top 50% 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

Czech gunmaker CZG buys Colt in cash and stock deal

https://reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2KH3HO

5 years ago

217 upvotes – 327 comments

Fictional Cryptocurrencies

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/list-of-fictional-cryptocurrencies

5 years ago

213 upvotes – 135 comments

AWS Babelfish: The Elephant in the PostgreSQL Room?

https://postgresql.fund/blog/babelfish-the-elephant-in-the-room/

5 years ago

197 upvotes – 162 comments

Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2021/02/11/how-spotify-optimized-the-largest-dataflow-job-ever-for-wrapped-2020

5 years ago

196 upvotes – 125 comments

Linux Memory Management FAQ

http://landley.net/writing/memory-faq.txt

5 years ago

188 upvotes – 71 comments

Euro privacy watchdog calls for end of targeted advertising

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/11/eu_ad_rules/

5 years ago

186 upvotes – 110 comments

So, You Want to Learn to Break Ciphers

https://littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/so-you-want-to-learn-to-break-ciphers/

5 years ago

180 upvotes – 26 comments

San Francisco school board halts appointment based on race

https://abc7news.com/education/sf-school-board-halts-appointment-based-on-race/10328448/

5 years ago

176 upvotes – 203 comments

New model could explain old cholesterol mystery

https://sciencenorway.no/cholesterol-fat-heart-attacks/new-model-could-explain-old-cholesterol-mystery/1810159

5 years ago

168 upvotes – 142 comments

The Miyawaki Method: A Better Way to Build Forests? (2019)

https://daily.jstor.org/the-miyawaki-method-a-better-way-to-build-forests/

5 years ago

166 upvotes – 62 comments

Australia to introduce Google, Facebook legislation to parliament next week

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-media-google/australia-to-introduce-landmark-google-facebook-legislation-to-parliament-next-week-idUSKBN2AC0BF

5 years ago

160 upvotes – 269 comments

U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the 'First Lady of Physics'

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-postage-stamp-will-honor-first-lady-physics-180976979/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 63 comments

Yandex said it caught an employee selling access to users' inboxes

https://www.zdnet.com/article/yandex-said-it-caught-an-employee-selling-access-to-users-inboxes/

5 years ago

155 upvotes – 61 comments

Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 follow-up]

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/#

5 years ago

150 upvotes – 26 comments

Malaysia Has Turned Lion Dancing into a Gravity-Defying Extreme Sport

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lion-dance-competition-malaysia

5 years ago

147 upvotes – 23 comments

How .NET container images are maintained

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/staying-safe-with-dotnet-containers/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 41 comments

Flexible working shows 55% high performers compared to 36% for 40 hours/week

https://hbr.org/2021/01/9-trends-that-will-shape-work-in-2021-and-beyond

5 years ago

137 upvotes – 145 comments

How Covid brought the future back

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-covid-brought-the-future-back/

5 years ago

134 upvotes – 74 comments

Fuzz me wrong – How QuickCheck destroyed my favourite theory

https://thma.github.io/posts/2021-01-30-How-QuickCheck-destroyed-my-favourite-theory.html

5 years ago

126 upvotes – 57 comments

The GPL-Violations.org Project (2016)

http://gpl-violations.org/

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 33 comments

Ggwave: Tiny Data-over-Sound Library

https://github.com/ggerganov/ggwave

5 years ago

120 upvotes – 27 comments

Implementing the Elo Rating System (2020)

https://mattmazzola.medium.com/implementing-the-elo-rating-system-a085f178e065

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 83 comments

Artichoke Ruby Architecture

https://github.com/artichoke/artichoke/blob/trunk/ARCHITECTURE.md

5 years ago

114 upvotes – 14 comments

IMF researchers: digital footprint yields better credit assessment

https://blogs.imf.org/2020/12/17/what-is-really-new-in-fintech/

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 165 comments

Stonehenge may have been built in Wales and then relocated

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56029203

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 102 comments

The Ghost in the MP3 (2014)

http://theghostinthemp3.com/theghostinthemp3.html

5 years ago

107 upvotes – 68 comments

Performance Showdown: Rust vs Javascript (2020)

https://cesarvr.io/post/rust-performance/

5 years ago

102 upvotes – 103 comments

Disciplined Minds (2008)

http://fromthearchives.blogspot.com/2008/01/thanks-daniel-for-excellent.html

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 34 comments

Notion is experiencing a DNS issue

https://twitter.com/NotionStatus/status/1360220589743480838

5 years ago

91 upvotes – 61 comments

An experiment in giving cash to recently homeless people [video]

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p096hf4z/the-7-500-universal-basic-income-experiment

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 367 comments

SerenityOS: Writing a Full Chain Exploit

https://devcraft.io/2021/02/11/serenityos-writing-a-full-chain-exploit.html

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 9 comments

Drug for treating obesity cuts body weight by 20 percent

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210211091352.htm

5 years ago

86 upvotes – 127 comments

“Genocide” is the wrong word for the horrors of Xinjiang

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/02/13/genocide-is-the-wrong-word-for-the-horrors-of-xinjiang

5 years ago

81 upvotes – 89 comments

Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/visual-studio-code-comes-to-raspberry-pi/

5 years ago

80 upvotes – 69 comments
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