jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Step CI API Testing and Monitoring Tool Now Open Source
https://stepci.com
Hi, this is Mish and Sebastian. We’re building Step CI, a Continuous Integration platform that lets you test, monitor and secure your APIs.

Step CI Command Line Interface and test runner are now open source on GitHub (https://github.com/stepci/stepci). Our goal is to build the best tool for managing APIs, so we decided to share our work with the open-source community.

We want to make it easy and free to use Step CI, no login required.

With Step CI, we offer a simple way to write tests that are programming-language independent and work for different API paradigms (REST, GraphQL, XML).

We started working on Step CI after meeting on YC’s Startup School. Mish is responsible for the tech, while Sebastian takes care of business operations.

We’d very much appreciate if you could try our product and give us feedback. Thank you to all who have already contibuted!

You can also reach out to us via e-mail (hello@stepci.com) or our matrix community (https://matrix.to/#/#stepci:matrix.org).

Thanks in advance for trying our tool!

Mish and Sebastian
John King Wins Truck Series Race at Daytona
http://www.onlinetrucksusa.com/news/truck-news/2012/john-king-wins-truck-series-race-at-daytona.html
The rookie John King went on to win the Truck Series race by just wrecking the leader by few minutes. Out of the three attempts at a green-white-checkered finish, King turned the leader Johnny Sauter around on the second attempts and won the race at Daytona International Speedway on Friday night
10 Secret Facebook Apps
http://thestandard.com/news/2008/06/04/10-cool-facebook-applications-you-ve-probably-never-heard-should
Sure there is a lot of junk apps on facebook, the Standard took the trouble to try to find 10 that might actually be worth using.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a Spam-call Blocker for your phone?
Would HackerNews be interested in a personal phone system that not only blocks spam callers, but also has pre-screening (e.g caller states their name before picking up phone), and working hours (i.e phone only rings at certain times, other wise goes to voicemail)?

Somehow my phone number was leaked and I am getting bombarded with spam calls. I am thinking of building a personal PBX system that solves this. Google Voice falls short and hasn't been updated in years.

Anyone else experiencing the same problems and/or looking at similar solutions?
Fairfax Pizza Delivery
http://www.vocellipizza.com/fairlakes_va
Fairfax pizza Sub and Food delivery restaurant: best pizza and italian restaurant pizza specials, delivery menus, coupons. Party Platters,Catering Platters.
Show HN: Rundmz – library for runnable Markdown for tutorials and demos
https://github.com/openziti/runzmd
I put together a library in Golang which lets you use Markdown in a literate programming style. Blockquotes and comments can specify associated actions, calling back into your Go code. This lets you create tutorials and scripts which can be viewed in a browser or run on the command line. We use this in the OpenZiti project (https://github.com/openziti/ziti) for our tutorials and demos. I thought others might be interested in using the code or even just the concept.
Ask HN: How do you use Rust at work?
I like to find ways to use a variety of languages at work when it makes sense. For example, Python/Pandas is great for dealing with spreadsheets and other large data sets, Go gives a speed boost over interpreted languages for REST endpoints. JavaScript for front end stuff of course.

Try as I might, I can't think of any specific use case that makes Rust more compelling than another language for general programming tasks. I don't work with anything embedded or otherwise low level where the lack of a GC would be necessary. Are there any tasks you have found Rust to be a good fit for in your day job, where you otherwise might have reached another language?
Box-Muller Transformation with Numpy
http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/2013/01/box-muller-transformation.html
This post shows how to generate normally distributed random numbers from uniformly distributed random numbers using the Box-Muller transformation in Python.
Funniest Siri Videos Ever
http://devstand.com/2012/02/08/really-funny-siri-videos/
Siri, our favorite personal assistant is also the most popular native feature on iPhone 4S and also the source of inspiration for many entertainment websites like CollegeHumor, FunnyOrDie or even for YouTube members. Check out the funniest Siri Video ever!
Ghetto up any Twitter author/tweet
http://twiggr.com/PrinceCharles/status/2481523289
twiggr.com/<twitter account>
Jam: Nifty collaborative jukebox using Spotify
http://letsj.am/
Not sure how long this has been around, but we've been using it at work and it's pretty cool. Everyone can add and upvote songs—no more playlist domination!

Would love to see a desktop version in the future.
Sign up for every beta you come across? You might consider the Beta Society.
http://blog.chaoscollective.org/post/28563801204/the-beta-society
If chosen, you'll get early access to all Chaos Collective projects. Why sign up for just one, when you can have all the betas :)
Mega-Search.me Blocked By Mega
http://mega-search.me/
"Due to a script developed by Mega to delete all files indexed by Mega-search, the engine is temporarily unavailable. A solution to overcome this problem will be made shortly."
Hacker News Redesign - Content More Consumable 
http://designbycoffee.com/hacker-news-redesign-more-consumable/
Some common-sense tweaks that would make HN way more usable. Vote up if you want a better UX on Hacker News!
Ask HN: What non-computer system have you hacked to your advantage?
What non-computer system have you hacked to your advantage?
Hacker News May 1st Edition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOiDv_aAk7k
TOP NEWS

Top Stories
sOny, AnonOps, Malware Goes Mac
News
Research Fought the Law, Cruiser Cam Configs, Rent to Pwn, solo-ng
ToolTime
Updates: Hydra, MosCrack, JTR, NCrack, SAMHAIN, Seccubus, MOD Security, ARPon, PacketFence, SysInternals, JQuery, Java, BackBox Linux, OpenBSD, Metasploit, WhisperCore
New: AntiXSS for ASP.NET, PHP Vulnerability Hunter, Malware Analyzer, NeXpose Ruby API, SQL Dumper
Quickies
Celebrity Twitts, Rabobank Down, CybaTerminators, Best Breach, I Love You, Phreaking Not Dead, NCIJT Under-powered, Grade Changing Games
ConFu
BruCon Venue Change, Source Conference Round-up, SecTOR CFP, to LayerOne in LA, No Sleep Til Brooklyn, dEFFcon Getaway Contest
Wales loses to Cayman Islands in battle for .cym domain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-11683239
A four-year campaign to secure a ".cym" internet address for Wales has been lost to the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.

Distinctive national identity? International isolation more like.. .wales or .cymru is the worst idea in the world
Ask HN: Hacker friendly coffee shops in San Jose
I recently moved to San Jose and really miss the coffee shops I used to frequent before. Any suggestions for good coffee shops to sit and work? Preferably something open late.
Good Morning Routines
Diving right into email in the morning seems to be a mistake, as I easily get side tracked.

What did you do in the morning on your most productive days?
25 Years of World Wide Web: Amazing WWW facts
http://www.freshtechapps.com/25-years-of-world-wide-web-amazing-www-facts/
For good and bad, the World Wide Web is transforming everything. How it changes the world over the next 25 years really is up to us.
Ask HN: If mercury wasn't toxic would it be incredibly useful?
Mercury switches, mercury hydraulics, mercury vapor lamps...
What else would liquid metal be incredibly useful for?
Looks like Linode's sign up form has gone down :(
They have this awesome offer http://blog.linode.com/2010/12/15/linode-100000-giveaway/ and just when I try to sign up I get a "WHOOPS! Something went wrong!" error and now their sign up form isn't loading at all. Judging by the tweets it's happening to all the people ( http://twitter.com/#!/linode )

Did it work for you?
Show HN: Sell your GitHub repositories using GitPaid
https://www.git-paid.com
GitPaid lets you add a paywall to your GitHub repositories. Create a project, set your price, share your sale link, done. Once someone buys your repo, they get automatically invited to your GitHub repository.

We would love to see your projects and really looking forward to your feedback, ideas and reported bugs.

Feel free to ask us anything, we will be around answering in the comments.
Peter Thiel on the Bilderberg Group
https://medium.com/@omosanzalettere/peter-thiel-on-the-builderberg-group-d7b9983c4526
Peter Thiel says scariest thing about the Bilderberg Group is there are no conspiracies, no concrete plans for future
Ask HN: We have created an uptime monitoring service, what can we do to improve?
Souptime is a simple uptime monitoring service for any websites, such as blogs, and most TCP servers (UDP servers will be supported later). We offer reports, downtime notifications (via e-mail, SMS, Android app and soon a PC app), graphs and other statistical stuff. Basically we poll your website/server every 10 minutes (or more often depending on your plan) and let you know if something goes wrong while gathering statistics like uptime percentage, response times etc. We're aiming for simplicity and usefulness.

There are several plans, starting from a free one that should work for the most people. The paid plans are designed to be cheap yet useful.

Currently it's a very small service, so we only have 1 check server and the whole system isn't very redudant. We're obviously going to expand the system if people seem interested.

We'd especially like to hear from people using other similar uptime monitoring services to know what their current provider offers that we don't, so that we can match or outfeature all competitors!

http://www.souptime.net
Gmail returning 502 errors
https://twitter.com/search?q=gmail%20502%20error&src=typd
Is anyone else having problems accessing Gmail?
Connector and Slingshot Open-sourced and Free
http://joyeur.com/2007/07/13/connector-and-slingshot-open-sourced-and-free
I know it's OT, but ...
Suggest HN: Remove 'flag' option from YC comment-less posts
Now that I can flag articles without going into the comment page, I'm much more likely to accidentally click "flag" on the YC posts that disallow comments, because I reflexively click the rightmost link when I want to see comments.

It's a minor issue, but removing the flag option for such posts would resolve the issue.
Gateway's trajectory from startup to PC giant to also-ran
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Gateway39s-trajectory-from-startup-to-PC-giant-to-alsoran/2007/08/28/1188067070234.html
In the 1980s, the small South Dakota business selling computers through catalogs was called Gateway 2000. In 1998, the "2000" no longer sounded as futuristic and the now gigantic company was renamed Gateway Inc.
Bothsidesofthetable.com hacked? Or is my DNS playing up?
Seems to be resolving to Eastern European car sales web site. Anyone in touch with Mark Suster?
Show HN: Stop writing Excel like it's assembly
https://github.com/evandwight/modernexcel
I suck at excel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c

I would write the equivalent of:

/* Tax rate */

var b1 = 50%;

/* Salary */

var b2 = 120000;

var b3 = b1 * b2;

When excel lets you write:

var tax_rate = 50%;

var salary = 120000;

var b3 = tax_rate * salary;

I just didn't know any better. This class of problem can be solved by a linter and auto-formatter to automatically detect and use excel best practices. Which also helps you learn best practices.

Stop reading and writing excel like it's assembly. Upgrade your excel to the modern era.

If you have suggestions or recommendations I'd love to hear them. I just saw the above video linked on HN and thought I can solve this! The current version is extremely simple/naïve/ugly.
Use SantaCall.Us to Get Christmas Gift Ideas
http://blog.tropo.com/2010/12/11/use-santacall-us-to-get-christmas-gift-ideas/
I wrote an outbound dialing and transcription service mashup for Christmas called SantaCall.Us using the Tropo phone API!

This service allows you to enter a loved one’s phone number and name from the site to have Santa Claus call them to wish them Merry Christmas.

If you include your email address in the form, Santa will proceed to ask them for a Christmas wish. Wishes are then transcribed in real time and emailed back to you for shopping ideas.
Good developer hygeine
http://belucid.tumblr.com/post/646510572/good-developer-hygeine-2
I’ve met numerous developers that give me a blank look when I ask them which clipboard manager they use.
Google is Probably Worth About $24 a Share [2004]
http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc040823.htm
Google is Probably Worth About $24 a Share (over and above IPO proceeds)
Show HN: Bookmark an article, listen to it later on your own podcast feed
https://sendtopod.com/
Hey guys,

I drive to work a lot, spending on average of 2 hours each day. So I have plenty of time to listen to Podcast and audiobook on my ride. And I think it would be nice to be able to do the same with my reading list, but I couldn't find any decent app on the market that doing this. So I set out to do it myself.

Sooo this is the product: http://sendtopod.com/

You may ask why?

The reasons are simple:

- It's more convenient to listen to articles while you driving, running, or even before going to bed.
- Listen take less effort than reading.
- Your eyes need to rest after staring at screens all day.
- Podcast app is a great tools for listening to audio content with support for:
- CarPlay, Android Auto support built-in
- Smart queuing
- Offline listening

I see that https://hq.getmatter.app/ did a great job of read later app, it also have an OK text to speech audio, but does not have a podcast feed I can subscribe to.

I also see AudioRead.com do this but text to speech is IMHO not pleasant enough to listen to for a long time.

I'm running beta for this, would love to hear your feedback on ... anything really.

Thanks you all!
Ask HN: I'm going to present technology jobs to 400 16yo,what should I tell them?
Hello Everyone,
At the end of the month, I will make a 20 minutes presentation to ~400 french high-schoolers about technology jobs (vast domain but it's more centered on computer science courses). I hope to catch the curiosity of as many as possible to investigate more about the misunderstood jobs in this domain.

I'm a web developer, so my first insight was to present them code and the creativity involved in it. I also want to tell them about entrepreneurship in the technologic domain.

If you were to give this presentation, what would you tell and show them?
Freakonomics: Read this if you believe in Peak Oil
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/read-this-if-you-believe-in-peak-oil/
related link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/opinion/25lynch.html?_r=1
2013 - A Terrible Year for the Tech Industry
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/2013-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year-for-the-tech-industry/282656/
Uploaded not necessarily because I agree with all of these points, but because I'm interested to see how HN readers react to them.
Ask HN: Most useful C libraries?
What are useful/less known C libraries you want to share?

A very useful list (for me) is: http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Alternative_libraries

throwaway2001 is the one I'll use to introduce a few
Better than AdSense for some? Hosted job boards.
http://www.jobamatic.com
I ran into this in the process of posting a job on a particularly targeted site. Seems like a good idea for some people, and I think they're right that ads in general are often viewed negatively, but job ads maybe a positive.

It looks like they handle everything including payment processing and take a 50% cut for their effort. Seems more than fair for their apparent target audience.
Mp3s of the 'How to Start a Startup' Lectures
http://yc-cs183b.tumblr.com/
The content belongs to and was created by Stanford and Y Combinator
HN Berlin Meetup: RSVP open for 6th March
We are excited to organize a long-overdue HN Berlin meetup next week. It will be a mix of talks and opportunity to network.

We have some interesting speakers lined up for you:

- The guys from beer4wedding tell us about how to bootstrap a beer brewing business

- Dean McNamee who will show us his awesome projects in visualization and tangible user interfaces

- Jonas Piela and Oliver Lukesch from Avuba talking about how they started their own online bank and what challenges they faced

- Dan Peddle who will discuss an elegant solution to the problem of sharing state across a chain of continuations in node.js

Some time for lightning talks is planned. If you have something interesting to show/tell, come prepared.

Let's make this meetup a success for everybody, so please spread the word!

http://www.meetup.com/HNBerlin/events/163657372/
Ask HN: Do you have a side project to sell?
A lot of the auction sites out there don't have great listings or are selling highly profitable businesses.

I'd be interested to hear about any smaller projects, sites or apps that you are no longer actively maintaining. I've recently finished up a project and have some spare time to start something new.

I know a lot of people here often don't have time to maintain projects once they move onto bigger things. Maybe you have a specific price in mind or perhaps you'd rather see it go to someone to someone who will carry it on.

I'm particularly interested in apps that produce printable products or digital downloads.
Why Can’t Google Fix its Own URLs?
http://www.vineetdhanawat.com/blog/2012/01/why-cant-google-fix-its-own-urls/
Google's Add URL Page returns a 404 Error Page, works after removing a / (forward slash). Google engine itself returns the normal URL on a normal web search.
Ask HN: Twitch.tv compromised email?
Did anyone else recently get an email from Twitch stating that their account may have been compromised? This just arrived a couple hours ago for me.

We are writing to let you know that there may have been unauthorized access to some of your Twitch user account information, including possibly your Twitch username and associated email address, your password (which was cryptographically protected), the last IP address you logged in from, and any of the following if you provided it to us: first and last name, phone number, address, and date of birth.

For your protection, we have expired your password and stream keys. In addition, if you had connected your account to Twitter or YouTube, we have terminated this connection.

You will be prompted to create a new password the next time you attempt to log into your Twitch account. If applicable, you will also need to re-connect your account to Twitter and YouTube, and re-authenticate through Facebook, once you change your password. We also recommend that you change your password at any other website where you use the same or a similar password.

We apologize for this inconvenience.

The Twitch Team
Google Blogger deleted my blog ... as Spam
Google Blogger team "surprised" me in a bad way today -- they claim that my purely hand-written blog with occasional posts on development topics -- is spam, so they deleted it:
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Your blog at http://developmenttips.blogspot.com/ has been reviewed and confirmed as in violation of our Terms of Service for: SPAM. In accordance to these terms, we've removed the blog and the URL is no longer accessible.
===
My blog might be boring, but how could it qualify as SPAM -- it have no clue.
Google Cache is still available -- http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=site%3Adevelopmenttips.blogspot.com

Any idea what went wrong?
Show HN: Fast,Compiled deep-learning based modules for inferencing on CPUs
https://ramanlabs.in/static/products.html
Hi HN,I am Anubhav from RamanLabs.We have been developing dedicated modules based on deep-learning for purposes like face-detection,object-detection,pose-estimation etc.

We hope to make it easy for developers,hobbyists to integrate such functionalities into their existing app/pipeline at the cost of a few milliseconds.All our modules run end to end in super-realtime even on consumer-grade CPUs[0].
For now we provide only Python based API.

We provide Demo for each of the modules to allow testing for your desired data distribution.We also have a blog[1] where we hope to add more technical details about the framework used to develop these modules.

The framework used to develop these modules is completely written in Nim language.We wrap existing ops implementations from libraries like ONEDNN and write our own code where we cannot find one or existing implementation is not good enough,mainly for preprocessing and postprocessing code.Having full access to framework code and being written in a high level language allows us to port newer architectures and optimize them quickly.

We would love to hear your feedback on our attempt.

[0] Quad-core Cpu with AVX2 instructions.
[1] <https://ramanlabs.in/static/blog/index.html>
Learn JavaScript for complete beginners?
How do I learn JavaScript the correct way? I don't want to learn JQuery to start off with, I just want to learn the concepts, and then I can move onto the libraries, etc.

I've tried to read the book Eloquent javascript. However I don't find it very beginner friendly, with all the hard challenges for example...

Any suggestions on how to learn it?
Ask HN: What startups are in Philadelphia? (Help me find a job.)
I'm looking for jobs in Philly.

While normally I would look for a job in Silicon Valley (and I am just in case), my girlfriend lives in Philly, and for a variety of reasons, cannot leave in the near future. Ideally, I'd like to be close to her, so I've been applying to jobs in NYC, but Philadelphia would be ideal.

I've had a lot of trouble finding companies there though (which I found mildly surprising, given the number of schools there). I've looked at DreamIt Ventures portfolio companies, searched TechCrunch and Crunchbase and other such blogs.

But you guys are all far more connected into the startup scene, so I thought maybe I could try crowd-sourcing this.

I don't think you guys want my whole resume, but just the highlights: I'm a new-minted CS major from a small liberal arts school. I have some experience in both programming and systems administration. I'm mostly interested in Web 2.0 startups. (Eg. I applied to Invite Media, but now that they were acquired, I fear my application will die a quiet death.)

I really appreciate any help you guys might be able to offer me.
Artificial AI-Our experiance with AWS Mechanical Turk
http://shout.setfive.com/2008/11/20/artificial-artificial-intelligence-our-experiance-with-mechanical-turk/
A quick write up of our experience using Amazon's mechanical Turk service.
Bolt Riley - Co-designed by Quest for Glory creators
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soundguy/bolt-riley-a-reggae-adventure-game
Check out Bolt Riley, the Kickstarter I launched a few days ago.
http://bolt-riley.com/

It’s a 2D point and click adventure game I designed myself along with legendary game designers Corey and Lori Cole who made Quest for Glory. It tells the story of the greatest Reggae musician that ever lived and deals with many important subjects like dealing with racism, bullying and oppression, it has themes of peace, love, and friendship. (And Reggae music)
I’ve been pouring my life into this game since 2011.

I’m sure you’re going to love it.

Oded
OpenCoffee 6/16 at Andala in Cambridge, MA
My team's first big release here at TripAdvisor just went live!

I was going to be heading to OpenCoffee tmw, partly to blow off some
steam, partly because I'm solo w/ the baby and partly to talk to folks
that might be interested in joining us to build the next big thing.

I'm happy to buy breakfast for anyone that shows up that, at a minimum, can explain what we built. Or why its cool.

I'm aiming to be there at 9am: www.andalacafe.com
Ask HN: What's the oldest OS you are running in production?
Curious about reasons why you may be sticking to older versions of Linux/OSX/Windows in production server/client environments.