Hacker News

1.		I/O is faster than the CPU, so let’s eliminate most OS abstractions [pdf] (penberg.org)
		233 points by ingve 2 hours ago \| hide \| 74 comments
2.		A short list of common mistakes in PostgreSQL (postgresql.org)
		625 points by kawera 5 hours ago \| hide \| 140 comments
3.		America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery (nytimes.com)
		98 points by Deinos 2 hours ago \| hide \| 96 comments
4.		A World Run with Code (stephenwolfram.com)
		18 points by dustinupdyke 49 minutes ago \| hide \| 2 comments
5.		Paying for Open Source Contributions (formidable.com)
		177 points by jevakallio 3 hours ago \| hide \| 80 comments
6.		Guardian records first operating profit since 1998 (bbc.co.uk)
		303 points by laurex 7 hours ago \| hide \| 192 comments
7.		A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive (bloomberg.com)
		156 points by imartin2k 4 hours ago \| hide \| 136 comments
8.		Fifteen-year-old Nigerian builds small scale construction machines [video] (bbc.co.uk)
		40 points by nanna 1 hour ago \| hide \| 7 comments
9.		Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory (11011110.github.io)
		67 points by zdw 3 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
10.		The Emergence of a Fovea While Learning to Attend (berkeley.edu)
		13 points by cracker_jacks 53 minutes ago \| hide \| 1 comment
11.		Demystifying Database Systems: An Introduction to Transaction Isolation Levels (fauna.com)
		72 points by freels 3 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
12.		The must-have accessory for the 1980s: 2-inch screen in-dash TV (2014) (autoweek.com)
		44 points by mzs 3 hours ago \| hide \| 21 comments
13.		Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (inkandswitch.com)
		427 points by c-cube 11 hours ago \| hide \| 144 comments
14.		The Ancient Secrets of Computer Vision: The Evolution of Human Vision (fritz.ai)
		26 points by addlesee 2 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
15.		You can’t judge housing affordability without knowing transportation costs (cityobservatory.org)
		6 points by oftenwrong 32 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
16.		Bored Lonely Angry Stupid (vox.com)
		10 points by laurex 1 hour ago \| hide \| 1 comment
17.		Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible Health Plans (npr.org)
		26 points by js2 57 minutes ago \| hide \| 52 comments
18.		Show HN: DeepSwarm – Optimising CNNs Using Swarm Intelligence (github.com)
		38 points by Pattio 4 hours ago \| hide \| 12 comments
19.		GCC 9.1 Released (gnu.org)
		129 points by edelsohn 4 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
20.		How Indigo, a Canadian Chain, Is Reinventing Book Selling (nytimes.com)
		51 points by pseudolus 5 hours ago \| hide \| 36 comments
21.		Zero to Kubernetes on Azure (idursun.com)
		85 points by onatm 6 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
22.		Docker Hub Maintenance (docker.com)
		29 points by tlwaddington 2 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
23.		Group F/64 (wikipedia.org)
		53 points by steven741 7 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
24.		UK scientists generate electricity from Americium to power future space missions (nnl.co.uk)
		42 points by okket 6 hours ago \| hide \| 15 comments
25.		Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App (hrw.org)
		83 points by dominiek 2 hours ago \| hide \| 13 comments
26.		Deconstruction of a Failure (mrcote.info)
		23 points by headalgorithm 5 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
27.		‘I’m coming, my Tetsie’ (lrb.co.uk)
		11 points by agronaut 3 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
28.		Trippy images were designed by AI to super-stimulate monkey neurons (medicalxpress.com)
		39 points by amatus 2 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
29.		Streak (YC S11) is profitable, well funded and hiring in Vancouver (streak.com)
		3 hours ago \| hide
30.		Mathematical Jargon Failures (plover.com)
		92 points by weinzierl 9 hours ago \| hide \| 51 comments
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