jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: BlogRoll - Yet another replacement for Google Reader
http://blogrollapp.com
I've been working on this in my spare time for the past few months, and in light of the news about Google Reader shutting down, I thought I'd announce this today:

BlogRoll is meant to be an improved version of Google Reader with a tiled interface (which may not be everybody's cup of tea), but it works well for photo-focused sites like food and fashion blogs, and it handles other news sites and blogs quite well, similar to a newspaper-style layout

As for people switching over from Google Reader, it can also automatically import your existing feeds (click the "Import from Google Reader" button on the first screen after signing up)

Any feedback or suggestions? I appreciate it and will continue to work on improving this!
These are the changes in the new Ubuntu 9.04 release
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/techspecs/whatsnew
Canonical's documentation on what's new in 9.04 server edition.
W3.org Paid Links for only $2500-$10000 **edit Nofollowed**
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/sup-faq#fillappl
Can I get a link on this page?
Yes. Premier and Major W3C Supporters may have links to their sites from this page.

Premier Supporters have made a contribution of 10000 USD.
Major Supporters have made a contribution of 2500 - 9999 USD
Entrepreneurs available for consulting in Seattle
http://freeusall.com/
A few entrepreneurs I know in Seattle are consulting on the side to keep their startups self-funded. I've created a simple list:

http://freeusall.com/

Everyone on this list kicks ass - I've worked with several of them. If you're looking for a great consultant and want to help a founder keep their equity, hire one of these guys!
Stop adding up the wealth of the poor
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/04/stop-adding-up-the-wealth-of-the-poor/
I wonder if there is a good way to measure what these various sound byte facts are trying to get at?
Ask YC: How to Dazzle?
http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/trying-to-dazzle.html
eversince I have seen http://tinyurl.com/6ddzjh , I have always wanted to automate creation of such images. such an attempt is http://ideamonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/trying-to-dazzle.html
But I am wondering how to perfect it. Right now it's just a rand() doing the magic. But there is something more to the original art. It seems that "the edges have a nice particle effect, the size of squares vary according to either luminance or similarity of neighbor area... and there might be a lot more to watch out! Boxes don't overlap much in the original work, and smaller tiny boxes play very significant role in giving life to the guitar kid..."

So, fellow hackers please help this kid as to what he needs to know in image processing to be able to do the trick. Like how to detect uniform areas in an image... how to detect edges. For example if i have a photo of a shirt, I wish to detect where it is crumpled where it is plain. If I am able to do this, I will put big squares at plain areas and small ones at non uniform areas. I think that might reproduce the effect!
Thanks!
Ask HN: Review my startup - www.JetDeck.co
https://app.jetdeck.co/hn
A CRM for business jet brokers.

While the industry may sound glitzy, multi-million dollar aircraft are most often sold with notepads and 30MB of hi-res email attachments. There are no such things as 'cloud data', 'analytics' or 'mobile apps' in the space and any software that is built for business aviation reeks of 1995.

JetDeck is a modern contact and inventory management application to fix the low-hanging fruit problems in an aircraft broker's day-to-day operations.
Coshx Labs is giving away $50k: last day to vote (50k of development work)
http://competition.coshx.com/ideas
50k of development work
Ask HN: Please review my website
http://www.mathmaster.org
The <a href="http://www.mathmaster.org">Mathmaster.org</a> is a free resource for teachers and parents. You can make an unlimited number of printable math worksheets for children, for the classroom or for homework practice.

Thank you
Ask HN: SaaSers, how do you backup your customer's data? (details please)
Everybody that runs a SaaS app, or some online web business, where the safety and security of your customer's data is paramount, how do you secure it and back it up?

I would love to know your main host (e.g. Heroku, Engine Yard, Rackspace, MediaTemple, etc.) and who you use for your backup.

Be as detailed as possible - e.g. a quick overview of your service and the data you store (images for instance), what happens with the images when the user uploads them (e.g. they go to your Linode VPS, and posted to the site for them to see - then they are automatically sent to AWS or wherever, then once a week they are backed up to tape by the managed hosting provider, and you also back them up to your house/office).

If you could also give some idea as to what the unit cost (per GB/per user/per month) of storage is - on average, I would really appreciate that.

Getting ready to launch my app, and I would love to get some more perspective on the nitty gritty details involved.

Thanks!
The Geomagnetic Apocalypse — And How to Stop It
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/2012storms.html
all I can say is:

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Entitled "Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts," it describes the consequences of solar flares unleashing waves of energy that could disrupt Earth's magnetic field, overwhelming high-voltage transformers with vast electrical currents and short-circuiting energy grids. Such a catastrophe would cost the United States "$1 trillion to $2 trillion in the first year," concluded the panel, and "full recovery could take four to 10 years." That would, of course, be just a fraction of global damages.

Needless to say, shorting out the electrical grid would cause major disruptions to developed nations and their economies.

Worse yet, the next period of intense solar activity is expected in 2012, and coincides with the presence of an unusually large hole in Earth's geomagnetic shield, meaning we'll have less protection than usual from the solar flares.

The report received relatively little attention, perhaps because of 2012's supernatural connotations. Mayan astronomers supposedly predicted that 2012 would mark the calamitous "birth of a new era."

But the report is credible enough that some scientists and engineers are beginning to take the electromagnetic threat seriously. According to Lawrence Joseph, author of "Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End," "I've been following this topic for almost five years, and it wasn't until the report came out that this really began to freak me out."

Wired.com talked to Joseph and John Kappenman, CEO of electromagnetic damage consulting company MetaTech, about the possibility of geomagnetic apocalypse — and how to stop it.
FireShepherd is the antidote for Firesheep hacking mania 
http://www.borntechie.com/entry/fireshepherd-is-the-antidote-for-firesheep-hacking-mania/
EDIT: The Source Code : http://notendur.hi.is/~gas15/FireShepherd/
MIT’s Digital Food Printer Could Create Nutritious Meals
http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/01/20/mits-digital-food-printer-creates-nutritious-meals/
it's just a concept as pointed out below.
Show HN: Tamagui Beta
https://tamagui.dev/blog/tamagui-enters-beta-themes-and-animations
Previously shown here[0], Tamagui is now in beta. It’s a UI kit for React Native & Web with an optimizing compiler.

It's quite different from a typical UI kit in that it supports the compiler not only extracts styles at build-time, but also extracts inline styles, even if they use logic like ternaries or conditional spreads. Further, the compiler flattens any styled component completely a div (or View on Native) when it can. I've found that about 20% of our views get flattened completely, leading to much flatter trees, which means really significant performance improvements[1].

This is important not just for performance, but also code-sharing.

Here's the why: If you just took a React Native Web app today and made it responsive using the typical way, hooks, you'd end up with a very janky web app. I know this because Tamagui was born out of an app that did exactly that, and resizing frequently took 300ms+ per frame. Themes today also have the same failure mode - without a compiler, you thread values through context. That means lots more JS to run, and whole-tree re-rendering on every change. Even beyond themes and responsivity, we found ourselves having to really limit our ambition especially for Native - lists that contained many items slowed down quickly after a certain depth.

So Tamagui started solving for themes and media queries and hopefully a bit of tree depth, and it really succeeded at that. To release the alpha I wanted feature parity with modern UI kits, so I added a theme creator, token system, inline token props, media query props, shorthand props (ala tailwind), fonts, and more.

Now over the past 6 months its matured immeasurably with components for gradients, images, inputs, labels, switches, shapes, popovers, and tooltips. Animations just landed, which power many of the new components. "npx create-tamagui-app@latest" to help get started fast. Hundreds of bugfixes and better docs. And one thing I'm really proud of: huge TypeScript type quality and performance improvements.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29321748

[1] https://tamagui.dev/docs/intro/benchmarks
Show HN: Marauders Map (Circle Hackathon)
http://discovercircle.com/marauder
Do you guys remember that magical map from that Harry Potter movie? That thingy a couple of guys at Dropbox made during their hackathon?
We took it to the next level...
Show HN: CrowdView – Discussions Search Engine (stop adding “Reddit” on Google)
https://crew-rho.vercel.app/
Hey HN! I've been hacking on a project and figured I'd share it with the community. CrowdView is a search engine for discussion sites (forums, message boards, Discord, and Twitter for now).

Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?".

But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great content exists elsewhere. Lots of great information and conversations have moved to Discord, and niche forums are still alive on the web! But it's impossible to find these places because they rank so poorly on Google. So I built a search engine across a curated list of these (there's about 3000+ forums, message boards, and discords so far), making sure to remove any kind of SEO junk (blog spam, listicles, etc).

Please try it out and share any feedback! (and bear with it, the results can be slow at times)
Show HN: Beast – A Build System
https://github.com/GauravDawra/Beast
Beast is a build system built for speed and power - a tool for all your build needs.
GitHub: https://github.com/GauravDawra/Beast
Docs: https://gauravdawra.github.io/Beast-docs/

As a project grows larger, it becomes difficult to keep track of all the build and compilation procedures that need to be followed. So what should we do???
Not to worry! Beast helps you build your projects with minimal effort and high efficiency, bringing more power to you. In addition, it is super easy to use and syntactically easy to understand, making it suitable for both: beginners and highly experienced programmers.
With its new release: Nimble (v1.1.0), Beast has become much faster and stronger than before. Its build times are now overtaking or matching those of current community standards!!!

In contrast to other such build systems, Beast focusses on both: ease of usability and speed!!!
Ask HN: Marketing and Pricing Advice for Self-Published eBook
If you were writing a technology centric eBook, would you publish it free online and sell a digital eBook (PDF/ePUB/etc.) and Print on Demand version, or just have it for sell with a free sample chapter like most traditional publishers? I'm noticing many online eBooks that are available fully free online but with for pay extras, http://railstutorial.org being a good example. The free content would obviously be a great way for people to discover your writing, but also lowers the likelihood of them paying. Then again, a for-pay eBook that no one knows of won't get sold either. Most of all, there's no reason we need to stick with only the most traditional sales methods with eBooks.
What's your feelings about each method, and which would you choose? I've almost decided what I want to do, but would be interested to see the general thoughts on both models

Note: This is a repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2042898, as the original post didn't get any response.
Show HN: Paid job search? Are you nuts?
https://usemassive.com/matches
^ That's what our team said to me initially but we think it's pretty chill now.

We built a job search tool that uses investor software to help you discover the most exciting companies to work for right now.

Free this week so that you guys can try it out before we hard launch next week (paywall is down).

Feedback is our oxygen: What can we do better? Are you gonna give us money? Why do you hate the design?
College Prestige "Lies"
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/03/college-prestige-matters.html
What do you guys think?
Hackerrank.com sends passwords in the clear
https://gist.github.com/3020091/
So I saw the recently launcher hackerrank.com and noticed on sign up that the page wasn't HTTPS. I was a little bit worried and checked a packet dump.

Sure enough, passwords are sent plaintext to their servers (I hope not stored plaintext, although that is harder to confirm).

If you want to try them out, use a throwaway password!
Show HN: Denso - An Instapaper for Video
http://getdenso.com/
So I came across this really cool new service that works like Instapaper for video, and thought I'd share it with HN.
Just got my invite today and I've been LOVING it so far. It lets me discover videos, bookmark them and watch offline on my iPad or iPhone.
(My hour long subway rides without internet aren't painful anymore. Phew)
I created a site to make AI generated photos of your pet
https://www.petpic.ai/
Hey HN,
I have Goats and a camel as my pets and I recently saw some very cool AI-generated pictures so I decided to build a startup with my 19 y/o brother where you can generate these AI photos for your pet.
I thought this could be a cool idea for crazy pet owners who want to create new memories with their pet or to get new photos of a deceased pet.
Let me know if you have any feedback or questions!
New "Requester pays" Option for Amazon S3
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=27622&tstart=0
"This will enable you to provide other developers access to your buckets without incurring their access costs, and even use Amazon Web Services to sell data for a profit."
Molecular animations of ATP synthase
http://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/node/448
Molecular animations of ATP synthase
The Los Angeles Hacker News Meetup is this Saturday
http://groups.google.com/group/los-angeles-hners-hacker-news
This is our first meetup! Come and join in on the initial discussion for what we hope to be a monthly fixture.
After a year in stealth, CarWoo (YC S09) launches today
http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/13/carwoo-launch/
After a year in stealth, we finally launched our company today. CarWoo! is an online new car buying market place, where buyers can come and say what they want and get dealers to compete for their business. Essentially this is a reverse auction for car buying. We waited over a year to launch so we could build our dealer network to over 3000 dealers nationwide.

Let us know what you think... lots of posts coming about our YC experience and how we stayed under the radar for over a year, how we raised money, all the good stuff.
Developing your first Khan Academy exercise
http://blog.stchangg.com/blog/7-tips-for-developing-your-first-khan-academy-exercise/
I wanted to share some things I learned while making my first Khan Academy exercise - this is primarily intended for beginners to web development.

Please let me know if you find this useful/give feedback on how I can improve it.

Thanks!
Show HN: Open-source email helpdesk
http://github.com/ivaldi/brimir
We've tried systems like OSTicket, OTRS etc, but never found anything to our liking. Most systems were cluttered, slow or too advanced. Brimir is simple but usefull.
Individual office
Smart Email Marketing - How to Design and Send Emails
http://www.shayhowe.com/resource/smart-email-marketing/
Email marketing is one of the most effective methods of advertising online yet the majority of companies are missing out. I have put together an outline on how to design and send emails, along with a few examples.
Show HN: Qboard, a drawing app with Vim-style keybindings
https://cjquines.com/qboard/
I was frustrated with drawing apps where the eraser was E and the pen was P. Often, when I'm drawing, I want to quickly erase and then switch back to the pen. As one of my hands is on my mouse or tablet, I have to use my other hand to reach across the keyboard. I wanted a drawing app with customizable keybindings, so I made qboard a while back and have used it since.

I talk more about the design principles on the Github repo: <https://github.com/cjquines/qboard/#design-principles>.
Why staying logged in to your FB/Twitter is dangerous
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112769/like-button-follows-users-wsj
The seemingly harmless "Like" & "Tweet This" button on the websites you visited can be used to track your browsing habit even if you never click on them
Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2015?
In the spirit of the old threads, let's predict what will happen in 2015

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994370

2013: none?

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395201

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970023

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681

Please use lists (even a long bullet list) instead of very long paragraphs.
Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
As it's a new year 2015, let's re-open this topic to see how things are going on this front :)

It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue
Buffer app hacked
https://twitter.com/buffer/status/394170769254932480
Buffer's Facebook tokens have been used to post spam to Buffer users' Facebook walls.
Show HN: Place to support and validate early startup ideas
https://ideas.dynamate.io/
I made this for people like myself who keep a list of ideas for apps / startups.

I also made it for people who are curious to see what projects others have "in their drawer"... and who may want to have a say in which idea should see the light of day.

https://ideas.dynamate.io/

The site allows creators to anonymously showcase their idea:

Title. Description text. Maybe some mockups...

I've tried to make it so that it's quick and easy to just dump an idea in there that's been sitting on some list of yours for months - and hopefully get some feedback on it.

If someone else on the site sees your idea and likes it, they have various choices of showing support:

They can upvote.

They can subscribe to progress updates.

They can tell you why they want it (there's a questionaire that is loosely based on "The Mom Test").

And they can even send you money as encouragement.

As the owner of an idea, you can see how many unique upvotes, subscriptions, etc. your idea has received. You get a nice table of all the ideas you have on the site, sorted by feedback score. Also, in the case of non-anonymous subscriptions or donations, you can get in touch with early supporters.

Publicly, though, neither upvotes nor any other form of support for an idea are shown. This is so you cannot go to the site and just grab the most popular ideas from there. And also so that each idea can get the same amount of exposure and attention.

There are many great books out there on validating startup ideas. And my site won't be a replacement for those. Rather, it's designed as a low hanging fruit to get your idea out there.

I hope some of you find it useful. Feel free to test it out on the ideas I've posted on there. And perhaps share some of your own!

Also curious to hear your feedback both on the idea itself and the execution so far.

The site is still early beta. Please let me know if you run into any bugs. Also, and ideas how I can make it better would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Ask HN: what was your first programming gig, and how much did you actually know?
Looking at job adverts for software engineers, it seems that life is rosy if you have a couple years J2EE and/or .NET under your belt. By rosy I mean you can be fairly confident of finding a steady job, and can start setting your sights on (much) more lucrative/interesting positions by expanding your knowledge.

But as someone still in the education process, a lot of job postings I glance at and find myself caught in two minds. One half says 'They're looking for a lot of skills. You can't honestly say you're adept at the majority of those requirements. You need to put in a lot more hard work before they'll take you seriously.' But the other half says 'Hell, you don't know TechnologyX per se, but you could pick it up no problem. You've worked on harder problems than they're likely to throw at you. You'd be doing them a favour by applying.'

So I'm wondering what the professional developers here found in their first jobs. Were you under-qualified? Overqualified? Lucky to find one? Blagged the interview? Winged it? Needn't have worried? I'd like to hear the story.
I got techcrunched!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/16/myplaylist-combines-flickr-and-online-music/
Hehe, I made it to TC now how cool is that.
Show HN: Whit - Access any kind of data through SMS
https://github.com/Aaln/whit
Whit is an open source SMS service, which allows you to query CrunchBase, Wikipedia, and several other data APIs.

Simply text 917-791-3098.

Special commands include:
P:'personName',
C:'companyName',
S:'stockTicker',
W:'wikiSearch'

ex. queries: 'p:bill gates', 'c:apple', 's:fb', 'w:philosophy'
Twitter suspends accounts unfavorable to Sarkozy
http://www.internetsansfrontieres.com/French-Presidential-Election-Twitter-Justifies-A-Liberticidal-Procedure_a401.html
Particularly noteworthy, these censorship issues are despite French law allowing this kind of parody. Additional link (found in the article, too): http://www.internetsansfrontieres.com/Twitter-Censors-Accounts-Unfavorable-To-Nicolas-Sarkozy_a397.html
Kogan Violating GPL
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46737250
Kogan refuse to supply source code for GPL licensed software running on Kogan branded Android devices.
My Favourite Programming Quotes
http://www.ginktage.com/2011/02/my-10-favourite-programming-quotes/
Nice set, number 1 is really really true !