top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-07-01

NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract

https://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/theres-a-fight-brewing-between-the-nypd-and-silicon-valley?utm_term=.upg46gXexp#.okrN9VDzJa

9 years ago

501 upvotes – 275 comments

How I Took an API Side Project to 250M Daily Requests

https://blog.ipinfo.io/api-side-project-to-250-million-requests-with-0-marketing-budget-bb0de01c01f6

9 years ago

494 upvotes – 159 comments

As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail

http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2017/07/01/a-generational-failure-as-the-u-s-fantasizes-the-rest-of-the-world-builds-a-new-transport-system/

9 years ago

403 upvotes – 540 comments

Saved by Alice

https://www.eff.org/alice

9 years ago

322 upvotes – 54 comments

I'm a creep. I'm sorry

https://500hats.com/im-a-creep-i-m-sorry-d2c13e996ea0

9 years ago

321 upvotes – 398 comments

The case of the 500-mile email (2002)

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

9 years ago

246 upvotes – 56 comments

Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust

https://github.com/mitnk/cicada

9 years ago

★ 1k Rust MIT
244 upvotes – 166 comments

California's beaches belong to the public

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-nelsen-public-access-martins-beach-surfrider-vinod-khosla-20170630-story.html

9 years ago

240 upvotes – 242 comments

Pony: Combining safe memory sharing with Erlang-like actors

https://tutorial.ponylang.org/getting-started/how-it-works.html

9 years ago

202 upvotes – 62 comments

React, Relay and GraphQL: Under the Hood of the Times Website Redesign

https://open.nytimes.com/react-relay-and-graphql-under-the-hood-of-the-times-website-redesign-22fb62ea9764

9 years ago

194 upvotes – 112 comments

Nevada becomes fifth US state to allow cannabis sales for recreational purposes

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world-0/nevada-cannabis-marijuana-legal-recreational-weed-sales-pot-shops-buy-legalised-a7817871.html

9 years ago

174 upvotes – 97 comments

Dolphin Progress Report

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/01/dolphin-progress-report-june-2017/

9 years ago

173 upvotes – 11 comments

Modi Takes a Leap With India’s Biggest-Ever Tax Overhaul

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/world/asia/india-tax-narendra-modi.html

9 years ago

170 upvotes – 126 comments

How Aging Research Is Changing Our Lives

http://aging.nautil.us/feature/226/how-aging-research-is-changing-our-lives

9 years ago

167 upvotes – 61 comments

Way Cooler tiling window manager

http://way-cooler.org/

9 years ago

158 upvotes – 98 comments

Congress Needs to End Warrantless Spying, Not Make It Permanent

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/congress-needs-end-warrantless-spying-not-make-it-permanent

9 years ago

151 upvotes – 11 comments

You don't need a grid framework on top of the CSS grid layout

https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2017/07/01/you-do-not-need-a-css-grid-based-grid-system

9 years ago

150 upvotes – 49 comments

Ask HN: Victim of an unfounded harrasement accusation. Your thoughts?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676115

9 years ago

146 upvotes – 138 comments

Yelp’s Six-Year Conflict with Google

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/technology/yelp-google-european-union-antitrust.html

9 years ago

138 upvotes – 185 comments

Volvo admits its self-driving cars are confused by kangaroos

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/01/volvo-admits-its-self-driving-cars-are-confused-by-kangaroos

9 years ago

126 upvotes – 67 comments
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