jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Is there any simple, clean and well-designed forum solution out there?
Why nobody made a proper forum, with a good UX/UI? Discourse is the closest existing software but it's not well designed, user profiles are a pain in the a…
Something as well-designed as branch.com but that you could use privately.
Any ideas?
Ask HN: Should I do a closed beta stage of my SaaS?
Hey guys,

I'm currently in the middle of developing a SaaS and am already wondering if I should do a beta stage with limited users (invite only or something like that).

The product is not something too niche (any non-impulsive buyer who uses e-shops would do) so I suppose I could find people who would benefit from the service that might not be 100% done, a bit buggy and a bit broken. But where should I look first? I suppose, HN would be the first place I look to.

The product would not be free (once it's mostly done) as it would also be costing me (vps, emails, text messages etc). I suppose I should be letting people use the SaaS for free for the beta duration and probably give them discounts if they are willing to use it once it's live?

How should I take their feedback? Currently looking at something like UserVoice. It would take me back $20 every month I'm doing the Beta and if I decide to keep it further on.

Any other advice on how I should handle the birth of a SaaS?
Ask HN: What are your favourite micro blogs?
I don't have to time to read all those detailed blog posts about interesting topics. I feel that many blogs bloat their overly-lengthy posts with a soup of keywords to improve SEO while making them annoying to read.

I'm looking for good micro blogs that post short, to the point articles. I like when they link their sources and further reading material on the topic. And if they provide a feed I can subscribe to, I might even read them.
Reddit's css file is 3559 lines long. HN's is 41.
http://www.reddit.com/static/reddit.css
http://ycombinator.com/news.css
Show HN: Hindley–Milner type inferencing in C
https://github.com/nmhancock/type-inferencing
This is a pretty straightforward port of Robert Smallshire's Python implementation to C. It type checks a factorial program correctly and is pretty fast. Mostly a learning exercise.
DragonFly Release 2.10 
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release210/
The DragonFly 2.10.1 release is now available! This release sports significant compatibility and performance improvements and many new features!
Show HN: Village – Hacker News for people who care about their cities
http://www.itsonvillage.com/
Hey everyone,

I started Village because I couldn't find a place online with reasonable, civil discussion about my city, Toronto.

On Reddit, r/toronto could be a bit harsh and was pretty heavy with downvoting. Local blogs had comments sections that were mean and insulting.

Village is an experiment. It's a place that- while honest about the challenges my city faces- tries to celebrate and share what's awesome about Toronto too. It's a place for reasonable and civil discussion. It's a place to discover awesome and interesting things in Toronto.

I custom wrote the software for Village but I feel like the software for creating a social news website is pretty trivial at this point. If you want, it only takes 5 minutes to set one up using Telescope. The hard part is cultivating a community.

But in the same way that you can’t design a users experience (because it implies a sense of control over what a user will experience), you also can’t design a community. Instead, you can only hope to cultivate a community.

That's what I'm hoping to do with Village :)

PS - If you're interested, you can read more about my thoughts on how to cultivate community here: http://www.itsonvillage.com/design-tips
Awesome 8Bit HTML5 cycling art
http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
Very cool demonstrations of color cycling using HTML5 on 8 bit scenes.
Show HN: Webcam Plus – Use your iPhone as a webcam for your Mac (Free app)
Hello,

I want to show an app that I have been working on as a hobby project. It has been in beta testing since December, but now it is finally released.

This may not be the most original idea ever, but it is completely free to use, so I hope some of you will find it useful!

- Supports Full HD 1080p, 720p and 480p
- Up to 30 FPS
- Stream via USB

My goal has been to keep it very minimalistic and easy-to-use.

I also want to mention right away that it installs as a DAL Plugin on your mac, meaning that it will only work on apps that allows third party plugins.

More info on my webpage: https://webcamplus.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/webcam-plus/id1546556174
Community/Content Manager + Marketing
Community/Content Manager

We're looking for passionate, enthusiastic, and hard working community/content manager. The ideal person has a rich experience in managing and engaging online communities, and understands what makes them tick.

We're a YCombinator company, team of experienced entrepreneurs, fun, passionate about quality product, data, information, and content, and making a large impact on the web.

We are also well-funded by top-notch angels and VC firms in the valley.

Responsibilities

• Engage and participate in the online community

• Create rich and relevant content

• Create interesting and fun blog posts

• Manage our social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

• Talk to our users

• Ensure people have a great user experience

• Have a lot of fun

Required Skills

• You just have to be passionate, energetic, and hard working.

Desired (nice to haves)

• Experience with web communities, content, blogging, marketing, or users acquisition and retention.

• Previous work experience in a startup environment

If you are interested, please email your resume to: eric@movity.com.
Stanford introduces OSHx, online courses for middle- and high-school students
http://ohsx.stanford.edu/
Fine print:

Course Structure

This course will combine a MOOC led by Dr. Keith Devlin with small seminars in the OHS online classroom, where students will discuss the subject matter and work on exercises. In addition to the weekly homework assignments, students will sit for a final exam.

Class size is limited to 16 students.

Lectures by Keith Devlin, Ph.D.

Discussion Sections led by J.T. Chipman, OHSx Instructor and Stanford graduate student in Philosophy.

Age: High school juniors and seniors

Course Schedule: March 4th – May 30th

Lectures begin March 4th

Discussion Sections: Saturdays 10am–noon Pacific time (March 9th – May 18th) in the OHS Online Classroom

Final Exam due by: May 25th

Tuition: $990 (Financial aid available.)

Grading: Letter or Pass/No Pass (Stanford Online High School transcript)

Applications Due: Monday, February 25th

Notification Date: Wednesday, February 27th
Ask HN:How to get introductions to the right Angels and Seed Firms
At the stage I need to start looking for capital. Located in the Midwest while I have connections here they aren't the right fit for my company especially since I know I'll need to move to NYC or SF. The few investors I've shown love the beta and my vision but agree I need to find the perfect fit (industry, experience, location, connections). While I have a list of a few angels and seed funds (ie First Round Capital) that should have an interest don't have any way of getting in the door. Short of a blind email that nearly never works.

The Midwest investors and VCs I know only deal in the Midwest and stay out of the social media area that I'm entering so they don't have the connections.

Planning on using AngelList. Anyone have any success using it to get the ball rolling?

What else have people done in my situation?

Any tips?
Show HN: 50books, a bare-bones reading list tracker
Hey everyone!

I wanted to share a project that I've been working on the last few days that I finally finished last night: https://50books.org

This is a simple site designed to track your reading list into 2015. My personal goal is to read 50 books this year, and I wanted to hold myself accountable. Major sites like Goodreads are great, but were too much of a social network for my personal taste; on the other hand, using a text file (which was my 2014 solution) was too difficult to track and share.

I built https://50books.org using Sinatra, sqlite3 (via datamapper), and the Skeleton UI framework. I'm not a designer, but I'm pretty happy with how everything turned out.

Anyway, I'd love to hear any feedback you all might have!
Google Buying Yahoo?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203911804576649121183551678.html
It would be an interesting merger I guess.
Realizing domains still sell for 800k+ has changed my domain squatting tactics
I recently saw the thread about a company using part (or maybe all) of their series a funding to purchase the domain name covers.com for $825,000 dollars. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534468)

Neat! And excellent news for me as a domain collector. I also use the term collector because while I average holding ~150 domains at any given time (including my prized possession, e.ht), I rarely set them up to be exposed on a potential market. Anyone who has shown interest in a domain did the dirty work of figuring out how to reach out to me. This has worked out and I've actually sold quite a few to some noteworthy groups. For example, the Mormon church sent a broker after LDSMatch.com, and i was able to have a great ROI on a domain that cost me a handful of years worth of ICANN fees.

Fast forward to today. I have a domain that is currently being chased by a Godaddy broker representing a client. It's a good domain, consisting of two words and a .com. My intentions before I read about the covers.com sale were to accept the second offer (I typically ignore the first fishing offers), but woke up this morning and changed my email draft. If a single word .com is worth sub one million dollars, with every other TLD option out there right now, two word .coms are definitely worth at very least more than four digit offers. Change my mind.
10yr+ PHP Dev Wondering: Python vs. PHP for Web Applications?
10yr+ PHP Dev wondering: Python vs PHP for Web Applications? Please don't let this drag onto a bitter fanboy debate about which programming language syntax is better...I just want to hear your story if you have used both PHP and Python in your web development years.
24 Times Less Memory, 11 Times Faster than ElasticSearch/Solr
http://www.sirendb.com/blog/comparing-siren-v1-2-and-lucenes-blockjoin-performance-a-uspo-granted-patent-search-scenario/
This is a detailed description of the benchmark tests that we conducted to compare SIREn’s performance relative to BlockJoin with respect to search on nested documents. The BlockJoin approach is used in both Solr and ElasticSearch to support nested document search
Ask HN: Valuation from seed to series A
I'm writing under a different username.

I have a startup that had raised a seed round. We have a bit of traction and looking to raise a series A to go after a particular market full-on.

What is a decent multiple from a seed to series A?

If you need more info, just ask and will post if it doesn't divulge too much.
Ask HN: What Jobs Shouldn't Exist Today?
And therefore are ripe for disruptions and technical automation.
Ask HN: Anyone use Prolog?
I'm working through "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks). The inclusion of Prolog seems strange to me and I've heard very few examples of Prolog being used in the real world. Has anyone here used Prolog in production, and if so:

1. What did you use it for?

2. What are your thoughts about the language? Why did you choose Prolog, and were you happy with it?

3. How does performance, development time, etc. compare to other languages?
Is Purchasing an Xbox Live Gold Membership Really Worth It? 
http://unearthedgadget.com/xbox-live-gold-2/140-is-purchasing-an-xbox-live-gold-membership-really-worth-it-2.html?w3tc_note=flush_all
For those who are serious about gaming, investing in an Xbox Live Gold membership is absolutely essential in order to get the most out of your Xbox games.
I built this over a weekend. Curious if you like it?
http://gifpic.me
It's basically an easy way to turn a 1 sec video into a GIF and share it on email, text, and Tumblr. Generally curious what you folks think. (It's a pet 1-man project, not a startup)
Blacklist.co - Power to the People
http://www.blacklist.co/
Hi guys, here's a beta version of a new Startup that is called Blacklist.

Blacklist empowers consumers to react and impact, while creating for brands this opportunity of “Defensive Marketing” channel.

Blacklist is a web application where users can blacklist brands & products they dislike or with which they had a bad experience, anytime and anywhere from their favorite device.

The aim is to break the barriers of digital feedback and gives the power to the people by making it easy, fast and simple to react.
Brands and companies on the other side will have this ‘Defensive Marketing’ opportunity to listen, and engage directly with people talking about them on the platform.

The vision is to bring more transparency between consumers and brands, for more aligned interactions.

When you think about it, when you’re a happy customer you tell 3, maybe 5 people, but when you’re pissed, you want to tell the whole world.
Blacklist enables individuals to do so.
Because when people complain, the most important thing for them is the reach of their comment, the opportunity to get spread out and heard so they can have an impact; just as if their voice matters and their opinion can have influence.

Blacklist is that digital megaphone designed to do just that: give individuals the best tool to react and seize the force of their feedback.

One last thing: it is free and there is no ads
What computer science can teach economics
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/game-theory.html
Constantinos Daskalakis applies the theory of computational complexity to game theory, with consequences in a range of disciplines.
Auctomatic starts an in-house eBay business
http://blog.auctomatic.com/?p=51
anybody need 1Gb Mac RAM?
60 Minute Interview with Neil Armstrong
http://thebottomline.cpaaustralia.com.au/
via http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/23/neil-armstrong-accountancy-website-moon-exclusive
Poll: What's your sex?
After reading the End of men, it gets one to wonder about this.
Distribute messages effectively in serverless applications
https://medium.com/epsagon/the-right-way-to-distribute-messages-effectively-in-serverless-applications-f427e4229e67
In-depth performance analysis of message distribution in serverless and Lambda applications.

“The right way to distribute messages effectively in serverless applications” https://medium.com/epsagon/the-right-way-to-distribute-messages-effectively-in-serverless-applications-f427e4229e67
Mark Zuckerberg Rare 2005 Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI
A rare interview with Zuckerberg from the summer of 2005, when he first moved out to Palo Alto. Shows Facebook's office HQ and Z's vision for the future of the company.

Fascinating to compare his perspective then with the reality now!
Beyond stunnel: High-speed, secure connections across the public Internet
http://blog.vcider.com/2012/02/beyond-stunnel-secure-high-speed-network-connections-in-the-public-cloud/
The standard ways to secure connections across public links (even for applications that don't support encryption themselves) has been to use stunnel or OpenVPN. But those solutions come with a significant performance hit. This article presents measurements and comparisons to illustrate this and presents a more modern solution with much better performance characteristics.
Matrox reveals M9188. 8 monitors, WDDM 1.1 support coming
http://icrontic.com/news/matrox-m9188-powers-eight-displays
Matrox's new hydra of a video card will support 8 simultaneous displays, supports Aero in Vista and Win7, and will support WDDM 1.1 in the first half of 2010.
Time Ferris makes the #1 new york best seller list - again
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/12/24/thank-you-thank-you-thank-you/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+timferriss+%28The+Blog+of+Author+Tim+Ferriss%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Here is the link for nytimes (yes, just wanted to verify :)). Love him or hate him, his marketing and hustling skills or impressive.

http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-01-02/hardcover-advice/list.html
"Holographic Algorithms" method threatens collapse of complexity classes (P could = NP!) 
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jyc/papers/HA-survey.pdf
Very Interesting!
I never did
Ask HN: Cold Showers and Other Tricks
I really love surfing, so recently I decided to start taking cold showers so it wouldn't be a huge shock when I jumped in the water in the winter months. Wetsuit, or no wetsuit, believe me when I say that it's still a "special" feeling the first time cold water splashes you when you paddle out.

Anyways, I happened to take a cold shower one night before going to bed and I had the most amazing night's sleep. Since then I've been religiously taking a cold shower before bed and it's great.

I just wanted to share this trick because I'm sure there's some people out in HN land that have a tough time with sleep. I was also hoping you could share any tricks like this that you use in your life.

Thanks!
Ask HN: Should I pay for a cartoon I used in my blog years ago?
I found a nasty surprise in my mailbox this morning: an email that claims it represents the legal department of CartoonStock.com. Apparently, they "just" found one of their cartoons in my personal blog, in a post from 2007 I completely forgot about. At the time, I wrote something about Murphy's Law, and googled for an image to accompany the post. I never gave it a second thought, and I doubt anyone but me read this.

In the meantime, I opened a consulting company. The company's site has a link to my blog. I guess that's what prompted that email to my company's address, claiming I've violated the rights of CartoonStock.com.

They want $168.00. They don't care if I remove the image. They have a long explanation about liability and such.

My questions:
1. Since I did not do anything with malice (and at the time, wasn't really thinking about copyright, or who owns a cartoon), did not benefit (financially or otherwise) from using the image, should I pay?
2. Is this some sort of a hoax/attempt to get money, or am I headed into major legal issues if I ignore this?
3. Should I remove the image immediately from the blog, or will that be an admission of guilt to something?
4. Finally, since this blog preceded my company by several years, are they allowed to pursue my company, just because I link to a clearly personal blog?

TIA for any assistance/ideas/opinions!
Ask HN: Why do people hate PHP so much?
I am a web developer and can code in PHP, Javascript and Python.
I still can't fathom why people hate people so much.
Join the SF SOPA/PIPA Protest 12-2pm, Civic Center
http://www.hackersandfounders.com/events/48317262/?a=ed1_l6
Speakers include Brewster Kahle, Ron Conway, Jonathan Nelson, Gideon Lett and others.
Ruby Metaprogramming Simplified
http://cheind.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/ruby-metaprogramming-simplified/
Here is an approach to ease unleashing the power of Ruby’s metaprogramming.
Show HN: Genti Audio – Stories and podcasts in African languages
https://gentimedia.com/
Hi all,
Eke here, co-founder of Genti Audio. Genti Audio is a mobile app for streaming and downloading Africa-focused audiobooks, stories, and podcasts in regional and local African languages.

In September 2021, my sister and I sat down to work on an audio show exploring Nigeria’s cultural and linguistic diversity. As we began to put the show together, we realized that our target audience- Nigerians and Africans in both urban and rural areas, were not heavily present on any of the major audio platforms for this type of content. Recognizing this, we decided to first fix this distribution gap, and so the idea for Genti was born.

From just an idea, we began pooling resources and soon started developing our beta app. And after months of hard work building, scouring for content, and raising funds from supportive friends and family, we are very excited to announce the launch of our mobile app. We will continue to improve the app and roll out more features over the next 4 months. Download the App now on Google Play or the Apple App Store and start listening!

At Genti, our mission is to amplify African stories and voices to entertain, educate, and enrich lives. In line with our mission, we’ll spend the next 3 - 6 months getting the best entertaining and educative African audio content out there and curating for our users. We also believe that for every African story told there are hundreds waiting to be told, and that’s why we’ve begun working on developing engaging original content available exclusively on our platform. Genti is committed to playing a vital role in developing and deepening audio storytelling on the continent.

To download the app, visit the Genti website, or download directly from Google Play and the Apple App store and start listening!

If you’ve got a podcast, audiobook, or story you’d like to upload on Genti, please send an email to ojiugo@gentimedia.com and we’ll be in touch. We’d also love to get feedback from you on your experience with the Genti App.
Using the Six Laws of Persuasion
http://www.thinkingserious.com/2007/10/16/using-the-six-laws-of-persuasion/
Here are the six laws of persuasion and how they can be used to enhance your business.
Ask HN:Founder Visa query
Guys , i am grad student on F1 visa about to get my OPT next month. I am working on project and willing to form a company. I read through several sites and get different answers about VISA limitations for students on F1.

Please guide me or point me to right resources so can get proper information to take next step.
No, I won't be your business co-founder
http://arnoldhur.tumblr.com/post/22794390635/no-i-wont-be-your-business-co-founder
Just a bit of fun for a Friday afternoon
HTY360Player: Open-Source 360 VR Player
https://github.com/hanton/HTY360Player
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/360-vr-player/id1061464612?mt=8
Github: https://github.com/hanton/HTY360Player
Show HN: BlockNote – a “Notion-style” block-based text editor
https://github.com/YousefED/BlockNote
Hi HN! BlockNote (demo @ https://blocknote-main.vercel.app) is my shot at creating an extensible, block-based editor (similar to Notion, Coda, etc.). Featuring different block types, animations (try changing block types, indenting, etc), menus, placeholders, collaboration and more you expect from a good editor.

I'm on a journey to build a decentralized, live-programmeable and collaborative block-based editor [1] that syncs over Matrix [2], and unfortunately found that there's still not a great Open Source text editor component on par with something Notion's editor, which is why I got started with this.

BlockNote builds on top of Prosemirror [3] and TipTap [4] (two great libraries to build text editors for the web / work with ContentEditable and its quirks), but these libraries are pretty bare-bones ("headless"). While there's still some ground to cover, I hope BlockNote makes it easier to get a better out-of-the-box UX and am looking forward to your feedback!

[1] Follow along at https://www.typecell.org

[2] See this HackerNews discussion on Matrix-CRDT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29978659

[3] https://prosemirror.net/

[4] https://tiptap.dev/
Career damaging self description
http://www.itworld.com/video?bcpid=1578108607&bclid=1588003312&bctid=23220283001
"I am a X programmer" (for arbitrary values of X), is not a good way to describe yourself in my opinion.