top 20 hacker news stories for 2017-06-24

Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units

https://insect.sh/

9 years ago

Cooling the tube – Engineering heat out of the Underground

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2017/06/10/cooling-the-tube-engineering-heat-out-of-the-underground/

9 years ago

SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands Second Reused Rocket

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/251473-spacex-successfully-launches-second-reused-rocket-delivers-first-bulgarian-payload

9 years ago

TensorFlow-World: Simple and ready-to-use tutorials for TensorFlow

https://github.com/astorfi/TensorFlow-World

9 years ago

★ 4.5k Python MIT

Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/23/wikimedia-v-nsa-present-future/

9 years ago

The CTO Journey at a Small Startup

https://zapier.com/engineering/startup-cto/

9 years ago

Windows 10 Without the Cruft: Windows 10 LTSB (Long Term Servicing Branch)

https://www.howtogeek.com/273824/windows-10-without-the-cruft-windows-10-ltsb-explained/

9 years ago

Sans Bullshit Sans: leveraging the synergy of ligatures (2015)

https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/

9 years ago

How FireWire came to market and ultimately fell out of favor

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/06/the-rise-and-fall-of-firewire-the-standard-everyone-couldnt-quite-agree-on/?mbid=synd_digg

9 years ago

The slow death of the electric guitar

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/the-slow-secret-death-of-the-electric-guitar/

9 years ago

Blockchain at Berkeley

https://blockchain.berkeley.edu/

9 years ago

Hexagonal Grids

http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

9 years ago

Police sent warrant to Facebook for information on Philando Castile’s girlfriend

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170623/06000037650/cops-sent-warrant-to-facebook-to-dig-up-dirt-woman-whose-boyfriend-they-had-just-killed.shtml

9 years ago

Chai Wallahs of India

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/14/481878368/tea-tuesday-meet-the-chai-wallahs-of-india

9 years ago

How did a 30 year-old Su-22 defeat a modern AIM-9X?

http://www.combataircraft.net/2017/06/23/how-did-a-30-year-old-su-22-defeat-a-modern-aim-9x/

9 years ago

Generate your own sounds with NSynth

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/nsynth-fastgen

9 years ago

Wikileaks reveals CIA’s ‘Brutal Kangaroo’ toolkit for hacking air-gapped network

https://wikileaks.org/vault7/#Brutal%20Kangaroo

9 years ago

The trouble I had trying to contact Twitter support about a security issue

https://twitter.com/i/moments/878356515622617088

9 years ago

Inventory management in MongoDB: A design philosophy I find baffling

https://ayende.com/blog/178785/inventory-management-in-mongodb-a-design-philosophy-i-find-baffling?Key=e9d8f617-cd97-4328-a380-e30e30c4f450

9 years ago

Show HN: Meatshields – An in-browser turn-based strategy game

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14626457

9 years ago