jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Shyahi - Showcase your developer contributions and social activity.
http://www.shyahi.com/
We started this project as a step towards learning Node.js but ended up building Shyahi.<p>Shyahi is a new way of building profiles for developers and designers. It pulls the latest stats from Github, Stackoverflow, Dribbble and Twitter so that your profile is always up to date. Forget building and constantly updating your resume with what you have been doing. Have your contributions speak for you.<p>Feedback is welcome.
Ask HN: Should I tell my boss Im looking for other work?
There are a couple reasons I'm leaving. I met my girlfriend at the company Im working for (30-40 person startup). Everything is going great with her, but the company is under staggering technical debt. Unfortunately the leadership team comes from a predominantly sales background and don't seem to understand how large a problem technical debt can be.

The problem then comes down to if a few key clients happen to be watching while a major problem happens, there is a likelihood they will leave and some hard business decision will have to be made. This means that there is a very real chance both my girlfriend and I could be out of a job the same day.

I feel it fiscally irresponsible to remain at the company, so I'm actively looking for work elsewhere. But I feel a bit bad that I will surprise everyone with a "btw Im going at the end of the week"- that seems kind of harsh. Then again, it is a business and they will survive without me.

So the question is, should I tell my boss that I'm actively looking? Has anyone done it? Is there some middle ground I might be able to find?
An Independent Journalist solves a 2400-year-old Mystery
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/ifstoneinterview.html
I. F. Stone was an amazing guy.
The greatest technological leap you’d have to explain to someone from the 1950s
http://nonchalantrepreneur.com/post/39896022627/what-would-the-greatest-technological-leap-youd-have
What would the greatest technological leap you’d have to explain to someone who time traveled from the 1950’s?

I possess a device in my pocket that is capable of accessing the entirety of information known to man.
I use it to look at pictures of cats and get in arguments with strangers.

via http://bit.ly/VCSgjM
How RSA works with examples
http://percepi.blogspot.ca/2012/05/how-rsa-works-with-examples.html
An explanation of RSA, very mathematical (no way to get round this) but with lots of examples, so anyone who has basic math knowledge should be able to understand how RSA works after reading this.
Michael C. Feathers: Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2009/08/michael-c-feathers-seven-blind-alleys.html
Short transcript of Michale C. Feathers talk "Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design" at the Norwegian Developer Conference
Ask HN: Rate my webapp, Tweet Link Monster
http://tweetlinkmonster.com
It's not really what I would call a "startup" as I don't really plan to monetize, but I'd still like to see what you guys think and get users.
Plus if you have any ideas of how to monetize well (the only ways I can think of are charging, charging for features, or putting ads in the feed), I'd be happy to hear them.
It's my first webapp and my first post to HN.
And if you'd please, don't turn this into a "never give your twitter password to anyone" "but I love all of these apps" discussion. As soon as twitter implements oauth, I'll use it. Until then, all of the solutions are ugly, and most become scaling issues very quickly. Though I did just come up with one that is only really ugly.
Comments/suggestions/signing up are all greatly appreciated.
Show HN: Stlite sharing – Write and share Streamlit apps online serverlessly
https://edit.share.stlite.net/
Streamlit, a Python web app framework, can run on web browsers with WebAssembly, and you can write and share its apps with this online platform.
Get the Python productivity, online shareability, and data privacy safety in your data apps.
Ubuntu Tips and Tricks
http://techcombo.com/ubuntu-tips-and-tricks
Having already made a review on the newly released Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, I would like to express a number of basic Ubuntu tips, which many of you may have heard of before but for the sake of the Ubuntu beginners, bear with me! These tips and tricks which I am going to explain will work practically on most Ubuntu distro’s, but not on all of them.

Alter the colour of your Ubuntu

In order to change the colour of your Ubuntu, use the following command

sudo apt-get install gnome-color-chooser

In future you can then discover the colours, under System >> Preferences.

How to convert Ext2/Ext3 file system to Ext4 (in 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope)

- Make sure you have Ubuntu 9.04 installed so that you have an Ext3 file-system.

- Back-up all of your valued data.

- To convert the partition, reboot from the real CD, and run this code,

sudo bash

tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/sda1

e2fsck -pf /dev/sda1

In this case, the partiton you need to convert is /dev/sda1....
NanoDoc
http://nanodoc.org/
A couple of guys out of the Bhatia Lab at MIT have made a game out of design and optimization of cancer nanotherapeutics. Nanodoc (http://nanodoc.org/) is on online game that allows bioengineers and the general public to design new nanoparticle strategies towards the treatment of cancer.
Jason Calacanis on how to resign.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/27/jason-calacanis-six-handy-tips-on-how-to-resign/
Step number 6 is the most important. Don't plaster your email correspondence all over the web, even if your boss is a bit of a mini celebrity.
Ask HN: Technical, Business, or Designer
Hey HN,

So I was thinking today, why does it seem that the equation is always technical > business/marketing. Why is designer never a part of this equation for a startup founding team.

Especially looking at Apple, designers are the core of their business.

Interested in the discussion...

EDIT: To clarify, design means product and user interface design.
Microsoft Attack CPAN Testers (Again)
http://blog.cpantesters.org/diary/76
A follow-up to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1056158
HN User's company, AppMakr.com, profiled in two WSJ articles
http://go.appmakr.com/wsj
Our company, PointAbout, had its www.AppMakr.com app making service profiled in two WSJ articles today.
Google Launches Presentation with help from Zenter & Tonic
http://docs.google.com
Google launched the newest addition to the office family tonight with Google Presentations.
Announcing Our First Investment, $20,000 in Balbus
http://blog.roughdraft.vc/post/44617668100/announcing-our-first-investment-20-000-in-balbus
Rough Draft Ventures, a student-run venture capital firm powered by General Catalyst, has made their first investment in Jack McDermott's Balbus, Inc. Jack is a junior at Tufts University
Ask HN: How do you organize document digests / personal knowledge?
There have been a lot of threads regarding personal knowledge repositories[1][2][3] but they ask for something slightly different than what I'm looking for.

==> Do you know a good tool that would support my workflow?

──────────────────────────────────────────

Specifically, here is the main workflow that I'm trying to support:

– Import documents easily (PDF, web pages), bonus point if I can easily reference the source URL.

– Annotate those documents (annotations of highlights like Polar). Write a quick 1-2 line summary about what it deals with (+keywords?).

– Write a digest of the document (several paragraphs). I want to be able to read a document, summarize the most interesting parts and reference the document. Important: inline images in the digest because documents can contain useful illustrations.

– Write a summary about a subject, referencing multiple digests/documents.

– Full search over all my notes/stored documents. Give priority to my notes. (word2vec-style embedding for keywords search would be an amazing addition but I don't count on it).

──────────────────────────────────────────

Tools that I've considered:

– GitHub Gist/Git with markdown files: I use this currently (one Gist for each subject I care about). GitHub search is lackluster, imprecise doc cross-ref.

– Polar: I use this to annotate documents. Doesn't allow me to write digests about the documents I read.

– Zotero: Doesn't support annotations anymore[4].

– Mendeley: Proprietary and encrypted database[5]. I want my knowledge repo to be accessible in 10 years.

– Bookstack: Does it support cross-referencing to documents?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17892731

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21332957

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20007108

[4] https://www.zotero.org/support/screencast_tutorials/annotation

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18977461
20 Places to Find Your Next Web Development Job
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/10/20-places-to-find-your-next-job/
As the world economy continues to look shakier by the day, and major corporations have begun to trim work forces, it might not be such a bad idea to start looking for a new job. Sites like Craigslist, Monster, and HotJobs have a lot of listings, but they’re not well filtered. Searching for jobs on those sites can be a crap shoot, and many of the best job offers aren’t posted on those mega sites.
Facebook Game Idea Generator
http://whisperstorm.com/apps/fbgameideas/
Get inspiration for your next Facebook Game! All content is distilled from existing Facebook Games. Web app satire :)
Ask HN: Which everyday skill is important to master as a software developer?
I'm a software developer who recently started to work 4 days a week and consequentially I have some free time I want to dedicate to self improvement. I'm not looking to learn new programming languages or framework, but I just want to learn or improve code agnostic skills to do my work more efficiently.

My first idea is to improve the way and how much I use the keyboard with the final goal of typing faster and use the mouse less (my wrist will be happy about that).

Is there any other everyday skill you think is important to master? Any advice on how to improve it?
Your Commute is Killing You? Move to New York
http://www.dblock.org/ShowPost.aspx?id=1588
This is a special message to fellow California or Pacific Northwest engineers following a Slate article entitled “Your Commute is Killing You”, which compared my commute with assembling IKEA furniture and called it a “migraine-inducing life-suck”. I commute 45 minutes, each direction, every day. Unlike most people described in this article I have taken complete control of this issue and have made my commute productive, enjoyable and one of those things to look forward to, both directions.

Keep Reading, then drop me a note at dblock[at]dblock[dot]org with a link to your Github account and I’ll help you get a job at a NY start-up.
Show HN: download all your [Liked] videos from TikTok for safekeeping
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/myfavett-download-all-you/gmajiifkcmjkehmngbopoobeplhoegad
This is a chrome extension I made. You visit tiktok.com and sign in, the extension retrieves MP4s and puts them in a folder.

My goal: the TikTok algorithm has helped me find wonderful things. I consider the list of my [Likes] to be a treasure collection, and want to make sure I don't lose them.

If you don't have time to try, here's a video walking through all the features: https://youtu.be/BoHOdRxHgP0

Is it free: Yes. (I did test a payment modal once, but users gave me 1-star ratings for it, so I removed it)
Ask HN: Tell me about your hacker space. (I'm building one in Beijing.)
Howdy Hackers,

I'm a co-founder at a high-tech incubator out of Beijing. I've been given the opportunity to put together a weekend hacker space in the 798 Art district.

The goal is to host a Hacker Lab on the weekends to BUILD STUFF, hack software + hardware, and just plain have fun exploring the boundaries of tech.

I know most of us have had great experiences with different hacker spaces, I have one at university that I often pull all-nighters in. What are some things that you love about your hacker space? What are some things that you wish were better about it?
The wrong way to "personalize" your startup's welcome e-mail
http://blaketech.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/the-wrong-way-to-personalize-welcome-e-mail/
A perfect example of how not to "personalize" your startup's welcome e-mail.
Treat strangers to coffee
https://treatings.co
My best friend and I disliked our jobs and wanted a non-awkward way to reach out to people whose work interested us.

We finally quit our jobs, moved into bunkbeds (http://instagram.com/p/WOPgf-rcFB/), and learned to code in order to build a community of people open to meeting strangers whose work interests them, over coffee.

We're now talking to companies who will be featuring their employees as "ambassadors" offering coffee meetings ("treatings") to individuals interested in working at their company. We think job sites suck and that networking/job seeking should work like online dating. Would love peoples' feedback, and an upvote!
I have no idea what to do with my life
Some background: I'm 25, finished my undergrad 2 years ago. I went to work for a FANG straight out of college, and also was working on some social networking apps on the side that I started in college.

At some point my apps covered my living expenses and I decided to quit my job because I felt like it was sucking away my youth.

I make enough money every month to pay my bills, and I have a decent amount of savings.

I wake up everyday and want to work on something fulfilling, but don't know where to start. I feel like I have no more purpose in life and am not sure how to spend my time.

I know this is a ridiculous first world problem, but it bothers me a lot. I tried studying math, buying drones, microscopes, and lots of other side hobbies but I need something to wake up to in the morning that keeps me hungry.

I feel like I'm dying slowly and am not sure what to do.
Apple pulls an Adobe, requires Apple Quicktime player but won't support it
http://rjsteinert.com/node/45
Today in my RSS reader I saw a link to the iPhone 4.0 official video and I thought, "Oh boy eye candy!" What I got was a big fat "Download Quicktime to view this video" message. My heart sank. Not because I wasn't going to be able to watch the video on my unsupported Linux platform, but because it was suddenly clear that Steve Job's rejection of proprietary video standards (Flash) was a total load of shit! Who is he to criticize Adobe for promoting a proprietary web video standard and then shove his own proprietary video standard down consumers' throats?
TruSert: Trusted skill certification
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11464383
11464383
Time Machine for OSX Lion 10.7 using Debian 6.0 Squeeze
http://www.mikepalmer.net/build-a-netatalk-time-machine-for-osx-lion-using-debian-6-0-squeeze/
Build your own time machine using open-source software.
More Stanford Online Classes by January
http://www.nlp-class.org/
(see the other ones in the footer)
End Of The Line for AMD FX CPUs
http://www.techpowerup.com/mobile/195355/vishera-end-of-the-line-for-amd-fx-cpus-roadmap.html
Now Intel has no competition for high end CPUs, which means price increases for us.
WhiteyBoard: An Instant Whiteboard For your Instant Office
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/25/whiteyboard-an-instant-whiteboard-for-your-instant-office/
Created by YC 2010 Alumni as a side project.
Pikii: Anonymous social network
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441507
11441507
Jury Board: Helping attorneys win cases through jury selection
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11451419
11451419
Motorola XOOM priced at $800
http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/06/best-buy-ad-prices-motorola-xoom-at-800-affirms-february-24th/
It is surprising that motorola priced xoom at $800 when iPads are starting at $499. 3G iPad version starts at $630. What do you think?
Show HN: iPad RSS Reader App I spent 7 months on
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/read/id448477454?ls=1&mt=8
This was my first attempt of making something truly appealing and useful. I've learned a lot and I'm pretty happy with the result. What do you think?
Planetary Resources shows off Arkyd-100 
http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/21/planetary-resources/
including their class 10K clean room.
Show HN: Kreya, a Postman Alternative
https://kreya.app/
Hi HN! For over a year we've been working on Kreya. At first, it only supported gRPC, because the alternative tools (eg. BloomRPC) were very limited in their functionality. Since then, we have added many features, trying hard to keep the UI clean while still supporting advanced use cases.

Yesterday, we released Kreya v1.8, which added support for REST!

In our opinion, Kreya is a good alternative to the existing tools out there. Sure, it may not support all the features that Postman has. But we think that Kreya has some innovative approaches (eg. authentication or API importers) that users may find interesting.
Author Investments: Trade future royalty rights
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11453036
11453036
Tiz.com: Liquor distribution software
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440913
11440913
Brightwork: API development and management software
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11442102
11442102
Ask HN: Has HN been slow/spotty loading for you?
I love HN. I love it that PG built it himself. It's not easy. I applaud him for it. This isn't a complaint but an inquiry.

The last couple days (especially around peak times) HN seems to have slowed dramatically. Pages take multiple seconds (think, 10 to 20) to get served and even the up/down vote images fail to load.

Is it just me?
Ask HN: Where do you find your sense of purpose working in the private sector?
After almost 20 years working in the public sector, I've come to the realization that my passion for public service no longer outweighs my many day-to-day frustrations. A sense of purpose is what kept me in government for so long, but the bureaucracy, the aversion to change, and the outdated technology have made loving my work more and more difficult. I've been contemplating moving into the private sector for a long time now--I'm just worried that I'll end up feeling lost in a world that is driven by profit. I recognize however that my view is that of an outsider. I've never worked in business, and in truth, I don't really know what drives people. I'm hoping the good folks of HN can provide some insight. Where do you find your sense of purpose working in the private sector?
Oracle vs Google: PTO declares 5th Oracle patent invalid
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120223073144912
now only one of the 7 patents brought into the battle by Oracle remains - all others have been declared invalid by the PTO
Ask HN: Fastest route to $2000/mo. cashflow, worry free and conscience clear
In the vein of "You don't need a million dollars..." (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2025122), I'm wondering what the fastest way to get the effective monthly return on investing a million in a safe, worry free, hands-off investment is. I think that roughly translates to a couple thousand dollars a month depending on where you insert inflation. I included "conscience clear" in the description because I personally would want to be entirely above-board (no "spam viagra ads" and the like).

Just to be clear, I'm not in dire straits or in need of a million dollars. I'm just curious.

Additional clarification:
For this purpose I'd like to assume someone doesn't have a million dollars or the prospect of receiving such in a lump sum. How would they go about building up to a cash flow that would be equivalent to having a million dollars in a safe, hands-off investment?

edit: Apparently I don't know the difference between conscious and conscience. Fixed.
Brodlist: A new type of database
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11443276
11443276
Siris Rooms: African Hotel Chain
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11453635
11453635
Utiliz: Online electricity broker
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11481702
11481702
Windows Phone Is Failing Because It’s Great
http://www.torontostandard.com/business/navneet-alang-windows-phone-is-failing-because-its-great/
Windows Phone Is Failing Because It’s Great
Of all the ways you might have imagined Microsoft screwing up, “making something fantastic” is probably last on the list.
Show HN: Grapic – Real whiteboards online using AR
https://www.grapic.co/
Hi HN,

During the pandemic, two friends and I built Grapic [1], an AR app to let us use real paper and whiteboards to brainstorm when working remote. We're all visual thinkers and found the drawing part really lacking in tools like Miro.

The aim is to make it possible to screen share any real surface. We use AR and some computer vision to let you mark a rectangle on a flat surface (like a whiteboard or paper notebook), and then stream a stabilized and "flattened" version of that surface as video. The video can either be shared as to a webRTC room that you can access with a link or directly into a zoom meeting over Airplay [2].

The app is currently iOS only and we're holding off an Android version until we know there is sufficient demand.

We would be super thankful for any feedback or advice!

Best

Niko

[1] Grapic website: https://www.grapic.co/

[2] Note: There is unfortunately a bug in Zoom on macOS Monterey where Airplay to Mac interferes with Zooms Airplay screen sharing. Zoom is working on a fix but in the meantime there is a workaround: https://www.grapic.co/zoom-troubleshooting
Hacker News clone for Python
http://www.pythonmeme.com/
Another weekend project, only focus on python news, still not support comments.
Show HN: Baseten – Build ML-powered applications
https://www.baseten.co/
Hi HN,

Three months ago, I took a job at Baseten to help craft and document an application builder that lets data scientists build full-stack, production-ready applications around their ML models without worrying about containers, Flask, or React. From my first day, everyone was focused on what would happen today: opening up our public beta. I’m super excited to see what you build with Baseten.

If you want to take Baseten for a full-speed test drive, follow along with this tutorial, where you can build and deploy an application in 20 minutes: https://docs.baseten.co/getting-started

While Baseten is built for data scientists and machine learning engineers, something I’m particularly excited about that doesn’t come up often when we talk about Baseten is how it also makes building with ML available to people like me with a general software engineering background but no real experience with ML. With our library of pre-trained models, you can build and deploy an application around models for tasks like sentiment analysis, image classification, and speech transcription. By building applications around pre-trained models, I’ve gained a deeper understanding of the use cases, capabilities, and limitations of machine learning.

If you want to play around with some models and applications without signing up for an account yet, check out our gallery (https://baseten.co/gallery) and try the demo apps.

P.S. We are also hiring; I found Baseten from HN.
Chicken Scheme internals: the garbage collector
http://www.more-magic.net/posts/internals-gc.html
An overview of how the Garbage Collector in Chicken Scheme works. Contains some good diagrams and code sample to help understand the topic and also a set of links to read more about the subject.