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1. Postgres gets support for upsert (postgresql.org)
1003 points by anarazel on May 8, 2015 | 109 comments
2. Take the Money and Run (nate.io)
404 points by nkohari on May 8, 2015 | 171 comments
3. 210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum (businessinsider.com)
425 points by jhonovich on May 8, 2015 | 309 comments
4. Unison: a next-generation programming platform (unisonweb.org)
308 points by adamwk on May 8, 2015 | 128 comments
5. Full text search in milliseconds with PostgreSQL (lateral.io)
274 points by maxnov on May 8, 2015 | 45 comments
6. Chile is introducing free higher education (attn.com)
221 points by rememberlenny on May 8, 2015 | 168 comments
7. Memory Layouts for Binary Search (cglab.ca)
113 points by rcfox on May 8, 2015 | 24 comments
8. Don Knuth – Constraint Based Music Composition (youtube.com)
107 points by e7mac on May 8, 2015 | 22 comments
9. Microsoft Surface Hub (microsoft.com)
215 points by SanderMak on May 8, 2015 | 117 comments
10. IndieWeb (indiewebify.me)
113 points by pandatigox on May 8, 2015 | 51 comments
11. LeakCanary: Detect all Android memory leaks (squareup.com)
101 points by juandg on May 8, 2015 | 11 comments
12. Accepting payments is getting harder (medium.com/folsen)
225 points by jaredtobin on May 7, 2015 | 115 comments
13. Researchers reverse bacterial resistance to antibiotics (kurzweilai.net)
74 points by ca98am79 on May 8, 2015 | 21 comments
14. Show HN: I made a command-line Slack chat client (github.com/tidallabs)
90 points by bkanber on May 8, 2015 | 37 comments
15. Every freelancer starts out undervaluing their work (kenwestgaard.com)
167 points by philipmorg on May 8, 2015 | 81 comments
16. Gallium Nitride Power Transistors Priced Cheaper Than Silicon (ieee.org)
74 points by rbanffy on May 8, 2015 | 17 comments
17. Weak Homegrown Crypto Dooms Open Smart Grid Protocol (threatpost.com)
142 points by tptacek on May 7, 2015 | 49 comments
18. The Discovery of Apache ZooKeeper’s Poison Packet (pagerduty.com)
261 points by gregone on May 8, 2015 | 59 comments
19. This is what happens after you die (mosaicscience.com)
101 points by otoolep on May 8, 2015 | 37 comments
20. A Quick Introduction to LXD (scottlowe.org)
142 points by tych0 on May 8, 2015 | 37 comments
21. Helping the People Who Don’t Get Hired (wsj.com)
87 points by vonnik on May 8, 2015 | 68 comments
22. The Earl Grey programming language (breuleux.github.io)
150 points by breuleux on May 7, 2015 | 126 comments
23. Crossing the US in an open-air, two-seat aeroplane (bbc.com)
181 points by smacktoward on May 7, 2015 | 42 comments
24. Osquery Security Audit (yahoo-security.tumblr.com)
51 points by hiby007 on May 8, 2015 | 6 comments
25. Parallel STL (codeplex.com)
47 points by wfunction on May 8, 2015 | 17 comments
26. Optimize Python with closures (magnetic.com)
80 points by jaimebuelta on May 8, 2015 | 31 comments
27. Engineering Statistics Handbook (nist.gov)
145 points by brudgers on May 7, 2015 | 13 comments
28. Whistleblower accuses cybersecurity company of extorting clients (cnn.com)
103 points by Osiris on May 7, 2015 | 15 comments
29. Django Community Survey (djangoproject.com)
170 points by jsmeaton on May 8, 2015 | 39 comments
30. Losing focus: Why tech is getting in the way of work (bbc.co.uk)
103 points by SimplyUseless on May 8, 2015 | 41 comments

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