jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Group buying: Fad or future Facebook? 
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/01/06/group.buying.2011.prospects/index.html
Group buying websites enjoyed massive growth in 2010 grabbing new customers and the headlines as the sector's biggest player, Groupon turned down a reported $6 billion offer from Google in early December.
Love some feedback on our search interface middlespot.com
http://middlespot.com/
We're hacking out a different kind of search interface, by applying the principles of online cartography to data points. We've built this in our part time and would like some feedback if people think its worth continuing to develop.

Thanks,
Scott
Ask HN: Good Example of Back Up File to Pitch Deck?
Hi HN - my co-founder and I have been trying to agree on the content of, not only the pitch deck, but the back up business plan & file that would accompany it should an investor ask.

Does anyone have good links or examples of the content & format to the back up file / business plan that would accompany the summarized pitch deck?

Thanks in advance,
pbrowne
Experience with Alibaba.com
I have an online brand that I'm looking to sell some cheap tshirts with a simple logo for a small revenue stream to complement my site.

Has anyone used alibaba.com to order any such items? I've never done anythign like order 2000 shirts from china, hah.

thanks.
Ask HN: NY Times submissions 
I'm not sure if this has been covered before: After going around the signup wall for the 5th time, is there a better way for HN to handle NY Times articles?

Here's what I do everytime: (1) click on article. (2) Highlight article title, search on Google. (3) click.

options I can think of:
1. Include link to one pager automatically
2. Add [NYTimes] prefix to title.
Google testing OpenID support in Blogger
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/30/google-trialling-openid-with-blogger-may-offer-openids-to-users/
Maybe this will help OpenID become mainstream. If nothing else, they're sure to have a solution for the phishing concerns.
The Apple security hole
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/02/extremely-critical-crypto-flaw-in-ios-may-also-affect-fully-patched-macs/
goto fail;

Indeed.
Bugfreak a free opensource bug tracker for .net and android
https://www.bugfreak.co/
While we where working on our latest startup (omnipasteapp.com) we needed a way to get reports on application crushes from our early adopter. Existing solutions where either to expensive for a startup or did not had support for all the platforms we needed.

So we created bugfreak used a couple of weeks and then opensourced it:

https://github.com/agilefreaks/apibugfreak - the api and web app, same app as www.bugfreak.co so you can fork it and deploy it on your own server

https://github.com/Agilefreaks/winbugfreak - the .net clients (wpf, silverlight, aps mvc)

https://github.com/Agilefreaks/droidbugfreak - the android client

All packages are available in nuget and maven

As always PR are more than welcomed. Let us know what platform you want to have support for next (rails is already on the roadmap)
How Can Cloud IDEs Save Your Time?: Build and Deploy – Part 2
http://www.cloudtweaks.com/2013/01/how-can-cloud-ides-save-your-time-build-and-deploy-part-2/
IDE in a cloud uses cloud’s resources on demand to make development process more productive. You can win a minute or so by decreasing IDE boot time. It might look insignificant, but just multiply those minutes to your time size. Add those seconds to the time you can save with faster builds and deploys, and you will get an extra coffee break every day. With an IDE installed on a local machine, your productivity pretty much depends on specs of your laptop or PC.
Ask HN: Do you think one of my side projects has a future?
Hello,

Recently I started one side project - ilikeprogramming.com . My idea for it was to become an fan-based index for the programming languages popularity.

So do you think such an site/idea has any future?

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Well, I have a few issues with it.

1) The voting system.
I use twitter currently, because it adds greater value to the votes and also it spreads the idea for the site. However some people have reported that they don't want to post any twits and just want to vote. Do you think an anonymous voting system could be better?

2) The promotion of the site.
I'll be happy to get some advices about way to promote such an idea. I have tried with presenting the idea here in HN, however it was not enough.

Thank you for your time,
Stan.
Vim code snippet: refactor Javascript statements faster
https://gist.github.com/3703356#comments
Refactor dense statements by splitting expressions out into variables. Also useful for selecting arguments of function calls.
Show HN: Minimalist S&P 500 Ticker for the Mac menu bar
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spicker/id1639548770?mt=12
Barely worth a mention but I whipped this up for my own purpose and figured I might as well submit it to the MAS. S&P 500 Ticker, updates every minute, switches to Futures when the market is closed.
Ask HN: Javascript tour for new users?
I am thinking about implementing a javascript "tour" for new users that join my app. When a user signs up, they would be redirected to the dashboard. On this page, nice looking Javascript flash divs would fade in, explain a certain aspect of the app with text (think speach bubbles), fade out, and repeat a few times to cover the main features (all on the same dashboard page). It wouldn't be difficult to implement, and I think it would be a great way to introduce the user to the app in under a minute. It's either that or a welcome message and a quick video (screen capture style).

Thoughts?
HTML5 Video Player Plugins
http://pursuemobile.com/free-html5-video-players/
Free HTML5 Video Player Plugins, Reviews & Solutions.
Top Blogs Censored in China
http://www.sproutly.com/2007/08/10/top-blogs-censored-in-china/
The experiment: I tried to access the Technorati Top 100 list. The blog rankings are determined how many other websites link to these top blogs. I used Safari and the command prompt to see which blog timed-out
Show HN: Bezier Curve Generator from Letters
https://beziercurves.com
Hello,

This is a web app that lets you generate some bezier curves that you can then paste into your vector editor and practise tracing.

It is a MVP.

Feedback welcome, thanks,

Enzo
SugarSync Removes Forever Free 5GB Plan Limits to 90 Days
http://www.onlinebackupreviews.org/sugarsync-away-unlimited-time-5gb-syncing-plan/
Apparently SugarSync now removed the forever free plan. WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY SINGED UP?
PPI Framework: GeoLocation with FourSquare and Google Maps
https://twitter.com/ppi_framework/status/294461059786481664
In this article, we're going to learn how to work with the PPI framework as a whole by writing a real-world application. In order to achieve this we are will use the Foursquare API, and APC for caching the API lookups. We will plot venues from Foursquare in Google Maps for display.
Play, Travel, and the Meaning of Life
https://medium.com/@jordanwander/play-travel-the-meaning-of-life-52fd399b478e
Apologies if this is a re-submission.
Thoughts on MVP Business Concept
http://www.fontstory.com
A flash sale business model for designer fonts.

What are your thoughts?

http://www.fontstory.com
Ask HN: Where do you buy .io domains?
Where do you buy .io domains?
How to use bathroom time effectively
http://productivity.stackexchange.com/questions/3729/how-to-use-bathroom-time-effectively
Do geeks take time and productivity a little too seriously? Seriously?!
Writing Clean Maintainable JavaScript
http://developers.freshbooks.com/blog/view/writing_clean_maintainable_javascript/
Some tips/tricks I've picked up from a year and a bit of heavy JavaScript development.
Ask HN: What hardware design do you love?
Ok, it might sounds silly but there are pieces of hardware that I find incredibly beautiful. I was curious to know what HN readers have in mind about this topic.

For me, there are 2 objects I find wonderful and can look at it for hours:

- The RaspberryPI Zero because of its size and design. The circuit is wonderful (the mix of gold and green) and how powerful it is for its size. I'm still amazed that this is a computer.

- The MiniDisc because it looks like a something retro but also futuristic. I never had a player, I only have a blank disc I bought before it disappear. It's also a format you will see in movies (like Matrix or Interstella 5555). I think because I never used one, it feels like I'm holding some kind some sci-fi object. I assume how silly it sounds for an old (and failed) music format.

What's yours?
Read what Paul Graham's newspaper probably looks like
http://presseract.com/hyp_pg
This is not affiliated / sponsored by PG or YC.

We are showing off our startup to get feedback.

Startup summary: On Presseract, users create and share their own newspapers. Users can add sources / feeds (via boxes) from other profiles to theirs, comment / tag their friends on news-worthy items, and share their presence on the web in a unique way: experience other people's internet.

Would love to get some feedback from the HN community.
NoSQL and non explicit schemas does not free you from modelling
http://danielwertheim.se/2014/01/24/nosql-and-non-explicit-schemas-does-not-free-you-from-modelling/
A really short post about the whole flexible schemas in NoSQL land and how easy it is to store data and let the design of it evolve by time. “You just throw some JSON in there and then start harvest the data with some nifty queries.” I’m saying, no you are not freed from not thinking about your data model, because the shape of it will need to vary depending on how you will consume the data.
How We’re Using Amazon Web Services
http://blog.moustach.io/post/19661899781/how-we-are-using-amazon-web-services
This is not ground breaking AWS usage, but I would like to share how I am using AWS for my experiment. I am most interested in getting some feedback on how I can further use AWS for the application described in the post. Thanks for reading.
Poll on new proposal to channel patent trolling
https://plus.google.com/112648813199640203443/posts/1EyXtb5GakL
How about this - create a royalty pool nad point all trolls to fight over the contents of the pool, making sure no troll can directly go to any company/project by coordinated laws/policies. Simple but powerful approach.
AWS Free Usage Tier Now Includes Amazon CloudFront
http://aws.amazon.com/es/about-aws/whats-new/2014/05/08/aws-free-usage-tier-now-includes-amazon-cloudfront/
We are excited to announce that starting May 1, 2014, the AWS Free Usage Tier benefits will include Amazon CloudFront, AWS’s content delivery web service. Free-tier eligible customers can now try Amazon CloudFront at no additional cost. The free tier for Amazon CloudFront includes up to 50 GB data transfer and 2,000,000 requests per month aggregated across all AWS edge locations. Please visit the AWS Free Usage Tier page for more information.

Getting started with Amazon CloudFront is easy. To learn more, visit the Amazon CloudFront detail page and the Amazon CloudFront Developer Guide. You can also join technical experts from Amazon CloudFront for an interactive “Office Hours” session on May 27th, 2014 from 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST. These online sessions enable a technical audience to interact directly with our engineers in the form of a live Q&A. Register for Amazon CloudFront Office Hours here.
"The Web does not need flash"
http://www.stimuli.com.br/trane/2010/feb/01/the-web-doe-not-need-flash/
A few thoughts on the future of flash from someone who makes a living from it.
They want to feel like artists... (a buzz from reddit)
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9vglo/dae_find_programmers_difficult_to_work_with/
Favorite quote: But unlike actual free-thinkers, they constantly seek refuge in argument by authority, blindly quoting their favorite gurus to support their positions.
I made the wikileaks android app. Any tips on features? thoughts?
I submitted the first version of my wikileaks android app last week.
However, I did not have an android device to test on so there were a couple bugs. Anyway, I have now fixed those bugs I think and have also launched a Pro version which cost $1.99.
All profits going directly to wikileaks.
I'm really interested to know what you all think about the app.If you do like the app, please leave me a comment and a rating as that really helps!

Wikileaks Pro Link: http://www.appbrain.com/app/wikileaks-pro/air.wikileakspro

Wikileaks Free Link: http://www.appbrain.com/app/wikileaks/air.wikileaks

Guardian Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/dec/21/apple-wikileaks-app

TLDR: I made an app for viewing wikileaks, where 100% of the profits go directly to wikileaks. Just wanted some tips for features too.
Awesome (font)
http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
This has saved me a ton of time mocking up designs. Not how it would affect performance 'tho.
ACTA: A SOPA By Any Other Name
http://www.theurbn.com/2012/02/acta-sopa-pipa/
Includes links to take action against ACTA in Europe
PHP - Partial constructor application
https://github.com/rubendg/php-partial-constructor
A weekend project. I'm curious about your opinions.
Ask HN: Help / Advice on getting a job in Europe?
Evening fellow HN's and a Happy New Year. This isn't easy for me but I do need some help/advice on how I can go about getting a job in Europe. I'm 34 and I recently got my BA in Psychology. I have very little work experience and it has been nagging at me not being able to contribute economically to my family, who has been fabulous supporting me for so long.

I live in Central America and my first language is English. I will work as anything, whether it is as an English teacher (No experience), in human resources, fetching coffee, anything to get a foot in Europe. I do have a EU passport so no issues there.

I know some Python. Did the Coursera class and read the book Programming for Everybody (Python) (For whoever wants to learn to code that is a fantastic class). I've dabbled a bit in Git, twice or thrice. I 'code' in notepadd++ and CMD. I have a bit of experience with linux distros but I'm still very noobish when it comes to a lot of things and not only linux distros. I also dabbled a bit in R and RStudio but dropped it to focus
on learning (to code) Python properly. My goals when it comes to coding is to learn Haskell / Clojure / lisp / Erlang just for the sheer joy of it and / or to see if I can. My life goal is to write a few books, fictional because that is the one thing I'm not sure I could ever be good at (of course there are skills I know I can never be good at, like dancing. If you ever saw my parents dancing you'd know) and to be happy.

If you want to know the type of person I am, over at XDA, search for the "ace think tank" thread in the desire hd forum. I didn't know much but enjoyed helping when I could. If I didn't know how to solve an issue, I would either try and point the person in the right direction or get someone else to help them. Same username.

I looked through the "who's hiring" requires knowledge I don't have yet to be able to apply to something.

"All I need is a little help from my friends"
What is Sexting?
http://answers.thiscouldbehuge.com/questions/what-is-sexting/92/#answer165
A sad example of technology being used pervertedly.
Is someone censoring internet sites from Iran?
http://startupkarma.com/?p=48#comment-7
Internet ninjas I beg of you, please help me figure this out. I recently wrote a blog post predicting a US invasion of Iran in 2008. I received one comment from a poster from this url http://iran.tedtheblog.info/?p=20109 but when I point my browser to that url it resolves to http://www.everyrecipe.info/

Am I just being paranoid or is someone really re-directing traffic away from this address? If so is there any way I can determine if it is my ISP or a central dns that is blocking selected traffic?

Thanks for your help, this thing has me spooked.

Update: I've posted the same question on my blog http://startupkarma.com/?p=49
Feel free to leave a comment either here or there. Thanks.
Gap to Return to Old Logo
http://adage.com/article?article_id=146417
After a well crafted media campaign, there's no place like home.
Webhook, a static site generator with a CMS
http://www.webhook.com
Hey all. I'm just finishing my static site generator that comes with a built-in, drag and droppable CMS. I asked for some feedback a couple weeks ago in the "Help Me Out" posts and ended up making a proper intro video for it as well as releasing our documentation.

I'm taking the product to Kickstarter to drum up my first month of sales and keep the project completely bootstrapped. It's going pretty well after one day and figured the HN crowd might be interested. I think we've come up with a pretty novel way to bridge the gap between a full CMS and the ease of use of static site generators. Really impressed with firebase as a realtime data store.

I'm also happy to answer any questions about launching something like this on Kickstarter if anyone has any questions for their own projects. Outside of the funding, we mainly did it to have a rough idea of how much infrastructure to build for our first few months.

As to the domain, which I'm sure people will have questions about... we originally had some ideas for incorporating a bunch of webhooks into the CMS that would generate auto-deploys based upon actions from other services. It didn't make it into our v1, but the plans are still there.

It's a fully hosted solution at the moment, but we're going to try to open up the production server for self-hosters later in the year.
Front End Developer Needed ASAP
http://itiswhatitis.wadewilliams.com/2011/08/front-end-developer-needed-at-local.html
I'm having a real hard time finding a great candidate. I'm not sure if it's because the company is in Phoenix, or what the deal is. Please help.
This is what's wrong with the news business.
http://skitch.com/amerine/b2h3u/the-associated-press-minn-couple-s-wedding-aisle-groove-a-youtube-hit
Another example of where they miss the point.
Kanban-trello.js
https://github.com/haf/kanban-trello.js
I've written a script that you might find useful: with this script installed kanban-columns get colourised orange if there's too little work in them and red if there's too much. Awesome for YOUR stand-up for this morning!

Upvote for great good.

MIT-licensed; basically, do what you want with it ;)
Show HN: Netograph, privacy snapshots of the social web
http://netograph.com
The first-iteration launch of a new privacy-related project of mine. Comments and suggestions appreciated!
Mentionmap - Visualize Twitter interactions.
http://apps.asterisq.com/mentionmap/
Discover which people interact the most and what they're talking about.
Review my startup
http://www.gouniq.com
We connect individual stores to one checkout. Any feedback would be great.
Show HN: Clip War
http://www.clipwar.com
Just wanted to show off my weekend project. Carry on.
Microsoft Studios in Vancouver, BC lays off all 35 staff
http://kotaku.com/5929141/microsoft-shuts-down-vancouver+based-studio
"Microsoft Studios has shut down its Vancouver office and laid off all 35 staff. Also halted MS Flight and Project Columbia"<p>https://twitter.com/24hoursvan/status/228585945946013698<p>"Microsoft Studios has shut down its Vancouver office and laid off all 35 staff. Also halted MS Flight and Project Columbia"<p>https://twitter.com/24hoursvan/status/228588277987434496<p>First we lost Radical then we lost Rockstar, now we lost a Microsoft Studio. Sad times for our city.
How We Bought Washington Post Religion Section for $2
http://ryanmelogy.com/post/75503894872/we-bought-the-washington-post-religion-section-for-2
The Story of the "other" sales of the Washington Post, and how FaithStreet bought it for $2.
Ask HN:  How do you use SSH?
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V7B88XX
I've seen SSH authentication done in many ways by different companies. I'm curious how the masses to SSH.

Please take my survey! =)
Show HN: Grepr – an FPS where you are the bullet, created in seven days
http://et1337.itch.io/grepr
Argh - its "grepr", lowercase. I guess HN has some title casing logic specifically for Show HN posts.
Show HN: I Dissected an iPhone Battery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWYAA5NMLMg
Peeled off layer by layer to see how the fruit tasted inside.
(DON'T do it at home. I had protection)
Khan-quality educational videos for biochemistry etc
http://www.youtube.com/user/armandohasudungan
I am a normal IT guy with some interest in origins of life, evolution, how the body works etc.

I was reading up on basic cell chemistry in wikipedia, and clicked my way to "lipid bilayer". I always found it pretty hard to read and understand about these topics, and wanted to see some animation that illustrated it. The video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ILSsW3tXr8 really did the trick for me. It seems I have 70 or so more videos in related subjects to watch now!
A Year of Rdio
http://robweychert.com/writing/year-of-rdio/
Rob Weychert about his experiences with Rdio. Very similar to my own experiences: There is so much music that it diminishes the meaning of individual songs, albums and artists.
Web-based payment/lending platform offers 0% interest loans to college students
http://www.unithrive.org/
peer-to-peer lending and microfinance are talked about a lot these days and lots of companies that have built lending platforms on the web have become super successful...here's one that facilitates alumni to student loans at 0% interest..
Show HN: Curacel (YC W22) Plaid for Insurance in Africa
https://www.curacel.co/
# *We’re building [Curacel](https://curacel.co) - API to embed insurance into any business in Africa*

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At Curacel, our goal is to make it easy and pleasant to get & use insurance in emerging markets.

We are building the rails to make insurance work for the next billion Africans.

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# *Problem*

Selling insurance in Africa is still offline and manual, insurers need to integrate with online distribution partners for more reach. Every insurer needs to build the same integrations with every distribution partner, having each one of them do it makes it expensive and time consuming for both parties, ultimately making insurance more expensive and out of reach for middle-class, price-sensitive Africans.

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# *Solution*

We enable *tech companies to sell & process insurance across Africa*

With our API any company can display a real time insurance quote on their product and complete a purchase without leaving the app. With 1 API any company can add any insurance to their product across all 54 countries in Africa and soon across LatAm and Asia.

![Screen Shot 2022-03-10 at 1.47.05 PM.png](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/...)

We are working with YC companies like Flutterwave, PayHippo, Float, Send, Topship etc.

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# *Ask*

- Contact us if you wants to offer insurance in your product.
- Intros to digital businesses (Travel booking,Logistics, E-commerce) who can embed insurance in their service

Reach Us at founders@curacel.co
Show HN: annotated drum machine for the Novation Launchpad, in Chuck
http://orel.li/17WM1OX
a musician friend of mine is interested in learning a bit about programming, so I wrote a simple drum machine and annotated the source. The drum machine itself is designed for the Novation Launchpad, so it can't be played without the proper device. That's probably going to severely limit the audience, but I figure it's still worth sharing on HN, so that people can see a bit of what Chuck looks like, for simple things.
Show HN: Texterous.com
https://texterous.com/wizard
Write with the Help of Artificial Intelligence
Welcome to the Troposphere
http://ananelson.com/blog/2010/04/welcome-to-the-troposphere/
"Tropo pretends to be a cloudy voicy serious businessy thing, but really it’s just a big fun toy written for me and all my fellow geeks who have always wanted to hack a phone system but never got around to it."