Best of 2018

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2018. 2,089 posts.

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Companies from the YC Winter 2018 Batch

At Y Combinator, founders decide when they want to announce that they’re part of the program. Meet 12 of the companies who have announced that they’re part of the YC Winter 2018 batch so far: Buglife [https://www.buglife.com/] is a mobile SDK and web platform for reporting bugs and collecting feedback in mobile apps…

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LMDB: Intel Optane SSD Microbenchmark

Since the point of these tests is to explore the performance of the Optane SSDs, the tests are configured much like the previous ondisk benchmark, using a database approximately 5x larger than RAM, to minimize the impact of caching in RAM and force the storage devices to be exercised. However, there are some twists to…