jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do you remove your ego from a project?
How do you practice ego-less anything? Programming, Marketing, Business Development, etc.

How do you separate your self image from a project?
I made pagination suck less
http://programmerstrouble.blogspot.com/2011/03/design-pattern-pagination-with-useful.html
It certainly seems to make pagination less of a pain, so +1
Ask HN: Where online to get feedback from Graphic Designers?
I want to post a description of a product idea for graphic designers and get feedback. What are the popular forums and blogs for graphic designers ?

Thanks
Super Mario Bros 3 Level Design Lessons
http://www.significant-bits.com/super-mario-bros-3-level-design-lessons
A tour of Super Mario Bros. 3 and its various lessons in 2D level design.
Who to follow on friendfeed by Guy kawasaki
http://frienderati.alltop.com/
Interesting aggregation ... original post on http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/07/friendfeed-star.html
Jquery plugin for expanding textareas based on neil jenkins' technique
https://github.com/matthooks/jquery-elegant-expanding-textareas
Hi guys,

I read Neil Jenkins' article Expanding Text Areas Made Elegant in A List Apart last week and was impressed with his technique.

Here's a link to the article: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/expanding-text-areas-made-elegant/

I decided to throw together a quick jQuery plugin to help spread the love.

It supports all reasonably modern versions of Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari and IE8+.

Let me know what you think. If you have any issues/feature requests, feel free to open a ticket on GitHub.
How Windows 8 scaling fails on high-PPI displays
http://techreport.com/review/23631/how-windows-8-scaling-fails-on-high-ppi-displays
Windows 8 was supposed to scale up nicely for high-PPI displays, but the RTM version has serious issues. On a 13" 1080p notebook display, text and tiles are either too big or too small, and IE10 introduces ugly artifacts when scaling web pages.
Proggit Thread on Faster TCP Slow Starts
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ld753/these_fucking_guys_got_their_page_load_times_to/
My little brother wrote a blog post, which I put into a reddit-ized headline (f-word, hyperbole, accusations, etc.), which actually turned into an interesting conversation. ON FRIGGING REDDIT. Wonders never cease.
Terence Tao: What is good mathematics?
http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702396
http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0702396v1
MailChimp is down
http://status.mailchimp.com/
Trouble brewing at ESP land. Multiple data centers are impacted. Not good!
Interactive US Electricity Visualization Using d3
http://www.electrospection.com/
I made this data visualization using d3- tell me what you think!
Show HN: Top Quant/Algotrading Githubs Automated
https://github.com/profitviews/popular-gits
With a seed project defining the audience, determines their most popular Githubs.

Interesting results! [1]

One journalist was surprised [2] on the Quant and Algotrading results.

Github's Rest API [3] is actually quite complex - and has undocumented hurdles.
E.g. when there's more than 40K stars the API caps it there - unless you use the GraphQL API... [4]

There's a lot more meat on the Github bones. Stay tuned.

[1] https://profitview.net/blog/open-source-trading-projects

[2] https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/07/coding-langua...

[3] https://docs.github.com/en/rest

[4] https://docs.github.com/en/graphql
Free startup launch party in DC
http://www.eventstir.com/events/free-launch-party-celebration
Just launched our DC startups new website. Please feel free to join us at this free happy hour!
How to create a cool and usable CSS3 search box
http://www.red-team-design.com/how-to-create-a-cool-and-usable-css3-search-box
In this article, you’ll learn how create a cool and usable CSS3 search box using the HTML5 placeholder attribute. For the browsers that don’t support this new HTML attribute, fallback is created using Modernizr’s feature detection.
Ask HN: How do you manage part time projects?
Hi,

We are a team of 3 developers who are working on a part time project (our own product idea), which started as a very simple weekend project, but over the time has grown into a mammoth, which is getting hard to tame.

We do cut down the scope again and again, but it doesn't seem to help. We are struggling with visibility, estimations and eventually control. Everyone is motivated in the beginning, but eventually ambiguity creeps in, which kills the motivation of team with time.

My question is to all startup founders, particularly those who are building MVPs in part time, out there:

* How do you manage your projects so you don't lose control?

* How do you keep ambiguity at bay?

* How do you keep motivation of your founding team up when you're slogging?

Thank you.
PullRequestRoulette how not handle a community pull request
https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSS/pull/142
Should each source forge have a code conduct? Is more important code than people? Not every project manager has the same moral
Just launched my first product - Earbuds you can wear on your wrist
http://www.fluxaud.io/shop/magbuds
What do you guys think?
15 Startup Commandments
http://www.startupping.com/forums/showpost.php?s=ba7ebbfbcee856ac475c5a1f7f753ef1&p=1597&postcount=1
Mark Fletcher gives his 15 Startup Commandments
Show HN: InnerSense – science-based daily mental care
https://ikuznetsov.medium.com/innersense-daily-mental-care-practices-ea3c1efda529
We built InnerSense, an iOS app that addresses common mental health struggles like anxiety, burnout, and low self-esteem.

Our approach is to get scientifically proven self-help practices from CBT and REBT and adapt them to the modern world.

The app is entirely free at the moment.

You can read more about InnerSense here:
https://ikuznetsov.medium.com/innersense-daily-mental-care-p...

Download app: https://apps.apple.com/id/app/innersense-mood-tracker-cbt/id...

I will be glad to hear your feedback.
What the credit crunch means for the internet
http://www.zmogo.com/web/what-the-credit-crunch-means-for-the-internet-part-one/
Gripped as we are in the worst recession since the ‘Great’ one, the respective sphincters of all Business Owners are twitching violently. And with good reason: money is dropping out of the systems at an alarming rate, demand across all geographical and international boundaries is down and falling and it has never been more difficult for an entrepreneur to make a buck or two. There are, however, signs that the web is going to emerge out of this current crisis as a stronger place to do business, and more importantly what money is spent over the next twelve months by consumers will be more likely to be spent online. This translates into increased revenue from web based advertising and affiliates, as well as increased revenue from recommendations, product placement and even direct selling. You will note that this is the way in which most web businesses generate their income. So to understand how to maximise your revenue in the coming months, it is a good idea to understand what is happening and what is likely to happen in the use of the internet by consumers.
CSS3 Web Design Examples for Your Inspiration
http://designmodo.com/css3-web-design-examples/
The demand for the usage of internets has been increasing day-to-day and many businessmen are opening many websites to develop their business. The early version of CSS2 which had many limitations has been replaced with extraordinary features of CSS3 web design and the CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (April 2011 Edition)
Was surprised that nothing came up when searching this (at least nothing specifically remote related), so better late then never.

Similar to the "Who is Hiring" thread but, please remote positions only.
Ask HN: What do recruiters do that annoys you?
What kinds of things to recruiters say or do (or not say and not do) that annoy you the most?

Especially in their cold emails and cold calls.
plugin detects people in public photos
http://www.polarrose.com/
New software for searching the content of a picture rather then a description
The most meaningful 404 *ever*
http://un-america.com/
The most meaningful 404 ever
New Project: Mailchimp Integration in Magento
http://campchart.com/
Hi guys. We are launching a new service that integrates analytics from Mailchimp in Magento to automatically segment clients based on their email campaign purchases. What do you think?
PAN-demonium coming to CES
http://confidential.eetimes.com/news-updates/4231297/Bluetooth-Zigbee-Ant-battle-at-CES
New wrinkles in the competition between Bluetooth, Zigbee and Ant+ will emerge at the big consumer show next month.
05/11/01. When did u know you wanted to do  a startup? (for me..)
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/11/01/8362807/index.htm
For me it was somewhere between reading that article and December of 2005.
A New PickAxe Book (featuring Ruby 1.9)
http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/12/a-new-pickaxe.html
Interestingly, no mention of Agile Web Dev with Rails 2.0...
Do we really need a new rosetta?
http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2009/12/rosetta-serving-dish-4/
Walking through some Rosetta challenges got me thinking: Is it time for HLL forum?
$100 + $12.95 a month for an easy to use, environmentally friendly Linux PC
http://www.zonbu.com/learn/demo.htm
I like the business model and this review: http://news.digitaltrends.com/talkback202.html says that the overall experience with this box is great.

Do you think they will be successful?
Ask HN: Best Password Manager?
Hello all! What with the recent Gawker slip up, it seems as if password related security is on all of our minds. I feel like I am finally being prompted to step up my game and use a real password manager with strong, random passwords for each site that I visit. I know I should have been doing this all along, but what can I say?

Features that I am interested in:

* Android/iOS app so I can access my sites on-the-go.

* OSX/Linux/Windows support.

* Preferably Free and Open Source, if possible.

1password? KeePass? LastPass? What do you use?
Should Dev Bootcamp scholarships help classes besides race and gender identity?
Dev Bootcamp is offering $425k in scholarship money (in ~$12k chunks) to these classes:

- Veterans
- Anyone who identifies as female or non-male
- Anyone who identified as an ethnic minority group underrepresented in tech (African American, Chicano/Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander)

See http://devbootcamp.com/tuition/

This is a really cool initiative, but it feels weird to me that a bunch of protected classes are left out: religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, etc.

For example, "median earnings for people with no disability were over $28,000 compared to the $17,000 median income reported for individuals with a disability" [1] according to the 2006 census. And gay men earn 10% to 32% less [2] than heterosexual men.

Should Dev Bootcamp's new scholarships include other classes? Or is it better to just focus on race and gender identity as a "first step"? Why?

----

sources:

[1]: http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/factsheet-disability.aspx
[2]: http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Badgett-Sears-Lau-Ho-Bias-in-the-Workplace-Jun-2007.pdf
Show HN: Step up your Midjourney AI images with this prompt autocomplete
https://huggingface.co/succinctly/text2image-prompt-generator
To build this model, we scraped 4 weeks' worth of user-issued text prompts from Midjourney's public Discord server. We released the dataset on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/succinctlyai/midjourney-text....
Could a unified theory of modern life really be this simple/scary? (quick vid)
http://www.naomiklein.org/main
This is a the site of an author of a book. I am in no way affiliated with this site, the author or the publisher of the book. I have not read the book, it was just recommended to me and I came across the link when I Googled it.

On the left side you'll notice an embedded YouTube video; it is about 6 minutes. I've watched it and although it is, to say the least, a bit propoganda-ish, at the same time something about the proposed thesis intuitively struck me as neatly explaining the mess that we've all collectively experienced over the last few decades in general and the last 7 years or so in particular.

It's almost like I sensed the thesis proposed, but I couldn't quite figure out how to quite express it.

Again, I haven't read the book yet, and so I hold no particular opinion on it either way, but if the book is anything like what I imagine it based on the YouTube video, at the very least it would be one of the more original things I've read in a while (I tend to read a lot).

I'd be interested on anybody's feedback if you care to invest 5-6 minutes to watch the video.
Co-routines in C
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
Read this article on three different occasions to understand its intent. It finally clicked when I read this:

"...co-routines save the control state of a function between calls. Kinda like recursion - you know exactly where are you going to return after a function call...When you call a co-routine, it doesn’t start all over from the beginning. Rather, it starts from right after where it returned (yielded control) the previous time it was called."

Source:http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/08/29/co-routines-as-an-alternative-to-state-machines/
Ask HN: How do you do market segmentation of your product?
I am beginning to work on an online recurring payment solution. Though there are lots of established providers in the market, I think there is lot of scope to cater to niche segments that are still unaddressed. I do not want to build a solution only around startups / Web 2.0 companies (we will address it but that is not the only focus) and trying to identify features that would be required by lots of other services that have recurring fees structure.

I am looking for advice / learnings - how to use market segmentation data to derive specific features to build for those markets and tie that to revenue plan.

FYI, I am planning to bootstrap.
Ask HN: What Vim plugins do you use?
Hello. I am returning to Vim after a short break. I thought this thread would be a good idea to make sure that I am up to date and that I haven't missed any new plugins.

Also, what's the best plugin/setup for python code completion these days?
List files in the hitlar mode
was just playing with the shell. it struck to me, just by rearranging the parameters, i was able to remember what they did and in a cool way.

enter the hitlar mode.

$ ls -hitlar

shows all items with inodes, in list view, human readable size, sorted by modification time in reverse,

$ ls -Fhitlar

shows the same with classification info.
Ask HN: Does anyone use Phoenix Framework in production?
Phoenix, a framework for Elixir, seems to be very much like rails. Is anyone using it in production? If so, how has your experience been?
Why Tech Journalists should become Tech Entrepreneurs
http://lukas.zinnagl.com/2010/11/why-tech-journalists-should-become-tech-entrepreneurs/
Let me hear your thoughts if you think it's true - or not.
What I learned from Hitch Hiking today
http://okdork.com/2007/07/19/i-hitch-hiked-today/#comment-121255
Scary stuff but interesting...
Resize that shit
http://resize.thatsh.it/
Play with responsive design
RSS Feeds For Web-Designers And Developers
http://spyrestudios.com/160-rss-feeds-for-web-designers-and-developers/
Of course you can’t possibly check all those feeds everyday but a quick scan in your feed reader and you should be good! They inspire me and keep me up-to-date with what’s happening in the design/dev world. Hope you find my ‘little‘ list useful! (OPML file available for download)
Is FreeRice.com making $150K a day?
http://www.thepcspy.com/blog/is_freericecom_making_150k_each_day_in_profits
OK -- normally I frown on reposts of stuff on the front page of other major news sites, but I figured this one fits right in here.
Ask HN: Business Process UI Frameworks
Hi HN,

We are simplifying and rationalising a set of 30-ish rather complex (finance) processes. Currently the rules and logic are all-over-the-place, specifically in ESBs, chucks of java & low-code applications and otherwise. This scattering of logic makes it expensive to change, hard to test and even more difficult to track errors. Add to that, not all steps are automated / exposed, resulting in customers calling to get updates.

The plan is to consolidate as much as possible into a set of well-designed REST APIs, and use simple cloud based flow tools (for instance AWS Step functions) to codify the rules.

However, some steps will require manual tasks; either to handle an error case, check the status or provide some input that can't (yet) be automated.

What would be your choose for toolkit/framework to build the UIs for our internal employees?

We are moving towards a JS/React set-up, so perhaps there is a nice library there or we should go full custom build, but I'm open for all - inc. SAAS or other FW / tool / builder suggestions.

Many thanks
Ask HN: computational chem/bio
Fellow HN'ers:

I'm in university right now, and I'm looking to work with some professors in the computational sciences. I'm wondering if you guys know of any cool intro projects I could hack on before approaching professors. I'm really just looking for suggestions, because I can't think of a good place to start. Thanks!
Show HN: HacKit, a macOS app for reading Hacker News stories and polls
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/hackit/id1549557075?mt=12
I wrote a macOS app for reading Hacker News stories and polls and recently released version 3.0 with new features. It is written in Swift and uses AppKit framework.

It is a Mac-first app which is built for the macOS design language. It looks and feels and works like a proper macOS app made with love and care. It is not a port of an iOS nor an iPadOS app nor anything else. I am quite proud of it and I hope you can appreciate it too.

So, I recently updated it to version 3.0 with new features such as tracking stories by marking it as (un)read, (un)favourite and (un)hidden. There is also folder management to organise stories and smart folders that track stories by certain attributes.

It also supports the Touch Bar with customisations.

I would love it, if you could try it out and let me know what you think of it! I welcome feedback and please do let me know if there are any bugs or crashes. I did all the testing myself to the best of my ability.

Oh and about the in-app purchases, it is just the tip jar and it is completely optional. The app and all its features are absolutely free to use.

If you like HacKit, please kindly leave feedback on the App Store. It really helps, no really!

Have a good week!
NodeJS on nails
http://maxpert.tumblr.com/post/9677133069/node-on-nails
NodeJS myths and realities
Ask HN: Bootstrapping; should I buy a site template?
I'm bootstrapping a recruiting process outsourcing consultancy for internal HR and recruiting staff and want to get a start on marketing, but don't have the funds for a designer and I haven't touched anything HTML related since 1998.

Is it advisable to throw the $50 at a template from ThemeForest or one such site early in the game? It would likely just be a landing page with an overview of services, and a contact form or phone number, I've received some validation on my concept in the form of an HR manager saying to come back in Q2 and they'll have the budget to talk about signing an agreement. So if anything, it'd be a very temporary site until successfully closing my first client.

I'm not selling a consumable product, nor is it SaaS, just an outsourced business process and I can swallow $50 much more easily than the costs for a designer to put together the type of site I'd be looking for.

Any feedback would be immensely appreciated!
Rails i18n TextMate Bundle: myGengo/Google to localize your Rails Yaml Files.
http://www.agileproductions.com/blog_posts/15-Rails-i18n-Internationalization-Textmate-Bundle
Brilliant and easy.
How Not to use HTML 5 + CSS 3 (look at the source)
http://ultranoir.com/fr/
Alright the website has a great design but take time to look at the source code. There's like thousand of css line with transitions and shiny HTML 5 enabler javascript. Is this how websites are supposed to be built nowadays ?
Show HN: Pulsefeed builds a stream from your RSS feeds
http://pulsefeed.com/
Pulsefeed has been developed on and off in my spare time over the last 4 months, I'm finally happy with it's basic set of features, and was wondering what the Hacker News community thought?
Thanks :)
Show HN: Lisp in Five Days
https://github.com/triumphantomato/LispInFiveDays
Hi HN! I kept hearing about Lisp and why it was special but didn't have a great place to start. I wanted something self-contained that helped me develop intuition rather than fluency.

My hope is this is helpful for casual programmers, professionals from other fields who interact with code, or engineers who haven't had much exposure to interpreters or compilers.

Hope this helps anyone else who's curious about getting a sense of Lisp and what makes it special with a limited time investment!

Feedback or other cool Lisp things welcome :)
Tech toys were funny-looking in 1998
http://www.cio.com/special/slideshows/the90s/
Just one decade ago, the price of gas was less than $1.25, cell phones were clunky and technophiles got a new toy: the MP3 player.
Is the Eurovision song contest rigged? An investigation using simple data visualisation.
http://successfulsoftware.net/2008/05/26/is-the-eurovision-song-contest-rigged/
A simple visualisation technique is used to investigate allegations of bloc voting in the Eurovision song contest.
Indiahacker.com -- request for review
http://indiahacker.com/
'Powered by reddit', and UI inspired by Hacker News! Thanks.
A true proportional font terminal for Linux and Unix
http://jonathanscorner.com/proportional-terminal/
In the heyday of the mainframe, accessing a computer meant using a console or terminal with no choice but columns of text in a fixed-width font. Now that is the wave of the past, and every major website, and most minor websites run with a clue, use good proportional fonts. The last stronghold is the terminal, and normal terminal programs will not let you use a fixed-width font. This page tells HOWTO hack Ajaxterm to serve as a terminal with true proportional fonts.
Design is Open Source
http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/design-in-open-source
Mark's a great designer. Interesting to see his thoughts on design / development in the open source world. A bit long, but a pretty good read.
56.000+ Tweets in 3 Days. I think one of the best Twitter Campaigns.
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2011/05/30/a-turkish-telecom-companys-brilliant-and-simple-twitter-campaign/
Please let me know, if you know other popular low budget campaigns on twitter or post them here on hacker news. thx and enjoy the video.
Zen and the Art of Software Development
http://brightwhistle.com/corporate/toolmakers-and-can-openers/
How an Army can opener can inspire software tool design and development.
Show HN: ZORP – Native Android and iOS app builder for internal teams
https://www.zorp.one/
Hey HN, founder here.
Zorp is a no-code/low-code platform to build native android and iOS apps for internal teams. It is workflow-based as opposed to CRUD since most mobile app use cases are process-oriented.

Few highlights,
- Mobile UI can be built using a WYSIWYG interface
- Integrate with any external system via REST APIs (We're adding more integrations soon)
- Built-in database
- Fully managed RBAC, Users and Teams
- Javascript extensible

Typically, internal mobile apps are built from scratch, which leads to a huge waste of developer bandwidth, or people manage with spreadsheets, forms, etc. We aim to enable ppl to build fully scalable native applications without much development effort.

To get started, you can visit https://zorp.one and sign up. We've temporarily removed mandatory email validation to help you sign up easily.

We're here if you have any questions/suggestions/comments.