top 50% hacker news stories for 2017-10-21

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

https://home-assistant.io/

8 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

8 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

8 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=

8 years ago

299 upvotes – 205 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02824

8 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

8 years ago

231 upvotes – 39 comments

Linux ransomware in the wild

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

8 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

8 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

8 years ago

164 upvotes – 202 comments

A reasonably speedy Python ray tracer

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

8 years ago

162 upvotes – 47 comments

Word embeddings in 2017: Trends and future directions

http://ruder.io/word-embeddings-2017/

8 years ago

158 upvotes – 25 comments

Bounter: A Python counter that uses limited memory regardless of data size

https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/bounter

8 years ago

★ 933PythonMIT
156 upvotes – 17 comments

Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/science/saudi-arabia-gates-google-earth.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

8 years ago

126 upvotes – 44 comments

Gaming Robinhood’s Free Stock Promotion – Or, How to Blow $350

http://jamesstuber.com/gaming-robinhood

8 years ago

124 upvotes – 23 comments

An alternative to burial and cremation gains popularity

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/business/flameless-cremation.html

8 years ago

122 upvotes – 138 comments

China Is Quietly Reshaping the World

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/china-belt-and-road/542667/?single_page=true

8 years ago

121 upvotes – 141 comments

UEFI Programming – First Steps (2009)

http://x86asm.net/articles/uefi-programming-first-steps/

8 years ago

120 upvotes – 18 comments

5G Radiation Dangers (2016)

http://beta.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cellphone-5g-health-20160808-snap-story.html

8 years ago

118 upvotes – 122 comments

Equifax's failure calls for judicial dissolution

https://www.wired.com/story/equifax-deserves-the-corporate-death-penalty/

8 years ago

107 upvotes – 18 comments

Q&A: Douglas Hofstadter on why AI is far from intelligent

https://qz.com/1088714/qa-douglas-hofstadter-on-why-ai-is-far-from-intelligent/

8 years ago

105 upvotes – 86 comments

Methods for Teaching the Programming Language Smalltalk (1977) [pdf]

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/SSL-77-2_Teaching_Smalltalk.pdf

8 years ago

104 upvotes – 52 comments

College Advice I Wish I’d Taken

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/opinion/college-advice-professor.html

8 years ago

100 upvotes – 61 comments

Left Truncatable Prime

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/LeftTruncatablePrime.html?HN_20171021

8 years ago

96 upvotes – 41 comments

Thank You GitHub

https://github.com/thank-you-github/thank-you-github

8 years ago

★ 1.9k
92 upvotes – 68 comments

Drone footage of Seattle's new 57 foot SR 99 tunnel [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGuMb0pXBHY

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 56 comments

Introducing C# in Godot

https://godotengine.org/article/introducing-csharp-godot

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 28 comments

Implementing Go's defer keyword in C++

https://oded.blog/2017/10/05/go-defer-in-cpp/

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 85 comments

The Consolidation Of Talent, Capital and Returns in Biotech

https://lifescivc.com/2017/03/inescapable-gravity-biotechs-key-clusters-great-consolidation-talent-capital-returns/?ref=endpts

8 years ago

86 upvotes – 17 comments

Wrapping C with Python: 3D image segmentation with region growing

http://notmatthancock.github.io/2017/10/09/region-growing-wrapping-c.html

8 years ago

85 upvotes – 8 comments

Why the Seattle Mystery Bookshop Must Close

http://seattlemysteryblog.typepad.com/seattle_mystery/2017/09/why-the-seattle-mystery-bookshop-must-close.html

8 years ago

80 upvotes – 71 comments

Spain Will Remove Catalonia Leader, Escalating Secession Crisis

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/world/europe/spain-catalonia-mariano-rajoy.html

8 years ago

78 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: Pg_blkchain – Postgres blockchain extension

https://github.com/blkchain/pg_blkchain#

8 years ago

★ 237CMIT
75 upvotes – 31 comments
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