Hacker News on 21 October 2017

• Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
• Google and the Resurgence of Italian Design
• The Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis
• Sugar alters hormones and metabolism, sets stage for obesity and diabetes
• Beating the bookies – how the online sports betting market is rigged
• Turning on Project Loon in Puerto Rico
• Linux ransomware in the wild
• Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps
• How Seattle Got More People to Ride the Bus
• A reasonably speedy Python ray tracer