jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Web Service that fixes typos, DNS checks + validates email addresses.
http://mailtoolkit.com/
I built this web-service for my own usage, so it will stay around. You are more than welcome to use it if you think it will be handy. I hope that some of you may find it useful.

If there is continued and heavy usage of the service, I may come up with a premium offering or something. Let me know if you'd like that. I will quite possibly open-source it at some point too.
Code refactoring
http://www.darendavidtaylor.com/?p=46
Its too easy to develop over the top of bad quality code. Refactor it. You know you want to.
The Independent Artist & the Tyranny of the Gatekeeper 
http://ixjy.com/post/21070625444/the-independent-artist-the-tyranny-of-the-gatekeeper
A Report on the Uneven Progress of Disruption in Digital Entertainment
Ask HN: How does a YC Safe protect investors from lifestyle businesses
I understand that in the vast majority of cases there will be some kind of dissolution, Equity Financing or a liquidity event. But what happens if the business just turns into a lifestyle business? What recourse do investors have under this agreement, especially if there is no interest rate attached? Reading the Safe agreement, investors have no voting rights or rights to dividends so in theory the company could pay out dividends to the common shareholders to perpetuity skipping over any upside a safe holder ought to be entitled to.
Mapping the Apache Software Foundation
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2013/05/mapping-apache.html
A visualization of ASF projects and their relationships, based on the social network graph of individual projects.
1 Second Guide to How Not to Be a Jerk On GoToMeeting
http://blog.infoadvisors.com/index.php/2011/12/15/1-second-guide-to-how-not-to-be-a-jerk-on-go-to-meeting/
If you aren’t presenting, MUTE THYSELF. This isn’t rocket surgery, folks.
SmartDeblur 2.0 - with blind deconvolution, like on the Adobe's demo
http://smartdeblur.net
New release of SmardDeblur features a blind deblurring module which can automatically identify and remove complicated blur patterns in an image. Deblurring efficiency of the original version has also been improved.
Embarcadero Technologies agrees to acquire CodeGear from Borland
http://dn.codegear.com/article/38132
I know, I know (we) all here are into web, ruby, python, etc, but still ...
(Borland -> Inprise -> Borland -> Codegear and finally -> Embarcadero)
Bug Driven Development: Samurai Debugging Reinvented
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2009/12/bug-driven-development-samurai.html
Funny: Samurai Debugging was a technique in Extreme Programming. Now Bug Driven Development (BDD) aka. Defect Driven Design (DDD) takes this to the next level by involving the customer.
But there is some truth behind the concepts of this humorous story.
Why i love applied math
http://keekdown.svbtle.com/why-i-love-the-applied-math
Sorry for my very bad English
Remake of 2048, in isometric 3D
http://themoechaieb.com/Isometric-2048/index.html
Just a less flat version of 2048
Show HN: Infastructure Policy as a Service (cloudfielder.com)
Hi all,

I'm working on this project, which gives realtime policy monitoring for cloud infrastructure. My goal is to provide a developer-friendly language to easily define the rules, which will be applied to spot violations in realtime.

I put a simple landing page. Want to hear your thoughts and anything.

Cheers,
Accounting Homework Help Soulitions
http://classof1.com/solution-library/accounting
Classof1 Accounting Homework Solutions is the ultimate resource with answers and solutions to your accounting homework questions, assignments with step by ...
Diaspora: Community-Driven, Two Months In
http://blog.diasporafoundation.org/2012/10/29/community-driven-two-months-in.html
About two months ago, we made the announcement that the project and its governance were being handed over to the community. Time has passed, the code is changing, and the project continues to thrive in new directions. I’d like to take a minute to explain the scope of what’s being done here.
Anyone use CodeIgniter?
Hello everyone,

Just wondering is anyone uses CodeIgniter to create web application in PHP. If so, how is it?

If you recommend something else, let me know, and justify yourself.

(Here comes the ROR rain)
From Cancer to starting his own company
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-thielen/windward-reports-in-the-b_b_801166.html
The Doctor looked at the bump on my neck and said "it's nothing, but we'll do a biopsy just to be safe." . . . But what company is going to hire someone who says "I now have enough energy to put in a good 3½ hours/day of effort?" Not gonna to happen.
Ask HN: How to practice the development of large-scale systems?
Since not everyone has opportunities to do it at work, how to practice in playground projects if you don't have a cluster at home? I personally feel quite interested for the area, but have difficulties to keep studying only the theory.
My current approach is to create a small project – with real data – design an architecture for specific constraints, and estimate how far it could go. Later, I start thinking what I would do to improve it to reach the next level.

I wonder if there are other or more effective ways of doing it. With this approach, I constantly see myself paying too much attention to implementation details and not really practicing concepts or tools too out of my comfort zone.
Cyborg short film: Shot with Google Glass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4hwxANq5-k
Watch my science fiction short film. It is about two friends (a human and a cyborg) who meet in a treehouse to discuss love. [DIY filmmaking: shot with Google Glass & iPhone, edited w/ Givit & FC]: http://youtu.be/X4hwxANq5-k
The math behind a tiled scrolling effect
http://blog.waltschlender.com/tiled_scrolling_math/
I found a neat and simple way to create a tiled scrolling effect for building list UI components and moving space game backgrounds. What do you think?
Making Your Twitter History More Accessible
http://twittertimemachine.herokuapp.com/
Twitter makes it really hard to explore your history, this site lets you go back in time really easily.
DreamUp - Collaborate with Talented Creatives
http://dreamup.com/
DeviantArt's answer to Spec Work
Hourly App Rankings
http://AppCastr.com
I built this little hack over a week and was wondering if anyone thinks it's interesting. It's basically a ranking tracker for the appstore that generates a stock chart like graph based for each app. The differentiator over things like App Annie is that it updates every hour so you can see near realtime changes in the appstore rankings to uncover trends etc. Would love your feedback!
Kindle 2.0 Coming February 9?
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/kindle-2-coming
Now on crunchgear (ala techmeme):
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/27/amazon-press-conference-next-monday-i-can-haz-kindle-too/
What if I put all my money in Crypto?
Just a thought experiment. I fear that the government will severely punish crypto holders in the future. What would be your strategy here? I don’t mind paying my fair share of taxes, but don’t what to get screwed over.
Pareto Programming (How to be an 80/20 programmer)
http://justusunlimited.com/2014/06/27/pareto-programming-how-to-be-an-8020-coder/
How do you use the 80/20 principle in your work?
Top Gifts for Cancer Survivors
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/11/21/top-gifts-for-cancer-survivors/
Whether your loved one is currently battling cancer or is joining the survivor's club, there are plenty of gifts you can give this year to show how much you care.
Ask HN: BP is up 7% in London today, but only 1% on NYSE. Why?
http://www.google.com/finance?q=LON:BP
http://www.google.com/finance?q=bp

The pound is up 1%, which explains part of it, but doesn't come close to explaining the entire difference.
Show HN: My Weekend Project, in effort to a startup
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.falx.icollage.main
Hi All HN's Readers,

I just want to announce , to show the Hacker community about my new weekend project , in effort to launch a startup, please find your precious time to review it

Thanks in advance.
Abdul Mateen.
FalxLabs.
Android Consulting.
Comp Sci: Is it Engineering, Science, or Liberal Arts (clip from Udacity CS101)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIbtX0GqIA8
[changed title]
Apple store being updated?: Are they launching something?
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad
I see a message saying "We are busy updating the store for you and will be back shortly". Wonder what's up?
How I TRAINed to learn Rails
https://medium.com/how-i-learned-ruby-rails/e08c94e2a51e
A Guide to Learning Rails in 2 months.
The Cloud Lock-In (Part 2): The Great Lock-In of PaaS
http://www.iamondemand.com/post/10120499126/the-cloud-lock-in-part-2-the-great-lock-in-of-paas
PaaS is evolving to become the masterful approach towards “cloud software development”. When approaching PaaS, the IT organization should take in mind that there is a reasonable risk that it will quickly be tied to a single programming platform and will not be able to move its applications and data between vendors (PaaS or IaaS). One of the main key points for this discussion is the IaaS portability capability.
Ask HN: Server crashed, services don't start due to lock files. What do you do?
This weekend one of our servers was restarted unexpectedly (reviewing why at the moment), and because of this MongoDB had a stale lock file in place that prevented it from starting up. Since I have monitoring in place I was aware of the issue and was able to remedy the situation quickly, but ideally MongoDB should have started back up on it's own when the server came back up.<p>So how do other admin's handle the possibility of stale lock files? It's been such a rare occurance for me that I never thought of looking in to this before, but there has to be some solution to allow for this...<p>Thanks in advance.
Quick Interview with Dan Shipper from WhereMyFriends.be 
http://mixreadblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/quick-interview-with-dan-shipper-from.html
WhereMyFriends.be is a very cool and simple web app that shows all of your Facebook friends on a Map. The app was featured on Mashable and on CNN.
We wanted to ask him who did all start and what are his future plans.
Canonical partners with Microsoft to support Ubuntu on Azure
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/canonical-partners-with-microsoft-to-support-ubuntu-on-azure/
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth praised Azure as an "impressive new entrant."
Tell HN: My car is unlocked by jacket jiggle
Yes, it's true - I unlock my car by jiggling the jacket I'm wearing. The brand of jacket doesn't seem to matter nor does the fabric or style. For all of them I walk up to my car, give my jacket a jiggle, and my car unlocks allowing me to enter.

Maybe it's obvious why this is to some already, but i'll dive in for clarity's sake: I drive a car with keyless entry, and the FOB has a habit of getting stuck behind my phone in my jacket pocket which ends up shielding the transmitter. But giving my jacket a jiggle lets things move about in my pocket, allowing the signal to get out and unlock my car.
Java compiler bug with generics
http://coursermonster.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/java-strangenes/
Today I spent half a day debugging my code. I just completed a major redesign of a chunk of it thought I must have screwed something up badly. Well although I did screw it up, it was in a place where the compiler should have caught it.

Although the generics in java are better than not having anything, and they make my life a lot easier not needing to cast, they are still a bit buggy. Has anybody experienced something like this before, know what is causing this, and how to avoid this headache later? (see post for code)
Ask HN: There are Email invitation system for gmail, yahoo and hotmail?
I need to integrate into my service http://hinii.com an invitation system, to let my users to invite their friends from Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail. There's a way to do this pianlessly? I don't want to study every email services systems...

There a sort of API to do it quickly?
thanks
7-Minute Workout Android App
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robinbailey.sevenminuteworkout
Based on 'The Scientific 7-Minute Workout' featured in The New York Times Magazine.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/
Any insights on fair compensation for a startup's first few employees?
I'm happy to say that my startup is hiring its first few employees. Like most startups, we don't have a lot of cash, so we are planning to go with a low salary + stock/ownership deal.

As a first time entrepreneur, and young person in general, I have no experience with stock options or creating an options pool. I have no idea what size they should be, what terms (vesting, etc?) we should put in place, and things of that nature. I do receive fantastic business counsel, and I know where they stand on the issue. However, I live in the Midwest and people here tend to be pretty conventional and conservative. Thus, I'm here to gather feedback and conventional wisdom of how this is handled elsewhere. I'd also be interested to hear about other things you have offered/received as an entrepreneur/early employee, and any pitfalls you'd recommend we look out for.

A little more info: My company was formed as an LLC. I am the single member with 100% ownership. Like any founder I don't want to give away the farm, but I'm more interested in getting this done right than the amount of equity I retain. Right now we are looking to hire two people, though more will follow. The jobs we are hiring for are sys admin and operations related, but the people we plan to hire are avid hackers and will work on whatever needs to be done.

Note: I am aware that each business is different and I'll need to consult a lawyer. I'm looking for more specific advice than that :)
Why Yahoo is the coolest start-up in the valley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U46J4LH_IwU
Paraphrasing from the video: "Here's a company which has money - lots of it … untapped, world changing opportunities … and you can be part of learning how to design culture at the same time".
Anyone interested in my crowdfunding campaign?
https://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/revamp-my-ghostnasa-space-blog
Anyone interested in my crowdfunding campaign?

my crowdfunding campaign is now splitted on four platforms to choose from

https://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/revamp-my-ghostnasa-space-blog

http://gogetfunding.com/project/revamp-my-ghostnasa-space-blog

http://www.kapipal.com/ghostnasa

http://www.gofundme.com/14siyc

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Ask HN: Is the market ready for online grocery shopping?
I noticed that I can get almost anything on the Internet. But there is no major online grocery store. Sure there are a few here and there. What do you think are the challenges in this market?
Ask HN: Will transaction ID wraparound be fixed in Postgres?
Ive read quite a bit about this and it seems a serious problem.

Will it ever be totally fixed or is it an un fixable problem for some reason?
The VMware house of cards
http://www.venturecake.com/the-vmware-house-of-cards/
Bloomberg believe VMware 's IPO today may the largest technology offering since Google. But doubts have been cast over the company's supposedly proprietary ESX product, which may be derived from Linux.
How I Sold Gaslight On Our New Brand
http://blog.gaslight.co/post/40024752058/how-i-sold-gaslight-on-our-new-brand
How one designer achieved organizational buy-in on a total company rebranding project.
A simple non-intrusive alternative social network coming soon
http://www.ninoff.com
, where your data is your data and no one else's. No tracking cookies, no data mining, no sharing your information with 3rd parties. Safely stay connected and keep your finger on the pulse without the hassle
Does Your Startup Have What It Takes To Be Disruptive?
http://blog.goparti.com/does-your-startup-have-what-it-takes-to-be-disruptive/
Does your startup have what it takes to change the world? To be a game-changer?
IPad Adoption Rate Fastest in Electronic Products History
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/10/ipad-adoption-rate-fastest-in-electronics-product-history.ars
The iPad's current sales rate is approximately 4.5 million units per quarter.

I think it's time to invest in Chinese apps, geared toward Chinese people, in the Chinese language. Fit all three of those criteria and you're golden. But for you rockstars out there please don't jump the gun and give me a chance.
Cutting Teeth, Software Projects, The First Two Weeks
http://compositecode.com/2010/10/05/the-first-two-weeks/
A few questions came up recently that I wanted to answer, but before I answered I wanted to post them to see what others might think.

What are the most basic concepts of the application story needed to get started?
What should be assumed to be complete based on that after 1 week?
After 2 weeks are up, what could or should be delivered for a MVP (Minimally Viable Product)?
Ideally speaking development wouldn’t start until one has done a few paper prototyping sessions and written up a number of user stories. Often though just a minimal amount of things actually need to be known. My immediate answer to, “what is the most basic concepts of the application story needed to get started?” would be,

A simple story around the core prospective user of the application.

An example would be a story along these lines. Since I’m the user in this case, I’ll use “I” instead of “the user”.
YC Dashboard widget
http://darrenstuart.com/post/22537718
I couldn't find a YC hacker news widget for dashboard so I knocked this one up in dashcode. Let me know what you think. Hope someone finds it useful :p
Show HN: Buddhabrot with HTML Canvas
http://www.smashinglabs.pl/buddhabrot-with-html-canvas
I wrote a small Buddhabrot generator, inspired by: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1541828

All I did here is coloring grayscale image, few optimizations and translating coffescript to javascript, but now I plan to do the same thing with WebGL. I was hoping to get some feedback and hints before I start.
(Rare Video) Google Search Quality Meeting: Spelling for Long Queries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JtRJXnXgE-A#!
Associated blog post: http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/03/video-search-quality-meeting-uncut.html
Open source and money - should FOSS developers be paid?
http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/09/open-source-and-money-why-r-developers-shouldnt-be-paid/
This post delves into the issue after being raised in the context of problems discussed with R, a free open source software for statistical analysis.
Getting Agile with Scrum
http://www.eventnook.com/video/v/296/Mike-Cohn-Getting-Agile-with-Scrum
Scrum is one of the leading agile software development processes. Over 12,000 project managers have become certified to run Scrum projects . Since its origin on Japanese new product development projects in the 1980s, Scrum has become recognized as one of the best project management frameworks for handling rapidly changing or evolving projects. Especially useful on projects with lots of technology or requirements uncertainty, Scrum is a proven, scalable agile process for managing software projects. Through lecture, discussion and exercises, this fast-paced tutorial covers the basics of what you need to know to get started with Scrum. You will learn about all key aspects of Scrum including product and sprint backlog, the sprint planning meeting, the sprint review, conducting a sprint retrospective, activities that occur during sprints, measuring and monitoring progress, and scaling Scrum to work with large and distributed teams. Also covered are the roles and responsibilities of the ScrumMaster, the product owner, and the Scrum team. This session will be equally suited for managers, programmers, testers, product managers and anyone else interested in improving product delivery.
Prosecutors Turn Tables on Student Journalists
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/25innocence.html?ei=5065&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=all
Prosecutors have supoenaed detailed records, including grades and grading methodologies as well as notes and other material, pertaining to the student journalists. Amongst other things, the article raises the question of whether this is in essence an attempt to suppress their efforts.

I'm submitting this as I've noticed from past comments that several regulars here are either in journalism or have journalism in their background. Also, with the decreasing dominance of "traditional" journalism as the source of most news (something strongly associated with the the Internet), actions like the prosecutors' raise questions about how other sources of news will be viewed and how they will participate in public discourse (although one might view the student journalism program as more "traditional" than many other sources).
Download All Fonts on DaFont.com
http://yellowrubberball.com/2011/07/dafont/
I wrote a script to download all the fonts on DaFont.com. I plan to also write an applescript to install all the fonts automatically, soon. Hope this helps someone! (:
Configuring Hibernate programmatically, for real 
http://www.manydesigns.com/en/blog/configuring-hibernate-programmatically
You're probably familiar with at least one method for configuring Hibernate, either using XML mappings or annotations. In this post, however, we're going to examine a method that you're unlikely to know: building Hibernate configuration metadata programmatically.
Show HN: JavaScript Keyword Transposition Cipher
https://github.com/w4ffl35/js-ktc
This is an implementation of a keyword transposition cipher that I wrote in Javascript back in 2018. I have maintained the repo since then.

It doesn't get much use (two people according to github). I don't think a lot of people have much use for a KTC written in javascript but it was entered into the arctic code vault back in 2020, so that was cool.

If anyone is looking to learn, hopefully this will be of some use.

It is written is pure JS with no dependencies (save for jest for tests as a dev dependency). The minified file is 1.70kb.
PHP Docs are making me dizzy
http://tr2.php.net/docs.php
I'm not hung over, so the effects must be an April Fool's joke.
Exploring Scala
http://scalatuts.com/blog/2013/09/13/abstract-members/
http://scalatuts.com/blog/2013/09/13/abstract-members/
Do we need a new Book readers social network?
http://bookima.com?free
Do we need something like that? or what we have is enough?
Generate RSS feeds from the links of Twitter accounts
http://dizeo.com
I get most of my news from Twitter, but I can't directly import Twitter feeds into Feedly. I built this to solve my problem :)

You can go straight to dizeo.com/@twitter_username to generate the feed!
Free 3D Repo Android app released
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.ac.ucl.cs.verser.mobile
We are pleased to announce that our 3D Repo Android app v1.0.0 is now available in the Google Play Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.ac.ucl.cs.verser.mobile

3D Repo app is a light-weight open source client that enables you to view, share and annotate 3D models stored in the 3D Repo cloud anywhere on the go. Connect to a remote repository to visualize and annotate virtual designs and their individual revisions during the development and review stages of your project.

http://3drepo.org
Show HN: PySide6 QtQuick Project Template
https://github.com/trin94/PySide6-project-template
I couldn't find a quick start template for PySide6 and QtQuick, so I created one.
Tau (a pi replacement?)
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-03/14/pi-winning
a new pi equal to 2pi
Drupal Development Proliferating as Version 7 Nears
http://www.developer.com/features/article.php/3877546/Drupal-Development-Proliferates-as-Version-7-Nears.htm
Drupal 7 still needs work, with more than 100 bugs needing to be fixed. But Acquia announced offerings this week to drive Drupal deployments while Drupal 7 gets closer.