jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I’m a $200/hr freelancer. Here's how I find clients
I don't have a blog. I'm not popular on social networks - I barely use any. I don't contribute to open-source much. I have no famous friends introducing me all over the place. Oh, and my clients are not really interested in recommending me to other clients because they want as much of my time as they can get. At the end of the day, I'm a total introvert, and I'm not good at sales. I had a hard time finding clients... until 2020. You know, the pandemic, the whole world struggling with financial problems, investors holding the money, businesses are starving... and I'm suddenly thriving the way I never did before.

How so? I've put together a notification system that monitors jobs all over the most popular freelance and hiring platforms. It informs me when someone posts a relevant job request. I filter all the incoming info to get those very rare, most relevant, and most lucrative jobs that I want. So the whole thing ends up sending 2-5 emails with job details. When I see something extremely relevant - I contact the person. I'm always getting a response. Because, you know, I'm the best suiting candidate who sends a personalized message among the first ones, not a random bozo sending the same message template to everyone.

So, I think maybe someone else could find this useful? I'm building a SaaS where you can create a filter and start receiving the most relevant job requests right to your inbox. I'm looking for early testers. If you want to get some, shoot me an email to anton.kulikalov@gmail.com with the subject "job notifications." Pls, describe your case in your own words:

- which platforms you want to get notifications from

- what is the hourly rate (or fixed price) range

- what kinds of filtering you think would get you those most relevant jobs
Sphinx 0.9.9-rc2 is out
http://sphinxsearch.com/news/37.html
Latest release of the sphinx full text search engine
Show HN: Scribe, a Go library for writing, running, and generating CI pipelines
https://github.com/grafana/scribe
Hi there. This is a passion project of mine I started after spending many painful hours working on CI pipelines. The general idea is that I wanted to stop making flimsy scripts in build & release pipelines and start writing software.

I'm happy to answer any questions. Please let me know what you think of the idea and if there's anything you'd like to see.
Show HN: NetBird – A P2P Network with WebRTC, WireGuard, SSO, and Zero Trust
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird
Hey folks! We have just released NetBird. It is a big update so I decided to share it here and get your feedback :)

NetBird creates an overlay peer-to-peer network connecting machines automatically regardless of their location (home, office, data center, container, cloud, or edge environments) unifying virtual private network management experience. It uses ICE protocol (WebRTC) to negotiate p2p connections and WireGuard (kernel module, when possible) to create a fast and encrypted tunnel between machines, falling back to relay (TURN) in case a p2p connection isn't possible. Pretty much just a client application installation is needed, the rest is done by the software!

Sharing the project with you wasn't the only purpose of the post. I wanted to discuss the future and vision behind it.
I'm pretty sure that in a few years, such seamless connectivity without the hassle of configuring firewalls, managing IPs, manual key rotations, centralized gateways, etc. will become a commodity and the majority won't be talking about traditional VPNs.

But what we think is becoming more relevant is advanced network security. We've seen the rise of Zero Trust with its ZTNA solutions in the past years. There are big vendors like ZScaler or Palo Alto already offering advanced network security features that leverage ML or contextual access controls to allow/block access based on context, not just identity.

Why can't this be open-source and built on top of universal connectivity that works anywhere? That is what we are setting as a mission for our project - to bring seamless connectivity and advanced network security together in a single open-source solution.
What do you think about it?

We welcome contributors and if your excited of what we are building, feel free to reach out to us!

P.S. We've been previously know as Wiretrustee :)
Setting the record straight (Seth Levine's response)
http://sethlevine.typepad.com/vc_adventure/2007/07/setting-the-rec.html
In response to the statement in USA Today, "...6% is a huge amount of equity to give up for such little money..."
Seth Levine says that he was misquoted in the USA Today article, and will never do a phone interview again.
For the article: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2007-07-...
Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article5859108.ece?print=yes
The Sunday Times review of the book
"The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better" by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
Show HN: Project Manager VSCode Extension
https://github.com/alefragnani/vscode-project-manager
Best way I’ve found so far to manage multiple projects in VSCode.
Pitch:
“
It helps you to easily access your projects, no matter where they are located. Don't miss those important projects anymore.”
The only time you're ever allowed to start music on a home page
http://www.thesixtyone.com
MySpace does not count!
Everyone's not getting older equally
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/subtleties-of-life-expectancy-ctd/
Raising the retirement age will not effect everyone equally evidently!
Linode having some issues
http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4765
linode.com and their forum are reasonably slow/offline

Here's a copy of their original post:

http://kovaya.com/linode.html
Ask HN / Review my startup: DocuHarvest
DocuHarvest extracts data from documents (PDFs only for now) in a way that is accessible to nontechnical users and economical for small workflows or one-off jobs.

https://docuharvest.com

The original launch announcement is on my blog here, which provides more background:

"Getting valuable data out of documents should not require an I.T. staff, outside consultants, building or buying software, or an up-front investment of hundreds or thousands of dollars, regardless of how many documents and how much data is involved."

http://muckandbrass.com/web/x/CwBi

To answer probably the three most common questions:

1. Yes, we have a HTTP API coming, probably along with client libraries for some subset of {Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, C#/.NET, ...}.

2. More job types are incoming. As noted in the announcement and on the site's front page, imaging-related jobs are up next. Lots more in the works after that as well.

3. DocuHarvest is largely written in Clojure, and currently uses CouchDB as a backend. More info here: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/c1c11390caac3dc

SMB is my initial focus (intentionally wide for now). Good potential verticals include legal & public records, medical, finance & accounting. That's all up for grabs depending on how forthcoming job types are received and by whom.

Feedback and suggestions are most welcome, either here or via the feedback boxes on the DocuHarvest site, twitter messages @docuharvest or @cemerick, or you can email help@docuharvest.com or cemerick@snowtide.com.

Thanks!
Show HN: Crabs All the Way Down – Running Rust on Logic Gates
https://zdimension.fr/crabs-all-the-way-down/
Made an ARM Thumb CPU from scratch in a digital circuit simulator for fun and decided to push the joke a little further and run real stuff on it, like a Web server, a Scheme interpreter, a MIDI player, and a VT100 emulator.

This is basically a how-did-we-get-here blogpost, it's my second one of this kind, I'd love any feedback you might have.
Pogue on Reader's Responses to his Review of Google Nexus One
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/reader-responses-to-review-of-googles-nexus-one/
"I think I may have accidentally unearthed a whole new untapped population online: the Android Army. Reader feedback about my review of Google’s new cellphone yesterday was unusually voluminous and, in some sectors, vitriolic. Where I had written, 'The Nexus One is an excellent app phone, fast and powerful but marred by some glitches,' some readers seemed to read, 'You are a pathetic loser, your religion is bogus and your mother wears Army boots'".
I got tired of packing my own capsules so I made Nootrobox
https://nootrobox.com/
Excited to launch Nootrobox (www.nootrobox.com) today! We have two goals:
1.) we want to make it drop-dead convenient to use nootropic stacks, and
2.) make nootropics more accessible and safer to a wider community of people.

We've been curious about nootropics for awhile and have experimented with different stacks, and it was a huge pain to buy everything in bulk and mix the right proportions of compounds together. The goal of Nootrobox is to abstract that pain away so it's as convenient to taking a vitamin.

Nootropics is somewhat of a mysterious and shady concept for most people, and we want to fix that. Many people take supplements for maximizing physical performance, and there's very little social stigma for that. But for cognitive supplements, the response is much more wary. We want to make mental supplements just as mainstream and commonplace because we ourselves have felt the effectiveness of nootropics.

So Nootrobox is going for convenience and accessibility. Our first stack “Rise” is actually based off a common mix of Bacopa monnieri, L-theanine, and caffeine.

We're providing a limited 15% discount to our first 500 orders and we're letting you guys know about this first here. We also have a referral program that gives $5 discount/credit for each person that buys through your referral link!

Would love to hear your feedback.
Exploiting common crypto flaws (Google Tech Talk)
http://rdist.root.org/2009/08/06/google-tech-talk-on-common-crypto-flaws/
Why implementing your own crypto isn't such a good idea. How saving 10 bytes cost the IETF 28 bytes more and compromised the XMLDsig security.
JS Plumb: cool js framework to build flowcharts, diagrams, ...
http://jsplumb.org/
jsPlumb allows you to connect elements on the screen with "plumbing", using a Canvas element when supported, and Google's ExplorerCanvas script to support older browsers.
Show HN: Datagridxl2.js – Fast Excel-like data table library
https://www.datagridxl.com/
I'm Robbert, the creator of DataGridXL.js. Last month I released version 2 which includes many new features.

DataGridXL is a free (and commercial) editable data table library written in ES6.

My goal is to develop the most performant & user-friendly spreadsheet-like data table out there:

- It has zero dependencies. You don’t need any framework to use DataGridXL.
- It is lightweight (~250kb) and easy to use. It does not even require messing with CSS.
- It has its own Virtual DOM implementation to prevent DOM errors.
- Developer friendly. Supports all modern web browsers

Please take a look at the performance demo (https://www.datagridxl.com/demos/one-million-cells) to see the difference with other data grids out there. And let us know if you have any suggestions.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments!
Show HN: A Stable Diffusion desktop frontend with inpainting, img2img and more
https://github.com/ahrm/UnstableFusion
I was frustrated with laggy notebook stable diffusion demos. Plus they usually didn't have all the features I wanted (for example some of them only had inpainting and some only had img2img, so if I wanted both I had to repeatedly copy images between notebooks). So I made this desktop frontend which has much smoother performance than notebook alternatives and integrates image generation, inpainting and img2img into the same workflow. See a video demo here: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6392321/191858568-...

Features include:

* Can run locally or connect to a google colab server

* Ability to erase

* Ability to paint custom colors into the image. It is useful both for img2img (you can sketch a rough prototype and reimagine it into something nice) and inpainting (for example, you can paint a pixel red and it forces Stable Diffusion to put something red in there)

* Infinite undo/redo

* You can import your other images into a scratch pad and paste them into main image after erasing/cropping/scaling it

* Increase image size (by padding with transparent empty margins) for outpainting
Should String Be An Abstract Class?
http://appsandsecurity.blogspot.com/2013/05/should-string-be-abstract-class.html
Security researcher John Wilander makes a case that String should be an abstract class. His analysis comes from a cross road of Domain Driven Design and Application Security. Also, he is not only doing research, he actually writes production code on every-day basis, so he knows what he is talking about.
This is how to get paid to develop your startup
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Benched.aspx
Sally missed her chance. Instead of watching TV whilst on the bench, she could have gotten a startup running and being paid for it. Now what was the name of that consulting firm?
It is now completely impossible to sell a laptop on eBay
http://consumerist.com/5007790/its-now-completely-impossible-to-sell-a-laptop-on-ebay
Some interesting remarks on Reddit as well:

http://reddit.com/info/6inwx/comments/
Saddle: Scala Data Library
http://saddle.github.com/
Saddle is a high-performance data manipulation library for Scala.
Fight Code - Code your robot with JavaScript and fight
http://fightcodegame.com/
Code your robot with JavaScript and fight
Tell HN: my hack to beat insomnia
Whenever I'm tired, but can't sleep, I take a cold shower. It snaps me awake. Then tiredness sets in quickly: such is the rate change of tiredness, I seem to go straight though the sleep barrier...usually in a few minutes (presumably).

It's not statistically significant yet, but it's worked about four out of four times now.
Web app listing ALL transactions between gov and private sector in Slovenia 
http://supervizor.kpk-rs.si/
Anti-corruption office in Slovenia publishes a web app that lists _all_ transactions between governmental entities and private sector from 2002 till now. With a great user interface.<p>They got geeks to do it right. And now shit is starting to hit the fan.
Remind HN: Raise your rates
With the new year coming, I think it's the right time for every freelancer to consider raising their rates.

I know this is something that most people hate to do, but we're in business and everyone of us know how hard it is to keep going at certain time.

I've found these templates very useful in my situation: http://freelancember.com/email-templates/

Don't forget that raising your rates means that you'll be able to stay in business for a longer time.

Even if your clients rejects your proposal, it's still worth trying.

What to do with the new money? Start a saving account and use it as your personal insurance for tough times, or invest them in your business to provide even more higher quality.
Three Little Birds – Deriving the Y Combinator
http://samesake.com/log/2013/01/03/Three-little-birds/
Just what the world needs, another post explaining the y combinator! Hope someone can glean some information from this, I learned a fair bit in writing it :)
PayPal is no GayPal: another PayPal horror story
Hello HN,

One of my side projects is a small gay discussion group online. It sells certain services (not pornographic in nature, it is the digital equivalent of a support group) and I had to use PayPal for payments for certain business reasons, unfortunately.

Today my entire PayPal account was frozen, 700 dollars was stolen from me, and I can't seem to get anybody at PayPal to deal with me rationally and overturn this decision.

I believe that some automated filter at PayPal saw the phrase "gay phone sex" on the site, but missed out the total description around that text that made it perfectly clear that it was NOT any kind of gay phone sex or any kind of pornographic service.

I'm not a rich man and I depend on this money to pay rent and I'm in a real jam here. If anybody at HN has any connections at PayPal and can help me out, I would really appreciate it.

Please email me at wd1993 AT gmail if you can please help me out. Thanks.
Isamu Kaneko, creator of the encrypted P2P file sharing program Winny, has died
http://togetter.com/li/530045
Sorry, there is no English discussion yet and not even a mainstream media article on Kaneko's (handle: 47) death. However, his colleagues at the University of Tokyo are confirming his passing on Twitter and it is all but certain.

Cause of death: cardiac arrest.

While Sean Parker creates Napster and goes on to help make Facebook what it is today, Kaneko is persecuted by authorities for years, finally wins a not guilty verdict two years ago, and just as things were looking up, this.

RIP.
Using GPT-3 to answer annoying interview application questions
https://whydoyouwanttoworkhere.com/
Hi folks. My wife has been looking for a job and sometimes in the application forms there are annoying questions like "Why do you want to work here?". At the same time I've been playing around with GPT-3 and have blown away by it's capabilities, so I decided to build a site that can answer these annoying questions for her.

Github: https://github.com/Lior539/why-do-you-want-to-work-here

Here's an example of a generated answer:
Using this opening for a Senior iOS Engineer at Monzo -https://boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/3838039
The generated answer question on the application "What attracted you to Monzo?":
"What attracted me to Monzo is that it is a bank that is trying to make a difference in the world by making it easier for people to manage their money. Monzo is also very customer focused and puts the customer first in everything they do."
Show HN: An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping
http://ping.projects.chrisjeakle.com
Howdy HN!

I find myself testing my ping from time to time, especially when my internet seems wonky while WFH. It feels like there should be an easier way test my ping than puling up a terminal or a complex web app - especially when I'm on my phone or any other device that doesn't have a terminal.

I figured I should be the change I wish to see in the world and created this super light ping test.

I also created a latency monitoring solution (https://github.com/cjjeakle/network-monitor), feel free to clone and try it out! I know there are a lot more mature monitoring solutions out there, but I never did figure out how to set them up. This one is super simple: clone it to some device that's always on, compile it, set up some systemd stuff, and it's ready to rock on port 8180!
Automating xkcd Diagrams: Transforming Serious to Funny
http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/10/05/automating-xkcd-diagrams-transforming-serious-to-funny/
Use math and programming to turn serious scientific diagrams into humorous hand-drawn-like sketches. Even online app to try it.
Ask HN: Should I report my main competitor for PCI Violations?
It has recently come to my attention that my largest competitor (B2B SaaS in a niche market) has blatantly disregarded all PCI regulations for close to a decade.

He uses a multi-tenant database, stores CC numbers in plain-text (full 16 digits, CVV and Expiration Date), and shows that data to the user, in plain-text, at the time of payment.

I discovered this in the process of helping a new customer export their data from the old system.

I've spent days debating the ethics of reporting or making this public. On the one hand, I'd be putting him out of business (and I'm well poised to scoop up those new prospects). On the other hand, he's putting people's finances at risk and I feel obligated to say something that the public may not be able to discern.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Foursquare now gives ratings for locations, becomes Yelp competitor
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/11/05/foursquare-now-gives-1-10-ratings-for-locations-in-its-ios-app-becomes-yelp-competitor-overnight/
"Foursquare has launched a seemingly small update to its iOS app, adding a 1 to 10 score that appears next to the name of a place. This makes it an instant competitor for many of the recommendation surfacing services like Yelp."
Microsoft may halt development work on Silverlight plugin after next release
http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/9/2548975/microsoft-may-halt-development-work-on-silverlight-after-next-release
Interesting announcements from Adobe and Microsoft, one after another.
Stage0 – A set of minimal C compiler bootstrap binaries
https://github.com/oriansj/stage0
https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/Linux%20Bootstrap/x86/cc_x86.M1
It also appears to be bootstrapped from hex
Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer
https://shop.simulavr.com/
Hi HN, My name is George, and I am helping build an office focused VR headset called the “Simula One”. It was discussed recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28695455. We have just opened our store for preorders (https://shop.simulavr.com), so that we and our backers can help people replace their old PCs/laptops with more capable VR headsets.

We call our headset a “VR Computer” (or a “VRC”) to distinguish it from gaming headsets. When Simula was founded, most people thought the future of VR was in games & entertainment. The truth is that VR offers a superior way for performing knowledge work, but until now there haven’t been dedicated VR computing devices available on the market. While existing headsets are optimized for gaming, ours is optimized for productivity: it features bleeding edge high-resolution displays, has a detachable compute pack with specs comparable to a premium office laptop (x86 architecture), and runs a VR specialized Linux distro optimized for clear text.

VRCs offer several advantages over Laptops & PCs: they provide unlimited screens of any size, improve work focus & immersion, are usable outdoors (no laptop glare), improve privacy (no one around you can snoop your screen), and their compact design frees up desk space. They also promote better posture and freedom of movement: with a VR computer you can change positions, sit up, lean back, stand, lie down, or even walk while you compute.

Our project started out as an open-source VR window manager (https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula), which you can try out today on the Valve Index or HTC Vive. It's built over Drew Devault's wlroots and the Godot game engine. Once our compositor became relatively stable, we ran into the issue of “no other manufacturer wanted to offer us Linux support” (thinking there was no market for something so niche, I imagine?). So we decided to build our own =] We are happy to answer any question (technical or otherwise) about our project.
Show HN: I built an open-source web hosting platform for static sites
https://github.com/symkat/MarkdownSite
HI Hacker News!

I’m very excited to show you this project I have been working on, MarkdownSite.com.

For folks who interact with the website, it is a web hosting platform where you can add your repository and have a website built from the `public/` directory. Files in `site/` with an `.md` extension are rendered from markdown to HTML, and the website is then available at a random subdomain.

For folks that set up their own instance, it can also become a framework for customized building. The entire project is open source and I tried my best to document and explain the structure of the machines and how they interact in various mermaid graphs in the readme files under the `devops/` folder.

There is still a lot of work to be done, I hope that you find this useful. It's been super fun to work on!
The Drupal Release Model and Why it Needs to be Revamped
http://www.cmscritic.com/the-drupal-release-model-and-why-it-needs-to-be-revamped/#.TyrCCj8coIg.hackernews
Model for forecasting viral app growth
http://radoff.com/blog/2010/06/11/social-applicationgame-growth-model-spreadsheet/