jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
PlanetArray, a game to practice JavaScript array methods
http://go-here.nl/game/PlanetArray.html
I've tried to make a web game that helps you practice and learn JavaScript Array Methods. The game aims to train your ability to chose the right Method for a job. I've sort of separated what Methods do from how to use them. No typing, just chose the right one.

The game has a help button that displays a tiny cheat sheet for a few seconds. It describes all the methods except those that are to obvious (sort, reverse, length)

The idea behind the game was: The coder needs a bit of time to chose an instruction and type it out. You don't really notice which part is using the most time but typing code goes much slower than normal language, it requires more mental effort. I sort of appreciate what a chaotic mess human language is. The slow in the coding is probably not in the language but in how often we "speak" it.

We memorize things by repeating them often. Even if you write code all day, the interval of repetition could be very low, you could have a ton of code with just a few Array operations. When first trying it the questions in my game took me 3-4 seconds. For a game settings 2 seconds is slow, thinking for 4 seconds just to push a button feels like an eternity. Clearly I was on to something (how slow I was)

You get to feel stupid, then, if you just sit there bashing buttons for a while the stupid goes away and it is replaced with ohh and ahh, and the eventual "damn, look how good I am at this!" Many moons later, while coding, you continue to impress yourself with your cosmic array skills.

There is currently no world record because the game is completely new and has never been played before.

Enjoy!
Beluga - A Simple & Elegant Mobile Apps for Group Messaging Service
http://blogupstairs.com/tools/beluga-a-simple-elegant-mobile-apps-for-group-messaging-service/
Beluga is a mobile apps that offers a fun and simple mobile app and web service that enable instant and rich group messaging from your phone.
A Book Written By the Internet
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Written-Internet/dp/1439205183/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222456540&sr=8-1
A collection of humorous IRC quotes, evidently.
What Has Replaced Myspace for Music Marketing?
http://betakit.com/2012/04/04/what-has-replaced-myspace-for-music-marketing
A few years ago marketing a band was as simple as creating a Myspace page and cultivating a following. Today there isn’t just one social network musicians need to be using. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are obvious networks every band should be on, but there are several startups that are helping bands market so they can focus on doing what they do best – making music.
IPhone/iPad Simulator for Windows
http://www.electricplum.com/dlsim.html
Pretty cool simulator for testing iPhone/iPad mobile web pages and apps that use jQuery Mobile etc. I use it for presentations to customers as well. Nice for folks with no access to a Mac.
KUSoftas CMS has been released Download and try it
http://www.kusoftas.com
Hey guys, we just released KUSoftas CMS ! Download and try it! http://www.kusoftas.com/ and tell us what you think!
Cell phone battery catches fire, burns hacker's tail at Defcon
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57481932-83/cell-phone-battery-catches-fire-burns-hackers-tail-at-defcon
I for one, never ever sit on my cell phone.
Ask HN: Viable alternatives to passwords on the web?
I use probably 20+ web applications in the context of running my business and my personal life. For me, the current password based authentication/identification systems employed on the web are fundamentally broken. There are simply too many sites to keep track of, and since I access these services on multiple machines (home, work, iPad, iPod touch), its difficult to find a password keeper that works across these platforms.

It seems to me there is a fundamental plumbing opportunity on the interwebs with regard to providing a viable solution for identification and authentication. I know openid has taken a run at this, along with google and others, but none of them have really taken off.

Is anyone out there working on solving this problem? I realize its a big problem, but it seems also to be a big opportunity.
Enhancing mappers with LINQ (2008)
http://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2008/05/08/enhancing-mappers-with-linq/
Does anyone know why Microsoft didn't just use the standard _filter_, _map_, and _reduce_ function names?
Big arrays in Java
http://www.omsn.de/blog/big-arrays-in-java
Java's built-in arrays have one limitation: you cannot create arrays which can hold more than Integer.MAX_VALUE elements. This might be sufficient for most use cases, but if you want to do some big data computations, it might become necessary to hold more than ~2.4 billion elements.
Hackers vs CarrierIQ
http://vova.org/2011/12/16/hackers-vs-carrieriq/
My opinion on the recent use of word "hacker" in Software Engineering in the light of CarrierIQ fuss.
Tweet Quest: a Zelda-inspired node.js driven game in which you slay your tweeps
http://tweetquestgame.com
Written this weekend as part of Node Knockout.
New design of 99tests homepage launched
http://www.99tests.com
6665 Testers
Show HN: A Raycast extension to convert text prompts to shell commands
https://getshellbuddy.com/
Hi, I made a Raycastapp extension to convert natural language prompts to shell commands.

A tiny productivity boost for common shell commands and CLIs

If you want to test it, here is a shared license key you can use:

34E68045-DEC34414-8C848E97-07397AA2
Show HN: Fact-check those viral pictures, instantly
https://friskframes.anvil.app
Fact-check photographs that seem fake or edited.

This works on photos with people at the moment, will generalise very soon.
Contradictory Startup Advice...and How to Navigate It
http://www.slideshare.net/christinabrodbeck/contradictory-startup-adviceand-how-to-navigate-it
This slide deck will resonate with just about any entrepreneur who has done or is doing a startup.
Roboni-i: Programmable Gaming Robot
http://www.waterfangeeks.eu/Geek/gadgets--roboni-i-programmable-gaming-robot/
A programmable, gaming robot? Yes, please!Don't have enough gamer friends in your life? Why not game with an intelligent, 2-wheeled robot with 16 sensors and a lot of personality? Robonica comes with game accessories and six action games, but you can program your own, too!
Rails or Laravel?
Hello hackers!

I am currently a front-end dev with a good background in html5, css3, and of course js/jQuery. I have had previous experience with PHP a in the past making my own login systems for clients and doing simple DB requests, API requests, etc.

I am wanting to expand my programming knowledge-base and have started some of the basic intros into Ruby, and learning Ruby on Rails. Then I came across Laravel. I am wanting to brush up on these for some upcoming startup opportunities I will be having and have about six months of preparation time to learn.

From someone that has some prior experience in PHP already, what would be more beneficial (long term and short) to learn? Please respond with what choice and why you would make that choice.

Thanks in advance!
Opening Board Meetings to the Entire Company
http://venturehacks.com/articles/opening-board-meetings
The content related to the title is half one down the page but the entire interview is gold.
Ask HN: How to Containerized Rails Application?
Can anyone recommend a guide on how to containerized Rails application?
RIM To Enter The In-app Payments Heaven?
http://www.insidermobile.com/article/3017/rim-to-enter-the-in-app-payments-heaven
RIM, following Apple who introduced in-app purchases 1.5 year ago, introduced a Payment Service SDK to enable in-app payments. As we showed in our latest report, in the Apple App Store for iPhone in the United States, almost 50% of the revenue of the top grossing applications was generated by applications carrying in-app purchases. For developers this enables a range of opportunities to sell premium features and content but RIM also opposed several restriction limiting developers. The restrictions include selling virtual currencies or in-app credits, selling physical goods or services and selling digital goods used across multiple applications. For pricing, the same tiers as applicable to BlackBerry App World can be used.

According to RIM, the Payment Service provides a similar payment experience as going in BlackBerry App World. Consumers can, provided they have a BlackBerry ID, apply various payment methods, including credit card, PayPal® and carrier billing. The SDK seems to have been available since the 5th of January (BlackBerry’s developer site), but the first applications incorporating the new functionalities still have to hit BlackBerry App World. So far we did not see any notable changes in the storefront of BlackBerry App World, but we will keep you posted when the first applications do appear. We will also keep track of the take-off and are curious to see whether the success in the Apple App Store can be replicable by other stores.

by Gert Jan Spriensma.
A Trip Through Twitter's Lazyweb
http://www.inboxq.com/twitters-lazyweb
The term lazyweb has been used to describe the act of outsourcing questions to people online....
A new way to Send money to friends and family overseas (via SMS)
http://smscente.com
Here's a new way to send money to someone overseas. Check it out and tell us what you think. Oh, and Paypal takes care of the security coz our budget was a bit short for the SSL certificate...
Maybe a donation to one of our specials will help us protect the site better. But no pressure...lol.
Why Twitter Was Down #PathViewCloudFindsProblem
http://www.appneta.com/2012/06/22/twitter-goes-down-pathviewcloudfindsproblem/
Network performance analysis discovers why Twitter was down this past June 21st outage. Hint - the carrier was not to blame!
Show HN: Finding Interesting Publications on PubMed
I publish every week or so a new post on research on neurodegenerative diseases, with a focus on ALS.

To find interesting publications I coded my own tool, that interrogates a number of RSS feeds and report their content in a convenient way.

However, I quickly found some limitations. For example, there are more news reviews than articles about the experiments. Reviews are helpful, but most make it seem like a quick copy and paste job.

And there are more publications on low-cost in vitro experiments that you can do in your own kitchen than there are publications dealing with animal models or people and involving a significant amount of resources.

So overall, half of the new publications don't meet my criteria. I decided to make another version of my little tool that would only select meaningful works. I would appreciate any comment or suggestion!

https://padiracinnovation.org/News/pubmed
Show HN:  Zombie Survival Team App
http://apps.facebook.com/zombieteam/
http://apps.facebook.com/zombieteam/

Just knocked this together to get used to the facebook API for class project.

Essentially you choose 5 friends who you'd want watching your back in a zombie apocalypse :-) You also get to see who trusts you in the same way.

Pretty much an embarrassing MVP at the moment as I knocked it together as quickly as I could since yesterday and it's my first experience with ASP.NET MVC and the facebook API.

Hopefully it doesn't blow up with major bugs too soon.

Any feedback appreciated, I know it's basically a CRUD app at the moment but I'm looking to experiment with proper social gameplay mechanics in the future. Thanks.
Ask HN: I got kicked out of an Ivy League, now what?
I got withdrawn from the Engineering program at an Ivy League because of my grades. Looking back, it was completely my fault, but I can't change that now. I was transitioning from a "core" engineering major to CS but before I could, I was asked to leave. I've applied for transfers but lets see where that goes. I'm a fairly decent coder, getting better and better now that I have nothing else to do, and I want to know if its even necessary to have a university degree at the end of the day. Do employers really care where you went to school as long as you have a great portfolio of projects you've worked on? Also if anyone knows of any programs or universities I could apply to that would seriously consider me despite my situation, that would be helpful, especially if they are tech/entrepreneurial programs (like makeschool).
JQuery Template Plugin
https://github.com/godlikemouse/jquery.template.js
jQuery Template plugin allowing for HTML/Script based templates to be used. Template blocks can consist of values to be replaced, embedded JavaScript logic and make calls to external functions or API sets.
Ruby Nested Hash - Deep Fetch - Implementing Fetch For Nested Hashes
http://www.dotnetguy.co.uk/post/2012/08/20/ruby-nested-hash-deep-fetch-returning-a-default-value-for-a-key-that-does-not-exist-in-a-nested-hash/
It turns out that it is not that hard to implement the behaviour of fetch for fetching a nested key / value pair.
Drishtikone | Jai Ho | Obama Cobra | Modi 
http://www.drishtikone.com/
Drishtikone is a blog site where a team of best blog authors come and share their thoughts on anything and everything. It is ranked in the top 27 Indian blogs.
Mondrian recreated in Excel
http://patrickt.tumblr.com/post/46008765778/trafalgar-square-in-excel
Trafalgar Square is my favorite Mondrian.
Google Transparency Report releases Raw Data
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/
The google transparency engineering team just released a new raw data page that provides easy access to our numbers about government requests.

Please take a look and let us know what cool things you find.
Blackberry expands BBM chat app to Android and iOS
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22529074
Good move by Blackberry.

Business wise it wont gain direct income, but will gain more users and with that the silly stock market market types will fall over themselfs to buy shares once this gets going and even though they are not making extra money, they will be gaiing share price. So good for them :).

Old BB uses who went onto the other forms will grab this to speak with the odd old mates and it will propergate from there so will quickly gain momentum.

Intersting times and something they could of done ages ago as a charged for application and made from it instead of having to now jump in with free.

Probably do more for the share price than QNX ironicly, funny old world shares, but watch this space it is not out yet.
Show HN: Free QR code menu generator
https://www.menuzest.com/free-qr-code-menu
An easy and free way to get a QR code for a menu
Mashups an APIs directory
http://www.programmableweb.com/
732 APIs and 2977 Mashups
Real water and CSS water.
http://imgur.com/kRcaF2J
Two posts from HN. I am not drawing any deeper meaning. Just sharing for potential (dark) humor.
How IntenseDebate announced their acquisition at the Techstar Demo
http://www.altgate.com/blog/2008/09/how-to-make-a-v.html
Tom Keller, the CEO of IntenseDebate, was to present at TechStars which apparently is some event where startups give their pitches to an audience of VCs a la DEMO or TechCrunch 50. So Tom gets up and says something like, "I don't have any slides and I'm not looking for any money...but I do have a surprise." And then he introduces the CEO of Automattic (the company that owns Wordpress) who goes on to say that he just bought IntenseDebate.
Almost out of the uncanny valley
http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/122102666801/skin-stretch-computer-graphic-research-from-the
Better link http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/SkinStretch/
Shown HN: GrowlVoice 2.0 beta - Mac Google Voice Client
http://twitter.com/#!/GrowlVoice/status/166948151461289985
Hey HN, I'm a student developer that just finished the 2.0 beta version of my Mac Google Voice client, GrowlVoice. I've put a bunch of my free time over the last few months into this, and and it's an almost complete rewrite full interface overhaul. I'd love if you checked it out. Thanks!

EDIT: it's a menubar app - look for the "phone-in-a-chat-bubble" icon in your menubar when you launch it.
Coffee Flavour Wheel (D3.js)
http://www.jasondavies.com/coffee-wheel/
Thought this was cool and decided to share.
ActionScript Reference for Rich Internet Application Development
http://www.junglejar.com/2009/01/22/adobe-ebook-flash-platform-actionscript/
Adobe has released a free e-book entitled: The Adobe Flash Platform ActionScript Reference for Rich Internet Application Development. This ActionScript reference for rich Internet application development provides an alphabetical reference for all native ActionScript APIs for the Adobe Flash platform runtimes...
“Wikipedia” refused to delete the article on cocaine at request by Roskomnadzor
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftop.rbc.ru%2Fsociety%2F21%2F08%2F2014%2F944287.shtml&edit-text=&act=url
cryptography against totalitarism :

"Roscomnadzor alone can not block the article as "Wikipedia" uses the HTTPS."
RackMotion - Rack-like middleware on NSURLProtocol
https://github.com/drewbug/RackMotion
RackMotion provides a Rack-like interface for middleware that can intercept and alter HTTP requests and responses in RubyMotion. It's built on top of NSURLProtocol, which makes it, to borrow a line from Mattt Thompson, an Apple-sanctioned man-in-the-middle attack.
Remindr - Simple tool for remembering stuff
http://remindr.dkaisers.net
Hey guys, I made a small reminder tool using backbone.js, hope you like it.
Wordpress KickStart
http://www.opensourcereleasefeed.com/package/show/wordpress-kickstart
Wordpress is one of the most popular, if the the most popular, blogging platform out there. However, just starting out on your first blog can be a challenge to know where to begin. Finding a theme, the right plugins and so forth. In steps Wordpress KickStart, a collection of 16 open source plugins and 4 themes to help you hit the ground running.
Ask HN: What music do you listen to be more productive at work?
I found that the quietness of night helps me think more clearly but I do not want to mess up circadian rhythm. I am a programmer but that does not matter I guess. I would really appreciate if you could share the music that helps you concentrate during the day.
How To Achieve Mastery with Robert Greene
http://mixergy.com/robert-greene-mastery-interview/
It’s full of great stories about the development of masters, like the Noble Prize winning physicist, Albert Einstein, and the pioneer start-up investor and mentor, and Mixergy interviewee, Paul Graham, tons of great stories and lots of good research.
Please help support this Starcraft 2 Kickstarter Campaign
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/747939120/starcraft-universe
I want to start off by saying that I sm not affiliated in any way to the success and the creators of this project at all.

I am just a passive geek and a massive fan.

If you cant donate then please please share as there are a lot of people that want this to succeed but its just not getting the coverage.

Its a great MMO add on to the arcade section of Starcraft 2. ITs great. Visit the link and just check it out and please please share.
Home Security Tech: costs less than $100, installs in less than 2 min
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/korner-home-security-anyone-can-use-and-everyone-can-afford/x/7193927#home
A security product for your apartment or home, designed so anyone can use it and everyone can afford it. Includes iOS and Android App.<p>Introducing the First 1-piece Door/Window Sensor - works better, looks great! At under $100 and setup under 2 minutes, this is truly built for everybody.
End of Britain
http://pro.moneyweek.com/myk-eob-tpr-cut/PMYKP905/?utm_source=taboola&h=true
People will deep economic knowledge may be able to judge this tall claim.
70mm Apollo Images
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/70mm/
70mm Hasselblad Image Catalog, Lunar and Planetary Institute
Satellites are saving lives during natural disasters
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/9443/the-bigger-picture-saving-lives-with-satellites/
Satellites have helped in the aftermath of earthquakes, tsunamis, forest fires and oil spills. They have also been used in monitoring long-term environmental problems such as deforestation and the melting of the ice caps.
The "Like" Drug: Focusing on What Matters in a World of Followers and Like Counts
http://seanwes.com/2014/the-like-drug-live-stream-event/
Important discussion on the effects popularity and constant affirmation can have on creative work.

Further reading --
The Like Machine: http://justinmezzell.com/blog/2013/7/25/the-like-machine

Derailed: http://rog.ie/blog/derailed
Help me to contact Oprah 
http://imgur.com/MMkDN5Q
I am a director and Entrepreneur. Have made all my work related dreams come true besides working with Oprah! After reaching a high point into my life decided to quit everything, including an amazing career and move to the U.S. Boy it takes courage to start all over again....I Have been trying to reach out to her for almost 10 years..if you feel like share my pic. It will be very appreciated!
What is this API anyway?
http://www.parseco.com/what-is-this-api-anyway/
This day in age, everyone is talking about open source. API can be thought of as open source, but there are some differences.

You often have to rely on others to perform functions that you aren’t able or permitted to perform, like say, opening a bank account or dunking if you’re a playmaker in basketball. It’s the same situation with virtually every software out there. It needs to put in a request to other software to perform actions it can’t accomplish. An alley-oop pass, if you will.
Ask HN: What Caused Obama to Change His Stance on NSA?
This [1] video highlights big differences between what Obama's view of the NSA was in 2007 and what it is now.

Honest question. What to you think the reason for this big change is?

This really goes for politicians in general too. How is it that in some cases there are such big shifts in their views once elected?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmdovYztH8
Show HN: itsAlmo.st
http://itsalmo.st/
At the Type/Code studio we love counting down to things, whether it is lunchtime, beer time, or Arbor Day. However, we couldn’t find a countdown tool that was both attractive and easy to share with friends. So, in some free time this past week we built a little web application to solve our frivolous problem, dubbed itsAlmo.st.

It’s dead simple: just give your countdown a name and a time, and let it begin. Every countdown has its own spiffy URL for as long as it’s running (like itsAlmo.st/#BeerTime), so you can share it with friends and post it to Facebook or Twitter.

We hope you get a kick out of this little utility and find it as handy as we do.
PHP continuous testing with GruntJS and PHPUnit
https://coderwall.com/p/chdf1w
Simple Grunt task to watch / run PHPUnit tests continuously.
SEO guide for 2014
http://www.link-assistant.com/blog/seo-guide-2014/
A must-read SEO tutorial that explains how to plan a successful SEO in 2014.
Digg Offers Help to Traumatized Hard Core Diggers
http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/01/digg-offers-to.html
Lives have been destroyed.
Why does Software Spoil?
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000973.html
In the software industry, the release of newer, better versions is part of the natural order. It's a relentless march towards perfection that started with the first personal computers, and continues today. We expect software to get larger and more sophisticated over time, to track with the hardware improvements that Moore's law has provided us for so many years. Rapid evolution is a good thing, and it's one reason the computer industry is so exciting to work in. If you don't like the way things are today, just wait five years; everything will be different.