jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Fight Club Philosophy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ8imPmQ0js&feature=related
I love this quote: "It's only after we've lost everything are we free to do anything." - Tyler Durden
Beyond the Stars, Effective Local Rating Made Simple
http://www.thebuzz.at/blog/
Actual article: http://www.thebuzz.at/blog/2009/05/beyond-the-stars/
Pirate Parties On Course for Historic Election Wins
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-parties-on-course-for-historic-election-wins-120410/
The popularity of the Pirate Party in Germany is soaring to unprecedented heights. In a recent poll the Party received 13% of the total vote, which makes it the third largest party in the country for the first time.
Alibaba Is Said to Move Toward an I.P.O. in the U.S.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/alibaba-said-to-shift-target-from-hong-kong-to-u-s-for-i-p-o/?_r=0
Woo!
So You Think You Can Ops?
http://blog.shopify.com/2011/3/9/so-you-think-you-can-ops
Must read for Ops folks looking for a job.
Vote online in one click. It's easier.
https://poutsch.com
You can also ask users to vote on your own questions about your own products and services.
Show HN: Tweedle – A Wordle game for profiles and tweets on Twitter
https://tweedle.app/@newsycombinator?payload=%7B%22%24channel%22%3A%20%22PressRelease%22%2C%20%22%24adNetworkName%22%3A%20%22HackerNews%22%2C%20%22%24adCampaignName%22%3A%20%2271422%22%2C%20%22%24adSetName%22%3A%20%22%40newsycombinator%22%2C%20%22%24adCreativeName%22%3A%20%22n_a%22%7D
Hey everyone! I wanted to share a game that myself and a couple other colleagues hacked up called Tweedle. We wanted to try something different in the genre of wordle clones, so we decided to build a game that algorithmically generates daily wordle puzzles for any person/profile on Twitter. The idea is that you can play someone’s tweets, guessing a word inside the tweet using wordle style gameplay. If you have an active Twitter profile, the game will generate a puzzle for your profile; this enables anyone on Twitter to have their own wordle game!

Here is a game for a popular hacker news bot on twitter: https://tweedle.app/mtx2R

If you have a twitter profile, you can play your own game by navigating to https://tweedle.app/@YourTwitterUsernameHere

The game runs on a pretty standard AWS stack. The backend is designed to dynamically generate puzzles for any new profile. It uses an idempotent heuristic that both selects the daily tweet and daily word for any profile passed to it. We use multiple layers of caching to make this fast. The frontend is a React + Redux SPA. We built some tools to make sharing and link attribution easy so that when you share a game with a friend, we ensure they are able to play the exact same game.

For the game’s design, we’re exploring how we can make it more competitive around profiles. IE, who knows a particular profile best. We think that letting you play all the tweets from a profile could be fun as well.

We hope you find the game fun to play and would love to hear any feedback or answer questions!

(note: we’re not affiliated with Twitter)
Ask HN: London based startup lawyer and accountant
Long time contributor using a throwaway account due to the sensitive nature of our current situation.

We're a bootstrapped London based startup about to get our first round of financing. It's a small angel round with a small valuation.

Do any of you have recommendations for London based startup friendly lawyers and or/accountants? It would be a bonus if you've actually used them to give a first hand account of their services particularly in the area this level of financing.
Ask HN: Review my startup: metadatalabs.com and debsnews.com
This is a two-parter. metadatalabs finds web video, annotates it with useful metadata and delivers it via a free API. On average, 17 videos a second representing over 40 hours of video a minute go through our firehose. Our goal is to build an API for video that is as simple and useful as Twitter's API is for tweets.

Details are here: http://api.metadatalabs.com

You'll find a couple of working sample apps, VideoRoulette and VideoDeck, which will give you a feel for what's available in the firehose.

debsnews is a video news service built on top of the firehose:

http://debsnews.com

The UI model has elements of both Twitter and Hacker News / Reddit. Channels follow a link structure much like Twitter. Every channel has two views: A real-time feed under "Most Recent" (like Twitter) and under "Most Popular" a rank based on popularity decaying over time (like Hacker News, Reddit and others.) You can rapidly skim the most popular news videos or spend more time and dig down into details.

We're so close to the problem and we've been at it so long that it's become hard to tell if what we have is actually useful or if we're deluded. We're eager to hear what you think. Feel free to respond here on HN or contact me directly: david at metadatalabs dot com.

Thanks!
Dropbox is down
https://www.dropbox.com/
both the website and the service (mac client at least) are down for me, at least for the past few minutes
Ask HN: Do you drunk code?
Can you write code while drunk? Do you have a drink or two while coding or looking over code or doing research at the end of the night?

Know anyone who does?
RIP: dmr's HN account
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dmr
Is it dmr's HN account? According to Richard Heathfield, he once said "Usenet is a strange place."

What was his remark on HN?
How Domains and URLs Relate to SEO
http://www.shayhowe.com/seo/how-domains-relate-to-seo/
Believe it or not domain names and URLs can play an important role in just how well your website is optimized for search engine ranking results. Outlined here are the 18 best practices to follow increase your rankings.
Show HN: I made Spatium – For space image lovers and astronomy fans like me
https://spatium.earth/
Hi there, humans!

I'm a big fan of any topic related to our universe. I'm also a developer, so I've put these things together and I built this new tab Chrome Extension for space lovers, astronomy fans, and science geeks like me.

If you enjoyed it, please spread some love <3
Show HN: Classix – The fastest and tiniest utility for joining classNames
https://github.com/alexnault/classix
classix is a npm package for joining classNames, typically used with React.

It is much smaller and faster than alternative libraries: clsx and classnames. Comparison: https://github.com/alexnault/classix#comparison

What's more, classix only accepts string expressions as argument (no objects). This simplification of the API enforces a single and consistent way of joining classNames, for teams and solo developers.
Bubble 2.0 coming soon
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2164136,00.asp
John Dvorak has a bad record spotting success stories. So if he is calling it a bubble... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak
Humble Indie Bundle #2 now comes with #1 as well
http://www.humblebundle.com/bundle-in-bundle
The Humble Indie Bundle now allows you to get the first bundle as well when you purchase the second one. Great initiative, in my opinion. These guys deserve the purchases.
Omni: Move Naturally in Your Favorite Game
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1944625487/omni-move-naturally-in-your-favorite-game
The Omni takes virtual reality to the next level— allowing anyone to stand up and traverse virtual worlds with the natural use of their own feet. The Omni is the first virtual reality interface for moving freely and naturally in your favorite game. Walk, run, jump, crouch: the Omni will keep you on your feet and in motion.
Sepia Colored Coupons - overshadowed by instagr.am 
http://coupondiscountpercentoff.com/
Coupons, discounts, and percent offs have filled our dreams since we first envisioned a radically different kind of website where the code is made up and the business model doesn't matter. That's why we are incredibly excited to announce our acquisition and can only fantasize about what incredible applications we will treat you with in the future.
Facebook settles outstanding trademark suit
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/press/releases.php?p=102338
Think Computer and Facebook finally settle their dispute re: the trademarking of the Facebook name. After an article in Huffington Post (was top of HackerNews one day last week), Think now hiring: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/eng/1222791711.html
Essential summer bootcamp in Hungary for international geeks
http://campus.carnationgroup.com
looking for young talents (web & mobile developer, UX designer, content creator etc) for a 4 week-long non-traditional summer university in Hungary at lake Balaton
Our first $100,000 Month and the Hacker News discussion from a year ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/EntrepreneurRideAlong/comments/1dy1i0/one_year_anniversary_of_my_first_post_and_we_just/
Thought it would be interesting to stop back and show what we've done.
Show HN: A VSCode extension that farts as you type
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VincentTunru.flatuscode
With April Fools' Day coming up, I thought I'd share my VSCode extension again: Whoopee cushion keyboard.

When installed, it makes fart noises as you type. And with the new version I just released, you can now enable this per language (command palette: "This is a smelly business"). So if a coworker who doesn't like CSS happens to leave their desk without locking their screen, who knows what might happen...
Google, Keep Sparrow Alive
https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-sparrow-app-alive
This is a plea to Google to keep pushing forward with development on Sparrow alive(under it's name or another) and set an example for other talent acquisitions.
Techcrunch, seriously?
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/23/report-22-year-old-gets-job-at-san-francisco-website/
Kids at CES, sucky LifeFyre comment box, and a stupid hotspot article about nothing, Are they deliberately trying to go down?
Show HN: Automation platform with advanced monitoring and tracing for developers
https://tunnelhub.io
As a long-time developer, I participated in many integration projects and we always had a recurring problem: monitoring and sending integration error alerts to end users. Based on 10 years and hundreds of projects, I created a platform that helps solve this, with several accelerators and cool stuff for developers. Some feedback would be great, if the tool makes sense and what we could improve on.
Ask HN: Shall we incorporate when we launch our website?
Hi, my friends and I are working on a website. Our website will be free to use, and we might get people to register at our site with some of their personal information (does not include credit card info). When we launch the site, do we have to incorporate? Say if we cannot incorporate at first,(we are both non-US citizens and hold international visa, besides, we would first like to test the site to see if people like it) will there be any risk involved for us to run the site?

Your answers are greatly appreciated!!
Simple Ways To Help Your Design Suck Less
http://jimwhimpey.com/blog/2007/simple-ways-to-help-your-design-suck-less-1/
Found via e1ven: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66871
What you need to know about disk latent sector errors
http://storagemojo.com/2010/03/05/storagemojos-best-paper-of-fast-10/
Related: Does RAID 6 stop working in 2019? http://storagemojo.com/2010/02/27/does-raid-6-stops-working-in-2019/
Tech-News Web-Crawler, Built on Node.js and jQuery
https://github.com/bcoe/routers-news
For a project I'm working on, I wanted to aggregate together a technology news from tons of sources. I felt that it would be worthwhile open-sourcing this technology

1) because I think the plugin-based approach is neat, and worth showing people.

2) because I'd love to have other people contribute crawlers for their favorite news sources.
Collectively designed/evolved fractals
http://electricsheep.org/
The system works kinda like SETI at home - people run the program as their screensaver and vote on the fractals they like. A GA uses the recommendations to evolve new fractals. Users can also design their own fractals and submit them to the gene pool.
Show HN: Tour of CLIPS
https://ryjo.codes/tour-of-clips.html
Learn how to write Rules Engines with CLIPS in your browser! I found the Tour of Go super useful when learning Go, so I went for something similar for evangelizing the awesomeness of CLIPS.

A few things I'm proud of with this project:

- No front-end frameworks
- Compiled WASM binary; your code isn't sent to a back-end server
- Code editor/syntax highlighter written from scratch (that I'm sure you'll find bugs in ;))

This is my first attempt at this, and I'd like to expand on it in the future. Let me know what you think!

About CLIPS:
CLIPS is a programming language useful for building Rules Engines and Expert Systems. It's written in C, so it's pretty darned easy to put data in/get data out from other languages written in C. It was started in the mid-80s at NASA, and it was released to the public in the mid-90s. It's still in active development by the original developer.
Mac owners are cooler than everybody else
http://advice.cio.com/diann_daniel/are_mac_lovers_better_than_everyone_else
A recent study found that Mac owners are more liberal, less modest, and more assured of their superiority than the population at large.
The Economist's View: Priorities for Saving the World [video]
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/62
Amazing talk - examining doing very little good for a huge cost because it makes you 'feel good' or focusing first on problems where a huge impact can be made for very little investment. A classic problem whether you're talking about solving world problems or solving problems in your own startup.
Canada is a telecom backwater, says backer of Wind Mobile 
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/canada-is-a-telecom-backwater-says-bold-backer-of-wind-mobile/article1690690/
According to Naguib Sawiris, the Egyption entrepreneur, and executive chairman of Orascom Telecom, Canada is a telecom backwater. The big three telecoms (Bell, Telus, Rogers) are "a joke" and "too big, too slow."
One Startup Tried Every Marketing Ploy From Ellen to Twitter: Here's What Worked
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2013/11/26/one-startup-tried-every-marketing-ploy-from-ellen-to-twitter-heres-what-worked/
TLDR: inhouse blog, inhouse PR, SEO, Affiliate blogs, Google adwords.
Chrome Extension: Awesome New Tab Page
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mgmiemnjjchgkmgbeljfocdjjnpjnmcg
it's pretty cool. lots of potential
Ask HN: What gets you in the zone?
What are some things that help you get in the zone when you're coding?

What are some things that ruin your focus?
Ask HN: Modern strategies for achieving 60fps on the web?
Happy Presidents Day HN - taking the day off to hack on a side project of mine - not quite sure what the pitch is yet, but it's a whiteboardy / mindmappy tool - here's a recent deploy of mine to show off some of the basic WIP features - https://tile-shift-c5nkbkutr.vercel.app/

My inner Steve Jobs is getting a bit annoyed that when I pan around, I can't achieve 60fps reliably. You'll especially notice the choppiness if you pan around a lot of cards. I understand that I could easily get to that frame speed had I chosen to build with canvas or WebGL, but the DOM is a much happier technology to work with.

The crux of the problem is that I have one event listener that fires on every mousemove event to pan the canvas... it's not the most expensive calculation, but it fires quite a bit, causing the browser to constantly spend some time scripting and re-rerendering.

What's strange is that when I plug in my external monitor, that choppiness disappears. According to my webdev friends, external monitors force your browser to use GPU acceleration for everything, regardless if the browser is viewed on the external monitor or laptop.

I found this surprising! It begs the question... why can't my app use GPU acceleration for everything?

Given that context, do you have any advice that could help me achieve 60fps? Is GPU acceleration worth exploring, or is that barking up the wrong tree?
Ask HN: Jobs for Science Majors Without Graduate Degrees?
How can a new graduate with a Bachelor's in Physics, Biology or Chemistry make best use of that degree? For programmers and engineers, jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities abound. But a science major asked me for advice earlier, and I was at a loss. I suspect that research positions are occupied mostly by grad students, and can't think of anything other than research that's directly related to those degrees.
HN: I am building a site that will help hackers and designers exhange work hours
http://www.helpdojo.com
Are you ..<p>A Programmer but I'm basically color blind when it comes to Graphic Design.<p>or<p>A Graphic Designer, but when it comes to coding I feel like if running a marathon in high heels.<p>We are community of programmers and graphic designers born at Startup Weekend San Jose, looking to facilitating the exchange of design and programming services.<p>with Helpdojo, You can trade your coding talent for design talent.
Design Trends: Coolest iPhone APP Website Designs
http://spyrestudios.com/design-trends-25-coolest-iphone-app-web-designs/
They generally all follow the same plan of attack (for good reason) but it makes me wonder – are these sites being built to just blend in with the rest of the pack or are there some that stand out?
Show HN: I made a game called Wheredle.xyz
https://wheredle.xyz
Hey there HN, I took a page from Wordle's mechanisms and made this game for fun for some friends and I.

Check out Wheredle and let me know what you think of it!

↙ ↗ ↘

https://wheredle.xyz
Google Android and iPhone Apps downloads are similar (Image)
http://androgeek.com/android-and-iphone-apps-downloads-are-similar-image.html
The adMob report “January 2010 Mobile Metrics Report” shows that Google Android Apps downloads are approaching the iPhone app downloads
Open-office
Things Git And GitHub Can Do
http://owenou.com/2012/01/13/ten-things-you-didnt-know-git-and-github-could-do.html
I just wrote a blog post about "Ten Things You Didn't Know Git And GitHub Could Do", feedback is welcome
Can the world please standardize passwords?
This is 2015 and I find it amazing that with all the standards bodies in the world, we have not all decided on a standardized pattern for what constitutes a password.

e.g.

- some sites require 8-12 characters. Why limit it to 12?
- some sites require a number, a letter (upper and lower case), and some punctuation
- some sites do not allow punctuation
- some sites cannot handle upper/lower case

With the hundreds of passwords people have to remember, it is impossible to satisfy all the requirements. So that means it's impossible for many people to remember their passwords.

The worst possible violation of a secure password is to "write it down". This argument goes for password managers as well (which only work on the device that holds them). Same deal for having the browser remember your password. Not secure at all.

Banks and finance institutions are the worst offenders. They if anyone should be able to agree on what constitutes a password.

Passwords are with us for the long term. My mother is not going to use certificates to talk to her web banking.

And logging into Facebook is hardly a solution either. That's the last body that should be controlling authentication. Privacy? What's that?

So where are the global standards?

Ugh... Thanks for listening...
Peter
Wh.gov/obama is 404, but guess what isn't?
http://wh.gov/jerk
Someone is making some interesting short URLs:
http://wh.gov/poop
http://wh.gov/dude
http://wh.gov/dick
http://wh.gov/bush

These two go to the same picture of Biden, so it's not just random 4 letter assignments:
http://wh.gov/cunt
http://wh.gov/wank

See what you can find =X
The Universal Record – acoustic transducer that vibrates a vinyl disc
http://jesseengland.net/index.php?/project/universal-record/
From the creator of the Comic Sans typewriter: http://jesseengland.net/index.php?/project/sincerity-machine-the-comic-sans-typewriter/
PHP Fat-Free Framework
http://fatfree.sourceforge.net
FAT-FREE is a powerful yet lightweight PHP 5.3+ Web development framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust applications - fast!
Ask HN: Your last hour on this planet?
(Kind of lost, looking for some guidance)

If today was last day on planet earth and you have to live a manual to teach your kids to achieve the success that you did what would you write?
Ask HN: What are "interesting problems"?
I've stumbled across more than a few mentions of "interesting problems" that people work on – especially in job listings. They never mention what an interesting problem is, though.

So I ask you, people of HN, what are these "interesting problems" that you work on? I'm curious about any field, really.

Side question: do people think that anything that's not a little CRUD app is an interesting problem?
Poll: Do you like open-office environment?
There are usually on going discussions on HN about open-office environment. As a developer, which type of environment do you prefer?
CENTCOM social media accounts apparently hacked by Islamic State sympathizers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/01/12/centcom-twitter-account-apparently-hacked-by-islamic-state-sympathizers/
Just realized this is a dupe (already). Sorry.
Businesses should use automated tools to detect web application vulnerabilities
https://www.mavitunasecurity.com/blog/web-application-security-scanners-detect-technical-vulnerabilities/
There are several benefits to using automated web application security scanners to detect vulnerabilities.
Another Mahalo Resignation
http://lonharris.com/friday-is-my-last-day-at-mahalo
Unbelievable! Can't believe how Jason responds to yet another Mahalo employee stepping down...
Ask HN: Why do my speakers make a weird noise near a phone?
What does this represent?

It usually starts when someone is about to call. But sometimes it goes off and no one's calling(that's scaring me).
Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?
Looking through old Ask HN's, I saw this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1500687 and thought it'd be interesting to resurrect.

So, HN, what are you working on this weekend?
Swift Cheat Sheet DMCA Take Down from Apple
https://github.com/grant/swift-cheat-sheet
I can't tell if this was Apple's Swift guide, or was in fact a completely separate work created as a short guide to Swift. This appears to be a fork of the work:

https://github.com/MHM5000/swift-cheat-sheet

Nothing more than a few Swift examples!