5 min read | by Adrian Blair | saved 352 days ago | 79% read | archive
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
๐Ÿ“š. How the loss of its Mediterranean naval base in Syria would weaken Russia as a global power (theconversation.com)
4 min read | by Basil Germond | saved 468 days ago | 99% read | archive
26.Peter Thielโ€™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
๐Ÿ“š. Are OpenAI and Anthropic Really Losing Money on Inference? (martinalderson.com)
6 min read | by Martin Alderson | saved 212 days ago | archive

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