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1. I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and Eliminate OS Abstractions [pdf] (penberg.org)
817 points by ingve on May 3, 2019 | 277 comments
2. Common mistakes in PostgreSQL (postgresql.org)
1084 points by kawera on May 3, 2019 | 253 comments
3. Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests (amazon.com)
652 points by cyanbane on May 3, 2019 | 268 comments
4. Guardian records first operating profit since 1998 (bbc.co.uk)
460 points by laurex on May 1, 2019 | 314 comments
5. Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (inkandswitch.com)
566 points by c-cube on May 2, 2019 | 190 comments
6. America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery (nytimes.com)
298 points by Deinos on May 3, 2019 | 295 comments
7. Unraveling the JPEG (parametric.press)
399 points by coldsnap427 on May 1, 2019 | 41 comments
8. A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive (bloomberg.com)
329 points by imartin2k on May 3, 2019 | 328 comments
9. How to Calm a Crying Baby Like a Mesopotamian (atlasobscura.com)
175 points by diodorus on May 2, 2019 | 116 comments
10. JetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face (boingboing.net)
409 points by wizeman on May 2, 2019 | 229 comments
11. Android App Reverse Engineering 101 (maddiestone.github.io)
380 points by conductor on May 2, 2019 | 32 comments
12. A World Run with Code (stephenwolfram.com)
194 points by dustinupdyke on May 3, 2019 | 109 comments
13. Playing with model trains and calling it graph theory (11011110.github.io)
145 points by zdw on May 3, 2019 | 29 comments
14. Huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission (theguardian.com)
339 points by ahakki on May 3, 2019 | 132 comments
15. You can’t judge housing affordability without knowing transportation costs (cityobservatory.org)
230 points by oftenwrong on May 3, 2019 | 241 comments
16. Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP (about.gitlab.com)
310 points by soheilpro on May 2, 2019 | 128 comments
17. Microsoft launches a drag-and-drop machine learning tool (techcrunch.com)
197 points by Anon84 on May 3, 2019 | 62 comments
18. Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics (quantamagazine.org)
261 points by furcyd on April 30, 2019 | 102 comments
19. What to Know Before Debating Type Systems (2008) (cdsmith.wordpress.com)
190 points by furcyd on May 3, 2019 | 131 comments
20. Paying for Open Source Contributions (formidable.com)
316 points by jevakallio on May 3, 2019 | 132 comments
21. PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format (vice.com)
201 points by jbegley on May 3, 2019 | 212 comments
22. Bored Lonely Angry Stupid (vox.com)
218 points by laurex on May 2, 2019 | 126 comments
23. Demystifying Database Systems: An Introduction to Transaction Isolation Levels (fauna.com)
202 points by freels on May 3, 2019 | 22 comments
24. The Emergence of a Fovea While Learning to Attend (2017) (bair.berkeley.edu)
88 points by cracker_jacks on May 3, 2019 | 8 comments
25. Remote, in-memory key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone? [pdf] (wisc.edu)
146 points by Terretta on May 3, 2019 | 72 comments
26. Typing in Yiddish (tabletmag.com)
73 points by gruseom on May 3, 2019 | 32 comments
27. Phone and laptop searches at US border 'quadruple' (bbc.com)
277 points by pseudolus on May 2, 2019 | 119 comments
28. Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon (2016) (theguardian.com)
90 points by drcongo on May 2, 2019 | 30 comments
29. Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M (techcrunch.com)
134 points by marcc on May 1, 2019 | 45 comments
30. Bento – An Android UI Framework (yelp.com)
80 points by tylerargo on May 2, 2019 | 9 comments

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