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Hacker News (03 May 2019)
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Common mistakes in PostgreSQL
1049 points • 246 comments • may 03, 2019
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I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf]
799 points • 272 comments • may 03, 2019
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Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
640 points • 266 comments • may 03, 2019
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The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 [pdf]
480 points • 259 comments • may 03, 2019
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Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr
356 points • 175 comments • may 03, 2019
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Huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission
331 points • 128 comments • may 03, 2019
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A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
320 points • 318 comments • may 03, 2019
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Paying for Open Source Contributions
308 points • 126 comments • may 03, 2019
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America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
290 points • 287 comments • may 03, 2019
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Ask HN: How can I automatically scan and catalog a mountain of books?
267 points • 133 comments • may 03, 2019