top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-02-12

A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/12/14583124/nasa-sidd-bikkannavar-detained-cbp-phone-search-trump-travel-ban

9 years ago

956 upvotes – 437 comments

Python moved to GitHub

https://github.com/python/cpython

9 years ago

★ 72.4k Python
820 upvotes – 305 comments

Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decrypt hard drives

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/justice-naps-man-jailed-16-months-for-refusing-to-reveal-passwords/

9 years ago

667 upvotes – 485 comments

Show HN: Rumuki, a prenup for sex tapes

https://rumuki.com/

9 years ago

405 upvotes – 198 comments

Raymond Smullyan has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/raymond-smullyan-dead-puzzle-creator.html?pagewanted=all

9 years ago

363 upvotes – 60 comments

Why does e to pi i equal -1? (2015) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_0yfvm0UoU

9 years ago

355 upvotes – 137 comments

Effectively Using Android Without Google Play Services with Gplayweb in Docker

https://fxaguessy.fr/en/articles/2017/02/11/effectively-using-android-without-google-play-services-gplayweb-in-docker/

9 years ago

318 upvotes – 74 comments

The horror of blimps (2003)

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=160851

9 years ago

289 upvotes – 13 comments

Have you looked at your windshield wipers lately?

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/02/have-you-looked-at-your-windshield-wipers-lately/

9 years ago

262 upvotes – 158 comments

Public Must Fight against Prism and Tempora Surveillance (2013)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/public-must-fight-against-prism-and-tempora-surveillance-a-907495.html

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 23 comments

Inside Medium's Meltdown

http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-the-meltdown-of-evan-williams-startup-medium-2017-2

9 years ago

200 upvotes – 118 comments

Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes

https://medium.com/@rdsubhas/10-modern-software-engineering-mistakes-bc67fbef4fc8#.swzmypry1

9 years ago

198 upvotes – 39 comments

High-speed rail taking shape even as opponents seek to kill it

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/High-speed-rail-taking-shape-even-as-opponents-10926131.php

9 years ago

196 upvotes – 287 comments

The CIA Is Sharing Declassified Maps

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cia-celebrating-its-cartography-divisions-75th-anniversary-declassified-maps-180961419/?utm_source=keywee-facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=keywee&kwp_0=299086&kwp_4=1167645&kwp_1=531375?no-ist

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 45 comments

Whole Foods is struggling

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/02/09/why-whole-foods-is-now-struggling/

9 years ago

191 upvotes – 299 comments

Show HN: DeepUI Programming Studio – A different approach to programming

https://deepui.io

9 years ago

186 upvotes – 128 comments

One month after launch

http://www.oppsdaily.com/blog

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 45 comments

Show HN: s3-lambda – Lambda functions over S3 objects: each, map, reduce, filter

https://github.com/littlstar/s3-lambda

9 years ago

★ 1k JavaScript MIT
177 upvotes – 74 comments

My Homebrew Z80 Microcomputer

http://calculon80.j89.se

9 years ago

176 upvotes – 58 comments

Ergonomica – A cross-platform shell written in Python

https://github.com/ergonomica/ergonomica

9 years ago

★ 806 Python GPL-2.0
172 upvotes – 39 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev next
sort by: datescorecomments