jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for products
https://looria.com
About 1.5 years ago, I introduced my review aggregator BuyForLife on Hacker News, where it became the #8 most upvoted Show HN project of all time. The idea of helping people to make better purchasing decisions continued to chase me over the last year.
Here are some stats that illustrate how important online reviews are:

• 90% check online reviews as part of their online buying journey

• 43% visit 5-10 websites to research a product

• 75% spend more than a day doing research before buying a product

The top frustrations with the current process are:

• Google full of SEO spam and Ads

• Fake reviews

• Fragmented trusted sources

• Inconsistent information across sources

Thanks to the recent advances in NLP (transformers, GPT-3, etc.) it became possible to solve these problems at scale, so I decided to team up with my co-founders Johnny and Tavis to build https://Looria.com.

We aggregate and summarize the most trusted product reviews on the web. Just like Rotten Tomatoes provides trustworthy ratings for movies, Looria offers ratings and reviews for all kinds of products. Our vision is to make Looria the go-to platform for making purchase decisions.
Ask HN: Will users give you 3 min on signup?
I am in the process of creating a new service that is part productivity tool, part recommendation engine. Think of it as a task-list on steroids: one with a recommender system that listens/analyzes the "tasks" you and friends create and accomplish. Though there are a couple more wrinkles, this gives the general context.

Initial testing suggests that the data needed by recommendation component takes the typical user around 3 min to enter. The user experience is significantly improved by the recommendations made.

1. Any suggestions to keep the user engaged through this 3 min bootstrap? Anything that's worked particularly well for you?

2. I think some other applications have a similar bootstrap-- how do you get users to enter details about the car they want to buy, for instance. What are your usual abandonment rates?
Show HN: App That Creates Music Based on Weather and Health Data
https://wiredvibeapp.com/
Endless personalized soundscapes to give your mind and body what it needs to achieve total immersion.
Chrome for a Cause: Automating New Windows
This is a really easy trick to increment your new tab count. Just paste this JavaScript into a new HTML file, disable Chrome's popup filter, and open the file in Chrome!

----------

var newTab = function () {

var newWindow = window.open('http://www.google.com', 'newWindow');

newWindow.close(); // Closes window immediately

};

var tabInterval = window.setInterval(newTab, 1000);
Ask HN: Informal Survey re. Facebook Privacy
Last weekend, my friends and I coded up a prototype Facebook app that needed to know (1) the gender of your friends and (2) a school or company that they are or were a part of. Using the Graph API, I was only able to get that data for 33% of my friends.

IMHO, that seems rather low given that gender + company / school really isn't something most people care about keeping private (as opposed to, say, photos). My hypothesis is that because of privacy concerns over the recent Facebook changes, a lot more users are either removing or hiding that data from FB apps. However, I'm not really sure how valid that is because (1) my friends are not a representative sample and (2) I wasn't systematically looking for this data prior to FB's changes.

So question for the FB apps developers out there: Have you noticed any drop in the quality or quantity of information you could access post-Graph-API? I'm not trying to formally prove anything here -- just seeing whether or not I'm completely off base.
From intern to craftsman in one month
http://blog.ragnarson.com/2012/07/internship-wrap-up.html
At Ragnarson we set unrealistic goals for our interns. The thing is they are able to achieve them in unbelievably short time.
Ask HN: How would you describe imposter syndrome for yourself?
I’ll start...
My imposter syndrome is feeling like my achievements have landed in my lap because of my gender, race and appearance. In America and elsewhere, poverty is largely based on current and historical racial and gender discrimination. I can’t shake the reality that I have succeeded personally because huge swathes of our population was effectively barred from competing. I feel like conversations about imposter syndrome have often turned into mythologizing meritocracy, and it makes me feel even more like an imposter.
Acer Announces Chrome OS Display/PC
http://www.conceivablytech.com/5779/products/acer-announces-chrome-os-displaypc/
Acer is – at least as far as we know – the first company to announce a commercial Chrome OS product. It’s a 24″ display that can be used as a web browsing device without the need for a separate computer.
Show HN
https://github.com/mickjc750/prnf
Alternative text formatter in C, easily extendable, lightweight, well suited for microcontrollers.
Marathon Bomber Jahar's Twitter and VK account
https://twitter.com/J_tsar
http://vk.com/id160300242
Hashrocket helped me build transparentrees
https://www.transparentrees.com
They did a killer job.
Unity3d running in a webbrowser? Wicked.
http://www.spelljs.com
http://imgur.com/0IkzB
"Web Guy" installs spyware to snap naked pictures of woman
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/fed-blotter-cha.html
"The case began when the victim noticed changes in her computer's behavior after giving it to Feigin for overnight repairs, the Gainesville Sun reported at the time. Every time she got near her laptop, the light on her webcam switched on."

Buffet was right. Beware of geeks!
I unconsiously typed that description of a man, Google found him
http://www.google.com/?hl=en#hl=en&output=search&q=the+guy+who+made+a+killing+from+the+financial+crisis
Hi HNers,
I was thinking about an old article I've read on the financial crisis, and I started to type "the guy who made a killing from the financial crisis" and google find the exact person I was looking for. Not someone approcaching, needless to say bing wasn't even close. Enjoy!
Show HN: Processing Nginx Logs with Python
https://daniel-pink.de/posts/article/
Hello, I wrote a little script to process nginx access.log files and get some statistically information. Also wrote my first write up about this project.
OpenShift – Free PaaS IaaS from Red Hat
http://www.codersgrid.com/2013/07/12/openshift-free-paas-iaas-from-red-hat/
OpenShift is a cloud computing platform as a service product from Red Hat. A version for private cloud is named OpenShift Enterprise.

The software that runs the service is open-sourced under the name OpenShift Origin, and is available on GitHub. Developers can use Git to deploy web applications in different languages on the platform.

Uniquely, OpenShift also supports binary programs that are web applications, so long as they can run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This allows the use of arbitrary languages and frameworks. OpenShift takes care of maintaining the services underlying the application and scaling the application as needed.
Bored on a Sunday morning? Learn Python
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTZoB2Vjuk&feature=channel
Originally from reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eobjb/bored_on_a_sunday_morning_learn_python/
Ask HN: TrendOY, News App Declares War On Mainstream Media
Hi Hacker News,
This is Gundeep Hora, Founder, Digify Media. Today marks the first public appearance of TrendOY!, our real-time technology news app that helps people save time through instant news alerts, sentiment analysis and other features for the iPhone and iPod touch devices. We're doing final QA testing on the app and will submit it to the App Store in the next few days.

In the meantime, please have a look around our site and sign-up for the launch email. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the initial idea. If you'd like to get in touch privately, please feel free to email me.

Thanks, everyone.

Best,
Gundeep

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Gundeep Hora
Founder: Digify Media (TrendOY!)
URL: DigifyMedia.com
Email: gundeep@digifymedia.com
IOS 7 Auto Layout
https://medium.com/ios-os-x-development/3e50cd1d1278
changing sizes of UILabel
Statue of Liberty to close for a year for renovations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/11/statue-of-liberty-closes-year-nyc
Access to Liberty Island and views will not be affected while work is carried out on interior of New York landmark to make it safer
Show HN: I made an arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator in Rust
https://github.com/printfn/fend
Hi all, I’ve been working on this Rust project for a while now, and hope someone might find it useful. It’s written as a CLI app, and there’s also a WebAssembly version you can try out at at https://printfn.github.io/fend-website.

It has support for unit conversions, number base conversions, fractions, complex numbers, variables and D&D-style dice. There’s a bunch of examples in the GitHub README, as well as the manual at https://github.com/printfn/fend/wiki.

Please let me know what you think!
Mechanical Turk Masters
http://mechanicalturk.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/get-better-results-with-less-effort-with-mechanical-turk-masters-.html
Mechanical Turk is now trying to charge requesters extra for the ability to send HITs to a select group of Turks they call masters. Amazon usually focuses on the platform, and no so much the middle-ware; so why are they different in this case? I think the companies already providing layers on top of Mechanical Turk do a pretty good job managing the quality of their workers.
Twippr: look only into friends' tweets
http://twippr.com
"Damn! where's that tweet i saw just yesterday?"
Twippr is a twitter search engine that looks only into friends' tweets!
The delicious Javascript framework
http://jaggeryjs.org/
Jaggery is a framework to write webapps and HTTP-focused web services for all aspects of the application: front-end, communication, Server-side logic and persistence in pure Javascript. One of the intents of this framework is to reduce the gap between writing web apps and web services.

As a pure Javascript server-side scripting engine, Jaggery combines all the strengths of Javascript with flexibility and freedom at both the development and deployment stages. Most JavaScript webapp development mechanisms restrict developers to a framework-specific structure or patterns, which demand an additional learning curve. By contrast, with Jaggery, any developers who are versed in Javascript have everything they need to get going.
Fluent-interface Java HTTP Client
http://github.com/jcabi/jcabi-http
Fluent-interface Java HTTP Client released in version 1.0 to Maven Central
Show HN: Hurl, test APIs with plain text and libcurl
https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
Hi,

We're happy to release a new version of Hurl [1]. Hurl is a command line tool powered by curl, that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format:

# Get home:
GET https://example.org

HTTP/1.1 200
[Captures]
csrf_token: xpath "string(//meta[@name='_csrf_token']/@content)"

# Do login!
POST https://example.org/login?user=toto&password=1234
X-CSRF-TOKEN:

HTTP/1.1 302

Hurl can be used to get data like curl, or as an integration testing tool for JSON/XML HTTP apis / HTML content. Requests can be chained, and one can add asserts on response headers, cookies and body.

For instance:

GET https://example.org/order
screencapability: low

HTTP/1.1 200
[Asserts]
jsonpath "$.validated" == true
jsonpath "$.userInfo.lastName" == "Herbert"
jsonpath "$.hasDevice" == false
jsonpath "$.links" count == 12
jsonpath "$.order" matches /^order-\d{8}$/

You can see more samples in the documentation [2].

We've designed Hurl to be easily integrated in CI/CD (GitHub, GitLab), and its text format can be used as a documentation, commited in a repo etc... It's a single binary written in Rust, that is powered by libcurl under the hood, for a fast CLI tool for both devops and developers.

In this new version, we've added the following improvements:

- verbose output: add more color to Hurl --verbose output, and also added --very-verbose option to output request and response bodies

- request options: command-line options such as --location (follow HTTP redirection), --verbose, --insecure etc... can now be applied to a particular request with an [Options] sections

- and more, see here for a quick tout of 1.7.0 [3]

[1] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

[2] https://hurl.dev/docs/samples.html

[3] https://hurl.dev/blog/2022/09/15/announcing-hurl-1.7.0.html

Previous Show HN <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28758226> and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25655737>
MetaWear: The platform enabling the next 1000 wearables.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/guardyen/metawear-production-ready-wearables-in-30-minutes
This project will set off an explosion of unique wearables shipping in quantities from 1 to 1M+
Unlocking the iPhone (with instructions)
http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/
the blog of teanager George Hotz, with the instructions to unlock the iPhone
Howww.to present your product like Steve Jobs (in 5sec GIF's)
Recently launched Howww.to where online courses get reduced to 5sec GIF's. Curious for your feedback.

Check out the Steve Jobs course here -> http://howww.to/present-like-steve-jobs/introduction.html
The PHP Fat-Free Framework: Slim Down Your PHP Development
http://phpbuilder.com/columns/php-fat-free-framework/Jason_Gilmore04052011.php3
Introducing the PHP Fat-Free Framework

The PHP Fat-Free Framework manages to pack an incredible set of features into an incredibly small code base, offering native support for caching, bandwidth throttling, and a template engine. A suite of plugins further enhance Fat-Free's capabilities, providing developers with the opportunity to integrate databases including MongoDB, process forms, generate CAPTCHAs, and manage user authentication, among other features.
Grit Test
http://pspeter3.github.com/gritTest/
Based off the Grit test in the NYTimes. See the page for more information.
A No-Excuses Guide to Blogging
http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/2014-0214-a-noexcuses-guide-to-blogging-sacha-chua-v2
This is more of a "How to improve your learning technique" guide. Using blogging.
Learning Java in 13 Weeks
http://flpd.me/index.php/posts/learning-java
I am enrolled into my 2nd semester of UNI and this class will be all about learning Java(term goes for 13 weeks).

So I decided to write about how I am progressing, as I have seen the success and lovely feedback people received from similar endeavours.

Look forward to keeping you all up to date.

Thanks.
DROIDCAT : security android application collection
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=anant.hax.droidcat
A collection of android security applications
Remind HN: iPhone Mockup Rules of Design
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
I've seen a few startups use iPhone mockups on their homepage. I think it's a great idea. However, I'm always surprised that they forget to show a FULL-BATTERY and 5-BARS of signal reception. Another one is making sure you have that black seem going around the screen. Finally, if you need high-resolution photoshop layers, check out this excellent link: http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/iphone-gui-psd-v4/

Got other tips?
Drivers
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1047633/one-writes-linux-drivers-235-usb-webcams
Drivers
Noah Kagen (AppSumo) on pivots at plusconf
http://blog.rahfeedback.com/great-presentation-by-noah-kagen-at-plusconf
A great conference for Noah Kagen @ plusconf. He managed to pull it off from vacation in Costa Rica too!
Ask HN: What's your biggest daily pain + how much would you pay for a solution?
Bonus points: why existing solutions (if any) are bad?
Show HN: PenZen - Distraction free writing
http://pen.io/zen
Ridiculously simply app. Built it as weekend project to test out the new Pen.io API
Install CouchDB on Mac OS X (without using DarwinPorts)
http://lsimons.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/install-couchdb-on-mac-os-x/
The CouchDB installation instructions recommend using DarwinPorts for its dependencies. There is also a pre-built binary. If for one reason or another you don’t want to do either of those, here’s how to do it ‘by hand’.
Checking your website's position in search engines
http://positionly.com
We were looking for a cloud-based solution to track our website's position in search engines and didn't find anything reasonable working/looking so we've built such a tool in our spare time. What do you guys think? Do you track your site's position in SERP somehow?
How a Sci-Fi Author Was Recruited to Prevent a War Crimes Indictment
http://joetrip.com/projects/89-balkanized-at-sunrise
In the immediate aftermath of the bloody Balkan wars of the 90s, a penniless science-fiction author was hired to write the official biography of Croatia's President, Franjo Tudjman.<p>In an effort to keep Tudjman out of the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, the Croatian government hired Joe Tripician, the author of "The Official Alien Abductee's Handbook", to pen a state-sanctioned biography for US consumption. The biography, far from a whitewashed piece of propaganda, became a darkly comic and sadly tragic tale of deception, danger, death and desire, where guilt abounds, but responsibility remains elusive.<p>"Balkanized at Sunrise" is the true story of how Joe navigated between toadying government aides, lying politicians, harassed dissident journalists, and Croatian and Bosnian women looking for a quick visa. It's a fascinating memoir of political, moral, and sexual proportions.<p>More background on the story here:
http://joetrip.com/projects/89-balkanized-at-sunrise<p>The PAPERBACK VERSION is now available at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Balkanized-at-Sunrise-Joe-Tripician/dp/0557494516/<p>The Ebook is also available at:
Amazon for the Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003VWCCU0<p>Barnes & Noble: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Balkanized-at-Sunrise/Joe-Tripician/e/2940011063473/<p>Sony: http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/joe-tripician/balkanized-at-sunrise/_/R-400000000000000283771<p>Kobo: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Balkanized-At-Sunrise/book-bsHVt5gJo0m_zMntfIt6Qg/page1.html<p>Diesel: http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/item/SW00000017897/Balkanized-at-Sunrise-eBook.html<p>Smashwords for online reading and multi-format download (iPad, epub, Sony Reader, text, etc.): http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/17897<p>Scribd for online reading and pdf download: http://www.scribd.com/doc/34315794/Balkanized-at-Sunrise<p>"Balkanized at Sunrise" on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Balkanized-at-Sunrise/134954569874669
Protesters Turn Bank of America ATMs Into “Truth Machines”
http://www.whatthechrist.com/2012/01/14/protesters-turn-bank-of-america-atms-into-truth-machines/
Protesters acting on behalf of the Rainforest Action Network in San Francisco affixed the removable decals seen in the pictures below to Bank of America ATM screens across the city a few nights ago.
Ask HN: How many of you run Startup which shares revenue with their users?
I find very few Startups which share revenue with users.

By revenue sharing I mean part of revenue shared with the user who creates content and shares on the platform. Ex: Yotube.

Can you share your experience with the same if you run one.

How do you manage payments and taxes for users of different countries?
Compare Broadband Speeds Worldwide (or My Broadband Sux)
http://www.netindex.com/
(If you like global stats...)

Based on millions of recent test results from Speedtest.net, this index compares and ranks consumer download speeds around the globe. The value is the rolling average throughput in Mbps over the past 30 days where the mean distance between the client and the server is less than 300 miles.
I'm a VC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKArupEBE6Y
"I drive around in a Prius and eat only Sushi."
Stuck on Hold? Never Again.  LucyPhone for Android
LucyPhone.com, the service that waits on hold for you, just released their Android app. There are two versions -- one is free & ad-based, the other is 1.99 without ads. There is also an iPhone app and a web app. LucyPhone is the first consumer-initiated "virtual queueing" system. Here's how it works:

1. Upon request via the web or the smart phone app, LucyPhone connects you to the company you wish to speak with. You can choose from the directory of approximately 2,000 company numbers or just enter any toll-free number.

2. If you get put on hold during your call, you press and your phone disconnects.

3. Lucy waits on your behalf. When a live agent answers the call, you get a call back connecting you to the live agent.

Check out Lucyphone.com or search "LucyPhone" in the Android marketplace
Learn To Code And Take Your Designs One Step Further
http://blog.usabilla.com/learn-to-code-and-take-your-designs-one-step-further/
Designers should learn to code to create better designs.
The Entrepreneurial Gold Rush: Why I moved from San Francisco to Detroit
http://tedserbinski.com/the-entrepreneurial-gold-rush-why-i-moved-from-san-francisco-to-detroit/
Every week, in a bewildered state, someone asks me “Hey Ted, why did you move from San Francisco to, uh, Detroit? Are you crazy?”

I pause, let out a sigh, and respond with:

Ten years from now, San Francisco will be just as good as it is today. But in ten years, Detroit will be a roaring city once again, defining a new technology hub at the intersection of muscle and brains. Where do you want to be in ten years? Status quo? Or one of the heroes that rebuilt a city?
I have lyme disease
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2014/04/02/i-have-lyme-disease/
Nicolas Zakas writes about his story.
21 Mistakes Freelancers Should Avoid
http://isean.co.za/post/408774344/21-mistakes-freelancers-should-avoid
A freelance web design business was my first venture and I made many mistakes that eventually resulted in the loss my business. In this post, I try to highlight what I did wrong and hopefully help you avoid the same mistakes. Despite the title, this post applies to anyone starting out on their own - not only freelance designers or developers.
Show HN: ThrdPlace - kickstarter for your community.
http://www.thrdplace.com
Increase awareness, raise funds, find volunteers, and gather supplies to create community projects. ThrdPlace is kickstarter for you community.
Knuth discusses work, answers questions tonight at Stanford (webcast too)
http://events.stanford.edu/events/277/27721/
As far as I can tell, anyone can go.
Germs + toxic waste + pathetic smell + cattle = Garbage beef Made in China
http://roundedoff.com/2011/11/10/germs-toxic-waste-pathetic-smell-cattle-garbage-beef-made-in-china/
China now presents to you the new of self-sustainable ecosystem where cattle survive on garbage eatables in the landfill, grow old enough to big size and are then butchered to be served up on your plate! This newly innovative shit comes from Changsha, Hunan Province, China and they very proudly call it as the Garbage Beef.
TrackDuck Secures €200K Seed From Kima And Practica
http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/05/trackduck-secures-e200k-seed-from-kima-and-practica/
"TrackDuck, a visual feedback and issue tracking startup, is aimed at small and mid-size organisations and freelancers. It lets the clients of small businesses and freelancers send feedback on a web site’s build process right there on the screen."
Bootstrappers Manifesto or why tech startups fail
http://www.sauliuz.com/bootstrappers-manifesto-or-why-tech-startups-fail/
Few thoughts on how Seth's book is still relevant to many today's tech startups
Ask HN: Where can I find Mac beta users for our software?
Our company has just released a beta version of our UK accounting software for Mac. What's the best place to ask users to try it out?

(I posted a message on forums.macrumors.com and got promptly banned for 'advertising'...)
Michael Bay's Rejected "The Dark Knight" Script
http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506
A little offtopic, but funny nonetheless :)
Google Apps Script: Automation for Google Docs
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/05/old-tool-new-tricks.html
Google Apps Script lets people add customization and automation to Google Apps, starting with spreadsheets in Google Docs.