jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: iPad web app ideas?
Hi All,

I want to get up to speed on developing iPad apps using WebKit, but I just don't know what would be a worthwhile app. I would release it free, but I want to do something worthwhile to learn, not just some cheesy app that nobody will use.

Ideas?
Show HN: PyInpaint, a lightweight image inpainting tool written in Python
https://github.com/aGIToz/PyInpaint
- A simple and effective tool to remove scratches, bruises and small holes on images.

- Basically it does the job by doing Dirichlet interpolation on a non-local graph created using images.

- Could be easy integrated at the backend for fask or django projects related to image processing.
Justin.tv search API and Common Lisp
http://techblog.justin.tv/2007/11/jtv-search-api.html
The justin.tv search now has an API. At this blog entry, details about the API and a use example using Common Lisp.

Good work William! :-)
Intel profit leaps to $3.2 billion, crushes estimates  
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20055353-64.html?tag=topStories2
Intel posted blockbuster first-quarter net income of $3.2 billion, up 29 percent over the same period last year. Revenue came in at $12.8 billion, up 25 percent year-over-year.Earnings per share were 56 cents (and 59 cents non-GAAP). Analysts had been expecting 46 cents a share.
Show HN: A reasonably reliable traffic per application monitor using BPF
https://github.com/elesiuta/picosnitch
picosnitch helps you protect your security and privacy by "snitching" on anything that connects to the internet, letting you know when, how much data was transferred, and to where.

It uses BPF to monitor network traffic per application, and per parent to cover those that just call others.

It also hashes every executable, and will complain if some mischievous program is giving it trouble.
Show HN: mirrord – run your local code in the context of your cloud environment
https://mirrord.dev
Hey everyone,

I’m Eyal, co-founder and CTO of MetalBear, the company behind mirrord. We’ve recently released version 3.0 of mirrord - it’s the first version of the product that we believe can provide daily value for backend developers.

mirrord is a free, open-source (MIT) product that cuts your development loops by making it easier and faster for your local code to “meet” your cloud environment.

mirrord lets you “plug” your local process into your Kubernetes cluster. When you run your process with mirrord, it completely wraps your process in the context of the corresponding service on your cluster - it essentially proxies all of your process’ input/output to the remote pod, from network traffic to file access to environment variables, so that you can keep running your process from the familiar comfort of your local environment, but with input, configuration, and state from the cloud.

While mirrord can be used in a lot of ways, our ideal use case is for it to be used for concurrent work on a shared, mature development or staging environment. Instead of maintaining multiple environments, each with its own state, maintenance, and cloud costs, organizations can now leverage a single well-maintained production-like environment for use by multiple developers or teams.

mirrord is written in Rust, and the technology behind it is quite interesting (and we actually wrote some blog posts about it, see in our company blog [1]):

- mirrord injects itself into the executed process, hooking most of the libc APIs, then decides what to run locally and what to run remotely
- This lets us run only a specific process in the context of the remote environment, unlike similar solutions which use VPN or edit system files
- In order to hook functions, it uses the fantastic Frida framework

As for our business model, we plan to launch a managed service to complement the open-source offering of mirrord. The service is intended to help you manage the use of the product in a team/enterprise context.

We would love your feedback, and would appreciate your support by:

- Trying out mirrord [2]!
- Joining our Backend Engineers Discord community [3]
- Telling your friends
- Contributing to our codebase or opening issues [4]

Let me know what you think!

[1] https://metalbear.co/blog/ [2] https://mirrord.dev/docs/overview/quick-start/ [3] https://discord.gg/pSKEdmNZcK [4] https://github.com/metalbear-co/mirrord
Tell HN: I'm giving 4 domains away to a good home
http://alek.posterous.com/4-domains-free-to-a-good-home
You could also post your pitch as a comment here.
Post short messages to people nearby (anonymously).
http://www.minipost.me/
Tossing this prototype out there to see if people find it useful.
Congrats Heroku: 100,001 deployed apps
I just started using Heroku a week ago and I'm in love. (I kinda wish I was the 100,000th deployed.)
Show HN: Boot ‘strapped’ in Detroit
My partner and I have been working hard on HealPay.

After researching other billing applications, like FreshBooks, we think Invoicing should be free. We are excited to launch additional features pending Hacker News feedback :]

View the app at http://www.healpay.com
Geeks love Colored Lights - Hacking IKEA RGB Led Strip
http://openpicus.blogspot.it/2012/09/geeks-love-colored-lights-ikea-dioder.html
It's official: Geeks love LED Strips. Sometimes it seems like LED Strips have been invented for Geeks.
Show HN: Koi.io
http://koi.io
Koi is an open market for sketches and illustration by request.
Tell HN: I'm the business co-founder you're looking for*
Not an MBA (nice opening, huh?)

Worked at startups in a customer acquisition/BD role for the past three years. (first marketing hire x2)

Startups funded by the likes of KP, Sequoia, First Round, Accel and Kapor Capital.

Can pick up a phone right now and have 5 meetings with Angels by the end of the week.

Previously worked in market research/product management roles in S&P 500 Valley tech firm.

Huge fan and advocate of customer development and lean startup.

However, not a dogmatic follower of any startup "school."

Realized today that I'm tired of watching others around me make mistakes and want to make a few of my own.

Have two very solid business ideas, but am not married to them.

Not an asshole.

*If you're looking to spend the next 1-3 months working on a MVP and pitching to get incubator/angel support.

atamfilms (at) gmail

I look forward to talking with you.

Fine print: Northern California preferred, but will work remotely with the right person(s)
Are “free” web-services cheese in a mousetrap?
http://povolotski.me/2013/09/29/free-web-services-cheese-mousetrap-or-stop-selling-privacy-1/
The last few months everyone seems to be freaked out about NSA spying on the world (and their own citizens in particular). It seems to even have become fashionable to complain about surveillance, demand stuff from congressmen, CEO’s, the government. It’s all very nice, but people seem to be missing the point:
Your privacy is being sold every single day to the lowest bidder for a price as low as 5$ per year, and the NSA isn’t the only buyer.
Lego Gearbox - 7 Speed + Reverse
http://hackaday.com/2010/04/08/lego-gearbox-seven-speed-plus-reverse/#more-23096
Takes me back to my childhood :-D
Frogmetrics, OMGPOP, Posterous, Scribd, Inkling, Xobni, and Loopt nominated for TiE50 Awards
http://tie50.net/polling/
Voting ends May 7th.
Show HN: Turn any website into an API HackMIT 2013
http://ec2-54-211-79-18.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080/
Select anything on a website. If it is part of a table or a list, you get a URL which you can GET for a JSON representation of that list or table. Basically we are making an API for every website whether they like it or not.
Show HN: New project for on-demand chat rooms
http://www.urshoutbox.com/bLmYAL/hacker-news
I created a pet project to see if it is of use and interesting to people. The idea is on-demand real-time chat rooms for trending topics and for personal use. You can go to the main page at www.urshoutbox.com to create your own room then share it across your social networks/email, etc.

I created a hacker news specific "shoutbox" at http://www.urshoutbox.com/bLmYAL/hacker-news . If nobody is in there, please be patient and (I hope) people will join soon to start talking.

The idea is to have trending topics on facebook/twitter/etc and have chat rooms to get people discussing in real time. The idea came from looking at popular blogs and news sites which have comment sections where people are posting so quickly trying to have what appears to be almost real-time conversations in a limited way. This is meant to get those conversations in a more real-time appropriate environment.

Think of it as irc but for today's clients. I'm surprised that there wasn't really similar options out there. Most of today's chat tools are either mobile only, require video, or limit the number of participants. If you know of competitors in this space and I'm just an idiot for not finding them, please let me know.

I look forward to hearing people's thoughts.
Brilliant adwords hack: Demand Media
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/all/1
1. figure out popular terms
2. rank by how much adwords pays
3. create content cheaply to match that demand
Startup Tips from Jay-Z
http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2009/12/21/top-5-startup-tips-from-jay-z/
Lyrical excerpts from the past decade of Jay-Z's most inspirational business-themed rhymes
Ask HN: Any less known but cool places you want to visit one day?
Is there any less known but cool places you want to visit one day? I would be interested to check out Yakutsk.
Ask HN: How did you find your company & job?
So this may seem like a simple question, but how did you find the company you are working at now? I've been using: crunchbase, linkedin, reading techcrunch, etc as well as a ton of coffees, beers, 'career advice' meetings. Every time I find a company I go through an extensive search of who works there, what they do, what the demand is for their product, etc. This helps for discovery, but of course will inevitably help during the interview.

I know there are many companies that I am still missing. Is there a service out there (not recruiters) that can play matchmaker with the characteristics that I am looking for in a company?
My weekend project: anonymous, realtime message board with socket.io
http://oak.io/about
This is just a simple node app on a small Joyent server!
Ask HN: Good Reading/Immersion in Mathematics
I'm interested in getting a good solid basis for study of mathematics. Right now, I am interested in a broad and not necessarily too deep to start with; instead, I want to be acquainted with all of the different fields beyond what I've done in my mathematics classrooms.

What books and web pages do you recommend I read, as well as what blogs and podcasts are good to follow to learn more on a constant basis.

Thanks!
Ask HN: Is 36 too late to start into programming?
I was a PHB in a Spanish internet company, now unemployed. I have some cool ideas to implement in the Web but have little programming background and I'm 36. Is too late for me to join the party?
Java for iPhone
http://www.codenameone.com/
Ex Oracle/Sun Engineers build this tool that Java developers can use to run their code on multiple platforms including iOS. Beta version is free, so download and check it out!
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN use SSL/HTTPS for its login form?
Just about everyone I ask tells me that it's best practice to implement SSL/HTTPS for any login page (to protect user passwords), but then I notice that HN doesn't use SSL/HTTPS for login. Am I missing something? Is it risky to use the HN login on public networks?

Sorry in advance if this has been covered before-- I did a quick search and didn't see any recent posts...
Canviz: Graphiz on Canvas
http://www.ryandesign.com/canviz/
The source is available here: http://code.google.com/p/canviz/
Show HN: Outbound - A single events API for emails, push, sms, and voice
http://www.outbound.io/?utm_source=hn
Empower your product manager. Let them decide what the messages to your users say, when those messages are triggered, as well as how they are sent (sms, email, etc.) while you focus on building product features. They'll be able to use trusted providers like sendgrid, twilio and apple so you don't have to worry about message delivery.
Show HN: Matrix-CRDT – real-time collaborative apps using Matrix as backend
https://github.com/YousefED/Matrix-CRDT
Hi HN! Matrix-CRDT connects the worlds of Yjs [1] (a proven, high performance CRDT) with that of Matrix.org [2].

It started as an experiment, asking myself; can we store "state updates of a datastore" in Matrix instead of chat messages? Now, I'm convinced it's actually a really powerful combination to develop real-time, collaborative software.

I'm using it for a new project and so far didn't have to write a backend yet. Matrix takes care of a lot of stuff: Authentication, E2EE, federation, hosting, etc. - so I can focus on the client.

I love the ideas of Local First [3] software. Personally, I'm convinced the technologies in this ecosystem (CRDTs, etc) are really powerful and can do more to decentralize software than many web3 technologies that currently receive much of the hype.

However, it's still early days, so I decided to open source parts that I think will be useful to others (I recently also shared SyncedStore [4])

[1] https://github.com/yjs/yjs

[2] https://www.matrix.org

[3] https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

[4] https://www.syncedstore.org
JSVM
https://github.com/jawb/JSVM
Javascript virtual machine is one instruction set machine to parse and execute an assembly like code.
NSA provides German intelligence service with tools for eavesdropping
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fausland%2Finterview-mit-edward-snowden-im-spiegel-nsa-und-bnd-arbeiten-zusammen-a-909800.html
Better translation:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/edward-snowden-accuses-germany-of-aiding-nsa-in-spying-efforts-a-909847.html
Functional programming for Object Oriented programmers
http://www.lifebeyondfife.com/82-f-sharp.html
With the continuing popularity of functional programming, it doesn't look like it's ever going away. Here's is an introduction to functional programming in F# written with the object oriented (C#) programmer in mind.
Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_hi_te/google_challenger;_ylt=AvjnSUtzgetWYNEdZ16bP4es0NUE
And now TechCrunch:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/27/google-beats-cuil-hands-down-in-size-and-relevance-but-that-isnt-the-whole-story/
Android Ice Cream Sandwich PSD startkit
http://www.androiddesign.info
I've put together some PSD templates based on the newly published Android Design guidelines. Someone might find them useful, feel free to download.
The Reasoned Lisper
https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/the-reasoned-lisper/
Bridging Discrete and Continuous Logic in Automated Reasoning Systems

https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/the-reasoned-lisper/
You won't find FSF on Facebook
http://www.fsf.org/facebook
Well, you might, but they say it isn't them.
Work smart, not hard: The seven habits of highly effective slackers
http://www.examiner.com/x-3040-Minneapolis-Life-in-the-Cubicle-Examiner~y2009m5d4-The-seven-habits-of-highly-effective-slackers
A humorous but truthful approach on what it means to be a productive slacker.
Show HN: GraphJSON – Easily log and analyze events using ClickHouse
https://www.graphjson.com/
Hi HN,

My name is JR and I had a need for a simple analytics solution that allowed me to store (timestamp, json) logs and run SQL over them.

It was hard to find the right solution. Solutions like Mixpanel and Amplitude optimized for particular report types. Whereas solutions like Snowflake, BigQuery, etc. required a lot of setup.

I built GraphJSON to fit in the middle. I strived for the ease of use of tools like Mixpanel and Amplitude, but wanted to ensure affordances were built to support use cases that big data warehouses enable.

Under the hood, GraphJSON is powered by ClickHouse. This enables really efficient disk compression and fast queries. In many ways, you can think of GraphJSON as an easy way to explore ClickHouse without having to run and maintain your own clusters.

I'd love for you to give it a try. You can generally start logging your data in under a minute. From there, you can either use the UI tooling to create graphs in a no-code way. Or if you're more advanced, you can use the SQL editor to do any query you can think of!
introduction to "dark patterns" in design
http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Home
Introduction to the idea of dark patterns in design.
Show HN: Digs.fm – For passionate music explorers (like Goodreads but for music)
https://digs.fm
Hello everyone!

As someone who's constantly on the look for new music to discover and being very deliberate about the things I'm listening, I needed a better way to organize the albums I want to listen to, listened and liked. And also I would like to see the discoveries of other folks who I know I like.

So I started creating the tool I wish I had in the first place. In Digs, the basic idea is that:

- you can add music releases (albums, EPs, singles, mixes) in three lists: Want to Listen, Listened, Digged. You can also use tags and notes to better organize these lists.

- you get a public profile where your activity is visible (i.e. what you added to your lists). Example profile: https://digs.fm/alskn.

- you can add other people as friends. Then you'll see their activity in your home feed.

- you can either like or add a comment to any activity of your friends (or yours)

- you can explicitly recommend a release to one of your friends

You can think of it like Goodreads, but for music. I would assume it's mostly targeted to people that like to listen whole albums and would like to keep track of what albums/mixes they want to listen to, sometime in the future.

This is very early yet and there are a lot of rough edges.

You can find a few screenshots of the basic functionality in the homepage, from where you can also create an account - https://digs.fm.

I'd appreciate any feedback, thanks in advance!

---------

EDIT: I figured it's worth expanding a bit on some highlights:

- In the search box, apart from searching, you can copy/paste any release URL from Discogs/Spotify/Bandcamp/Mixcloud/MusicBrainz and it will basically fetch the release and then you can add it to your lists.

- There are browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome, so that when you're on some of the aforementioned sites, and you stumbled upon an interesting album, you can click the extension icon and the item will be added to your "Want to Listen" list.

- For certain releases, you'll notice there's an embedded web player, for convenience.
I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume
http://qz.com/103453/i-understood-gender-discrimination-after-i-added-mr-to-my-resume-and-landed-a-job/
"I made one change that day. I put Mr. in front of my name [Kim] on my CV. It looked a little too formal for my liking but I got an interview for the very next job I applied for. And the one after that. It all happened in a fortnight, and the second job was a substantial increase in responsibility over anything I had done before. In the end I beat out a very competitive short-list and enjoyed that job for the next few years, further enhancing my career."
Dennis Ritchie has died
http://pythonmeister.blogspot.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-has-died.html
Just a few thought - and a big thank you
My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
http://texpaste.herokuapp.com
Made this using Rails and Mathjax JS library. Sort of like the Gists for Latex. Would love to get any feedback.
Show HN: Hacker News with categories and popularity
http://newshack.io/
Did you want to know topics of the news or popularity of posts?
"Hacker News Hack" helps you to find news based on some categories and importance or popularity.

It tagged news with 9 categories with a natural language processing technology and supervised learning for categorizing news.

It also calculates a speed of number of comments in each posts as popularity based on term, that is 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year.
iOS 7.1 Mobile Safari Minimal UI
http://darkblue.sdf.org/weblog/ios-7-dot-1-mobile-safari-minimal-ui.html
The Mobile Safari 'minimal-ui' property has landed... and it's awesome!
Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator
https://4m3ric4.com
APIs are a little like the open road—always waiting, full of opportunity, but hardly utilized. So here’s America, composed of several APIs that paint a vivid, real-time picture of a good old-fashioned road trip. Get local classifieds and photos. Tune into local radio stations. Talk wit other drivers. And more.

Exploring the country by car was an invaluable experience for me during my time in the states. I’ve since moved to Barcelona, and find myself missing the territory. This is my attempt at recreating the magic.
Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 pre-release demo
http://bootstrap.io/Demo/
* bootstrap.io is not from or sanctioned by the Bootstrap Team
Team Fortress 2 now free forever
http://www.teamfortress.com/freetoplay/
http://www.teamfortress.com/freetoplay/
Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc
https://fruits.de/en
Hi HN!

Whilst trying to build an online community for content creators, we failed!
Taking the learnings and stripping down our product to a true MVP, we now started working on "fruits", which allows creators to sell files such as ebooks, designs, checklists, music and online coachings online in less than two minutes.

https://fruits.de/en

It works as simple as this:

1. upload a file at "fruits" & set a price
2. you will receive your individual fruits-sales-link
3. share the link wherever your customers are (e.g. website, newsletter, social media)

In addition, we also take care of the tedious office work such as invoicing and VAT collection for you, and this is completely automated.

What do you think? We are looking forward to your feedback!
Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads
https://www.booqsi.com/
Hey HN, I know reading books isn’t everyone’s thing, but it’s certainly been mine for as long as I can remember.

Unfortunately, I felt like the online book space was missing a platform that does the book community justice. Goodreads is the go-to "social platform", but if you've been on Goodreads before, you'll probably agree that it's not all that social, and overall not all that exciting.

So I set out to build what I personally was looking for (but could never find). The goal: to give the book community a more social and streamlined alternative to Goodreads or StoryGraph.

We also felt like it was important for Booqsi to be independent of Amazon; we care about supporting local bookstores, so every book in Booqsi links you to Bookshop.org to purchase that book (not Amazon).

Here are some of my favorite features launched as part of beta:

- A book-focused social feed (finally!)

- Beautifully-rendered custom bookshelves to show off to your friends

- Streamlined book recommendations to friends

- Easily track reading goals and books you've read

And many more...

It's completely free and easy to use, and we would love your feedback as you explore the platform.
Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"
http://codinghorror.com
From the site:

Coding Horror experienced 100% data loss at our hosting provider, CrystalTech.

I have some backups and I'll try to get it up and running ASAP!
The New Tech Conference Model: "Community Driven."
http://andrewhy.de/the-death-of-modern-conferences-review-of-boulder-startup-week/
Disabling Internet Explorer Cross Site Scripting Filter (XSS)
http://www.re-cycledair.com/disabling-internet-explorer-cross-site-scripting-filer-xss
Video: In-depth introduction to Orbit.js by dgeb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAwk_mF-dWo
Apple Is The 7th Largest Company In The World
http://www.corporateinformation.com/Top-100.aspx?topcase=b
Proposed CS course: Climate Change Informatics
http://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/?p=1504
In Tech We Trust: Why it's the most trusted sector
http://www.edelman.com/post/in-tech-we-trust/