jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
HN Stories Behind Paywalls
Recently there have been several HN links on the main page to stories behind paywalls. I am a college student, and can neither afford nor have the desire to pay for that content as I can find my news and content for free elsewhere.

This becomes a problem when several highly-ranked stories on the HN are links to sites I assume are behind paywalls, so I simply don't click on stories with from those domains. This is a sad state of affairs.

I realize that because they are charging for access to their stories they can probably create more and better content, but I will never be able to read them because, alas, I cannot access them, and I'm sure that there are a large number of people here in the same situation. Therefore, those stories do us no good because we cannot read them. If at all possible, find another source of the story (when possible) or find a free alternative to the content (also where possible). Perhaps if neither of those things exist, the story must go unshared.

So I ask you, the HN community and the admins here to not allow stories behind paywalls to get to the main page.
Theory vs Practice: Making algorithms claimed 'optimal', 10x faster.
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/7/95061-youre-doing-it-wrong/fulltext
"Would you believe me if I claimed that an algorithm that has been on the books as "optimal" for 46 years, which has been analyzed in excruciating detail by geniuses like Knuth and taught in all computer science courses in the world, can be optimized to run 10 times faster?"
iOSTO - Toronto's iOS community
http://iosto.ca
The iOSTO meetup is the first of its kind in Toronto – where people who are interested in iOS development gather together to SHARE, LEARN, CHANGE, and ACT. If you’re an iOS developer, game designer, marketeer, investor, UX/GUI Designer or active in the iOS community, we want to MEETUP and CONNECT with you.

This will be an informal and casual event and will be held downtown (date/location TBA).
This meetup is an opportunity to share iOS projects, ideas, business insight, prototypes and development experiences. Do you have an app store horror story? Or successes to share? What do you think Apple will do next? Let’s talk about Objective C Programming and User Experience

Let’s meet and connect in the world of iOS!

Note: for now we are using the Meetup.com platform.
Show HN: Live Bitcoin Transactions from around the globe in WebGL
http://www.earthbit.net
I built this over the weekend. Any feedback is appreciated. Please note you will need a WebGL enabled browser. Thank you for checking it out.

--UPDATE-- HN Traffic is strangling earthbit.
There is sporadic downtime due to the web services I am using, if no transactions appear after a few seconds, then please try again in an hour.
On Ruby: Good Programmers and How to Become One
http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2009/06/good-programmers-and-how-to-become-one.html
Another 'questions five ways' discussion. This time with the writers of the Ruby Best Practices blog, about what makes a good programmer and how to become one.
Carl Herold - a new step in web learning
http://www.highercomputingforeveryone.com/
Hope it helps
Russia's Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals (2012)
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/ff_kaspersky/all/
7/7/2012
Borgata casino lawsuit: Phil Ivey cheated, won $9.6M?
http://news.yahoo.com/borgata-casino-lawsuit-gambler-cheated-won-9-6m-204337332.html;_ylt=AwrBJR_PZ0hT9nwAE._QtDMD
Defective decks had non-uniform edge pattern, dealer rotated certain cards at Ivey's open request, mechanical shuffler left cards in same orientation... allowing Ivey to read some obscured/upcoming cards.
Hiring on Craigslist experiment with interesting results
http://karmabond.com/pages/hiring-on-craigslist-without-email-overload
I built a site that should improve process of hiring on Craiglist. First test results look promising. I plan to pursue couple local HR agencies to give it a try and run couple more tests for other professions. Any other ideas on what is the most effective way to prove or disprove this concept quickly?
Why I left consulting and joined a startup
http://blog.keen.io/post/26096112831/why-i-left-consulting-and-joined-a-startup
My first real blog post... I hope you like it!
Cobra language gets major update
http://cobra-language.com/
Currently for .NET, JVM in the pipeline.
Show HN: Teapodo (Lightweight Audio Editor) Now Supports VST/AU Plugins
https://teapodo.com/releases
It's a big deal.

- Teapodo now supports adding audio effects to tracks by mounting VST3 (Windows and macOS) and AudioUnit (macOS) plugins.

- Teapodo for Windows now has an installer.
Can you have a baby and a startup? (not easily)
http://calacanis.com/2010/10/28/my-email-yesterday-about-can-you-have-a-baby-and-a-startup/
inspired by yesterday's thread of babies, i posted this to my email list.
Artificial Intelligence Stack Overflow about to start
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6607
Got Research level questions or answers about data mining, statistical inference, machine learning, neural networks, clustering, support vector machines, genetic algorithms, heuristics and so on?

We want you!
Show HN: Glossary page template with a built-in editor
https://glossary.page/template/
This started out as a static HTML file, being used by some developers at my current employer to document "domain terminology" relevant to products we're building.

Soon it became too much work to update the items in the HTML manually, so I added a JavaScript-based editor. It relies on a tiny Node.js server to write changes back to the HTML file.

Not as user-friendly as a "normal" web-based application, but it does mean we can keep the HTML file under version control and follow our normal development process for making/tracking changes.
Ask HN: Is there currently a problem?
When my login cookie is set I can't read anything, but if I delete it then I can. Is there currently a problem? It seems to have been so for an hour or more.

Current time 15:50 Zulu.
Show HN: I've built a tool for musicians using modular gear
https://patcher.xyz/
Hello HN,
not many will know what this tool is about, but it's launch day and I always dreamed of posting on HN. Let's start!

This is a tool for people using eurorack gear. For synth people. What is cool about my tool is that I show the signal flow with a graph. Here's the official press text:

After a decade of stagnation in this space we are excited to present patcher.xyz: the modern way to manage everything modular.

It’s a tool for professionals, enthusiasts, and casual wigglers.

Novadays artists must develop their own means of taking notes, often on paper, since there is no common format for sharing ideas. Although there is nothing wrong with that, we believe we have found a better way.

We wanted our patch ideas to be searchable, editable and easily-shareable. We needed an easier way to plan our racks, without creating a mess. We needed to be able to find awesome modules fitting our style and feel, without being lost in the ocean of different options.
We made it a reality.

patcher.xyz was built to provide a fast and enjoyable experience while bypassing the limitations of current offerings. Our vision is to build a platform to assist you in any part of your wiggling experience: from research, to planning, to buying or trading gear, to sharing your new ideas and music.
Help HN, lets make GitHub accessible again from India
Please make the PM of India aware of this gigantic blunder in the name of security. No github means no work for me and I am sure a lot of you.

http://pmindia.gov.in/en/interact-with-honble-pm/
Observations from 10 Months Working at a Small Startup
http://www.tortoiseandachilles.com/2007/09/observations-from-10-months-at-startup_03.html
Observations about startup life and manager after working for 10 months at a small venture-capital funded startup.
Science fiction inspired by an HN thread (5 min read)
https://davidlaprade.github.io/your-dietbet-destroyed-the-world
Inspired by some awesome comments in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33453037
Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about
https://linkidex.com/
Hi HN! My name is David (david@linkidex.com) and I am the author of Linkidex (www.linkidex.com)! My goal is to make bookmarks better.

I built Linkidex because I was getting overwhelmed by the number of things I had to keep track of on the internet during my day to day job. Constantly needing to re-find various wikis or jira epics or project proposals or whatever was eating into my day. I was using a chrome extension to manage urls, but the extension was getting unwieldy as my list of “important URLs” grew and I started looking for alternatives. There are a few really cool bookmark managers out there, but I wasn’t satisfied with what I saw. Regular bookmarks don’t cut it either for me as I need something that works across browsers and devices. Thus, Linkidex was born.

The most basic idea with Linkidex is that you can go to Linkidex and just start typing. Linkidex will search across your link titles, link urls, categories, and tags all at once. Click the result you are looking for and it opens in a new tab. If you want to scope your search by specific categories or tags you can do that too.

Linkidex is a progressive web application. It (mostly) works offline and it can be downloaded to your phone and act like a native app without requiring you to grant it any permissions. The back end is rails, and the front end is React, Typescript and GraphQL.

Security wise it is deployed to AWS. The database and back end are all wrapped up in a VPC. The front end supports 2 factor and WebAuthn, so you can use a yubikey or your device's fingerprint reader as your second factor.

Linkidex can import and export bookmarks to and from your favorite browser. That said, I’ve limited the number of links / categories / tags a given user can have for now on Linkidex to prevent anything insane from happening.

All feedback / feature requests / complaints / whatever welcome. Thanks for checking out Linkidex!
Your taste is why your work disappoints you.
http://kottke.org/11/04/your-taste-is-why-your-own-work-disappoints-you
Ira Glass talking about the process of honing your craft.
Differences between German and British manners
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13545386
"Germans really don't do small talk, those little phrases so familiar to the British about the weather or a person's general well-being, but which she describes as "empty verbiage"."
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All - Zed Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/rants/programmer_stats.html
Rant from Zed Shaw of Mongrel Fame
Wordpress Bootstrap 3 Starter Theme – MIT License
https://github.com/bencarlson/wp-bootstrap
Thought you guys might find this useful. I whipped it up over the weekend as I couldn't find one that worked properly. I'm using it for a client project, and will make updates as I make progress.

-Ben
Dropbox users' email addresses targeted by spam?
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=64367
edit: I updated the title to more specifically address the issue.
Six Metrics Every Business Should Track
http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2010/10/04/six-metrics-every-business-should-track/
Details on six metrics that are related to customer retention and loyalty
Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List
http://founderdating.com/questions-to-ask-potential-cofounders/
What are the topics you and your cofounder should cover before you take the leap? Here is the complete and Master list.
Launch HN: Scanwell (YC S18) – At-home UTI test with same-day treatment options
Hi HN,

I’m Stephen, the founder of Scanwell Health (https://shop.scanwellhealth.com). We’re a modern diagnostics company, and we’ve created the first at-home UTI (urinary tract infection) test with same-day treatment options.

With a lifetime of experience in the diagnostics industry (literally––my family’s business is in manufacturing in-vitro diagnostics, and my first summer job was assembling pregnancy tests), I’ve always been interested in making these tests more convenient and cost-effective.

Why start with UTIs? Some studies estimate that up to 60% of women experience UTIs, prompting 10 million doctor visits in the US each year. Getting treatment for a UTI at urgent care costs around $150, while visits to the emergency room can cost over $2000––and one study found that ER visits for UTIs adds $4B a year in unnecessary healthcare costs. By taking the same urine test performed in doctor’s offices, hospitals, emergency rooms, etc. and making it accessible to anyone who has a Scanwell UTI test kit and a smartphone, we’re drastically reducing the time and cost it takes to treat UTIs.

Just like a traditional test, ours uses a chemically treated test strip that reacts with the patient’s urine sample. But instead of being read by a urine analyzer in a lab, the Scanwell app uses computer vision to assess the results. Results are provided to the patient in 2 minutes, with the same diagnostic accuracy as a urinalysis performed in a clinic. If the user has signs of a UTI, we’ll directly connect them to a healthcare provider who can prescribe treatment.

Our UTI product is FDA-cleared, and we are working to obtain clearances for other tests. One such test is our chronic kidney disease (CKD) test, which is currently being piloted with Kaiser Permanente to improve screening for and monitoring of chronic kidney disease at home.

Telehealth continues to grow but the piece that is missing is diagnostics, and that’s what we hope to provide. Whether it’s for detecting acute conditions like UTIs or managing longer term conditions like chronic kidney disease, we believe that the more we can enable at-home testing the more accessible healthcare will be for everyone.

We’re excited to hear your feedback and answer any questions you might have about Scanwell. Thanks everyone!
19 year old from Florida commits suicide on Justin.tv
http://newteevee.com/2008/11/20/19-year-old-commits-suicide-on-justintv/
Dude, a kid just offed himself on your service, and BOILERPLATE is the best you can do?
Ask HN: What work can be done quarantined with a toddler?
I am well aware that I have the privilege of working in a career that is not already obliterated by this crisis. I am very sympathetic to others who are more severely impacted by all this and the economic damage from this is immeasurable. I still have my own concerns as does everyone else...

What are the reasonable expectations of me as an employee working from home without childcare? I have a toddler and a first grader. The first grader is pretty much auto-pilot when given some daily academic structure. The toddler is the most difficult to manage which requires constant attention. As a software engineer and team lead I have both technical and administrative responsibilities. I can get some work done however, in my opinion, it is fair to assume that my productivity will _significantly_ diminish almost to the point of just keeping systems alive. Should I consider giving up my position as lead to someone who has no children during this crisis? My wife and I have decided to take some sort of split schedule during the workday but to put in a solid eight hours moonlighting the extra hours for an indefinite period of time is unsustainable. Fatigue will kick in inevitably. What are your thoughts on the matter?
The Management Myth (2006)
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2006/06/the-management-myth/4883/
Most of management theory is inane, writes our correspondent, the founder of a consulting firm. If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A. Study philosophy instead
By Matthew Stewart
German Chaos Computer Club analyzes and releases government malware
http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner
From the press release: "The largest European hacker club, "Chaos Computer Club" (CCC), has reverse engineered and analyzed a "lawful interception" malware program used by German police forces. It has been found in the wild and submitted to the CCC anonymously. The malware can not only siphon away intimate data but also offers a remote control or backdoor functionality for uploading and executing arbitrary other programs. Significant design and implementation flaws make all of the functionality available to anyone on the internet."
Show HN: Low-cost backup to S3 Glacier Deep Archive
https://github.com/mrichtarsky/glacier_deep_archive_backup
Hi,

most people (hopefully) have local backups. However, when that backup fails, it is good to have a backup stored somewhere off-site. In the old days you would ship physical drives/tapes, which is cumbersome, costly, and slow. With fast upload speeds, it is now possible to upload your data to the cloud. I have found S3 Glacier Deep Archive to be a great solution for this:

- It is very cheap ($1/TB/month for US region)
- Very reliable (99.999999999% data durability, data spread over 3 Availability Zones)

However, usability out of the box is not that great, I'm not aware of any automated backup solution for Deep Archive. This free project provides that.

Currently, ZFS is required, but that might change. Please try it out and provide feedback!
Show HN: Socket – Secure your JavaScript supply chain
https://socket.dev
Excited to share the project I've been working on for the past 7 months!

We've seen nearly weekly attacks against the open source software supply chain. I saw the seeds of this trend start in the mid 2015s as an open source maintainer and I've watched it only get worse over the years. I finally decided to try to solve this problem.

Socket is taking an entirely new approach to one of the hardest problems in security in a stagnant part of the industry that has historically been obsessed with just reporting on known vulnerabilities. Unlike other scanning tools, Socket actually analyzes the package code to characterize the package's behavior. This way, Socket can detect when packages use security-relevant platform capabilities, such as the network, filesystem, or shell.

You can search for any npm package and see issues that've we've flagged for each package. We look for 70 issues (full list here: https://socket.dev/npm/issue) and we put those into a Package Health score. See these examples:

https://socket.dev/npm/package/left-pad

https://socket.dev/npm/package/lodash

Socket looks for indicators present in all of the recent npm supply chain attacks. We're proactively auditing every package on npm to flag these issues.

Separately, we have a GitHub app that you can install. It detects typosquat attacks and leaves a comment on your pull request to let you know you might have installed the wrong package. We're currently working to enable it to leave comments for more of the package issues that we can detect, but we want to get the UX really good on that first, so we've released it and labeled it "beta".

Happy to answer questions.
Show HN: A benchmark for analytical databases (Snowflake, Druid, Redshift)
https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/
I created a web page to compare different analytical databases (both self-managed and services, open-source and proprietary) on a realistic dataset.
It contains 20+ databases, each with installation and data loading scripts. And they can be compared to each other on a set of 43 queries, by data load time or by storage size.

There are switches to select different types of databases for comparison - for example, only MySQL compatible or PostgreSQL compatible.

If you play with the switches, many interesting details will be uncovered.

Full description: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/blob/main/README.md
The Django Book is getting updated 
https://github.com/jacobian/djangobook.com/ 
... but it needs help
Peter Norvig: Tweaking Bayes' Theorem
http://java.dzone.com/articles/tweaking-bayes%E2%80%99-theorem
In Peter Norvig’s talk The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data, he describes a translation algorithm based on Bayes’ theorem. Pick the English word that has the highest posterior probability as the translation. No surprise here. Then he says something curious.
Show HN: AI magics meet Infinite draw board
https://github.com/carefree0910/carefree-creator
I have been dreaming of creating things (arts, games, etc.), but that wouldn't be possible because I can hardly draw anything. But now with Stable Diffusion everything is hopeful again, so I further collected the AI magics that I considered necessary in creation activities, and integrated them into an Infinite draw board (like Figma).

Hope that I can hear from you, any advice or suggestions will be really appreciated!
Nothing to Hide – Game inspired by government surveillance
https://github.com/ncase/nothing-to-hide
Article on it:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/12/nothing-to-hide-is-a-very-smart-anti-stealth-game/

Back it: http://back.nothingtohide.cc/
Superhero themed intro to R and programming tutorial 
http://cierareports.org/blog/2013/10/18/rCourse2013/index.html
Hybrid environment setup during migration from SVN to GIT
http://www.tikalk.com/alm/blog/hybrid-environment-setup-during-migration-svn-git
Turn Facebook pink, red or black? Don't fall for online scams
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/11/turn-facebook-pink-red-or-black-dont-fall-for-online-scams/
Hurt Locker lawsuit targets a record-breaking 24,583 IP addresses
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/27/hurt-locker-lawsuit-targets-a-record-breaking-24-583-ip-addresse/
My Road to (Web) Design
http://www.yassinebentaieb.com/articles/my-road-to-web-design/
AT&T, Verizon and now Comcast offloading the faster data connection traffic.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410276,00.asp
Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source
https://github.blog/2020-01-22-how-we-built-good-first-issues/
Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub
https://dotfiles.github.io/
“This” in JavaScript
http://bjorn.tipling.com/all-this
The Georgia Tech Online Master of Science in CS is now accepting applications
http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/program/
Symbian Won
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/06/symbian-won/
Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL
https://hakibenita.com/sql-anomaly-detection
FiveRuns raises $6.2M as Rails development spreads
http://venturebeat.com/2007/10/28/fiveruns-raises-62m-as-rails-development-spreads/
Real World Guide To Open Sourcing a Saturday Project
http://www.javalobby.org/articles/sat-open-source/
Meaning = Data + Structure: Inferring Structure from domain knowledge
http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/meaning-data-structure-inferring-structure-from-domain-knowledge/
Incognito Mode Is Coming to Google Maps
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/07/incognito-mode-is-coming-to-google-maps/
Why I quit Facebook and we are sharing much more than you think
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140709173931-11228988-why-i-quit-facebook-and-we-are-sharing-much-more-than-you-think?trk=tod-home-art-list-large_0
Riro – alias your current directory to “p”
https://github.com/eoinmurray/riro
Why is Netflix splitting into two companies?
http://blog.dinogane.com/2011/09/why-has-netflix-split-into-two.html
5 Ways To Finance A Real Estate Investment
http://uk.askmen.com/money/investing_200/243_investing.html
Awesome pull requests. How people work together.
https://github.com/stevemao/awesome-pull-requests
Boilerplate for express.js with mongoose, suggestions?
https://github.com/ManZzup/nodejs-express-mongoose-boilerplate
The Power of a Clear Leadership Narrative
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-power-of-a-clear-leadership-narrative/
What cities need to do by 2050 to meet climate goals
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/09/zero-carbon-cities-future/
An IDE for React.js
https://medium.com/@eveningkid/an-ide-for-react-js-d0fd69052131
Inferring personal economic status from social network location
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15227
Tencent announces WeGame, its Steam digital PC game store
https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/17/tencent-announces-wegame-its-steam-digital-pc-game-store/
User Personalization with People
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/07/25/up-with-people/