jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Contactless (credit) cards insecure
http://www.cardworldonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3074:contactless-hack-raises-the-question-of-trust&catid=3:contactlessmobile&Itemid=7
Original publicity: http://www.channel4.com/news/millions-of-barclays-card-users-exposed-to-fraud
IPad + sledgehammer
http://heliodorj.blogspot.com
Scott Heiferman, founder of meetup.com, smashes an iPad with a sledgehammer
Anonymous-hacker senetenced 10 years for exposing Dow chemicals
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/stratfor-leak-jeremy-hammond-support-letters
Anonymous-hacker gets 10 years imprisonment . He exposed Dow chemicals spying on Bhopal gas tragedy activists
Rack Hardware Innovation
http://www.thureon.com/armarac.htm
they just got silver at the 2008 International Design Excellence Awards. there's more to start-ups that software...
UK IVA Information
http://www.theiva.org.uk/
The iva uk is the best suggestion for all debt management related issues.
SEA related Twitter service issue
http://status.twitter.com/post/59528478030/twitter-service-issue
Twitter Image admits image server hacked after it's been fixed.

Is there an existing term for this kind of behavior where you won't acknowledge a problem until after you've fixed it?
Yahoo OpenHack Day on Skitsanos TV
http://openhackday.skitsanos.tv
Follow latest developments around Open Hack Day event http://openhackday.skitsanos.tv/ If internet connection will allows us, we will even stream the event.
Chronicles of the "Intelligent" Investors
http://www.e27.sg/2009/11/04/the-intelligent-investors/
Top 5 bloopers of VC's
Android Resources 
http://allandroidstuff.com/2011/08/android-resources/
When you start off on android first you might find it hard to get started like problems with installing the android SDK on a 64 bit pc or your android code wont run on your phone for some reason or whatever there is always people out there to help you out. There is some great fourms out there and websites or people to help you figuar something out.
Google music only for windows and mac?
http://music.google.com/
You have to be kiddin me! you have the best profesionals in the world and you can not do a port for linux ?! come on.....
How to shoot yourself in the foot in any programming language
http://www.fullduplex.org/humor/2006/10/how-to-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-in-any-programming-language/
I was shown this a few years ago by a friend and rediscovered it earlier today, enjoy!
Vintage 1980's RB5X “Intelligent Robot” For Sale On eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-RB5X-Intelligent-Robot-/160534831954?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25609f2352#ht_3463wt_1141
Oh shit! This robot has an amazing robot voice and can even locate it's charging base. Not bad 1983, not bad...
US Tech Startups Offering Visa Sponsorship?
Are there any nice tech startups offering visa sponsorship (software engineering / data science roles)? I'm an international grad student (on an F-1 visa), and though I can get an OPT, I'd want visa sponsorship after that for the H-1. Any suggestions?
Ask HN: Do you store emails as plaintext?
Do you store emails as plaintext?
Can’t receive emails from Hotmail: fixing their buggy DNS process
https://www.martineve.com/2012/09/06/cant-receive-emails-from-hotmail-fixing-their-buggy-dns-process/
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b3903528-87d4-4934-8821-92d01cbd504d/diagnosticcode-smtp554-571-relay-access-denied?forum=exchangesvrsecuremessaginglegacy
IncludeJS - Use CommonJS modules inside Ruby/Rails
https://github.com/walski/include_js
A friend of mine found himself in the situation of having to implement the same business logic in both Javascript and Ruby.

So he wondered how to get rid of that duplication. The solution he came up with is IncludeJS which allows you to implement something in Javascript and use that code _both_ in Javascript and in Ruby.

He gave a talk on this topic during RailsConf2011, which provides some more details:
http://en.oreilly.com/rails2011/public/schedule/detail/1941
Is Yahoo mail down for you?
http://blog.roozbehk.com/post/69638423179/yahoo-mail-down
I know why use Yahoo mail. I don't but I know someone that does and it has been down since morning. Is it down for you ?
The Movement That Is Transforming How New Products Are Built And Launched
http://theleanstartup.com/
The Lean Startup | The Movement That Is Transforming How New Products Are Built And Launched.
The official website of all things Lean Startup presented by Eric Ries.
On Excitement in the Apple Land
http://www.upbeat.it/2013/06/26/on-excitement-in-the-apple-land/
Boredom is over.
JSON sniffing with UTF-7 injections
http://code.eligrey.com/poc/json-sniffing/poc.html
It will only work in browsers that support UTF-7, which as far as I know is only Firefox. The decoded UTF-7 injected code is as follows:

"}].sniff=[stealData,{"__IGNORE__":"
Bruteforcing the iOS Screenlock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meEyYFlSahk
More details here: http://blog.mdsec.co.uk/2015/03/bruteforcing-ios-screenlock.html
Review: Nokia Lumia 800 – Achingly beautiful
http://gearburn.com/2012/02/review-nokia-lumia-800-achingly-beautiful/
Writing this review was emotional. I became deeply pensive, and at one stage called my mom to tell her that I love her and that I’ve found the perfect phone for her. It’s what the Nokia Lumia 800 does. It evokes emotive responses. It makes you, for the lack of a better word, gaga.
Apple's cynical implementation of Do Not Track in iOS6
http://blog.privacychoice.org/2012/09/20/dear-mobile-ad-industry-dont-worry-apple-has-buried-do-not-track/
This is not the privacy experience you would expect from the greatest design company in the world.
Looking at gender differences at Twitter
http://www.tweetolife.com/gender/
An analysis of the differences between male and female tweets. While you're at it, you can also check out the patterns according to the time of the day: http://www.tweetolife.com/hour/
Database Management Systems: The end of an architectural era (MIT paper)
http://www.highscalability.com/paper-end-architectural-era-it-s-time-complete-rewrite
The paper goes through how databases should be written with modern CPU, memory, and network resources. It's a fun an interesting read. Well worth your time.
Install phone.app on iPad to Make/Receive Call [Free]
http://www.shoutpedia.com/how-to-use-ipad-as-iphone-to-makereceive-calls-and-send-smsmms-free/
What you are waiting for if the app is free too?? Worth installing on your iPad. You can make calls, send and receive SMS/MMS with your network SIm. Voila
Open Source Modular Coil Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeSjeUIltcI
A friend of mine has designed and built a coil gun. The design is open source. You can download and (3D) print the modules yourself. Pretty cool, eh?
Year 2009 @ Google
http://lifehacker.com/5427816/this-year-in-google-the-2009-edition
Indexing Everything - just about everything.

[google goggles]
Where is the SpamAssassin or DNSBL for Web Spam?
A lot of us thing that web spam is Google's problem, but many of us build systems that process untrusted URLs (for instance, social media sites, content aggregators, directories, etc.) There are services that are are aimed at blocking comment spam, but I'd really like something that, given a URL, tells me if the site is a "blight" site: for instance, not associated with Clickbank, Acai berries, stuff like that.

Does anything like this exist?
Fun with Relational Interpreters in miniKanren
http://2013.flatmap.no/danwill.html
Awesome and engaging talk on the logic programming language miniKanren by Daniel Friedman and William Byrd.
CirrusMED – Your Doctor. Online. 
https://CirrusMedicalNetwork.com
CirrusMED, on-demand primary care medical services provided via a network of online concierge physicians using the latest in telemedicine/mHealth solutions. "Your Doctor. Online", Online Concierge Doctors.
Mobilev.is
http://mobilev.is/
Here we gather examples of data visualization usage on mobile devices and offer some observed best practices for building your mobile data visualization interfaces.
Voice controlled mouse for those with mobility problems
http://spamtech.co.uk/software/voice-mouse-for-mac-os-x/
Software that allows you to control the mouse using your voice. A perfect companion for those with mobility issues.

It's a work in progress and makes use of Applescript, python and C++
You're free to resell your downloaded games, what next?
http://www.searchforsoft.com/news/-If-you-get-bored-of-a-game,-you-can-resell-it-whenever-you-want,-an-European-Court-of-Justice-decides---67.htm
If you get bored of a game, you can resell it whenever you want, an European Court of Justice decides. But how will giant companies react to this decision? How will justice assure itself that no one will abuse this law, continuing to use the game he doesn't own anymore?
OCZ Vertex in Macbook Pro
http://blog.gtuhl.com/2009/03/26/ocz-vertex-ssd-in-a-17-santa-rosa-macbook-pro/
Take a 2 year old Macbook Pro, add a Solid State Disk, get a top of the line laptop again.
Oldie but a goodie: Browser clone of BSD Games Worm
http://wideaperture.net/worm/
Wrote this just for fun and to practice my JS skills a bit. Nothing revolutionary, but a fun walk down memory lane.
IndexedDB webcast on GDL-IL
http://greenido.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/indexeddb-webcast-in-gdl-il/
A webcast on building a mobile web app with jQuery mobile and indexedDB.
Startup tool gets you out of your car lease for Xmas
http://www.insideautodeals.com/index.php/2007/12/07/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-to-get-out-of-my-lease/
Swap a Lease is a cool Web 2.0 tool that puts you in touch with people who are interested in taking over your lease with, did you get that, no penalties. This is definitely the easiest and cheapest way to get free from that old lease and start the new year in a new ride.
Show HN Validation Helper (JS validation lib)
http://rizvn.github.com/ValidationHelper/
I have been working on small input validation library. The concept is to select an input (by jquery), then chain some validation to the input, and then get the state of validation once run. Hope you guys like it.
When is Scrum successful?
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2010/07/when-is-scrum-successful.html
An interesting question from my Scrum in Depth course last week: When is Scrum successful?
Is Wikipedia Becoming a Respectable Academic Source?
http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/is-wikipedia-becoming-a-respectable-academic-source/
Last year a colleague in the English department described a conversation in which a friend revealed a dirty little secret: "I use Wikipedia all the time for my research, but I certainly wouldn’t cite it"...
Spring with Maven
http://www.baeldung.com/spring-with-maven
Spring with Maven - focuses on the dependencies for Persistence, Web, Security and Testing.
Can a Video Game Make You Racist? 
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/21/can-a-video-game-make-you-racist-new-study-says-yes.html
New study results on video games and social perception.
Best Conferences for Data Science?
What are the best conferences for data scientists and analysts to learn about new tools, vendors, and libraries?
A message to my Senator, Al Franken
http://justinmchase.com/2012/01/19/a-message-to-my-senator-al-franken/
Related to PIPA and internet freedom.
Slashdot Peeks Into the Business Side of Online Publishing (Video)
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/12/28/1829214/a-peek-into-the-business-side-of-online-publishing-video
We've interviewed editors and writers, and plenty of writers' work gets linked from Slashdot, but we pay little or no (mostly no) attention to the business side of the publishing business....
Ask HN: Sole proprietorship vs LLC
I started a SAAS business, which finally is drawing in some revenue, and I am deciding in between a sole proprietorship or an llc.

For my product line, I don't really plan on grabbing any outside investment and am a solo founder at the moment.

Any advice on things to think about, and where to do it? I searched this topic on prior hn threads, and got more results based on llc vs c-corp vs s-corp.
Top 5 iOS Apps for Writing Like a Pro
http://appsnuke.com/68/ios-writing-apps/
If you are a person who writes fast or if you have a keyboard attached to your idevice then using these applications will most certainly make you consider to start writing on a more portable device such as iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch
100 million+ page views per day, 950TB streaming video - just 1 adult website
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123929-just-how-big-are-porn-sites/2
Wow. I obviously knew adult websites were pretty big, but the stats are pretty astounding. The number 1 site is 3x CNN or ESPN....
Ask HN: What web crawler should I use?
I need to run a web crawler to 'screen scrape' a few websites. Ideally this crawler can:
1. Deal with forms
2. Deal with javascript
3. Deal with non-pure HTML to extract bits of data

A few years ago I had a bit of success with Mozilla Parser (http://mozillaparser.sourceforge.net/) but the project seems to have gone cold.

Can anyone recommend a web crawler they have used?

Thanks
Cracking China's Skype Surveillance Software (2013)
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-08/skypes-been-hijacked-in-china-and-microsoft-is-o-dot-k-dot-with-it
More details on how he did it are here:
http://cs.unm.edu/~jeffk/publications/foci11tomskype.pdf
Pricenoia - compare prices at every amazon site worldwide
https://pricenoia.com
pretty simple, cool and useful site.. compares prices of a product on every amazon store, in your currency, including shipping costs.
The Top 5 Worst Mistakes You Can Make In Pay Per Click (And How To Avoid Them)
http://markfsimmons.com/the-top-5-worst-mistakes-you-can-make-in-pay-per-click-and-how-to-avoid-them/
There are several mistakes I see advertisers make over and over again. In this blog post, I discuss 5 of the most common ones I see and the easy solutions that save you budget.
Is it illegal to hack your own Heroku web app?
In the USA or Canada?
Entrepreneurial Advice: The Value of Having and Using an Advisory Board 
http://www.nebraskaentrepreneur.com/news/entrepreneurial-advice-the-value-of-having-and-using-an-advisory-board/
Entrepreneurs, you know who you are. You were born with an independent spirit. You are successful in part because you forge ahead when others stop to check the direction of the wind. Those of you who build businesses that thrive have also learned that even a maverick needs a few key advisors.
Lively Kernel - an IDE and execution environment on a web page.
http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/
Sorry if this is an old submission, but I hadn't seen it before. It is quite a step towards what I hope what the web will become - a programmable mashable environment.
Show HN: Magellan VHDL Monitor
https://fpgaer.tech/?p=465
Monitor registers through TCL commands (via JTAG to AXI module) and/or display on Basys 3 board
What Gmail hack? China spins news of Google threat
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9145578/What_Gmail_hack_China_spins_news_of_Google_threat
Does anyone know if the original Google announcement (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html) is blocked in China?
ask HN: Where to start with J2EE?
Background: I am a business grad who ended up in a technical startup in '05 that introduced me to Python with which I had an immediate love affair with from that point on. I spent years learning good programming patterns through trial and error. Now I have the opportunity to jump feet first into developing full time but with a caveat I have to learn Java. I have always felt that Python did 99% of what I needed to do but hey, you go where the money is. My focus up to now has been data analysis, reporting, and web interfaces using Django, cherrypy, etc.

Current Situation: I'm trying to learn Java like I learned Python. Pick a problem, find a hammer and pound the hell out of it, except I've been falling flat on my face with Java. J2EE is a nightmare. I have tried Spring 3/Roo, Struts, and Tapestry for a solid month with no traction to speak of. Not even business logic yet, all configuration. My current try is to break it down to the bare bones ie: straight servlets and slowly add in components like Hibernate. Most examples seem to start with struts and go from there.

So,
What is the best way to quickly bootstrap my way through J2EE? I've been working through an online course @ http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~libe50b/ for basic Java. I plan on taking a few courses in the fall at the local U, but I'm looking for something that will make Struts/Spring/Hibernate make sense now.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

/rant
back to metadata hell...
Help-I need a CAD and company to make 1000 vinyl pieces
Hello,

I have a "toy soldier" size figurine made out of stone and I want to make it in vinyl and market it.
I need to make small changes to the stone "prototype". I was told I need to have a CAD made, then send that to a Co to make the pieces.
Any suggestions how I find a trustworthy CAD designer and manufacturing co? What is the best, most cost efficient and intelligent way to do this?
Thanks
Using Git with triangular workflows; tips, tricks, and more
http://felipec.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/git-triangular-workflows/
My attempt to shine some light into triangular workflows using Git. The basics, how to utilize the upstream branch, and the tracking branch.
Grand Theft Auto V Officially Announced, Trailer on November 2
http://lazyassgamer.com/grand-theft-auto-5-announced-trailer-on-novemeber-2
#GTA5 has officially been announced by rockstar!!
In Defense of Scrum Purists
http://www.planningforfailure.com/
It seems in every Scrum, Agile, or Lean discussion these days, there’s always mention of the mythical “Scrum Purist”, or “Scrum Zealot”...
Show HN: WordleUnfolded – Daily Wordle answers without the nonsense
https://www.wordleunfolded.com/todays-wordle-answer
Hello all

Just ended up launching this site that I've built this site over the last week. The idea came from the fact that there are tons of blog articles publishing lengthy articles for daily Wordle answers with a lot of unnecessary crap. This site just shows the answers without any of that. Suggestions and feedback welcome!

Thanks!
Microsoft launches free smart home energy monitor 
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-14013-Energy-Technologies-Examiner~y2009m6d24-Microsoft-launches-free-smart-home-energy-monitor
Microsoft announced the launch of a new online home energy monitoring service. The service is called 'Hohm' and is being released as a beta to help people lower their energy bills by giving consumers detailed reports of energy usage. The service is completely free to consumers and runs algorithms developed by the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Department of Energy.
Facebook profile page redesign presented on paper prototype
http://vimeo.com/18251109
Some time ago UXPin got quite popular on YCombinator. This time we've used our paper prototyping kit to present changes on Facebook profile page redesign.

Hopefully our stop motion video can present what redesign paper prototyping is capable of. Also we write short analysis of Facebook changes on our our blog. You can consider that as an addition:

http://www.uxpin.com/188/facebook-profile-page-redesign-with-uxpin-paper-prototyping/

Hope you'll enjoy it guys.
Show HN: 1.0 launch of Nodewood, a Node.js SaaS starter kit
https://nodewood.com/blog/nodewood-1-0-official-full-release/
Hey Hacker News! I've been working on Nodewood for a couple years now (and have submitted it before, in its beta version [1]), but have just released the first full-release 1.0 version today!

Nodewood is intended to solve the issue that a lot of new SaaS founders face, that there's a whole host of features you have to have as table stakes -- user management, team management, subscription management, etc. -- and building those features yourself means you either have to cut corners or delay working on the actual business logic of your app. Nodewood comes with those features out of the box, allowing you to start building your actual app moments after you create your project.

Plus, it comes with a CLI tool, a Docker-based development system, and a Pulumi-based [2] deploy option, not to mention a lot of other time-saving tools and utilities!

As always, I'd love to hear any feedback!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26048937

[2] https://www.pulumi.com/
25 SQL Commandments
http://www.dbpd.com/vault/9801xtra.htm
These hints--many of them previously unpublished--can help you avoid the plague of poorly written SQL statements
Snowden discloses NSA's Big Data threat: what should be done about it.
http://www.smaxp.com/2013/06/snowden-discloses-nsas-big-data-threat.html
Nothing really new about Edward Snowden's disclosure about the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance and yet Snowden's warnings ring true on one point: the threat of technological efficiency in the analysis of human electronic communications using big data tools
Show HN: TextMate CSS3 Bundle
http://github.com/nickcharlton/CSS3-Bundle
I just put together a quick CSS3 TextMate Bundle. Any comments would be welcome.

Blog Post: http://nickcharlton.net/post/css3-bundle
Hackers Wanted (Unreleased Directors Cut)
http://cyberkooltour.blogspot.com/2011/06/hackers-outlaws-or-patriots-anonymous.html
Would the U.S. Government use a hacker group to launch a campaign of global terror? "The next war is not going to be fought with bullets, guns and bombs, it's going to be fought with code and computers."
Ask HN: Learning about web browser implementation
Are there any writings about the implementation of commercial browsers like chrome and firefox? I want to learn how the browsers render and update DOM.
Build a Image Rotator using ActionScript 3 and XML
http://biochimistu.blogspot.com/2010/11/build-image-rotator-using-actionscript.html 
We will build a nice image rotator that has a navigation.
The image rotator works like this: the images are rotated at an interval of 5 seconds if the mouse cursor is outside the rotator area, when the mouse is over the rotator the rotation stops; when your mouse it's over one button from the navigation menu the rotator jumps to the corresponding slide.
NatSys Lock-free Queue vs LMAX Disruptor vs boost::lockfree::queue
http://natsys-lab.blogspot.ru/2014/01/natsys-lock-free-queue-in-comparison.html
I've been asked many times how our lock-free queue differs from LMAX Disruptor. The last time is in discussion at Hacker News. In LinkedIn discussions I also was asked about boost::lockfree::queue (it appeared in Boost recently). So I'm writing the post to share the answers.
"Face" of Anonymous quits -- interview with Barrett Brown
http://blogs.computerworld.com/18307/face_of_anonymous_quits_exclusive_interview_with_barrett_brown
Barrett Brown, the media-friendly public face for Anonymous, is quitting the group Anonymous. He will focus on Project PM and exposing government wrongdoing. Interview with Brown.
Max Levchin: NSA "everyday heroes" (q to 25:45)
http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60248643
i agree with him almost word for word on this.
Something revolutionary is coming to the world of football.
http://www.sportdaq.net/
Check out sportdaq.net and enter your email and we’ll put you on our invite list.
The Original Magento Amazon AMI (EC2)
http://www.rjmartino.com/2009/03/08/the-original-magento-amazon-ami-ec2/
I wanted to setup a magento store and compare it to a number of competitors. But, to get the thing launched, you need to customize your server.

I didn’t want to modify our server because I had concerns: security concerns, resource concerns, more-crap-installed-on-server installed.

I started working with Amazon's EC2 network and created a Magento Amazon AMI. At the time there wasn't a single AMI for Magneto. So, I created one.

If you want it, shoot us an email and if you tell us you found out through Ycombinator, we'll give it to you! That's right, FREE! We'll do this for the next 10 days (ends 03/20/2009)!