top 50% 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

LeakCanary: Detect all Android memory leaks

https://corner.squareup.com/2015/05/leak-canary.html

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 11 comments

Jquerymy.js – Purely declarative apps with complex two-way data-binding

http://jquerymy.com/

11 years ago

100 upvotes – 26 comments

CLisp needs maintainers

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.clisp.general/14256

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 24 comments

Kids hack their Dad's computer on her Raspberry Pi [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W76o_iG7Y7g

11 years ago

93 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: I made a command-line Slack chat client

https://github.com/TidalLabs/Slacker

11 years ago

★ 544 PHP GPL-3.0
90 upvotes – 37 comments

Escher and the Droste effect – WebGL fragment shader

http://birdgames.nl/2014/05/escher-droste-effect-webgl-fragment-shader/

11 years ago

89 upvotes – 11 comments

Helping the People Who Don’t Get Hired

http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-ATWORKB-2407

11 years ago

87 upvotes – 68 comments

Optimize Python with closures

http://tech.magnetic.com/2015/05/optimize-python-with-closures.html

11 years ago

80 upvotes – 31 comments

Tell HN: LinkedIn's API will be restricted next week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9512441

11 years ago

78 upvotes – 42 comments

Researchers reverse bacterial resistance to antibiotics

http://www.kurzweilai.net/researchers-reverse-bacterial-resistance-to-antibiotics?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=25c9e284af-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-25c9e284af-281895037

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 21 comments

Gallium Nitride Power Transistors Priced Cheaper Than Silicon

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/design/gallium-nitride-transistors-priced-cheaper-than-silicon

11 years ago

74 upvotes – 17 comments

Next Chapter

http://blog.nodejs.org/2015/05/08/next-chapter/

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 28 comments

The demise of America's once-mighty streetcars

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/7/8562007/streetcar-history-demise

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 75 comments

The Real Mayors of 'SimCity'

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-real-mayors-of-simcity

11 years ago

71 upvotes – 27 comments

Researcher says we have Alzheimer's wrong

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-04-30/do-we-all-have-alzhemers-completely-wrong-man-says-yes

11 years ago

61 upvotes – 27 comments

Physics of Light and Optics

http://optics.byu.edu/textbook.aspx

11 years ago

60 upvotes – 3 comments

Ask HN: Where did you meet your significant other?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9510000

11 years ago

57 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: How to make your own glowing notification cube

http://achariam.com/prototyping/

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 14 comments

Ring: Free software for distributed and secured communication

http://ring.cx/en

11 years ago

55 upvotes – 55 comments

How Zenefits just lost an engineer

https://medium.com/@oscargodson/how-zenefits-just-lost-an-engineer-3f09898dbcf9

11 years ago

54 upvotes – 33 comments

Research on fusion engine is AIAA Best Paper

http://www.uah.edu/news/research/research-on-fusion-engine-that-could-be-a-mars-hot-rod-is-aiaa-best-paper

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 19 comments

It’s Not a ‘Stream’ of Consciousness

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/opinion/sunday/its-not-a-stream-of-consciousness.html

11 years ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

Keurig CEO Blames Coffee Pod DRM for Falling Sales

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/08/keurig-ceo-blames-coffee-pod-drm-for-falling-sales/

11 years ago

52 upvotes – 54 comments

Osquery Security Audit

http://yahoo-security.tumblr.com/post/118445868880/osquery-security-audit

11 years ago

51 upvotes – 6 comments

Are the benefits of moderate drinking a myth?

http://davidroodman.com/blog/2015/05/01/are-the-benefits-of-moderate-drinking-a-myth/

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 74 comments

An argument for open global immigration

http://reprints.longform.org/homelands-deca

11 years ago

49 upvotes – 50 comments

Ask HN: What are your hobbies, and why are they cool?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9510799

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 122 comments

Carnac the Magnificent

http://raganwald.com/2015/05/08/carnac-the-magnificent.html

11 years ago

48 upvotes – 16 comments

Parallel STL

https://parallelstl.codeplex.com/

11 years ago

47 upvotes – 17 comments
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