fixing a Google Finance mess: how to import European ETF prices into Google Sheets with a simple custom API.

A textbook case: public funds burned for years on a service that was never viable. The money's gone, the work's gone, and predictably, so is the project. Same old story.

Which public funds ? DNS0.eu was a private initiative, from the NextDNS founders. DNS4EU is a public initiative, as mentioned in the news, and this one is still supported and actively developed.

I bet it's powered by wordpress.

Arbitrage crypto bot, two months ago was only an idea.

that's one of the risks, indeed.

It looks like they have already recovered everything.

Original HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13917778

web looks fine but repository are not so responsive

Is this sorcery?

It's APL. First time I heard about it was in those "how to shoot yourself in the foot" lists [0]:

* You shoot yourself in the foot and then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters.

* You hear a gunshot and there's a hole in your foot, but you don't remember enough linear algebra to understand what happened.

[0] http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foo...

Second bullet point is pretty funny. I really liked linear algebra, but I'm sure it could get frustrating if you're not an expert. I wonder if it makes sense philosophically for code to be more mathematical like APL or like a spoken language like Python.

"SciPy – the embarrassing way to code"

http://www.vetta.org/2008/05/scipy-the-embarrassing-way-to-c...

I enjoyed this article. Thanks!

Congrats!