top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-10-05

PostgreSQL 10 Released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1786/

9 years ago

1024 upvotes – 296 comments

A Pre-History of Slashdot

https://medium.com/@cmdrtaco/a-pre-history-of-slashdot-6403341dabae

9 years ago

751 upvotes – 350 comments

Mathematical games interesting to both you and a five-year-old child

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/281447/mathematical-games-interesting-to-both-you-and-a-5-year-old-child

9 years ago

749 upvotes – 131 comments

If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208168

9 years ago

627 upvotes – 354 comments

Colony: A platform for open organizations

https://colony.io/

9 years ago

492 upvotes – 171 comments

Japanese Vending Machines at Night Juxtaposed with a Wintry Hokkaido Landscape

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2017/10/04/japanese-vending-machines-at-night-juxtaposed-with-a-wintry-hokkaido-landscape/

9 years ago

375 upvotes – 164 comments

URL to PDF Microservice

https://github.com/alvarcarto/url-to-pdf-api

9 years ago

★ 7.1k HTML MIT
319 upvotes – 92 comments

Modern B-Tree Techniques (2011)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.219.7269&rep=rep1&type=pdf

9 years ago

314 upvotes – 11 comments

I was in the MAPS MDMA for PTSD study

https://www.psymposia.com/magazine/maps-mdma-ptsd-study-freed-childhood-abuse/

9 years ago

291 upvotes – 154 comments

Best CPUs for Workstations: 2017

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11891/best-cpus-for-workstations-2017

9 years ago

270 upvotes – 167 comments

I/O Access Methods for Linux

http://www.scylladb.com/2017/10/05/io-access-methods-scylla/

9 years ago

268 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15406826

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 103 comments

Strategies for offline PGP key storage

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/734767/b8509e00378301f9/

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 123 comments

China Forces Norway to Adhere to ‘One China’ Policy

https://sentinel.tw/norway-one-china-policy/

9 years ago

212 upvotes – 147 comments

The jailing of Hong Kong’s young pro-democracy leaders 

https://world.wng.org/2017/09/beijing_s_heavy_hand

9 years ago

197 upvotes – 139 comments

HM Prison – A Survival Guide (2015)

http://prisonism.co.uk/hmp-guide.html

9 years ago

192 upvotes – 110 comments

Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-stole-nsa-data-on-u-s-cyber-defense-1507222108

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 193 comments

How many people are in space right now

http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

9 years ago

185 upvotes – 66 comments

PyPy v5.9 Released

https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2017/10/pypy-v59-released-now-supports-pandas.html

9 years ago

180 upvotes – 48 comments

ThinkPad Anniversary Edition 25: Limited Edition ThinkPad Goes Retro

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11902/thinkpad-anniversary-edition-25-limited-edition-thinkpad-goes-retro

9 years ago

178 upvotes – 136 comments
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