jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Reader mode extension that shows Hacker News comments inline
https://unclutter.lindylearn.io
Hey! This is a reader mode browser extension I built that hides noisy page elements rather than only extracting and re-rendering their text content. The idea is to not make all articles look the same [0], have them still render graphs, and ideally to work in more cases.

There are a few "tricks": patching the site CSSOM to apply simpler mobile styles even at desktop width, cleaning up parents of DOM text nodes, blocklists for class names that contain words like "sidebar", plus manual CSS patches for popular sites.

I got carried away and also added a dark mode, page outlines, privates notes & inline Hacker News comments.
The last feature works by parsing every top-level HN comment with a quote in it (formatted with > or "") within a few minutes, and anchoring these quotes in the story article HTML. So when you open a link you'll directly see the parts people are talking about here. [1]

The extension code is all on GitHub: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter

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[0] Unclutter vs the Firefox reader mode: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/compa...

[1] It's fun to try this on some of the "HN classics" that got 30+ quote comments over the years. The list at https://hn.lindylearn.io/best shows the number of "annotations" a link has beneath its title.
I'll do your website copy for free
"Most devs have trouble with copywriting. I love copywriting! I'm offering you my copywriting services for free."

Why: Read the second sentence above.

Aim: To respond within 12 hours of reviewing your copy. OR to simply come up with copy for your site within 12 hours.

Criteria: You must be doing something exciting so I also get excited.

email: william@williamchanner.com
Tumblr: 'We're pretty opposed to advertising'
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/04/tumblr-ads.html
The LA Times does a quick take with David Karp.
Ask HN: How/Where to take a month off
For the past year or so, I've been consumed by a project at my current employer. I've got a lot of ideas and side projects, but my job as of late has been so consuming that I've had little energy for them. However, the project has gone well, we're going live soon, and I want to use the break between projects to take a month off.

I've got enough expendable income that travel costs aren't really an issue, though I'm not looking to burn through a ton of cash in the process. I don't have any family/kids to worry about, so it'll be just me traveling.

I'm looking for a nice location (or set of locations) with high speed internet and a relaxing environment to spend a month resting and focusing on my own ideas. I'm not bilingual (though I'd like to be), so if the location is international, I'd need to be able to make my way around without having to learn another language ahead of time.

With that in mind, are there any suggestions? A one-bedroom or studio apartment on AirBNB looks like it might be fun to try out, just not sure where to go.

Thanks in advance!
Node.js All Stars Create “Bite Sized” Consulting Firm
http://servicesangle.com/blog/2012/01/23/node-js-all-stars-create-bite-sized-consulting-firm/
The Node Firm, hopes to help solve that problem by offering “bite sized” consulting to companies in need of Node.js help. Many companies end up building applications in Node.js that end up having to be radically changed a year later due to common mistakes
A map of all Rolling Stones tours done with reveal.js and cartodb.js
http://vizzuality.github.com/rollingstonesmap
Open Source map done with reveal.js and cartodb.js showing all concerts and tours of The Rolling Stones.
Visualize JavaScript Code Flow with TraceGL
http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/04/tracegl
Very impressive stuff!
101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site
http://www.insidecrm.com/features/101-web-site-fixes-031808/
What may have worked a few years ago when could be outdated today, so it's important to constantly improve your Web site. Tackle these quick fixes over time, and you'll be able to improve your Web site with minimal pain.
How to animate the Martha Graham dancing Google logo yourself
http://www.acumenholdings.com/blog/how-to-animate-the-martha-graham-google-logo-for-yourself-tutorial-2/
Someone asked if there was a way of seeing the dancing Google logo animation again. I couldn't resist.
Ask HN: Are you interested in Stoicism?
What do you like the most about Stoicism?

Are you also interested in other school of philosophy? Which ones?(e.g. epicureanism, etc..)
Android's "Extreme Fragmentation," Colorfully Visualized by TweetDeck's Team
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/13/visualized-tweetdeck-beta-usage-chart-beautifully-showcases-and/
Will Windows Phone 7 be anywhere near as hacker friendly? Keep in mind xda-developers originally formed as a Windows Mobile community.
There's less to Facebook and other social networks than meets the eye
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9990635
The fifth paragraph made me think. What if Google, Yahoo or Microsoft started a social network based on the addresses in their webmail apps? It would instantly be bigger than Facebook.
Retrocomputing the New Scientist magazine Enigma puzzle
http://jimpulse.blogspot.com/2012/02/retrocomputing-enigma-45.html
Successfully solving an unclaimed Enigma puzzle 32 years after publication, in BBC BASIC.
Lisp interpreter made with Action Script 3.
http://www.solve-et-coagula.com/As3Lisp.html
The author talks about his work on http://www.solve-et-coagula.com/?p=8.
Beat the IE6 wolf!
http://beatie6.frontcube.com/
An alternative IE6 banner for your site inspired by "ie6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing" (http://statichtml.com/2011/ie6-countdown-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing.html)article.
The Polyglot Programmer
http://www.agilefrog.se/2013/08/11/polyglot-programmer.html
Which languages do you know and why did you learn them?
Show HN: My Newest Design: ZigZagLab
http://zigzaglab.com
I just finished working on my latest work, zigzaglab.com.

It's fluid-responsive and retina-ready. Everything has been achieved using only CSS3 (except for typekit and google map loaders).
Doug Cutting Leaves Yahoo for Cloudera
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2009/08/10/Hadoop-creator-goes-to-Cloudera.aspx
Hadoop creator leaves Yahoo! to join Hadoop startup
Show HN: Second-Chance Pool
https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
HN's second-chance pool is a way to give links a second chance at the front page. Moderators and a small number of reviewers go through old submissions looking for articles that are in the spirit of the site—gratifying intellectual curiosity—and which seem like they might interest the community. These get put into a hopper from which software randomly picks one every so often and lobs it randomly onto the lower part of the front page. If it interests the community, it gets upvoted and discussed; if not, it falls off.

We started doing this in late 2014. There's an explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380, with links back to others. We've talked about it in comments and whatnot (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), and have intended to publish the list, but only did so recently. We're slow.

If you see a submission that didn't get attention and which you think is particularly good for HN, please tell us at hn@ycombinator.com! We love getting those requests and usually add them to the pool. It's fine if it's your own article, but we like it better when it's just something you ran across and recognized as good. That's more the kind of interest that HN is for.

A related list is https://news.ycombinator.com/invited. Those are old submissions that we ran across and thought deserved attention, so we emailed and asked the submitter to repost it. Yesterday's top story was one of these (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26982286). They all go into the second-chance pool, but maybe it's interesting to see them broken out as a subset too. (If you don't have an email address in your profile, please put one in so we can send you repost invites!)

If you read the old explanations I linked to, you'll see that the original plan was to turn this system into software that anyone can participate in, likely as a new way to earn karma: users who discover second-chance links that hit the jackpot (that is, which interest the community) would get karma along with the original submitter. That is still the plan! We're just slow.

I think that's about everything there is to say about the second-chance pool. Questions, feedback, ideas, and views are welcome as ever. And please, everybody keep an eye out for obscure, out-of-the-way stories that got overlooked and let us know when you run across them. It's one of the best things you can do to help make this place more interesting. Best of all are the kind that can't be predicted from any existing sequence: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
About Userlook
http://userlook.com/about/
Move your mouse and don't forget to hover on cheese
How Geico Wastes $90MM a Year on SEM
http://blog.tippingpointlabs.com/2009/04/how-geico-wastes-90mm-a-year-on-search-engine-marketing/
The more and more people I talk to, the more often I find myself taking a militant stance against gigantic search engine marketing (SEM) spending. My position is simple: if you create relevant, frequently generated content that’s high-quality and of a significant volume, you don’t need AdWords. That’s it.
Songkick Aims To Make A Database Of Every Concert Ever
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/08/songkick-aims-to-make-a-database-of-every-concert-ever-%e2%80%94-and-its-well-on-its-way/
Songkick's a 2007 YC Boston graduate. Version 2.0 just came out of beta an hour ago. Come build your gigographies!
Respect C Programmers
http://kontsevoy.blogspot.com/2007/10/respect-c-programmers.html
Recently I just got fed up with unfair criticism of C...
Ask HN: accounting resources for startups?
I launched paid plans for my startup last month and have started making sales. Was wondering if there are any resources for startup accounting? Tools, articles, presentations?

PS: the company is incorporated and based out of India. Even though accounting tools are country specific, I'm looking forward to some best-practices guides and tutorials on how to do accounting myself.
Ask HN: My son wants to make side money programming
My son has had a little programming experience, and I used to (back when Perl was cool), but it's been a while. He's essentially a tabula rasa, but smart and sometimes motivated. He's 15, thus I think the ideal age to start.

What language(s)/platform(s) should he learn, and where should he look for freelance work? Ideally we're thinking of online venues; we're temporarily in Budapest and there are already plenty of hungry, vastly intelligent, obsessively motivated people here, so the local market is probably not ideal, although I'm not discounting it. (There's also the fact that we won't be here forever.)

To his benefit: I can teach him whatever he needs to know. Well, we can co-learn it, but it's still better than hacking in the dark.

What do people here suggest?
Hacking through Airtime to promote your startup 
http://noamschwartz.tumblr.com/post/24558058981/hacking-through-airtime-to-promote-your-startup
It's crazy out here, don't miss it.
The Fay Programming Language: Compile Haskell to JavaScript
http://fay-lang.org/
A proper subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript.
New Yorkers: help me defeat the evil NYC real estate market
http://www.rentenforcer.com
Hi guys

I am an NYC based hacker who has had enough of dealing with the horrible process of finding and getting an apartment. One of the major issues you have is that you can only trust what the broker tells you to be true, ie "trust me, this is a good deal."

I have a solution: collect the rents of people in the city, and get a general idea of how yours compares (or how much you should be paying for a neighborhood if you are planning on moving).

Right now the app is very simple: it's just collecting data. Ultimately I'm not 100% sure how I'd use the data, but it would likely be open/free via an API etc. on top of my product. One vision I have is something like a Yelp.com but for real estate.

I am open to your ideas, and I'd love to get any feedback about the idea you have (I know the site itself isn't much). If you are a New Yorker, I'd really appreciate if you could take 30 seconds and fill out the form.

Thanks!
NYC RentEnforcer
A beginners guide to using Python for performance computing
http://www.scipy.org/PerformancePython
How fast we get with python. By the way i m a perl geek:)
Still using java? Lombok can make you more productive
http://projectlombok.org/index.html
Use annotations to automatically generate code at compile time. This greatly reduces java's verbosity, while maintaining tools like code completion & type safety.
Hitlist, a Smart Flight Finder That Saves You Money by Telling You When To Fly
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/07/hitlist-a-smarter-flight-finder-that-saves-you-money-by-telling-you-when-to-fly-exits-beta/
'Hitlist, meanwhile, hasn’t so much invented the concept rather than re-imagined it for the mobile age, with “lean-back” search in mind.'
After months of work I've launched my startup.  Any critiques?
http://www.dropjobs.com
Elevator Pitch: Hiring is a pain in the ass, juggling resumes and getting feedback from interviews, dealing with PDFs and Word Docs and keeping track of who interviewed for what. Dropjobs streamlines the entire process from posting jobs on your website to reviewing and managing the applicants who apply for your positions.

So, caveats right out of the door. Yes, of course someone "did it before". Applicant tracking systems have been around for quite a long time. However there are a few things that we're differentiating on:

1) Up front, easy, cheap pricing. No sales people. Most heavy ATS systems I looked at require you to call a phone number to find out how much it costs.
2) Simple. Does this one thing and thats it -- so we're targeting the people who don't want a taleo hire-to-fire HR enterprise solution.
3) Has an embedded widget for letting people apply for your jobs straight from your own website.
4) Uses scribd to display people's resumes directly in the Dropjobs website, so you aren't constantly downloading and opening adobe acrobat and crap like that.

I think the market is there. It's good enough that I've launched it as a 1.0, so... any advice on next steps? Should I just drop a few grand on advertising? Unfortunately the world of hiring and HR management isn't all "web2.0" and glitzy, so I feel it will be hard to build any buzz through traditional social media channels.
I’m Paul Graham
http://www.southwaterfront.com/art_and_design/portland-actors-conservatory-i-am-paul-graham/
Wow, see you in Portland Paul...

An invitation from Paul Graham:
I’m Paul Graham. I made it rich several years ago selling a company to Yahoo! I now spend my days thinking about problems, and publishing solutions to those problems. I have been on stage many times but I have never been portrayed by an actor on stage. At first, I had reservations, but I was pleased to find that an attractive, strapping man has been cast for my role. So come on November 11th to hear him, oh..ah me, give a lecture on constructive disagreement requiring the evacuation of the theatre and cake for all.

Stay for the Cake is an all-original work written, directed, designed and performed by The Montgomery Street Players, Portland Actors Conservatory’s new alumni performance group. Each of the three slices skewer the creative process with sardonic hilarity and cake for all! PAC will present one slice of the Cake at South Waterfront: “I Am Paul Graham.” We’ve heard it’s delicious!

Portland Actors Conservatory has been providing quality stage productions to the greater Portland community for 24 years. The Conservatory gives student actors the opportunity to put acting theory into practice in weekly performance labs, public showcases and the Conservatory Season of Plays.

Shows run Friday through Sunday October 30 through November 15
ttf.js - A JavaScript TrueType Font Engine For Modern Browsers And Node.js
https://github.com/ynakajima/ttf.js
via Functionn - Open Source Resources For Web Developers & Designers: http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/12/ttfjs-javascript-truetype-font-engine.html

P.S. Functionn contains a whole lot more of awesome resources like ttf.js. There only a fraction of them I can post here at a time. Take a look if you're interested, and subscribe:

http://functionn.blogspot.com
Ask HN: What SSL Cert Provider Do You Use?
Being that SSL has been getting a fair amount of attention lately do to the Instagram debacle (http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/18/yet-another-hot-startup-leaves-a-gaping-security-hole-in-its-iphone-app/) and Firesheep exploit (http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/24/firesheep-in-wolves-clothing-app-lets-you-hack-into-twitter-facebook-accounts-easily/) I thought it might be interesting to spawn a discussion on SSL providers out there.

I typically use GeoTrust quick SSL for most E-Commerce applications but I was wondering what were some of the pluses and minuses (cost, support, time to deployment, etc) users in the community had experienced.
Detroit Startup List
http://www.growdetroit.com/detroit-startup-list/
Grown in the D is an up-to-date Detroit Startup List, curated by Grow Detroit. We were inspired to create this list after seeing the efforts of NYTM (and their list of New York startups).
Obama makes Bush's record public
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrderPresidentialRecords/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrderPresidentialRecords/
Restaurant Menu Pricing
http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/neuro-menus-and-restaurant-psychology.htm
This may have been posted here before, but I only just noticed it in the annual roundup. I thought a few other people might be interested. I some of these characteristics could be useful on the pricing page of web software.
Minecraft Environmental Lighting Experiment
http://blog.taptonics.com/post/44803397320/minecraft-environmental-lighting-experiment
A demonstration of an iPad app that interfaces with the Phillips Hue LED lightbulbs to provide environmental lighting synced with the Minecraft day/night cycle.
Show HN: The Five Year Itch
http://fiveyearitch.com
Show HN: Experienced software engineers who want to change jobs after a few years need a service targeted at them, that won't make them chase ads nor swamp them with recruiter spam. We built FiveYearItch.com We're wondering: Does this meet a need for the stable, experienced, skilled, but non-rockstar programmers?
Show HN: HN to E-Book – Read HN on your E-Reader
https://github.com/abishekmuthian/hntoebook
I read HN on my kindle as I find it useful for reading under sun(while walking in a controlled environment) and taking notes. I was running hntokindle.com to offer this as a service for others.

But Amazon has recently made sending bulk emails to the Kindle impossible by requiring 2FA over registered Amazon email address for each item sent to the Kindle.

Hence I've stripped down HN to Kindle code to enable local transfer to any e-book reader which supports .mobi format and made the project open-source.
Are You Building The Right Product?
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/11/are-you-building-the-right-product/
"what would happen to the company if the entire product development team took a month off and went on vacation? The sales staff would keep signing up new customers. The website would continue to get new traffic from word of mouth. Could they be sure that they wouldn’t—as a business—be making just as much “progress” as they claim to be making now?"
Building a back end using only OpenAI Codex
https://codeball.ai/blog/codex-todo-mvc
I've published the sources for the code generation and the code that was generated on GitHub: https://github.com/sturdy-dev/codeball-todo-mvc

I've been experimenting with merging prompts together, with a goal to write the full backend in a single prompt.

On the form:

> 1. Setup a flask web server

> 2. Add a /add endpoint

It works reasonably well, but it seems like it's loosing some precision in the prompts... The person that coined the term "prompt engineering" was right, it's really important to learn what words to use to get the AI to do exactly what you want it to do.
Dutch intelligence agency AIVD hacks internet forums
http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/11/30/dutch-intelligence-agency-aivd-hacks-internet-fora/
The Dutch intelligence service - AIVD - hacks internet web fora to collect the data of all users. The majority of these people are unknown to the intelligence services and are not specified as targets when the hacking and data-collection process starts.

Apparently what they do is get direct access to the mysql databases backing fora and then just download the entire thing.
Goodbye, Google App Engine
http://www.carlosble.com/?p=719
Carlos Ble says: "Choosing GAE as the platform four our project is a mistake which cost I estimate in about 15,000€. Considering it's been my money, it is a "bit" painful."
Show HN: Evryca – fractal thinking tool to brainstorm and organize thoughts
https://www.evryca.com/
Made a tool to organize thoughts.
Actually it is a mind tree, but in a more web-friendly form.

It has pivoted from what I originally started building at evryca.com.

Some years ago I got the idea of fractal conversation, instead of old-school tree/ladder-like comments.
I wanted to see only comments related to the current level.

I started making "something" with fractal comments. This "something" was a project discussion platform. But it turned out that even I myself don't use it, and the idea of fractal comments stuck there unused.

And recently it dawned on me that it may be a conversation with yourself — thinking, brainstorming, taking notes, writing.
So made this kind of cork/whiteboard, where one can dive into the subject and, being in the flow, write and see only related notes and rearrange them later.

I'm trying to make it flawless and add keyboard shortcuts where it's possible (Ctr+Enter to submit idea, drag-and-drop to rearrange, Esc to jump level up).

So finally I've made a tool that I use myself and will update it gradually (sorting, touch devices, ex/import (json, text), boards, more navigation with keyboard and other stuff, and login).
Show HN: Crocodile - Better code review for GitHub
https://www.crocodile.dev/
Hi HN!

I've been working on a code review app for GitHub called Crocodile for about a year. I used to work at Microsoft where we used a tool called CodeFlow for reviewing code and I missed it after I left. I know many other ex-Microsoft engineers feel the same. Here are some of the distinguishing features of Crocodile that are inspired by CodeFlow:

* Comments float above the code instead of being inline. Long discussions that are displayed inline make it really hard to review the code.

* Comment on any text selection in the file, even a single character.

* Comments don't get lost when code changes. I hate it when comments become "outdated" because I rebase or the line is edited.

I also implemented lots of features that I wish CodeFlow had which you can read more about on the blog. [1]

For those curious about the tech stack: it's mostly written in Go with Alpine.js, HTMX, and Tailwind CSS for the frontend. For storage I use PostgreSQL, S3 compatible object storage, and Redis for caching. I use Pulumi for infrastructure provisioning and Kubernetes deployments. Everything is hosted on DigitalOcean.

Feedback is welcome!

[1] https://www.crocodile.dev/blog/why-crocodile
Ways That Startup Lawyers Overcharge
https://medium.com/entrepreneur-advice/4e8aff11668e
If you have a startup and a lawyer this is a must read! Avoid being overcharged!