jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Old Maps Online lets you find your way around 17th century Holy Roman Empire
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/03/old-maps-online-lets-you-find-your-way-around-17th-century-holy-roman-empire.ars
The world’s single largest online collection of historical maps launched earlier this week at Old Maps Online. By the end of the year, the site aims to have 60,000 maps available for public access.
Linux in Defense: An Urgent Threat to National Security
http://www.ghs.com/linux/threat.html
By Dan O’Dowd, CEO of Green Hills Software.
Ask HN: Would you like to get an USEFUL startup/business articles collection?
http://jannu.co
I have build an archive of the most useful articles from the successful founders/entrepreneurs/mentors and I would like to share it with the rest of the world. Is this a right way to do that?
Huoratron’s Software Would Generate New Remix for Every Download
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/04/huoratron-remix-algorithm/
A very cool experimental concept of music distribution.
Twinder – the App that lets you find your long lost twin
http://gotwinder.com/
Finally-- Twinder is here.
Electric car beats Nurburgring lap record. (with video)
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1065448_toyota-smashes-nurburgring-electric-car-lap-record-video
Not yet faster then petrol powered, very very close (with a time of 7:47.79, it's <30 seconds slower than a Corvette!)
Ask HN: When are you no longer called a "startup"?
X number of years? Profitable? Just curious when people decide to stop calling themselves a "startup" and say they're just a "business" or "small business".
RssCloud Security Recommendations
http://grack.com/blog/2009/09/10/rsscloud-security-notifications/
I’ve been looking into the security of rssCloud over the last few days and a number of serious issues have come up. The ones of immediate importance have been reported and fixed, but I’d like to suggest some protocol changes to prevent rssCloud servers from DoS’ing sites or ending up DoS’ing each other.
The simplest javascript template engine - only 20 lines of code
http://krasimirtsonev.com/blog/article/Javascript-template-engine-in-just-20-line
Just 20 lines of code, this function competes of the popular js template engines.
Jerome Lettvin
http://www.tengerresearch.com/learn/interviews/jeromelettvin_text.htm
Fascinating interview with an amazing polymath. Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Lettvin for an amusing anecdote about his experience with his son's pet octopus "J.D." (juvenile delinquent).
PSD to HTML Conversion – The Benefits and The Beneficiaries
http://www.bestpsdtohtml.com/psd-to-html-conversion-the-benefits-and-the-beneficiaries/
Employing services of PSD to HTML conversion is commonplace by now. This arises two obvious questions, who are the beneficiaries of PSD to HTML service providers and how the beneficiaries get the benefits?
Dave Winer on How To Demo
http://www.scripting.com/davenet/1995/01/04/demoingsoftwareforfunprofi.html
Old post of dave winer on how to demo.
Setup a JS Lint git pre-commit script in 
http://jt.io/2013/git-pre-commit-js-lint-script/
Increase the quality of your JS projects by setting up a git pre-commit script that lints your javascript.
Show HN: React-hook-tracer – A light-weight tracer for React hooks
https://github.com/Oblosys/react-hook-tracer
The package allows you to trace hook events for a component by importing hooks from 'react-hook-tracer' instead of 'react', and adding a `useTracer` call to the component. Traced events include state/ref/context updates, effects being run, and components getting rendered. The `useTracer` hook also returns a `TracePanel` component, which shows the current values of props, state & refs in the component's rendering.

Demo playground: https://codesandbox.io/s/github/Oblosys/react-hook-tracer/tr...
A Founder’s Life
http://femgineer.com/2010/10/a-founders-life/
..."On the first day of second grade, I woke up, packed my lunch, got on my bike, and went to school. I started this trend in second grade, and I’m still doing it..."
The New Android Phone is Prose, Not Poetry, and That’s Why It’s Good
http://www.torontostandard.com/business/the-new-android-phone-is-prose-not-poetry-and-thats-why-its-good/
Android has finally developed a soul. But it keeps it hidden and that's a good thing.
Show HN: The most convenient way to send a text from iOS to Windows/Linux
https://github.com/Daniel31x13/paste-out
(That I came up with)
The future of browser script tag
http://blog.creapptives.com/post/14168703011/the-browser-script-tags
Let's create a better scripting experience.
Show HN: Git based open directory of companies hiring
https://github.com/joblisttoday
It's using a git repository for data + netlify-cms in open authoring mode (for anyone with a github account to be able to contribute). The companies for which known job board providers (greenhouse etc) exist, get their jobs referenced in an algolia search index; companies get a community profile page generated by a SSG. Every one is welcome to contribute a company, provider, edit etc. The project is served from https://joblist.today
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_Protocol
See also https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324 in case you are returned a 418.
Rap Genius Google Ban – The Snitch That Sold Out Rap Genius
http://techjunk.co.za/rap-genius-google-ban-the-snitch-that-sold-out-rap-genius/
Rap Genius paid the biggest price for trying to game Google in the battle that was arguably the hottest topic during the Christmas period.
Show HN: Brackets Ninja – Create brackets for tournaments and championships
http://bracketsninja.com
A new tool I created allows you to create Brackets for managing leagues, tournaments, and championships online!<p>The tool is extremely recommended for office sports.. :)<p>What do you think?
OTFAQ http://cooffice.ntu.edu.sg/otfaq
http://cooffice.ntu.edu.sg/otfaq
Answers to many OT questions discussed here can be found at OTFAQ http://cooffice.ntu.edu.sg/otfaq.
Zen and the Art of the Internet 1992 
https://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_toc.html
Brendan Kehoe 1970-2011
http://www.thepost.ie/technology/brendan-kehoe-an-appreciation-57591.html
Ask HN: What books should an entrepreneur read?
I am planning to quit my job and start an online business.

Please suggest any book on nay topic you want an entrepreneur should read.
Feel the difference;)
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=405122166175951&set=a.405122132842621.92460.118996991455138&type=3&theater
You may participate in the album creation)
JYouTube - jQuery Youtube Video Thumbnail Plugin
http://blogupstairs.com/framework/javascript-framework/jquery/jyoutube-jquery-youtube-video-thumbnail-plugin/
jYouTube is a small jQuery plugin created by Uzbekjon, that will give you a way to get any YouTube video’s still image or in other words any YouTube video’s thumbnail
Show HN: Engineers helping engineers ace every technical interview.
http://www.helloworldinterviews.com/
Technical interviews require a lot of preparation and hard work to ace them. We've had great personal success using mock practice interviews to prepare. We found that by simulating a real interview situation, we felt more comfortable, confident and clear during the actual interview.

We want to scale that through helloworldinterviews.com. Our vision is to have qualified engineers around the world helping and educating other engineers to land lucrative and challenging tech jobs.

To iron out the kinks, we are offering the Group sessions for FREE for a limited time.

ps - We're looking for highly qualified engineers to lend their time as coaches. If you're interested, please contact us through helloworldinterviews.com/contact-us.
Ask HN: Learning iOS development beginners level
Hi guys, can someone suggest books, blogs and screencasts on learning how to program for iOS from a begineer (little to no programming knowledge).

I'm trying to grab as many resources and hopes to develop my first iPhone app.

Thanks in advance HN :)
Ask HN: Where do you save the good articles?
I'm seeing a lot of good articles/blog posts here in HN and saving them in Evernote to further reference.

And you, do you save them? Where and how?
Jezebel on Snowden's girlfriend 
http://jezebel.com/nsa-leakers-romantic-life-reads-like-escapist-fan-fict-512585576
Jezebel reports on Edward Snowden's "dancer" girlfriend, or at least her blog and social media stream(s).
Who Will Own The Living Room? Apple, Google, Sony or Microsoft?
http://www.techi.com/2010/09/who-will-own-the-living-room-apple-google-sony-or-microsoft/
Though recently it has been the smartphone market that has garnered the most attention in the tech world, the arrival of a revamped – if slightly disappointing – Apple TV is a reminder that the living room is the next big play for digital transformation.
EBay issues, then deletes call to change passwords
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/21/us-ebay-password-idUSBREA4K0B420140521
Anyone know what's going on?
GQ: Stanford undergrad's "Muthuball" wows the NBA
http://www.gq.com/sports/profiles/201206/muthuball-mit-sloan-sports-analytics-conference
"A Stanford undergrad's new super-nerd study suggests that there are really 13 positions in basketball—not just five. And NBA front offices might be able to use this new information (plus an esoteric branch of mathematics) to more effectively construct their teams. If Moneyball revolutionized baseball, 'Muthuball' could mark a new frontier for the NBA."
Show HN: Monitoring sleep patterns with myZeo
http://skryl.com/sleep
A js dashboard I made to keep track of my sleep patterns using highcharts and the myZeo json api.
How Google+ and Facebook Got It Wrong
http://nicholasconfer.com/google/google-facebook-wrong/
I've wanted to write my thoughts on this for a while. I hope they are working to solve this problem, but in short I feel too much emphasis has been put on allowing users to limit who sees their posts, instead of focusing on creating engaging supportive dialog to posts through smaller groups.

I'd be interested to see what solutions others have for this problem, but who hasn't read a comment on Facebook before and went to comment only to realize the group was too large to write that inside joke?
Noam Chomsky on Wisconsin, Egypt
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/02/noam-chomsky-on-the-union-protests-in-wisconsin/
I'm definitely supportive of whats happening in the middle east, but I'm less convinced about the rightness of union rights in Wisconsin. Thoughts from the HN community?
IOS support for Kivy (Python GPU based multi-touch UI toolkit)
http://groups.google.com/group/kivy-users/browse_thread/thread/128ba35c2a4c4929
Mathieu's blog post is here:
http://txzone.net/2012/03/ios-support-for-kivy/
NSA - RDRAND
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/rdrand.c#L35
I've been reading some stuff about all this mess and i've decided to check out the implementation of RDRand.
I found this "we are architecturally guaranteed a reseed" a bit confusing , maybe someone with more experience in random number generation and encryption makes some sense out of it .. if you check the code there's a ASM call if the feature is supported and that's it.
I found it curious
The Perception of Conflict: What Fred Wilson Doesn’t See
http://lifeexperiencedesign.com/post/76452317412/the-perception-of-conflict-what-fred-wilson-doesnt
A response to today's AVC post from the entrepreneur in question.

Tl:dr: Fred is right. There is a conflict between my company and Etsy. The conflict is, however, moot.
"Structured Programming with GOTO Statements" (Knuth)
http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pdf
This excerpt has been appeared in many news featured on YC, but I think it deserves its own thread. In the beginning there's discussion about the performance penalties of dropping GOTOs. However, in the second part there are a few proposed solutions like event-driven loops (no, it's not what you think). Furthermore, he talks about the possibility of optimizing your code by transforming source code into optimized code in the same source language. Are there some notable implementations of the things he talked about?
JQuery plugin Waypoints
http://imakewebthings.com/jquery-waypoints/
Waypoints is a small jQuery plugin that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element.
Ask HN: How do you implement a password input system –.?
.. where anyone can see keyboard and mouse inputs.
Benjamin Franklin answers questions pertaining to the Django development process
http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/b5e492a42cada7b7
Q: When will Django finally have every feature I want?
A: "Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us."

Q: What the fuck is taking so long?
A: "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we
should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."

Q: Should certain Trac fields only be editable by commiters?
A: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Show HN: Compiler for Cool Using LLVM
https://github.com/rickBuczynski/coolang

A while ago I followed the coursera compilers course that used COOL but I was interested in writing a compiler that could run on windows too, didn't use a parser generator, and compiled to a native executable instead of using a MIPS emulator. So I wrote a new COOL compiler without using any skeleton code from a course. The compiler supports windows and linux.

If you're using LLVM for a project you might learn some tricks here. Especially if you're targeting windows, some things like generating the correct linker command and supporting both 32 and 64 bit are tricky.
Show HN: Onboard new hires and wish them on and special occasions like birthdays
https://announcebot.in/
AnnounceBot helps you welcome new team members and wish them on their birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions in Microsoft Teams. Great for onboarding employees and staying connected with your team, whether working in an office or remotely!

Free for up to 20 users and offers a 30-day trial of the premium version with unlimited users. No credit card is required.
Framework7 1.0.0 Released
http://www.idangero.us/framework7/#.VNVbWFOsXLg
Framework7 is best mobile HTML framework for building iOS web and hybrid apps finally released to 1.0.0 with lot of new features and components
Show HN: News API – easy to use JSON news API
Hey HN,

A couple of great guys I'm working with built this - it's an easy to use RESTful service for fetching news from all over the web. It's free to play around with. Would love to hear your thoughts/feedback!

https://contextualweb.io/news-api/
Red Bull Stratos Skydive visualized LIVE on a map
http://jatorre.github.com/stratos/index.html
See how Felix fall down in real time in a map
Ask HN: How are we modeling the outbreak?
Some U.S. states are now telling their citizens that they don’t need to be tested for COVID-19 except after consulting with a physician.

The U.S. government and media are reporting confirmed cases (an absolute number).

It seems like the government is using a statistical model to quantify the number of infected without testing. Does anyone here know what the model is? If not, are there models that are likely to be used in this case?
Ask HN: What is great traction for a new startup?
My co-founder and I have been on the VC circuit fundraising recently. Feels like fundraising should be easy - we have >$1MM revenue (not run rate, actual revenue) after 6 months of operating, we're profitable, and are growing >50% month over month.

Had a meeting last week with a very well known VC whose commented that our traction was "good, but not great". Is this just bullshit VC speak, or are we really just basically average for startup traction?

note: throwaway account
Writing powerful REST Client using the AsyncHttpClient Library and Jersey
http://jfarcand.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/writing-powerful-rest-client-using-the-asynchttpclient-library-and-jersey/
The Jersey Client Framework is a powerful library that easily allow the writing of client based REST client. Recently I’ve implemented a new transport for the framework based on the AsyncHttpClient library.
WikiChess: Bring it on Deep Blue.
http://laserlike.com/2008/07/13/wikichess-bring-it-on-deep-blue/
A plan to build the world's greatest chess machine.
IPhone expels smoke, glows on Australia flight
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/shownews.aspx?id=GADEN20110189077&Sec=NEWS&nid=153965
Apple's iPhone is the world's hottest smartphone - and one iPhone in Australia appears to be the hottest of the bunch as it spontaneously began smoking last week.
Show HN: Create art from your face using Stable Diffusion
https://app.daras.ai/Editor?id=Vazkfj0vlvk
I've been working on a recipe editor that lets you create AI pipelines without writing code. Trying to create Yahoo Pipes for AI models.

As a demo I've created a recipe for face detection & inpaining via stable diffusion.

Try it out!
Ask HN: What is the best way to understand how the entire world works?
I mean, essentially, why things are the way they are. A complete understanding of the earliest days on the Earth and how human civilization continually advanced, governments and economies invented, and technology emerged, etc. And I'm not limiting this to books, but any documentaries as well. Thanks!
Show HN: Isthisabearmarket.com
https://isthisabearmarket.com
Hey HN! Here's a quick sideproject that I've been working on for the last week

The market downturn got me thinking about stock price APIs and how I could use them, overall I had a lot of fun writing this up
Show HN: ColorTiles Browser Game
https://colortiles.net/
Hello HN!

Here is a little game I made, colorful tiles must be placed next to other tiles and match in symbol or color.
This game is inspired by Passage 3 and similar games like Qwirkle, Rummy or Dominoes.
There exist some browser-based versions here and there, but I wasn't completely satisfied with any of them, so I made my own.

This is optimized for a broad range of screen sizes and auto-rotates the playing field for narrow (portrait) viewports.
As I've discovered with my own parents, folks who enjoy playing Solitaire, Hearts and similar games might enjoy this as well, so gladly spread the word.

Have fun and feedback is appreciated! :)
Google Israel Hacked By Mauritania Hacker Team
http://i46.tinypic.com/28vrldt.png
After HaCking Israel Bank and Microsoft of Israel Mauritania HaCker Team HaCked the system of Google Israel

http://i46.tinypic.com/28vrldt.png
Social signals to rate hosting providers.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/25/web-hosting-reviews-are-a-cesspool-review-signal-wants-to-fix-that/
Using twitter and possible other social signals, they can give you an accurate idea of how well a hosting provider will perform.
Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable
https://github.com/ddworken/hishtory
hiSHtory is a better shell history. It stores your shell history in context (what directory you ran the command it, whether it succeeded or failed, how long it took, etc). This is all stored locally and end-to-end encrypted for syncing to to all your other computers. All of this is easily queryable via the hishtory CLI. This means from your laptop, you can easily find that complex bash pipeline you wrote on your server, and see the context in which you ran it.
Girl Scouts Shut Honey Boo Boo down for selling cookies online
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/03/01/thin-mint-mess-honey-boo-boo-banned-from-selling-girl-scout-cookies/
This is not the first time. Girl scouts also shut down a 11 year-old from using Paypal. It's ridiculous how these organizations self sabotage by resisting technology. I'm a former Girl Scout, and we've built a solution to teach kids how to hustle and raise money online. www.piggybackr.com
When Women Rule
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/opinion/10kristof.html?em&ex=1202878800&en=f5afadb8415b1e85&ei=5087
Also, a follow up post on the article I hacked together in 20 minutes ... http://davidadewumi.com/2008/02/11/when-women-rule-men-get-scared/

Seemingly a very important point of discussion for a male dominated forum such as Hacker News
Python Whoosh with Redis 
http://t.co/TCZ4MPPh
Makes me wonder why nobody has made a inverted index engine on Redis yet.
Ubuntu puts its weight behind H.264, is Theora out for the count?
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/canonical-licenses-h264.html
Looks like Ubuntu will be on the H.264 bandwagon as well. Is this bad news for Ogg Theora?
Ask HN: Strategies for SaaS Upselling?
What are the best strategies that have worked for your SaaS product?

How did you go about implementing them?

How did you know they actually worked?
Why you should contribute to open source
http://shalinsays.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-you-should-contribute-to-open.html
Sharing notes I put together for a talk I gave to some students
The story of Taiwan's last sword maker
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/9247/the-story-of-taiwan%e2%80%99s-last-sword-maker/
He even adds human bone to the blade...
Enterprise Level Competitive Keyword Research
http://seohimanshu.com/2011/01/12/enterprise-level-competitive-keyword-research/
By the time you will end up reading this post, you should be able to do competitive keyword research on a website with over 1 million web pages in less than 60 minutes or so.
Show HN: TFstate.dev: Free Terraform State Storage Service Using a GitHub Token
https://github.com/tfstate
Greetings! I've developed a new service called TFstate.dev!

TFstate.dev is a free-to-use hosted HTTP Backend for Terraform State Storage that is accessible using a GitHub Token.

The backend API is Open Source for transparency and confidence that your state files are securely hosted: https://github.com/tfstate/github-sls-rest-api

There's no signup or registration, and with a GitHub token, you can immediately start using this as a Terraform Backend. State is secured and encrypted in Amazon S3 using KMS. State Locking is also natively supported.

Using it is as simple as generating a GitHub token, setting a few lines of config in Terraform, then enjoying the benefits of Shared and Secure state storage without first signing up for TF Cloud or creating S3 buckets, DDB tables and juggling Access Credentials just to get the same feature set.

I'd love to get everyone's feedback, and if you're currently using a different Terraform State backend, feel free to migrate to this service to store your state.

Let me know what you think!

Christian
Should We Deprecate WWW? 9 of the World's Top 10 Websites Don't Seem To Think So
http://marketingly.com/www-in-url/
Is this worth emulating? 9 of the top 10 largest websites in the world default to www.domain.com.
User interaction/interface design tips
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/fig_appendixa.html
Although the tips are targeted at Adobe Flex designers/developers, I found these generic enough that it applies to all Web UI designers/developers.
Top 10 Worst Computer Worms of All Time
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Top%2010%20Worst%20Computer%20Worms%20of%20All%20Time
The Internet is an Internet lover's paradise, a gamer's haven, a business's lifeline, and a hacker's playground. Over the past two decades, hundreds of worms have devastated the infrastructure of millions of computers around the world, causing billions of dollars of damage-and the life of the worm is far from over. Let's take a look at the last 20 years to see which of these worms have stood out from among the rest.
Android game : Tap The Same #$%^&*#$#
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.colourfullife.tapthesame
Tap The Same is a mini game to test your agility .You just need to tap the same color to get score and get the highest score in the leaderboard and compete with your friends .
P2P Next is getting funding from Europe to devlop new...
http://www.p2p-next.org/
P2P Next has received 14 million Euros from the European Union to develop a P2P for the masses. BBC is already a partner along with some other heavy hitters.