jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do I crawl out of the "Senior Engineer" hole?
I've been a software engineer for over a decade, and worked at huge companies and little startups. I know this probably sounds insane, but over that entire time, I only worked on one team/project where there was a notion of "tech lead", that is to say a technical individual contributor who was responsible for decomposing a project, overseeing the more junior engineers in its implementation, but was not a manager who managed those engineers. And that tech lead was me. Every other team/company I've ever worked at, I've basically been in a team scenario, where everyone worked in their own silos. I've always owned entire subsystems (even as a total newbie, painful as it was), never with another engineer over me, never with another engineer under me. I've had the words "Senior Developer" on my resume for almost 8 years now, over half my career.

I don't want to be a manager. But it seems like something's missing, that I don't have any "project leadership" experience on my resume (save that one time, which was a success I might add.) I'm confused about what the next step for me is supposed to be, and how to get there. It seems like the things above me on the career ladder (architect, principal, CTO, what have you) are not attainable because of this absence of leadership experience. I mean, is this something that even exists or am I just imagining it? I see peers (coworkers who eventually moved on to other places) who make these strange leaps from Sr. Engineer to Director or CTO and I don't understand how they did it. Should I just try applying to a higher-up position sometime?

I'm open to any and all career advice. This really isn't about money or responsibility, it's just about ensuring that I'm not stalling out somewhere in my professional growth. I guess I'm trying to say that I'm concerned about my long-term trajectory.
Ask HN: Anyone else in constant anxiety and how do you cope?
I was wondering if anyone else is in the state of constant anxiety, not only at work, but at home too. How do you cope?

Here are the several contributing factors in my case:

- feeling of incompetence at work
- sole provider for the family.
- lost the will to code (I try learning new things but give up after a few days).
- I’m 43 and have not accomplished anything, not even financial security for my family.
- too scared to change the job I hate (gambling industry, corporate JIRA sweatshop, for 13 years) because I’m incompetent.
- social anxiety.
- racing mind, incoherent thoughts.

Edit: so incompetent I don’t know how to create a bullet list here
Show HN: gq – like jq or zq, but you use Go
https://github.com/hherman1/gq
Hi HN. I've gotten pretty tired of needing to learn a custom programming language for a tool I use once a week or less. So I figured, it might be easier to pick up if `jq` used a programming language I already know. Voila, gq.
Show HN: I made a local development, debugging and hotreload tool for AWS Lambda
https://github.com/thundra-io/merloc-java
MerLoc is a live AWS Lambda function development and debugging tool. MerLoc allows you to run AWS Lambda functions on your local while they are still part of a flow in the AWS cloud remote.

MerLoc makes it possible to
- test your function locally without deploy to the AWS Lambda environment (so no wait for build, package and deploy)
- debug your function by putting breakpoints from your IDE
- hot-reload updated function on your local automatically to apply changes automatically (so again no wait for build, package and deploy)
- run the individual function locally while it is still part of flow shown above and use real requests from the AWS Lambda environment
Show HN: A framework for building Slack bots in Python
https://github.com/DonDebonair/slack-machine
I started building a couple of years ago because I found no easy existing solution to build Slack bots that can be composed from/organized into plugins. Existing libraries like Bolt make it pretty easy to develop Slack bots, but hard to organize and scale the code base of your bot. I was also missing some crucial features such as scheduling actions for your bot. So I wrote my own framework!

I recently rewrote the complete framework to make use of asyncio and the newest Slack SDK

Let me know what you think!
“There is no longer enough mail to sustain six days of delivery.”
http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2010/pr10_031.htm
Just one of many signs that say "Yes Martha, the internet really has changed a lot about our lives"
Ask HN: Why do I always waste time on the weekends?
There's a way for me to make some money, but it requires that I setup a fairly complicated spreadsheet to monitor several variables. All through last week, I've been printing Excel tutorials and ebooks, telling myself that I'll do the spreadsheet over the weekend, so I can start earning immediately. I want to put the money towards a startup.

How did I spend my weekend?

Friday Night:

Listening to rap and channel surfing. I've got all weekend, right?

Saturday:

Spend half the day browsing, the other half watching about 4 movies. Still got all day Sunday, right?

Sunday:

Wake up @ 10. Watch a few World Cup matches, while surfing YouTube. I can do it later right?

Now I just got to work, and I'm disgusted with myself. I want to leave this job as soon as possible (one's soul can only be sucked so much), but my constant procrastination isn't helping things.

The worst part? This isn't the first time something like this has happened. I'll spend the weekday fantasizing about how productive I'm gonna be over the weekend, then spend the weekend watching movies. Then on Sunday night, while ironing my clothes for Monday, the self-flagellation begins.

Oddly, while I'm wasting time, I know that I'm wasting time. I'll spend 5 minutes doing the task, and as soon as I encounter any difficulty, I take a break to 'clear my head'. This ends up taking the rest of the day. This has happened several times.

I want to be rich. Filthy rich, even. I'm sick of working for others. I'm sick of getting up in the morning knowing my life is ticking away. But I know I'll never get there if I continue like this.

I'm 23, above-average intelligence (Dunning-Kruger FTW), and I don't want to waste my life, waking up @ 30 wondering where the years have gone.

I've been on HN long enough to know this is something quite a few of us struggle with.

Help. Please.
GCC Explorer
http://xania.org/201205/gcc-explorer
Interactive tool to see what GCC is up to.
Show HN: I built a handheld CHIP-8 game console to teach myself embedded systems
https://github.com/kurtjd/CHIPnGo
A while back I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator (which is considered the Hello, World! of emulators and is more accurately a virtual machine since historically CHIP-8 was an interpreted language running on top of the COSMAC VIP to make game programming easier).

But a few months ago I got really interested in embedded software, so decided it would be neat to port my emulator to a STM32 MCU and design a console around it as a learning experience, since CHIP-8 never existed as a physical system.

I didn't know much about embedded software when I began, and even less about electronics, but I managed to write all the firmware from scratch and even designed my first PCB, resulting in a finished (though not very polished) handheld CHIP-8 console.

For those curious, the GitHub repo also has links to my dev blog about the project as well as a build guide.

Thanks for looking!
Google is building a Chrome app-based development environment
http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/11/21/google-building-chrome-app-based-development-environment-using-dart-polymer/?fromcat=all
https://github.com/dart-lang/spark
Review my startup: Tastebuds - dating for last.fm users
http://tastebuds.fm
I recently launched a unique new dating website that matches people based on their tastes in music.
Sergey Brin's Home Page
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/
nothing like a timeless ripple effect on your profile photo ;-)
Ask HN: How would you make a site resistant to government takedown?
Which TLD would you use to make a site takedown resistant?

Where would you host it?

For categorization, let's say it's for a niche that is legal in 50% of the world. Which 50 doesn't matter with the exception of the fact that it's illegal in the United States.

(This is purely a thought experiment; I'd be screwed if I actually wanted to do something like this by merit of being an American citizen who still wants to live in the US.)
Jun Fukuyama's P≠NP Page
http://junfukuyama.wordpress.com/
a new serious proof claim on P!=NP has been put forward by a Phd mathematician/computer scientist Jun Fukuyama last July 1 and has received very little public attention since then.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/junichiro-fukuyama/36/2b9/88b

rumor is that its been submitted to a journal. it uses a known plausible approach based on monotone circuit theory for which there are some long established existing proofs of circuit lower bounds (dating to a celebrated 1985 proof by Razborov). Fukuyama has published several papers in computer science. it would be great if the online community could give this some attention as with the Deolalikar proof from 2.5yrs ago.
I took "abusing the HTML5 History" to the next level.
http://probablyinteractive.com/url-hunter
It's technically not using the HTML5 History, but that post inspired this idea.
OpenSSL, OpenSSH and NTP to receive support from Core Infrastructure Initiative
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2014/05/core-infrastructure-initiative-announces-new-backers
"Network Time Protocol, OpenSSH and OpenSSL first projects to receive support; Open Crypto Audit Project to conduct security audit of OpenSSL"
Apple Relaxes iOS Restrictions On Development Tools, Publishes Review Guidelines
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/09statement.html
More details:

http://developer.apple.com/appstore/guidelines.html
How an unsigned rapper changed music
http://silentattraction.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/how-an-unsigned-white-rapper-changed-music/
A link to the actual song since none is provided in the story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes
Show HN: Remote Jobs (our answer to "Who Is Hiring Remote Workers?")
http://remote-jobs.com
We're giving away coupon codes for a free month-long posting. Just email me at evan AT remote DASH jobs DOT com. The first few folks win!

I'm one of the founders of Remote Jobs -- also the same shlub who posted the first "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1857051.
Kim Jung Gi has died
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-10-05/kim-jung-gi-death-heart-attack
There are articles about this in various places (I saw it on the front page of cnn, highlighting just how influential he was), and it does feel a bit like the world has lost a Mozart or a Rembrandt. I'm not sure there has ever been anyone like him, or will be again.

Sad day -- only 47 years old, he had so much that everyone thought was still ahead of him.
Show HN: uFuzzy.js – A tiny, efficient fuzzy search that doesn't suck
https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy
Hello HN!

I became frustrated with the unpredictible/poor match quality and opaqueness of "relevance scores" in existing fuzzy and fulltext search libs, so I tried something different and this is the result. The main selling point is the result quality / ordering, with best-in-class memory overhead and excellent performance being bonuses. The API is pretty stable at this point, but looking for feedback before committing to 1.0.

TL;DR

The test corpus is a 4MB json file with 162k words/phrases, so give it a second for initial download. You can also drag/drop your own text/json corpus into the UI to try it against your own dataset.

Live demo/compare with a few other libs (there are many more in the codebase, in various states of completion, WIP):

https://leeoniya.github.io/uFuzzy/demos/compare.html?libs=uF...

In isolation for perf assessment:

https://leeoniya.github.io/uFuzzy/demos/compare.html?libs=uF...

To increase fuzziness and get broader results, try setting intraMax=1 (core) and enable outOfOrder (userland):

https://leeoniya.github.io/uFuzzy/demos/compare.html?libs=uF...

Also play with the sortPreset selector to swap out the default Array.sort() for one in userland that prioritizes typehead-ness (the resultset remains identical).

Still TODO:

- Example of stripping diacritics
- Example of using non-latin charsets
- Example of prefix-caching to improve typeahead perf even further
- Example of poor man's document search (matching multiple object properties)

That's all, thanks!
Apple Maps Is A Downgrade From Google Maps on Iphone
http://www.briankeithmay.com/apple-maps-is-a-downgrade-from-google-maps-on-iphone/
Why Entrepreneurs Are The Rockstars Of Our Generation
http://elcojol.com/post/3752801067/why-entrepreneurs-are-the-rockstars-of-our-generation
Major Linux.com Updates, Hear Directly from Web Architect Dan Lopez
http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/187-dan-lopez/314730-new-linuxcom-updates-may-2010
Node-PDFReader - pdf2png and pdf2txt using pdf.js and node (proof of concept)
https://github.com/jviereck/node-pdfreader
Check out this Android App
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appcabana.securetab
Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal
https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
More information on Google's new web language, Dash
http://markmail.org/message/uro3jtoitlmq6x7t
EC2's most dangerous feature
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2016-10-09-EC2s-most-dangerous-feature.html
A Japanese inn owned by the same family for 1,300 years [video]
http://vimeo.com/114879061
Java Developers
http://nsainsbury.svbtle.com/java-developers
Drones will fly for days with new photovoltaic engine
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-07-drones-days-photovoltaic.html
Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/
Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump
https://craigmod.com/essays/software_slump/
In defence of ssss-low texting
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/big-mood/in-defence-of-ssss-low-texting/
Doomsday prep for the super rich
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich?currentPage=all
Nowness
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2010/03/nowness.php
American Illegally Wiretapped at Home by Ethiopia Deserves His Day in Court
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/american-illegally-wiretapped-home-ethiopian-government-deserves-his-day-court-eff
AOL Mail gets snarky towards Gmail (read the comments)
http://mailblog.aol.com/2008/10/31/an-open-letter-to-gmail-happy-halloween-we-love-your-costume/
Gran Turismo 5 [US] Release Date Announced
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/109/1098188p1.html
Tips to be More Productive with Xcode 12
https://www.git-tower.com/blog/6-tips-for-xcode
Back end Development 101: Prime Numbers and Multi-threading
https://hackernoon.com/backend-development-101-prime-numbers-and-multi-threading-g42j3uex
When the Dried Plum Lobby Tried to Make Pruneburgers Happen
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fruit-burgers-prunes-school-lunches
People’s words and actions can shape your brain
https://ideas.ted.com/peoples-words-and-actions-can-actually-shape-your-brain-a-neuroscientist-explains-how/
Top Libraries Every React Developer Should Know About
https://twitter.com/sunilc_/status/1330562719397736450
Senior Software Engineer – Analytics
http://corporate.kabam.com/careers/job/oM3lYfwS/
What Is SSL/TLS and HTTPS Certificate? How Does SSL Work?
https://www.thesslstore.in/new-to-ssl/what-is-ssl-tls.aspx
Xen and the RISC-V Hypervisor Extension
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2021/03/12/xen-and-the-risc-v-hypervisor-extension/
Fully customizable mastermind game generator
https://github.com/sbagdat/mastermind_generator
The Impact of Low-Quality Content on SEO
https://letterdrop.com/blog/p/low-quality-content
How does Oregon’s first-in-the-nation rent control law work?
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2019/03/how-does-oregons-first-in-the-nation-rent-control-law-work-a-quick-guide.html
Sub-Structure of the Electron and Mass Relation of Leptons and Nucleons
https://www.ccaesar.com/
Pregame demonstration causes brief evacuation of U.S. Capitol
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33775122/pregame-demonstration-involving-parachutists-nationals-park-causes-brief-evacuation-us-capitol
House cats know what they want and how to get it from you
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/cp-hck070909.php
Foster kittens causing a storm in a tea cup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-j8_YD3rHc
Why I created vdirsyncer
https://unterwaditzer.net/2014/vdirsyncer.html
A Story of Mumbai's Sewage Workers
https://www.newslaundry.com/2016/11/07/chase-in-deep-shit-a-story-of-mumbais-sewage-workers
Incapsula will double its network size by EOY
http://www.incapsula.com/blog/cdn-expansion-plans-map.html
'User Pain' as bug metric (2008)
http://lostgarden.com/2008/05/improving-bug-triage-with-user-pain.html
Conservation survey finds native NYS pollinators at risk
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/08/conservation-survey-finds-native-nys-pollinators-risk
New discovery paradigm for homebuying
http://blog.flaretag.com/2011/09/are-realtors-leaving-leads-on-the-table/
Blaze-Persistence: Use Modern SQL Like Native JPA
https://modern-sql.com/blog/2020-09/blaze-persistence
The Anthropologist of Artificial Intelligence
https://www.quantamagazine.org/iyad-rahwan-is-the-anthropologist-of-artificial-intelligence-20190826/
Top Basic Income Articles of 2016
http://www.scottsantens.com/top-10-basic-income-articles-of-2016
Huge rise in catalytic converter thefts
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49767195
UTF-8 decoder capability and stress test
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-test.txt
Pico keeps the VR headset light by putting processor in a gamepad
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/19/11462988/pico-neo-vr-virtual-reality-specs
HeapStats: JVMTI agent and JavaFX analyzer for after-the-fact analysis
https://github.com/HeapStats/heapstats
I Dream of Something
http://thecodist.com/article/i-dream-of-something
The Five-Minute Workday
https://medium.com/@ErikH2000/the-five-minute-workday-44ad562c6024#.8h7bx4v1u
Equations of Motion for the Cart and Pole Control Task
https://sharpneat.sourceforge.io/research/cart-pole/cart-pole-equations.html
Workspace Ownership
http://blog.hypesystem.dk/workspace-ownership
Facebook Attach EXE Vulnerability
http://blog.insecure.in/?p=1019
Pipeline Operator: Hack vs. F#
https://www.maartenhus.nl/blog/pipeline-operator-hack-vs-fsharp/
Samsung to introduce flexible displays in devices next year
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/10/samsung-to-introduce-flexible-displays-in-devices-next-year.ars
DHH: Rewrite (2015)
http://businessofsoftware.org/2015/10/david-heinemeier-hansson-rewrite-basecamp-business-of-software-conference-video-dhh-bos2015/
Instaprint - The location based photo booth for Instagram [200k/500k]
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/breakfastny/instaprint-the-location-based-photo-booth-for-inst
Google Trends: interest on visual programming dramatically declines in time
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=visual%20programming,%2Fm%2F02hrsx
The "right to be forgotten" shouldn't be decided by a high court
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/15/opinion/dont-force-google-to-forget.html
Extreme Quality Semiconductor Manufacturing
https://semiengineering.com/extreme-quality-semiconductor-manufacturing/
Election Day 2020: Rene Girard, Part 2
https://danco.substack.com/p/election-day-2020-rene-girard-part
Help Firebase make every mobile app real-time
https://www.firebase.com/jobs/mobile-eng.html
Stop dreaming of a new Silicon Valley 
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b197f03c-8653-11e0-9d5c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1NQv1If5f
Federal Prosecutors Try To Force New York Times Reporter To Reveal Sources
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/james-risen-subpoenaed-jeffrey-sterling-case/story?id=13684074
Irish High Court rules on Max Schrems international data transfer case
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/max-schrems-facebook-data-case
Of mice and micro-organs
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/11/of-mice-and-microorgans.html
Introduction to Spring Batch
https://public.grokola.com/#grok/f9c95417-3e43-4db6-b25b-a44a1b7288aa
Straw 2.0 lets you create polls and broadcast them to the world from your phone
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/06/23/straw-update-lets-you-create-polls-and-broadcast-them-to-the-world-from-your-phone/
BMW i4 unveiled with 590 km (WLTP) and up to 300 miles (EPA) range
https://www.bmwblog.com/2021/03/17/bmw-i4-590km-300-miles-range/
Turning an Idea into a Photographic Product
https://luminous-landscape.com/turning-an-idea-into-a-photographic-product-macro-lighting-tool/
2009, The Year Social Media Gets Standards (Hopefully)
http://blog.socialmedia.com/2009-the-year-social-media-gets-standards-hopefully/
Marketing on a $30 budget
http://blog.badger.com/2012/07/18/marketing-on-a-30-budget/
How to create a cluster across multiple hosts with Docker Swarm
https://www.voxxed.com/blog/2015/04/clustering-using-docker-swarm-0-2-0/
“We estimate change requests with t-shirt sizes.”
https://www.bugtrackers.io/interview-paymill-christian-braun
How to Fold a World-Record Paper Airplane
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/04/world-record-paper-airplane/
Victories in Encrypting the Web: News and Government Sites Switch to HTTPS
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/victories-encrypting-web-news-and-goverment-sites-switch-https
Freestyle typing todo app with statistics and encouragement
http://www.littlequest.me/victories
Twitter Shares Jump on Possible Deal with Marc Andreessen and Silver Lake
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-01/twitter-jumps-early-on-report-of-possible-deal-with-silver-lake?cmpid=yhoo.headline
Seed: State of Science 2008
http://seedmagazine.com/stateofscience/
5 year startup diary in 3 minute video. Moments of depression and isolation
https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/6up2kj/5_year_diary_in_3_minutes_when_i_got_depressed/
How to Build a Thriving Blog by Being Yourself
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2011/05/19/how-to-build-a-thriving-blog-by-being-yourself/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney+%28ProBlogger%3A+Helping+Bloggers+Earn+Money%29&utm_content=Netvibes
Eventbrite Raises $50 Million
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/18/online-ticket-seller-eventbrite-raises-50-million/
How Wufoo bootstrapped a simple Form-creation idea to $35M
http://www.startupwin.com/how-wufoo-bootstrapped-a-simple-form-creation-idea-to-35million/
Apple Launches New Clean Energy Programs in China
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/10/22Apple-Launches-New-Clean-Energy-Programs-in-China-To-Promote-Low-Carbon-Manufacturing-and-Green-Growth.html
Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Others Also Hit by Phishing Attack
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/gmail_yahoo_aol_and_others_also_hit_by_phishing_attack.php
The State of OpenCL & the First End-User OpenCL Drivers
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=648
What Is the Fastest Food Logger? We Designed a System to Find Out
https://macrofactorapp.com/fastest-food-logger/
Always Learning
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/07/27/always-learning/
Pipistrel’s Electric Airplane Earns Canadian Certification
https://www.flyingmag.com/pipistrels-alpha-electro-earns-canadian-certification?enews021518
AT&T’s Research Lab: Connected Cars & Bio-Acoustical Transmission
http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/20/att-research-lab-connected-car/
There Will Be Rich Always: Finding a New Way to Think About Income Inequality
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/12/20/there-will-be-rich-always/
Top Physics Videos of 2011
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/48138
Wildcat banking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking
Real-Time Journalism » Borasky Research Journal
http://borasky-research.net/category/real-time-journalism/
This Space Radio Could Change How Flights Are Tracked Worldwide
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/spinoff/feature/space_radio_flight_tracking