top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-09

RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience

http://blog.sagemath.com/2017/02/09/rethinkdb-vs-postgres.html

9 years ago

822 upvotes – 328 comments

Microsoft open-sources Graph Engine

https://www.graphengine.io

9 years ago

616 upvotes – 176 comments

GitLab’s Secret to Managing Employees in 160 Locations: Write Everything Down

https://blog.ycombinator.com/gitlab-distributed-startup/

9 years ago

520 upvotes – 311 comments

2017 State of Global Tech Salaries

https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 264 comments

Learn web development: Django Web Framework

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/Django

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 51 comments

Vim's 25th anniversary and the release of Vim 8

https://lwn.net/Articles/713114/

9 years ago

290 upvotes – 204 comments

How To Write With Style (1999)

http://www.novelr.com/2008/08/16/vonnegut-how-to-write-with-style

9 years ago

281 upvotes – 79 comments

Introducing Docker Secrets Management

https://blog.docker.com/2017/02/docker-secrets-management/

9 years ago

264 upvotes – 92 comments

The Map of Mathematics [video]

http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/the-map-of-mathematics.html

9 years ago

249 upvotes – 38 comments

Falcor – A JavaScript library for efficient data fetching

https://netflix.github.io/falcor/

9 years ago

232 upvotes – 48 comments

Pugs are anatomical disasters. Vets must speak out–even if it’s bad for business

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/22/pugs-anatomical-disasters-vets-must-speak-out-even-bad-business

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 250 comments

Show HN: How to write a tiny compiler

http://blog.klipse.tech/javascript/2017/02/08/tiny-compiler-intro.html?tiny

9 years ago

224 upvotes – 63 comments

Rustler – Safe Elixir and Erlang NIFs in Rust

http://hansihe.com/2017/02/05/rustler-safe-erlang-elixir-nifs-in-rust.html

9 years ago

201 upvotes – 37 comments

Why is this job not handled by a machine yet?

http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/08/why-is-this-job-not-handled-by-a-machine-yet/

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 214 comments

Zenefits cuts nearly 50% of workforce

http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-layoffs-cut-nearly-500-employees-full-email-2017-2

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 132 comments

A film that can cool buildings without the use of refrigerants

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21716599-film-worth-watching-how-keep-cool-without-costing-earth

9 years ago

184 upvotes – 108 comments

Finding Ticketbleed

https://blog.filippo.io/finding-ticketbleed/

9 years ago

183 upvotes – 23 comments

Ship Small Diffs

https://blog.skyliner.io/ship-small-diffs-741308bec0d1#.svv0xgiv6

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 72 comments

Hebrew University Archaeologists Find 12th Dead Sea Scrolls Cave

http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/33424

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 45 comments

A first look at WebAssembly performance

http://www.stefankrause.net/wp/?p=405

9 years ago

165 upvotes – 125 comments

Ultrasound Ages Liquor Two Years in Just Three Days

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/ultrasound-ages-liquor-two-years-in-just-three-days/

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 75 comments

Joining a billion rows 20x faster than Apache Spark

http://www.snappydata.io/blog/joining-billion-rows-faster-than-apache-spark

9 years ago

153 upvotes – 83 comments

Arch Linux pulls the plug on 32-bit

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3164876/linux/arch-linux-pulls-the-plug-on-32-bit.html

9 years ago

149 upvotes – 194 comments

Build a fast deep learning machine for under $1K

https://www.oreilly.com/learning/build-a-super-fast-deep-learning-machine-for-under-1000

9 years ago

147 upvotes – 61 comments

Getting Started with Functional Programming in F#

http://codeopinion.com/getting-started-with-functional-programming-in-f/

9 years ago

145 upvotes – 41 comments

The next big blue collar job is coding

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/programming-is-the-new-blue-collar-job/

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 105 comments

Tesla factory worker calls for a union: “We need to stand up for ourselves”

https://medium.com/@moran2017j/time-for-tesla-to-listen-ab5c6259fc88

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 157 comments

Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware [video] (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY&t=1s

9 years ago

123 upvotes – 63 comments

PostgreSQL 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11, 9.3.16 and 9.2.20 released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1733/

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 21 comments

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 53 comments

Reverse engineering the Intel 8008 ALU

http://www.righto.com/2017/02/reverse-engineering-surprisingly.html

9 years ago

93 upvotes – 10 comments

Microsoft Docs – Unified technical documentation

https://docs.microsoft.com/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 44 comments

In Support of Free Speech

https://medium.com/@tobi/in-support-of-free-speech-275d62670203#.uvndx0e2f

9 years ago

90 upvotes – 111 comments

Build a serverless app with a serverless database

https://fauna.com/blog/serverless-cloud-database?yc

9 years ago

88 upvotes – 75 comments

Elixir deployments on AWS

https://medium.com/mint-digital/elixir-deployments-on-aws-ee787aa02a9d#.6sl1vuybf

9 years ago

87 upvotes – 25 comments

Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your passwords

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/08/dhs_wants_enhanced_digital_vetting/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 84 comments

A secret of many urban 20-somethings: Their parents help with the rent

https://www.boston.com/news/national-news/2017/02/09/a-secret-of-many-urban-20-somethings-their-parents-help-with-the-rent

9 years ago

81 upvotes – 141 comments

How Elixir helped Bleacher Report handle 8x more traffic

http://www.techworld.com/apps/how-elixir-helped-bleacher-report-handle-8x-more-traffic-3653957/

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 71 comments

From Philosophy to Program Size (2003)

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0303352

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 30 comments

Two of China's Biggest Exchanges Stop Bitcoin Withdrawals

http://www.coindesk.com/two-chinas-biggest-exchanges-stop-bitcoin-withdrawals/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 46 comments

Depression Classic

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/223625/depression-classic

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 54 comments

H.R.482 - Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2017

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/482/text

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 36 comments

Advance in high-pressure physics

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/01/a-breakthrough-in-high-pressure-physics/

9 years ago

68 upvotes – 10 comments

Make your own mid-2000s themed mashups

http://themagicipod.com/

9 years ago

66 upvotes – 14 comments

The Weird World of Expensive Wine (2016)

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-weird-world-of-expensive-wine/

9 years ago

62 upvotes – 69 comments

Parsing – REBOL Users Guide

http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-15.html

9 years ago

58 upvotes – 26 comments

Secrets and LIE-Abilities: The State of Modern Secret Management (2017)

https://medium.com/on-docker/secrets-and-lie-abilities-the-state-of-modern-secret-management-2017-c82ec9136a3d

9 years ago

58 upvotes – 3 comments

Secrecy mounts over White House cybersecurity staff shakeup

http://www.zdnet.com/article/white-house-chief-information-security-officer-departs/

9 years ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Gitlab is down

https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in

9 years ago

57 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: KISS IDE – A simple web based IDE

https://github.com/derrybryson/kisside

9 years ago

★ 65JavaScriptGPL-3.0
56 upvotes – 21 comments

Liquid – A Language Integrated Quantum Operations Simulator

http://stationq.github.io/Liquid/

9 years ago

55 upvotes – 19 comments
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