top 50% 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

Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance

http://boingboing.net/2017/02/14/watching-wikipedias-extincti.html

9 years ago

244 upvotes – 126 comments

Staffjoy is shutting down

https://blog.staffjoy.com/staffjoy-is-shutting-down-39f7b5d66ef6

9 years ago

238 upvotes – 96 comments

The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)

http://blissbat.net/balzac.html

9 years ago

218 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: Illustrated Quicksort algorithm

https://illustrated-algorithms.now.sh/quicksort

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 48 comments

Websites can now fingerprint a device when multiple browser instances are used

https://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/02/now-sites-can-fingerprint-you-online-even-when-you-use-multiple-browsers/

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 147 comments

Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/inside-Cloud-Spanner-and-the-CAP-Theorem.html

9 years ago

172 upvotes – 7 comments

White House Open Data Unavailable

https://open.whitehouse.gov/browse

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 36 comments

Amazon rainforest was transformed over 2,000 years ago by mysterious earthworks

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_568689_en.html

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 42 comments

Nim core developer wanted

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/2795

9 years ago

157 upvotes – 18 comments

The Document Foundation on City of Munich’s discussion on returning to Microsoft

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/02/14/statement-by-the-document-foundation-about-the-upcoming-discussion-at-the-city-of-munich-to-step-back-to-windows-and-ms-office/

9 years ago

136 upvotes – 66 comments

I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/ill-never-bring-my-phone-on-an-international-flight-again-neither-should-you-e9289cde0e5f#.58zrgizib

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 198 comments

Newspaper subscription experiment

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/newspaper-subscription-experiment

9 years ago

135 upvotes – 113 comments

A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets, now wants to stop them

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-man-who-broke-ticketmaster

9 years ago

134 upvotes – 319 comments

Amazon EBS Update – New Elastic Volumes Change Everything

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ebs-update-new-elastic-volumes-change-everything/

9 years ago

133 upvotes – 57 comments

65535 interfaces ought to be enough for anybody

http://aakinshin.net/en/blog/dotnet/mono-and-65535interfaces/

9 years ago

131 upvotes – 79 comments

Redux-query – A React/Redux library for querying and managing network state

https://amplitude.engineering/introducing-redux-query-7734e7215b3b

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 61 comments

The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine

https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 133 comments

For the First Time, Wind on the Plains Supplied More Than Half Region's Power

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-13/wind-on-the-plains-supplied-more-than-half-region-s-power-needs

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 64 comments

The Garden: Instacart's Physical Staging Environment

https://tech.instacart.com/the-garden-instacarts-physical-staging-environment-7204fd063616

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 5 comments

.NET Core Web API on AWS Lambda Performance

https://cloudncode.blog/2017/02/13/net-core-web-api-lambda-performance/

9 years ago

121 upvotes – 20 comments

Undefined Behavior != Unsafe Programming

http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1467

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 70 comments

Scala vs Go

https://www.quora.com/Scala-vs-Go-Could-people-help-compare-contrast-these-on-relative-merits-demerits/answer/Nick-Snyder-1?srid=hJYT&share=191eaf13

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 103 comments

Don’t Look Now, but the Great Unbundling Has Spun into Reverse

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/business/dealbook/bundling-online-services.html?ref=dealbook&_r=0&referer=

9 years ago

114 upvotes – 73 comments

Craigslist Is Ugly, Janky, Old School, and Unbeatable

https://backchannel.com/craigslist-is-ugly-janky-old-school-and-unbeatable-85206829cb90#.ui9k4ktkl

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 154 comments

Silicon Valley Is Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-h-1b_us_5890d86ce4b0522c7d3d84af

9 years ago

110 upvotes – 122 comments

Google Analytics Autotrack

https://github.com/googleanalytics/autotrack

9 years ago

★ 4.9k JavaScript
109 upvotes – 29 comments

Releases for XFCE

https://simon.shimmerproject.org/2017/02/13/releases-releases-releases/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 87 comments

How Stack Overflow Redesigned the Top Navigation

http://stackoverflow.blog/2017/02/Why-Stack-Overflow-Redesigned-the-Top-Navigation/

9 years ago

95 upvotes – 35 comments

Quizlet Tests Cloud Spanner – The Most Sophisticated Cloud Database

https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 3 comments
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