top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-06-12

Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2021/02/04/redis-postgresql/

5 years ago

841 upvotes – 472 comments

The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable

https://twitter.com/Andrew_Taylor/status/1403709080737390592

5 years ago

548 upvotes – 70 comments

How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014)

https://gizmodo.com/how-fighter-jets-lock-on-and-how-the-targets-know-1644871272

5 years ago

532 upvotes – 238 comments

Win at Risk by using systems thinking

https://thesystemisdown.substack.com/p/how-to-win-at-risk-every-time-by

5 years ago

412 upvotes – 237 comments

Taildrop was kind of easy

https://tailscale.com/blog/2021-06-taildrop-was-easy/

5 years ago

338 upvotes – 123 comments

Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482397

5 years ago

288 upvotes – 453 comments

Programmer's Resignation from 1985

https://pastes.glitchwrks.com/L88HFhJs

5 years ago

286 upvotes – 119 comments

Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015)

https://play.elevatorsaga.com/

5 years ago

278 upvotes – 99 comments

The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04026

5 years ago

276 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool

https://landrop.app/

5 years ago

250 upvotes – 98 comments

Python is 1.3x faster by just adjusting some compiling options for libpython

https://bugs.python.org/issue38980?fbclid=IwAR0cyfahpBywNzbqLCpcfwatOaU6W8UQp7LgVu8KZ8hDc-wKLjLE7wjOs7g

5 years ago

247 upvotes – 101 comments

SSH quoting

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/ssh-quoting.html

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 74 comments

MS Paint IDE

https://ms-paint-i.de/

5 years ago

241 upvotes – 103 comments

Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/

5 years ago

224 upvotes – 32 comments

NymphCast – Open-source Chromecast Alternative

https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast/

5 years ago

222 upvotes – 69 comments

Lisbon has shared dissident info with repressive regimes for years

https://www.politico.eu/article/lisbon-portugal-dissidents-personal-data-repressive-regimes/

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 64 comments

Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at CERN

https://newatlas.com/physics/charm-meson-particle-matter-antimatter/

5 years ago

203 upvotes – 139 comments

Burnout from an Organizational Perspective

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/burnout_from_an_organizational_perspective

5 years ago

198 upvotes – 94 comments

Containers are tents

https://increment.com/containers/containers-vs-vms/

5 years ago

192 upvotes – 103 comments

D3 7.0

https://github.com/d3/d3/releases/tag/v7.0.0

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 61 comments
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