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1.5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion (readersupportednews.org)
461 points by captainsinclair on June 7, 2012 | 213 comments
2.Select2 - A better way to make select boxes (with jQuery) (github.com/ivaynberg)
369 points by binarydreams on June 7, 2012 | 57 comments
3.Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address (xip.io)
312 points by qrush on June 7, 2012 | 121 comments
4.Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists (arstechnica.com)
286 points by llambda on June 7, 2012 | 121 comments
5.Why Django Sucks (speakerdeck.com)
271 points by kenneth_reitz on June 7, 2012 | 194 comments
6.Dear Heroku: Quit blaming all of us when you fail. Do this instead… (pardner.com)
271 points by pardner on June 7, 2012 | 125 comments
7.Encrypted Chat Developer Detained, Interrogated at US Border (zeropaid.com)
248 points by mindstab on June 7, 2012 | 146 comments
8.SPDY Review by Opera Software (w3.org)
225 points by jacobr on June 7, 2012 | 65 comments
9.Designing GitHub for Windows (github.com/blog)
207 points by bpierre on June 7, 2012 | 38 comments
10.Testing 3 million hyperlinks, lessons learned (samsaffron.com)
206 points by sathyabhat on June 7, 2012 | 55 comments
11.Jetpants: a MySQL toolkit for managing billions of rows and hundreds of DBs (engineering.tumblr.com)
191 points by evanelias on June 7, 2012 | 23 comments
12.Pin is Australia’s first all-in-one payment API (pin.net.au)
184 points by gbpin on June 7, 2012 | 94 comments
13.Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Lone Survivor Added to Humble Indie Bundle V (humblebundle.com)
179 points by gokhan on June 7, 2012 | 66 comments
14.Md5crypt is no longer strong enough (freebsd.dk)
176 points by phkamp on June 7, 2012 | 136 comments
15.Microsoft offering Linux virtual machines on Azure (windowsazure.com)
173 points by gouranga on June 7, 2012 | 113 comments
16.Gimme Bar: Don't bookmark the web. Save it. Forever. (gimmebar.com)
159 points by aeurielesn on June 7, 2012 | 76 comments
17.Change your Last.fm password (thenextweb.com)
150 points by luiperd on June 7, 2012 | 146 comments

Bullshit. It's your fault. I'm your user, you took my money. We're done here. Everything is your fault.
19."RIP Good Times": Silicon Valley's Cuban Missile Crisis (daltoncaldwell.com)
143 points by bdb on June 7, 2012 | 118 comments
20.Peter Thiel on "Founder as Victim, Founder as God" (blakemasters.tumblr.com)
127 points by bgmasters on June 7, 2012 | 43 comments
21.CWI cryptanalist discovers new cryptographic attack in Flame spy malware (cwi.nl)
118 points by wglb on June 7, 2012 | 25 comments
22.Heroku is down (heroku.com)
117 points by jackmoore on June 7, 2012 | 98 comments
23.From being a programmer to becoming an entrepreneur - Lesson 0 (blog.sidu.in)
118 points by jasim on June 7, 2012 | 26 comments

Problem: Django has features. These features, horrors, reuse each other's capabilities.

Solution: Use something that has no features.

I'm not sure myself how sarcastic I'm being, to be honest. There's some truth in there too (or I wouldn't have posted this). But of course your microframework doesn't have any dependency issues. Rip all those things out of Django and it wouldn't have any dependencies either. Put them all into Flask and it will inevitably have to choose between either having the same problem, or leaving vast swathes of functionality on the table because of the refusal to let the components work together so they stay separate.

25.Show HN: Proxino -- Monitor and Debug your JavaScript (proxino.com)
105 points by unignorant on June 7, 2012 | 48 comments
26.Working away: consider it for your startup (trigger.io)
93 points by amirnathoo on June 7, 2012 | 33 comments
27.A Cheap 12-Core, 30-Watt Ubuntu Cluster (phoronix.com)
90 points by voodoochilo on June 7, 2012 | 32 comments
28.Why We Don't Believe in Science (newyorker.com)
89 points by dwynings on June 7, 2012 | 105 comments

Good for them. I've never met a company that could sue you because a honey bee or some other naturally event that has been occurring for hundreds of years happened. To that I'm referring to Monsato's practice of suing farmers who haven't used their seed variety having their fields cross pollinated with another farmer's fields who is using Monato's seed products. Really?! Ugh.
30.Tesla investor Steve Jurvetson drives off in the first Model S (gigaom.com)
80 points by mtgx on June 7, 2012 | 66 comments

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