1084
253
Common mistakes in PostgreSQL
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This
7 years ago
817
277
I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]
https://penberg.org/parakernel-hotos19.pdf
652
268
Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=6776
487
260
The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]
https://economics.harvard.edu/files/economics/files/ms28533.pdf
385
188
Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/pornhub-wants-to-buy-tumblr-and-restore-site-to-former-porn-filled-glory/
339
132
Huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/02/end-to-aids-in-sight-as-huge-study-finds-drugs-stop-hiv-transmission
329
328
A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-01/a-new-way-of-voting-that-makes-zealotry-expensive
316
Paying for Open Source Contributions
https://formidable.com/blog/2019/sauce-program/
298
295
America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/01/magazine/remington-guns-jobs-huntsville.html
275
135
Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19817219
230
241
You can’t judge housing affordability without knowing transportation costs
http://cityobservatory.org/transportation_housing_affordability/
219
44
GCC 9.1 Released
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2019-05/msg00024.html
202
22
Demystifying Database Systems: An Introduction to Transaction Isolation Levels
https://fauna.com/blog/introduction-to-transaction-isolation-levels
201
212
PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pam43n/why-the-pdf-is-secretly-the-worlds-most-important-file-format
197
62
Microsoft launches a drag-and-drop machine learning tool
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/microsoft-launches-a-drag-and-drop-machine-learning-tool-and-hosted-jupyter-notebooks/
194
109
A World Run with Code
https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/a-world-run-with-code/
193
27
True Surprise
http://www.docbastard.net/2019/05/true-surprise.html
192
175
Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"
https://www.whatsonweibo.com/chinese-media-warn-wechat-group-admins-you-can-be-arrested-for-what-happens-in-your-group-chat/
190
131
What to Know Before Debating Type Systems (2008)
https://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/an-old-article-i-wrote/
152
Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/verizon-reportedly-seeking-to-sell-tumblr/
183
103
Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/05/moms-who-were-extremely-online-1993/588562/
177
Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App
https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/05/01/chinas-algorithms-repression/reverse-engineering-xinjiang-police-mass-surveillance
171
141
Permafrost is thawing in the Arctic so fast scientists lost their equipment
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/permafrost-melting-1.5119767
166
369
Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible Health Plans
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/03/719519579/employees-start-to-feel-the-squeeze-of-high-deductible-health-plans
161
214
Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (2014)
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/11/336330502/why-the-u-s-chills-its-eggs-and-most-of-the-world-doesnt
155
10
Zero to Kubernetes on Azure
https://idursun.com/posts/zero_to_kubernetes/
154
29
eBPF Can't Count?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ebpf-cant-count/
148
32
TLA+: design, model, document, and verify concurrent systems
https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html
146
72
Remote, in-memory key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone? [pdf]
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~rgrandl/papers/link.pdf
145
Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory
https://11011110.github.io/blog/2019/05/02/playing-model-trains.html
99
Ask HN: When have you taken a decision in code outside your domain of expertise?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19817264
140
156
The Problem With Happiness
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/the-problem-with-happiness/
137
18
Muse: designing a studio for ideas
https://www.inkandswitch.com/muse-studio-for-ideas.html
136
28
BGP 768K day, and whether it will cause internet outages
https://blog.thousandeyes.com/what-is-768k-day/
133
64
Fifteen-year-old Nigerian builds small scale construction machines [video]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-48141248/fifteen-year-old-nigerian-builds-small-scale-construction-machines
126
Palantir’s software was used for deportations, documents show
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/03/palantirs-software-was-used-for-deportations-documents-show/
119
117
60 days in jail for not paying a $2.75 subway fare costs the city $22,000
https://twitter.com/DrRJKavanagh/status/1124319301694107650
111
71
Mathematical Jargon Failures
https://blog.plover.com/lang/math-jargon-failures.html
107
43
Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudio and ALSA
https://gavv.github.io/articles/new-network-transport/#
98
77
Fitness influencers are full of shit
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/instagram-fitness-influencers-scams
94
We Got U.S. Border Officials to Testify Under Oath. Here’s What We Found Out
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/we-got-us-border-officials-testify-under-oath-heres-what-we-found-out
93
75
A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211023
92
16
Legit: Git Commands as an Esoteric Programming Language
https://morr.cc/legit/
89
67
On Perks
https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/every-day-companies-around-the-world-execute-a-low-risk-high-return-arbitrage-they-buy-the-time-9be6e1c1d486
88
8
The Emergence of a Fovea While Learning to Attend (2017)
https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/11/09/learn-to-attend-fovea/
14
LLVM from a Go Perspective
https://aykevl.nl/2019/04/llvm-from-go
87
42
The making of Amazon Prime, the internet's most devastating membership program
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/3/18511544/amazon-prime-oral-history-jeff-bezos-one-day-shipping
86
21
How Exercise Affects Our Memory
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/well/move/how-exercise-affects-our-memory.html
83
9
The Ancient Secrets of Computer Vision: The Evolution of Human Vision
https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/the-ancient-secrets-of-computer-vision-2-by-joseph-redmon-condensed-934e16eacb44
New York Times is taking down its paywall for World Press Freedom Day
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/reader-center/world-press-freedom-day.html
80
56
Utterances: Lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
https://utteranc.es/
26
Network Solutions’ scammy bullshit signup funnel
https://easydns.com/blog/2019/05/03/network-solutions-scammy-bullshit-signup-funnel/
41
Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00631
51
The must-have accessory for the 1980s: 2-inch screen in-dash TV (2014)
https://autoweek.com/article/wait-theres-more/must-have-accessory-well-equipped-1980s-driver-2-screen-dash-tv
76
EU's Tusk warns of risks in rise of U.S. tech giants
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-tusk-tech/eus-tusk-warns-of-risks-in-rise-of-u-s-tech-giants-idUSKCN1S91AO
73
Typing in Yiddish
https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/284087/typing-in-yiddish
Show HN: DeepSwarm – Optimising CNNs Using Swarm Intelligence
https://github.com/Pattio/DeepSwarm
17
Building a Silicon Brain
https://www.the-scientist.com/features/building-a-silicon-brain-65738
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