Best of 2009

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2009. 74 posts.

Databases & Data
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Tokyo Cabinet DB: Beyond Key-Value Store

It took Ruby some time to go from an infant research project by Matz to a language we've all come to know so well. Now, another Japanese developer ( Mikio Hirabayashi ) has all the potential to repeat this cycle with his new database project: Tokyo Cabinet . Developed and sponsored by Mixi Inc . (Japanese Facebook)…