top 10 hacker news stories for 2017-10-21

Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

https://home-assistant.io/

9 years ago

552 upvotes – 170 comments

Google and the Resurgence of Italian Design

https://blog.prototypr.io/google-and-the-resurgence-of-italian-design-e9234cf3d073

9 years ago

432 upvotes – 229 comments

The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/?src=longreads

9 years ago

325 upvotes – 248 comments

Sugar alters hormones and metabolism, sets stage for obesity and diabetes

https://aeon.co/essays/sugar-is-a-toxic-agent-that-creates-conditions-for-disease?ref=

9 years ago

299 upvotes – 205 comments

Beating the bookies – how the online sports betting market is rigged

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02824

9 years ago

242 upvotes – 155 comments

Turning on Project Loon in Puerto Rico

https://blog.x.company/turning-on-project-loon-in-puerto-rico-f3aa41ad2d7f

9 years ago

231 upvotes – 39 comments

Linux ransomware in the wild

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1060828.html

9 years ago

230 upvotes – 107 comments

Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps

https://steveperkins.com/using-java-9-modularization-to-ship-zero-dependency-native-apps#.Wes5Y7ucK4g.hackernews

9 years ago

227 upvotes – 110 comments

How Seattle Got More People to Ride the Bus

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/10/how-seattle-bucked-a-national-trend-and-got-more-people-to-ride-the-bus/542958/?utm_source=SFTwitter

9 years ago

164 upvotes – 202 comments

A reasonably speedy Python ray tracer

http://www.excamera.com/sphinx/article-ray.html

9 years ago

162 upvotes – 47 comments
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