jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: The Poetry Corner – A React Native app to read public domain poems
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/the-poetry-corner/id1602552624
TLDR - scratched my own itch with an app, added a pro plan and got my first subscribers this week!

Last December I started digging into poetry, it was a topic I always thought I liked, but just hadn’t explored very much. I soon discovered that a lot of the poetry sites online had pretty annoying designs, e.g. ads right at the end of the poem, (muting any emotional impact).

I also wanted to be able to easily save a list of my favourites to come back to.

I decided to build and release a react native app which addressed these needs/issues. It took about 4 weeks during the winter break to release an MVP to the App Store. The backend is using Firebase, which has been superb in allowing me to bootstrap the app quickly.

I soon added a poem of the day feature, which forced me into curation (needing to find 365 poems for the year!). I’ve discovered so many amazing poems and poets as a result. One of the things I love about tech is that it can touch so many different domains and industries.

Anyway, fast forward six months of continuous development, adding features and refining the design, lots of late nights. I finally had enough of a feature set to demarcate some out to a paid plan with a free trial. And the first users have actually started subscribing!

I’ll soon be ramping up ads, currently just on the App Store Search, but soon with Google and Instagram. I’ll be seeing if I can spend x amount on ads to net a return in subscriptions. If so, I’ll be scaling it as fast as the budget will allow.

For the instagram ads, I’ll be marketing the poetry app with a mindfulness twist. Some people have already talked about this connection online, and I’ve personally experienced a deeper bond with nature and awareness of my own feelings as a result of reading so many poems.

So that’s where the app is now, and where I have in mind to take it. It’s been super fun working on it and any feedback is welcome!
Deploy ElasticSearch clusters with Chef Solo on AWS
http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/2012/03/21/deploying-elasticsearch-with-chef-solo.html
A tutorial how to deploy ElasticSearch clusters with Chef Solo, tailored for AWS, with Monit configuration and Ngnix proxy for HTTP auth included.
Why Google + Will Win
http://m.garrettamini.com/2011/07/why-google-will-win/
It's been one day, and I'm sold.
O'Reilly Radar: Entrepreneurial Proverbs
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/entrepreneurial-proverbs.html
What every entrepreneur/founder should know

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/entrepreneurial-proverbs.html

Old but gold.
Append-only B+ Tree on Node.js
https://github.com/donnerjack13589/node-index
This is in-progress project too.
New front gearbox design for bicycle
http://www.efneo.com/advantages/
More info: http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/crank-based-gearbox-in-development-35979/

http://www.efneo.com/how-efneo-gearbox-works/
50% of South Korean biology teachers do not accept evolution
http://www.nature.com/news/south-korea-surrenders-to-creationist-demands-1.10773
Quotes from the article:

<i>A petition to remove references to evolution from high-school textbooks claimed victory last month after the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) revealed that many of the publishers would produce revised editions that exclude examples of the evolution of the horse or of avian ancestor Archaeopteryx. ...

In a 2009 survey conducted for the South Korean documentary The Era of God and Darwin, almost one-third of the respondents didn’t believe in evolution. Of those, 41% said that there was insufficient scientific evidence to support it; 39% said that it contradicted their religious beliefs; and 17% did not understand the theory. The numbers approach those in the United States, where a survey by the research firm Gallup has shown that around 40% of Americans do not believe that humans evolved from less advanced forms of life. ...

[A survey] also found that 40% of biology teachers agreed with the statement that “much of the scientific community doubts if evolution occurs”; and half disagreed that “modern humans are the product of evolutionary processes”. ... [T]here are only 5–10 evolutionary scientists in the country who teach the theory of evolution in undergraduate and graduate schools.</i>
Show HN : WebRTC helped me to launch my startup after 2 years of waiting. 
http://www.voz.io
Hi All ,I been working on my idea , A Voice CRM solution for 2 years.When I started brainstorming the idea the only option I have to receive phone calls thru browser was a flash widget or use 3rd party providers like Twilio or Phono .<p>Thanks to WebRTC we now integrated our VoIP services to receive and make calls directly thru browser .Please have a look and give us your feedback .Thanks
Voz.io Team .
Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
2021 Edition. I posted this about a week ago as well, but didn't get much traction. This is a continuation of the previous threads which can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299180

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660086

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26039706

Other resources:

https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

https://github.com/AlgoryL/Projects-from-Scratch

https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning
Nginx Performance Tuning for SSL
http://techsamurais.com/?p=1384
I am by no means a pro. Just sharing my experience with Nginx tuning.
Ask HN: Why is Hacker News so much more successful than Slashdot?
Hacker News has so many people on it everyday, which makes me wonder why Slashdot fails in comparison. I also hear that the community at Slashdot is less than pleasant, but I'm not sure as to the validity of those claims.

Why is Hacker News so successful while Slashdot has become a relic of internet history?
Launch HN: Enombic (YC S20) – Create your own stock indexes
Hey HN! We're the co-founders of Enombic (https://enombic.com/), a tool for designing your own custom stock indexes, investing in them, and sharing them with your friends. By index we mean a weighted collection of publicly tradable securities.

With our product, you could, for example, remix the ARK ETFs (https://enombic.com/13F/ARKK). Or, you could apply portfolio theory to the most popular WSB symbols (https://enombic.com/mandelbrot/wsb-MPT). Also, everything is nestable, so you can put all of the above together (https://enombic.com/aml/diversified). Then, it's one click to invest. The investments can be one-off, or on a recurring schedule.

We started Enombic because we're personally really fascinated by financial markets. Driven by curiosity, we wanted to hack on different investment ideas. We couldn't find good tools for portfolio and risk management, so we decided to make some. We started doing this work with Python scripts, and sharing it with our friends in group chats. Then we'd wrestle with existing products to implement the strategies we had developed.

Eventually, we built a proper web app to make this easy. A lot of our UI / UX is inspired by Github. For example, we built version control and advanced permissioning into the indexes.

The ubiquity of zero-commission and fractional-share trading means that diversification and customization is easier than ever. This allows you to think about investing into a curated portfolio, rather than picking stocks for individual companies or subscribing to popular ETFs.

We've had users do things like build their own robo-advisor, reweight SPY to fit their existing portfolio, and construct sector-specific indexes in their area of expertise (e.g. gaming, enterprise SaaS, and e-commerce, to name a few).

Enombic is free, but we're rolling out a series of subscription-based premium features.

We would love your feedback on what we've built so far. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you for your time!
Wake Up and Smell the Crisis
http://founderdating.com/foundertalk-crisis/
Nick Mehta (LiveOps, Accel) tells the true story of how LiveOps nearly went under and what he didn't realize.
The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom
CAMPINAS, Brazil — On the night of March 8, cruising 22,000 miles above the Earth, U.S. Navy communications satellite FLTSAT-8 suddenly erupted with illicit activity. Jubilant voices and anthems crowded the channel on a junkyard's worth of homemade gear from across vast and silent stretches of the Amazon: Ronaldo, a Brazilian soccer idol, had just scored his first goal with the Corinthians.

It was a party that won't soon be forgotten. Ten days later, Brazilian Federal Police swooped in on 39 suspects in six states in the largest crackdown to date on a growing problem here: illegal hijacking of U.S. military satellite transponders.

"This had been happening for more than five years," says Celso Campos, of the Brazilian Federal Police. "Since the communication channel was open, not encrypted, lots of people used it to talk to each other."

The practice is so entrenched, and the knowledge and tools so widely available, few believe the campaign to stamp it out will be quick or easy.

Much of this country's population lives in remote areas beyond the reach of cellphone coverage, making American satellites an ideal, if illegal, communications option. The problem goes back more than a decade, to the mid-1990s, when Brazilian radio technicians discovered they could jump on the UHF frequencies dedicated to satellites in the Navy's Fleet Satellite Communication system, or FLTSATCOM. They've been at it ever since.

Truck drivers love the birds because they provide better range and sound than ham radios. Rogue loggers in the Amazon use the satellites to transmit coded warnings when authorities threaten to close in. Drug dealers and organized criminal factions use them to coordinate operations.

Today, the satellites, which pirates called "Bolinha" or "little ball," are a national phenomenon.

"It's impossible not to find equipment like this when we catch an organized crime gang," says a police officer involved in last month's action.

The crackdown, called "Operation Satellite," was Brazil's first large-scale enforcement against the problem. Police followed coordinates provided by the U.S. Department of Defense and confirmed by Anatel, Brazil's FCC. Among those charged were university professors, electricians, truckers and farmers, the police say. The suspects face up to four years and jail, but are more likely to be fined if convicted.
Facebook is now competing with Disqus (et. al)
http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=198
Facebook just launched a comments widget powered by Facebook Connect.
My first app: Habit Streaks
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/habit-streaks/id888808618?ls=1&mt=8
2 months ago I had never touched code but I was always dreaming of releasing my own product. 2 months later and with A LOT of help from teamtreehouse and stackoverflow, I've released my first app.

Any feedback would be very appreciated.
Spotify censored Joe Rogan episodes
https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/ikf9at/full_list_of_every_missing_episode_from_spotify
Episodes:

1461 Owen Smith

1458 d'Elia

1356 Michael Shermer

1303 Tommy Chong

1296 Joe List

1255 Alex Jones Returns

1182 Nick Kroll

1164 Mikhaila Peterson

1093 Owen Benjamin / Kurt Metzger

998 Owen Benjamin

980 Chris d'Elia

979 Sargon of Akkad

(Edit):
the whole list can be found

https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/ikf9at/full_list_...
Nexus 7's Project Butter UI smoothness captured on high-speed camera 
http://techreport.com/articles.x/23318/4
Much has been made of the Project Butter UI smoothness enhancements built into Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. We've captured them on a high-speed camera and compared the results to a couple of ICS tablets.
Review my startup - E
http://mynameise.com
Looking for feedback regarding the visibility and functionality of our product. Is it clear what we do from checking out our homepage? Is it obvious that 'See how it works' points to a video? What would you suggest? Best from Amsterdam!
Videos from CascadiaJS
http://2013.cascadiajs.com/#speakers
Or by topic here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLiioAbFTbKP9CxF9Fu4_NQteU_v9wkA3
SodaJS, functional web testing in NodeJS
http://sodajs.com 
Write your tests in NodeJS, run them with Selenium RC, or on Saucelabs OnDemand service in all your favorite OS/Browser combo's.

Very, awesome.
What Facebook, Google+ and YouTube would have looked like in 1997
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/12/10/what-facebook-google-and-youtube-would-have-looked-like-in-1997/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=share%2Bbutton&utm_campaign=social%2Bmedia
Ah the olden days.
Ask HN: Static site generator with web UI?
Wordpress has long been an easy way to set up a brochure-ware site which can be maintained by a non-technical user. Someone just needs to install it, customise a (free or paid) theme, and occasionally install updates. The business owner can add/edit pages whenever they want, without assistance.

Are there tools for maintaining static sites which are as easy to use (after initial set up), or is Wordpress still the way to go?
Be employee #1 at YC W11 Startup (Phones + Web) 
We’re a San Francisco-based startup addressing a huge market with a groundbreaking product, early success, and a passionate founding team. We are building products at the intersection of phones and the web, with the potential to help millions of businesses around the world. Sounds like fun? We think so.

We start YC in January, and are looking to add the right person to our team ASAP.

We’re moving fast and need both front and back-end talent, but team fit is a top priority. If finding solutions for real problems is something that wakes you up every morning and keeps you up at night - then you're like us, and we'd like to hear what you can bring to the table.

Requirements:

- Experience with HTML/CSS/Javascript (JQuery a plus)

- Experience with Python/Django

- Experience with SCM (we’re fans of Git these days)

- Experience with MySQL

Nice to Have:

- Experience in a startup environment

- Created a product on your own before (send links!)

- Have something cool to show us that you’ve accomplished (send more links!)

- Already living in the Bay Area (SF is best)

Send an email to telephonyrules@gmail.com if interested. Tell us about yourself, a bit about your background and what you’ve built before.
Serious Science
http://serious-science.org
A science popularization site featuring researchers giving video talks about their respective areas of study.

(Russian readers of HN might happen to know the site postnauka.ru, of which this is an English-language spin-off.)
A gentle introduction to Lisp
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/index.html
I found this book to be an extremely clear introduction.
Show HN: RiffBank – A reverse guitar tab search engine
http://riffbank.com/
Little side project from the past few months indexing ascii guitar tab sections into pseudo-language "words" (notes, chords) and "sentences" (riffs) that can be queried and indexed with ElasticSearch (Apache Lucene).
Show HN: Match(it): A C++17 pattern-matching library with lots of good stuffs
https://github.com/BowenFu/matchit.cpp
A lightweight single-header pattern-matching library for C++17 with macro-free APIs.

Try it at https://godbolt.org/z/8YMr8Kz8j
Ask HN: is the pushdown of TSA backscatter stories algorithmic or manual?
Just curious. I noticed in the last 24 hours that stories with lots of up votes have been getting pushed down the page and off very quickly, way below stories with way lower votes and more time.

Note this is not a criticism if it is editorial judgement. I can see arguments either way for these stories being included on HN. But there are clearly reasonable arguments that this is an interesting issue with a strong technology angle that the community here is expressing interest in.

At the same time no one wants to see the site hijacked.

So my question is out of curiosity rather than complaint. If it is programmatic, it would be interesting to know if HN is modifying based on content topic profile or the karma of up voters or some other system.
Lumina Desk – digital desk for health and productivity
https://getlumina.com/desk
We’re Mike and Raymond – cofounders at Lumina. We’re excited to share what we’ve been working on, the Lumina Desk (https://getlumina.com/desk).

Last January, we founded Lumina with the mission of building the next-generation workspace.

We started off by launching a product called the Lumina Webcam, essentially a modern webcam that uses software to make you look good.

Building hardware is hard, and it’s been no different for us. We ran an Indiegogo campaign in September that raised ~$700k, scrambled to figure out hardware production (encountering every obstacle you can imagine - customs, supplier issues, parts incompatibilities), and chewed through enough glass in order to start shipping in December. But between then and now, we’ve scaled up production and have gotten some great customer feedback.

Next: we’re building the desk. We set out to rethink this centuries-old product and figure out how to make it into a more useful, productivity enhancing tool.

To start, we’re viewing the desk as a digital device, not just a mechanical one. Your desk could be an extension of your digital workspace; a complement to your phone and computer.

So we’re designing the Lumina Desk to have an embedded display. The thought is: from your desk, you’ll be able to check your calendar, receive call and chat notifications, and more. Or you can install (or build your own) apps to further customize it.

Think of the browser tabs that you keep open to occasionally glance at – the ones with dashboards or calendars or news feeds. These can now be in your desk, playing a role similar to a paper calendar or newspaper, but now in a seamlessly digital format.

With a digital desk, it can also play an active role in your health. Like a way to schedule times to sit or stand, or sensors that detect ergonomic input, or an in-desk dashboard that shows you your health stats.

Finally, we surveyed all the desks on the market and were surprised that few of them had the core fundamentals people want. How many desks have enough cable storage to hide all your cables? Enough usb and 110v sockets to power your workstation? Enough wireless charging space to charge all your wireless devices? These features should be tablestakes for any professional desk.

We’re in the early days of the desk, and there’s still room to shape the development of the product. If you have ideas on how we make the ultimate workspace, reach out and let us know. If you might be interested in building apps, we’d love to talk to you about building our first few apps.

Thanks so much for reading this. There’s a ton of work to be done, and your early support means a lot to us.
Harvard discovers much faster way to adjust your sleep cycle
http://parentingsquad.com/easy-way-to-reset-your-sleep-cycle-stop-eating
Not eating for 16 hours can help people quickly reset their sleep-wake cycle, according to a study from the Harvard Medical School. This discovery can help people cope with jet lag or adjust to working late shifts. Scientists have long known that our circadian rhythm is regulated by our exposure to light. Now they have found a second "food" clock that takes over when we are hungry.
How Dead is WebOS?
http://www.kiwiluv.com/techblog/?p=1297
New HP devices are coming out and folks are migrating to HTML/CSS/Javascript frameworks, which was always the case for WebOS. Does it have a chance for third place in the smartphone market after it's precipitous downfall?
All we want are the facts, ma'am.
http://norvig.com/fact-check.html
Peter Norvig's new post on reporters, fact-checking, models and data.
Show HN: We built a tool that automatically generates API tests
https://stepci.com/
Hi, this is Mish and Sebastian.
We are working on Step CI - a fully automated API testing platform for developers.

Step CI works programming-language independent and for different API paradigms (REST, GraphQL, XML).

Our CLI and test runner are available on GitHub (https://github.com/stepci) under the MPLv2 license.

Since our last launch, Step CI is now able to generate automated tests for your API based on your OpenAPI (Swagger) spec. This saves you a lot of time as you never have to write and maintain your tests again!

We would like to invite you to try our tool and give us feedback! Please star us on GitHub, if you like what we are working on!

We are very thankful for your attention and any feedback or suggestions we receive from you :)

Mish and Sebastian from Germany
Why it is Awesome to be a Girl in Tech
http://www.nerdess.net/waffling/why-it-awesome-be-girl-tech/
This article is about why it's great to work in tech, _especially_ as a girl. Be prepared for some "omg why didn't someone tell me earlier....!!!" facts.
Show HN: I've created a site about Bone Marrow Donation
http://www.cheekswab.org
Hi HN,<p>I've posted a couple times here before (mostly within posts pertaining to Amit Gupta's search for a bone marrow donor) and I wanted to share a site I've been working on for the past 5 months or so that recently went live. I'm going on my fifth year of being an Acute Myelogenous Leukemia survivor, and while I didn't need a bone marrow transplant myself at one point it was a very real possibility. At that time I became aware of the lack of minority bone marrow donors and made a promise to myself to try to do something about it if I were to survive. This site is something of a fulfillment of that promise.<p>I don't know if this is explicitly HN-worthy, given that it's not a programmatically-impressive web app or a strictly technical exercise. But given the publicity that Amit's search for a donor has created for the cause, and some previous posts highlighting concerns around bone marrow donation, I felt like this submission may be relevant to the community. In the end, hacking is very much about finding a problem and solving it using technology. I was dissatisfied with the websites I found and the explanations I was given, so this is my attempt to solve that problem.<p>If this post gets any notice the website may very likely go down given my shared hosting plan. I apologize in advance for that.
Last week Apple asked me to remove my app from the App Store. Now I know why.
Last week, I received an email asking me to remove one of my applications from the App Store, saying that "they had been notified" that the name of my application was infringing on a registered trademark.

The name of my application?

Facetime. (http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/facetime.html)

Specifically, this is what the email said:

"We received notice from the trademark owner of FACETIME who has confirmed their ownership of registrations for FACETIME in the US and other countries.

Accordingly, please remove your application from the App Store and change the name of your application."
TypeScript: a language for application-scale JavaScript development
http://www.typescriptlang.org/
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development.
TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
Any browser. Any host. Any OS. Open Source.
From Microsoft.
System for generic, decentralized, unstoppable Internet anonymity
http://code.google.com/p/phantom/
Time for a new, (even more) decentralized, anonymous internet compatible with what we have now, yet independent of it? Phantom aims to build something like this.