jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Lightweight yet powerful IT automation tool
https://github.com/kheshav/automatdeck-agent
Automatdeck agent is a simple lightweight IT automation tool for your workflows, tickets and deployments which can be triggered on demand via REST API.

It allows you to manage your automation in a simple intuitive yet powerful configuration syntax which is quite similar to gitlab ci/cd or github actions.
Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search
http://domainsuitor.com
Hey HN,
I was always sick of trying to find available domain names for other side projects, so I came up with this. It'll check availability of .com, .net and .org, as well as any domain name hacks available (gimpish -> gimpi.sh). It's Sinatra and EventMachine driven.<p>Enter a few words in the name field to try it out!
e.g. apple, microsoft, reddit, purplemonkeydishwasher<p>Feedback muchly appreciated!
Google Plus RSS feed generator, no need to have a G+ account, etc
http://www.googleplusfeed.net
If you don't want to link your Google+ or don't have a Google+ account, those solutions don't work.

I created this site to get an RSS feed because I was simply frustrated with this problem

I hope it helps other people as well.

http://www.googleplusfeed.net
Show HN: Subcap – Captions for Videos CC
https://subcap.app/
Subcap is the best mobile app to automatically add captions to videos. Your videos will be much more valuable than ever. Connect with your viewers instantly to make more connections, increase engagement rates, and gain followers, all with an improved video experience.

Don't waste time adding subtitles manually. Easily and automatically add captions to your videos, not only in English but also in 125 languages and variants.

FEATURES:

~ Record and caption videos instantly with your iPhone or iPad

~ Automatically transcribe videos up to 5 minutes

~ Change subtitles position, size, color, and style, or customize them

~ Use any size video you want

~ Save videos in 1080p or 720p quality with subtitles

~ Download the generated SRT file

~ Add subtitles manually, if needed

~ Share these videos on TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, IGTV, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Youtube, Youtube Shorts, Instagram Reels for video posts and stories, or via E-Mail, Whatsapp, etc.

~ Use these videos to increase social engagements as perfect content creators and influencers!

DEVELOPERS’ NOTE:

We’ve realized that making all videos readable would be great for not only the deaf community but also everyone who uses social media actively. We have discovered the need for such an application that makes auto subtitles easily and quickly and supports many languages. With all these thoughts and dreams, we have created this app.

What features would you like us to add to the app?

Please give us feedback on the comments

For more information, please contact us at mail: hello@subcap.app

Thank you for your comments and feedback.
Do we need yet another custom C++ interpreter?
http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/do-we-need-yet-another-custom-c-interpreter
Discussion of ROOT's C++ interpreters
Ask HN: How to get started with open source contributions?
I am a computer science student and every time i go o Github and look for a project to contribute to , i find myself with a big code base that i am not able to understand how it works , neither what every piece of code means , how do you manage to understand those projects ?
Ask HN: Is your Amazon search bar also malfunctioning?
Looks like Amazon has a few live styling issues. You seeing this too?
(#1 - Farmer) Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade
http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2009/01/best-green-jobs.html
I realize this is just over a year old, but interesting in the vein of recent HN posts related to food and farming.
Why So Much Rush : Does working 80-plus hours a week Really Helps ?
http://weddew.com/blog/2009/09/productivity/why-so-much-rush/
Does Overly working really helps, or it in reverse hamper your productivity?
U.S. Patent System Under First to File – BIG Changes for Entrepreneurs
http://blog.upcounsel.com/u-s-patent-system-under-first-to-file/
What do you think of the new patent system - good or bad for entrepreneurs?
The Lean Community
http://thecommunitymanager.com/the-lean-community
Applying principles discussed in the Lean Startup, and applying it to community building for companies.
Design for Software: A playbook for developers
http://designforsoftware.com
A new UX book designed specifically for developers is available today!
Jason Hunter of JDOM fame, explains MarkLogic NoSQL with beer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIenyXa8dDQ
How to demonstrate nosql with beer ... quite funnny, I especially like the performance demonstration!
Three paths of B2C startups growth: ads, free ads, and viral
http://shlang.com/startups-viral-marketing.php
Ads are best. Free ads are cheapest, but unpredictable. Viral is often misunderstood.
Ask HN: How is “Modnesty” going?
"Modnesty" is a project described in a HN announcement from 2015:

https://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements/

> HN’s approach to moderation has always been three-pronged: software automation where possible, human intervention where necessary, and as much community moderation as users can provide. Our long-term vision for HN is to have the site be as self-regulating as possible, and we’ve been working on a project code-named Modnesty (for ‘moderation amnesty’) to develop new ways to do that...

I did a quick search and hadn't seen any mention of "Modnesty" (maybe it changed names?) recently. This question is sparked by something I saw regarding a new commenting system that the Washington Post and other big news outlets hope to try out:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/how-the-washington-post-plans-to-use-talk-the-coral-projects-new-commenting-platform/

The quality of HN's community seems to heavily rely on quality of moderation, which implies any new commenting system will be reliant on effective moderation. The New York Times famously expends a lot of resources for manual curation [0], though was said to have partnered with Google to figure out a more automated way.

As an end user on HN, we only see the end result of moderation -- things getting flagged, downmodded, rescued, and dang/sctb intervening (detaching threads, banning folks). But compared to 2 years ago, how much of that process has been streamlined? That is, has trusting users to vouch/flag worked out, or do human mods have to jump in just as much as before? How much has flagging/detection been moved to automation even before users act on it?

Obviously not asking to give up the secret sauce. Just interested in knowing how much progress has been made in moving more of the judgment/detection to algorithms.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/20/insider/approve-or-reject-moderation-quiz.html
Math is hard. Let's go shopping
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002892.html
At the Women in Tech panel at Facebook today it was brought up that the early version of Barbie said "Math is hard. Let's go shopping"

That's not quite right, so here's the true story of how that came about.
Ask HN: Getting started with the logistics of freelancing?
I've never really moonlighted before, but a small project came down the line and I'm up for it. The problem is, I'm having a bit of trouble with the logistics of setting it up, particularly in the way of contracts and legal things. (I'm in the USA, for what it's worth.)

- I've never written a contract before. Are there places where I can get a premade contract for these sorts of purposes?

- If I'm charging by hour, how often should I send an invoice? Are there any sort of invoice templates that are standardized?

- The client and I worked together to come up with a list of items that have to be done, and I estimated times for them. We agreed that they were only estimates and could change, but that I would still charge by the hour. Is this a good plan? Should this be written into a contract?

- A CPA told me that I should receive a 1099 at the end of the calendar year for payments made to me. Do I need to do that on my own, or is it up to the client to do that? Is this step even really necessary?

And if you happen to have any other resources on setting up things like this, that'd be great too.
Best Basic Accounting Software for a startup?
Most small businesses I know use Quickbooks but other than the trusty Excel spreadsheet is there something a bit more robust for tracking expenses,travel etc?
Ask HN: How much time do you split between learning and doing? 
As an entrepreneur/hacker/developer/other how much if at all do you focus on learning new skills while in a startup.

And how wide is what you learn. For example would you just focus on learning only the stuff you need to for your main area of focus or do you dedicate some time for learning non-related topics and skills that may come in handy in the future.

I am currently figuring out how much time I should be dedicating to learning non-programming skills and also what is a good split from building and looking at/learning new technologies.

When I come across people that are higher up in the "work environment" spectrum I have noticed that there are some people that seem shut out from learning new skills that are not a core focus of their job. And this seems to add up over time and they seem to have a "clueless", "out-of-date" attitude. Something I do not want to become.
Only Facebook Can Match Google's Run
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/01/25/only-facebook-can-match-googles-run/
Some thoughts on Google's competition.
Ask HN: How to identify game developers?
A friend and I have been discussing our favourite video games and the topic of developers came up.

Is there an easy way to find out who the developers (as individuals and as a studio) were for a given game?
Show HN: Kira – a fast and scalable code execution engine
https://github.com/FlorianWoelki/kira
Greeting HN, I would like to present my project I've been worked on the several months. I was always fascinated by code execution products like Codespaces or Leetcode. That's why I've created kira.

It is a fast and scalable general purpose remote code execution engine. Currently, kira is in its early stage, and there is a lot of potential. I am constantly trying to work on this project and improve it. Security is critical for remote code execution. That's why, kira is running in a sandboxed environment and the code gets executed as a separated user. Additional security limits are applied to the user that runs the code, such as memory, or file size.

Feel free, to give me feedback in any way! Thank you :)

The main ideas for this project:

* Fast and secure remote code execution engine that is scalable

* Logging of the code executions

* Test runner that executes custom unit tests (for building something like leetcode)

* Future: custom docker environments to have long-term projects
Meaning = Data + Structure: user generated structure
http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/meaning-data-structure-user-generated-structure/
Follow up post to earlier one about how adding structure to user generated data increases its usefulness
Ask HN: How do we “return to the office”?
I've been asked to head up the "return to the office" project for our company (~50 employees, 2 offices).

This includes making a reccomendation to senior management on all topics including:

- WFH vs. in person (how often in office? in office at all? etc)
- Office space requirements (lease is up this year)
- What does the office look like (how are we using it? what is office for?)

The project seems to encompass everything and I have the opportunity to reshape the culture of our company for years to come.

Where do I start? How do I solicit feedback? Do I copy another company (Basecamp/Dropbox?) or start from scratch? How have you approached this project at your company?
Show HN: Finding errors in datasets with Similarity Search
https://qdrant.tech/articles/dataset-quality/
The process of splitting or labeling data is error-prone, and these errors can be very costly. George Panchuk, ML Engineer at Qdrant, shares how to define misplaced items with similarity search and avoid errors in categorized datasets.
Ask HN: Your Amazon Glacier strategy with versioning and de-duplication on *nix?
Command line, or GUI (preferred).

Something that just sits in the background, monitors change and keeps backing up the change (while taking care of the de-duplication).

What do you use? (I know Arq which I believe has been covered more than once here)

And how do you use it? What is your backup frequency? How do keep the cost minimal? Is it too frequent, or seldom - as in few snapshots a week?

Have you every had to restore? If yes, could you find a way to minimise the price of retrieval?

I've around 700GB of personal data that I just want to be sitting there in Glacier for the worst case scenario.

(PS. Yes, I've looked at Tarsnap and it doesn't work for me).
Why I gave Google+ a second chance - manifesto
http://duskic.tumblr.com/post/21041833897/why-i-gave-google-a-second-chance-manifesto
Here's why I think you should pay attention to Google+ if you want to be close to the next big bang.
Ask HN: Suggestions for revenue deal with a bigger startup
Hi fellow HNers,

We have a startup with no traction at all. We are having difficulty acquiring users on the consumer side of our service.

However, a large startup wants to use our service. They have millions of users which would give us instant traction.

I need some suggestions on a revenue model for them white-labeling our service.

I really don't want to charge them a monthly fee because it might scare them away. However, I'm concerned that if a large number of their users use our service, it may cost us a lot of money to support them.

All I could think of is to have 50/50 split on advertising.

Any other ideas?

Thanks!
Show HN: Chrono. A daily, bite sized, browser based, history game
https://chrono.quest
Inspired by how Wordle could get the world talking about specific words, we wanted to try to make a game that could do the same for major events in history.

Our hope is that this game is fun to play and provides a jumping off point for conversations like, "Who were the Goths, anyway?"
The days of guided aesthetics in touchscreens are at an end
http://blog.cleartrip.com/2013/09/27/design-nuances-designing-cleartrip-for-ios7/
iOS as a touchscreen operating system has come a long way from its roots. Today’s users already understand how touch interfaces work. Most, if not all, the user-education has already taken place and the days of guided aesthetics in touchscreens are at an end.

Taking our cues from the design of iOS 7, we bid farewell to textures and gradients; and with those out of the way, the focus lies squarely on the content and the task at hand.
Ask HN: Leaving the video game industry.
Do any of you have experience leaving the video game industry? Can you say what kind of software you now work on, or how you explained your career shift to subsequent employers?

I've worked as a software engineer on video games for 2.5 years (after undergrad in cs). This was a mistake. I absolutely never feel a sense of satisfaction or accomplishment with anything i produced. 9 hours a day i stare at the products we make and wonder why anyone anywhere pays for them (clueless customers or idiotic publishers).

After work i tool around a lot with web-oriented technologies. I enjoy the ethos of languages like python and javascript, and i think work could be more interesting if those were the technologies i used professionally. My industry experience has been entirely C++ based though. Can i somehow spin this as a good thing?

I've also been thinking, my skill set may be transferable to mobile platforms since they are bound by hardware in a way similar to games on consoles.
Show HN: Yelp for blockchains - Explore, rate, and review ETH addresses
https://app.withtriton.xyz/
Super excited to share an early MVP of Triton. It allows anyone to visually explore blockchains as a graph, where nodes are addresses and edges are transactions. Each node has a reputation score, calculated based on analysis of its neighbors, transaction profile, as well as user feedback.

We built this after one of our founders accidentally sent 0.35 ETH to a phishing site. He tried to investigate, but soon realized that there aren't any good solutions for users to keep themselves (and each other) safe in web3.

Triton can help solve the reputation problem for web3 transactions that Yelp solved for dining out. Use cases include investigating stolen tokens, DYOR on new NFT drops, and screening addresses for signs of fraud before making a payment.

We'd love any feedback on the product

A couple of interesting addresses to check out:
- 0x03B70DC31abF9cF6C1cf80bfEEB322E8D3DBB4ca: a phishing-associated wallet
- 0x7ab9287bbb0a6d76af16e648c93d503c5baf5432: wallet associated with the Pixelmon NFT founders
When is a tablet not a tablet? When It's a Surface
http://techpinions.com/when-is-a-tablet-not-a-tablet-when-its-a-surface/11935
Thoughts from Tech.pinions on why the Surface is not a tablet.
Data Scraping and More With Ruby, Nokogiri, Sinatra and Heroku
http://hunterpowers.com/data-scraping-and-more-with-ruby-nokogiri-sinatra-and-heroku/
Article/Tutorial on content/data/screen/web scraping with Ruby and Nokogiri culminating in a Sinatra app deployed to Heroku. Suited best for someone who knows a little Ruby and is interested in scraping.

I've seen some scraping related projects posted here over the last few weeks, and thought this might be of use to a few of you.
Show HN: This was developed by two 17 year olds in 3 months 
http://www.scrollr.co
We'd love some feedback re. UI and overall design, it was a fun journey to develop and we're slowly getting there building a community.
VB.NET vs C# - A 15 Point Comparison
http://www.engineeringblog.indiabtech.com/2009/09/vbnet-vs-c-a-15-point-comparison/
Well the comparison between VB.NET and C# is the most debatable issue in .NET community and people treat their languages like religion. Its a subjective matter which language is best. Some like VB.NET’s natural style and some like professional and terse C# syntaxes. Lets discuss them briefly:
Git Pusshuten (プッシュ点) - A new Git-based deployment tool.
http://gitpusshuten.com/ 
I have created a whole separate website for this new gem, including a simple screencast giving a demonstration on setting up a full Rails (or Rack) deployment environment in just a few minutes with just a few commands, completely handled and afterwards manageable by Git Pusshuten.<p>http://gitpusshuten.com/<p>Check out the website for more information, documentation, guides and a screencast.<p>Hope this is of some use to anyone. :)
Why hackers who ask for money don't get caught?
There are ransomware that ask you an amount of money to decrypt your data, there are also people who ask to big websites money to stop a dos attack and so on...
I assume that if you want to pay this criminals you have to pay with a credit card number. So why is so difficult to arrest them? Credit cards are 100% traceable, it should be quite easy to found the nominee of the credit card number even if he 's in another part of the world.
Ask HN: How do you deal with angry or demanding customers?
If you sell a product or service, how do you deal with demanding, rude or angry customers? Have you dropped customers when you've found them unreasonable or taking up too much of your time?

I've heard the following advice a few times: when you raise the price of your product or service, your customers become much nicer to deal with. Is this generally true? Has anyone been in such a situation?
Helvetica vs Arial
https://medium.com/p/c2ce7f6d652e
Reflections on professional ethics through the prism of type design.
Rentokil's misleading marketing is "brilliant"
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/18/rentokils-misleading.html
... claims chief of a PR agency.
Ask HN: Best way to find a technical cofounder?
This may have been discussed before but wanted to throw it out there anyway as I have a web-based venture I am trying to get started.
Check out my 72 hour site launch: ToFind.Me, a location shortener
http://tofind.me
Spawned from a discussion with a friend about how we could compress lat/long into a format suitable for text messaging or casual sharing.

Some details on the thinking behind it are at tynan.com/tofindme

Would love to hear feedback on the concept / feature set. Haven't had a chance to clean up my code yet, so no need to tell me how bad it is.
Cross Format Annotation
http://hypothes.is/blog/cross-format-annotation/
20 years ago today, Marc Andreesen announced the short-lived support for annotation in Mosaic.
Context Based Search Systems for More Relevant Search Results - Insights
http://www.readaboutseo.com/context-based-search-systems-relevant-search-results-insights/
Context of a search query is an important factor for search engines to return more relevant search results for users. This article walks you through an overview of some intriguing context based search systems and how they are heading towards improving the relevancy of search results.
Show HN: Step CI – API Testing and Monitoring Made Simple
https://stepci.com
Hi, this is Mish and Sebastian. We’re building Step CI (https://stepci.com), a Continuous Integration platform, that lets you test, monitor and secure your APIs.

Currently, testing APIs requires you to get familiar with different tooling, depending on programming language. It also adds infrastructural and operational overhead, if you want to run automated (continuous) tests. Monitoring your APIs over time is often a forgotten aspect, that could lead to service disruptions and business losses. Likely, you also depend on third-party APIs, which could introduce unforeseen risks and increase troubleshooting efforts in case of failure. Additionally, you need to make sure, that your APIs are secured against incoming threats.

Me and Sebastian started working on Step CI after meeting on YC’s Startup School Co-Founder matching platform. Previously, I have worked as a Software Developer and Sebastian worked as a Financial Specialist and Business Consultant. At Step CI, I’m responsible for the tech, while Sebastian takes care of business operations.

With Step CI, we offer a simple declarative way to write tests, that are programming-language agnostic and work for different API paradigms (REST, GraphQL, XML). Our infrastructure lets you run tests without operational overhead. On top of that, we monitor popular third-party APIs and let you know when these fail. We are also looking forward to integrate your favourite tooling, such as Git, Slack and Pagerduty with Step CI.

Compared to other tools we embrace the idea of multi-step testing process rather than writing more tests (this is where the name comes from!). We want to make a tool, that other developers love to use. We’re also actively considering open-source as a way to spread our work.

Today, we would like to invite you to try the demo and tell us what you think. You can also subscribe to our newsletter or reach out on Matrix (#stepci:matrix.org) or via e-mail (hello@stepci.com) any time of the day.