top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-02-14

Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/introducing-Cloud-Spanner-a-global-database-service-for-mission-critical-applications.html

9 years ago

1068 upvotes – 434 comments

Show HN: A guide to all HTML5 elements and attributes

http://htmlreference.io/

9 years ago

728 upvotes – 93 comments

Operating Systems: From 0 to 1

https://tuhdo.github.io/os01/

9 years ago

709 upvotes – 79 comments

India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/india-bans-all-disposable-plastic/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=global&utm_campaign=general-content&linkId=34447287

9 years ago

671 upvotes – 256 comments

Warren Buffett’s Best Investment

https://www.gatesnotes.com/2017-Annual-Letter

9 years ago

659 upvotes – 204 comments

Amazon Chime

https://chime.aws/

9 years ago

573 upvotes – 325 comments

Is PostgreSQL good enough?

http://renesd.blogspot.com/2017/02/is-postgresql-good-enough.html

9 years ago

403 upvotes – 139 comments

The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git History

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2017/the-biggest-and-weirdest-commits-in-linux-kernel-git-history

9 years ago

394 upvotes – 51 comments

Pathfinder, a fast GPU-based font rasterizer in Rust

http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2017/02/14/pathfinder/

9 years ago

384 upvotes – 101 comments

SNES preservation project on hold due to missing $10,000 package

https://byuu.org/emulation/preservation/lost-package/

9 years ago

360 upvotes – 143 comments

Inferring Your Mobile Phone Password via WiFi Signals

http://fermatslibrary.com/s/when-csi-meets-public-wifi-inferring-your-mobile-phone-password-via-wifi-signals

9 years ago

340 upvotes – 64 comments

DigitalOcean introduces Load Balancers

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/load-balancer/

9 years ago

308 upvotes – 136 comments

High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/

9 years ago

293 upvotes – 170 comments

Video calls for Signal now in public beta

https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal-video-calls-beta/

9 years ago

286 upvotes – 83 comments

Live slow, die old: Mounting evidence for caloric restriction in humans

http://geroscience.com/caloric-restriction/

9 years ago

278 upvotes – 216 comments

Happy 15th Birthday .NET

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/02/13/happy-15th-birthday-net/

9 years ago

265 upvotes – 100 comments

Pijul – A free and open source distributed version control system

https://pijul.org/

9 years ago

259 upvotes – 172 comments

Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331317&page_number=1

9 years ago

256 upvotes – 121 comments

Announcing Open Source Guides

https://github.com/blog/2318-announcing-open-source-guides

9 years ago

254 upvotes – 25 comments

Cellphone Spy Tools Have Flooded Local Police Departments

http://www.citylab.com/crime/2017/02/cellphone-spy-tools-have-flooded-local-police-departments/512543/

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 86 comments
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