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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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