jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Jeff Atwood's "Effective Programming" on Hyperink's new Crowd Reader
http://www.hyperink.com/cloud/read/1559
Hey everyone, I'm Michael, a product engineer at Hyperink. Over the past month or so, I've been developing a rich, social reading experience for our content, freeing us from the stranglehold of MOBI and EPUB file formats. Today, Jeff Atwood generously granted us permission to release half of his book completely free on this Crowd Reader (paid customers get to see all of it there).<p>The problem: paperback/print always wins over digital and arguably e-ink.
Our solution: make reading a unique and asynchronously social experience.<p>I've love to get some beta feedback and hopefully some suggestions for how to improve the UI/UX. Thanks, and happy reading!
Show HN: Fast way to build digital presence across multiple platforms
https://leansence.com
Hello,

I am a tech blogger and last year I wanted to have my own website for writing blogs and doing content marketing.

Since I love programming, I could have built the site by myself but I wanted to test the no-code solutions, so after spending sometime researching I ended up going with Wordpress. However i found it tedious and for some reasons, hard and slow.

Anyways, I tried other platforms like Wix too. Problem then came was I had to share my work on social media platforms to get more readers and also post it on hashnode and Medium.
It was becoming time consuming and monotonous process.

Hence, I decided to build a solution and the result is Leansence.

It is geared towards bloggers and content marketers.
It provides an easy to use website builder with the ability to write blogs and add products, with unlimited bandwidth.

You can also directly post your blog to Medium(hashnode and dev.to support will be added soon) and also share it on twitter( can also split it into threads).

It also has social media tools so you can schedule your Twitter posts and threads.
Hence you are getting website builder, blogging ability, as well as social media tools.

I have great ideas for the future and any feedback would be appreciated.
Opera adds a splash page to celebrate 15 years of web innovation
http://www.opera.com/
Make sure you clear your cookies to catch the splash page
Just launched: http://talkMiner.com
http://talkminer.com
this is a video search engine for lectures and talks. It extracts keyframes like slides, analysis them with optical character recognition, and shows them in a nice UI for quick skimming.
Chicken Scheme 5.0
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2018-11/msg00006.html
CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. It produces portable and efficient C and supports the R5RS and R7RS (work in progress) standards, and many extensions. More info at https://www.call-cc.org/

A new major version has just been released. See the announcement message here: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2018-11/msg00006.html
Show HN: I Designed and Built an eBike
https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=115176&p=1703136#p1703136
This post shows and explains the design of the eBike I built myself. I decided to post it on this specific forum because this is where it all started, by stumbling on another post, as mentioned in my entry.
Ask HN: Dos & Don'ts of Referral/Invite Programs
I've seen a lot of great referral and invite programs, they're definitely a great way to bring in new users and reward existing customers.

There are also a ton of really poorly executed programs that result in spam and angry/displeased customers.

What are the Dos & Dont's of Referral/Invite Programs? I'm asking specifically about non-free products. Gmail had a great invite system but it was totally free.

Two good examples I can think of off the top of my head are Linode and Dropbox.

# Linode
"You refer someone and they use your referral code during sign up.
They keep a Linode for 90 days.
You then receive a $20.00 credit applied to your account."

# Dropbox
"Invite your friends to Dropbox!
For every friend who joins Dropbox, we'll give you both 250 MB of bonus space (up to a limit of 8 GB)!"
Show HN: Nat.app, personal CRM that knows who you're losing touch with
https://nat.app
Hi HN! founder of nat.app here.

I've seen so many people building personal CRMs over the past years. Somehow, they all seemed to fail and die a year or two in.

The main reason for this in my opinion is that the personal CRM business is a bad business. People sort of want this and will tweet about in from time to time, but only very few people are willing to pay and put in the effort (aka. reaching back out to people), to make it work.

Those very few people are our market and because it's a small market, there is no way to sustain such a business unless you're bootstrapped and working on this part time (which we are).

Our approach is very specific: We focus on Google users (which is why there is only a Google login) who communicate mainly through email and put every IRL meeting in their calendar.

For those people, we are able to capture 80% of their social interactions with Google's APIs. Which means that our if-else rules are accurately able to identify contacts our customers are losing touch with.

nat.app then acts as a safety net and displays those contacts to our customers.

This product really has been a labor of love over the past 3 years and I'm very happy to be sharing it with you today.
Show HN: We built a free Stop SOPA/PIPA notification bar for sites
http://www.hellobar.com/pipa
We built this free little notification bar so you could add it to your site and show your opposition to PIPA/SOPA without having to black out. The text never changes, there's no account needed or anything like that, and you can take it down whenever.
Show HN: Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create
https://app.streamlinehq.com/icons
Hi HN,

Vincent here, maker of Streamline 4.0. I spent the past 12 years perfecting icons and making the largest sets on the internet.

The 5 open-source sets are:

1. User Interface Icon Set (1,000 icons)

2. Streamline Flex (500 icons)

3. Streamline Flat (500 icons)

4. Covid Icons (147 icons)

5. Nasty Icons (45 icons)
Ask HN: I want to start learning about databases, where should I start?
I hear about so many different types of databases and so many similar kinds of databases, which is the one I should start to learn about so that I get a good understanding of how databases work and how it can be used in programming?
Show HN: Vantage Autopilot – Save on AWS EC2 Costs
https://www.vantage.sh/features/autopilot
Hi HN,

I’m cofounder of https://www.vantage.sh/ - I previously worked at AWS and DigitalOcean.

Today Vantage is launching Autopilot: a managed service that identifies and applies savings to your AWS account by automating the buying and selling of reserved instances. This is saving early customers over 50% in some cases. Upon opting into Autopilot, if your on-demand EC2 costs increase, Vantage purchases 3 year, no-upfront reserved instances. In the event your compute spend decreases, Autopilot will list your reserved instances for sale in the AWS EC2 Reserved Instance marketplace on your behalf.

Unlike other providers that charge you egregious fees (20% or more), Autopilot only charges you 5% of the savings found. These are your cost savings and I believe you should have as much of the benefit as possible.

Some of our current customers include Barstool Sports, PlanetScale, Panther, and MIT.

Happy to answer any questions or feel free to contact me at ben [at] vantage [dot] sh if I can be helpful.
Show HN: I made a cloud security product that actually saves time
https://argos-security.io/
I have been a Cloud Security Consultant for over 13 years and all that experience I put into building ARGOS Cloud Security.

Probably the most common thing I've seen was teams spending loads of time manually investigating alerts from security products. Detecting security issues is not what it’s ever been about, but about the investigation of these detected issues. If you don’t have time to investigate everything, then what’s the point?

Organizations spend time and money on security consultants to help them investigate their environments, but these are often only point-in-time engagements, where, once done, nothing "reusable" is left behind. The cloud environment might be in slightly better shape, but maybe only for a short period, before the next contractor must come in to start the process all over again.

I, and many others I've worked with, always believed that the most difficult part of cloud security is distinguishing security issues from "just best practice violations". Using an "everything must be compliant" approach never really works and usually means things just don't get done. If everything is red, what do you do?

So, people spend immense amounts of time trying to figure out what cloud misconfigurations are actual security issues, what else is put at risk because of something that is misconfigured, and how it can be fixed. All that information is important to eventually prioritize and fix issues.

ARGOS investigates the things it finds, that's what it does. It's not about "finding more", it's about understanding what misconfiguration is exposing a cloud system to the internet and what else in your cloud environment is that misconfiguration indirectly putting at risk.

One awesome side-effect of this is that we even draw something like an architecture diagram of the environment "around the misconfigured resource". This specifically is something I know most past customers of mine lacked. Architecture diagrams were hard to come by, and never up to date.

It's easy to try out if you have access to a cloud environment like Azure or AWS, GCP is in a very early version right now. 20 minutes or less even is all it takes to get everything going, including a one-click Slack integration. First results should be in your dashboard minutes later and are continuously and automatically updated.

Really looking forward to people's feedback.
Thanks all!
Divshot – Interface Builder for Web Apps
http://divshot.com
I stumbled across divshot, it allows you to create pretty decent mock ups using a web editor and the bootstrap framework. I found it, saved me hours of time. Love it. 5/5.
Slippy - HTML Presentations
http://seld.be/notes/introducing-slippy-html-presentations
Slippy is a HTML Presentation library written with jQuery, it takes a html file in and plays it in any browser.

It is optimal for programming-related talks since it includes a syntax highlighter and is very easy to use since it's just standard html markup with a few classes to enable specific functions.
Git – A simple guide
http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/
Nicely explained, worth a fav.
Pandora: Community driven linux based hardware project, actually shipping units.
http://www.openpandora.org/
I just discovered this system today, looks really cool.
TwittyPic acquired. Launched on HN 72 days ago.
http://www.techflash.com/venture/Pet_Holdings_buys_Twittypic_plans_Digg-like_news_service39646727.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=388578
The Ugly American Programmer
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001248.html
"Whatever country you live in, whatever language you speak, you have the same access to the accumulated knowledge of the world as every other citizen of the planet Earth. I believe the rules are different for programmers. So much so that I'm going to ask the unthinkable: shouldn't every software developer understand English?"
Show HN: Free open-source IPTV cloud service
https://github.com/fastogt/iptv
Opensource IPTV service based on gstreamer can relay/encode/shift streams and many many other features.
Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-restrictedmedia/2014Jan/0060.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-restrictedmedia/2014Jan/0060.html
Sprite Tricks used in Amiga Games
http://www.codetapper.com/amiga/sprite-tricks/
via https://twitter.com/photonstorm/status/289508176397746179
Show HN: Filesystem Watcher
https://github.com/e-dant/watcher
An arbitrary filesystem event watcher which is:

- simple

- efficient

- dependency free

- runnable anywhere with a filesystem

- header only

Watcher is extremely efficient. In most cases, even when scanning millions of paths, this library uses a near-zero amount of resources.

Watcher is simple. The library exposes a single function and a single object. That is all.

Happy hacking.
Ask HN: Has remote work made you procrastinate more?
Over the last two years, I have been working remotely, and I am finding myself stuck in the same place and unable to kick-start my life. I always feel overwhelmed, and basically, I don't have the energy and excitement to do the things I should do in life.

Have you or anyone you knew encountered this challenge during this pandemic? How did they recover or win over procrastination?
Show HN: Metadocs, kinda like Reddit, but built into every documentation
https://metadocs8.com/
Hi, I'm Ritinkar and I'm building metadocs, which is kind of like reddit built into every documentation ever.

It's a chrome extension that allows discussion on any webpage to happen there itself.

Currently I have built threaded comments, and a upvote/downvote system.

Plus I've built this cool feature called Highlights, which lets you discuss specific lines in any documentation. As well as a feature called Top Hightlights, which shows the most interesting hightlights on any webpage.

Hope you guys will try it out. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask me here.

Thanks.
Learn time series with a story illustrated by Stable Diffusion
https://tigyog.app/d/L-8D8R2yeXLY/r/an-everyday-look-at-time-series
We just published this tutorial about ARMA(p,q) models for modeling time series, and how to fit them using Python. But while it’s a tutorial, it has a few twists. First, it’s interactive: you’ll learn by solving problems and making choices. Second, it’s a story: you play a character in a plot that gives you real-life problems to solve. And third, it’s illustrated: we spent many hours hacking with Stable Diffusion, GIMP, and matplotlib.

This is chapter 3 in our interactive course, Everyday Data Science. [1] The first half of the chapter is free. You can get the whole course forever for $29. These chapters are a lot of effort to produce, so please let us know what you think :-)

- Andrew Carr [2] and Jim Fisher [3]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32118530
[2]: https://twitter.com/andrew_n_carr
[3]: https://jameshfisher.com/
Ask HN: How come so many of you know about stocks/finance ?
Do a lot of you work in the field or have degrees in business??

Whenever there is a discussion on stocks, HFT, economy, a lot of seem to know about it (more then just a wikipedia search or passing interest...which I would say I have)
Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2009/07/16/The-End-of-Sun.aspx
Shareholders voted today to officially sell the company to Oracle. And Jonathan Schwartz wasn't even in the room when it happened.
Show HN: Employees.fyi – Easily compare U.S. workforce demographic data
https://employees.fyi
Hi HN! We built Employees.fyi to make it easy to compare U.S. workforce demographic data across companies and against industry reference data.

In the U.S., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires the collection and submission of demographic workforce data. We collected and organized the publicly available federal data from the EEOC as well as publicly available EEO-1 submissions from individual companies. By doing so, we hope to make it easy to compare U.S. workforce demographic data across companies and against industry reference data.

The URL contains your current selection. Just copy the URL and share it!

Some examples:

* A comparison of 2018 data for the "Professionals" job category across the Information industry, Facebook, and Netflix: https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=PROFESSIONALS&reference...

* A comparison of 2018 data for all job categories across the Finance and Insurance industry, BlackRock, and PayPal: https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=ALL&reference=52&compan...

* A comparison of 2018 data for the "Exec/Sr Officials & Managers" category across the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services industry, Accenture, and Nvidia: https://employees.fyi/?year=2018&job=SRMANAGERS&reference=54...

If there's a company with EEO-1 data that you would like to see, consider submitting a URL via this form: https://forms.gle/8cVfXpg69fiiemzc8

Let us know what feedback you have for us! For those who are curious: at runtime, Employees.fyi uses normalize.css and the Open Sans font. They are hosted with the website.
Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?
I'm sure there are many of us out there. I have a good eye for usability, proficient enough with HTML5/CSS3+jquery, have TONS of ideas (some of which I'm pretty convinced are good, maybe even good enough for YC) but it seems like every day I just sit around and read HN. Something about reading other people's opinions, success stories and failures makes me sort of feel like I'm "in the game" even though I'm not actually DOING anything. It's terrible. I guess what I'm wondering is: has anyone else gone through this, did you eventually do something real, and how?
Micro-SaaS Alternatives to BigTech/VC
https://microfounder.com/alternatives
Hi HN

I started this crowdsourced list to find small internet products made by solo developers (or tiny teams) that can be used as alternatives to BigTech/VC-funded startups.

E.g. you can use Tally (by two devs, $14K MRR) instead of Typeform ($190M funding, 600+ employees)

or Plausible (by two devs, $83K MRR) instead of Google Analytics.

I added a link to a form where you can send me suggestions to alternatives, happy to add to the site!

Thanks,
Rauno
Simple recommendation system written in Ruby
http://otobrglez.opalab.com/ruby/2014/03/23/simple-ruby-recommendation-system.html
Nothing fancy, just simple tag/words based recommendation algorithm implemented in Ruby.
Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist
https://thisaidoesnotexist.com/
Hey HN! Author of the site here. I tried a few tricks to keep the text-generation part of the site up, but even leaning hard on Huggingface's API and bumping time-outs up, it looks like the site is struggling a bit. I'm going to see if there's anything I can do to keep the text-generation part available, but in the meantime, the pre-generated set should stay pretty stable. Not sure if there's much else I can do without burning a hole in my cloud bills — sorry for the troubles!

I've put up a more detailed description of how this works on the GitHub - https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon

PS - if anyone at Huggingface is reading this and wants to help out with keeping the API up, that would be super :)
Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/07/21/140721fa_fact_mnookin?currentPage=all
(There's a shout-out to HN in the article.)

Two years ago, HN was the first to pick up on a post I wrote about my son's preliminary diagnosis via experimental exome sequencing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038113

Two years ago, he was the only known NGLY1 deficient patient in the world.

By spreading the story, we've found 16 cases worldwide.

We've organized.

We've found preliminary treatments.

Clinical trials are in the pipeline.

In some cases, we've saved the lives of previously undiagnosed patients.

And, these children's cells are turning into gold mines for the basic science of glycobiology.

From the bottom of my heart and on behalf of the entire small but optimistic NGLY1 community,

Thank you.
If you're using YYYY in your JVM service or %G in anything, fix it now
The single character G instead of Y took down Twitter's API today.

If you're using YYYY in your JVM service or %G in anything, fix it now. You're very likely using the wrong year format.

date
Mon Dec 29 00:44:45 EST 2014
date -u "+%G"
2015

ISO 8601 week numbering has 2015 start this week.
Show HN: My 486 Server
http://486servu.dy.fi/
Hello. I wrote a multitasking 16-bit real mode "operating system" that works on every IBM PC compatible computer, and a TCP/IP stack for it. Then I wrote an HTTP server for it.
And Then Steve Said, 'Let There Be an iPhone'
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-said-let-there-be-an-iphone.html?_r=0
Microsoft's decision of removing Aero from Windows 8 is a blunder (editorial)
http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsofts-decision-removing-aero-from-windows-8-blunder-editorial#.T95sPkYqBDw.hackernews
Mapping the August 21st 2013 Syria Chemical Weapons Attack in Google Earth
http://aug21st.com/
5 (Opinionated) Steps to Minimalist Logging in Go
https://thomshutt.github.io/opinionated-logging-in-go.html
Add Images In Grid
http://webkul.com/blog/add-images-in-grid/
Instant Messaging chat app push txt free
http://feedmyapp.com/p/a/txt-instant-messenger/30224
NCSA Mosaic 1.1 Call for Beta Testers
http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q2/0415.html
Researcher gains admin access to Kaseya, ManageEngine
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/323377,researcher-gains-admin-access-to-kaseya-manageengine.aspx
What the heck do we call these things?
http://www.answerdevices.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-3-what-the-heck-do-we-call-these-things/
Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331317&page_number=1
Python for Humans
https://speakerdeck.com/kennethreitz/python-for-humans
Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (2016)
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/suzuki-kango-plock-wooden-automaton-time-writing-clock/
Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair
https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/nebraska-farmers-vote-overwhelmingly-right-repair
Sightings Fuel Hope for Return of Tasmanian Tigers
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/30/522091683/back-from-the-dead-reported-sightings-fuel-hope-for-return-of-tasmanian-tigers
How to Select an EC Platform Between Magento,Salesforce,Hybris and Shopify?
https://elogic.co/blog/enterprise-ecommerce-platform-comparison-how-to-select-between-magento-salesforce-hybris-and-shopify/
Anti-ROP mechanism in libc
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=146159002802803&w=2
Nyxt Browser Dark Mode
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/dark-mode.org
China warns U.S. surveillance plane – CNNPolitics.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/20/politics/south-china-sea-navy-flight/index.html
Microsoft Warming Up to Open Source?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/11/microsoft-certifies-open-sourc.php
Hey Siri, what’s up? | Where Am I?
http://matteodallombra.net/2011/11/04/hey-siri-whats-up/
Gates Foundation Acknowledges Flaws in Report
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704358904575478312162167440.html
Super Planet Crash
http://www.stefanom.org/spc/index.php#
OCZ Achieves Performance Record Live At Computex
http://pcper.com/news/General-Tech/OCZ-Achieves-Performance-Record-Live-Computex-Over-1-Million-4K-Write-IOPS-15-Mill
Bypass the Cloud Foundry wait list (50 spots left)
http://blog.cloudspokes.com/2011/05/we-got-skillz-get-into-badges-with_25.html
ChromeVox is pretty cool
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromevox/kgejglhpjiefppelpmljglcjbhoiplfn?hl=en
How to access SCI-HUB?
https://paperdownloader.cf/
Glenn Greenwald keynote at Freedom to Connect 2013
http://isoc-ny.org/p2/5676
Postgres Adores a Vacuum
https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-04-19-postgres-adores-vacuum.html
The Mac is Back
http://www.macworld.com/article/155876/2010/11/gartenberg.html
Noise Cancellation: Power High Quality Experiences with Twilio Video
https://www.twilio.com/blog/introducing-noise-cancellation-for-twilio-video
Apple Offers Free Cat Sweaters to Address iPad Issue
http://venomousporridge.com/post/820700538
CDC: Low Covid-19 Lethality
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html
Functional Programming in PHP – The book
https://www.simonholywell.com/post/2014/08/functional-programming-in-php-the-book.html?utm_source=News.YC&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=Functional%20Programming%20in%20PHP%20book
Weather info via Twitter
http://servletsuite.blogspot.com/2011/06/weather-info-via-twitter.html