jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Can you tell someone what you did today?
In The Gutenberg Galaxy, the story goes of how, "Tzu-Gung was traveling through the regions...he saw an old man working in his vegetable garden. He had dug an irrigation ditch. The man would descend into the well, fetch up a vessel of water and pour it out into the ditch...the results appeared to be very meagre. Tzu-Gung said...Take a wooden lever, weighted at the back and light at the front. In this way you can bring up water so quickly that it just gushes out. This is called a draw-well. Then anger rose up in the old man's face and he said, 'I have heard my teacher say that whoever uses machines grows a heart like a machine, and he who carries the heart of a machine...becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul...It is not that I do not know of such things; I am ashamed to use them'".

I don't think we have to take such an extreme position as this old man, but there is truth in saying that we have become increasingly abstracted, disembodied from our work through our interactions with machines. By abstracting ourselves this way, we become servants of the machines we use, rather than masters of them. There's nothing wrong in using computers and technology to do our work but, at the end of the work day, can we plainly tell someone else what we did that day? A carpenter can produce a chair, an accountant can produce a tax report, what about you? Were you able to use the machine to produce something tangible, or did the machine use you throughout the day?

Note: I recognize that there are some disciplines that are and will remain purely abstract -such as a physics researcher. But this is the exception, not the norm.
Show HN: Browser Extension for Finance on Twitter
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/likefolio-stock-in-sites/dofbkdnbdibaadbkmoigipaapbgfoalk
Would like your feedback, etc. This is our first browser extension... we built it because as investors/traders and twitterers we wanted it to exist.

Does 4 things on twitter.com

1. Automatically inserts real-time, streaming quotes after cashtags (ticker symbols) on Twitter.com

2. Highlights tweets with cashtags for easy scanning

3. "Cashtags ONLY" button filters out all tweets that don't contain cashtags! Find the financial signal among social media noise.

4. Stock Info Dock is there to give you more info about the cashtag you click on. Expand to see real-time quotes, charts and company info. Why leave the page you're on for basic info?
SpaceX Dragon CRS-3 Grappled by Robotic Arm on ISS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fDzvdEfSgc
Footage of ISS' robotic arm grappling Dragon CRS-3.
Schools Out. Learn it yourself
http://4ormat.com/ecr/schools-out
You're never done learning. It may sound like a disheartening fact, but it can be a powerful mantra. Here are a few simple ways to integrate lifelong learning into your routine. With these habits in place, you really can learn something new every day!
Google gifting Droids to GoogleIO 2010 attendees before conference
http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/gift-faq.html
I was hoping for something like this and man... I am quite chuffed as one of my Brit friends would say.
Show HN: Pandera – An open source data testing framework for data science and ML
https://pandera.readthedocs.io/en/stable/try_pandera.html
Hi HN,

I'm excited to share Pandera, an open source framework for data testing, built for data scientists and ML engineers:
https://www.union.ai/pandera

I’ve been working with data and building models for a decade, and one of the biggest pain points for me is working with low-quality data. I got burned by incorrect data types and unexpected values so many times that I built a Pandera to help you safeguard your pipelines from silent data bugs.

You can create schemas for your dataframe-like objects, which can be validated at run-time, in your unit tests via property-based testing, or in your type-linting hooks via mypy.

Give it a try here: https://pandera.readthedocs.io/en/stable/try_pandera.html
Ask HN: Review my startup, boutiqueforge.com
We think we can make coding websites that sell stuff online a better experience for developers, so we created boutiqueforge.com. BoutiqueForge is an ecommerce platform built around Git and Jinja2.

We host git repositories for all projects, deploy happens on every push, you code your website using Jinja2 templates and payment is done based on the resources you consume - network, storage, products, orders.

We also created a command line tool in python that you can use to run the website on your local computer while you are developing. It knows how to sync all the data of your project so you can actually see the website locally as it will look like once deployed. ( pip install boutique )

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the project :) Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

https://boutiqueforge.com
Is it Rails?
http://IsItRails.com
remote fingerprinting service for potential rails applications. enter url + check.
Ask HN: Founders – is anything holding you back from going fully remote?
I'm curious to know why Google decided to not allow its team to work from anywhere.

Just wanted to know if any founders are out there who would like to go 100% remote, but are hesitating.

What might be holding you back?
Quora app gets presidential push
http://www.techcomunication.com/quora-app-gets-presidential-push/
Obama becomes Quora’s first verified user to answer your Healthcare questions.
Ask HN: Why do companies buy startups?
There is always a lot of talk on HN about how and why to get bought. I am also interested in the other side of the equation, why do big companies go around buying startups so often?

Is this how they handle innovation once all the baggage of being a big company gets in the way?
Show HN: Inbox Pirates, a way to preview, test and analyze your emails
https://inboxpirates.com/email-testing/preview-email-in-list-large-screen?preview_id=6294a5139ec652d0ca5b18bd&showTour=true
Hi HN, My name is Bharadwaj Giridhar. I'm the founder of inboxpirates.com . Inbox Pirates is an email preview tool for sales & marketing teams. It helps you preview how your email actually looks in your receiver's inbox.

When I was building Crewcharge, an email marketing tool - I needed to build a feature to show a preview of how the email looks. I was searching for inspiration and realised most email preview tools only showed you the email in full screen when it's opened as if all emails get opened.

While this happened, my friend who is a digital marketer sent an email to himself and grabbed 3 phones around the house. When I asked why, he replied that most people don't even open the emails and read it from the notification bars.

Another friend missed a job interview because he swiped on the notification thinking it was a promotion.

After a survey it was clear than more 75% of the people do the same and that most email marketing or email outreach tools are optimizing for wrong placements.

I built this as a chrome extension so it would be open to existing email marketing and email outreach tools in the market. It currently integrates with Google Workspace, Hubspot, Apollo io, Snov io, Mailchimp, Sendinblue, Google Sheets / Notion / Airtable.

The way it works is it parses the dom for the email text (or HTML), subject line, Sender name and creates the previews in a new tab where you can explore how the email looks on Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Androids, iPhones.

Future integrations in pipeline include Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Instantly, Lemlist, Outreach io.

Launched on Producthunt reaching #1 product of the day and reached around 450 users, a lot of us discover us on Google when they search for email preview or email testing tools.

The vision of inboxpirates is to also give you a good email score to get higher response and open rates, using NLP and the core version is very basic with some bugs.

Bootstrapped solo-founder here with a production version, sorry in advance for some of the bugs against specific email clients!

I've spent around 5 months building and marketing this tool alone, but I wanted to really see if people cared enough about this problem.

Appreciate all thoughts and feedback. For anything else, mail me at inboxpirates[at]gmail.com
Ask HN: Good literature for a technical guy
during the last year i've been reading complex and highly technical books, from programing to linear algebra and computational biology, i'm starting to miss some good literature, some recommendations?
Taskk meet Github. Github meet Taskk. 
http://gadoci.me/2013/01/taskk-loves-github/
On the same day that Github launched their markdown tasks, we integrated Taskk.it with Github issues. Check out how and why here.
The best method for developing software: whatever works for you.
http://blog.flowmingle.com/2009/02/09/the-best-method-for-developing-software-is-whatever-works-for-you
b.vandgrift says do your own thing. since you're going to do it anyway.
Ask YC: Tell us how to improve VentureBeat!
http://venturebeat.com/2007/10/22/take-venturebeat-survey-win-an-iphone/
Hi, Eric Eldon here with VentureBeat. I'd like to get feedback from everyone on what we could do better. And, of course, what we're doing well. Please leave comments here (and take the survey on the site, linked, if you consider yourself a regular reader).
Hiring a Porn Star Devloper
http://www.pophire.com/jobs/view/2qi/5k
This is interesting both for the job listing and for the site PopHire - which appears to be running some sort of crowd sourced / social recruitment model.
Hacker News 20/50/100 RSS feeds are down – Who manages them?
"Hacker News 10/20/50/100" feeds really helped in avoiding the overload.

While their twitter bots (@newsyc20/@newsyc50/etc) are still active the feedburner feeds are down since 13 March!
(http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc20)

Is the author (Jeff Miller according to [1]) still active on HN ?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2057036
The Highest-Calorie Menu Item at McDonald's is Not a Burger
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443884104577647400959492314.html?mod=e2tw
...at least it wasn't a salad
Changelog 0.2.0 - node.js w/Felix Geisendorfer
http://thechangelog.com/post/501053444/episode-0-2-0-node-js-with-felix-geisendorfer
A good interview covering all the hype around node.js and what it is all about
Tinkerbin
http://tinkerbin.com/
Html, Css, and Javascript
Support Coffescript, Sass, Less, HAML.

Good tool for testing your code online with the convenience of all those amazing tools.
Show HN: A Safari web extension to access alternate news
https://stayobjective.com/
As news sources get more polarized to encourage their bases, it gets difficult to separate fact from fiction.

Objective news extension makes it easy to access political leaning of over 400 news sources, unbiased news, and coverage from other side of the aisle.

All news gathering happens on-device.
Ask HN: Where did you find problems to solve?
I usually write stuff down and see what is the most pressing and frequent for a certain period of time once and a while
How the domain name industry works - part1
http://iwi.gandibar.net/post/2009/04/24/How-the-domain-name-industry-works-part-1
A fun(!?!) and informative explanation of how the domain name industry works.
Dysfunctional Nerds OutShine High School Football Captains in Life
http://dealflow.typepad.com/my_weblog/how_to_be_a_billionaire/
This is excellent news for us all.
Being "smart" is hard work
http://extantproject.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/being-smart-is-hard-work/
Is being a founder similar?
Translate Git
http://99translations.com/public_projects/show/258
Git will support i18n in version 1.7.9. Help to translate Git
Unprecedented video look at Google's Search Quality Review Meeting.
http://searchengineland.com/an-unprecedented-video-glimpse-into-how-google-crafts-its-search-results-114682
Danny Sullivan's commentary on the meeting is pretty interesting as well as the video itself.
Did a basic email take down US defence contractor RSA?
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/3299500/did-this-e-mail-take-down-rsa/
Researchers believe a simple email may have unlocked one of the most respected computers on the planet that threatened US security - was as simple as: "I forward you this file for your review. Please open it and view it." EMC recruiter opened up booby-trapped Excel spreadsheet, whoops.

By the way, your shoelaces are tied together.
Windows 8 Madness
http://point7.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/windows-8-madness/
Love every idea for 15 minutes.
Ok, We’ve finally lost it.
Our YC Interview Demo - we just launched it
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=ac434b27ff9de7e3ae41944571c91e34
So our team wanted to start on a new app after we got the interview notice, and we decided to launch it today. We'd love to get your feedback on it before PG grills us.
Rich vs. King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma (2006) [pdf]
http://www.people.hbs.edu/nwasserman/rich_vs_king-proceedings_with_abstract.pdf
https://hbr.org/2008/02/the-founders-dilemma
Show HN: TypeScript Editor that generates structured forms from TypeScript types
https://tseditor.fwouts.com
Hey HN!

I've been doing a lot of work with the TypeScript Compiler API[1] recently as part of my work on Preview.js[2], an IDE extension that lets you preview React/Solid/Vue components.

One thing I noticed is that even with great autocomplete and type validation, creating/editing JS values that match a given TypeScript type can require a lot of typing. This is especially the case in Preview.js, where you can edit the props you pass to the component you're previewing in the bottom right panel. For example, quickly switching between different variants of a union type can be a hassle.

To solve this, I decided to try creating a tool that generates a structured from for a given TypeScript type. For example if you pass it `type Foo = { bar: string, baz: number }`, it will show you a form with two inputs `bar` and `baz` with the appropriate types, and it will output the equivalent JS code (or JSON) as you type.

You can try it at https://tseditor.fwouts.com

I built this as a standalone tool so that I could debug it easily (and indeed, I found a ton of great bugs!). As it took shape, I realised there might be other use cases for it than Preview.js. Imagine for example using this in Postman (or whichever tool is better than Postman these days!) instead of inputting JSON values for your request payloads. Or perhaps using this for ad-hoc forms (the form is effectively encoded in the URL).

I'm curious what you'd see yourself using this editor for? Any feedback welcome of course!

Thanks

François (@fwouts on Twitter)

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Using-the-Compi...
[2] https://previewjs.com
Show HN: Quick joke project
http://isitasnack.com
Is it a snack?

For some reason I'm cracking up over this. (:
Font in your face
http://nimbupani.com/blog/font-in-your-face.html
good overview/background around the @font-face debates
Show HN: I made Daspoll – Survey and Form Builder
https://daspoll.com
Hi HN, I started building this around 6 months back. Having a full-time job makes it difficult to work on a side project. People say the hardest part is marketing but repetitive development is very boring. I will definitely choose a fun-ner side project than this if this fails. It's such a tiring journey as a solo developer/founder/marketer.

The tech stack is Node.js and Angular.

Daspoll is a survey builder for everyone.
ScrumPad Offers Free Subscription for Bootstrapped Startups
http://www.scrumpad.com
ScrumPad, a popular and intuitive Web-based Agile project management tool, has recently made its service available to bootstrapped startups. According to the company Website, any startup with only founders on the team and without any external funding is eligible for the free service. If you are a bootstrapped startup and would like to track & manage your product development activities, you should check it out.
Disruptions: It is rude to send a "Thank You" e-mail.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/etiquette-redefined-in-the-digital-age/
Some people are so rude. Really, who sends an e-mail or text message that just says “Thank you”?
Starting a company? Your value could be pretty high...
http://venturebeat.com/2007/09/28/starting-a-company-your-value-could-be-pretty-high/
Valuations for company's raising their first round are at an all-time high since the peak of 2001.
Getting started with UX design
http://rupachaturvedi.com/2012/02/05/getting-started-with-user-experience-design/
A simple "how-to" post to help start-ups get going with UX design.
Show HN: Hacolyte – a Hacker News reader built with NextJS
https://www.hacolyte.com/
Long time Hacker News lurker, first time Hacker News poster : )

I built a Hacker News reader app with NextJS and TailwindCSS that pulls item and user data from the hacker news api (https://github.com/HackerNews/API).

This is my first time really building and launching something for users so I'd love any and all feedback. The roughest spots at the moment are the threading of comments and the fetching of posts on a user's page (lots of individual calls (async) for individual items rather than getting them in bulk from an endpoint like /v0/beststories).

Let me know what parts of it are Not Good and where I can improve things!
Show HN: Google Chrome App Builder
http://chromepowered.com/
A friend of mine hacked this together, it's a simple form to generate "manifest.json" files to build Chrome apps. - Currently supports Hosted chrome apps Packaged/Extension Chrome apps soon.
The 48 Laws of Power
http://www2.tech.purdue.edu/cgt/courses/cgt411/covey/48_laws_of_power.htm
Do you agree?!
Ask HN: Web programming... Where to start?
Let me begin begin by introducing myself I'm 17 and I love thinking about startups and the web (This is my most notable accomplishment in this field: foodo.me). But it's hard to implement projects you come up with if you don't know a little bit of how to code.

So I've decided I need to learn to program for the web. Previously I took Stanford's intro to CS class via their online program (http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=824a47e1-135f-4508-a5aa-866adcae1111) and learned a little bit of Java through that. However, I have had trouble continuing and figuring out where to go next. I've dabbled in Python(using the google course), PHP(briefly), Rails(using Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial) and even tried doing GAE in Java. But I keep failing miserably. I need advice on a way for a total noob to get started with web programming. I know people who can answer questions about most languages so that's not a factor. I just need solid advice and a jumping off point.
10 Year Old Entrepreneur Launches Sushimee at Startup Weekend
http://sushimee.com
How many 10 year olds do you know who would attend a Startup Weekend? We need more kids doing things like this.
About the security content of iOS 7.0.2
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5957
Also reintroduces a greek keyboard option for passcode entry
Please rate my startup: ZigzagCloud - A Mobile File Management System.
http://zigzagcloud.com
I'd like to get some early feedback about my new startup, Zigzag Cloud: A Mobile File Management System for Business.
http://zigzagcloud.com/<p>The goal of Zigzag Cloud is to provide a dead simple, and secure way for managers to get company files out to their employees iOS devices (iPads initially).
These files could be Sales Content, Training Material, Board Papers or anything else you want to view on your iPad or iPhone.<p>Our core features are around security, tagging and permissions.<p>Having large "health clients" as foundation clients, security is really important to us; we have end to end encryption and a users & groups permissions structure that ensures that client's files are safe.<p>The app has been designed so that users can sync files to their device for offline use, but must check in to the server once every 5 days to maintain access to their locally stored files.<p>Today we support all the MS Office Documents, iWork, Text Files, Images, Music, Video and of course PDFs.<p>We also can view HTML docs within the app which has lead to some interesting experimentation around HTML5 based apps within Zigzag Cloud.<p>For the techies:
We're running on Rails 3 with nginx and Postgresql. On the client side we've got a talented iOS team which has written the app from scratch.<p>If you feel like telling us about what your dream Mobile File Management System would be like, let us know too, we really want to hear about what our (future) users want!<p>Thanks in advance! Marcus
Ask HN: High-level math, useful?
I really enjoy solving mathematical puzzles and riddles in general.
But is there any use for higher mathematica if you are going into electrical engineering? Or is the standard classes of linear algebra, one and multidimensional analysis and statistics, discrete math, complex analysis and maybe some optimization course enough?

Things like topology and abstract algebra, does it teach you anything that is actually applicable in electrical engineering?
Does it evolve your abstract thinking skills which could make you a better engineer?
BackTrack Tutorial – How to crack WEP
http://www.luxstock.net/backtrack-tutorial-how-to-crack-wep/
In this Tutorial, I show how to crack a wireless network secured with WEP encryption.This information should only be used for education purposes.
What Is Kickstarter For? Video Games
http://blog.airbriteinc.com/post/66886152025/what-is-kickstarter-for-video-games
Kickstarter is most effective at financing video and tabletop games, which have raised $189 million of the total $861 spent on the platform. More than $2 out of every $10 spent is on interactive entertainment. Backers are people who play.
Devops needs to be a two way street devs and ops
http://mike-woome.tumblr.com/post/1691265243/devops-devops
What strikes me right now, that the devops community, at least the bits I am meeting seems to be full of devs believing their bringing a revolution to the poor unwashed sysadmin masses. Well, you have some nice ideas and I think we can improve the whole community with some of this stuff but seriously drop the attitude because I’m finding it quite condescending and I’m not the only one.
Arrington hates Rails but wants Rails Hackers?
http://snaptalent.com/ads/182/
TC are hiring summer interns via Snaptalent
Show HN: Curenote, a health community for solving health problems
http://curenote.com
I created Curenote, a social way for people to get help with their health problems.

Others who may have experienced the same health problem can offer their knowledge and advice on what they did to cure their ailment or illness.

People can offer their advice and support on topics such as cancer/diabetes, sexual health, drugs & alcohol, violence, diet & fitness and many more.

Please let me know what you think. Your honest feedback is much appreciated. Thanks!
XY Combinator: Y Combinator for Dating
http://www.xycombinator.com
XY Combinator was created to help geek men working at startups get dates.
Hmm, not the error message you want to see.
http://www.amazon.com/
Http/1.1 Service Unavailable
for
http://www.amazon.com/
Ask YC: feedback on my startup
http://changefeed.com
I've often wanted something that'll alert me when URLs change, and show the resulting diff (e.g. changes to the terms of service or privacy policy of the sites I use, or the page for tracking some FedEx parcel I shipped, or areweatwarwithiran.com). ChangeFeed is designed to basically turn any page into a completely impartial RSS feed.
Show HN: Curdling – A faster Python package installer
http://clarete.github.io/curdling
Curdling is a package installer for Python just like pip. However, its concurrent design makes it much much faster than pip.