top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-02-12

“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”

https://twitter.com/LucaBongiorni/status/1359560585990537216

5 years ago

1168 upvotes – 455 comments

Chick Corea has died

https://chickcorea.com/

5 years ago

704 upvotes – 191 comments

Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down

https://github.com/tensorflow/swift

5 years ago

502 upvotes – 420 comments

Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/

5 years ago

477 upvotes – 163 comments

Self-organising textures from cellular automata

https://distill.pub/selforg/2021/textures/

5 years ago

418 upvotes – 59 comments

FIDO2 security key company releases hardware that's open source and uses Rust

https://solokeys.com/blogs/news/our-solo-v2-campaign-launches-on-january-26th

5 years ago

396 upvotes – 157 comments

Apple redirects Google Safe Browsing traffic through proxy servers in iOS 14.5

https://the8-bit.com/apple-proxies-google-safe-browsing-privacy/

5 years ago

391 upvotes – 264 comments

Short fat engineers are undervalued

https://nested.substack.com/p/short-fat-engineers-are-undervalued

5 years ago

369 upvotes – 257 comments

Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time and memory use

https://github.com/jimblandy/context-switch

5 years ago

347 upvotes – 196 comments

Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool

https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/

5 years ago

335 upvotes – 83 comments

Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to many ills

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/10/microbial-ecosystems-in-the-mouth-and-gut-are-linked-to-many-ills

5 years ago

304 upvotes – 233 comments

Mathematician Solves Sensitivity Conjecture in Two Pages (2019)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-solves-computer-science-conjecture-in-two-pages-20190725/

5 years ago

285 upvotes – 100 comments

Goodbye YC

https://blog.aaronkharris.com/goodbye-yc

5 years ago

284 upvotes – 40 comments

Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyright against streaming

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxa7q/new-video-shows-beverly-hills-cops-playing-beatles-to-trigger-instagram-copyright-filter

5 years ago

283 upvotes – 244 comments

Svgrepo: Browse SVG vectors and icons

https://www.svgrepo.com/

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Search inside YouTube videos using natural language queries

https://github.com/haltakov/natural-language-youtube-search

5 years ago

264 upvotes – 43 comments

Computer Networks: A Systems Approach

https://book.systemsapproach.org/

5 years ago

254 upvotes – 23 comments

EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech giants

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-tech-privacy/eu-privacy-agency-urges-more-safeguards-to-curb-u-s-tech-giants-idUSKBN2AA25D

5 years ago

223 upvotes – 165 comments

Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26112361

5 years ago

221 upvotes – 296 comments

SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

https://www.eisfunke.com/article/svg-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly.html

5 years ago

220 upvotes – 219 comments
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