top 50% 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

Python moved to GitHub

https://github.com/python/cpython

9 years ago

★ 72.4k Python

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

Show HN: Rumuki, a prenup for sex tapes

https://rumuki.com/

9 years ago

Raymond Smullyan has died

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

9 years ago

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

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

9 years ago

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

The horror of blimps (2003)

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

9 years ago

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

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

Inside Medium's Meltdown

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

9 years ago

Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes

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

9 years ago

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

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

Whole Foods is struggling

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

9 years ago

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

https://deepui.io

9 years ago

One month after launch

http://www.oppsdaily.com/blog

9 years ago

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

My Homebrew Z80 Microcomputer

http://calculon80.j89.se

9 years ago

Ergonomica – A cross-platform shell written in Python

https://github.com/ergonomica/ergonomica

9 years ago

★ 806 Python GPL-2.0

Government accused of 'full-frontal attack' on whistleblowers

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/12/uk-government-accused-full-frontal-attack-prison-whistleblowers-media-journalists

9 years ago

Top Sites to Receive SMS Online Without a Phone

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/top-10-sites-receive-sms-online-without-phone/

9 years ago

I used LAMP to make a SaaS app with $3700/month profit

https://medium.com/@moskovski/i-used-lamp-to-make-a-saas-with-3700-mo-profit-heres-how-1c47033900e9#.ik5zvaj7l

9 years ago

The Three Ways of XOR

http://horia141.com/three-ways-of-xor.html

9 years ago

Passwords for social media accounts could be required for some to enter country

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/08/passwords-for-social-media-accounts-could-be-required-for-some-to-enter-country/

9 years ago

AMD Ryzen Full Lineup Prices, Specs and Clock Speeds Leaked

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-full-lineup-pricing-clock-speeds-leaked/

9 years ago

Things Developers Should Know About SQL Server (2013)

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2013/02/7-things-developers-should-know-about-sql-server/

9 years ago

From AST to Lossless Syntax Tree

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/02/11.html

9 years ago

Tomáš Mikolov on Word2vec and AI research at Microsoft, Google, Facebook [audio]

https://rare-technologies.com/rrp-1-tomas-mikolov-on-word2vec-and-ai-research-at-microsoft-google-facebook

9 years ago

No link between eating dinner after 8pm, obesity in children

http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/1841.html

9 years ago

The “Inside Airbnb” project has earned the home-sharing company bad press

https://backchannel.com/a-lone-data-whiz-is-fighting-airbnb-and-winning-7fd49513266e

9 years ago

The Road to Learn React.js – Build Hacker News App

https://www.educative.io/collection/5740745361195008/5676830073815040?ref=hn

9 years ago

Making More Outside The App Store

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2017/02/10/piezos-life-outside-the-app-store/

9 years ago

Ask HN: Are there 'dumb' ways to make money as a developer in your spare time?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13629479

9 years ago

The True Cost of Bitcoin Transactions

http://moneyandstate.com/the-true-cost-of-bitcoin-transactions/

9 years ago

Partisan Gerrymandering and the Efficiency Gap

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers2.cfm?abstract_id=2457468

9 years ago

Mkfile(8) is severely syscall limited on OS X

http://blog.metaobject.com/2017/02/mkfile8-is-severely-syscall-limited-on.html

9 years ago

Testing out snapshots in Apple’s next-generation APFS file system

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/02/testing-out-snapshots-in-apples-next-generation-apfs-file-system/

9 years ago

The clock is ticking for Spotify

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38930699

9 years ago

India's iconic Ambassador car brand is sold to Peugeot

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38945674

9 years ago