jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: My one-man game Alcyon Infinity on Steam, roast me
https://store.steampowered.com/app/914930/Alcyon_Infinity/
I have been working on the prototype for 6 months,
and released it as Early Access on Steam two weeks ago for 2.99$ :)

Alcyon Infinity is a fast-paced bullet-hell with dynamic movement and crazy electro-neo-classical music.
Destroy hordes of ever-improving enemies and their Mothership. Up to 4 Co-Op players with Controllers.

As a one man studio it proved really hard to put on all the necessary hats to do everything from design to code to test and "marketing", without going crazy.

So please roast me, because I'm not sure I can tell what's good or not anymore XD
Ask HN: Is this domain worth 10K?
I'm considering purchasing a domain from an original owner and was hoping the HN crowd could give me pointers on how to evaluate the domains worth. Here is what I know now:

- Domain was purchased in '98 by a single owner and is a two word .com
- Owner claims 75%+ traffic is organic
- Domain has a google PR of 4
- Alexa 539,203
- Currently has approx 400 uniques per day
- Owner currently has a blog up around specific topic with approx 100 posts

Owner wants 10K.

I realize this depends on the niche and possible monitization options but I value your guys expertise and would appreciate any feedback.
Show HN: Search for Remote Management Systems Exposed to Attack Surface
https://blog.criminalip.io/2022/05/25/search-for-remote-management-systems-exposed-to-attack-surface-using-ssl-certificate-search-feature/
Search for Remote Management Systems Exposed to Attack Surface Using SSL Certificate Search Feature (ssl_issuer_organization). Search Query on how to Use ssl_issuer_organization filter.
Is the supply and demand crisis for RoR talent a deal breaker for companies? 
http://heuristx.com/posts/58-is-the-supply-and-demand-crisis-for-ror-talent-becoming-a-deal-breaker-for-companies
The demand for Ruby on Rails talent has sky rocketed and it's very difficult to find talent. If you disagree, I'll pay you $5,000 dollars a head. For start-ups and corporations willing to embrace the technology, the decision to use RoR can be critical.<p>I began approaching well known Rails programmers via email the other day for my education technology company, asking if they knew of anyone interested in a job and as usual, I received a bunch of emails from people "frustrated and pist off."<p>My email went to the tune of: "Hello, was wondering if perhaps you know of anyone interested in working with a Rails based education technology company in Chicago. We're offering a really great package for both junior and senior level developers."<p>If companies are gridlocked and can't build the capabilities needed to innovate because they can't find Rails developers, why should companies continue to use it? I know of more than a dozen well funded start-ups who've actually decided not to use Ruby on Rails because of inability to find talent.<p>You would think those truly concerned with the adoption of the technology at industry would care a little more about companies looking to make hires and grow. I feel like this selfishness and willingness to embarrass companies trying to find talent is inconsistent with the principals of open source software, which thrive contingent upon their widespread adoption.<p>Even more concerning, it's not like we're offering chump-change for the position. We're actually coming in well above market rate, well over 100k, totally respecting the authority. So to those I've offended with a casual email requesting your help, please explain to me how businesses should proceed in their decision to adopt RoR and build out their capabilities.
2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year: Tesla Model S
http://www.motortrend.com/oftheyear/car/1301_2013_motor_trend_car_of_the_year_tesla_model_s/
Proof Positive that America Can Still Make (Great) Things
Ask HN: who should replace Steve Ballmer?
Title says it all...

I personally thought it would have been someone like Robbie Bach, aka someone that actually gets consumers, but instead they axed him recently.
Large-scale Named Entity Recognition in the Cloud
http://practicalquant.blogspot.com/2011/08/large-scale-named-entity-recognition-in.html
CoEM is an entity-extraction algorithm introduced by Rosie Jones in 2005. In the slide above, the data set was a graph with 2M vertices and 200M edges. A team at CMU applied CoEM using Hadoop and found it took about 7.5 hours. GraphLab on far fewer cores (from 95 to 16 cores) took 30 minutes: 6X less cores, but still 30X faster. The same problem on 32 EC2 machines (with 256 processors) took 80 seconds, or 0.3% of the time it takes to complete the same task in Hadoop!
HTML5 Animations With 3D Effects
http://vivastart.com/html5-animations/
We know that HTML5 is a very cool technology and it has revolutionized the way we see the web. However, looking at these examples made me realize that HTML5 is one step closer to beating Flash.
Show HN: I made app hide url in Chrome while screen share
https://www.blurscreen.app/how-to-hide-a-url-in-chrome
hello everyone i am the developer of blurweb.app, after a year of being live and being used by more than 3000 people

I got many request of people interest to hide url while screen share so i build blurscreen.app

please check it out and let me know what you think
Show HN: Infinite Music from the Boston Public Library
https://www.locserendipity.com/LP.html
This site plays a loop of more than 23,000 songs on LP records from the Boston Public Library. You can create customizable stations. Music streams free via archive.org.
Ask HN: How do you manage your AWS IAM controls for AWS datacenter environments?
Especially around:

- Providing development and test sandboxes
- Environment isolations
- Providing flexibility and control

In a way, provide PaaS on AWS to dev/qa and test folks.
PathAnimator – Moving Along An SVG Path
http://dropthebit.com/592/pathanimator-moving-along-an-svg-path/
A tiny (1.7kb) , efficient and flexible library for animating anything along an SVG path.
Drought increases Democracy
http://www.themonkeycage.org/2010/10/drought_and_democratization.html
Climate change has a positve side
Show HN: Net – Organize your bookmarks as Kanban boards
https://netaver.se/
Hello HackerNews! We're excited to introduce Net, a place for all your links.

Net is a simple, beautiful way to save and share links. Net is perfect for research, collecting ideas, and bookmarking your favorite articles.

With Net, you can:

-Save links for later

-Organize links into Kanban boards

-Share links with friends

-Search your links

-And more!

We hope you enjoy Net!
Erlang for Java Programmers
http://simergence.blogspot.com/2009/09/erlang-for-java-programmers.html
A few tips for developers making the switch from an imperative language like Java to Erlang.
DreamHost Denounces SOPA
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2011/11/22/dont-drop-the-soap-drop-sopa
This was posted last month, but a clear declaration against SOPA before this whole GoDaddy debacle.
Show HN: Who the fuck should you watch at Coachella?
http://www.coachelladj.com/
Fun app that randomly selects a song from an artist performing at Coachella (happening this weekend and next!)

My first web project
6 Reasons the Official Twitter iPhone App Just Doesn’t Cut It
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/05/6-reasons-the-official-twitter-iphone-app-just-doesnt-cut-it/
Over the past year, Twitter has managed to transform itself from a very basic service that allows you to send updates of 140 characters, to a full fledged and blossoming industry with supporting websites, applications, and services.
US Judge denies Apple request to block Samsung tablet sales
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/12/denial-of-us-preliminary-injunction.html
Judge also considers Fidler/Knight Ridder work from 1994 on tablets as prior art and believes overall value of Apple's design patents is reg. tablets is rather low.

see 1994 video at http://youtu.be/JBEtPQDQNcI
(from 2:21 you have your rectangular screen with rounded corners as a functional tablet from 1994)
How to Make $104 Million from US Govt. while in jail..
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/business/whistle-blower-awarded-104-million-by-irs.html?hp
Whistle Blower Award of $104Mn to former banker who helped IRS make case against his former employer UBS. All this while in prison.
Looking at BDD from the perspective of requirements engineering
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2011/02/looking-at-bdd-from-perspective-of.html
BDD looks incomplete from a testing perspective? Try to look at it from a requirements engineering perspective!
Show HN: Create decision optimization models in minutes
https://docs.nextmv.io/
Hi HN! I’m a founder at Nextmv (YC 20) [1]. We just shipped a big release that makes it easier to build customizable decision optimization models. It's free to try and only takes a few minutes to get set up [2] and run decision models [3] for vehicle routing, shift scheduling, packing problems, and Sudoku. Each model is customizable for constraints and objective functions [4]. We're also adding things like MIP support.

You can also create something entirely custom. We build on top of our SDK regularly. (There's an interesting PagerDuty scheduler we've built that we'll share more about soon!)

We hope you try it out and we're happy to answer any questions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22630426

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZldKkAYJIuo

[3] https://docs.nextmv.io/tutorials/overview

[4] https://www.nextmv.io/blog/model-and-solve-a-custom-vrp-usin...
Ask HN: What are good sources of information concerning new E.U tax laws?
Hey everyone,

Kindly share resources that you have found important in making you understand the new E.U tax laws.

Thanks
LastPass teaches Sony how to handle a data breach
http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/256558,lastpass-warns-of-possible-data-breach.aspx
When LastPass, the popular and respected online password vault, saw an anomaly in its network traffic, it jumped. When it couldn't ascertain why there was slightly more output than input, it issued an alert for users to change their master passwords. It also installed better security measures like PBKDF2 and SHA-256.
The notification happened in less than a day and its fast tracking the crypto roll outs.
So Sony (and Epsilon), what's your defence now?
Ask HN: What is the one app you use the most?
Please do not include default apps that came with your phone.

Please do not include apps that merely replaces the default (for example: Gmail app in place of Mail or Chrome in place of Safari)

Please do not list which app you like the most but which one you use the most.

Please list only one app.

I want to see what everyone's top usage patterns would look like. Thanks.
Posterous.com (YC Summer 2008) launches custom domain name
http://blog.posterous.com/custom-domain-name-support-for
Awesome, been waiting for this feature. Thanks!
Search For "tilt" at Google Now
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=tilt
Just that, try to do it.

Seems like Google Jokes are the new pink.
Ask HN: AI-based search to help find any item in local stores?
Hey HN!
We're just two guys in a garage and we just launched a new local product search called Goodzer.

http://goodzer.com

Our smart crawler scrapes the internets and extracts inventory data from stores' websites and then finds where those stores are located. Right now we're testing our service in New York City - we found more than 15M products in about 15,000 stores there. So, before scaling to whole US we want to know your opinion on this.
Ask HN: Will my Bitcoin open source contributions count against me?
I'm a hobbyist developer who is looking to change careers and start working as a full-time software developer. I learned to program about 2-3 years ago and have been increasingly active in open source contributions, and even maintaining my own (somewhat) popular open source project. I've been learning all the important stuff I missed in college by not majoring in CS: algorithms, data structures, etc. I've got a pretty nice Github for someone who's only been into this a few years. I love programming and want to do it full-time.

The (potential) problem is, I went through a stage when I was pretty amazed by Bitcoin technology (and I'm still pretty amazed by it). And I even got some modest code contributions into the core Bitcoin client.

Now, I'm not a Bitcoin fanatic or invester. In fact, I've been pretty disappointed by the number of scammers and stock-pumper types the project has attracted. And none of my other open source projects are Bitcoin related, nor are my blog posts, which cover a variety of other technical topics. And I've got Github contributions to some other big, popular open source projects.

But seeing the negative reaction that some popular HNers have to Bitcoin, I'm really worried that my Bitcoin contributions will be seen as a negative by potential employers and even potentially rule me out as a job candidate, particularly in my small city, which is very far from being SV.

Problem is, I can't just delete the Bitcoin contributions from my Github account without deleting the account, and then I lose all my other (positive, and hopefully impressive) code to show employers.

This shouldn't be such a negative, since it's not easy to get code into the Bitcoin core project (there is, after all, a large economy that depends upon it). But so many people on both sides are totally irrational about the matter, so I'm very worried about this.

Is this a problem?
Giant Casimir Effect Predicted Inside Metamaterials
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27388/?p1=blogs&fb_source=message
Exotic materials should lead to new ways of observing and playing with one of the strangest effects in physics
Show HN: Brainpick.co.uk – Earn money by answering StackOverflow questions
https://www.brainpick.co.uk/
Hi! I am looking for honest feedback on my next product. Brainpick.co.uk is a Chrome extension that adds a button on StackOverflow standard page to pay for an answer. You answer and get paid when the answer is accepted. I am selling it to Enterprises as an affordable, subscription-based, pay-as-you-go service. Let me know your thoughts.
Ask HN: What are your daily frustrations?
I'm trying to figure out what are the biggest pains that people experience in our society, especially the demographics that already use technology (and you’re on HN, so you obviously do).

So what are the things you have to do or that just happen to you that annoy you and you wish would be different?
Show HN: BlockTalk – Banter about what your friends are doing on Web3
https://www.blocktalk.to/
Hey HN,

I’m Kamil and one of the two people working on BlockTalk. BlockTalk is going into public beta today! (We're also on Product Hunt, come check us out!)

We previously posted about this project under the name “WalletWatch” in a Show HN about 3 weeks ago, and have since integrated your feedback to make it better [1]

[problem]
As we were trying to see how our friends were using crypto, we noticed that other products were either too complex or only let us passively view what our friends were doing.

[solution]
BlockTalk is a social network centered around Ethereum transactions. You can easily see, understand, like, and comment on the Ethereum transactions of anyone on the platform. We don’t ask for your email or password, and instead authenticate by asking users to sign a transaction with their Ethereum wallet; we ask for usernames to give a more familiar and user-friendly experience for people that haven’t purchased ENS or other crypto domain names. At the moment, we’re storing user data in Firestore instead of on-chain because the current decentralized channels are too expensive or slow. This also has the added benefit of making the app completely free to use.

[what’s changed]
Since our last post, we improved the UI/UX, made transactions more understandable, made the app compatible with all viewports, and now don’t require you to create an account to get a feel for the app.

[ask]
We’d love any feedback you all have! My e-mail is kamil@fwd.exchange if you want to contact us about anything related to the project :)

P.S. here's a very old demo of a prototype from a while back [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32880016

[2] https://youtu.be/xhajqKq4G9Y
Poor form, European Commission. "Science: It's a girl thing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oZtMmt5rC6g
Speaks for itself.
/#!/ Why is there an exclamation mark in Twitter URLs?
http://twitter.com/#!/petervandijck I understand the hash, but why the exclamation mark? Just ugly implementation detail?
New Search Engine at Use Coins (scroll down)
http://www.weusecoins.com/getting-started.php
weusecoins has a new search engine for the BTC currency. Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Show HN: Find_by_AI() Not Xpaths
https://dev-tools.ai/
Hi HackerNews, It’s Etienne CTO of dev-tools.ai. We are launching our product today and wanted to share because we think it might help folks here.

Do you ever have broken selectors in your UI tests?
Are you tired of maintaining them?
We have thought about this issue and come up with a solution.

We have created a Python SDK for Selenium that allows you to visually identify elements (using machine learning under the hood). Since our technology uses the visual appearance of elements and ML, it is more resilient than XPaths or pixel perfect match and should help you get rid of broken selectors.

We can automatically ingest all the elements from your test cases when you use our package. Any test case can become robust this way with two lines of code.

We also have built a feature to interactively navigate and annotate a web app with your selectors, it’s an easier way to automate test case creation by simply clicking around on elements.

If any of that sounds interesting to you, check out our product at https://dev-tools.ai/ and let us know how we can improve it to help you!

A little insight into our tech:

- We use EfficientDet as our main object detector + some custom code and heuristics

- We distribute the work using Celery + RabbitMQ and GPU workers

- We currently are a small team of two, so the frontend is mostly server side rendering with Flask and Jinja.

We would love to get power users to test out the system and give feedback.
The service is currently free, we are considering different pricing options but not the main concern for now.

Happy to dive in on technical details or geek out about QA stuff.
Best
Researchers Discover Bacteria That Produces Pure Gold
http://gizmodo.com/5948739/researchers-discover-bacteria-that-can-produce-pure-gold
Source article: http://news.msu.edu/story/superman-strength-bacteria-produces-gold/
Google API does not recognize the existence of the State of Israel?
As of this morning, every question of identifying a location address for the name "Israel" receives a zero_results answer, but when you ask the api for "Palestine", a positive answer is received.

https://imgur.com/Vz9HbkY
https://imgur.com/MTii1GM
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself
http://tedr.tumblr.com/post/1392185836/somethingchanged-the-advice-i-like-to-give
With my startup, I've found this to be 100% true. We started out with a couple pretty weak ideas and naively decided we could create a business out of them.

Over time, we refined, added to & changed those ideas and I now truly believe we have built something that's going to be a viable business.

Is this a common experience?
The long term state of the Perl market (in London)
I had a candidate contact me recently concerned about their role at a Perl house, which they thought might be moving away from Perl. I sent them a lengthy reply, which included some meditations on the market for Perl moving forward.

I have a strong CPAN offering, and 14 years commercial Perl experience under my belt, but also run a small Perl recruitment company, http://perl.careers/ so hopefully I know what I'm talking about!

---

The general state of the Perl market in London is buoyant, but is in very gentle decline; there will be Perl work around forever (there's still good money to be made in COBOL!), but I don't see a Perl 5 revival on the horizon. Companies like [x] and [y] are doubling down on Perl and starting new projects in them, where [z] and others are gently moving away, and others are staying put but talking about the possibility of moving to something new in interviews with my candidates.

If you're enjoying yourself at [current company], it would be entirely valid for you to gently raise concerns with [your boss] about the state and future of Perl there.

In terms of what else to learn, I see a bright future for Go, and also see it as an enabler language. My suspicion is that Perl, Ruby, Python and JS houses will all start to add more and more services in Go; I know of three Perl places either using Go or considering it to go alongside Perl, and get the feeling this is true for other dynamic languages too.

I think that a good Perl/Ruby/Python/JS developer with some strong open-source Go projects would find it easy to find work at a company using another dynamic language who were also considering Go. Whereas there's a CPAN library for everything at the moment, that's not true of Go, so porting over a few simple CPAN libraries over the next few months feels like a good career move.

---

Hope that's helpful and not too controversial. If you're looking for Perl work in London, please do get in touch!
Startup Patent Report for week of February 28, 2012
http://startupsip.com/2012/03/01/startup-patent-report-for-week-of-february-28-2012/
Companies profiled include Rebit, Cross Loop, Zoombak, Roundbox, MeLLmo, Talari Networks, Perceptive Pixel and OnLive.
Bill Millin D-Day Piper
http://www.economist.com/node/16885894?story_id=E1_TGRRVRJQ
Off topic, but anyone who laded on Normandy beach with just a pair of bagpipes is worth reading about. Puts things into perspective - we are so very lucky to be on the cutting edge of technology with a world of opportunity before us instead of dodging bullets in a ditch on the other side of the world.
Back to the future as DeLorean goes electric
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17428818
After nearly 30 years since the factory closed, the DeLorean is about to be given a new lease of life as an electric car.

Due to hit the market in early 2013, the company says the DMC-EV will cost $90,000 (£57,000) and is aiming for a first production run of 300 vehicles
Show HN: My free Ruby book PDF (CC license)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.leanpub.com/rubyisforfun.pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=0XBXHW3Q9GGV69BT7E82%2F20220208%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20220208T192120Z&X-Amz-Expires=518400&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=dbeac80a09f3fe6bc35ae99f5b7a1ab7d6bd99e453dafc65dad56024de01554b
The source is available right here https://github.com/ro31337/rubyisforfun
A tool to help me blog more
http://www.activeblogr.com/
This is something I built one night to convince myself to post more often to my blog. Hopefully, this will be useful to someone.
Street View on Google Maps now live in Botswana
http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2012/11/street-view-on-google-maps-now-live-in.html
Google slowly opening up Africa...
Shed Light to the Injustice of Kony (War Criminal in Uganda) on April 2012
http://www.kony2012.com/
JOSEPH KONY IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S WORST WAR CRIMINALS AND I SUPPORT THE INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO ARREST HIM, DISARM THE LRA AND BRING THE CHILD SOLDIERS HOME.

"Start making Kony famous today, but all of these efforts will culminate on one day; April 20th, when we cover the night. This is the day when we will meet at sundown and blanket every street in every city 'til the sun comes up. We will be smart, and we will be thorough. The rest of the world will go to bed Friday night and wake up to hundreds of thousands of posters, demanding justice on every corner."

On April 20, Invisible Children is organizing an event where posters with Kony’s name will be put up all over the nation. When everyone knows his name and what he has done, then justice will be demanded.