jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
ShowHN: LinkThing
http://www.linkthing.co
This is not a startup, and there's no business here. Its a "scratching an itch" weekend project. I'm a link junkie, and like to save big collections of stuff - be it travel info for an upcoming trip, funny gifs, or whatehaveyou. There's no social, and no discovery.

I just wanted a super simple, very flexible, lightweight link index. I also wanted to play around with Bootstrap and JQuery.

Originally, I built LinkThing on the Twitter API. It used twitter Oauth, and did some neat stuff, like index links in your tweets. But - I don't feel like figuring out how to comply with the new API guidelines, so I've backed it all out, and have built a standalone user account system, and there you go.

LinkThing is missing several things:
1. Don't lose your password. The password reset thing referenced in the "join" form doesn't actually exist yet.
2. Links that you add aren't currently editable; but that's almost there. Note: You can delete them.
3. There's some real low-hanging fruit missing, like a bookmarklet, that I'll get too shortly as well.

Anyhow, I posted a note about this in another thread some time ago, and wanted to share an update. As noted, this is a weekend warrior / fun project, so don't hold back - I haven't quit my day job for this. Its been fun to develop, and I've actually ended up being a pretty devoted user of it, at home and at work, and it would be cool if some other people found it useful too.

I wrote a brief into blurb here that will give you some flavor:

http://linkthing.co/doc_getting_started.php

Feedback/comments/complaints are appreciated. Please note:
- To join, you just need a username and a password, email address is not required.
- You can delete all of your data and erase any record that you ever joined LinkThing via the "Delete Account Data" link that you'll find under your username dropdown once you've signed in.
The Tinfoil-Hat Toolbox: 100+ Resources to Protect Your Sites from Google
http://www.insidecrm.com/features/tinfoil-hat-toolbox-042408/
Google is one of the Internet's darlings, universally loved by just about everyone. Read on to find out how you can segment your domain network so that Google can't take your entire portfolio down in one fell swoop.
Localhost.io
https://github.com/briangu/localhost.io
Easily make any directory a website running at localhost.
Private Cloud Software: OpenStack vs. CloudStack vs. Eucalyptus
http://www.solidlogic.com/2012/11/private-cloud-openstack-cloudstack-eucalyptus/
An analysis into the popularity of three private cloud software stacks - OpenStack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus - using Google Trends.
Binary Clock Demo: Hoplon Lifts HTML into Lisp
http://pmbauer.github.io/2014/01/27/hoplon-binary-clock
Hoplon is ambitious, seeking to unify HTML page markup and the JavaScript environment.

If you've been intrigued by Facebook's React and Om, check this out.
Venture Hacks TV starts with a bang. Marc Andreessen: Stanford Q&A
http://venturehacks.tv/
Venture Hacks TV starts with a bang. Marc Andreessen: Stanford Q&A
CSS Color Palette Extractor
http://svay.com/blog/css-color-palette-extractor/
Extract colors from CSS in Javascript
New Sony Google TV Set-Top Box Disappoints, Increases Desire for Apple TV
http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/06/25/new-sony-google-tv-set-top-box-disappoints-increases-desire-for-apple-tv/
The Google TV announcement this morning was greeted by underwhelming hands-on reviews. The continued weakness of Google's platform is good for Apple, of course, but it also raises questions about how much is really needed to create a satisfying, web-enabled TV experience for most users.
Notes on “Predictably Irrational” by Dan Ariely
http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=49
I found this particularly interesting because while the central theme appears to be about market economies, there are a lot of parallels to startup theory and practice that permeates financing and money. I actually learned a few things about how to develop my startup and steer potential customers in the right direction by understanding how they see what's readily available.

In the blog entry, much less the book which after looking at the first chapter, I think I need to read.
Interview with G.ho.st founder Zvi Schreiber
http://uk.intruders.tv/Essential-Web-07-Interview-with-G-ho-st-founder-Zvi-Schreiber_a102.html
G.ho.st, which stands for global hosted operating system, is a web-based OS that provides users with a familiar Windows-like desktop. The only difference between your Windows or Unix desktop is that G.ho.st lives in your browser!
How is Yahoo So Worthless
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/the-peculiar-worthlessness-of-yahoo/360851/
Interesting point, but I think the authors ignores the fact that stocks with $10 in the bank per share are routinely dsicounted below $10/ share because of all the friction/ agency and delays witholding the delivery of that value to shareholders.
Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery
http://blog.feralabs.com/2009/03/information-visualization-for-knowledge-discovery/
Ben Schneiderman from the University of Maryland, gave a fascinating talk in Cambridge on 5th March 2009 about the topic of “Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery.”
ReactOS takes an initiative and gets part of its kernel rewritten in c++
http://code.reactos.org/changelog/reactos?cs=60847
ReactOS takes an initiative and gets part of its kernel rewritten in c++
Aleksey Bragin, the project coordinator writes [reactos.org]:
"Monstera is a new implementation of a memory manager (along with a cache manager) compatible with the ReactOS kernel at source code level and providing the same binary compatible Native API through a lightweight wrapper. Monstera is implemented in a subset of C++ programming language. ...
Key ideas:
1. Object oriented language for object oriented kernel. When NT was implemented, C++ wasn't that good.
...
4. Don't drift away too much. It's still based on NT architecture, but think of it as if Microsoft Research would decide to reimplement NT in C++ for fun."
Show HN: Appiterate - Real time publishing on mobile apps using visual editor
http://appiterate.com/?utm_source=HN&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=ShowHN
Try it out and let us know how does it look!<p>You can signup for free to check the web dashboard as well.
Show HN: The Ansibles
https://github.com/pjan/the-ansibles
Since the number of (extensive) Ansible examples are still sparse, I decided to clean up the ones I have been writing and release them, for reuse and educational purposes. I know I would've benefited greatly from them when I started out, and hope they will help others now. I have a couple more of them, but they need some additional clean-up before I will add them to the repo.

Inspired by the "NSA-proof your e-mail in 2 hours" article, I created a similarly complete setup for a personal (mail/web/...)server on a VPS as al3x did a couple of weeks ago using the scripts I had, and wrote an idiot-proof tutorial on how to set it up (https://github.com/pjan/the-ansibles/blob/master/docs/cloudbox.md). Manual steps are minimal, and "It just works" - start to finish should take you less than an hour.

If you haven't tried Ansible before, there's no more excuse not to now.

Enjoy.
Wanna try to spawn 8 cloud app servers by one click and within 1 second?  
http://rush.erlangonxen.org/
Wanna try to spawn 8 cloud app servers by one click and within 1 second?
Show HN: TLDR your video-meetings with GPT-3
https://spoke.app/share/48p2qwaoximb5tgf97ck1h6dsvr3yzeu?all
We recently plugged in GPT-3 to our software which can record / transcribe / search and share meetings.
And the quality of the meeting minutes outputted is just baffling.

GPT-3 understands what a discussion revolves around - even if the subject matter is only mentionned once - and summarizes it really efficiently. It lays out the different topics and always puts forward the next steps.

Linked is a quick example on one of my conversations with a company in the Philippines.

An amusing bug was that if for whatever reason no to little transcription was outputted, GPT-3 would insult the participants (is it trained on Reddit??).

The danger would be if GPT-3 misinterprets something and this then gets into the formal decision process of a company. However I haven't seen it yet after 1 month of live production and a little more than a hundred of internal calls tried out on.

Check it out it's free to try out:
https://cutt.ly/welcome_to_spoke
:)
Hacktivists Ghost Shell dump 1.6m log-in details on web
http://pastebin.com/agUFkEEa
Hacktivists Ghost Shell dump 1.6m log-in details on web
How do you collect customer feedback for a software product?
Looking for best practices and ways to collect customer feedback for a consumer-esque B2B software product. The channels are:
1. in-app feedback
2. social media feedback like tweets
3. sales calls
4. customer support calls/messages/emails
5. internal team feedback

As a PM, I need to figure out our product roadmap and right now I'm using a spreadsheet where I pull feedback from all these disparate channels. Was wondering if anyone had success with tools out there?
Ask HN: does HN openid_merge work for you?
I have been intermittently trying to associate my account with my gmail login, but when I allow access to my contacts, then login to HN, all I get is a http://news.ycombinator.com/openid_merge page that says "unknown"

Is this just me?
Show HN: HertzBeat – An open-source, real-time monitoring system
https://github.com/dromara/hertzbeat
Hi everyone!

Very happy to be able to recommend an open source project here.

Hertzbeat is an open-source, real-time monitoring system with custom-monitor and agentless. Support web service, database, os, middleware and more.

Here’s a video of show: https://youtu.be/eb_Nosl9fZY. Very open to feedback.

github: https://github.com/dromara/hertzbeat

home: https://hertzbeat.com/en/

Very welcome to use and give us a star! Thanks!!!!
Ask HN: How to choose a UPS / calculate power for a home office? 
I have this little cheap UPS that doesn't seem to work, probably too much of a load on it.

I need to be able to survive surges, lightning strikes, all that stuff that a surge protect doesn't protect against and able to power my devices for up to 15 minutes. I have a big problem at home, when somebody plugs in a vacuum cleaner or something on the same circuit it shuts off... Always while I'm in the middle of working too.

Equipment:
Dell Optiplex GX 620 with HD video card
Macbook White
USB hub w/ Extrenal hard drive
2 Acer 22" LCD's
10 watt LED Lamp
Small 5port network hub

Please help! I'm not sure how to select the correct UPS for my needs.
Austrian vendor leaks Radeon HD 5970
http://icrontic.com/news/german-vendor-leaks-radeon-hd-5970
Austrian hardware vendor geizhals.at has confirmed the existence of the Sapphire Radeon HD 5970, a dual-slot GPU with two cores sourced from the Radeon HD 5870.
The Use of Knowledge in Society: F. A. Hayek / Library of Economics and Liberty
http://www.econlib.org/Library/Essays/hykKnw1.html
"Any approach which in effect starts from the assumption that people's knowledge corresponds with the objective facts of the situation, systematically leaves out what is our main task to explain."
jQuery Masonry: A Pinterest-Style Dynamic Grid Layout
http://masonry.desandro.com/
See also http://www.queness.com/post/11133/the-famous-pinterest-dynamic-grid-layout-and-design-inspirations .
Steve Blank Talks Customer Development at the November LSC Meetup
http://groups.google.com/group/lean-startup-circle/browse_thread/thread/e2776d67daa00c0f?hl=en
Learn Customer Development straight from the source. Steve Blank,
creator of the Customer Development process, author of The Four Steps
to the Epiphany and mentor to Lean Startup guru Eric Ries, will be
speaking at the November Lean Startup Circle meetup.<p>RSVP now so you don't miss your chance to hear Steve speak!<p>http://www.meetup.com/Lean-Startup-Circle/calendar/11393583/
Ask HN: Books or resources on writing good unit tests
I am looking for books and resources on how to write tests for software. What to think about while designing tests and what all to test.
Ask HN: What is the number of JavaScript programmers in the world?
In considering any type of for profit tool/tutorial/ebook that is targeting specifically JavaScript programmers it would be useful to know the potential size of the market.

So, I would love to figure out the estimate for the number of active JavaScript programmers. By 'active' I mean people that write JavaScript code (full-time, part-time or as part of their academic work) vs. HTML/Web integrators who occasionally tweak/copy/paste JS snippets.
Show HN: Auto-generate YouTube chapters and captions
https://scriptum.vercel.app/login
I've been spending the summer building an app to convert horizontal videos (Youtube style) to vertical ones (Tiktok style) and in the process of reaching out to potential customers, found another problem to solve:

An app to generate youtube chapters and captions automatically.

It's basically a UI on top of AssemblyAI, hope it makes someone's live easier :)
Porsche 918 Spyder - Meet the Prototype
http://vidinterest.com/video/4870/two-porsche-918-spyder-prototypes-have-recently-travelled-th
Two Porsche 918 Spyder prototypes have recently travelled through the Middle East. After visiting 6 countries in 52 days, the fascination of this sports car of the future is still hard to describe in words.
Police attack anti-acta protestors in Poland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HR7lhlk4qk
The biggest protest in 20 years. Silence in media.
What loading a home page should not look like
http://www.enchantedage.com/how-not-to-run-a-pay-for-site
I don't want to be a complainypants, but the funimation.com web site is SOO BAD that it serves as an example for what not to do with your pay-for entertainment site. In all possible respects.

Either their developer and design and operations and coffee making person isn't given enough resoures to actually care about the site, or they just don't know how to do it, and probably don't know that they don't know.
Critique our new website: Gatherama.com
http://www.gatherama.com/commenting.php?id=_news/20071117/US/Crimes-Law/7_Should_cyber-bullying_be
We're planning to launch in December. Looking for some feedback before launching.
Help Stop 1-800-CONTACTS from Abusing Patents to Squelch Competition
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/1-800-contacts-buys-patent-squelch-competition
Large company is abusing patents to destroy the competition and innovation of small silicon valley startup
Skinny framework - Scala on Rails
http://notes.implicit.ly/post/63740605934/skinny-framework-scala-on-rails
Skinny framework is a full-stack web app framework, which is built on Scalatra and additional components are integrated.

To put it simply, Skinny framework’s concept is Scala on Rails. Skinny is highly inspired by Ruby on Rails and it is optimized for sustainable productivity for ordinary Servlet-based app development.

[Notice] Still in alpha stage. Architecture and API compatibility won’t be kept until 1.0 release.

https://github.com/seratch/skinny-framework

Check it out & please give us feedback!
Svpplier.com
http://www.svpplier.com
svpplier.com is a svpply.com start page that helps you browse svpply.com products quicker.
Selficious: Manage your bookmarks and import your delicious ones
http://selficious.appspot.com/
This is _not_ a copy of delicious, but I wrote some hours ago in a hurry:
http://selficious.appspot.com - It imported my bookmarks and I use it to manage
them and my future ones (add, edit, delete). The code is of course
opensource https://github.com/initpy/selficious I just need to clean it a lil' bit :) - Sure, there is so much to improve/rewrite
in it, but I have already have some ideas and yours are more than welcome!

P.S. This if my first post ever on HN so like japanese say: Dôzo Yoroshiku :)
JBoss founder supports SOPA
http://www.thedelphicfuture.org/2012/01/why-i-support-sopa.html
Marc Fleury (founder of JBoss) blogs about his support for SOPA.
Rego went viral in Brazil (or, the difficulty of naming products)
http://www.gizmodo.com.br/o-rego-viralizou-no-brasil/
So our new product Rego, an iPhone app, went viral in Brazil. I found out why through a Gizmodo Brazil blog, responded with a video to my own blog, and here's their response.
How We Created The Perfect Tour For Our Customers
http://blog.freshdesk.com/website-redesign-story-behind-freshdesk-tour-page/
Revamping a website is a lot like giving birth to a baby T-Rex. It’s painful, it takes a lot of effort and more than a dozen weekends. But at the end of the day you have your own baby T-Rex!

But most importantly, it is an experience worth sharing. Here is our behind-the-scenes story of what went into creating our new website – from conception to her first prom date.
Crunch can and should be avoided
http://shotgundentist.com/blog/crunch-can-and-should-be-avoided/
An article about why crunch and unpaid overtime in the games industry isn't acceptable (and definitely not a necessary characteristic of the field).
Show HN: I built a paywall bypassing reverse proxy and DNS server written in go
https://github.com/fipso/freenews
works great on phones
Ask HN: Is Paul Graham's “Hackers and Painters” in Public Domain?
Glose, a recent ebook startup, allows its readers to read for free the entire book.
Since I also build an ebook reading app (Addr, check it on the App Store if you will), I wondered whether or not we could implement a copy of Hackers and Painters as a free sort of 'tutorial' book.
Tell HN: 11:35 am EDT is new T-0 for inaugural Falcon 9 launch.
The feed seems to be down though :(

edit: correction, feed is up at the moment :)

http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php

spotted on twitter:

"Your launch is important to us. Please stay on the pad and an range representative will be with you shortly."
Ask HN: Has YC ever invested in a startup built with PHP 
Simple question.

Havent noticed any of the startups where Ycombinator has invested that is built with PHP language ( Ruby and Python seem to be the favourites ),
)
Ask HN: Are Funny Code Comments Useful?
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/coding-forum/120595-funny-code-comments.html
I am wondering if anyone has worked on an open-source project where people, regularly, included a little humor in their code.

Did this make the project go faster, and development more fun, or was it just distracting?

Funny examples of your own would be appreciated.
Cisco to twitter users: ve ah listening
http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/how-to-tweet-your-way-out-of-a-job/
an applicant unexcited about an offer from cisco is confronted on twitter.
The Lost Decade: Why Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/220145/output/print
Last month Microsoft rolled out Windows 7 and opened the first of a chain of new retail stores. As usual with such announcements, there's been loads of hoopla and ginned-up excitement. But mostly people are just relieved. Windows 7 replaces Vista, one of the most disastrous tech products ever. It also caps the end of a decade in which Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, stepped aside, and the company lost its edge.
UnoSlider jQuery and WordPress plugin
http://unoslider.com
Hey, I just found (and bought) this awesome slider plugin. I really like it so I want to share it with you. It is standalone jQuery and WordPress plugin.
Hope you like it guys.
Handy Service Professional Terms - 1099
https://www.handy.com/pro_terms
Handy.com just updated their terms & conditions for cleaning professionals.
Ask HN: How to mitigate DNS provider issues?
I had several sites become inaccessible yesterday due to the DDOS on Namecheap's DNS servers:
http://status.namecheap.com/?p=3739

Everything appears to be back to normal for us right now, but this has definitely rattled us a bit. We've never had problems with Namecheap before. Admittedly, DNS / Nameserver routing is not something I have a lot of expertise in. Like many developers/ dev ops people, DNS is something I set once and mostly leave alone. I had not considered it a vector for failure.

Several question:

1) What are the best practices in mitigating something un-forseen like a DDOS attack on your DNS / Nameserver provider? It seems like redundancy is the only good option, since any provider we go with could get DDOS-ed. What are good redundancy setups?

2) I've heard people say 'don't do DNS with your registrar'. But I'm not clear on exactly why not. Are registrars just inherently worse at DNS & nameserving?

3) Out of curiosity, does anyone know why Namecheap was DDOS-ed? Was it just for the lolz?
Biggest case of plagiarism in the science literature
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/86/8607sci1.html
Elsevier is crap. I couldn't even get them to retract an article where the guy bluntly quotes over-unity energy devices...
Roll on PLOS and social networking literature!
Ask HN: What is the strangest part of how humans think about risk?
There's more thinkpieces than you can count out there about why humans are incapable of interpreting risk, of the cognitive biases that inform our thinking, of the ways in which we underprepare for everything from asteroid impacts to stock market crashes.

What it comes down to is the fact that humans are emotional, intuitive creatures that like to do the kinds of things that FEEL right, even if they don't bring the best outcome.

This makes sense, except for when you run up against the fact that we, as a society, have to figure things out for the whole as well as for the parts within it.

Does some of our thinking run aground because we can think about ourselves, but have no way of thinking about the whole, or the other way around?

From where I'm sitting, seems like the naive divison of dem/repub is based on how we think about risk and what things we pay attention to losing, but I'm not sure.

All that to say - what is the weirdest thing about risk to you?
Farmer Manages Cows with GPS Device
http://blogs.dovetailsoftware.com/blogs/main/archive/2008/01/08/Digital-World.aspx
Article shows the extent that things are digitized but argues that there is so much more to come.
IJuror for iPad
http://www.front9technologies.com/ijuror.html
I just released a juror selection app for the iPad that has been getting great response from the legal community and I figured I would share it here to get some feedback. If you'd like a free code just let me know.

The link posted above will not take you to iTunes but rather the app's website. If you'd like to see the app in iTunes you can find a link there.

Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!
Show HN: A simple way to feel more balanced and energised while working remotely
https://www.3ssentia.com
We have built a chrome extension using principles from the neuroscience of wellbeing and behaviour change acting as a " digital wellbeing buddy" to help professionals working remotely better manage stress at work, increase their energy levels and live a healthier work-life balance.

The idea is to provide a personalised experience that adapts to your ongoing mood and schedule by suggesting you 2min guided wellbeing hacks designed to help people better get into deep work, recharge after a task or mentally prepare for a meeting.

What's more we have feature called off mode that with a click of a button allows you to move away from your work tabs and enter into a new space where you can unwind with some relaxing tunes, centralise all your favorite apps and websites and make healthier choices online.

Would love to get your feedback.
See where the Internet lives...
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/
Does this mean Google OWNS the internet?
Show HN: An AI image generator for blog posts
https://socialbu.com/tools/generate-blog-image
Hi there,

I see many bloggers use stock images for their blog posts (as featured images or as in-post images). I thought of something and started trying to use AI to replace those images. I built a small tool for this so others can also test it out.

It takes text content (ideally, the blog post intro in case of a featured image or the text content about whatever you want the image about) and gives you an image.

It works for me but I am still testing this. How about you guys?