jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Luminal – A truly statically typed Python notebook
https://getluminal.com/
Hi everyone! We're the co-founders of Luminal.

We built Luminal because we were frustrated with existing Python notebooks.

Python is a very powerful programming language, but it can be hard/confusing to use. There are a few aspects to this:

• Python likes functions with _lots_ of arguments. Without good type info this means constantly switching back and forth between the docs and your editor.

• Except for basic syntax errors, you generally don't know that you have an error in your code until you run it. This can be very annoying, especially if running takes a while!

• Many things that are commonly done in Python are well... common. Reading data, plotting, writing data, filtering, etc. However, they can still take quite a while to figure out in practice. That shouldn't be the case.

• Existing browser-based notebooks tend to be on the slow side.

MyPy helps with the first two items, but we wanted a notebook that was really built for statically typed Python, instead of it just being a plugin.

So we built Luminal.

Luminal was built with static typing, speed and collaboration in mind from day one, meaning that:

• When you write code you have best-in-class auto-complete right there, including all the relevant type information and docs (even for specific parameters!).

• You can find issues in your code earlier (before you run your code) thanks to static analysis.

• You can use no-code cells to generate code for tedious/repetitive tasks. The generated code is high quality thanks to the contextual information available through static typing.

• You can collaborate on scripts with others in real-time or share a script via link for someone else to use.

• Luminal is built to be fast and "just work".

... And this is just the beginning! There's so much we want to do with Luminal to take the friction out of writing Python, but you have to make a start somewhere and this is it! We hope you're as excited as we are about making Python easier to use and we're looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!
WebKit World Clock
http://onotakehiko.com/webkitclock/#newyork
"...you can see it with Safari and Google Chrome."
Show HN: Customizable themes for iOS
https://www.apptemplatez.com/
Checkout our mvp. Feedback welcome.
Please do not change your password
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/04/11/please_do_not_change_your_password/?page=1
A fresh take on the TechRepublic story on the study of how many security precautions are a net drain on the economy.
Would You Give This Kid $500,000?
http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2007/11/19/Jared-Kim-Profile
Just 19, Jared Kim, of WeGame.com, had no problem finding money for his tiny internet startup. With more venture capital available than ever, even grade-schoolers can get a piece of the action.
Chain productivity tool launches.  Accomplish something every day
http://cha1n.com/
Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.

No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)
HN Request: A way to manage student loans.
I like many other people accepted student loans in college, lots of them, about 12... total isn't much over $25k but, but managing them is a nightmare. I think every one of them is now with a different lender, despite them all originally being from Wachovia... many of them have old addresses and contact information, some are managed by the Dept. of Education, but I pay other companies, some send bills, some don't.

I have no clue what's paid, what isn't, and how much is owed. I don't know my options, the ways of paying, or anything... why isn't anyone taking advantage of the millions of student debtors? The service is needed, has opportunities for valuable service promotion and referrals for revenue.

tl;dr - I can't manage my 12 student loans, suggestions?

What do you think HN? Someone already doing it? Anybody interested in something like this?
Ask HN: Why are Covid-related peer-reviewed articles flagged down?
I'm talking about this article (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258702/) which seemed legit, from a relatively well-trusted and official source. The discussion that got flagged down can be found in here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22662574
Valleywag: Bow down and Worship Xobni's Party Throwing Skills
http://valleywag.com/tech/party-report/bow-down-and-worship-xobnis-party+throwing-skills-291473.php
There's no such thing as bad press.
Phrases that should set off an alarm in every software developers brain
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2010/02/phrases-that-should-set-off-alarm-in.html
In software development there are some requirements that should immediately trigger all available bells in your subconscious alarming system...
Ask HN: What personal tools are you the most proud of making?
I kept coming up with project ideas but never properly followed through on them, and then I realised that it's because I'm creating tools for 'other people'.

Of course, 'other people' is a very vague audience to create for. The most prolific devs I know create amazingly crafted tools for themselves, and if these tools grow, they make it for others.

So what are some tools you're really proud of making for yourself? Bonus points for projects that are real labours of love.
Ask HN: Fellow entrepreneurs looking for a Silicon Valley/south bay roommate?
Hey everyone, need a room to rent in the south bay (mountain view, palo alto, los altos,etc.) over the next 6 months. I'll be there half the time and the east coast the other half. Looking more for someone with an existing place rather than rounding up 3-4 people to find a brand new house.

Email: j@jasonlbaptiste.com
Show HN: Free secrets scanning for unlimited private GitHub repos
https://www.arnica.io/blog/secret-detection-needs-to-be-free-even-for-private-repositories
My name is Nir! I am one of the three co-founders of arnica.io.

I’ve worn many hats in cyber security over the years – sys admin, pen-tester, security architect, and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). What really gets me excited about my work is making security easy and effective for developers and ops teams!
In my last role, at one of the top 3 FinTechs, following the attack against Solarwinds, the CEO asked me what we are doing to secure our software supply chain. I met with 15+ vendors, did a few POCs, but unfortunately each solution either increased operational cost or was too narrow in scope. I really wanted to buy a solution instead building it, but even the ones that hit the short list were rejected by my team (thank you guys!).

I also found that many fellow CISOs faced the same problem. This is when I joined forces with my incredible co-founders - Diko and Eran. They were seeing the same pain in their worlds (engineering and ops) too! As a starting point for Arnica, we researched every software supply chain attack since 2018, and based on our research, we found two primary root causes:
1) improper access management to developer tools
2) inability to identify abnormal identity and code behavior

We studied the anatomy of each supply chain attack and designed a product to effectively secure developer tool stacks with a DevOps-first approach:
1) Identify excessive permissions to source code starting with GitHub and Azure DevOps repos (free)
2) Mitigate excessive permissions with an ability to regain access via self-service on Slack for your developers
3) Automatically generate & modify a CODEOWNERS file via pull request, based on the contextual behavior of the pull request reviewers
4) Secret detection and validation without modifications of the build pipelines for all repositories, public and private without any user-count limitations (free)
5) Map GitHub users to your SAML/SSO provider. Also free forever.

Why are we giving away so much functionality for free? I believe Arnica can do well by doing good in the DevSecOps community. Our mission is to be the easy button for DevOps security. Anything that is considered “single pane of glass” is our free contribution. If we do that first and foremost, we are sure we will build a successful business.

~Nir
Show HN: Turn any YouTube video into a website/transcript
https://www.exporeader.com/
Hey HN, ExpoReader is a viewer for YouTube videos that shows the transcript of the video, and generates a shareable URL for a completely readable version of a video. I built it because I wanted helpful tutorials without having to watch an entire video.

In a later version, I was thinking it could be cool to show other screenshots from the video throughout the transcript, but there’s really no easy way to do that outside of downloading the video and taking clips from there. If anyone has any good suggestions, I’m all ears!
Ask HN: Starting my own hosting company, any advice?
I have been in the hosting industry for about 7 years now, working in lots of different positions: Telephone Support, Technical Supervisor, Team Manager, Product Executive for one company then Technical Support for another (Systems Admin would be a better description)

I've been wanting to start out on my own for a while, just to generate a little extra money and my ethos is:

Transparency is the best policy

I've built my website, created my products (aimed at the beginner) and now I'm stuck. I'm worried about the failing my customers. Any advice on what to avoid or do to stay motivated and on my goals?
Start-up as commodity, start-up as nine-to-five
http://virtualeconomics.typepad.com/virtualeconomics/2007/10/start-up-as-com.html
For my money, the lower barrier to entry won't create a problem for VCs because fewer and fewer of these start-ups are going to need the VC stage.
Show HN: Discover books, movies, apps and songs from your Twitter Feed
http://scoutfeed.sherlabs.com
Ankit Ranka and I built this for ourselves and it was kind of useful, so we decided to package it up and see if others find it useful too.

Ankit is an avid reader, but never new what book to read on the weekend. I'm always trying to find a new movie on Friday night to unwind. I usually end up spending 30-45 minutes looking for a movie, and by the time I find one I don't feel like watching a movie anymore!

We built ScoutFeed to monitor our Twitter feeds and help us find books and movies that people we follow tweet about. It turns out people recommend apps and songs on twitter too, so we decided to include those as well.

Check it out if you have a second. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the project and look forward to your feedback after you get your first email.
PasteCoin (filesharing service using bitcoin)
http://pastecoin.com/
It's a system like rapidshare, but it uses bitcoins as money

the site takes a cut of 2% for each payment
Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage
http://www.wuala.com/en/about/
I am evaluating this cloud service since yesterday, and it looks promising so far. Since data are not stored un-encrypted on the company servers, it means that there is not a web access to files, but I am not missing this feature that much. Real-time syncing works fine, although it seems to be a bit slower comparing to Dropbox.
Ask HN: What skills $100/hour - $200k/year
To give some context - I'm a computer engineer with 10 years of total experience, but not all in coding.
Have done coding(5 years - java) config. management + sys. admin(3 year), mid management (2 years).

I think I've become a nomad, with not one skill very sharp. I love to code and want to get back to it full time.

I just chalked up a plan, but I will have to stay at my present position for 2 more years.
After that I calculated I'll need a 200k/year job in the south east (think that makes 400k/year in the west).

What skills should I learn and sharpen in these 2 years which will get me that pay scale ?

1st love python, second love Javascript. But I can pick up anything and run with it mad.

If coding can't get me that, what type of consulting can I do which gets paid that much.

I have the startup route, but I specifically want to know about the job skills.

Thanks.
Ask HN: Can you be a good programmer if you are not details oriented?
I am not naturally detail oriented. Some of my colleagues can easily find differences between nearly similarly looking pieces of code. I waste a bit of time trying to fix the errors caused by my detail blindness. Does this improve with more experience?
Help me out by taking this spatial ability test
http://psych.io/spatial/
If you have 10 minutes spare, please give this a shot. Many thanks in advance.
The Problems With My Startup
http://awmf.blogspot.com/2007/09/problems-with-my-startup.html
I typed this up in order to collect my thoughts, in hopes of eventually showing them to my coworkers. I am totally open to questions, comments, and suggestions, especially from YC readers.
History of Boston VC's and the web (Cartoon)
http://www.itulip.com/images/bosotnvcsdates.jpg
seen on Scott Kirshners blog
WordPress Core is Secure
http://wpengine.com/2013/05/wordpress-core-is-secure-stop-telling-people-otherwise/
It’s time to clear up the debate once and for all. Despite all the doubts (and some haters), WordPress core, is without a doubt one of the most incredibly secure platforms you can choose to put a site on.
IE9 could be outdated in a few weeks, Sauce Labs says
http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/ie9-could-be-outdated-in-a-few-weeks-sauce-labs-says/141525
“Microsoft didn’t learn its lesson with the way it approached IE9,” he said. (Jason Huggins)
Why You Shouldn't Ignore Amazon's New FPS
http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/08/04/why-you-shouldnt-ignore-amazons-new-fps/
Easy way to use micro-payments to your advantage. FPS is definitely opening some doors, allowing users to charge as little as 1 cent without issue. I already have a laundry list of ways I can use FPS and simple web services with micro-payments. What do you guys think of FPS?
Introducing Google Docs drawings
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/04/introducing-google-docs-drawings.html
A nice simple alternative to gliffy or a napkin.
Ask PG: Is growing income inequality in the US a sign of health?
In 'Mind the Gap' you said, "I'd like to propose an alternative idea: that in a modern society, increasing variation in income is a sign of health. "
Turning Cellphones into Microscopes
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/business/08novel.html?hpw
"Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has adapted cellphones to substitute for microscopes."
The Great Zero Challenge
http://16systems.com/zero/index.html
I've heard for many years that in order to securely erase old hard drives that one must use a tool that makes multiple overwrites using random data. However, I've never seen data recovered from a hard drive that had been overwritten once with only zeros (no random data and only on pass). I've also seen heated debates in online forums over this topic. I really wish someone would take this challenge and put an end to this debate once and for all.
REST Superman – Parallel Async HTTP Client as a Service Open-Sourced
http://www.restsuperman.com
Fast Parallel Async HTTP/REST/SOAP client as a service to monitor and manage 10,000 web servers.
Sends requests to 1000 servers with response aggregation in 10 seconds. or 10,000 servers in 50 seconds.
Gooqus
http://gooqus.com
The Social Search Engine
Show HN: Don't forget another movie release. Thoughts?
http://www.moviecron.com
Update: Really appreciating all the feedback I'm receiving and will start right away at implementing all of it. I haven't put a link on the site to follow on twitter yet, but to get updated about new features follow Movie Cron on twitter @MovieCron ( http://www.twitter.com/MovieCron ).
YouTubeSkip
http://www.youtubeskip.com/
Saw this on Quora and thought it's worth sharing.
Amazon S3 & SQS US East outages
http://status.aws.amazon.com/
Amazon S3 US East experienced "Elevated Error Rates" from 2:01 PDT to 2:30 PDT.

Amazon SQS US East experienced "Elevated Error Rates" from 2:31 PDT to 2:45 PDT.
A Scientific Approach to... Gaining Twitter Followers?
http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2009/07/21/how-to-get-twitter-followers-the-definitive-guide/
A study of ten separate follower acquisition techniques, complete with "cost per follower" metrics and a discussion of how follower value varies across each technique
SaferWeb: Injects in Various Ruby Websites Through Regexp
http://homakov.blogspot.com/2012/05/saferweb-injects-in-various-ruby.html
I want it to be fixed. Documenting doesn't fix the vulnerability.
Multi-player 3D FSP on Emacs
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/kiwanami/20110413/1302709536
Screncast is also available:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckOpWQYpKjo
YES: I drink caffeine only
ICANN gTLD director resigns
http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-21jun12-en.htm
His linkedin page:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-salazar/3/136/314
Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
What unique or high-quality content only exists outside the English-speaking web? Is there a Chinese equivalent to Hacker News? A Hindi StackOverflow? I would love to broaden my horizons :)
Poll: When did you start programming?
As a new decade dawns I thought it would be interesting to see when people of hn started programming.
Musical Illusions
http://philomel.com/musical_illusions/
via RadioLab: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/21 (I'm catching up on the last 4 years).
ZeniMax Media Acquires id Software
http://www.idsoftware.com/
Mein Leben!
Ask HN: What are some projects I can build to better learn software engineering?
I'm interviewing now after graduating with a Masters in CS and most employers ask me to complete a coding exercise: build a simple web app, a library, etc.

Most of the jobs around me are in web dev, so I'd prefer to work on a project using a web stack.
Ask HN: What other low-probability high-impact events are we ignoring?
The gulf oil spill is a canonical example of a "low-probability, high-impact event." Everyone who cared knew that this sort of thing could happen, but the risk was widely perceived as tolerable.

What other high-impact scenarios are out there that are likely to create a meaningful "event" at least once in the next 30 years? How are we currently mis-pricing the risk?

[Edit for clarity. Low-probability, in this instance, means risks that are low when taken in discrete units. Getting on an airplane is low-risk. With 14M scheduled US flight per year, though, it is almost certain that one plane will crash once in awhile. We're looking for events here that have a perceived low risk (correctly or not), and that are likely to surprise people when they actually happen. In hindsight, it will be clear to us that the event was actually likely given the extended circumstances.]
The hell that is a restaurant website
http://venomousporridge.com/post/389785000/a-conversation-i-have-every-month-or-so#disqus_thread
Better link: http://venomousporridge.com/post/389785000/a-conversation-i-have-every-month-or-so
Show HN: Catchy melodies made with a diffusion-based neural net assistant
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFwkumE578YO4qa1NTkmMi4
I've created a diffusion-based neural net generative assistant that makes creating new melodies much easier, even for non-musicians like me. These are meant to be just the catchy "hook" parts of songs, so more work is required to make them into full songs, but this is already handled well by existing products (e.g. there are plugins that can suggest a few possible chord progressions based on the melody and there is even good singing software that I used without any tweaks to make the “voice” playlist: Synthesizer V Studio).

This side project turned out to be quite challenging because of how little data there is to train on - several orders of magnitude less than DALL-E or GPT-3 had available for its training, so it required a deep dive into research of new generalization and augmentation techniques and some feature engineering.

Various other instruments:

Voice: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkE1yC8_WtJ-...

Synth: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFj7RNZvjr7...

Bell: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkEYHYvHX9m9...

Guitar: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkGKvfkP2Oex...

Sax: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkHfsZgzzdSh...

Grand Piano: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoCzMRqh5SkFMch5x60uh...

SoundCloud electric piano: https://soundcloud.com/lech-mazur-995769534/sets/ai-assistan...

SoundCloud vocal: https://soundcloud.com/lech-mazur-995769534/sets/ai-assistan...
JEP254: proposal to represent Java Strings as ISO-8859-1
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/254
According to the proposed Java enhancement "most strings" fall in the Latin-1 character set. Instead of storing all character arrays as 16-bit elements (in UTF-16) the proposal is to have a boolean flag to indicate if the string is in UTF-16 or Latin-1/ISO-8859-1 encoding, thus saving memory overall.
New Fractal Art Tool
http://glowinggreenhand.blogspot.com/2014/02/published.html
It uses kisrhombille-based shape-grammars. In it's present form you can create grammars, export raster images, run a pretty art-streamer
Try Haskell: An interactive tutorial in your browser
http://tryhaskell.org
This is already on haskell.org and I know it was posted here in the early stages, but maybe a few maybe-interested-in-trying-Haskell-ers haven't heard of it and would like to try Haskell. As of this week there are 30 tutorial steps / 7 lessons, finishing at the type system (so far).

There's a lot more potential for this project (adding a CodeMirror editor with "loadable" code, allowing uploading of tutorials like a pastebin... but a tutorialbin, asking exercise questions which are then quickcheck'd, etc.), but I like to incrementally add and then get feedback.

For newbies to Haskell I would like your feedback/comments, if you have any. I'm hoping to reach fresh Haskell newbies here on Hacker News for an unbiased experience.

I asked a non-programmer friend to try it out a while ago and got some invaluable feedback. Send it to your friends, just to see how far they get! Post what they say! Anyone who's read something like Rocket Surgery Made Easy will be familiar with how invaluable feedback is.

I am also interested in hearing about general ideas on what you think would just be cool to see.

If you want to let me know about bugs please post them here: http://github.com/chrisdone/tryhaskell/issues Granted there are some browser/OS oddities but I can only test on so many! Bugfixes welcome! PM me on github.

Cheers!
I’ll Take 2 MasterCards and a Visa, Please
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/09/ill-take-2-mastercards-and-a-visa-please/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+KrebsOnSecurity+(Krebs+on+Security)
When you’re shopping for stolen credit and debit cards online, there are so many choices these days.
Ask HN: Favorite payment processor?
I've been thinking of starting a small project that needs to charge money, and PayPal doesn't cut it (I need to be able to place a hold on $1-$2 at a time and then either release or keep it a few days later).

I've been looking at various processors and am slowly beginning to realise why PayPal is used by so many people: Every other processor requires my family medical history to sign up for (and most don't even support vendors outside the US)!

Sagepay, for example, requires me to apply for a merchant account at my bank, then apply for a sagepay account, then hook everything up in some obscure way I don't understand, and that's before I even get a quote on how much it will cost.

There are various startups that add subscription management on top of your payment processor, but I don't need subscriptions. I just need a simple way to hold $1 from a person's card and then release it (hopefully with no charge) or keep it.

Does anyone know of a payment processor that would fulfil my needs and not require my firstborn in exchange?