jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Qwikdraft: Voicefy Your Drawings
https://qwikdraft.com/
Qwikdraft is building a solution to give the structural details of a drawing as a voicemail, instead of a drawing.
Please let us know your thoughts
Show HN: This image knows detailed data about your browser
https://single.uber.space/client_hints/youtbrowser.png
Did use client hints [1] to build this

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Client_hin...
Happy New Year from Asia
Wishing you a Happy New Year !
May 2015 bring you success, joy, peace and prosperity !
AZAuth
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/352515068/azauth-an-opensource-oauth2-server
OpenSource #OAuth2 Server project on kickstarted http://kck.st/1qA3ERo
Give me your feedback on my news site.
http://newskicks.com
Hi All,

I have created a social bookmarking site entierly using drupal and available modules.please give me your feedback on what you like and what you dont like and how can i improve it.
22yr student adapts hybrid car technology to a bicycle
http://www.reuters.com/video/2011/09/30/new-york-student-brings-new-energy-to-bi?videoId=222127187&videoChannel=6
The basis of the technology is using a flywheel to store energy -
How to Design Software With Bad Requirements
http://blog.slickedit.com/?p=63
All software developers have customers; the end users. Even if they are just the people in the department next door, they are the people who drive our work. Ultimately, it's our job to deliver what they want, not we believe to be what they want. Sometimes that's a tough fact to face.
Ask HN: Server Monitor for LEMP Stack
I was wondering what is the best server monitor for a LEMP stack site. I have looked at several but haven't be able to find that I really like.

Ideally I would be able to monitor web requests, cpu, network traffic along with php and mysql performance/resources
3 types of social networks embedded in UGC sites
http://blog.eladgil.com
Classification of the 3 types of social networks that are embedded in, and drive, user-gen content sites.<p>Also a deep dive on Wikipedia and how it had game mechanics built in many years ago.
Ask HN: Requesting feedback on web app and tool idea.
The idea: a browser toolbar that keeps track of websites you have contacted as part of your marketing strategy.

The toolbar will keep track of how you found the website (e.g. Google search and relevant keywords), record a contact method against it (contact form / enter an email address), and mark whether you'll be contacting the website or ignoring it.

There will be a display on the toolbar to show whether you've previously saved the current website / marked as ignorable, and I'm toying with the idea of putting on Alexa/Compete/PageRank indicators. Users would also be able to create new campaigns and choose between existing campaigns using the toolbar.

All data will be saved to a central database, and the user can log in to a web front-end to view the saved websites. The websites could be marked as contacted, and if relevant, what the result of the contact was.

The plan would be to charge a monthly fee depending on how many users should have access to the account's database.

I'm just thinking about this at the moment, and would love to hear any criticisms or comments you have.

Tom.
Dear Newspapers, Please Stop Ranking My School
http://jayshah.me/blog/dear-newspapers-please-stop-ranking-my-school?
http://jayshah.me/blog/dear-newspapers-please-stop-ranking-my-school
Nokia To Unveil its Social App “Pulse” For iOS and Android Platforms
http://www.techieapps.com/nokia-to-unveil-its-social-app-pulse-for-ios-and-android-platforms/
Nokia has launched its Pulse app in November,2011, an application bit which permits users to keep in touch taking benefit of the GPS functionality inside mobile devices.
HN flaw:  no discussions with naive computer users.
How can one build a product that appeals to a huge market without being familiar with what naive computer users want and can understand?

Shouldn't HN have discussions involving naive computer users?
Sparse Distributed Representations - Gerard Rinkus
http://people.brandeis.edu/~grinkus/Analog_Devices_Lyric_Talk_Rinkus_Dec_14_2012.pdf
One of the major ideas of the Cortical Learning Algorithm.
Fresh passwords, every 5 seconds
http://blog.bigcurl.de/2009/04/fresh-passwords-every-5-seconds.html
So you need a password now. Want it long, copy/paste save and secure? Here you go: http://p.squidshot.com.

Passwords are refreshed every 5 seconds. So no excuse of using bad passwords anymore.
Venmo for crypto, send ERC20/ETH at realtime speed, search via username
I'm hoping this app helps make crypto easier to use for peer-to-peer transfers and for accepting crypto at Points of Sale, since we can process payments in real time. Would love for any feedback from this group!

Users can send ERC20 tokens or Eth by username. Peer-to-peer transfers are free (only pay gas cost in currency being sent)

Buy ETH/DAI/USDC in app with apple pay.

How our app works

• User deposits funds to smart contract via mobile app from private wallet

• Users can search for other users by username

• User signs a transaction with the amount to pay and wallet address (which is provided via app), which is then sent to a processing queue for settlement.

• The merchant balance is updated on app immediately, but it may take up to an hour for the transaction to settle on the Ethereum network.

• Once the funds have settled on the network the user can send a request to withdraw the amount received.

• User must send a request to withdraw to prevent users from withdrawing when they owe money. We can only prevent withdrawal of funds for approximately one week but we cannot at any time seize customer funds due to the decentralized nature of the smart contract.

Smart contract code publicly viewable and verifiable here: https://etherscan.io/address/0x1292463b22ed4cb340c737fbc046258fb428f27c#code

https://www.mopayd.com/faq

App available for ios platforms only at this time. Download link -> https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mopayd/id1479303782?ls=1
Which Member of the Startup Tribe Are You?
http://www.infochachkie.com/thetribe/
Startups are like primitive tribes. Which member are you most like?
Are You Hip to Hipmunk[YC S10]? Pogue Posts / NYTimes 
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/are-you-hip-to-hipmunk/
Great to see this tool getting coverage from some mainstream media. I've recommended Hipmunk to several friends and family members simply because it's a great tool for finding and comparing flight information.

Pogue goes into detail about some personal history he has with Hipmunk co-founder, Adam Goldstein:

Eventually, I hired him as a tech reviewer for "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual," and he was amazing. His writing sounded exactly like mine. I started assigning him little sidebars and appendixes to write. By a year later, he’d written a Missing Manual himself: "AppleScript: The Missing Manual," published when he was 16, too young to sign his own book contract.
Ask HN: Best Wordpress Directory Structure/Permissions (LNMP)?
Setup: Amazon EC2 Micro instance (VPS) with Ubuntu 10.10 Server + nginx + php-fpm + Wordpress.

Obviously there's no right or wrong answer, but nonetheless -- given the above stack, what directory structure && file user/group permissions would you recommend and why?

Of course security is always a concern, so the ideal structure/permissions wouldn't have security risks (ex: chmod 777 wp-content) but should also have no problem functioning properly (uploading images to wp-content, plugins). Also, remember that we're dealing with Nginx rather than Apache.

I've tried a number of solutions, none of which I'm happy with thus far. Hoping to get some better ideas!
Ask HN: What is the best way to test stock market strategies?
Either programming or any specific tools. Thanks.
Identifying the perpetrator of cyber-attacks can be impossible
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13416219&source=hptextfeature
Cyberwarfare
A Chinese ghost in the machine?
Startup Weekend San Francisco 2 from April 3-5, 2009
http://socialapp.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/announcement-startup-weekend-san-francisco-2-april-3-5-2009/
I am looking for other developer's who will be going for Startup Weekend to partner up. I have signed up as a Back end Developer.
Show HN: Annotate and share ArXiv papers - Smort.io
https://www.smort.io/##
Hey HN,

Smort lets you easily edit, annotate, share and save ArXiv papers and articles! Just add smort.io/ before a URL to read it in Smort. No login needed!

Here is a demo- https://www.smort.io/demo/home

I posted a Show HN for the v1 in March [1]. The v2 is a major upgrade and lets you save articles permanently and read arXiv papers natively in Smort rather than handling PDFs. All ArXiv papers released up till 20th May 2022 can be parsed.

When I was a grad student, I found it hard to collaborate on arXiv papers and share my annotations, so I built Smort to solve a problem I faced. Smort can be used instead of Github to host your annotated papers collection and share it with the world!

Please send feature requests or feedback by joining our Discord [2] or following us on Twitter [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30673502
[2] https://discord.gg/V8yageC6ud
[3] https://twitter.com/SmortApp/
Poll: What is your primary Laptop/Desktop Operating System?
Curious about the distribution of operating system usage among HN users.
Show HN: Decentralized P2P Pastebin
https://envs.net/~grizzly/dpaste/#/TUF2MHdmUTdsdHR3eHRpdENIVEtMYWh2eWhjbW9GR0JlQk1UUFVrNnltdz0=
I created this just to test the "gun" library for p2p databases. Website created in React.

Pastebin source: https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/gundpaste
Does your website make you look like a poor loser?
http://tracksuitceo.com/2008/06/27/does-your-website-make-you-look-like-a-poor-loser/
I used to be a poor loser, until I visited this website.
Why SXSW Matters
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/03/10/why.sxsw.matters/index.html
CNN's take on why SXSW matters.
Ask HN: How do you filter opinions on subjects where you lack expertise?
HN is such a wonderful source of knowledge and intellectual curiosity. (thanks @dang and others for maintaining such a vibrant ecosystem!)

as HN expands, however, it's attracting people who are less rigorous in sharing opinions.

for instance, this intel thread contains a number of conflicting assessments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713945. which comments are actually knowledgeable and which ones merely sound knowledgeable?

what are your heuristics for filtering opinions on subjects where you lack expertise?
Another great JS security (view source)
http://www.foresthomecemetery.com/
just great. ;)
F-Secure's won't speak at RSA's 2014 conference
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/24/fsecure_wont_speak_at_imperialist_lackey_rsas_conference/
Mikko Hypponen - “I don’t really expect your multibillion dollar company or your multimillion dollar conference to suffer as a result of your deals with the NSA. In fact, I'm not expecting other conference speakers to cancel. Most of your speakers are american anyway – why would they care about surveillance that’s not targeted at them but at non-americans. Surveillance operations from the US intelligence agencies are targeted at foreigners. However I’m a foreigner. And I’m withdrawing my support from your event.”
Ask HN: How do I get rid of old computer books?
https://twitter.com/BrannockDevice/status/378291712629555200
Seems like a waste to throw them away, but their not even worth posting on Amazon...
Hiring an iPhone/iPad dev
We're a young (funded) startup out of Northern California looking to hire our first developer.

Ideally we're looking for someone who has experience with Cocoa Touch and Core Animation. If you're hungry, motivated and ready to hit the ground running drop us a line!

Telecommuting is possible depending on the person, within driving distance of San Francisco is ideal.

If you're smart and passionate, drop us a line: coffeetablejob@gmail.com
Do you think my Python/Django/HTTP/... notes/docs could be useful?
https://github.com/tomaszzielinski/docs
I have these notes/docs of mine (think of it as of "condensed experience"), I use them myself but I'm not sure if there's anyone else interested in something like that.

If there's any hope, what should I do to make it (more) useful to you ?
Gridmanager.js – jQuery plugin to manage bootstrap grids with editable regions
http://neokoenig.github.io/jQuery-gridmanager/demo/index.html
My 1st plugin - thoughts please!
Ask HN: How YouTube made their comments good?
A few years ago, I remember that YouTube comments were the epitome of shithole, they were full of hatred.

And now they're usually pretty good, under most of the popular videos it's just good-hearted jokes. There can be a factual correction, but it's rarely a shithole that you can see on other social networks (e.g. Twitter).

There certainly weren't any active moderation on scale, so it must be their design, incentives and ranking algorithms. So, the question is, how they did it?
Ask HN: Could you please suggest a service for reviewing English texts on site?
English is not my native language.
I would like a service which provides fast reviewing English texts on site.
I think such services can be useful for many entrepreneurs here.
How to Install Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0 on Ubuntu 10.10
http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-install-ruby-1-9-2-and-rails-3-0-on-ubuntu-10-10-4148.html
For those of us forced out of our warm, comfortable Mac OS X Rails development environments here's a nice screencast from Peter Cooper on installing Ruby, RVM and Rails on Ubuntu. Hang in there Windows users...you're not forgotten...
Young Professionals Want to Work in Google, Apple and Facebook
http://www.applecture.com/young-professionals-want-to-work-in-google-apple-and-facebook-46791
The company Universum undertakes an interesting study, by interviewing U.S. college graduates of different years and determines among which the most desirable employers for them...
How to deal with the horror known as Eternal September?
http://svenups.com/2011/09/01/eternal-september/
Why does Eternal September happen and how to avoid it?
Digg is down
http://centernetworks.com/is-digg-down
FYI, Digg is down.
The Port Scan Attack Detector
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/02/07/the-port-scan-attack-detector/
PSAD is a collection of four lightweight system daemons written in Perl and in C that is designed to work with Linux firewalling code (iptables in the 2.4.x kernels, and ipchains in the 2.2.x kernels) to detect port scans. It features a set of highly configurable danger thresholds (with sensible defaults provided), verbose alert messages that include the source, destination, scanned port range, begin and end times, tcp flags and corresponding nmap options (Linux 2.4.x kernels only), reverse DNS info, email alerting, and automatic blocking of offending ip addresses via dynamic configuration of ipchains/iptables firewall rulesets. In addition, for the 2.4.x kernels psad incorporates many of the tcp signatures included in Snort to detect highly suspect scans.
Skrap - Easily scrap web pages by providing json recipes
http://nickdima.github.io/skrap/
Skrap is a command line utility and node.js module for easily scraping web pages by providing json recipes
Wordpress 3.8 is out - Includes new admin and frontend themes
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.8
Wordpress 3.8 is out - Includes new admin and frontend themes
Will you pay 400€ to get feedback for your startup idea?
Will you pay 400€ to get feedback for your startup idea?
5 VCs and Market expert will privately give you feedback of your startup idea before you've started creating it. They will signal you pitfalls, problems, challenges of your startup and give you also a roadmap they'll do to get to the success your startup idea.
This will save you a lot of time and money.
Will you pay this service?
Author of 4-Hour Workweek shows how to write a bestseller
http://tracksuitceo.com/2008/04/22/the-response-from-tim-ferriss/
Tim responds to an open letter from one of his fans with a case study of how he hit the NY Times Bestseller list. He also tells how to get major authors and celebrities to comment on your book.
Javascript Competition Tonight - Remote Participation Available
http://quickleft.com/blog/april-hackfest-javascript-competition-details
If you're remote, you'll be able to fork the project here: https://github.com/quickleft/hackfest
- Your pull request will act as your remote submission and we'll show it on the live stream!

You can also chat with us during the competition here:
http://www.justin.tv/quickleft
Machine Learning for the Web: A Unified View (2008)
http://videolectures.net/bsciw08_domingos_mlwuv/
Found this gem of a video when doing some research on machine learning applications. I hope others find it as enjoyable as I did.
How to be memorable at any conference or event
http://www.succesure.com/2009/how-to-become-memorable-at-any-conference-or-event/#more-291
In the last few months, I've been to Angelconf, Demo Day, Codecon, and now off to Adtech. I liked this post because I used to just go to conferences and "see what happened." But, when I go with an idea of what I want to get out of it (whether it's meeting a particular person, etc.), the results are far more powerful.
Stolen Ideas: Apple Didn’t Build That [INFOGRAPHIC]
http://mashable.com/2012/10/27/apple-stolen-ideas/
Apple is the largest and most successful technology company in the world’s history, but how did it arrive at that lofty perch? Did it create all the ideas folded into its shiny gadgets, or did it beg, borrow and steal them?
Emergent gameplay stories: Dwarf fortress 2012 launched
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
After about a year of working at it Tarn Adams has released the latest patch of Dwarf Fortress. 'Patch' is probably misleading though, I'd call it a sequel.

A recent story from the forums had someone enter a tomb, which apparently was cursed. The curse reanimated a wolf skin in the adventurers backpack which ended up killing the skinner.
Show HN: A simple price betting platform on crypto
https://popcoin.gg/
You bet on the direction of a crypto price in the next 60 secs (up/down). If you're right, you can win >60%, if you're wrong, you lose your investment. Onboard just with an ETH transfer, no KYC, no trading fees. Fun mode available.
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.
Screenshot of JetBrains new Objective-C IDE 'CIDR'
http://i.imgur.com/6zahD.png
This can't come soon enough. XCode 4 is nice but nothing comes close to IntelliJ. (Note this image was taken over 10 months ago.)
More info : http://www.jetbrains.com/cidr/
Is Microsoft Challenging Google on HTTP 2.0 with WebSocket?
http://readwrite.com/2012/03/28/microsoft-sees-googles-hand-fo#awesm=~odKAMH6FsZJd0v
Back in 2009, Google began an industry discussion about a prospective upgrade to HTTP protocol - the application that enables the Web over the Internet. The concept is called SPDY, and to date, conventional wisdom held that while some are skeptical of Google's motives, as a concept, SPDY was running unopposed. Maybe not any more. This week…
Ask HN: A new Lisp machine on mobile cpu
I was reading over a business week article posted on here regarding the current tech bubble. It got me thinking about what would be the next wave after the current social media wave passed. What about something like a ARM like mobile platform that was targeted at running Lisp natively but with an API in the same sense as android is an API to the mobile platform. Could this be the next wave riding on all the DIY people?
Miniaturization of Venture Capital
http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2007/10/20/miniaturization-of-venture-capital/
There have been a couple of discussions on venturewoods earlier regarding angel funding models, including Ycombinator. An excellent article on Read Write Web outlines the challenges the venture capital is facing. Amongst the salient ones include:
Ask HN: Movie/film post-production tool - thoughts on the Landing/Beta page?
http://eastwoodapp.com
Hey guys,<p>After a busy 5 months some friends and I are <i>nearly</i> ready to start alpha/beta testing on our web/mobile app for managing the post-production of movies (plus short films, t.v etc).<p>We just threw up our landing (and beta signup) page yesterday - and was wondering if anyone had any thoughts/ideas on this?<p>Any advice or opinions would be great - thanks in advance.<p>Cheers,<p>Chris
Handing Out Money To Advertise Website...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7869000/7869277.stm
A guy in NYC is handing out money to everyone if they wait in line. Seems like a decent way to advertise a website. He must have a lot of extra money.
Show HN: HgLab 1.0 Released - Mercurial Server for Windows
http://hglabhq.com/blog/2013/11/26/hglab-1-0-released
This is the thing I've been busy with for the past 18 months, over which it has grown from a skunkworks project into a real-world product. This is going to be my first microISV and even if it's a colossal commercial failure, I'm looking forward to the experience of product development.

To ship HgLab, I first effectively rewrote Mercurial Core in C# (https://bitbucket.org/hglab/hgsharp), and then built on that to first deliver a bare-bones read-only repository browser and then a full-fledged Mercurial Server.

I'm open to any kind of feedback. And wish me luck!
Show HN: I Made yet Another Rick Roll Link Generator – Instant Rick Roll
https://instantrickroll.com
Hey there -- thought I'd show this simple app off. I'm bad at rails/html/css/js but made a Rick Roll generator in just under a day with rails!

It's kind of incredible how relevant the rick roll still is after ~15 years.

Any generated Links Dynamically make opengraph tags to disguise themselves as whatever the user inputs.

It's been pretty fun to see people making their own Rick Roll links. Everyone wants to make a million dollar SaaS app but making dumb little apps like this is something I might do more of!

Also -- it's kind of messed up how easily you could phish someone, I've made a bunch of random links my friends would be interested in and the click through rate is very high.
How to Open a US Bank for NON-US Citizen?
I would like to know the steps of opening a US Bank Account for a NON-UN Citizen in simple steps anyone who knows this please reply below on this thread.
Network analysis of the credit crisis spread
http://arxivblog.com/?p=1097
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0901.1392v1
LA Startup Incubators/Accelerators/Mentorship Programs Compared
http://ryanborn.net/startup-incubators-in-la/
LA Startup Incubators/Accelerators/Mentorship Programs as Compared to NCAA Football Conferences
Coinkrypt – cryptocoin mining malware that didnt work
https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2014/03/26/coinkrypt/
My blog on cryptocoin mining malware that targets android smartphone and why its completely impractical.