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1.		After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface (ripe.net)
		776 points by job on June 23, 2017 \| 105 comments
2.		Cooling the tube – Engineering heat out of the Underground (ianvisits.co.uk)
		348 points by mzehrer on June 24, 2017 \| 157 comments
3.		Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units (insect.sh)
		354 points by sharkdp on June 24, 2017 \| 195 comments
4.		Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor (ieee.org)
		223 points by nradov on June 23, 2017 \| 125 comments
5.		Windows 10 Without the Cruft: Windows 10 LTSB (Long Term Servicing Branch) (howtogeek.com)
		207 points by walterbell on June 24, 2017 \| 162 comments
6.		Generate your own sounds with NSynth (tensorflow.org)
		147 points by pkmital on June 24, 2017 \| 30 comments
7.		Caffeine Smalltalk – Livecode the Web (thiscontext.com)
		118 points by alekq on June 23, 2017 \| 10 comments
8.		SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Second Reused Rocket (extremetech.com)
		314 points by ramshanker on June 24, 2017 \| 121 comments
9.		Sans Bullshit Sans: leveraging the synergy of ligatures (2015) (pixelambacht.nl)
		203 points by JoshTriplett on June 24, 2017 \| 19 comments
10.		The CTO Journey at a Small Startup (zapier.com)
		233 points by vinnyglennon on June 24, 2017 \| 43 comments
11.		TumbleSeed Postmortem: what went wrong (aeiowu.com)
		97 points by dhotson on June 23, 2017 \| 30 comments
12.		How FireWire came to market and ultimately fell out of favor (arstechnica.com)
		189 points by anjalik on June 24, 2017 \| 100 comments
13.		TensorFlow-World: Simple and ready-to-use tutorials for TensorFlow (github.com/astorfi)
		276 points by irsina on June 24, 2017 \| 14 comments
14.		Show HN: A pure Go library for interacting with LLVM IR (github.com/llir)
		81 points by mewmew on June 24, 2017 \| 9 comments
15.		Getting compilers right: a reliable foundation for secure software (microsoft.com)
		87 points by matt_d on June 24, 2017 \| 19 comments
16.		Medieval Scholars Believed in the Possibility of Parallel Universes (atlasobscura.com)
		96 points by Petiver on June 23, 2017 \| 46 comments
17.		Show HN: Meatshields – An in-browser turn-based strategy game
		113 points by Baron_Von_Meats on June 24, 2017 \| 36 comments
18.		Radio During World War One (earlyradiohistory.us)
		65 points by petethomas on June 23, 2017 \| 2 comments
19.		FCC hits robocaller with agency's largest-ever fine of $120M (usatoday.com)
		101 points by wbsun on June 24, 2017 \| 77 comments
20.		How did a 30 year-old Su-22 defeat a modern AIM-9X? (combataircraft.net)
		148 points by vinnyglennon on June 24, 2017 \| 80 comments
21.		Blockchain at Berkeley (blockchain.berkeley.edu)
		180 points by ca98am79 on June 24, 2017 \| 58 comments
22.		Chai Wallahs of India (npr.org)
		155 points by omilu on June 24, 2017 \| 72 comments
23.		GDAX will restore the balance of margin called users with company funds (gdax.com)
		82 points by tstyle on June 24, 2017 \| 46 comments
24.		Reinventing the toilet in Madagascar (mosaicscience.com)
		55 points by sergeant3 on June 24, 2017 \| 27 comments
25.		Wikileaks reveals CIA’s ‘Brutal Kangaroo’ toolkit for hacking air-gapped network (wikileaks.org)
		140 points by Sami_Lehtinen on June 24, 2017 \| 118 comments
26.		Tactile sensor lets robots gauge objects’ hardness and manipulate small tools (kurzweilai.net)
		45 points by jonbaer on June 24, 2017 \| 1 comment
27.		A Call to Adventure (overcomingbias.com)
		71 points by r721 on June 24, 2017 \| 10 comments
28.		Inventory management in MongoDB: A design philosophy I find baffling (ayende.com)
		127 points by douche on June 24, 2017 \| 86 comments
29.		Blockstack: A New Decentralized Internet [pdf] (blockstack.org)
		96 points by ahiknsr on June 24, 2017 \| 40 comments
30.		Old usenet maps (olduse.net)
		92 points by bryanrasmussen on June 24, 2017 \| 22 comments
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