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1.		Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service (googleblog.com)
		1068 points by wwilson on Feb 14, 2017 \| 434 comments
2.		Show HN: A guide to all HTML5 elements and attributes (htmlreference.io)
		728 points by bbx on Feb 14, 2017 \| 93 comments
3.		Operating Systems: From 0 to 1 (tuhdo.github.io)
		709 points by tuhdo on Feb 14, 2017 \| 79 comments
4.		India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi (globalcitizen.org)
		671 points by SimplyUseless on Feb 14, 2017 \| 256 comments
5.		Amazon Chime (chime.aws)
		573 points by runesoerensen on Feb 14, 2017 \| 325 comments
6.		Inferring Your Mobile Phone Password via WiFi Signals (fermatslibrary.com)
		340 points by pogba101 on Feb 14, 2017 \| 64 comments
7.		Pathfinder, a fast GPU-based font rasterizer in Rust (pcwalton.github.io)
		384 points by mmastrac on Feb 14, 2017 \| 101 comments
8.		The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git History (destroyallsoftware.com)
		394 points by gary_bernhardt on Feb 14, 2017 \| 51 comments
9.		High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes (linode.com)
		293 points by joshtronic on Feb 14, 2017 \| 170 comments
10.		Staffjoy is shutting down (staffjoy.com)
		238 points by philip1209 on Feb 14, 2017 \| 96 comments
11.		SNES preservation project on hold due to missing $10,000 package (byuu.org)
		360 points by coldpie on Feb 14, 2017 \| 143 comments
12.		Live slow, die old: Mounting evidence for caloric restriction in humans (geroscience.com)
		278 points by discombobulate on Feb 14, 2017 \| 216 comments
13.		Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC (eetimes.com)
		256 points by mrb on Feb 14, 2017 \| 121 comments
14.		Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system (pijul.org)
		259 points by dgellow on Feb 14, 2017 \| 172 comments
15.		Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (2009) (msdn.microsoft.com)
		246 points by brudgers on Feb 13, 2017 \| 126 comments
16.		What happens when you dump the App Store? (techcrunch.com)
		183 points by ColanR on Feb 13, 2017 \| 123 comments
17.		New Macbook Pro power efficiency and time remaining (macdaddy.io)
		267 points by feelix on Feb 14, 2017 \| 206 comments
18.		I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior (2015) (kukuruku.co)
		214 points by waynecolvin on Feb 14, 2017 \| 178 comments
19.		Is PostgreSQL good enough? (renesd.blogspot.com)
		403 points by richardboegli on Feb 14, 2017 \| 139 comments
20.		Don’t Look Now, but the Great Unbundling Has Spun into Reverse (nytimes.com)
		114 points by JumpCrisscross on Feb 14, 2017 \| 73 comments
21.		Announcing Open Source Guides (github.com/blog)
		254 points by bkeepers on Feb 14, 2017 \| 25 comments
22.		Redux-query – A React/Redux library for querying and managing network state (amplitude.engineering)
		127 points by ryanashcraft on Feb 14, 2017 \| 61 comments
23.		Happy 15th Birthday .NET (msdn.microsoft.com)
		265 points by vyrotek on Feb 14, 2017 \| 100 comments
24.		Show HN: Illustrated Quicksort algorithm (now.sh)
		187 points by skidding on Feb 14, 2017 \| 48 comments
25.		Amazon rainforest was transformed over 2,000 years ago by mysterious earthworks (exeter.ac.uk)
		167 points by Thevet on Feb 14, 2017 \| 42 comments
26.		Raising the American Weakling (nautil.us)
		185 points by jontas on Feb 13, 2017 \| 165 comments
27.		.NET Core Web API on AWS Lambda Performance (cloudncode.blog)
		121 points by maingi4 on Feb 14, 2017 \| 20 comments
28.		Opentype.js: read and write OpenType fonts using JavaScript (opentype.js.org)
		82 points by vmorgulis on Feb 14, 2017 \| 6 comments
29.		Multiplying and dividing with Hindu-Arabic numerals and with Roman ones (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		103 points by Hooke on Feb 13, 2017 \| 74 comments
30.		For the First Time, Wind on the Plains Supplied More Than Half Region's Power (bloomberg.com)
		124 points by mastazi on Feb 14, 2017 \| 64 comments
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