jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Phront – Discover and apply to the best schools in your area
https://phront.page/
For students: Swift online enrollment. Find the top-rated schools and apply online.
For school administrators: Enrollment-as-a-Service platform to put your admissions operations on autopilot. Manage your school profile and receive applications.
The Right Tool?
http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com/
We all talk about using the right tool for the job in the context of programming languages. But which job? And what's the right tool for it?

This nifty little web app sets out to determine the answer to that by asking a bunch of questions and getting the user to rank the languages they know in order of how well that statement fits each.
Ask HN: How do you feel about job hunting?
I am currently employed and a few weeks ago was considering searching for other jobs for financial and other personal reasons.

How do you guys feel about still going through the process now? From the "Who is hiring" post, clearly companies are hiring.

Now is obviously a riskier time to switch jobs, would you guys do it?
Ask HN: searching for a product idea
Ideas are worthless and execution is everything, isn't it right?

We're a small capable team based in Kiev, Ukraine. Strong on UI/programming weak on sales and marketing. Looking for the product idea.

Domain: SaaS or a mobile/ipad app for small businesses. Can't afford go for the consumer market.

Product that has clear value to the user, fun to work on, has competition, has no/minimal network effect, has long-term utility to the user and does not require big capital to build.

Sounds easy? Shoot.

PS: first half of May I'll spend in the Valley (for the first time). Tips appreciated.
Ask HN: Do you have a responsibility to tell a client they are wasting money?
Doing freelance work, what responsibility do you have, if any, to let a client know they are going in the wrong direction and wasting their money?

If you are working on a project that seems to be going no-where, but is still paying you well, would you continue to work and get paid? Do you have a responsibility to give a client your honest opinion about problems with their project, even if they probably won't want to hear it?

I would guess that this situation is relatively common for people who do freelance coding, and I am interested to hear how you guys have handled it.
Show HN: I built a site to find the best newsletters
https://inboxworld.io/
Hey HN, sharing something I've been working on.

I love reading new voices. I subscribe to a lot of brilliant newsletters but found it hard to keep track of all the great stuff I was reading. I'd read something, love it, never be able to find it again. And then, how do you find new ones worth trying? And which posts do you start with?

With Inbox World, you can submit and upvote the best of Substack and other similar platforms. The goal is to build a community around the best independent writing out there. It's like HN for newsletters!

This is a passion project for me and I'm not technical at all. This is its earliest v1 form, open to everyone; no logins or data collected, no ads, no premium tiers, everything on one page. And I just added an automated email that sends you the most upvoted links weekly — a newsletter for newsletters.

Would love to hear what you think in the comments below. Thanks for reading.

PS: If you want to chat about this idea or are interested in working together, I’d love to talk. Ping me here or send me an email at kabir.chibber@gmail.com
Attn Bloggers: FTC's stringent new guidelines take effect Dec. 1st
http://slate.com/id/2231808
From the article:

In new guidelines (PDF) released Oct. 5, the FTC put bloggers on notice that they could incur an $11,000 fine if they receive free goods, free services, or money and write about the goods or services without conspicuously disclosing their "material connection" to the provider. The FTC guidelines extend even to Facebook and Twitter posters. If you received a gratis novel from the publicity department of a publisher and posted a tweet about it without disclosing that the book was a freebie, you become an "endorser" in the FTC's view. It could—in the name of consumer protection—hit you with a fine. The 81-page guidelines, which also mandate stringent celebrity endorsements rules, will take effect Dec. 1.
Find the leaks (AKA - the reason I shot myself in the head)
https://gist.github.com/4428748
had to share this fine-ass piece of code
MySQL founder's new company is "hacking business models"
http://zak.greant.com/hacking-business-models
This link came directly from his blog post talking about his departure from Sun:

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/02/time-to-move-on.html
Ask HN: How to collect payments on a small website?
I am building a fairly small website that requires you to pay a small fee (~$10/year) to access some of the premium content.

It would be ideal if a person could pay either via paypal or a credit card.

After doing some searching around today, most services that deal with these kinds of things charge too much money (braintree looks nice, but $75/mo minimum is just too high).

Is there a service that just takes a cut of the profits without having to pay high monthly fees?
Ask HN: Is Facebook having serious database inconsistency problems?
Lately Facebook groups have become close to unusable due to comments and posts appearing and disappearing randomly.
This looks like major db inconsistency / cache problems to me.
Is this the case? And, if so, is it due just to their scale or to new development strategies gone wrong.

p.s. I noticed this only in the groups product.
Google suspended my application and now my google play account is terminated
I just got my account in google play store terminated. Is it just me or their process is just ridiculous:
1) You submit your application along with apk and screenshots
2) If you violate any of their long rules you get you application suspended and the auto generated reason for suspension doesn't include the place you are violating their rules(in my case, they claim that I am violating "Violation of the intellectual property and impersonation or deceptive behavior provisions of the Content Policy")
3) Here are the things that I wrote(description along with screenshots from my application and the apk https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lac0js8z648ini5/AACToioyJsHrwJEKt001t9bTa?dl=0#/ although it is too late now, reason follows
4) You can of course "appeal" their decision but don't expect much - I got an auto generated email stating "After further review, we are unable to reinstate your application. You can find out more information under Reason for Removal in the initial removal notification from Google Play.", so helpful, thanks.

P.S. I am glad that I didn't lose more time with this application - it was built during the holidays. I am also glad that I am not relying on making money from that because let's face it, you might be violating something without knowing it and their is not a single warning, they just act and suspend your application without stating the place of violation
HealPay
http://healpay.com/
Collections in the cloud.
Teach your clients to give you a perfect bug reporting
http://talkweb.eu/mission-possible-teach-your-clients-to-give-you-a-perfect-bug-reporting-especially-for-design-issues/
CLIENT: There’s a strange symbol after the company name – can you remove it?
ME: Hmm… I don’t see anything. Does it come after the exclamation point?
Show HN: I built an app that helps JavaScript developers optimize their websites
https://buhalbu.com
Hi there,

The app basically offers a handy user interface on top of Google's PageSpeed Insights API. It allows you to analyze URLs in bulk and save the reports for later references. Also, you can regenerate the saved reports for fresh results.

I called this functionality "Automatic Checklists."

The app offers "Manual Checklists", too. Those are exhaustive checklists with items in the form of "tasks". The idea is for those tasks to model real-life JIRA tickets, which will be very useful for interns and junior developers.

As a start, there are two manual checklists, "Front-End Checklist" and "NextJs SEO Checklist."

Any feedback is very welcome :)

PS. I'm a JS full-stack developer and blogger from Bulgaria, so I'm not a native English writer.
Ask HN: Do you live in Austin?
I was wondering if there was enough HN users to have a meet up.
CS graduate, no knowledge, 50K in debt.  Any advice is appreciated.
Hello everyone,
I apologize ahead of time to the community, but this is a throw away account, maybe. And I promise you that this is not a joke.

I'm a college graduate with a BS in computer science from a decent university. I'm 50K in debt, and have almost no experience/knowledge. I have some working experience and am currently working a very basic job. Not much to it, though it is related to programming, and definitely has potential.

Long story short I just had an epiphany/life crisis. I realized that I didn't really do anything with my life thus far, and I would like to change that starting right now. I'm a farley sharp person. I'm not saying that I'm at the level of a genius, but I can assure you I have more capabilities than I currently present to anyone, including my employer.

I have made it a point to try and make myself the best I can be, starting right now. Not 'the best', but the best I can possibly be. Already admitting to not knowing much, I'm here to request some guidance. If you are here to only remind me of how big of a failure I am, please keep your peace. Thank you.

I'm here to ask you, because I know that most of you here are very sharp and amazingly accomplished, so please treat me like a college freshman and advise me.
I would like for you to show me a few routes that would potentially spark an interest in me. I find programming very amazing, but due to procrastination and basically wasting my life, I really don't know much at all. Treat me like a 60 year old who just heard about computers (though I pray to God that I know at least a bit more than that).
I am definitely interested in programming, but I have not found something to be passionate about. And we all know passion can move mountains.

Please advise me on where to begin, what to read, and how to learn. I believe that to be a programmer one must think in a certain way and I'm hoping that I can work and build myself to think that way. Maybe this piece of information would help; I'm a visual learner.
Also, please advise me on how I can begin to impress my employer and prove to them that I am a capable employee. Any advice is greatly appreciate. I appologize for making this a long post, but I've for once been sincere about this, I would appreciate it if you would do the same.

Thank you,

EDIT:
Thanks to gsivil!
I really just did enough to pass classes. So most of my college is just a blur, but I do recall finding Operating Systems very interesting.
Looking at my bookshelf nothing makes me want to run to it, but I've always been fond of C++, Java, and Python. Not because I've worked with them a lot, but because I've seen them do amazing things.
Please ask me for any kind of information, I will continue to add them here or below your post.

Thank you for being so kind.
Hunter S. Thompson and the Death of Objectivity
http://www.adrianmouat.com/bit-bucket/2009/07/hunter-s-thompson-and-the-death-of-objectivity/
About transparency vs objectivity in newspapers and blogs, and how it all harks bark to Gonzo.
Top universities by reputation 2013
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2013/reputation-ranking/range/01-50
Not that it really matters.
Show HN: Graphsignal – ML profiler to speed up training and inference
https://github.com/graphsignal/graphsignal
Hi, Graphsignal founder here. We've launched Graphsignal earlier this year to make machine learning profiling practical and easy to use. Basically, it enables the profile-optimize-benchmark loop. For example, making inference faster by optimizing an ML model, while still maintaining accuracy.

We've make a lot of progress that I wanted to share.

The profiler now natively supports TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, Hugging Face, XGBoost and JAX frameworks along with built-in support for distributed workloads.

Profiles now include tracing information in chrome trace format. Process and GPU utilization data has been extended as well.

It is now possible to monitor all run metrics. Useful for long runs.

Profiled workloads are now sharable across teams and publicly (if enabled).

I'm excited to show it here and appreciate any thoughts, comments and feedback!
Ask HN: Do "average" programmers build "extra ordinary" companies?
We all know about how selective are large companies like Google, Apple, Amazon etc about recruiting.

A startup on the other hand, has to fight hard to get top talent. I want to know are there any examples of startups that have worked around this problem and implemented ideas so that by recruiting "average" talent, they are able to be successful?
Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities?
I'm on the journey of developing a web-browser from scratch in C and I keep coming across niche questions on how certain libraries function (Xlib). I did some searches, but I couldn't find any forum or community that was recently active.
Do you know of active communities that have Knowledge of C/Xlib?
How to read Haskell like Python
http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/11/how-to-read-haskell/
I prefered to learn how to write it, but I'll stick with reading skill for now ... :-)
Show HN: CouponHunt – Product Hunt for Coupons and Deals
http://www.couponhunt.co
Community Curated Coupons from your Favorite Retailers. The CouponHunt Community upvotes and comments on the best coupons so that you never miss a great deal again.
Official Facebook Resources You Likely Don't Know About
http://pop17.com/facebook-on-facebook-fan-pages-for-news-and-best-practices/
Here’s a list of different fan pages created by Facebook for specific topics of interest such as news from the Facebook Dev Team and Facebook for non-profits.
Social Games spending patterns
http://blog.jambool.com/index.php/2010/02/17/social-game-spending-behavior/
Infographic and numbers on how people spend money in social games.
Tell HN:  Bitcoin is about to break 10M market cap mark.
bitcoinwatch.com is probably the best place to watch.. probably will happen before midnight.

Been a crazy rally.
FoundationDB forked source
Hi does anyone have a copy of FoundationDB source. This seems to have been pulled from GitHub. If someone has a forked copy please share.
100 Ways to Get More Done
http://regardingwork.com/2011/09/01/100-ways-to-get-more-done/
From having a focused, attaining flow, optimizing your work environment, plateau busting, using a task list and working on the right thing. A rich list of hacks.
An Extended Introduction to Ruby on Rails at Boston Ruby Group
http://launchware.com/articles/an-introduction-to-ruby-on-rails-presented-at-a-boston-ruby-group-project-night/
Our monthly project nights have been really successful. Feedback from newcomers to Ruby has been extremely positive.
Halliburton Patents Patent Trolling
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081107/0118162765.shtml
This may or may not have been submitted, but I found the article worthwhile and interesting and thought some other people might enjoy it.
Show HN: RandomGeo.City – Browse Random Geocities Websites
https://randomgeo.city/?seed=Ivs6PH
Source code / dataset: https://github.com/emeth-/geocities-browser
Engine Yard CLI Now Open Source
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/engine-yard-cli-now-open-source/
Engine Yard announces that their command line client is now fully open sourced.
How colour cycling in the browser can deliver pretty, fast map overlays
http://www.mysociety.org/2012/11/08/mapumentals-secret-sauce-a-map-overlay-rendering-technology-you-might-find-interesting/
Colour cycling is an unlikely technology to find in modern web mapping, but when performance is key, we found it the best bet. For when Canvas and SVG are just too slow...
Everything you need to know about Silicon Roundabout  in 10 links
http://www.vccafe.com/silicon-valley/the-rise-of-silicon-roundabout-tech-city-uk-in-10-links/
The rise of tech city UK - everything you need to know
UserVoice founder on how to build a killer site by listening to feedback
http://blog.mixergy.com/listen-to-users/
Awesome, step-by-step interview on when and how to launch a company and solicit effective helpful feedback. If you want your product to be perfect, you're thinking backwards. Nelson says launch crap and refine. Here's how.
Ask HN: Is there a way to do this layout in HTML 5?
http://raw.gibney.org/height_test_quirks
Meanwhile jlft has posted the right answer to this. Scroll way down to see it. Its on the second last position of this thread.
Databases: The Einstein Hypothesis - Distributed Transactions Cannot Exist
http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2008/06/databases-einstein-hypothesis.html
WTF! I always though distributed transcations were BS. If only I understood this post, I guess could now prove it giggle :)
10 amazing Android tips
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/10-amazing-android-development-tips
Android promises many exciting opportunities. Kevin McDonagh, director of Android development consultancy Novoda, rounds up 10 essential tips that will help you make the most of your development time.
12 Years of Portability Thanks to OpenGL: Mac - Windows - iPhone (and more)
http://blog.insightvr.com/?p=209
How using a standards compliant library let me port a game that started as a CS course assignment to multiple platforms and eventually to the iPhone.
How To Put On A Nerd Conference
http://www.televisionsky.org/2010/05/how-to-put-on-a-nerd-conference/
I drew this at TechCrunch Disrupt today....
An Overview of the Web
http://blog.dweek.ly/an-overview-of-the-web/
I wrote an overview of web technologies up for my friend Kate. :) Let me know what you guys think!
Show HN: Proby - Task monitoring made simple
http://probyapp.com
Hello HN.

We were occasionally running into issues where our scheduled tasks would not start when expected. There were many reasons for this (environment changes, lock files not being cleaned up properly, etc). So, we created a simple application to monitor our scheduled tasks, and notify us if they didn't start or finish when expected. Now we're notified immediately (via email or SMS) when a scheduled task isn't kicked off when it is supposed to.

The app also keeps track of the run times for past task executions, which has been useful in tracking down unexpected changes in task run times.

Proby is currently in closed beta, meaning we're letting people in slowly. It is currently running on a VPS with a few other services. We want to see if there is an interest in the app before purchasing better/additional hardware.

Use of the app is currently free. At some point, when it is out of beta, we may begin charging a small fee for the service (although I'd imagine we'd have a free plan of some sort). But, all of that is still up in the air.

What do you think?
Show HN: Hone for iPhone 4S - never lose your keys again
http://kck.st/KEDJ6B
Hone is a Bluetooth low energy device for the iPhone 4S and new iPad that erases the annoyance of losing your keys - my partner (Louis Gerbarg) and I built it for ourselves, and then decided to put it on Kickstarter. It lasts for 6+ months on a CR2032 battery, has a 50 meter range, and we're making the whole thing in the USA - case, PCB, and component assembly. We've gotten lots of help and support from HN users (esp. Eric Migicovsky's Solid State Hardware talk, curtgeen's hardware design guide) and we'd love feedback now that we're launching.
Show HN: We used investor tools to find the best startups to work at
https://joinmaasive.com
hey y'all -- can you please tell us if our job search tool sucks? :D

we built it using an investor platform called Harmonic.ai to gather startup data, then contextualize it so that job seekers could find out about the most exciting startups hiring first (like if they just raised, growing headcount fast, have an ex-unicorn founder, etc). pretty sure we're the first platform doing anything like this.

anyway, let me know what you think. really excited to launch this thing soon! getting feedback from the hn community first is really fun :)
HOTorNOT Reverses Course On "Reinventing" -- Back to Paid Accounts
http://mashable.com/2007/09/18/hot-or-not-3/
My startup. Comments?
http://www.scriggle-it.com/
Wondering what you all think of this. Does it make sense? Would you use it? Comments in general?
Ask PG: have you seen a change in the cumulative comment karma?
I was curious, when you look at the statistics of total comment karma before and after the karma points were removed from comments, is there a big change? Are users upvoting / downvoting at the same frequency?
Tech Startups vs Rock Bands
http://www.televisionsky.org/2010/04/tech-startups-vs-rock-bands/
As someone who's been in multiple bands and startups, I’ve realized the parallels between starting a rock band and starting a web company are pretty spot on...
A Journey to center of Redis
http://tumblr.com/xrm4qnsufa
Redis is great but it was missing a feature; I always wanted this post covers and provides you with a Redis fork that give you a new feature of PUBLISH event on key expiry.
Ask HN: Moving to US from Argentina for college. Any advice for a newcomer?
As the title says, I'll be going next week to the US since I'm taking college classes there.

I know that the US has a very unique culture (e.g tip everywhere!)

Any advice for a newcomer to the states like me?
Show HN: Type in a search to find the average of the first 50 image results
http://imgessence.com
When you search for something, it pulls the first 50 image results from Bing Image Search then blends them all together. The resulting image is produced by taking the mean color value of each pixel across all of the images.
'git commit' your favorite coffee place to work in
http://commitcoffee.com/
Reference for people traveling, working remotely and/or simply don’t want to sit at home. A list of places friendly to social oriented geeks.
Add new one with use of github pullrequest.
Ask HN: Founders taking the leap?
I've been to events here and there, and I have found that the ycombinator community represents the web start up mind set very well better than most places. I wanted to start this thread as a way to exchange instant messaging addresses (IM) with founders that are just now taking the leap to start a web start up with their own experience. This can be a good way to stay motivated and help one another.
A developper friendly (web) comic format
https://drdru.github.io/twc/twc_save_aryn/02_on_the_way_to_kilm_1.html
Hey HN

Using two online tools and some HTML/CSS I have been able to create a (web) comic despite the fact that I am conpletely unable to draw.

The first tool is https://www.pixelartcss.com/ which allows me to convert video game tiles to CSS.

The second one is https://www.thecodingfox.com/interactive/pixel-world-editor/ which was kindly made by TheCodingFox for me. It allows to combine the output of pixelartcss on a grid. The ouput is then exported as an HTML file that I can reuse.

As a result the illustrations you can see are actually only css and HTML. The comic does not make use of any images such as ong or jpg.
Ask HN: How can banks use the Internet to better serve their customers?
I work for a bank and recently submitted an idea which landed on the desk of someone fairly high up the organisation. To my surprise he now wants to meet me and discuss how the bank can use the internet in a better way to serve its customers.

I am keen to go to him with some ideas of my own but also would love to hear what the community thinks. I would imagine you all have bank accounts and everyone here is certainly passionate about the internet. How can the two marry in a better way? What would you like to see your bank implement that would be of benefit to you?

Thanks in advance for the comments.