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esert··on Goroutines, Nonblocking I/O, and Memory Usage
Golang already provides bindings for the polling syscalls (e.g. https://gcmurphy.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/using-epoll-in-go/). Someone can write a library to do what you describe.
esert··on Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
They have audience options for ads (like age/gender/location, see http://searchads.apple.com/how-it-works/#features), meaning they collect data about their users as well.

Also, they colluded with other companies to, effectively, keep employees' wages down. Amount of money they saved was probably a rounding error for them in this case too.

esert··on Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them
They have ads: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/search-ads/
esert··on Ask HN: Do you still purchase physical books?
If it's cheaper than ebook.
esert··on Ask HN: Where can one learn about how computers work?
Here's a talk by Richard Feynman where he explains how computers work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA
esert··on Tor: Directly connecting users from Turkey
It looks like a weekly cycle. Maybe some businesses use TOR during weekdays.
esert··on Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
I will change to feedheap.com beacause of very GReader like interface.
esert··on Ask PG: Can you fix the HN RSS feed?
It seems feed items are back to normal now.
esert··on Use ack instead of grep to parse text files
if all you need is Perl regexp you can use grep -P, no need to stop using grep