jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: We're building a search engine for GCP
https://listvms.com/demo
Hi HN,

I previously wore SWE/SRE hats on GCP. Later, I was on the other side, managing thousands of machines. The friction points of onboarding and operating cloud systems are personal problems to me.

I’ve found it hard to keep track of all the random cloud resources floating around, especially as my team’s assets proliferated. Occasionally, there is a resource affecting an outage but no one remembers where it is.

I am constantly frustrated by existing tooling. APIs can work, after you’ve navigated the byzantine documentation, but I often find myself doing ad-hoc tasks which are best served by a UI. Unfortunately, the search bar in the GCP web console does not behave as you expect. For example, it only seems to search for prefixes, rather than substrings, on App Engine stuff.

The GCP web console as a whole is boatloads of JavaScripts, 90+ navigation items on the left menu, and a constant stream of UX/UI controls. I'm fond of HackerNews and Craigslists, because ultimately, we just need to list/search and maybe submit a webform.

This year I convinced my friend to quit their coding gig on Wall Street to help me make the cloud accessible. We’ve started with a small tool to this end: a search engine for the cloud. What we have demo-able for you today is the GCP component of it.

Our tech:

- Go with conservative sprinkles of VanillaJS. It allowed us to focus on the domain rather than the language.

- SSR. Right now the pages are under the magical 14kb, but we’re eyeing the

- HTMX (rendering fragments of HTML strings from the server) pattern

- We’ll dabble with Elixir, Rust, and Zig in other parts of the system

- GCP (We think GCP runs great once you get set. The problem is getting to that point, which is what we want to help others do). We also have some stuff on AWS.

- Plaintext. Our “agile process” was a TODO.org file, and Git. It’ll be super fun to do a timelapse of it.
Designing UI & UX? Be a Triangle
http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/internet-marketing-strategy/banner-blindness-ads.html
When trying to come up with original creative for your UI, UX look & feel you- a better perspective might be doing something different from competition rather than comparing features to the competition.

Standing out is vital if you want to make the leap.
some more relevant posts:

http://thejunction.co.il/2011/03/28/be-different/

http://www.marketingexperiments.com/blog/internet-marketing-strategy/banner-ads-obstacles.html
Calculated Web Development with Soulver App
http://rachelbaker.me/calculated-web-development-with-soulver/
Soulver allows me to calculate CSS element sizes and spacing quickly, improving my front-end development workflow.
Google waves embedded 
http://www.h3manth.com/content/embedding-google-wave
Sample waves embedded
Bitcoin Mining Hardware Calculator
http://bitminer.info/
Real time updated chart showing best price on GPU's and bitcoin returns.
Hourly Rate calculator
http://freelanceswitch.com/rates/
I am came across this and found it really useful and I am already in business. Could help someone trying to work out how much they need to make per hour etc.
DreamIt Ventures - Class of 2008
http://www.viddler.com/explore/DreamItVentures/videos/2/
Stumbled upon this video and thought I'd share this with fellow entrepreneurs, as I have seen a lot of talk regarding DreamIt within this forum.

Looks to be a great opportunity!
Show HN: After $30M in Sales We've Switched Our Business Model
http://www.trainsignal.com
To date we've been selling IT training courses on DVD's for approximately $400 a piece. We create the curriculum, create the content, market it ourselves, everything.

We've sold almost $35 million dollars of our own IT training one course at a time to about 50,000 customers in 147 countries. Being in business for a number of years we've built up expenses to approximately $500k and we're risking it all to start from 0 subscribers with the subscription model.

Completely bootstrapped, no outside money.
Ask HN: is there a git-push-heroku for php?
Is there a simple 1-step deploy solution (hosting or just some scripts) for php? Preferably works with ec2?
Database of over 100 VPS hosting plans
http://vps-plans.dabbledb.com/publish/linuxvpses
I'm shopping around for a VPS, so I thought I'd share the data I've collected with other hackers.
Ask HN: PHP or Ruby on Rails
Hello,

I want to know, with which language is easy to develop a web project ?

Best Regards,
Show HN: Free Hosted JupyerLab with GPU
https://cloudburst.host
Hi,

This is Dan and Genevieve from Burstable AI. We've iterated and made a 45 degree pivot, taking what we learned from developing burst (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28191459) to introduce a cloud service that provides access to a GPU-enabled machine using Jupyterlab to provide notebooks, shell access, and a code/text editor. GPU access is measured and the first 50 hours are free.

This is *not* a platform to do crypto mining or run weeks of model training for free. We are focused on the R & D phase of modern AI/ML, where developers/scientists are iterating, testing, and measuring results. We are running a beta program with a few seats left to get feedback and constructive directions for how to make Cloudburst a killer environment for modern exploratory AI/ML research, whether you are a high-school student hacking on the weekend, a small team at a startup, or a consultant building ML pipelines for SmB's (or some other user story we haven't thought of yet).

Presently, signup is through your github account. If you have questions, please email us at beta@cloudburst.host.

Thanks to all our beta folks!
Mobile Browsers 
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/03/22/fennec-beta-1-goes-live-on-maemo-platform/#continued
It's interesting to see what's been happening with mobile web browsing. Gone are the days of struggling with Windows Mobile's Internet Explorer or other basic browsers found in phones. Apple's Safari for the iPhone OSX felt like a huge breakthrough, but lacked Adobe Flash support.

It's amazing to see products like SkyFire and now Mozilla's own Fennec mobile browser building in plug-in support to bring the mobile browsing experience even closer to the desktop experience! These startups and smaller companies are truly taking big steps forward and filling the need for a better mobile browser that larger companies are struggling with.
Tell HN: remembering Dan Haubert(ticketstumbler-yc08)
So, I was searching for a curious read and came across 'fallentimes'. I knew I had come across his comments earlier and it struck me that this was Dan Haubert;

My eyes are moist reading this : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859117

This is him:
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fallentimes

PG has still kept this link alive:
http://ycombinator.com/dan.html

HN, Let's remember Dan today.

PS: @tdavis, I hope you are doing well. I read your notice at http://ticketstumbler.com/. I hope you have found support and recovered.
CleanTab launches version 2 - Guitar & Bass Tabs in HTML5
http://blog.cleantab.com/news/cleantab-launches-version-2-0/
Hi Hacker News, I have become a huge fan in the last several weeks. I am proud to present my first submission. For the last few months I have been working on CleanTab a guitar and bass tablature site that harnesses HTML5 for an amazing playing experience. I hope you all enjoy.
Ask HN: Review my startup - GetWebColors
I would really appreciate your feedback about my first toy project. It basically grabs the url you entered, and generates a color palette from it.

http://getwebcolors.com/

Thanks.
Facebook asserts trademark on word "book" in new user agreement
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/facebook-asserts-trademark-on-word-book-in-new-user-agreement.ars
Facebook is trying to expand its trademark rights over the word "book" by adding the claim to a newly revised version of its "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities," the agreement all users implicitly consent to by using or accessing Facebook. The company has registered trademarks over its name and many variations of it, but not on the word "book". By inserting the trademark claim into the Facebook user agreement, the company hopes to bolster its standing in lawsuits against sites that incorporate the word "book".
The Century of Self Happiness Machines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUYFr-uDQgg
Controling masis ...The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays.It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate today's world.
Show HN: A Network of Knowledge Feeds
https://edify.ws/club/10
Hi Everyone,

I wanted to talk to this community about a particular story from my experience to see how the community feels. I have noticed that I have a lot of educated friends from top universities in my country who are having problems finding work due to a lack of experience, which has brought me to a conclusion that diplomas and CVs are not really good at conveying the knowledge someone has.

A friend of mine who is already working on his own company told me that he had trouble finding people to work for him, so I thought about an idea that I am currently incorporating into my app. Perhaps we could make it much easier for you to show your knowledge to companies, as easy as show and tell. A network of live knowledge feeds that constantly keep updating over time showing how someone has evolved.

If you know something, put it on full display for everyone to see, show something you have made and explain how you made something so that everyone can understand. If you are good at something, you probably won’t have a hard time explaining it to others, and other people could perhaps learn something by simply following your feed.

Educational Institutions have curriculums that aren’t really adaptable, but if we rely on people expressing their unique knowledge to the world, we can create countless combinations of curriculums that will be much more adaptable for the problems we have to face today.

I will be trying this approach with some friends over the coming days. My friends are looking for graphic designers, software engineers and music producers. They have established brands and are going to ask people who want to work with them to submit something they made and explain how they did it for everyone to see.

You are welcome to join us at EWS (https://edify.ws/club/10). If this sounds like a good idea, maybe we can kick off a challenge that you can share with your friends to #ShowWhatYouKnow. If you have a company, are looking for employees, maybe you can ask people to show something they made and explain how they made it to see whether someone has the knowledge required to work for you.
Was iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZp7BvQJnU8
here you can download the .docx file (you need Word 2013 to open it):
http://www.upir.org/
Virtual sticky notes based SCRUM-board with real-time updates
http://blog.listhings.com/post/394352901/sharing
Listhings, a popular web-based note-taking web app now features real-time AJAX Push updates between unlimited users, making it the perfect SCRUM-board for your team.
Weeblies and Xobni featured in Collegian Article
http://www.psucollegian.com/archive/2007/12/11/penn_state_grads_launch_lucrat.aspx
Their story has quickly become Penn State lore of the new millennium: An idea that started out as one student's response to a class project has now developed into a potentially multimillion-dollar company.
Syrian hacker, entrepreneur, and blogger arrested in Syria - PLEASE SUPPORT
https://www.facebook.com/pages/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A-Free-Syrian-Blogger-Anas-Maarawi/228644957166181?sk=info
Anas Maarawi is an admirable man. He's a blogger, web developer, and interested in open-source software. Maarawi founded ardroid.com, the first Arabic website specialized in Android OS for smartphones. We stand in solidarity with him and demand that the Syrian authorities release him at once.

Campaign: http://freeanas.wordpress.com/
Tweets: #FreeAnas
Ask HN: How many of you wish to quit a job to build a startup?
Curious how many of you are tired of your job and can't wait to quit to build a start-up? Why? What's your current position?
Show HN: Looria – A product (re)search engine
https://looria.com
About 1.5 years ago, I introduced my review aggregator BuyForLife on Hacker News, where it became the #8 most upvoted Show HN project of all time[1]. The idea of helping people to make better purchasing decisions continued to chase me over the last year.
Here are some stats that illustrate how important online reviews are:

• 90% check online reviews as part of their online buying journey

• 43% visit 5-10 websites to research a product

• 75% spend more than a day doing research before buying a product

The top frustrations with the current process are:

• Google full of SEO spam and Ads

• Fake reviews

• Fragmented trusted sources

• Inconsistent information across sources

Thanks to the recent advances in NLP (transformers, GPT-3, etc.) it became possible to solve these problems at scale, so I decided to team up with my co-founders Johnny and Tavis to build https://Looria.com.

We aggregate and summarize the most trusted product reviews on the web like Reddit, Youtube, or Consumer Reports. Just like Rotten Tomatoes provides trustworthy ratings for movies, Looria offers ratings and reviews for all kinds of products. Our vision is to make Looria the go-to platform for making purchase decisions.

Looria is still in beta and our data is far from perfect. We're working hard on improving the data quality, adding better filters, and scaling to many more categories.

[1] https://bestofshowhn.com
Ask HN: AWS S3 billed us over $1k. What cheaper alternatives do you recommend?
I run an image sharing website and AWS recently billed us over $1k for bandwidth costs:

http://i.imgur.com/sGrYboT.png

What cheaper alternatives do you recommend?
Impressions of SXSW (and how Australian startups stack up)
http://www.dinotalic.com/blog/impressions-from-sxsw-interactive-and-what-it-means-for-australian-startups/
An Australian product manager goes to SXSW for the first time and gives impressions. He also compares the US startup community to that in Australia.
Heartwarming tweets from the eye witnesses of 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami
http://genkitweet.com/?locale=en
Japanese people have been very open on Twitter about their experiences following the earthquake. These snippets of what moved them and touched them during these very trying times are heart-warming.<p>We hope these mini-stories will bring strength and encouragement to friends and families
in Japan by letting them know that, not only does the world sympathize with them, but it looks up to them in admiration.
Crazy Questions at Google Job Interview
http://tihomir.org/crazy-questions-at-google-job-interview/
You must know the answers!
Why You Need To Intern At A Startup
http://bostinnovation.com/2011/07/01/one-last-note-from-a-bostinno-intern-7-reasons-you-need-to-intern-at-a-startup-asap/
Excellent advice from an intern that just finished her coop with us.
Tell HN NY: Moving meetup tonight to Heartland Brewery, Union Square (6-8PM), RSVP here
http://anyvite.com/events/home/lixf1gyt0q
Due to the weather, we're moving tonight's meetup indoors to a place that can fit the 55+ RSVPs thus far on Anyvite.

Thanks and see you tonight!
How to Build a Search Engine
http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/irbook.html
This is a textbook on information retrieval co-authored by the head of Yahoo Research and the authors of 'Foundations of Statistical NLP' (another great textbook).

Kind of like a more up to data edition of 'Managing Gigabytes', and it's just as good if not better.
What we learned from building a real-time, location-based geofencing game
https://geoloqi.com/blog/2011/09/building-a-real-time-location-based-urban-geofencing-game-with-socket-io-redis-node-js-and-sinatra-synchrony/
We recently built an app on the Geoloqi platform and wanted to share what we learned from it.
Ask HN: I am giving my first talk to 200 people at my job. Any tips?
I wrote a framework that has gotten very popular at my company. I have only ever given a 15-20 min talk on it in the past to groups of 20, 30 people. My next talk has >170 online viewers registers and 150+ in person. Any tips / advice?
Ask HN: How to earn more as a developer without taking the management path?
I can think of some options:

- Create a start-up

- Join a Big Tech

- Specialize in a niche technical area?

What's the most reliable option? What are the trade-offs?
Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python
http://effbot.org/zone/simple-top-down-parsing.htm
"At roughly 250 lines of code (including the entire parser machinery), there are still a few things left to add before we can claim to fully support the Python 2.5 expression syntax, but we’ve covered a remarkably large part of the syntax with very little work."
Judge makes lawyers pay for frivolous patent suit
http://www.denverpost.com/popular/ci_8354619
"The Denver Post is reporting that the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the decision of a Federal judge who threw out and reversed a jury decision in favor of a patent infringement claim and ordered the plaintiff's lawyers to pay the defendants' court costs. U.S. District Senior Judge Richard P. Matsch sanctioned the plaintiff's attorneys for 'cavalier and abusive' misconduct and for having a 'what can I get away with?' attitude during a 13-day patent infringement trial in Denver. With the Appeals Court in agreement, could this case be the 'shot heard round the world' in the revolution against patent trolls?"
Amazon.co.uk and .de are down
http://thenextweb.com/uk/2010/12/12/amazon-co-uk-and-de-are-down-is-anonymous-to-blame/
It appears that the UK domain for online retailer Amazon is down. With reports all over Twitter and confirmed by TNW personally, the site does not appear to be responding regardless of the location from which you’re trying to access it.
Ask HN: Rate my startup, Nrds
http://nrds.co.uk
Your feedback is much appreciated. Thank you! ~ Jan Paricka
Ask HN: WTF am I supposed to do about IPv4 (address exhaustion)? How can I help?
OK, I've heard so much about IPv4 address exhaustion. But what the fuck am I supposed to do about it?*

I read somewhere that OS X is one of the biggest IPv6-somethings out there, and I know my FreeBSD box can speak IPv6, but don't I need an IPv6 address from my upstream ISP, or something?

Can I just press a button/tell my box to do IPv6 all of the sudden? How can I help the overall Internet ecosystem on this one?* *

Where's why_'s poignant guide to IPv6?

What's the next step?

* Minus the obvious: don't get a VM with a public IP you don't need, use hosts like NFSN who believe in the health of the internet, etc.

* * Minus the obvious -- advocate, educate, lead, etc.

P.S. Good StackOverflow/ServerFault/something question? How can we make this as easy as one-two-three?

Edit: I'm thinking more on a personal level, good-citizen kind of way--not what network/site admins should do.
What do you think are the main engineer's expectations from the CTO?
Context: I am a first-time CTO and have literally jumped out of the airplane and trying to build my parachute on the way to the ground. Expect me to ask silly questions.

What do you think are the main engineer's expectations from the CTO? How do you manage the expectations?

ps
Please point to the thread if it was asked by someone else already
The case for an IAP off button in mobile games
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EthanLevy/20131217/207167/The_case_for_an_IAP_off_button_in_mobile_games.php
Android monetization expert finds in-app purchases inappropriate for his grandmother.
Ask HN: How to get first 10 paying customers?
My own network is not tech savvy or suitable to try my product. I am digging up cold emails but chance of success is pretty low.

My product is partially complete. Before I invest further time and discover harsh truth, how can I find customers to try it and ultimately pay me in a month?

Reddit blocks any promotional posts and it’s hard to get traction here on HN without karma points.

Please suggest that has worked for you.
Time Management 
http://letuscode.blogspot.com/2009/09/time-management.html
I spent this weekend taking notes from Randy Pausch's talk on Time Management. Here's the video and my notes.
Realtime Twitter / capital market analysis in Haskell.  Also, anyone hiring?
http://ego.fm
Just wanted to share my hobby project with y'all - it reads Twitter and tries to classify each message as "bullish" or "bearish", then keeps track of which ticker symbols are mentioned, calculates the most mentioned each hour and creates a leaderboard. The backend is Haskell (Snap framework) and Redis, the frontend is Raphael.js and JQuery.<p>As an aside, I recently have found myself unemployed - anyone hiring or have some contract work they need done? Take a look at my github account at http://www.github.com/texodus for some of my code, including (soon) this site.
Show HN: I created a board game with Stable Diffusion
https://bogomolnyelad.substack.com/p/board-game
Last week I proposed to my girlfriend with a board game I created with stable diffusion, lexica.art and DALLE. I wrote about the process, hope you'll find in interesting.
PreZentit, Our Startup (Online PreZentations). Asking for feedback.
http://prezentit.com/
We have been working on this for the last four months.
It's an online presentations editor that allows a team to edit the same presentation simultaneously.

Feedback is really appreciated.
(We will apply to YC this week).
Visualizing Commodore 64 memory in real-time...
http://icu64.blogspot.com/2009/09/first-public-release-of-icu64frodo.html
I started seriously hacking with my first Commodore 64, so this video brought me some really huge grins. Really gorgeous app for visualization.
Ask HN: How has the Amazon AWS outage affected you?
Thanks to the Amazon AWS Outage today, I missed the chance to have a QR code generated by my app displayed in an ad in a major newspaper. My Heroku hosted app (I have several) is still down. My other app was experiencing a huge traffic (30X usual) right when the outage happened.

Both apps are just fun toys, but it hurts for them to be down at such a critical time.

How has the outage affected you?
Ask HN: So What Universities Are Good?
I have been reading an unfortunately large amount of articles here on Hacker News seemingly deterring prospective students like myself from entering a university, especially from the field of Computer Science. They cite large tuition/living costs and "wastes of time" as not worth the potential four year education gained. These articles and blog posts claim that jumping straight into industry is an acceptable and perhaps even favorable alternative.

I refuse to buy into this idea as I crave the challenge that I feel a good computer science program can bring as well as want to experience the good ol' college life. Are there still places out there that offer a diverse undergraduate Computer Science program that goes beyond teaching Java and C++ and focuses on the application of these technologies to create things? Are there schools out there that will let undergrads touch research and tackle the problems that current computer scientists face today? Or is this asking too much of a pre-graduate program?
Share with HN: A good movie recommendation engine 
http://clerkdogs.com/
I like to watch movies. But my biggest problem is to get good recommendations. I have been using clerkdogs for several months. It is kind of slow, but their engine is great at suggesting movies that I may like. I do not think the site is popular, but as a happy user I wanted to share it with HN. If you know of any great recommendation web app please share it.