jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
An open source PokéMon game on iOS with Location Based Service.
https://github.com/Kjuly/iPokeMon
iPokeMon is a PokéMon game on iOS with Location Based Service, i.e., PokeMons are distributed in the real world. You'll find different PokeMons in different cities, or even countries.

I open sourced Client & Server sides' code.

Client: https://github.com/Kjuly/iPokeMon
Server: https://github.com/Kjuly/iPokeMon-Server

Feel free to transplant this project to any system! And I'll be glad if you send me a mail about your transplanting.

iPokeMon is renamed to Master and released on the App Store successfully just now. You can download it here: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id601694902
Welcome to love to live green
http://lovetolivegreen.com
It really is fun and fulling to make easy, green choices in every day life. Because these little changes, made by lots of people, can result in cleaner water, air,
healthier food, and a lot of positive changes for all of us. Basically, a cleaner, greener, happier, healthier world! And you! Visit http://lovetolivegreen.com for more details.
Show HN: Kanbann.com - Simple task management
http://kanbann.com/
Here is a tool I am developing to manage tasks within my development team.
This tool is inspired by task management principles laid out in the Lean
Startup book. Here is the link to the demo
http://kanbann.com/. Please let me know your suggestions.
How to make reputation markets work
http://dayvancowboy.org/agalmos/
Motivation

This is the post-scarcity economy. Right now. Except that brain cycles are still scarce
Information abounds. Attention does not. And who do we pay attention to when everyone is giving information for free?
Show HN: ML-Powered Search Demo
https://easypkm.com/
Before NLP-powered text search, it was difficult to handle synonyms or text records with different languages. This demo is a note-taking app that can accommodate 16 languages for semantic search that makes searching through your content way better than substrings.

Please feel free to ask any questions and leave comments about your impressions. There is no CSS - it's intentional. Function over form :)
Cloud-ssh – tiny wrapper for ssh which enchance work with cloud providers
https://github.com/buger/cloud-ssh
In times of digital clouds, servers come and go, and you barely remember its names and addresses. This tiny tool provide fuzzy search (yeah like SublimeText) for your instances list, based on tags, security groups and names. Can act as ssh replacement.
DataKit adds a web backend to your iOS app in minutes
https://github.com/eaigner/DataKit
DataKit allows you to quickly add a web backend to your app. Don't re-invent the wheel every time you need a web backend, just use the DataKit SDK.
Steve Jobs Full D8 Interview Video
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100607/full-d8-video-apple-ceo-steve-jobs/
And unfortunately, their player sucks so much that it's basically impossible to play it from where I am (New Zealand). Can someone please put it up on YouTube?
Nigerian activist groups use mobile technology to prevent electoral fraud
http://thenextweb.com/africa/2011/04/14/nigerian-activist-groups-use-mapping-and-mobile-technology-to-prevent-electoral-fraud/
A group of young Nigerians and civic advocacy organizations are using mobile technology to monitor Nigeria's elections for fraud and other electoral irregularities.
12 Types of DDoS Attacks Used By Hackers
http://blog.rivalhost.com/12-types-of-ddos-attacks-used-by-hackers/#
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are a growing concern with far-reaching effects for businesses and organizations of all sizes. DDoS attacks are used by criminal enterprises, politically-motivated cyber terrorists, and hackers hoping to bring websites down for fun or profit.
Why Free Software and Open Source can never reconcile
http://harishankar.org/blog/entry.php/why-i-think-free-software-and-open-source-can-never-reconcile
Why Free Software and Open Source cannot reconcile the differences: because the principles and goals are fundamentally different and incompatible with each other.
Let the city know your name; free, direct access to screens
http://www.cityxcape.com/
CityXcape lets people broadcast their message directly to screens.

We want to empower anyone with an idea, even the smallest company or individual, with tools that provide visibility which only were previously available to large corporations.

http://www.cityxcape.com/
Ask HN: How does Netflix restrict login sharing on the iPhone?
Since it seems possible to share your login with as many people as you want and have them all streaming the on-demand video on their iPhones, how do they prevent or limit this? Do they do it at a software level? Does the iPhone SDK give you access to the mac address of the hardware so they can determine unique device count?
NextGenBux.com - Paid to click website
http://nextgenbux.com/
New PTC websites, first 500 members to join will receive 1 month Silver membership.
With Google Play, the Cloud Goes Prime Time
http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/03/google-play/
With Google Play, the Cloud Goes Prime Time
All You Need to Know About the OSI Model
http://www.testking.com/techking/tutorials/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-osi-model/
The networking world is full of models. Don’t get too excited, the models we are talking about are OSI and TCP/IP models and not Gisele Bundchen or Cindy Crawford.
Why Jailbreaking iOS 6 Is Popular Enough To Break Cydia
http://readwrite.com/2013/02/05/why-jailbreaking-ios-6-is-popular-enough-to-break-cydia
It's great that iOS works the way it does out of the box, but annoying that power users can't dig into the settings and start tinkering with things in ways that we've been able to do for decades on PCs. It's infuriating that I can't change my default browser to Chrome without circumventing Apple.
Software Engineering as Engineering
http://www.music-piracy.com/?p=477
Some thoughts on how software engineering could be improved industry wide. I'd love some feedback.
Happiness
https://medium.com/better-humans/44e67f286513
My elementary thoughts on happiness.
Ask HN: What is the Hottest New DB Architecture?
Currently we are a LAMP house that exists in the AWS cloud. We use EC2 and RDS to support our infrastructure. Next year we will be in the scaling mood. What db architecture should we be looking at that minimize the porting of our app.

We are looking at hadoop, nosql, mongodb and a few others. Love for any db engineers who've worked on sites with 10,000+ simultaneous connections to give their two cents.

Thanks!
Show HN: Sentry: it's like mod_rewrite for DNS 
http://rferreira.github.com/sentry/
Sentry is a DNS proxy that allows you to inspect, block, rewrite, redirect and resolve queries in-flight. My weekend hack that turned out to be surprisingly useful.
Ask HN: Will growth hacking make my product worse?
I'm building a product, I have a very good retention rate D1 63% D7 55% D30 40%, It's good as it is (maybe). I have 2 options: improve it to make current users more happy or think on how to change the product to make it more "viral"...please advice
News.YC deaded the "EVO 4G vs. iPhone 4" post as soon as it got flagged
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1419605
File System and JavaScript. Processing Files in Browser
http://xbsoftware.com/blog/file-system-javascript-processing-files-browser/
This article is about processing files in a browser. It explains how you can read and change files data, drag-and-drop files to/from browser, parse excel and pdf on the client side without server.This article also includes caching media data and playing them offline.
Agile estimation is a waste of time
http://developersrant.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/agile-estimation-is-a-waste-of-time/
Let me go straight into my point that agile estimation is a waste of time given that if you are estimating the number of hours it will take for a user story to be completed. This is totally stupid and insane and only idiots will do it. The purpose of agile estimation is to estimate complexity and size of any given user story and it has nothing to do with actual hours......
Hacking Sandbox: Multi-language hacking and experimenting tool
https://github.com/niemeyer/hsandbox
That's the URL of the project - http://labix.org/hsandbox
Ask HN: Price of web design
In our startup, we are both developers and we need a great design for our web application. We're of course willing to pay for it but it's kind of hard to know what is a good price for a web design and also who we should contact. I would like to know what you would do in our situation. Thank you! (I omitted details only to make the post simpler to read but feel free to ask any more info.)
Show HN: Konvention - Let's all do it the right way?
http://konvention.vadosware.com
So I've recently finished an app that I think might be really helpful and I wanted to get some feedback on it:

Here's the pitch (and I say "pitch" lightly, I can already hear people hovering over that back button):

Let's put all the best ways to do things (at least relating to software to start) in one place.

Yes, stack overflow is pretty wonderful for finding certain things, but I think there's something to be gained from a purpose-built database JUST dedicated to how to do things the right way.

I think that with a good enough collection of things, we can greatly reduce the time one spends in beginner stages of programming (the point after which you've read the book, if people still do that, and you've written some small test code, but don't know the way you "ought" to be doing things)

Love it? Hate it? Both are fine, I really just want some feedback, been working on this for a while, think it's at least at a point to be shown -- I'm most likely going to build it myself (worst case), because I think it'd be useful for me, personally (I <3 code that is beautiful both in form and function)

Oh btw it's not open source, I do use git, but I'm hosted somewhere else... Might open-source it later but right now, I know there are some bits of the code that could be better, so I wouldn't want to make someone read those bits yet.
POWERPLAY: Training an Increasingly General Problem Solver
http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5309
POWERPLAY: Training an Increasingly General Problem Solver by Continually Searching for the Simplest Still Unsolvable Problem.

Don't leave one of these around with unlimited resources...
Tech Support Market?
Hey all! I was just wondering how everyone feels regarding the tech support market as is? Just collecting some thoughts at the moment, but was wondering what people were frustrated with or actually enjoyed! Any experiences?
What is Apple Really Tracking?
Can anyone clarify what exactly is being tracked by Apple's location based storage device inside iPhones and Macs? I have heard that Apple does not use this storage data to Apple does not track location at all(heard on Mac Rumors).
Popup Domination Reloaded
http://www.famousbloggers.net/popup-domination-reloaded.html
Yes, it’s the Popup domination revolution which started all this ridicules way of list building. So many discussions was running recently about blogs with popups, blog visitors and readers who are not fans of popups, how not to annoy your blog readers while building your email list.
What's the tweeting protocol?
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/whats-tweeting-protocol
SMTP never game me a whale. Nor has POP3, SSH, XMPP or any of the other protocols in the Internet Suite.
Alternatives to Advertising
http://blog.mightbuy.it/2012/08/03/vrm-vs-adtech-investment-cycle-investment-prospects/
#VRM
Apple investigating malfunctioning iPhone reports
http://www.itworld.com/government/74889/apple-investigating-malfunctioning-iphone-reports
Company says the incidents are isolated and denies a general problem
Fun with Epitrochoids
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2011/11/fun-with-epitrochoids.html
Have you ever seen an Epitrochoid plotted with python?
A Standard of Reputation is Coming
http://whatspinksthinks.com/2012/01/30/standard-of-reputation/
Today, we are experiencing a revolution in human interaction.

The “online” world has come full circle, with more and more websites and apps focused on reconnecting people with the real world around them, and the people in it.
Patrick Rothfuss calls The Game of Books ill-conceived bullshit...then loves it.
http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2012/12/a-game-of-books/
"I plan on spending no more than ten minutes on the phone with this guy. I’m going to be polite, thank him for wanting to involve me with the project, and ask a few questions that will confirm my suspicions that this whole project is well-intentioned but ill-conceived bullshit."
Metatrader Java API
http://www.jfx-api.com
Provides Java interface to MetaQuotes™ trading servers using the standard MetaTrader client terminals
How One Site Dealt With SQL Injection Attack
http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-one-site-dealt-with-sql-injection.html
Ellen Messmer writes on NetworkWorld: The massive wave of SQL injection attacks that started striking Microsoft-based Web sites around the world more than a week ago claimed as one of its victims Autoweb, a U.K.-based advertising and marketing site. …
Aplicatie android romaneasca - ROstiri
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andromo.dev44966.app50163 
Ultimele stiri direct pe telefonul tau.
Successful People: The 8 Self-Limiting Behaviors They Avoid
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2014/01/06/successful-people-the-8-self-limiting-behaviors-they-avoid/
I work with some pretty brilliant people, and I was honestly shocked to see how many felt they hit these behaviors in their day to day operations. The good part is they are aware of said behaviors, and I suppose knowing is just half the battle!
Show HN: JavaScript package to quickly make charts accessible to the blind
https://www.chart2music.com/docs/
Hi HN,

Charts can convey a lot of information but are difficult to make accessible for visually impaired and blind users. The most common solutions are to include a data table or attempt to describe the chart in alt text, often resulting in a subpar user experience.

I’m a blind software developer and one of the contributors to Chart2Music (C2M), an open source JavaScript/TypeScript package which tries to simplify creating accessible charts. It works with pretty much any charting library to add interactive sonification and verbal output through screen reading software.

The goals of the project are:
* Allow chart authors to make accessible charts without having to understand sonification best practices or how to force screen readers to speak using ARIA
* Allow blind consumers to explore charts and look for trends in the data without having to navigate large data tables
* Work alongside charting libraries so authors can continue to control the visuals using the tools that they know best
* Be easy to use in the majority of cases but allow deeper customization and integration when desired

Now that C2M is stable and ready to be used, I’m interested in finding a way to integrate it with some of the system dashboards, so I can monitor server resources like CPU and memory utilization for my side projects.
Who Will Make How Much on Facebook?
http://www.watchmojo.com/web/blog/?p=1887
Amazingly detailed guesswork. Who knows if it's right, but it's at least interesting.
Create a Sleek web2.0 website
http://crappypixel.com/create-a-sleek-web2-0-website
In this tutorial you will learn how to design a sleek web2.0 website from scratch in Photoshop.
What's your rapid prototyping tool/process
Hello everyone

I am looking for new ways, processes and tools to speed up the prototyping of new applications, mostly FE apps. My goal is to have something that I can show to the business people asap before sending it to the providers to build it.

I am open to any tools or processes you think they can be of interest. I have used invision in the past but I am also interested in code generation for the prototypes.

Any ideas? Thanks
Celebrate pi day: Learn hundreds of digits of pi at lightning speed, software open-sourced
http://www.jperla.com/blog/2008/03/14/learn-100-digits-of-pi-at-lightning-speed/
I wrote about the method I used to learn 100 digits of pi in under an hour and remember them days later without extra practice.

One part of it was harder for me to do, but easier for a computer to do. So, I decided to make a computer program to find the words and optimize everything for me. I did, and I’m releasing the code under GPLv3.
Ask HN: Best accredited online education?
What is the best online education that ends in a certificate or degree? This obviously excludes Udemy and similar sources - I'm referring only to accredited institutions that give online learners something that can go on their resume that employers outside of Silicon Valley would respect (or at least acknowledge).

Some institutions that come to mind are the University of London[0], University of Waterloo[1] and University of Illinois[2], although I'm sure there are others.

[0] http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/
[1] http://de.uwaterloo.ca/programs.htm
[2] http://www.online.uillinois.edu/default.asp
Ask HN: Which mail server would you choose to develop your product on top of it?
I am willing to build an email application which runs on the server side.

Not being familiar with any particular server I wonder if I can get some recommendations based on experience.

I have seen many great startups which built some neat apps on the email platform (for instance, friendfeed's notification mechanism, or surely posterous which mail is at the heart of their business logic), and wonder about which mail server have they found easy to learn and integrate with.

thanks in advance,

Tzury
Show HN: Find top resources on any topic, of any kind, curated by the community
https://awesomehunt.org/
Hi, I'm Viraj! I built AwesomeHunt as a side project over a few months.

Why am I building this?
When we want to learn a new topic, we usually search for the topic name on Google and spend some time deciding the places we would learn the topic from. Although you can find pretty much anything you would want on Google, you still need to spend significant time curating the best resources. We usually need to depend on a bunch of blogs, and articles to decide what courses, books, podcasts, and videos are highly recommended for a topic.

Manually curated lists of learning resources are incredibly helpful and save us a lot of time. One of the ways the Internet has tried to do this at scale is by creating a bunch of public repositories on GitHub as Awesome Lists (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome), where people add learning resources for a lot of topics as simple links in a text file. It's incredible that so many resources have been curated this way and a large number of people have been contributing to these repositories. As useful as this is, these lists are very much limited to the programming communities and do not have resources for most non-tech topics. These lists also do not have a way to rank these resources, and contributing to these lists is cumbersome.

How does AwesomeHunt solve these problems?
AwesomeHunt makes it easy to find any kind of resource on any kind of topic, ranked by their popularity. It's easy to contribute to the lists and discuss things related to a topic with other learners.

Here's the list of key features:
- Users can suggest a new topic if it doesn't exist on the website. Topics can be tagged to make it easy to find them
- Users can suggest new resources for any topic/fix or remove incorrect information
- Users can upvote the resources they find helpful
- Users can take part in discussions under a topic or a learning resource, through threaded comments, which can also be voted on and ranked.
- Every contribution will go through a manual screening process before going live on the site.
- Every contribution by a user will be tracked, and awarded points (example: https://awesomehunt.org/users/virajclive)

Right now, the list of resources on the website is limited, but still quite useful. I can imagine the same website full of resources on any kind of topic, with top resources voted by a large number of people, with discussions around the best ways to learn a topic would be quite useful for the whole internet.
New release of XLSX-Renderer, part of XToolset package, is live
New release of XLSX-Renderer, part of the XToolset package, is live!
This time we’ve added two new functionalities that were requested by our growing community.

TemplateFormulaCell – which allows you to put a template string (custom formula) into a cell as a formula.

Example: #= ${summaryFormula}(A2:A${item.__endOutput.r}) gives something like =MAX(A2:A2910)

TemplateStringCell - allows us to create advanced text, such as concatenating two variables or putting them into a sentence.

Example: #Hello ${name}! How are you?</code> gives for instanceHello World! How are you?`

Those two features kicks functionality of XLSX-Renderer way up and makes creating spreadsheet workbooks even more smarter than before. Well, see it for yourselves here:

https://github.com/Siemienik/XToolset/releases/tag/xlsx-renderer-v2.4.0

Give it a review, we are very, very curious what do you think about our library ;)
NVIDIA 3D Vision now available on a 120hz laptop display
http://icrontic.com/news/asus-g51j-3d-brings-nvidia-3d-vision-to-notebooks
NVIDIA announced today the impending release of the ASUS G51J 3D laptop, which features a 120Hz LG display to enable NVIDIA 3D Vision support.
Show HN: Generate personally tailored quizzes on any subject
http://stackq.herokuapp.com
Hey, I'm one of the guys that built StackQ this past weekend. It can generate quizzes on pretty much any subject (by pulling from the appropriate Stack Exchange site). It was a lot of fun to make and actually works pretty well too!
Regulators bound to stack up over Google-ITA
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20009502-265.html
That's really the only question that needs to be debated in the wake of Google's announcement that it plans to acquire ITA Software, the leading provider of flight information from airlines to travel Web sites, for $700 million in cash.
Founder of Razorfish tells all.... 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESCEVoh4yxw
Great, great guest.

Thoughts?
Ask HN: EU trademark – domain law question
I have registered a domain, let's say it's "acme.io", and am planning on using it for an online booking system.

After registering the domain I found out that in the EU a trademark exists for the word "acme" with the following classes;

Class 9: Computer software for use in designing, developing, creating, publishing and printing books.

Class 38: Communication services; electronic transmission of data, messages, images and documents.

Class 40: Printing services and consulting services in the printing industry; custom production, setting, printing, binding and finishing of books.

Class 42: Computer software design and consulting services; formatting, graphics and textual design services in the publishing and printing industries; design of books to custom; application service provider services; providing temporary use of on-line non-downloadable software in the field of designing, formatting, printing and creating books; provision of technical assistance and support services (including by telephone) in the fields of designing, formatting, printing and creating books, and the use of software therefor; operation, maintenance and updating of Internet websites and website portals for use by others; licensing of computer software and other intellectual property or proprietary materials.

I'm not too worried about classes 9, 40 & 42 as they all have a focus on the book publishing/design industry.

It's class 38 that is very vague, and a bit of a worry.

Can I still get away with branding myself as "acme.io"?

Can the domain name be claimed back by the trademark owner?
Roll your own API in minutes.
http://www.socrata.com/api-foundry/
From conception to deployment (with documentation). Pretty sweet tool.