jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: A simple url shortener written in Node
http://www.github.com/danieltreacy/naurls
Was bored at work so I threw this together. First bash at a Node app. Built a simple Chrome extension for it too.
Review my startup: RegistryStop, a centralized wedding registry
http://www.registrystop.com
Registry Stop grew out of my frustrations with the wedding registry process. During the process managing multiple in store registries, getting duplicate items, and just the problem of dealing with sales people became quickly frustrating. We created Registry Stop to allow couples to not worry about which stores they registered at, instead they only have to focus on the products they want. As a result we let users register anywhere, meanwhile we show their guests where they can find the best price.

http://www.registrystop.com

Our goal was to make adoption and use as simple as possible for users. Whether they started with us, or used us later into the process we wanted it to take no more than a few seconds for them to be fully ramped up on us. If they start with us, they have the ability to download an iPhone app and begin scanning barcodes immediately. If they've already registered at an existing store we search and find their registry for them, then import all of that data.

We'd love any feedback on any areas people are willing to offer up. In particular:
- If the message is clear
- If the signup and adding process is clear
- Styling for the target market (weddings)
Cherokee
Four Lessons from Y Combinator's Fresh Approach to Innovation 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/harvardbusiness?sid=H27f14ae170742d090e815c741d0e1cbb
An article on harvardbusiness.org via Bloomberg News describing YC's innovative approach to venture funding.
Seedcamp, the interview
http://betashop.com/post/194291531/seedcamp-the-interview
Transcript from my mentoring sessions at seedcamp, London.
Show HN: "LawyerClock" - watch your cash burn during meetings
http://www.lawyerclock.com
Hey everyone. I'm a founder of a Boston based, venture backed startup, unrelated this this link. One of my business partners and I coded this website DURING long and painful meetings with our attorneys as a way to pass the time. We racked up over $100k in legal bills through a couple fundraising and legal hurdles. This is the website that resulted from that time.<p>We'd love your feedback for version 2.0. Thanks!
Ask HN: Interesting (offline) iPad apps for hackers?
Going to travel away for a 2½ weeks soon, and I'm going to take only an iPad with me for my basic computer needs (+ an android phone). But what if I get an itch to hack something? Any suggestions on apps that I can get my daily fix of hacker/geek life with?

One option I've been thinking about is setting up some kind of minimal Linux dev environment on the Android phone and SSH'ing in from iPad to get a better terminal/keyboard than I would have on the phone.

Another option would be to just SSH to my home box and do whatever I usually do on it, but it is probable that there's no internet connectivity where I'm going, or it will be painfully slow.

Third option of course would be to force myself to do something else :)

Maybe HN has some other options or suggestions?
Ask HN: What are your favourite geospatial algorithms?
I'm developing with a metric ton of polygon data. As with anything in our field I've been tasked with making our products faster / more scalable.

I don't want to reinvent the wheel and I want to see what algorithms are out there for my perusal. I'd prefer original published papers if you've got links like that.
Ask HN: How do you get more comments on a blog?
My blog has been getting around 3k hits per day average lately. However, very rarely do people comment. It's nice to have the traffic but wondering what really drives folks to leave a comment on a blog.
World's Best Rails Rails Hiring Process
http://startups.learnhub.com/lesson/page/1061-worlds-best-rails-hiring-process
The comments on the article are the best part.
Apple scores limited victory in smartphone patent war
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/20/us-htc-apple-patent-idUSTRE7BI24620111220
Apple Inc scored a narrow victory against Taiwan's HTC Corp in a patent lawsuit over smartphone technology that will set the stage for further battles between rival makers in the fiercely competitive market.
Memoirs from a Disgruntled MBA
http://rippleq.blogspot.com/
the rants of a Stanford social software entrepreneur
Bust a Name - Great way to find available domain names
http://www.bustaname.com
It's like Instant Domain Search taken to the next level - give it some words and it'll help you find something. Sorting by length and readability are great ideas.
Ask HN: How is everyone feeling?
It does feel a bit weird to me sometimes to be reading about JavaScript or something on HN in the midst of all this but it’s also been a way for me to cope.

Given that HNers are more likely to spend time on their own I’m wondering on how fellow HNers are coping with all the stress and anxiety.
Mockup Tool Made Entirely In HTML, CSS, Javascript and CouchDB: Mokk.me
http://www.domain.me/blog/iphone-mockup-tool-mokk-me-1543
Who needs a backend? :) Thomas Jacob made Mokk.me without one. Mokk.me is a web-based application that helps you to create simple mockups of your mobile applications. Once created, you can share your mockups with friends and allow them to edit and give you feedback.
Bye Bye Bluetooth
http://techdusts.com/2009/10/15/wifi-direct-in-2020-will-replace-bluetooth-wifi-alliance/
Come 2010 and no longer would you be using Bluetooth for short range file transfer. Apple, Intel, Cisco (and other major players) along with WiFi Alliance have together come with a set of standards for WiFi Direct. This will convert you Wifi gadget into a access point.
Anand Beats Topalov in 4th Game of World Chess Championship
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=115721
http://www.anand-topalov.com/en/results.html
Turn spreadsheets into website designs
https://www.ohsheethq.com
Hi HN members,

I've been facing this problem recently. As a startup founder, I am managing a lot of Google Sheets. I want to hire a developer to convert it to custom websites but I couldn't find a place I could get it designed.

I decided to solve it myself. I tried this out with one company and they were quite happy with the solution. So I'm opening it up to everyone.

I'd love to see if anyone else has the same problem.
Dave Morin of Path.com on the "slow product" movement
http://launch.is/blog/2010/12/12/launch001-the-path-of-most-resistance.html
Great piece on building products slowly by Dave Morin at the bottom of this url: "At Path we believe in what I call building a "slow company." Similar to the slow food movement, we believe that more Internet and technology companies should look at building long-term, sustainable, organic growth companies. Not enough entrepreneurs are focused on the long term right now. And by long term I mean, the building of the next generation of great, high quality brands. At Path we look to long term, high quality, brands like Apple, Audi, Leica, Sony, Muji, Kodak, and Porsche for inspiration."
Show HN: Pomodoro-Timer
http://www.musetheory.de/web/pomodoro
Someone suggested the Pomodoro-technique on HN and I quickly threw together this page that is supposed to help me try Pomodoro out today.

Join my effort today and let me know if you like it!
Ask HN: It's Jan 1 and you're building a new Saas app: What framework do you pick?
Title says it (mostly) all.

If you're starting to build a brand new web-based Saas app (responsive desktop web + mobile) heading into 2015 what are you using to build it on and why?

I know what my default go-to would be, but I'm looking to get input on what's worth looking into if I'm not beholden to anything legacy.
Ask HN: For a startup, when should I begin writing tests?
Hello!

We're building our MVP and have got commitments from our first few customers. I'm still young and haven't managed production software before, only personal projects.

I'm hesitant to sacrifice developer velocity for tests. I believe product agility is a huge asset early on, and I think testing cuts into this.

I'm also afraid of digging an inescapable hole of untestable spaghetti code and tech debt.

I'd love to hear the thoughts of more experienced engineers and founders on this issue! How did you balance it, and what would you have done differently? When should I start testing?

My current idea is to skip testing, and instead put that effort into product development and a robust deployment pipeline with easy roll-backs. Ideally this would allow us to move quickly and revert any big mistakes, without the burden of a complex test suite.

If it's important, we're React+Go, but I'm not looking for stack-specific advice.
Ask HN: People doing open-source development full-time
Is it possible to make a living doing open-source development full-time? How do these great people make money for living?
Improving the Rubinius Bytecode Compiler
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/improving-the-rubinius-bytecode-compiler/
In this post, I’ll explain what I’ve been doing and how it relates to getting Rubinius ready for 1.0. We recently released version 0.12 and we’re going to be doing releases about every two weeks. If you haven’t built Rubinius yet to check it out, head over to our download page and get started!
Ruby 2.0 speed ÷ Python 3 speed
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/ruby.php
Yes i know that benchmarks mean fairly little, but Ruby here is WAY off the chart. Wasn't 2.0 suppose to improve on performance? And it is even worst then PHP.
Show HN: Roll20, a new virtual tabletop for playing RPGs online
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rileydutton/roll20-virtual-tabletop-gaming-that-tells-a-story
This is a project that I have been working on in my spare time for a while now. It's a new virtual tabletop for playing pen and paper role playing games online, but it takes an entirely different approach than anything out there right now. Rather than trying to turn pen and paper games into video games, with features centered around one-click damage calculations and detailed stats tracking, Roll20 focuses on storytelling. It has completely new features like background music, player journals, and an expansive art library with a built-in web search.

The entire system runs on NodeJS, Padrino, Backbone JS, Raphael, ShareJS, and a few dozen other "HTML5" technologies. OpenTok/TokBox powers the built-in video chat.

We're trying to raise some money on Kickstarter to fund further development and get us to the finish line. If you enjoy playing pen and paper games and think this is a good idea, we'd love your support -- help us spread the word!
First Look: Flash Arrives on New Android OS
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/05/first-look-flash-android
Excerpt:

"We tested different websites with the Flash 10.1 Player on a Nexus One running Android 2.2 and here’s our first take: With Flash on your phone, no website is really out of bounds. Flash does not appear to be a battery hog, nor does it chew away at your phone’s resources.

But it’s not a flawless experience either."
Ask HN: Place for developers & designers to barter small units of work?
E.g. I'll build you a site if you'll design my logo & vice versa? (roughly equivalent in effort for each person, say X hours of coding for X hours of design - or however the two parties agree to is fair)

The key here is that you're exchanging something relatively easy for you to produce in exchange for something that's relatively difficult for you to do but relatively easy for someone else to do. Not a big upfront commitment, i.e. a job or contract.

It's generally hard to be an expert at it all: back-end, front-end, design & UX. Is there a place for people to barter their services? If there isn't, maybe there should be ;)

Related (also posted on Quora): http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-place-where-back-front-end-developers-designers-trade-work
If Facebook Threatens the Web, then WordPress Saved the Web
http://marcgrabanski.com/articles/wordpress-saved-the-web
After reading Tim Berners-Lee’s writings on how Facebook threatens the future of the web it occurred to me just how in the reverse argument is also true...projects like WordPress actually saved the web up until now by saving the intellectual property of millions of content publishers.
Show HN: A free HN iPhone/iPad app I launched a few months ago
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-reader-technology/id463699245?mt=8
I actually started it June 2011 to learn iOS, launched it in September, and have been steadily adding features and making improvements.

It's something I use every day and I hope other people find it useful. Enjoy!
Show HN: A search engine based on social signals
http://buzzsumo.com/
We built a search engine that shows you the most engaging stories/topics being shared across Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Google+. We crawled over 15 million articles the past 3 months, retrieved the total number of Facebook likes, tweets, Google+’s etc and built a search index around it.

Here's what our infrastructure looks like:

Rails/Redis: We use the Sidekiq gem as a message queue. We have hundreds of workers that do the crawling, data mining, and number crunching.

ElasticSearch: We built the search index using ElasticSearch, with the data imported from our Postgres database.

AngularJS: Front-end is built using AngularJS and Laravel 4 (PHP), which sends the requests to our Rails server in the backend.
Show HN: Xata, serverless database on top of PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch
https://xata.io
Hi!

Xata was on HackerNews once before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28590816) a bit over a year ago, when we were at the beginning of our development. We've promised we're going to do a Show HN page when we come out of Private Beta, and this just happened today.

Xata is a product in the serverless database space. We know that the space is fairly crowded now, with lots of great companies started recently. We're happy to see a fresh wave of database products, that are focused more on the developer experience, rather than a race to the bottom on performance and cost.

We are part of this wave, but we also think our offering is quite differentiated:

- First, out of all the options out there, we're aiming to be the easiest to get started with and the easiest to use. We are cloud-only and our product feels more like a SaaS-like experience than an IaaS experience. If you've hacked together an app with data stored in Airtable or GitHub, you should try Xata next time. It's just as easy to use but has constraints, data integrity, type-safe clients, etc.

- We offer functionality from multiple data stores. Today, the source of truth for the data is in PostgreSQL and we also replicate it in Elasticsearch. This means that we can offer free-text-search and aggregation functionality that goes beyond what's possible in PostgreSQL. In the future, we'll add more functionality around in-memory caching, queues, etc, so all data patterns that you need are available via a single, serverless, consistent API. This sounds complex (and it is), but the complexity is entirely on our side. Your application can just reap the benefits.

- It is vertically integrated and focused on developer workflows: we provide a nice web UI, a TypeScript/JavaScript SDK, and VS Code extension, all working together with minimal friction. The TypeScript SDK is somewhat similar with Prisma, because it gives you type safety for both the parameters and the return types. However, it is different because it is a pure-TypeScript implementation, which means it is more lightweight and can run in Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, etc.

Some more links, if you want to dig into the details:

- For examples of the API, see our API Guide: https://xata.io/docs/api-guide/insert

- For technical details about the inner workings of Xata, see our fairly long How it Works guide: https://xata.io/docs/intro/how-it-works

- We think this approach is new and gave it a name: Serverless Data Platform, which is explained here: https://xata.io/docs/intro/serverless-data-platfrom

- For a high-level overview of the features available, see: https://xata.io/features

We would really love your feedback!
Zed Shaw's latest project - Fret War
http://www.fretwar.com
Fret War is a guitar competition site where contestants try to defeat lesser guitarists in weekly rounds playing randomly generated music. Awards are given each week for interpretation, accuracy, speed, and uniqueness.
Economist books of the year (science and technology picks)
http://www.economist.com/node/17626972?story_id=17626972&fsrc=nlw|hig|02-12-2010|editors_highlights
The China books are also of general interest to gain an idea of the nature of our new masters. For UK readers the books on US politics may be of interest. A good present gift list.
Show HN: Horcrux, a Mac app to back up or move your IMAP emails
http://thehorcrux.com/?hn
Hi,

Creator here. I'm sort of reposting the same thing from about 208 days ago. The first version kinda sucked. I guess this is my first lean not-really-a startup experience.
The new version is much better. http://thehorcrux.com/why-i-built-horcrux-app/

Let me know what you think,

Here are some promo codes:
97HNR6HW4EPH
K9R7KTWPTJJ6
WPM3MK4WXNHY
3P7N9RNPF4M4
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Cheers,
Suhas Sharma
Why We Don't Skip Photoshop
http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2008/jun/04/why-we-dont-skip-photoshop/
Jeff Croft's writeup in response to a recent article by 37Signals' position against the visual mockup. Jeff cites that this may work for 37Signals because of their simple, established products and because they are not working for a client.
Io v. Veoh: Important ruling for sites comprised of 'user-generated content'
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/08/required-reading-user-generated-content-sites-io-g
The article is a good summary, but you should really read the entire ruling. Really important stuff for any company that takes advantage of the DMCA safe harbor.
Tales of an Ex–Microsoft Manager
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/08/microsoft_ceo_steve_ballmer_retires_a_firsthand_account_of_the_company_s.html
Pretty accurate summary, from a manager's point of view, of how performance ranking happens at Microsoft.
Show HN: Recipe search engine, built in vanilla PHP
https://recipehunt.app/
1) Summary = RecipeHunt(http://recipehunt.app) is a Recipe Search Engine that gives you the only 3 things that matter in my opinion: (a) Picture, (b) Ingredients, (c) Directions

2) Problem = Every recipe site is bloated(e.g. full of ads, long backstory). I just want to see 3 things: Picture, Ingredients, Directions.

3) Solution = Built a simple Recipe Search Engine that gives you only those 3 things.

4) Tech Stack = Vanilla HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, SQL (some JQuery). Frameworks are too complicated for me, so I just wanted to build with what I know.

5) Design

-Main Feed = Similar to Instagram Explore (Square Shaped Thumbnails).

-Categories = Filter by "Country" or "Dish Type".

-Search Bar = Quickly go directly to a Recipe or Category.

-Recipe Page = Gives you only 1 Picture + Ingredients + Directions + Comments. Separated by tabs (I don't like scrolling).

-Paywall(for Spam) = I put up a paywall to prevent spamming (Stripe).

6) Content(Recipes) = I manually put in some initial recipes (posted a few for each Country/Dish Type). Challenge is to fill the site with enough recipes to make it useful. May look into Recipe API's and make sure I'm not violating any terms (give source credit in recipe page).

7) Conclusion = Just wanted to share this because I think it will solve my own problem (making it less painful to search recipes). Still a work in progress, but hopefully it may be useful to someone else as well.

Will happily welcome any feedback! Thanks!

-nsemikey
Google ChromeBook Review: ChromeBomb?
http://stefanweitz.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/chromebook-review-ready-for-primetime-if-primetime-is-saturday-at-3am/
Google ChromeBook not ready for primetime...
What Google+ needs to do to be awesome  
http://jonmulholland.tumblr.com/post/7336128880/7-things-google-needs-to-do-to-be-awesome
#7 Push use of Circles across all Google products; I want the ability to share a Google Doc to all in my ‘Colleagues’ circle, share a Calendar Appointments to all in my ‘Friends’ circle or send a text message from my Android handset to all in my ‘Family’ circle.
AWS instance was scheduled for retirement
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=497940#497965
If you are hosting on cloud, you must automate everything.
Cloud9 IDE lets you code together in the Cloud. And offline. And in Ruby, PHP…
http://c9.io/site/blog/2012/06/cloud9ide-new-features/
Cloud9 IDE, the most beautiful editor, now lets you code together in the Cloud. And offline. And in any other language runtime in your own system.
Show HN: Smort.io – Edit, annotate and share articles easily
https://www.smort.io/
Hey HN, I created Smort as I wanted to highlight an article and share it with a friend but couldn't find an easy way of doing it.

Smort lets you easily edit, annotate and share an article. To read any article, just prepend smort.io/ before a URL in a browser. (I recently found out that even 12ft.io/ uses the same technique). Smort is free to use and shareable links are valid for 7 days from creation. Permanent links will be supported soon.

I'm primarily a backend/ML engineer so had to learn all things frontend to build Smort. I started out developing in SvelteKit and loved it but later migrated to React & Nextjs due to better third party library support. I have lots of ideas on how to take Smort forward and would love for you all to use it. Please join our Discord to share your curated articles and feedback!

This is a walkthrough article detailing everything Smort can do at the moment - https://smort.io/demo-walkthrough.

Smort's name was inspired by the memes [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=smort+meme&tbm=isch
Show HN: Structpad: notepad-database hybrid that helps you use abstract thinking
https://structpad.app
Hello. Briefly about Structpad:
All interaction with app comes down to simple typing, like in a notepad. No buttons, commands or special characters needed. However, you can still build complex structured data.

Something about why I'm building Structpad:
I love taking notes and I think it's necessary for deep thinking because our brain is very powerful, but it has one weakness - memory.
I noticed that not only the text itself matters, but also some invisible structure in our minds. There are various tools that try to reveal this structure, such as filenames, folders, tags, links, tables of contents, but they are often complex and unreusable.
So I wanted more structure, less clutter, and no extra clicks.

Programming languages use OOP for a higher level of abstraction, to create more complex programs, so why not use something similar for our thoughts instead of plain text? In this way, Structpad reduces the load on memory for the sake of the quality of using the mind.
I will now send this to beginner programmers
https://headlinedev.xyz/2022/08/12/how-to-learn-to-program.html
A look at a common issue I see beginner devs go through. Probably the thing that weeds the most people out of development.
Try right clicking GitHub's logo 
http://github.com/
Not sure if this is something new but I really think this feature is very thoughtful. Great UX. I hope every site will do the same thing.
Show HN: I'll help you name your next startup/product for $50
http://startupgods.com/
Hey HN. This is a weekend project of mine. It's an idea I had after seeing so many comments here about the lack of available .com names for startups.

As PG once said: "Take a luxury and make it into a commodity"[1]. So, I decided I'd try turning name consulting from something only large corporations could afford to something anyone could. I hope you'll take me up on it :)

If you'd like to see a few examples of my work, just check out the links in the footer. Thanks for your attention.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html