jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do people with successful careers play the game?
When you work in an extremely dynamic environment full of smart people and just good work is not enough to take you forward, what else (besides best quality work) should you concentrate on?

Edit - There's some incredible gems of advice in the comments here (especially for a mid-level career person like myself). I'd like to thank everyone for taking the time out and contributing and writing their thoughts down.
A New Online Commmunity: Hubski
http://www.redferret.net/?p=38275
What do you think? Will it be successful? Is there room for another online community to thrive?

In terms of Hacker News, will it ever get "too big" like reddit? Will it slowly die like the eternal september of Slashdot? Or will it continue to thrive?
Show HN: Whatcha – social network for digital media
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatcha-io/id1603483624
Hi all! Christian here, creator of Whatcha, the easiest way to discover, track, discuss, and share movies, shows, books, and podcasts. I created Whatcha because I wanted all the information I needed to decide what I should check out next in one place.

If you're like me, you're having multiple conversations with friends on what they're watching, creating watch/read/listen lists on multiple platforms (or just a notes app) that quickly get disorganized, or just have a hard time deciding on what to start next. Whatcha is aiming to solve those problems by bringing everything and everyone together in one place. With the proliferation of media platforms, services, and content, Whatcha has been a great way to organize and share your favorites.

I just launched Whatcha on the Apple app store, with an Android version coming soon. Would appreciate any feedback you have on how I can make Whatcha better and more useful for you. Thanks!
Brilliant marketing testimonial method you need to test . . . from MSFT?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/social/
I just noticed on Microsoft's site that they are using a novel idea I haven't seen before in mass marketing - sticking twitter / feed comments from real users tagged with today's date onto the homepage, then linking into a full social queue.

EG - Check their landing page http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx

I have managed hundreds of A/B and multivariate tests and i have a feeling that this strategy would be a BIG winner - relevant, recent, 3rd party, and pulling in a buzz brand.

Any other good examples of this?
I'm selling my software for too much money and nobody is buying. Any ideas?
http://udeployer.com/
I've decided to create something that doesn't really exist out there. It's a program that makes it easier for IT departments and small networks to install software on many different Windows computers. Say you have a company with 20 windows computers... you don't want to manually install Skype, Flash and all the other free 3rd party apps... you want something that does it automatically for you. So I created uDeployer.<p>But I'm just a developer - the website sucks, the program UI sucks - and I'm lost with marketing... maybe the price for it is too much? I have spent a lot of time working on it (almost one year).<p>Any ideas?
Show HN: Fed Up Inflation Game
https://fed-up.fly.dev/
Elixir/Phoenix LiveView

Concept shamelessly stolen from Cookie Clicker.
Show HN: Stripe-quality API client libraries with a single button click
https://www.libninja.com
TL;DR- Libninja will generate world-class client libraries for you, without you needing to fiddle with openapi-generator, maintain build pipelines, and so forth.

If you just want Rust, reach out, and I'll create your client library at no cost, because I want to help Rust's ecosystem grow.

--

Hi HN,

I got into Rust in a big way about 9 months ago.

While the language is quickly maturing, one large gap in the ecosystem is immature or non-existent client libraries for common API services like Plaid, Stripe, Twilio, Github, Slack, and so on.

The existing openapi-generator templates create Rust libraries that don't even compile out of the box, so I started down the rabbit hole of creating a Rust-based toolchain to generate Rust client libraries based on an OpenAPI spec.

Rust is an incredible language to build codegen tools in, because of algebraic data types, Rust macro system, and Rust's incredibly powerful libraries for AST transformation (quote, syn, and more - almost solely due to dtolnay - thank you!)

Before long, I realized it's a common painpoint for API companies to maintain build pipelines, tweak openapi-generator templates, and so forth, to get client library generation working.

I added support for more languages, and soon after, Libninja was born.

If you're an API company, Libninja will generate world-class client libraries for you.

Client libraries:
- help your users integrate faster (meaning you get revenue faster)
- reduce the number of bug reports and support requests (because there's no ambiguity about using your API)
- Give your users a phenomenal developer experience (editor autocomplete, API documentation in docstrings, and more)

PS- If you just want a Rust client, reach out, and I'll create your client library at no cost, because I want to help Rust's ecosystem grow.
Ask HN: Best IRC Channels in 2021?
Curious what the best ones are these days. Some that I like:

freenode/#haskell

freenode/##crypto

darkscience/#darkscience
LFMs and LFSPs (Michael Vanier via PG)
http://www.paulgraham.com/vanlfsp.html
A recent post by PG re: Arc spurred me to Google the term LFSP. Surprise, surprise, PG has an article on it on his own site.
MIT Media Lab Design Innovation Workshop 2013 in India
http://mitdi2013.pes.edu/
PES Institute Of Technology, Bangalore is collaborating with MIT Media Lab to host the third “Design and Innovation” workshop in Bangalore from 21st to 25th of January, 2013. The aim of this workshop is to enthrall and inspire Indian Youth to proactively involve themselves in designing a better future. The weeklong tour will involve engaging activities including, but not limited to ideation, design, and implementation of prototypes together with MIT Media Lab and local mentors.
Ask HN: How do you work efficiently on remote servers?
It seems there are a thousand solutions for remote editing, but none is perfect. Cloud9, git, rsync, rmate, vim or emacs on the server (but you don't have your familiar setup unless you sync it), FTP, scp...

What do you, professional developers, use for you day-to-day work on remote servers?
My thought was that vim / emacs / rmate + Sublime for configuration files and git for well-defined projects were the norm, but I'm curious about what people use for their work.
Why iOS 6 Just Turned Your iPad 1G Into a Paperweight
http://www.methodshop.com/2012/10/ios6-ipad-paperweight.shtml
So why did Apple quietly abandon the iPad 1 with iOS 6? lack of RAM. the iPad 1 only has 256 MB of RAM. Back in 2010, that was enough to handle iOS 4 and the current crop of available apps in the App Store. But as the apps and OS got more complicated, and started running in the background, I’ve seen major performance issues on the iPad 1.
Nice book on convex optimization techniques
http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/
Hey all, here's a nice text on the theory and algorithmics of solving problems which can be described as max/minimizing some function subject to some feasibility constraints
Ibuffer-git: See your files' git status in Ibuffer
http://jrockway.github.com/ibuffer-git/
There was an HN article a few days ago complaining about this not existing. Now it exists.
Ask HN: video/screencast sites for learning programming?
I know many of us here aren't big fans of video training/screencasts, but I watched few railscasts videos and liked them, would like to try a few more videos on other subjects. I found these in my search, I am sure there are better ones that I missed. Can anyone suggest them?

Lynda.com - looks like most titles are for beginners

http://www.railstutorial.org/vanguard - looks good, but expensive

railscasts - best free resource I found so far, but its just one subject

http://peepcode.com/ - seems nice, they also have a number of subjects
Show HN: Open-source tool to generate a video from any Wikipedia page
https://github.com/aileftech/wikipedia-autovideo
Hi HN,

this is a tool I built for fun two years ago, which I now decided to release as open source.

It's a Java program that takes a Wikipedia page as input creates a video narrating the content of the page using a combination of sources for images and videos, plus Amazon Polly for speech synthesis.

At the time, I wrote a detailed explanation[1] of how the tool works, if you're interested.

The project is not active or currently maintained - I'm just releasing it because a few people requested it to me, and so I thought I might as well post it here!

EDIT: Forgot to specify: although, in theory, this works with any Wikipedia page, it might not do so very well (or at all) in a few cases. For example if the input page is very short or it has an ambiguous word which will then not result in good matching images from Pixabay.
Show HN: Dofsome.com - Chrome-less photo hosting
http://dofsome.com
Hi, this is a project I've been working on for about 2 months. I am definitely not a designer, so I tried to keep the GUI to minimum and really make the presentation about photos and as fluid as possible.

Any feedback welcome! :)
Show HN: App for sharing your weekly schedule
http://thesetimes.info
Howdy HN,

As a small side project, I built a small app to share weekly time schedules. It's been useful for me to help schedule meeting and share semester schedules with friends. I hope some others find some use with it.

I have a few more simple ideas to implement with it, and any suggestions are encouraged.

Thank you!
JS Humanize (Give data a human touch)
https://github.com/milanvrekic/JS-humanize
If you are familiar with Django you are familiar with a nice set of template tags called "humanize". In essence it turns data such as "13 April 2012" into "2 days ago" or "1000000000" into "1.0 billion". JS Humanizer is a jQuery counterpart to the Django humanize template tags we wrote and thought that others might find it useful too.
Toutapp wins $19,000 in prizes from EngineYard, Chargify and Twilio
http://www.toutapp.com/c/blog/toutapp-wins-19000-in-prizes-from-engineyard-chargify-and-twilio/
A few months ago, TK, the Founder of Toutapp, wrote a blog post, which he submitted to AppSumo’s Lean Startup Challenge, about how Toutapp got started, how it stayed lean, and how it exploded in the marketplace as soon as it launched.

They say positivity attracts positivity (thanks, Oprah!), and success must attract success, because the result of this blog post was $10,000 in hosting from EngineYard, $8,000 in services from Chargify, and $1,000 from Twilio.

As part of the same Challenge, Toutapp also won Eric Ries’s and the 500Startups prize.

As TK’s post describes, Toutapp was exactly what you would describe as a “lean startup.” Right from the start, Toutapp used pre-existing web apps for some of the functionality of the site, including Sengrid for email servers and Chargify for billing. That meant that TK was able to create the product and ship it within three (count ‘em) days. Since the launch, Toutapp has been focused on increasing and perfecting functionality within the site.

The reason that Toutapp was lean from the beginning was because TK was trying to find the best, fastest solution to a problem. He added the paid plan so he could test if others had the same problem and was willing to pay for his solution. It wasn’t something that came from an extensive, cumbersome plan. As TK said, “Great ideas are the things that happen in between all the stuff you’re doing to manufacture your great idea.”

Having the text services from Twilio, the hosting from EngineYard, and the continued functionality of billing through Chargify has been huge. It has allowed Toutapp to focus on developing features like Tout Groups and Gmail integration.

Why build those elements of a site yourself when there are already great versions out there, just waiting to help you launch your product faster?

Tired of re-writing the same Emails? Want to know when someone has Viewed or Clicked on an Email? Use Tout.
1GB Ram & SSD Cloud Hosting for $6
https://www.ubiquityservers.com/cloud
Since there were high amount of interest on Digital Ocean, ( $10 for 1GB Ram and SSD Cloud ), this may be of interest to some.
The Three Hour Hackathon to Cure Facebook Addiction
http://faisalabid.com/posts/509-the-three-hour-hackathon-to-cure-facebook-addiction
Just something my friend and I did this weekend. A stupid idea, but has the elements of what a real site could consist of. Payments, Datastorage, a pretty decent design.
How Apple gave up on web apps – to make more money with iCloud
http://www.domain.me/blog/icloud-how-apple-gave-up-on-web-apps-1503/
You have to remember that iCloud isn’t Apple’s way of entering the web application market, but actually a measure of ensuring the future of their own ecosystem. Apple doesn’t want to make web apps, they want their developers to make more money creating apps for the iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Show HN: Domfetch.com - free tool to find expired domains with history
https://domfetch.com
We have finally launched Domfetch!

Domfetch is a free platform to find expired domains. Users can search through domains that are (almost) available for registration. We enrich these domains with extra data to help users find valuable domains.

We created this tool because we found the (free) alternatives lacking certain data, such as Moz, Alexa history (we check 5 years of data) & search volume history over a period of 1 year.

Let us know what you think! More features and tld's will be added in the near future.
Computer Glitch brings Melbourne traffic to a standstill
http://www.news.com.au/national/traffic-chaos-deeps-as-citylink-admits-major-melbourne-tunnels-may-stay-closed-all-day-due-to-technical-malfunction/story-fndo4cq1-1226486984920
Traffic is at a standstill in Melbourne , Australia. A computer glitch has shut down the automated traffic signs, and in turn caused the closure of main tunnels and traffic routes. What's worse, they still don't know what is causing the software glitch!
Buffett Will Steer Investors to Airbnb to Avoid Price-Gouging by Omaha Hotels
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/04/08/buffett-will-steer-investors-to-airbnb-to-avoid-price-gouging-by-omaha-hotels/?mod=yahoo_hs
for BRK's annual shareholder meeting
Show HN: Hacker News by Dalle
https://twitter.com/hn2images
I literally type the headline into DALLE and pick the best image. Welcome to the future of news. Enjoy!
RPN Ever 4
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2760-rpn-ever-4-
Get your nerdon.
Show HN: CookTime – Recipe index
https://letscooktime.com
Hi HN,

COVID lockdowns made me and my wife cook a lot more at home, and we had a need to streamline our recipe management woes. These were some of the problems we identified:

- Most recipe websites are what I call "mommy blogs", and the principal problem is that the recipe ingredient list and instructions are buried in a SEO-laden essay that we don't care about. We were sharing links to our favorite recipes, but links don't allow you to skip past the unnecessary essay prefacing the recipe. We knew we wanted a way to have recipes uncompromised by unrelated essays.
- Popular recipe aggregating websites are run by publishing companies that do not want you, the reader, to contribute your own recipes. This is not true for all of them; Allrecipes.com does allow you to enter recipes but that UI leaves a lot to be desired. We knew we needed a way for us (and you) to write your own recipes.
- Most recipe websites do not allow you to scale recipe ingredients. We like to cook a lot at once, and we don't like to keep track of a 2x, or 3x multiplier in our heads while cooking. We knew we wanted a simple way of scaling ingredients.
- Most recipe websites do not contain adequate nutrition information about their recipes. When they do, they don't show their math, or their sources. We knew we needed an automatic nutrition calculation for recipes based on ingredients and their quantities.

After a few months of nights and weekends, we are ready to share https://letscooktime.com . We solved all of the primary problems listed above, and more! Our features:

- Recipe creation
- Ingredient highlights in recipe text
- Recipe components
- Automatic nutrition calculation
- Grocery lists
- Scaling recipes
- Tagging
- No blogging, just recipes! No bullshit essay to scroll through.
- Dark mode!

We think the closest thing to CookTime is https://www.paprikaapp.com. Paprika is a paid native app, CookTime is a free mobile-ready website you can try _today_. I do not believe that recipe management really requires the performance, development cost, and App Store cost of a native app.

Without a CookTime account, you can:

- Browse recipes
- Read their nutrition facts
- Scale ingredients temporarily
- Share links to recipes

With a CookTime account, you can:

- Add your own recipes
- Add recipes to your personal groceries list

Let me know what you think! Would you use it? What are you currently using to track your recipes? What missing feature is stopping you from using CookTime?
Show HN: PNG to PDF Conversion in the Browser
https://png.to-pdf.net/
Hi everyone,
I build some "online" converters as a side project in the last weeks.
The difference to existing conversion websites is, that my converters don't upload your files. Everything happens in your browser on your device (with the help of a lot of great Open Source Javascript libraries).
I think privacy is an essential feature for a service like this, so my converters also don't use google analytics or any other form of tracking (in fact they use no external resources at all).

I started this because I ended up with some .heic files from my iPhone and had to use ImageMagick every time I wanted to upload them somewhere. So now there is https://heic.to-jpg.com and I can just drag and drop .heic-files there to convert them to jpg.

Next I needed to send some stuff to my accountant, so I made pictures, but he wanted a pdf. So I made https://png.to-pdf.net and I can drag and drop multiple png's and it will return a pdf with one image per page.

There are a lot of other converters that basically came free with the libraries I used, you can find them all in the sidebar (e.g. https://tiff.to-png.com).

I hope some of you will find this usefull.
Jagex launches HTML5/WebGL game mode for RuneScape (beta)
http://runescape.com/beta
Jagex, creators of the popular MMORPG RuneScape just launched their beta version of RS3, a purely HTML5/WebGL implementation of their (so far) java based game.

I -think- this might be the first huge implementation of html5 in game form, and clearly marks Jagex as even bigger innovators in both the web and gaming industry.
Startup Tips from the Notorious BIG
http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2009/08/10/the-notorious-ceo-ten-startup-commandments-from-biggie-smalls/
The Notorious BIG's classic track "Ten Crack Commandments" is decomposed to reveal ten useful tips for startup founders.
Show HN: Practical Python Projects book release
https://practicalpython.yasoob.me
Hi everyone!

I just released the Practical Python Projects book! (https://practicalpython.yasoob.me)

I am happy to announce the first version as a release candidate. I have poured a lot of love into writing this book and would love to hear what you guys think. (A limited 100% off and discount coupons at the end)

This is not a pure beginner book. The book does assume some background Python knowledge. You need to know the basics like methods, functions, classes, and such. If I use something that is not typically covered in beginner Python books, I will explain it before I use it. There are no tests for these projects as they are really small and teach you how to glue different pieces together.

Some projects that we will be making

- A Twilio bot that keeps you updated with the latest match scores from the FIFA World Cup

- A Facebook Messenger bot the shares latest memes, jokes, and shower-thoughts scraped from Reddit

- An automated invoice generator and deploying it using Flask

- Making automated cinema-preshow by downloading and stitching together related movie trailers using moviepy

- Generating automated article summaries and overlaying them on top of images

- Understanding and decoding JPEG images using vanilla Python

- Creating a GUI application using PyQt for downloading online videos

- Implementing a TUI email client that allows reading emails in the terminal

The first 50 people can use the "hn-love" coupon (without the quotation marks) to get 15% off. I am also offering a 30-day no-questions-asked refund policy if you don't enjoy this book and don't learn anything new.

You can buy the book from https://practicalpython.yasoob.me
You can get a free sample chapter from here: https://practicalpython.yasoob.me/sample/chapter2.pdf
You can learn more about my writing style by reading any of my recent articles over at https://yasoob.me

(For detailed FAQ, you can head over to the book website: https://practicalpython.yasoob.me)
Show HN: Find out where your supplements are made & sourced
https://shop.nootritious.com/
I made a table where you can find out the source/location of factory for where health supplements are made. This is a work in progress but it functions. At the moment you can sort by cGMP/GMP certification.

* Full disclosure - if you purchase anything using the links, i earn an small affiliate fee (5%)

I made this to help demystify the language behind product labelling, which in many cases is obfuscating the manufacturing and sourcing of certain products
How We Moved From Microsoft ASP.NET to Rails and NoSQL
http://www.infoq.com/articles/architecting-tekpub
Tekpub.com was originally written using ASP.NET MVC, Microsoft's newest framework - which the founders new really well. However they recently moved to Rails and NoSQL.
Foursquare iPhone app sends passwords in plain text, don't use
http://martinkou.blogspot.com/2010/08/foursquare-considered-harmful-dont-use.html
Did a Wireshark session vs. Foursquare for iPhone's traffic after reading the news today. Found something very unpleasant.
SIRC Guide to Flirting: what social science tells you about flirting 
http://www.sirc.org/publik/flirt.pdf
Really informative and interesting 26 page PDF.
How to get a job at Google, interview questions & process
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2010/09/how-to-get-a-job-at-google-interview-questions-hiring-process.html
How and more importantly why the process works.
I made a 'search engine' for fun
http://foobub.com/
This was a weekend project for fun. The problem I had was I felt like existing search engines were too cluttered and I couldn't easily sort results by websites.

I experimented and rather than returning so many results, it returns the results from a few number of websites and tries to rank in on a confidence level from that smaller subset.
Show HN: LightPaper for Mac – Free Markdown editor
http://clockworkengine.com/lightpaper-mac/
I'm not the author of the app (nor i have any connection with them, just a random user). iA Writer and Writer Pro aren't well suited for me as a developer. They feel quite "strange" to me. Mou is a good option (free too) but still missing some features. So far this, this editor is the most complete user-friendly. Hope it helps!
SICP translated to JavaScript
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs1101s/sicp/
Sections of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs translated to JavaScript by Professor Martin Henz with executable examples.
Tell HN: HNdroid, Hacker News android client
http://gluegadget.com/hndroid/
.apk: http://gluegadget.com/hndroid/HNdroid.apk

Screenshots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amir_mohammad/sets/72157624870942817/
Living The American Dream
http://www.myasmine.com/living-the-american-dream/
What it’s like to grow up a non-citizen and have to earn it.