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1.		SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year (spacex.com)
		1747 points by runesoerensen on Feb 27, 2017 \| 488 comments
2.		I am an Uber survivor (medium.com/amyvertino)
		2168 points by NelsonMinar on Feb 27, 2017 \| 767 comments
3.		Mozilla Acquires Pocket (blog.mozilla.org)
		1187 points by qdot76367 on Feb 27, 2017 \| 445 comments
4.		How to Self-Publish a Novel in 2017 (zhubert.com)
		551 points by zhubert on Feb 27, 2017 \| 163 comments
5.		CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages (troyhunt.com)
		500 points by 0x0 on Feb 27, 2017 \| 169 comments
6.		Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's 1985 Car Navigation System (fastcompany.com)
		391 points by dirwiz on Feb 27, 2017 \| 83 comments
7.		Data on the uselessness of LinkedIn endorsements (interviewing.io)
		354 points by leeny on Feb 27, 2017 \| 152 comments
8.		Prophet: forecasting at scale (fb.com)
		520 points by benhamner on Feb 27, 2017 \| 110 comments
9.		I Wrote My Fastest Hashtable (probablydance.com)
		380 points by ingve on Feb 27, 2017 \| 116 comments
10.		A solution for enabling UDP in the web (gafferongames.com)
		383 points by vvanders on Feb 27, 2017 \| 180 comments
11.		Introducing Handle – Boston Dynamics [video] (youtube.com)
		429 points by pauselife on Feb 27, 2017 \| 119 comments
12.		OpenXR – Cross-Platform, Portable, Virtual Reality (khronos.org)
		184 points by gnarbarian on Feb 27, 2017 \| 42 comments
13.		No publication without confirmation (nature.com)
		225 points by ktamiola on Feb 26, 2017 \| 111 comments
14.		How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world (bbc.com)
		303 points by sohkamyung on Feb 27, 2017 \| 237 comments
15.		Saudi Arabia's Oil Wealth Is About to Get a Reality Check (bloomberg.com)
		250 points by ayanai on Feb 26, 2017 \| 284 comments
16.		Incident management at Google – adventures in SRE-land (googleblog.com)
		250 points by kungfudoi on Feb 27, 2017 \| 43 comments
17.		Pdftabextract – A set of tools for data mining OCR-processed PDFs (github.com/wzbsocialsciencecenter)
		143 points by happy-go-lucky on Feb 26, 2017 \| 4 comments
18.		“I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration” (twitter.com/cyberomin)
		660 points by z3t1 on Feb 27, 2017 \| 314 comments
19.		A Physicist Who Denies That Dark Matter Exists (nautil.us)
		259 points by dnetesn on Feb 27, 2017 \| 185 comments
20.		The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008) (yosefk.com)
		172 points by panic on Feb 27, 2017 \| 127 comments
21.		Show HN: Poxi – A Hackable Pixel Art Editor (github.com/maierfelix)
		144 points by _s47s on Feb 27, 2017 \| 37 comments
22.		Self-driving cars in the browser (janhuenermann.com)
		249 points by hardmaru on Feb 27, 2017 \| 31 comments
23.		Qt Quick WebGL Streaming (qt.io)
		105 points by ronjouch on Feb 27, 2017 \| 47 comments
24.		New Math Proof Could Help Us Describe the Earth's Interior (pbs.org)
		82 points by selimthegrim on Feb 27, 2017 \| 8 comments
25.		Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia (plos.org)
		80 points by artsandsci on Feb 27, 2017 \| 24 comments
26.		RCMP commissioner warns IT failures will have 'catastrophic' consequences (cbc.ca)
		76 points by e15ctr0n on Feb 27, 2017 \| 29 comments
27.		Show HN: Master Numbers in a Foreign Language (foreignnumbers.com)
		112 points by jasonlfunk on Feb 27, 2017 \| 80 comments
28.		Mender – An open-source OTA software updater for embedded Linux devices (mender.io)
		132 points by ralphmender on Feb 27, 2017 \| 45 comments
29.		Using Deep Learning and Google Street View to Estimate Demographic Makeup of US (arxiv.org)
		145 points by phodo on Feb 27, 2017 \| 48 comments
30.		Dropbox is using an unsigned binary to install kernel extensions on your Mac (twitter.com/jzdziarski)
		263 points by tnorthcutt on Feb 27, 2017 \| 70 comments
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