top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-05-08

Postgres gets support for upsert

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=168d5805e4c08bed7b95d351bf097cff7c07dd65

11 years ago

1003 upvotes – 109 comments

210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum

http://www.businessinsider.com/zappos-employees-take-buyouts-new-self-management-structure-2015-5

11 years ago

425 upvotes – 309 comments

Take the Money and Run

http://nate.io/posts/take-the-money-and-run.html

11 years ago

404 upvotes – 171 comments

Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iNSQIyNpVGHeak6isbP6AHdHD50gs8MNXF1GCf08efg/pub

11 years ago

353 upvotes – 27 comments

Unison: a next-generation programming platform

http://unisonweb.org/2015-05-07/about.html

11 years ago

308 upvotes – 128 comments

Full text search in milliseconds with PostgreSQL

https://blog.lateral.io/2015/05/full-text-search-in-milliseconds-with-postgresql/

11 years ago

274 upvotes – 45 comments

The Discovery of Apache ZooKeeper’s Poison Packet

http://www.pagerduty.com/blog/the-discovery-of-apache-zookeepers-poison-packet/

11 years ago

261 upvotes – 59 comments

Chile is introducing free higher education

http://www.attn.com/stories/836/chile-makes-college-tuition-free

11 years ago

221 upvotes – 168 comments

Microsoft Surface Hub

https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-surface-hub/en-us

11 years ago

215 upvotes – 117 comments

Django Community Survey

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/may/07/community-survey/

11 years ago

170 upvotes – 39 comments

Every freelancer starts out undervaluing their work

http://kenwestgaard.com/the-gurus-got-5-questions-set-rate/

11 years ago

167 upvotes – 81 comments

The CHIP Is a $9 Computer That Can Almost Do It All

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/08/the-chip-is-a-9-computer-that-can-almost-do-it-all/

11 years ago

164 upvotes – 66 comments

A Quick Introduction to LXD

http://blog.scottlowe.org/2015/05/06/quick-intro-lxd/

11 years ago

142 upvotes – 37 comments

I have something to hide

https://ihavesomethingtohi.de/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 90 comments

IndieWeb

http://indiewebify.me/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 51 comments

Memory Layouts for Binary Search

http://cglab.ca/~morin/misc/arraylayout/

11 years ago

113 upvotes – 24 comments

Finding Closure in Rust

http://huonw.github.io/blog/2015/05/finding-closure-in-rust

11 years ago

108 upvotes – 14 comments

Don Knuth – Constraint Based Music Composition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1a6bHGQGo

11 years ago

107 upvotes – 22 comments

Losing focus: Why tech is getting in the way of work

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32628753

11 years ago

103 upvotes – 41 comments

This is what happens after you die

http://mosaicscience.com/story/what-happens-after-you-die

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 37 comments
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