jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Tool for tracking new posts on blogs I enjoy?
Are there any tools that will allow me to track new posts on blogs that I enjoy? I frequent a lot of blogs, hoping to see new content. I'd rather just be notified when new content is available.

Are there tools for this? Thanks.
An excerpt from "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance"
http://www.daltonlp.com/view/523
One of the favorite books I've read this year.
Top Five Career Regrets.
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/12/the_top_five_career_regrets.html
Top five career regrets on Harvard Business Review
"A form of search that depends on design" -- BooYarr
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8464
Here is my response to:
"Startup Ideas we would like to fund"

Particularly number 16:
"A form of search that depends on design"

Try it out! It grows on you, trust me.

Any feedback would be appreciated!!
Ask HN: What's the database you use for your simple website?
There are lot of options these days.

Running your own DB (EC2/MySQL/Postgres) vs using hosted one (RDS/Aurora/etc).

I am looking for a simple dynamic website that may have 50 visitors per day max doing simple operation (CRUD)
Single founders what free tools do you use?
http://www.founderspeak.com
Im thinking of making a few free tools that are helpful for startups over at http://www.founderspeak.com

Question is

1) do you think its a good idea (yes / no)
2) what tools would you want? simplest needs please as i am doing this for fun at the moment to help others

Thanks

Phil
How to secure your webapp
https://blog.serverdensity.com/how-to-secure-your-webapp/?utm_source=HN&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=secure_webapp_post
Steps you can take to secure your webapp - SSL, perfect forward secrecy, multi factor auth, strict transpoirt security and other ideas, with code examples.
Ask HN: What to do about potential credit card fraud.
I received an email saying that I have bought something from store X. I did not buy it of course.

I have contacted company X about the potential fraud (they have not got back to me yet). I also asked for the password to be resent from X even though I did not make the account. I know, but probably shouldn't know, where they are sending the item.

It's getting sent to some dodgy looking unit in the US. I am from the UK by the way.

Should I do anything more about this?

Was it wrong for me to get access to the account on X?

Are there any good resources where you can find clear information about dealing with such issues?

I hope this appropriate here, I could not think of a community that would be as well informed.

PS
I have checked my email account to see if anyone has logged in that was not me(they hadn't). I changed my password anyway. The security on X was bad so you did not need to confirm email.
Ask HN: Hosting in the cloud
Does anyone have experience with hosting a small dynamic site in the cloud as opposed to, say, a shared host like DreamHost or a VPS like Linode? What were the difficulties / advantages you encountered? Did it make the overall setup, maintenance, and development of the site easier or harder?

Based on the pricing for AWS et al, it's not cost-competitive to keep a cloud instance running 24/7, and I don't see any really significant advantages in development / maintenance. Until one of those things changes, the cloud looks more like a place where startups and small companies only store data and do short-term processing. (That likely changes when you get significant revenue / traffic, but that's a different set of problems.)
Should I pay salary to myself as the founder of a C Corp that makes no money?
I'm the solo founder of a Delaware C Corp that has no income/net income. Just incorporated but got confused by the information all around.
Looking for advice here.
Since I still have a 9-5 job (yes I know I know..but have a family to feed), adding payroll to the Corporation that has no profit doesn't make sense to me tax wise.
Is there any issue (law/tax, etc) if I don't pay myself a salary from the corp? When do founders in similar situation usually add themselves to payroll?
Thank you in advance for replying.
Cool web app to show nearby events
Works all over the USA - type in your location at the top left and specify the event type or date at the bottom left.

http://www.goingto.events
Snapzoom: The Universal Smartphone Scope Adapter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409008983/snapzoom-the-universal-smartphone-scope-adapter
Aloha Hacker News,

We just launched [Snapzoom on Kickstarter](http://snapzm.com)

I wanted to introduce you to our project [Snapzoom on Kickstarter](http://snapzm.com) and thought it could be a nice fit Photography and Video lovers. My friends created a universal smartphone mount that uses binoculars as telephoto lenses, and we launched our Kickstarter campaign this morning.

The link to the Kickstarter Campaign is [http://snapzm.com](http://snapzm.com)
The Website: [http://snapzooms.com](http://snapzooms.com)
The YouTube: [http://youtube.com/user/SnapzoomHawaii](http://youtube.com/user/SnapzoomHawaii)
The Twitter: [http://twitter.com/snapzoomhawaii](http://twitter.com/snapzoomhawaii)
The Facebook: [http:fb.me/snapzoomhawaii](http:fb.me/snapzoomhawaii)

We think Snapzoom will be a great for these reasons:

Innovative gear - Snapzoom is the first universal adapter for both smartphones and optical scopes. It works with all major smartphones with or with out a case. As well as works with both single and dual eyepiece optical scopes, with an eyecup diameters up to 50mm.

Functional design – Our patent pending design allows Snapzoom to be securely worn on a pair of binoculars during outdoor activities. It allows smartphones to be used as autofocus scope viewfinders, and locks you camera into the “landscape” position so videos are much easier to watch on larger screens.

Made for everyone – Snapzoom is easy to setup and connects in seconds. It’s the simple tool that yields powerful results.

If you’re interested, please let me know how I can make the writing process easy for your team. I’m happy to send more hi-res photos. email doc@snapzm.com

Thanks for taking the time to check us out,

Aloha

[View the latest stats for Snapzoom: The Universal Smartphone Scope Adapter on Kicktraq](http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/1409008983/snapzoom-the-universal-smartphone-scope-adapter/)
Ballmer Dismisses Android. Oh, This Will Come Back to Bite Him
http://nextparadigms.com/ballmer-dismisses-android-oh-this-will-come-back-to-bite-him/
Ballmer fails to see what will be big in tech, once again
The Magnetic Lasso Algorithm
http://rivit.cs.byu.edu/650/F06/seg_scissors.pdf
I've been doing some machine vision research lately and needed an algorithm for finding contiguous image segments. This helped me out greatly.

(sidenote: I'm pretty sure these guys developed the "magic lasso" algorithm you see in photoshop.)
Lightweight Javascript Constructors with Inheritance
https://gist.github.com/3428752
A 13-line function that provides some nice syntactic sugar for creating object constructors with inheritance.
'Tractor beam' is possible with lasers, say scientists
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12620560
A laser can act as a "tractor beam", drawing small objects back toward the laser's source, scientists have said.It is known that light can provide a "push", for example in solar sails that propel spacecraft on a "wind of light".
HNRetweet: An userscript that adds retweet links to HN
https://github.com/ajasmin/HNRetweet/blob/master/README.md#readme
A Greasmonkey script that adds retweet links to the Hacker News home page.
Show HN: Keyboard app on totally another level
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitali.pom.effectedkeyboard2&hl=en&gl=US
This keyboard pops out letters as you type off the keyboard into the screen. What do you think?
Chrome for iOS Has Serious Privacy Flaw in Incognito Mode [video]
http://parall.ax/blog/view/2959/chrome-on-ios-7-leaks-searches-in-incognito-mode
Searches are leaked across from incognito mode to the normal browser. This is especially bad given that Chrome has a unified search bar.
Ask HN: Is del.icio.us the last remaining yahoo service you were using
With the sunset of delicious, yahoo's reach in my daily life is essentially nil. Is it the same for other people out there?
DARPA-Born TrapIt Wants to be Your Personalized Newsreader of the Future
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/darpa-born_trapit_wants_to_be_your_personalized_ne.php
How would you like to have a "cognitive prosthetic" that could "adapt to unexpected events" in situations of "intense information overload"...as a personal newsreader app online? That sounds pretty hot and it's exactly what startup TrapIt was when it spun out of DARPA's $200 million research project CALO (Cognitive Assistant That Learns and Organizes) more than a year ago.
Ask HN: How did you discover your talent?
I like many things just enough to keep me interested until the next cool thing comes along. This trait hinders my ability to focus on one area long enough for it to develop into a 'talent.'

This could be a problem of discipline, but I think I haven't found my niche.

How did you discover your talent?
Have fun - Fry your brain
http://www.foc.us/
I love the part that says: "Applying an electric charge to your brain should be considered extremely risky".
War on Sony – 102 million accounts compromised
http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2011/05/03/war-on-sony-102-million-accounts-compromised/
The story behind the biggest hack in history. Sony crippled as 102 million people have their accounts compromised.
firehose.io for real-time applications
http://firehose.io/
An alternative to meteor, derby and firebase. Easily integrates with backbonejs and emberjs. Suited to ruby folks.
Think Lisp machines/J2EE/etc have too many manuals? Look at this
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~johnl/ghostwriter/problem.html
This is a picture of a fighter jet and its accompanying technical documentation.
For 40 Years This Russian Family Was Cut Off From Human Contact, Unaware of WWII
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html?device=ipad
Pretty amazing
Show HN: A game fully contained in a link
https://linkians.com
Hey HN, I made https://linkians.com which is a game where all the action and state is contained in the url. The game involves taking care of little pets (emojis) that live in your url bar. Kind of like tamagotchi or sims. Feed them, play with them, and watch out for enemies!

There's no server, just emojis in the url and client-side logic. Any linkians url using the supported emojis is a valid game state so you can save your game, or type out your own url and send it to a friend.

I'd appreciate any feedback.
Ask HN: Review our web app
http://browsedit.com
browsedit is a web application for designing web pages/web user interfaces directly on the browser. Currently supports firefox, chrome and safari browsers with other browser support coming soon.
Show HN: Unsolved – A Stack Overflow for Entrepreneurs
Hey folks. I have been working on Unsolved.xyz for a bit now.

The idea was to help idea stage entrepreneurs make progress using a combination of a self serve game and Founder to Founder problem solving

1. Automated To-Dos that help them make progress from one level to the next

2. As you progress you get access to a network of high reputation founders

3. You gain reputation by helping other founders solve challenges and getting unstuck

Reputation is live, but not the To-Dos.

It looks a little like a mashup between product hunt and stack overflow. But it is for ideas

I really was hoping you would consider sharing what you think about what we are building
Show HN: Awesome Online Volunteering
https://gitlab.com/emacsen/awesome-online-volunteering
I made a collection of places where a person with no prior skillset can contribute their time and energy to make the world a better place, often without needing to leave home.
Introducing Reference.me
http://blog.reference.me/index.php/2011/10/01/introducing-reference-me/
you will need an invite code. Use use: protoref
Learning multiple programming languages
I have been coding primarily in one language (C) and from time to time attempted to learn other languages too (C++, perl, python, PHP). However, even if I learn the syntax or niche offered by a specific language, I find it difficult to imbibe the spirit of language and still try to think from C perspective. How do people who claim to have mastered multiple languages, do so? What am I lacking here?
New YC competitor: LaunchBox Digital
http://gigaom.com/2007/11/14/launchbox-digital-set-to-launch/
We can add Launchbox Digital to the mix along with TechStars and Y Europe.
PyCharm: The Good Parts I (IDE for Python)
http://nafiulis.me/pycharm-the-good-parts-i.html
PyCharm is an IDE for Python.
Tornado - the best Python web framework
http://rz.scale-it.pl/2013/01/25/tornado___the_best_web_framework.html
this post explains authors opinion why WSGI is not sufficient and present Tornado, which handles ideal web frameworks problems greatly.
Show HN: Simple clean countdown timers for any duration
https://timerpage.com
Nothing crazy just a countdown timer that lets you input any duration of days, hours, minutes, seconds. Features an (imo) simple clean interface, dark mode, and confetti on completion.
32 Things You Are Hereby Allowed To Do
http://earthyogi.blogspot.com/2011/04/32-things-you-are-now-allowed-to-do.html
Because permission is the origin of success
Show HN: I built an open source job scheduler to help script everything
https://www.exograd.com/products/eventline/
As a software engineer, my reflex has always been to script everything I can. Scripting is easy, but everything around it is tricky: scripts have to run somewhere, they need access to credentials, they need to be monitored. None of it is simple. No-code automation platforms such as Zapier or IFTTT are too restrictive for technical tasks; CI/CD platforms make it easy to script tasks related to a repository, but are limited when trying to do anything else. I wanted the low level control you have when writing scripts while retaining the comfort of a platform managing execution for me.

So I built a program for that. Eventline schedules, runs and monitors any script. Jobs can be executed on various runtimes (currently locally, with SSH, in Docker or in Kubernetes), manually or in reaction to various events. You then get observability (script output, history, execution stats…), full control (with the web UI, HTTP API or command line tool) and the ability to share scripts with others.

Eventline 1.0 is out. I use it myself, so does a friend and a first client. The roadmap is packed with features which will make Eventline even more useful: global registry for value injection, sub-jobs, scratchpad to share data between jobs, artifacts, ACL (and SSO for Eventline Pro), a lot more connectors, identities and events…

I quitted my job in 2020 and created a company, Exograd, hoping to become financially independent. This has been quite a ride, both exhilarating and scary: I made lots of mistakes and learned more in 22 months than in my entire career. I would like to bring enough revenue to be able to live from it, and then work on expanding Eventline and developing new technical products. I currently offer a support contract, a proprietary extension (Eventline Pro) for enterprise use, and cloud hosting to use Eventline without having to host it.

Happy to answer any question!
Ask Hn:  How can I buy a parked domain if they have private registration?
I'm trying to buy a domain name from someone that's just kind of squatting on it. They bought it back in 1997 and using http://www.archive.org I was able to determine that they were trying to start a web hosting company. Since 2001 the domain has been parked and it's registered until September 2012.

The way I see it I can do 2 things:

1. Try to contact the person using the contact info in the whois records

2. Wait until it expires and do what Mike Davidson did to buy newsvine.com (see below for link)

The domain is registered with private registration (of course), so I shot an e-mail off a couple of weeks ago to the contact person at the registrar to see if they could put me into contact with the owner. No answer as of yet.

What would you do?

Article Link From Above: http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-snatch-an-expiring-domain

[Edit: Fixed formatting. I'll get the hang of it yet!]
HTML5 Lessons from LinkedIn using Node.js
http://www.eventnook.com/video/v/360/HTML5-Lessons-from-LinkedIn-using-Nodejs
In this presentation from DevCon5, Kiran Prasad, Director of Engineering, Mobile at LinkedIn will talk about LinkedIn's experience building their mobile app using both native and web technologies.
Software is 20% technology and 80% psychology
http://www.saidsvec.com/2009/05/11/technology-vs-psychology/
Do you write software for a living? Or design hardware? Or maybe some of each? While the particular projects any two software or hardware designers do may be worlds apart, we can characterize what we do in the same way: our work is 20% technology and 80% psychology.
Google Follow Finder for Twitter: 
http://followfinder.googlelabs.com
Google Follow Finder for Twitter:
The Persistence Layer with Spring 3.1 and JPA
http://www.baeldung.com/2011/12/13/the-persistence-layer-with-spring-3-1-and-jpa/
How to configure persistence with Spring 3.1 and JPA 2. Focuses on EntityManager injection, the DAO implementation, no Spring templates, Spring best practices and common pitfalls.
Show HN: Browse, submit and rate interesting Wikipedia articles
I saw that a lot of interesting Wikipedia articles regularly crop up on HN. So, just made a quick hack which lets you browse such interesting articles in a Stumbleupon fashion. This may be seen as a replacement of Wikipedia's own random article function which usually outputs stubs or other non-interesting links. I have seeded the existing database with 100 odd links, please feel free to submit new ones (only accepts Wikipedia links) or vote on existing ones.

Here is the link: http://wingify.com/arbid/

Even though this is super-simple at the moment, feedback and suggestions are welcome!

PS: arbid comes from arbitrary
It's like Hot or Not for Websites
http://commandshift3.com/
The title pretty much says it all. For better or worse this is both a great resource and massive time-waster for web designers.
GitHub, Pastebin, Imgur blocked in India
The Department of Telecommunications is blocking these sites through ISPs. Using Google DNS, OpenDNS or a VPN seems to be a solution for now.

https://twitter.com/search?q=github%20india&src=typd
Show HN: Atlas – Open-source Mixpanel/Amplitude alternative
https://github.com/mjirv/atlas
Hey everyone! I'm excited to share my newest side project, Atlas. Atlas is an open-source product analytics tool that sits on top of the data warehouse. You can do things like funnels, flows, and retention analysis that typically you need to pipe data to Mixpanel or Amplitude for.

Under the hood, it uses dbt to run queries and is built using TypeScript, React, and NextJS.

Check out the live demo at https://atlas-demo.onrender.com/ and let me know if you have questions or thoughts. Happy Atlasing!
Ask HN: Any recent updates to http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
I like the article, and now I'm wondering if there have been any recent updates. Do you know of any by pg specifically?
Learn about LaunchBox Digital from Those Who've Experienced It
LaunchBox08 and LaunchBox09 alumni will share their experiences and insights about LaunchBox Digital in a panel discussion webinar on Wednesday, June 7, 2010 at 7 pm EDT. This is a must attend for those considering applying to LaunchBox10. Please sign up at http://bit.ly/9tBm52
Show HN: The StartupPlays.com Story
http://www.startupplays.com/blog/the-startupplays-story/
“Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.”
- Tony Hsieh, Zappos
Is Coding the New Literacy?
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/06/computer-science-programming-code-diversity-sexism-education
Tasneem Raja, of Mother Jones, on computer literacy, problem solving, education and diversity.
NSA Analyst LinkedIn profile
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-miller/39/741/a49
Summary

+Experienced SIGINT Geospatial-Metadata Analyst/Intelligence Analyst/Linguist

+Skilled in the use of several Intelligence tools and resources: ANCHORY, AMHS, NUCLEON, TRAFFICTHIEF, ARCMAP, SIGNAV, COASTLINE, DISHFIRE, FASTSCOPE, OCTAVE/CONTRAOCTAVE, PINWALE, UTT, WEBCANDID, MICHIGAN, PLUS, ASSOCIATION, MAINWAY, FASCIA, OCTSKYWARD, INTELINK, METRICS, BANYAN, MARINA

+ Deployed to use SIGINT to provide Force Protection to American and allied personnel

+Acted as primary liaison for NSA during daily teleconferences with other government partners, exchanging ideas and information to maintain complete and up-to-date situational awareness

+Translated foreign language materials from Somali and French into English and made targeted briefings to strategic leadership regarding regional security matters

+Used a variety of tools and data to provide advanced threat warnings to American civilian, government, and military personnel

+Compiled supplemental threat summaries for specific topical meetings of senior leadership, providing them with a fuller global terrorism situational awareness

+Prepared topic-specific, detailed presentations for senior leadership using Powerpoint, Word, ZapGrab, ARCMap, and SIGNAV

+Routinely wrote articles for CT today, considered a “must-read” by Agency senior leadership and NSA representatives at other organizations.

+Collaborated with partners worldwide to enable efficient, real-time support in a 24/7 shift environment

+Have worked in both foreign and domestic environments and managed to facilitate smooth exchanges between foreign partners that allowed for maximum efficiency of both parties

+Repeatedly called upon to train new employees in a variety of positions

+Improved the quality and immediate usefulness of office reporting, directly resulting in an increase of 15% in requests for this product.

+Able to filter vast amounts of data and reports to identify key information critical to ongoing projects
Social Media Design Cheat Sheet 
https://www.imforza.com/blog/social-media-design-cheat-sheet/
Stay updated on the dimensions & requirements to properly customize your social media accounts with our Social Media Design Cheat Sheet.
Show HN: I am developing a type safe colorspace library for Rust
https://crates.io/crates/colortypes
After two weeks of planning and figuring out how to manage conversions safely, I have finally published the first version of my crate :)

It allows you to specify your own colortypes and easily use the same syntax for converting between your custom color types!

I also started working on a custom image type that can do math :)
Ask HN: What APIs exist to pull stock quotes
Last time I had to do this I used Yahoo... what do people use these days?
Why is Virgin America so Cool?
http://geoffreynuval.devhub.com/blog/526362-why-is-virgin-america-so-cool/
Virgin America knew that the only way to compete in the commoditized service of air travel, where competitors are forced to compete on price, was to invest in elevating the experience itself. That's why they're so cool (and financially successful)
Show HN: LINQ for Go
http://github.com/ahmetalpbalkan/go-linq
s
Ask HN: Favorite Languages And Frameworks And Why
Be partial, be biased, wave the pom poms. What features absolutely rock about your favorite tools and make others look primitive by comparison? Bonus points for obscure choices :)
Ask HN: Make a New Year's resolution
As the holidays are upon us and we are closing out the year, it's a great time for self-reflection and making the decision to improve. What are your goals/resolutions for the new year?

Come back in a year and let us know if you succeeded.
The Problem With Mobile Video
http://fr.anc.is/2012/07/24/social-video/
Why hasn't anyone succeeded at "Instagram for Video", yet?