Hacker News on 1 July 2017

• NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
• How I Took an API Side Project to 250M Daily Requests
• As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail
• Saved by Alice
• I'm a creep. I'm sorry
• The case of the 500-mile email (2002)
• Cicada – Unix shell written in Rust
• California's beaches belong to the public
• Pony: Combining safe memory sharing with Erlang-like actors
• React, Relay and GraphQL: Under the Hood of the Times Website Redesign