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1.		Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
		375 points by simonebrunozzi 8 days ago \| 937 comments
2.		Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022) (sohl-dickstein.github.io)
		917 points by feyman_r 16 days ago \| 360 comments
3.		Cat memes went viral 100 years ago (bbc.com)
		143 points by zdw 19 days ago \| 37 comments
4.		How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023) (discord.com)
		435 points by jakey_bakey 16 days ago \| 234 comments
5.		PostgreSQL 17 (postgresql.org)
		661 points by jkatz05 18 days ago \| 148 comments
6.		How the Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles (quantamagazine.org)
		172 points by bigeatie 41 days ago \| 106 comments
7.		Tantivy – full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene (github.com/quickwit-oss)
		333 points by kaathewise 4 months ago \| 58 comments
8.		British Placename Mapper (rtwilson.com)
		111 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago \| 120 comments
9.		When new hires get paid more, top performers resign first (hbr.org)
		289 points by mooreds 6 months ago \| 212 comments