jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How Napoleon Bonaparte Built an Empire
http://www.nontoxin.com/how-napoleon-bonaparte-built-an-empire/
Napoleon Bonaparte has carved his name in the history books. Some say he was a masterful soldier. Some say he was a very charismatic statesman. Others say he was the best strategist who ever lived. Yes, he is all of that. But he became “Napoleon the Great” only because of one of his tactics. He created and ruled an empire only because of one secret.
Cops to Airbnb Host: No white people in this black neighborhood please
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0Q8PuvCrU
Cops tell Black Airbnb Host that it's not safe to have white guests here in the black neighborhood while questioning and interrogating her.
Bitcoin blockchain in redis visualized with d3.js
http://btclook.com/txn/ee56b14eac26272dfb036e776254029014eea1005ea8aac874c33ef4dff87282#e3a2f916a1ab4c18962e8a5ef9931ed4de588a06309ce13eec3976bd1df8486a,7dd5ba5501eaa8156568b9732983c118a9094f5c82f692cc6d0595b51aeb6802,67b3d848209f9973764dd059ca8dec393f1db334033e30d4b3c8e4582248918a,8b6473e9601cd9d50d90e3718bd54d9bf9d70402556ae42b18987ed832133bd9,6a7d6d49c6f5e5785c0f83dc8312a6a9661befbd58b4e7562d687aa4109dddc2,e72eaf2071e6f221d0500ac71de5d3c9581b311dcb41de7298f413495ca3b1d7,0c7afe7a7d9a9ce95fbbae57fc8ab25b83787e698205e682b473769c497ffdfb,9e4070fb3244971a23eaa958de88df88d3d3a1689a927244fe8381ca9ede5804,7a250081bd766d94e7b4ac99dc3f22fd24d2506cbdf9304c74128299875e4edc,646b2e398057a5bd1a31325b8984b2dbc76e4cf8af87e9a58f6157da9a952789,c139c6d0dff5c34cfac1f2f7c4409798cbc00f1277a7d1a7b68796da1c2f9e7a,440199fe23e7752d70089f6245bace29053aca364a1c5824a0617e72e74aff9b
I can't take credit for this but it is an amazing looking tool from btclook.com for navigating through the history of bitcoin transactions along the blockchain.

NOTE TO MODS: Apologies for previous submission - I did not use a url shortener this time
Non-linear film experience / unique every time you play
http://www.energyflow.io
hey HN - we're super excited and proud to share our first app release with you!

Energy Flow, a non-linear film experience on iOS and Android is now available for free from the App Store and Google Playstore.

Energy Flow explores the physical, social and spiritual tensions in our world, translating real-life events and processes into digital paintings in motion. The App weaves multiple story lines into an immersive, audio-visual experience that is unique every time it is played.

Enjoy!
Polar Charts with matplotlib
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2011/12/polar-charts-with-matplolib.html
This post shows how to make a polar chart with python.
Self Igniting Molotov Cocktails
http://www.totse.info/cms/self-igniting-molotov-cocktails
When made this way there are no open flames around the thrower. You will need sulfuric acid and potassium chlorate. both of these chemical are relatively safe to handle, simple to obtain, and reliable.
Help YC: Flickr/Facebook user survey
http://flickrhub.wufoo.com/forms/flickrhub-share-flickr-photos-w-facebook-users/
We're looking to build a Flickr Facebook app. Please help us with our survey as we build out the app! Thanks. - Steve

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FlickrHub: Share Flickr Photos w/ Facebook Users
Stop leaving your great Flickr photos unnoticed and un-complimented.
Bring your Flickr photos to Facebook. Discover and get complimented the easy way with our Facebook app!

We’re still building FlickrHub, but we’d love to learn more about you and how you use Flickr and Facebook. We’re going to fine tune the features on this app from these survey submissions.
Manage your Google ads preferences
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences
Check what google ads think you are interested in/knows about you and opt-out if you do not want ads targetted to you.
Ask HN: RapidMiner or R first for ML?
I'm updating my machine learning skills. Should I learn R or RapidMiner first? Any recommended free online classes?
Ask HN: Engineering Managers, What todo app you using to manage job?
Hi,

I am new engineering manager and sometimes I get overwhelm by multiple thread and different deadline associated with it. Sometimes, I tend to drop balls on smaller items specially which have less visibility. I want to ask hackers news Engineering Managers, can you suggest what todo app/task app/reminder app /strategy you use to efficiently plan your day and week. I am looking to evaluate long term and short term planning tool or process to efficiently operate my days.
Gas Lines Are For Morons: A Homebrew Emergency Gasoline Recipe
http://vimeo.com/52755747
How to make a quick and dirty auto fuel/gasoline substitute that'll run your car just fine with stuff you can buy readily at Home Depot.
Python library for Nexmo API: Meet the author
http://blog.nexmo.com/post/9620305804/marcopythonlibrary
Nexmo is a cloud based SMS API that lets you send
and receive high volume of messages at wholesale rates.
Node Ko - Unit Testing in the Cloud with CloudQ
http://www.benjamincoe.com/post/1029880698/unit-testing-in-the-cloud-with-node
We built a cloud-based QUnit testing framework using Node.JS, sandboxing, jQuery, and a lot of glue, for the Node Knockout Competition -- this is a blog post from in the trenches.
Google implements Apple's Ad Identifier for mobile tracking choice
http://blog.privacychoice.org/2012/09/27/do-not-track-arrives-for-mobile-apps-courtesy-of-apple-and-google-really/
Do Not Track is here for mobile apps. Is it good enough? Can anyone find it?
Show HN: AI that writes personalized intros for your cold emails
Hey HN,

Some people on here might know me from previous B2B lead gen projects -- something I'm very passionate about!

We've recently launched a new project that's a total game changer. It's an AI model that analyzes your prospects their online profiles, then writes a short, hyper-personalized intro for them you can use in your cold outreach.

Here's a 1-minute video that shows how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcgn2_H74RM

If you want to check it out have a look at Lyne.ai

And of course always looking for your feedback! :)
Histofme - This is the history of your life
http://www.histofme.com
Histofme is a site where you can write and share the chronicles of your life.
Record anything and everything you want to always remember about your life!
Even find your friends and see what they’ve been up to in their life.
Your job change in some way? Relationship changed – new girlfriend/boyfriend, newly single, recently married? Moved to a new city or house? Change your hair color or style, or get it cut? Started at a new school or graduated? Traveled to a new country? Bought a new car? Had a kid? Went to see your favorite band in concert? Anything else you want to always remember? Record the history of your life!
Dave McClure is Right, Silicon Valley Sucks At Markteting
http://prtipsforstartups.com/dave-mcclure-right-silicon-valley-sucks-markteting/
P.S. Yes, I know there's a typo at the title, but I just copied and paste the actual title from the blog itself.
Show HN: A simple, super-cheap DALL-E 2 GUI
https://dall-e.sonnet.io
I was running some tests and realised that it's up to 6 times cheaper to play with Dall-e 2 using their API instead of their editor (plus the API is pay-as-you-go).

This isn't anything complex or impossible to achieve using Jupyter notebooks. But some of my friends found it easier to use, so here you go.

To use, get your API key and start writing prompts.

More info and GH links: https://twitter.com/rafalpast/status/1591138659297726464
Realtime Bandwidth Grapher
https://github.com/pesarkhobeee/Realtime-Bandwidth-Grapher
Draw realtime bandwidth usage graph for specific network interfaces with HTML5 technology
Using Google Glass to Make SciFi Films–A Cyborg in New York
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psi-vid/2013/09/23/using-google-glass-to-make-scifi-films-a-cyborg-in-new-york/
Media entrepreneur and DIY filmmaker, Boonsri Dickinson , who also has a degree in Chemical Engineering, has created a short scifi film using Google Glass with some help from her iPhone! It’s about two friends (one human and a cyborg) who meet in a treehouse to discuss love.
Toolbar free competitor to stumbleupon
http://www.spinsnap.com
Would love to hear thoughts our feedback on this. SpinSnap.com is a discovery engine. Allows users to discover websites, music and people they would not normally disover in their everyday internet travels.
Linkception, sharing links and text like never before
http://linkception.co
hi, this is a new idea i came up with
what do you think?
http://linkception.co
Interactive way to learn python
http://interactivepython.org/courselib/static/thinkcspy/index.html
I've always wanted to learn python but just never seems to have time. I work 9-5 so it'd seem I should have the time, but so darn hard to find time. I'm using the above link now. Any thoughts on how you learnt a new language is welcomed.
Reminders by SMS using a clean UI
http://www.superminder.com
A simple, elegant app to schedule reminders by SMS or email.
Appengine finally has ssl support for custom domains
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl
I've been waiting for this for a while and saw the quota for the first time on my app dashboard today. Couldn't be more excited!
The costs are:
SSL VIPs $3.30/ Day
SSL SNI Certificates $0.06/ Day
Is Yahoo Messenger free? Guess again
http://blog.tetrack.com/2009/01/is-yahoo-messenger-free-guess-again/
I guess many of you know how much time it takes for this software to start, how much memory it uses and so on. However lately I discovered a more disturbing thing: it also eats POWER. Yes you heard me electric power.
Growing Fast: A (personal) Startup Journey
https://medium.com/@edwardjkim/806fe2fbe991
I was inspired by this blog post by Kyle Tibbitts to tell my own story. https://medium.com/@KyleTibbitts/56dddc17fa42
Proof that the sum of squares of the first n whole numbers is n^3/3 + n^2/2 + n/6
http://www.jgc.org/blog/2008/01/proof-that-sum-of-squares-of-first-n.html
In the thread about Bobby Fischer there was a short discussion of the number of squares on a chess board. I couldn't resist tackling the general nxn problem and deriving the proof. Turns out a picture really helps.
Launch HN: Lendtable (YC S20) – Helping you max out your 401(k) match and ESPP
Hello HN! http://lendtable.com co-founders, Mitchell and Sheridan here. We give people money to take advantage of their employer’s 401(k) match and ESPP

We started Lendtable because we've seen how difficult it can be to save money for retirement. Growing up in low-income black households, our parents had to give up thousands in free money from their employer every year so they could pay bills.

Lendtable's mission is to unlock that value, by giving everyone access to their full 401(k) match and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).

Here are just a few types of customers we serve today:

1. Those who have never contributed to their 401(k)

2. Those who have to decide between contributing to their 401(k) or paying off debt

3. Those who can afford to contribute but don't want to have their money locked up.

Using Lendtable you keep 90% of the employer match and we take 10% as our share. We take care of all taxes and fees!

At a high level the process works like this for someone who has a roth 401(k):

1. You have a 100% match up to $5,000 and are currently contributing $0 due to other obligations or constraints
2. You max out your 401k match and Lendtable gives you the $5,000 that you are now missing from your paycheck
3. Now with your Lendtable Cash ($5,000) and 401(k) match ($5,000) you now have $10,000 in your 401(k)
4. At the end of the year, once the money vests, Lendtable takes back their principal ($5,000) and $500 from the match
5. You know have $4,500 in your 401(k) that otherwise would not be there

traditional 401(k)s also work great, we just account for income taxes on the advance :)

If we can help you, or someone you know, get started at http://lendtable.com

Youtube videos for more explanation:

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNkx3X_Fmu8)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSjM7QAZZMg)

We'd love to hear from you! Hit us up with any feedback and/or questions. We are always looking for ways to improve!
Doug James Teaches a 17 year old to Build an App in 6 hours Using Game Salad
http://tapfortap.com/blog/doug-james-teaches-a-17-year-old-to-build-an-app-in-6-hours-using-game-salad
Doug James from Jaxel Studios comes by the podcast to chat about Game Salad, its low cost and ease of use. We also talk about analytics platforms and app testing products.
Cyber Security Awareness Week
http://isis.poly.edu/csaw
If you're in high-school or college, this is a great opportunity to test your infosec skills against your peers, and hopefully earn a little prize money in the process.

"ISIS Lab is organizing NYU-Poly's 5th annual Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) where students can compete and win prizes in a variety of information security challenges. There will be door prizes, raffles for participating, and bonus prizes for undergrad and high school participants. Qualified finalists will receive a travel scholarship to attend the awards ceremony in New York City."

There are a number of events, including an application security "capture the flag" challenge, a security quiz which covers everything from cryptography to risk management, and a 5-day forensics puzzle.

This looks like a lot of fun. Some of the contest materials become available at the beginning of September, so sign up soon if you're interested in participating.

Ref: http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2008/07/cyber_security_awareness_week.html
Show HN Exceptional Emails
http://exceptionalemails.com
I get a few emails from cronjobs and backup things, they are rather dull, so I set up rules to shove them in folders out of the way - which means I wouldn't really notice if one failed to turn up - and I can't make a mail filter rule that fires if something doesn't happen. I started building a system to sort out this problem and finished it a couple of days ago. You can set up rules for the emails you expect to turn up, the system will notify you of exceptions, so the only mails you get are the ones you need to care about.
Where the Internet lives– Inside Google's data centers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=avP5d16wEp0
Here's a link to the accompanying article:

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/10/17/where-the-internet-lives-google-invites-you-in-to-see-its-data-centers/
Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery
http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/11/28/typography-effects-with-css3-and-jquery/
Set of nice typography effects for big headlines using CSS3 and jQuery.
In Pandora's Big Data Music Experiments, Listeners Are Lab Rats
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3015729/in-pandoras-big-data-experiments-youre-just-another-lab-rat
To Young, the change in repetition felt subtle. Coincidental, even. It wasn't. Changes like this are part of Pandora's ongoing experimentation in how best to deliver music to its listeners.
#RoastMyStartup: Launched new MVP
Hey Hackernews!

I'm working on https://AFLO.io -- we're a marketplace for marketing strategies. We connect entrepreneurs to expert marketers at affordable prices, and we send you actionable marketing and sales strategies specifically designed for entrepreneurs.

We write practical blog posts on growth like:

- Listle’s (YC S19) zero to 7000+ Users Strategy in <1 year (https://aflo.io/blog-post/Listles-YC-S19-zero-to-7000-Users-...)

- 100+ Places to Launch/Share your Product (https://aflo.io/blog-post/100-Places-to-Launch-Share-your-Pr...)

We just launched a new landing page at https://aflo.io and we're looking for feedback! #RoastUs
Yahoo Claims Record With PostgreSQL Petabyte Database
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/database/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207801436&subSection=
"Yahoo's data needs are substantial. According to Hasan, the travel industry's Sabre system handles 50 million events per day, credit card company Visa handles 120 million events a day, and the New York Stock Exchange has handled over 225 million events in a day. Yahoo, he said, handles 24 billion events a day, fully two orders of magnitude more than other non-Internet companies."
Dragonfly - a fast and embeddable web framework
http://www.rundragonfly.com
Dragonfly is a web framework for newLISP. It focuses on speed, small memory consumption and a small learning curve. Other goodies are a plug and play architecture for plugins and a very easy deployment.

This thing even runs on a Nokia N900 really fast :)
Twitter IPO Sentiment
http://twitteripo.knowsis.com
Using websockets and Knowsis API
Ask HN: Why is Facebook ️ranking posts with emojis higher⬆️?
I've heard that Facebook feed algorithm tends to prefer posts with emojis. There are more and more of them. For me using emojis in such redundant way as in the title (repeating the information expressed using words with graphics) is extremely annoying, but it seems to be a new trend. I find it worrying that Facebook promotes it even further.

Edit: I included way more emojis in the original title, but HN automatically removed them after submitting.
Show HN: LongPW - I'm experimenting with this idea. Feedback is welcome
http://longpw.com
I have been using it for a few weeks personally and it actually doesn't get in my way. I'm using it for my Github, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, HackerNews accounts.

Please feel free to leave feedback and contribute fork the repository.
FBI to announce new Net-wiretapping push
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20032518-281.html
The FBI is expected to reveal tomorrow that because of the rise of Web-based e-mail and social networks, it's "increasingly unable" to conduct certain types of surveillance that would be possible on cellular and traditional telephones.
New Virus Reinstalls IE6 on Infected Machines
http://tatiyants.com/new-virus-reinstalls-ie6-on-infected-machines/
A new computer virus called KaBlueE is spreading havoc around the internet by re-installing IE6 on infected machines. The timing of this pandemic is especially devastating in light of the fact that IE6 usage has finally dropped below 1%.
Show HN: StartupTalks.tv – A curated collection of startup related videos
http://www.startuptalks.tv/home
Let me know what you think! Just launched. Not enough inspiring engineering talks yet, so if you know of any, I would appreciate your suggestions :)
Let People Create Their Own Tutorials
http://www.tildee.com
Webapp, easy and user friendly interface. Create a step-by-step tutorial with images/Gmap/videos.
Ask HN: Tell Us Your Best RILT(Remember It Like This..)
We are crowd sourcing all those things you have learned which started with "Remember It Like This.." You can add it to www.riltpedia.com or we will collect from the comments.

Try to stay away from "mnemonics" :) The problem is that they are not "intrinsically linked" to the subject/factoid.
Is it possible to build an app just by asking the right questions?
http://www.quora.com/Stack-Overflow-4/Is-it-possible-to-build-an-app-just-by-asking-the-right-questions-on-stack-overflow
Self descriptive
Google to Encourage Americans to Get Online
http://www.billhartzer.com/pages/google-to-encourage-americans-to-get-online/
From what I can tell based on a large purchase of domain names today by Google, the online search giant is planning some sort of campaign to encourage us to get online. Google has purchased a large number of State-related domain names including Get Online America, including the get online phrase along with a State name.
Sorting out the massacres performed by OOM Killer
http://orvtech.com/en/howto/script-orden-masacres-oom-killer/
Simple script that will help you manipulate the candidates and scores of the OOM Killer. Ensuring your preferred services will keep running at the expenses of others.
RE:put.io post on HN
http://sameers.freeshell.org/why/
Link to the post in subject
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7175210
Can't reply on thread.Possibly because:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1985981
Open source 3D pie menus for Unity3D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMN1LQ7qx9g
I've made free open source pie menus for Unity3D! I'll write some documentation and more demos soon, and put it on the Unity3D app store. Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMN1LQ7qx9g Here's the source code: http://www.donhopkins.com/home/PieMenuDemo/PieMenuDemo.zip<p>They're written in C#, and support text items, image items, and 3d object items too! I've tried to make it general purose and easy to build pie menus and integrate them into your own applications.<p>Here's a silly demo, showing a set of SimCity pie menus:
http://www.donhopkins.com/home/PieMenuDemo/PieMenuDemo.html<p>They have a full set of useful notifiers so you can tightly integrate them with your application to give rich feedback during tracking (for example, modifying the 3D menu items, or previewing the effect of the menu item and distance parameter in real time, making them more like "direct manipulation").<p>For example, to show how you can implement feedback like The Sims pie menus with the head in the center that looks at the selected item, I've made a 3d object in the pie menu center with the webcam texture on it, so YOUR head is in the center of the menu, looking at the selected item! (That's why the demo asks for permission to use the webcam.)<p>The pie menu and each item has a title as well as a description. One feature I've added is the ability not only to disable an item, but also to provide an explanation of why the item is disabled! (PacMan in the demo is disabled, for example.) I wish other menus and widgets would do that -- it's frustrating when you can find an item you want, but can't figure out why it's disabled!<p>Another nice thing about them is that you can either configure algorithmically with an API, or with JSON data (which makes it easy to make dynamic data driven menus downloaded from a server or database), or construct them in the Unity3D editor out of objects (which makes it easier for artists to design them)!
Ask HN: Can I have this HN feature for Christmas?
I love Hacker News. It quickly became my #1 favorite site in 2010. But, I really hate that stories don't open in a new tab. I click on a link to read a story, then close the tab when I'm done--forgetting Hacker News is click back. This leaves me having to open a new tab to come back to HN. This happens a few times a day. It's just not good.

Hacker News, can you make offsite links open in a new tabs? Please?
The Most Powerful Picture of 2013 For Me
https://medium.com/p/755f7b9557ff
Reflecting upon “equal justice under law”
Deploying Sinatra with Vlad
http://effectif.com/articles/deploying-sinatra-with-vlad
Short article explaining how to deploy a Sinatra web application with Vlad the Deployer.
Crowd sourced techcrunch
http://crunchyideas.blogspot.com/
What's wrong/good with this thought
The 24/7 lab
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110831/full/477020a.html
Working weekends. Leaving at midnight. Friday evening meetings. Does science come out the winner?
Startup success in 2015
video.foxbusiness.com/v/3965557782001/will-startup-success-continue-in-2015#sp=show-clips
Ask HN: Recommendations for Working from Home as a Team?
I work in a company where we are used to working in the office. The motivation is starting to dwindle and I feel like productivity will be next.
ANy tips, tools or other thoughts that might help cope with the covid-19 quarantine?
Citi Cannot Access User Accounts
I don't have a source because I am the source!

Just tried to purchase gas, debit card declined. Called Citi and support said they currently could not access user account info and to call back in 30 minutes. They couldn't even verify social security numbers.

I wonder if it's a hack?