top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-05-03

Common mistakes in PostgreSQL

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This

7 years ago

I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]

https://penberg.org/parakernel-hotos19.pdf

7 years ago

Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=6776

7 years ago

The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]

https://economics.harvard.edu/files/economics/files/ms28533.pdf

7 years ago

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/

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

Paying for Open Source Contributions

https://formidable.com/blog/2019/sauce-program/

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19817219

7 years ago

You can’t judge housing affordability without knowing transportation costs

http://cityobservatory.org/transportation_housing_affordability/

7 years ago

GCC 9.1 Released

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2019-05/msg00024.html

7 years ago

Demystifying Database Systems: An Introduction to Transaction Isolation Levels

https://fauna.com/blog/introduction-to-transaction-isolation-levels

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

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/

7 years ago

A World Run with Code

https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/a-world-run-with-code/

7 years ago

True Surprise

http://www.docbastard.net/2019/05/true-surprise.html

7 years ago

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/

7 years ago

What to Know Before Debating Type Systems (2008)

https://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/an-old-article-i-wrote/

7 years ago

Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/verizon-reportedly-seeking-to-sell-tumblr/

7 years ago

Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/05/moms-who-were-extremely-online-1993/588562/

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

Permafrost is thawing in the Arctic so fast scientists lost their equipment

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/permafrost-melting-1.5119767

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

Zero to Kubernetes on Azure

https://idursun.com/posts/zero_to_kubernetes/

7 years ago

eBPF Can't Count?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ebpf-cant-count/

7 years ago

TLA+: design, model, document, and verify concurrent systems

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html

7 years ago

Remote, in-memory key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone? [pdf]

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~rgrandl/papers/link.pdf

7 years ago

Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory

https://11011110.github.io/blog/2019/05/02/playing-model-trains.html

7 years ago

Ask HN: When have you taken a decision in code outside your domain of expertise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19817264

7 years ago

The Problem With Happiness

https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/the-problem-with-happiness/

7 years ago

Muse: designing a studio for ideas

https://www.inkandswitch.com/muse-studio-for-ideas.html

7 years ago

BGP 768K day, and whether it will cause internet outages

https://blog.thousandeyes.com/what-is-768k-day/

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

Palantir’s software was used for deportations, documents show

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/03/palantirs-software-was-used-for-deportations-documents-show/

7 years ago

60 days in jail for not paying a $2.75 subway fare costs the city $22,000

https://twitter.com/DrRJKavanagh/status/1124319301694107650

7 years ago

Mathematical Jargon Failures

https://blog.plover.com/lang/math-jargon-failures.html

7 years ago

Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudio and ALSA

https://gavv.github.io/articles/new-network-transport/#

7 years ago

Fitness influencers are full of shit

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/instagram-fitness-influencers-scams

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211023

7 years ago

Legit: Git Commands as an Esoteric Programming Language

https://morr.cc/legit/

7 years ago

On Perks

https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/every-day-companies-around-the-world-execute-a-low-risk-high-return-arbitrage-they-buy-the-time-9be6e1c1d486

7 years ago

The Emergence of a Fovea While Learning to Attend (2017)

https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/11/09/learn-to-attend-fovea/

7 years ago

LLVM from a Go Perspective

https://aykevl.nl/2019/04/llvm-from-go

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

How Exercise Affects Our Memory

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/well/move/how-exercise-affects-our-memory.html

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

Utterances: Lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

https://utteranc.es/

7 years ago

Network Solutions’ scammy bullshit signup funnel

https://easydns.com/blog/2019/05/03/network-solutions-scammy-bullshit-signup-funnel/

7 years ago

Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.00631

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

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

7 years ago

Typing in Yiddish

https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/284087/typing-in-yiddish

7 years ago

Show HN: DeepSwarm – Optimising CNNs Using Swarm Intelligence

https://github.com/Pattio/DeepSwarm

7 years ago

★ 330 Python MIT

Building a Silicon Brain

https://www.the-scientist.com/features/building-a-silicon-brain-65738

7 years ago