top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-02-17

Google Spreadsheets and Python

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/02/an-easy-way-to-read-and-write-to-a-google-spreadsheet-in-python.html

9 years ago

811 upvotes – 140 comments

Fifth Circuit holds that First Amendment protects the right to record the police [pdf]

http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/16/16-10312-CV0.pdf

9 years ago

670 upvotes – 189 comments

Dole Food Had Too Many Shares

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-17/dole-food-had-too-many-shares

9 years ago

418 upvotes – 171 comments

Awesome OS X Command Line

https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-osx-command-line

9 years ago

★ 30.5k
383 upvotes – 54 comments

Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it

http://cityobservatory.org/lets-not-demonize-driving/

9 years ago

311 upvotes – 515 comments

Ask HN: Non-technical readers of HN, why are you here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13668870

9 years ago

307 upvotes – 185 comments

ReactOS 0.4.4 Released

https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-044-released

9 years ago

296 upvotes – 173 comments

Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-17/mark-zuckerberg-s-manifesto-for-facebook-offers-a-social-dystopia

9 years ago

294 upvotes – 212 comments

What no one talks about when running and selling a business

https://medium.com/@kenanhopkins/in-2016-i-sold-my-startup-for-seven-figures-a3c60db80947#.q5cmisbmo

9 years ago

288 upvotes – 184 comments

A.I. Duet: A piano that responds to you

https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/ai-duet

9 years ago

262 upvotes – 70 comments

LLD is included in the upcoming LLVM 4.0 release

https://reviews.llvm.org/D29539

9 years ago

226 upvotes – 69 comments

Zuckerberg removed a line about monitoring private messages from his manifesto

http://mashable.com/2017/02/16/mark-zuckerberg-manifesto-ai/#pYk9jiyOKkqb

9 years ago

225 upvotes – 92 comments

GM to build, test thousands of self-driving Bolts in 2018

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-autonomous-exclusive-idUSKBN15W283

9 years ago

216 upvotes – 164 comments

Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS released

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2017-February/004036.html

9 years ago

211 upvotes – 187 comments

Show HN: Ipyvolume: 3D plotting library for the Jupyter/IPython notebook

https://github.com/maartenbreddels/ipyvolume

9 years ago

★ 1.9kTypeScriptMIT
210 upvotes – 29 comments

What makes the perfect office?

http://timharford.com/2017/02/what_makes_the_perfect_office/

9 years ago

206 upvotes – 123 comments

Robots Rule at Swiss Factories as Strong Franc and Wages Bite

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-17/robots-or-exit-is-swiss-factory-choice-as-franc-and-wages-bite

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 155 comments

No CEO: A Swedish company where nobody is in charge

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38928528

9 years ago

187 upvotes – 109 comments

Dutch House of Representatives passes dragnet surveillance bill

https://bof.nl/2017/02/16/dutch-house-of-representatives-passes-dragnet-surveillance-bill/

9 years ago

182 upvotes – 59 comments

Creating photorealistic images with neural networks and a Gameboy Camera

http://www.pinchofintelligence.com/photorealistic-neural-network-gameboy/

9 years ago

166 upvotes – 34 comments

A static website with React

http://www.thedotpost.com/2016/12/maxime-thirouin-a-static-website-with-react-really

9 years ago

159 upvotes – 95 comments

Zerocoin implementation bug

https://zcoin.io/language/en/important-announcement-zerocoin-implementation-bug/

9 years ago

148 upvotes – 134 comments

Botpress: an open-source bot creation tool written in JavaScript

https://github.com/botpress/botpress

9 years ago

★ 14.6kTypeScriptMIT
143 upvotes – 18 comments

Oldskool Demo on a 7 Segment Display

http://www.plingboot.com/2017/02/oldskool-demo-on-a-7-segment-display/

9 years ago

141 upvotes – 26 comments

Fossil SCM

https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

9 years ago

139 upvotes – 144 comments

Why We Choose Profit

https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-we-choose-profit-e511efc4dcb9#.2ywqscd9u

9 years ago

130 upvotes – 82 comments

ICANN has taken my site hostage

https://levels.io/icann-mafia/

9 years ago

127 upvotes – 90 comments

Dear MongoDB users, we welcome you in Azure DocumentDB

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/dear-mongodb-users-we-welcome-you-in-azure-documentdb/

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 108 comments

Alphabet's Project Loon says it will run the program with fewer balloons

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-16/alphabet-scraps-plan-to-blanket-globe-with-internet-balloons

9 years ago

124 upvotes – 60 comments

Map showing the homeland of every character in Homer’s Iliad

http://kottke.org/17/02/map-showing-the-homeland-of-every-character-in-homers-iliad

9 years ago

120 upvotes – 30 comments

I say, damn it, where are the beds? New books on Orwell

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n04/david-trotter/i-say-damn-it-where-are-the-beds

9 years ago

119 upvotes – 45 comments

Manifesto: Adding memory ownership to Swift

https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20170213/032155.html

9 years ago

118 upvotes – 29 comments

Mulesoft files for IPO

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1374684/000119312517047884/d287291ds1.htm

9 years ago

117 upvotes – 45 comments

Unreal Engine 4.15 Released

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-15-released

9 years ago

116 upvotes – 48 comments

German parents told to destroy Cayla dolls over hacking fears

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39002142

9 years ago

113 upvotes – 68 comments

Drawing Lines is Hard (2015)

https://mattdesl.svbtle.com/drawing-lines-is-hard

9 years ago

109 upvotes – 20 comments

GitLeaks – Search engine for exposed secrets on GitHub

https://gitleaks.com

9 years ago

108 upvotes – 59 comments

Dwarf planet Ceres boasts organic compounds, raising prospect of life

http://in.reuters.com/article/space-ceres-idINKBN15V2LO

9 years ago

107 upvotes – 52 comments

Don’t Take My Folders Away: Organizing Personal Info to Get Things Done (2005)

https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/2031

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 41 comments

Dad who live-streamed his son’s birth on Facebook loses in court

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/dad-who-live-streamed-his-sons-birth-on-facebook-loses-in-court/

9 years ago

104 upvotes – 76 comments

Things to do before your project dies

https://yoric.github.io/post/how-to-survive/

9 years ago

96 upvotes – 3 comments

FeFETs: How this new memory stacks up against existing non-volatile memory

http://semiengineering.com/what-are-fefets/

9 years ago

94 upvotes – 22 comments

Rigging elections with integer linear programming

http://www.drmaciver.com/2017/02/rigging-elections-with-integer-linear-programming/

9 years ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

YouTube to stop 30-second unskippable ads

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/youtube-stop-30-second-unskippable-ads/1424541

9 years ago

89 upvotes – 122 comments

How CS50 at Harvard uses GitHub to teach computer science

https://github.com/blog/2322-how-cs50-at-harvard-uses-github-to-teach-computer-science

9 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

Go CoC updated to remove “punitive language and anonymous reporting mechanism”

https://go-review.googlesource.com/37014

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 122 comments

Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (2015)

http://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 2 comments

PICO-8 Lighting: Part 2 – Stitching Lines Together

https://hackernoon.com/lighting-by-hand-2-stitching-lines-together-24edc9f819bf#.50wa32ndm

9 years ago

82 upvotes – 12 comments

Yoda Conditions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoda_conditions

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 79 comments

The Alien Style of Deep Learning Generative Design

https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/the-alien-look-of-deep-learning-generative-design-5c5f871f7d10

9 years ago

76 upvotes – 17 comments

How did Europe become the richest part of the world?

https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-europe-become-the-richest-part-of-the-world

9 years ago

75 upvotes – 110 comments

How to Set Up an OpAmp Circuit to Do Complex Mathematics

http://www.dummies.com/education/science/science-electronics/how-to-prepare-an-op-amp-circuit-to-do-complex-mathematics/

9 years ago

74 upvotes – 65 comments

Rust Sucks If I Fail to Write X

http://llogiq.github.io/2017/02/15/sucks.html

9 years ago

72 upvotes – 86 comments

Bill Gates Wants to Tax Robots

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

9 years ago

71 upvotes – 73 comments

Theranos might be on life support

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/17/theranos-might-be-on-life-support/

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 66 comments

Humans evolved to tolerate smoke poisoning [pdf]

https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/2016-hubbard.pdf

9 years ago

70 upvotes – 46 comments

Parallelization of SAT Algorithms on GPUs [pdf]

http://algos.inesc-id.pt/~pff/projects/parsat/publications/Costa-TR2013Feb.pdf

9 years ago

65 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: What is your best passive income in 2017?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13669723

9 years ago

64 upvotes – 42 comments
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