jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What do you develop with?
What tools do you develop with, and in what language (and operating system)?

I just want to see what the HN community uses for coding
Show HN: My first web app trains your ears
http://www.earbuilder.com/
Hi HN,

I've been taking guitar lessons and one thing that is recommended to most musicians is ear training - where two different notes are played and you must identify the number of steps between the notes. My app, Earbuilder, should help with that process.

You can find it here: http://www.earbuilder.com/

It's my first web app, and my first real foray into JavaScript. You can take a look at the source and you'll see that it's pretty poorly structured, but I've picked up a book and hopefully things will improve with my second web application.

Please let me know if you have any comments, suggestions, or hate because I'm looking to improve this over the coming weeks!
Talk Dirty to Me, Paul Krugman Talk Dirty to Me, Paul Krugman August 24, 2011
http://tumblr.davidcairns.org/post/9359368094/so-steve-jobs-has-left-his-role-as-apples-ceo
So, Steve Jobs has left his role as Apple’s CEO. Like, for good this time.
How Netflix does software
http://functionsource.com/post/netflix-feature
It was very interesting to get some time with Netflix to find out how they do software products, and how they are using the Web to get them to 400+ devices.
Show HN: Mutter – follow ideas not people
https://mutter.cards
The Anti Social Network

Here is our humble take on a new MVP much better Twitter where you:

* discover links using swipes & AI
* curate & share stream feed links
* follow ideas not people :-)

https://mutter.cards

Check this out,
and help us build this better, by sharing your suggestions on:

feedback@psytech.ai
Ask HN: What specialties can get a senior web developer more salary?
Say your salary is approaching $200k mark in few years. What directions can you go to be in better position from here...

I realize just the salary isn't everything, esp given that you get taxed through nose. So maybe modest increase in salary but more chill job?

How can you get

.. to $400k?

.. to position with more impact?

.. more autonomy?

.. social interaction?

.. less stress?

.. less coding?

.. more fun?

lots of things to optimize for but what does get you there? I know the things I need to do to become a better sr software developer: communication, architecture/system design, learn my tools, learn my stack in and out, delegating, coaching other devs, etc. It's great if you're happy with that. But frankly I'm feeling my passion for coding as work dwindling and would love to explore. I thought I wanted to be a technical product manager, until I realized it was basically middle management where you get worse of both sides.
Show HN: Site which searches throught Internet to find full movies from youtube
http://keepermovies.com/
Hi,

This is my first django website, how do you like it? Please give me your feedback :)

Best,
Wiktor
Stopwatching.us
https://optin.stopwatching.us
The revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance apparatus, if true, represent a stunning abuse of our basic rights. We demand the U.S. Congress reveal the full extent of the NSA's spying programs.
Retweeting links and replying “cool stuff ” is not a discussion
http://aworldforus.tumblr.com/post/612855285/sorry-web-2-0-guys-but-retweeting-links-and-replying
A blog post on how immersive web and VOIP can make better discussions happen online
Smartphone-Controlled Paper Airplane Has Raised Over $500k On Kickstarter
http://www.businessinsider.com/smartphone-controlled-paper-airplane-2013-12#ixzz2mtD5Kzuq
Website:

http://www.poweruptoys.com/pages/app-toys

Kickstarter campaign page:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/393053146/powerup-30-smartphone-controlled-paper-airplane

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the project in any way.
AppFactory: fast-tracked seed funding for facebook apps
http://www.baypartners.com/appfactory/
I'd like to know more about Bay Partners, the VC firm behind this. They don't appear on pg's Top VCs list (http://ycombinator.com/topvcs.html), and there aren't any names that jump out at me in their portfolio, but neither of those mean much. Any info?

Also, if anyone has a personal contact there that they want to introduce me to, I would love that. My email is in my profile. Thanks.
Tell HN: Will answer your javascript questions for the next few hours
Need help with a javascript problem? I'm open for the next few hours to answer questions or help with your code.

Leave a comment here, hit me on twitter @geuis, or email geuis.teses@gmail.com
Show HN: Web service for monitoring web pages (weekend project)
http://www.watchit4.me/
Type in URL and keyword to look for, set search interval and forget it.
Once keyword you are looking for appears on site you will receive email notification with short description and link to article (hopefully :D :D :D)
Programming Problems To Improve Your Language Skills 
http://blog.tbueno.com/2011/04/12/programming_problems_to_improve_your_language_skills.html
Interesting ways of improve programming skills.
Repository of Cocoa objects for iOS & Mac OS X
http://cocoaobjects.com/
A great little website providing links & summary descriptions of Open Source code you can use in your iOS and Mac OS X projects.
This is What a Trillion Dollars Looks Like
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
graphic depiction of a stack of a trillion dollars in $100 bills
Ask HN: How do you manage/share domain knowledge in your company?
So I am one of the oldest engineers at this company. and the company grew significantly in the past year. I found myself in situations were everyone is asking for a few minutes to get an understanding of a feature or a piece of code or some service/integration and I find myself spending almost 60% of my time on such requests. So just curious how does different companies manage their internal product/tech knowledge and what does the knowledge distribution mechanism look like.
VoIP Company Releases Live Call Map - Google API Mashup
http://www.onsip.com/extras/live-call-map
Mashup of the day on ProgrammableWeb.com:

http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup/live-call-map-mash-up-onsip-data-google-maps-api-ip2location?date

You’re seeing live calls as OnSIP customers pick up the phone. When an OnSIP customer makes a call, a pin drops. When an OnSIP customer receives a call, a pin drops. This works because OnSIP is - at its core - a communications platform built on software. We created a live UDP stream of OnSIP customer call data with IP addresses of each end point (phone). We used IP2Location to get the lat/long for each IP address, and then plotted these points via the Google Map API.
Poll HN: Should we encourage "AMA" threads here?
The other day greyman wondered whether AMA threads on HN might be a good idea (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1400815)

Joshu pulled off a very successful AMA here the other week (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1356140) and I believe another one happened in the past too (can't find link at the moment). I've wondered about doing a QA for my field (computer forensics) because it often generates interest/emails when I talk about it.

On the other hand meta threads and "Ask" posting is often discouraged.

AMA's have proven very interesting on Reddit and I figure here we would get:

- even more interesting people

- better/insightful questions (or at least a better signal/noise ratio)

Hence, a brief straw poll.

I divided up Yes into two categories, purely for the fact that people may prefer a limited interest field.
Ask HN: What sci-fi books are you reading?
I recently got a kindle and am looking to download some sci - fi books. Here are some that have been recommended to me:

- Snow Crash

- Enders Game

- His Dark Materials

- Dune in Conquest

- Born

- Hyperion

- Daemon

- Tactics of Mistake

- The Realty Disfunction

- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

What are your favorites? Any tips on where to start?
Ask HN: How to calculate best subscription fee
I'm trying to determine which is a better membership pricing structure; $20 / year versus $50 / year.

The lower price will increase the number of subscribers but lower the revenue per customer (obviously). The higher number will do the opposite.

Is there some information somewhere (not many good search engine results) on ways to compare these two pricing structures? Perhaps some graphs and mathematical explanation of what the advantage of the lower price with more members is versus the higher price with fewer members?

Thanks to any responders.
Ask HN: Is it possible for a third world country to have a Silicon Valley?
Sorry if I'm linking to my downvoted AskReddit submission. I just thought you guys might want to get a sense of why I'm asking this question.

I actually don't know how to program but I really wanted to get a more neutral but detailed information on how much work it takes before reaching the promised land for local third world developers/start-ups.

As one commentor used as an example:

"So many times have I heard people here look down on pinoy artists and game developers and look up to Korean artists and game developers, but the irony here is that A LOT OF PINOY ARTISTS AND DEVELOPERS ARE WORKING FOR KOREAN GAME COMPANIES."

I hope you don't mind me morphing this issue into a tech-related subject. Aside from Reddit, HN and Metafilter are the only two other major social media sites I know of that are well known for their quality comments. I failed to generate Reddit's interests and I don't have a MetaFilter account and this is the last place I have of asking aside from local sites, many of whom I'm not familiar of and many more who might not have as grand a knowledge as to the pros and cons and history of the web 2.0 boom as a global audience.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/e9jmo/could_the_philippines_seriously_have_become_the/
Ask YC: When will FaceTime be open?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3115535/cant-find-ios-facetime-protocol-documentation
Is it just me, or is it a bit insincere to call it an open standard if all they did was promise to one day release documentation?
Ask HN: How can a CS undergrad gain real-world skills?
Hey HN.
I'm an undergraduate computer science student. For a while now I've been trying to gain some real world experience, for my own development, and to (hopefully) make me more appealing to employers.

I try to build projects in my free time to build up a portfolio. However, I'm always stuck for ideas; a lot of my ideas are either out of my skill (or require a lot of research/expertise), or seem too trivial. I've tried looking for open-source projects to contribute to, but have honestly had a really hard time finding projects that I could benefit.

I've had one quite large project that I managed to get through the family of a friend which involved developing quite a large PHP site with a lot of functionality (I used Laravel & OctoberCMS [http://octobercms.com] as a starting point).
My main skills are in PHP/HTML/CSS/JS, C#/VB.NET, python, and a tiny bit of Node.js. My uni teaches Java, and at the moment, I'm trying to learn Rust.

Recently, I've been trying to get small jobs freelancing on sites like http://peopleperhour.com/. While I've received one or two small tasks (integrate an API, fix bugs), I've never received a proper 'project' that I could call my own.

Although I think that I'm more skilled and have a more experience than most other students at my level, I also feel as though it'd be easy to go out of my depth doing freelancing. However, I really want to gain some skills/experience that will make me stand out of the crowd.

Hopefully this is an appropriate Ask HN. I think it could benefit a lot of other students in my position.
On the fundamentals of programming
http://codeulate.com/?p=4
More on learning to program and why a comp sci degree is not enough...
Google+ Topical circles?
http://www.gravity7.com/blog/media/2011/08/google-topical-circles.html
We have circles for people. Would it make sense to have circles for topics?
Crashed a LinkedIn event and filmed Matz's talk about Ruby
http://startup-dna.tumblr.com/post/35446902032/crashed-a-linkedin-tech-talk-and-interviewed
Matz also gave me an interview for my docu at that event. He was really nice and forthcoming. This is the talk he gave at the event (HD). Duration: 45 min. Hope you like it.
Please help Suicide hotline non profit
Hi,
I belong to a developing nation, where we have almost no suicide hotlines. So i am thinking of starting a suicide hotline but I am facing some technical difficulties. I don't have a large budget to purchase Cisco unified communication system so i looking at something cheaper. This is what i am looking for :

1) People call to one unified number, a standard line number and it gets routed.
2) The calls should be routed to mobile numbers instead of landline numbers. This is a non profit venture which means that i can't employ people.So i want the calls get routed to mobile number of volunteers who are available at that time, despite their location.

I have figured out asterisk but i don't know if it is best solution for this. If it is, i don't know my way around that. So guys please advice me on this issue, you might end up saving someones life.
Psychopaths Among Us
http://www.hare.org/links/saturday.html
A classic read since Hans Riser isnin the news again.
Show HN: EVRTHN.com, a Search Engine for the “Metaverse”
https://evrthn.com/
Hey HN!

As a geriatric Millennial, I used to spend an ungodly amount of time hanging around IRC and discovering sites on the old web. During the Pandemic, I got into hanging around standup comedy hangouts in VRChat. Taking friends to visit a virtual Mcdonald's[1] or joining a Karaoke party in a Minecraft world[2] brought back that sense of rapport and presence (multiplied by 1000) from my IRC days.

Problem is, finding any of this content is extremely difficult. Most of it is locked inside native apps and isn't semantically relevant to Google (I could never imagine there are tons of people attending Yoga classes or morning stretch sessions or going to the church every week, in VR!).

So I repurposed an open source project[3], enlisted a couple of folks to hack together, and we're now indexing a ton of content from sites & apps - news, events, worlds, assets - and making it all searchable.

This is still very much an alpha, and mostly focused on content from VRChat and AltspaceVR (plus some news outlets), but I'd love to hear your thoughts & feedback.

Site: evrthn.com [4] (pronounced "everything")

Thank you!

[1] https://bit.ly/3ArLjNk

[2] https://bit.ly/3R5Pg1e

[3] http://github.com/cloudsearch

[4] https://evrthn.com
Ask HN: Why does no one talk about working or interviewing for Oracle?
I find it interesting that people here talk about the interview process and working at companies such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook, but I never hear about Oracle.

Why is this? Is it the because databases and web servers are not cool anymore? Or maybe just because Oracle does not sell consumer products?
Death of the Level Designer: Procedural Content Generation in Games
http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com/2008/01/death-of-level-designer-procedural.html
"Procedural content generation is yet to set the game industry on fire. It has featured in one of the greatest games of all time, Diablo and it's successor, who directly trace their roots to roguelike games such as Angband. But the recent implementation of random level generation in Hellgate: London did little to inspire people that this method works well for game level design. But bubbling under the surface of the industry, and very much evident in future games like Spore is a methodology that like most technologies has been underwhelming in the short term but in the long term will have profound consequences for how games are designed."
Which programming languages are the fastest?
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php
Surprised that LISP is 20x faster than PHP or Perl in this benchmark (median times). It is even faster than Python and of course Ruby.
Just don't die - Advice from Last.fm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6979941.stm
Echos of pg's essay (http://paulgraham.com/die.html) on the importance of staying alive for a startup from one of the Last.fm founders.

Anyone think they ever quit too early with their startup ?
Loopt offers its service to Sprint users
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118463593061968439.html?mod=technology_main_whats_news/
Unfortunately you need to be signed in the read the rest of the article.
ScaleConf SouthAfrica - Conference on scalable websites and services
http://scaleconf.org
Web Conference in South Africa on scalable websites and services with speakers from Github, Amazon, Yammer and more.
Ask HN: Are early adopters rich?
The Lex Column in this weekend's Financial Time ran a small snippet about US Cable Companies, namely about how the phenomenon of "cord-cutters" is making investors uneasy (Comcast reports to have lost 119,000 in the 3Q alone).

One quote, in particular, struck me - "There are a few problems with the consumer-as-surgeon thesis, though. For a start, it relies on the early adopters of technology, who are generally rich..."

A proud cord-cutter since 2006, I am certainly not rich. And most of the people I know without cable aren't either; they are young, technologically savvy or forced-into-thrift via the recession.

Do you think early adopters are "rich"?
Show HN: Approcity - Hackers helping hackers get users
http://www.approcity.com
If you're like me, your number 1 problem is: How do I get users?

Approcity is a totally free link exchange network for web app developers. Feature a customizable (and non-blocking) bar on your website / blog / girlfriends site. When anyone clicks an app that is featured on your bar you will be rewarded with karma. Karma gets your app(s) featured on other people's bars. Its reciprocity for web apps! I've also included some safeguards to prevent the overly-clever from unfairly racking up their own scores.
Overview of Paul Graham's Future of Web Apps (FOWA) session
http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/10/04/fowa-the-future-of-web-startups-paul-graham/
They are probably incomplete and may contain mistakes, though I do my best to be accurate. Chances are I'll be adding links to extra material and photos later on, so don't hesitate to come back and check.

steph-note: missed the beginning, very incomplete...
Ten Angels/VCs respond (anonymously) to Yuri/Conway's $150k YC offer
http://launch.is/blog/2011/1/31/l006-angels-respond-anonymously-to-yuri-rons-all-in-150k-to.html
We emailed the 250 members of the Open Angel Forum and asked them for feedback on the stunning news. Nine of them are off the record, Dave McClure went on the record.

My thoughts are at the end (I love the news and would do the same if I was flush with Facebook shares :-).
Start-Ups Get Free Chance to Pitch to Angel Investors
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704198004575310561617944540.html
some great press... most of the companies from Open Angle Forum seem to be getting funded. I think over 25-50% that present will get funded within six months of presenting. really great to hear all the success stories.
Follow Hacker News on Twitter
http://twitter.com/newsycombinator
I made a script that takes the top 5 stories from Hacker News and feeds them to Twitter, so you can get breaking stories directly to your Twitter stream
[Solved] What programming languages should I learn?
http://www.mahdiyusuf.com/post/3279728032/solved-what-programming-languages-should-i-learn
I get asked this all the time.
Show HN: A Levels.fyi for Contracting/Freelancing
https://hourly.fyi/
I've been working on this the last few days after seeing a post on reddit calling for this exact website to exist. I'm hoping the email-less/account-less and open data might be appealing.

I'd love any feedback you might have, and of course if you were to volunteer some data ;)

I'm aware it looks bad on mobile atm.
Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for developers
https://magistrate.khanna.law/
I made this because I think that if contracts were written in plain text files and managed more like software, from version control to IDEs, lawyers would work more quickly and intelligently for their clients, saving them money.

But the entire practice of transactional law is stuck on Microsoft Word. My clients are mostly technology companies with an appetite for innovation. With their encouragement, I am moving my own legal practice away from formats like Microsoft Word and into plain text.

Electronic signatures of plain text contracts is the starting point for that effort. The MVP is this developer API.

If the reception to this product is positive, I'll continue to release the products that I build. In time, my hope is that plain text will supplant Microsoft Word in the drafting, negotiation and execution of contracts.
Using your team to better prioritize tasks in your startup (video)
http://blog.hackfwd.com/post/33831719885/how-do-your-prioritize-tasks-in-your-startup
Eisenhower / covey method is great, but I found this helpful for those of us who struggle to decide what's urgent / important etc. Two minutes well spent for me.
SimplyHappyNews.com Just what it says on the URI
http://simplyhappynews.com
Just a quick offbeat submission that I thought readers may appreciate in their RSS feed. Enough with all the doom and gloom :)
Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/opinion/28kristof.html?_r=1
Yes, I realize the title is very politically-charged, but it's an actual interesting article about dealing with ideas and people you don't agree with.
Twitter Should Shut Me Down
http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/twitter-should-shut-me-down
Cached version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fedu.mkrecny.com%2Fthoughts%2Ftwitter-should-shut-me-down&aq=f&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fedu.mkrecny.com%2Fthoughts%2Ftwitter-should-shut-me-down&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Why Your Start-up Will Fail
http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/2007/09/24/yahoo-google-tivo-ent-manage-cx_ws_0924startupfailure.html
An oft-cited study estimates that just two-thirds of all start-ups see their second birthdays, and less than half make it to their fourth.

Whatever the exact figures, no one would argue that scores of budding new ventures die on the vine. One of the most common killers: lack of focus.
The Business of XKCD
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/business/media/26link.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
non advertising income
Any good api to scrape HN other than this?
https://github.com/karan/HackerNewsAPI
how to scrape HN other then https://github.com/karan/HackerNewsAPI . any good premade library in python ?
Unofficial Github Cards
https://github.com/lepture/github-cards
This is the unofficial GitHub Cards. It has cards for your GitHub profile and cards for your repositories.
Launchbox Startups
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/05/launchbox-unleashes-its-first-nine-startups/
I think the Koofers one is the one I see being a huge success
Java Serialization options
http://code.google.com/p/thrift-protobuf-compare/wiki/Benchmarking
When you want to use external caching mechanism (outside the JVM), serializing/deserializaing of objects introduce a penalty. A good serialization library makes the external cache more viable.
On Why I Am Not Buying RubyMotion
http://www.upbeat.it/2012/05/08/on-why-i-am-not-buying-rubymotion/
I like Ruby and the way it is easy to work with. I personally use ruby in many projects, mostly on the server side. I am not a lover of Xcode. Yet, RubyMotion is not for me.
Socks - A javascript UI toolkit inspired by Shoes
http://wiki.github.com/petejkim/socks
Introducing Socks. An easy to use javascript UI toolkit with Shoes (http://www.shoooes.net) like syntax. Build webapps quickly and easily with no knowledge of HTML or CSS.
I quit my job. Today is Day #2.
http://www.nevertryneverfail.com/i-quit-my-job-today-is-day-2/
It appears that my hosting is failing... Posted same article here.

https://medium.com/@keslertanner/i-quit-my-job-today-is-day-2-c5f00278e426