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  1. Tech Startup Fires Engineers Amid Union Organizing Effort (bna.com)
    9 points 0
  2. Show HN: Que, a crazy-fast Ruby-PostgreSQL job queue (github.com)
    2 points 0
  3. Show HN: Que, a Ruby-PostgreSQL job queue with ~20x the throughput of DelayedJob

    Hi everyone - I wrote a job queue called Que, which uses Postgres' advisory locks to manage jobs very efficiently. My goal is to make it easy to cover jobs with the same ACID guarantees as the rest of your data. It…

    6 points 0
  4. Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10,000 jobs per second (gist.github.com)
    5 points 0
  5. Que: A fast, concurrent job queue for Ruby and PostgreSQL (github.com)
    3 points 2
  6. U.S. intelligence agencies have their own Twitter. It’s called eChirp (washingtonpost.com)
    2 points 0
  7. Extra security measures for next week's releases (postgresql.org)
    197 points 42
  8. PostgreSQL 9.3: Current Feature Status (databasesoup.com)
    9 points 0
  9. How Zappos' User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked (forbes.com)
    11 points 3
  10. Heroku's new, free PostgreSQL 9.1 development database (postgres.heroku.com)
    94 points 25
  11. Postgres 9.2 will feature linear read scalability up to 64 cores (rhaas.blogspot.com)
    262 points 108
  12. The Most Important Postgres CPU Instruction (momjian.us)
    1 points 0
  13. Understanding Postgres Durability Options (xzilla.net)
    2 points 0
  14. Speeding up COUNT(*) in PostgreSQL (rhaas.blogspot.com)
    2 points 0
  15. PostgreSQL - Index-Only Scans: We've Got 'Em (rhaas.blogspot.com)
    3 points 0
  16. When systems scale better than linearly (xaprb.com)
    1 points 0
  17. Scalability, in Graphical Form, Analyzed (rhaas.blogspot.com)
    2 points 0
  18. RIP Ingres (it.toolbox.com)
    6 points 2
  19. Password Strength (xkcd.com)
    52 points 5
  20. Why don't relational databases support returning information in a nested format? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
    5 points 0
  21. Sen. Ron Wyden places a "hold" on the Protect IP Act (arstechnica.com)
    197 points 30
  22. Doctors and dentists tell patients, "all your review are belong to us" (arstechnica.com)
    187 points 82
  23. Twitter Engineering Blog: Faster Ruby (Kiji Update) (engineering.twitter.com)
    15 points 3
  24. Steve Wozniak Calls Paul Allen A Patent Troll (itproportal.com)
    90 points 18
  25. Rails 3.1 beta 1 released (weblog.rubyonrails.org)
    77 points 15