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1.		Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down (github.com/tensorflow)
		502 points by high_derivative on Feb 12, 2021 \| 420 comments
2.		“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” (twitter.com/lucabongiorni)
		1168 points by fireball_blaze on Feb 12, 2021 \| 455 comments
3.		Chick Corea has died (chickcorea.com)
		704 points by rock_artist on Feb 12, 2021 \| 191 comments
4.		Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine (michaelyingling.com)
		477 points by bookofjoe on Feb 12, 2021 \| 163 comments
5.		Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to many ills (economist.com)
		304 points by aluket on Feb 12, 2021 \| 233 comments
6.		Mathematician Solves Sensitivity Conjecture in Two Pages (2019) (quantamagazine.org)
		285 points by kjhughes on Feb 12, 2021 \| 100 comments
7.		Svgrepo: Browse SVG vectors and icons (svgrepo.com)
		264 points by marcodiego on Feb 12, 2021 \| 28 comments
8.		America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90% (time.com)
		870 points by paulpauper on Feb 11, 2021 \| 917 comments
9.		Goodbye YC (aaronkharris.com)
		284 points by awaxman11 on Feb 12, 2021 \| 40 comments
10.		Linux Memory Management FAQ (landley.net)
		188 points by janselman on Feb 12, 2021 \| 71 comments
11.		Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time and memory use (github.com/jimblandy)
		347 points by viraptor on Feb 12, 2021 \| 196 comments
12.		Self-organising textures from cellular automata (distill.pub)
		418 points by fenomas on Feb 12, 2021 \| 59 comments
13.		Apple redirects Google Safe Browsing traffic through proxy servers in iOS 14.5 (the8-bit.com)
		391 points by CharlesW on Feb 12, 2021 \| 264 comments
14.		AWS Babelfish: The Elephant in the PostgreSQL Room? (postgresql.fund)
		197 points by ahachete on Feb 12, 2021 \| 162 comments
15.		How .NET container images are maintained (devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet)
		141 points by alexis2b on Feb 12, 2021 \| 41 comments
16.		The Miyawaki Method: A Better Way to Build Forests? (2019) (jstor.org)
		166 points by nkurz on Feb 12, 2021 \| 62 comments
17.		Flameshot – Superb Screenshot Tool (github.com/flameshot-org)
		335 points by avhception on Feb 12, 2021 \| 83 comments
18.		SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (eisfunke.com)
		220 points by davebloggt on Feb 12, 2021 \| 219 comments
19.		Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel (skroutz.gr)
		497 points by greenonion on Feb 11, 2021 \| 41 comments
20.		Short fat engineers are undervalued (nested.substack.com)
		369 points by atticusberg on Feb 12, 2021 \| 257 comments
21.		Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (systemsapproach.org)
		254 points by Ballu on Feb 12, 2021 \| 23 comments
22.		Ask HN: Why aren't you coding?
		221 points by boffinism on Feb 12, 2021 \| 296 comments
23.		Foldable Words (bit-player.org)
		206 points by Veen on Feb 10, 2021 \| 20 comments
24.		U.S. Postage Stamp Will Honor the 'First Lady of Physics' (smithsonianmag.com)
		156 points by indogooner on Feb 12, 2021 \| 63 comments
25.		Show HN: Real-time multiplayer games with cubes. Early feedback on dev docs? (particubes.com)
		149 points by aduermael on Feb 11, 2021 \| 46 comments
26.		External boot disks still don’t work properly with M1 Macs (eclecticlight.co)
		200 points by zdw on Feb 10, 2021 \| 177 comments
27.		More evidence that Neanderthals were ‘absorbed’ by humans, not wiped out (gizmodo.com)
		121 points by Hooke on Feb 11, 2021 \| 134 comments
28.		What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants (laphamsquarterly.org)
		181 points by diodorus on Feb 11, 2021 \| 195 comments
29.		Killer Whales: 'Transient' Orcas Are Thriving (theatlantic.com)
		74 points by ColinWright on Feb 12, 2021 \| 71 comments
30.		IMF researchers: digital footprint yields better credit assessment (imf.org)
		110 points by da_big_ghey on Feb 12, 2021 \| 165 comments
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