jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So Long Polygons.  It's been a blast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ATtrImCx4&ttl=1
Unlimited Detail is a new technology for making realtime 3D graphics. Unlimited Detail is different from existing 3D graphics systems because it can process unlimited point cloud data in real time, giving the highest level of geometry ever seen.
Autofill abuse allows websites to grab sensitive userdata
http://board.protecus.de/files/autofill-abuse/demo.html
several browser, leak vcards and userdata through their autofill feature - i am happy about any support and comments!
Elon Musk’s misguided attack on New York Times
http://dubdux.tumblr.com/post/43138764461/teslas-elon-musks-misguided-attack-on-new-york-times
In essence, Elon Musk doesn’t think the New York Times author went far enough out of his way to make sure the car succeeded. (In fact, the author made way more concessions than a normal user would. He drove under the speed limit. He let the cabin temperature drop. He called Tesla HQ for tips and triage recharging locations. I wouldn’t have done any of that.)
Reinventing Email
http://www.reinventingemail.com
This is my approach to PG's request to reinvent/replace email.

I look forward to get your feedback!
Real Time Map of Storm Chasers
http://www.tornadovideos.net/full-screen-chaser-video.php
See also http://www.chasertv.com/
Angel investors on Twitter and Facebook
http://launch.is/angels-on-twitter-facebook/
We just made this list of every angel investor we could find AND their investments twitter accounts.

there is no better way to court an angel investor then stalking them on twitter :-) let me know if we missed any and we will add.
Ask HN: Have you ever used SQLite as a client/server DB for a high volume site?
The SQLite website states that it works well for low to medium traffic websites (e.g. 100k hits as a conservative estimate). However, the site cautions about using SQLite as a client/server database when multiple clients are trying to write to the database. [1]

Have you ever used SQLite in the second scenario? What was your experience? Why did you stick with SQLite over a client/server database like PostgreSQL? What it simplicity of usage and deployment? Or was SQLite simply fast enough for your needs?

[1] https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html
Ask HN: Why are 5 inch USB floppy drives so uncommon?
It's easy to buy a 3.5in USB floppy drive for $10 online. In contrast, I've seen 5in USB floppy drives, but they're not common. For example, this is a USB controller for $50 - you have to hook up your own drive and provide a housing.

http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html

It's unsurprising there's less demand for them than 3.5in drives, but it seems like the difference in demand alone can't explain this gap. Is there some technical issue that makes manufacturing drives like this difficult? Or am I missing some other part of the picture?
Twitter Irony: Blog titles are getting longer
http://mindovermeta.com/2010/08/twitter-irony-blog-titles-are-getting-longer/
Twitter is prompting bloggers to use increasingly wordy titles, with TechCrunch the biggest offender.
Over time, Linux package dependencies show predator/prey relationship
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/over-time-linux-package-dependencies-show-predatorprey-relationship.ars?comments=1#comments-bar
I linked to the comemnts by mistake, the link for the post is at
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/11/over-time-linux-package-dependencies-show-predatorprey-relationship.ars
Will California become America's first failed state?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/04/california-failing-state-debt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/04/california-failing-state-debt

i dont live in US, i wonder how a place like california got into such mess.
Captcha Advertising
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-05-03-n58.html
what an awesome idea!
Show HN: I Created a personal radio platform that delivers news, podcasts, music
https://www.audioone.fyi
If you want to keep up with the latest news, podcasts, plus listen to Spotify music delivered in a new way, you should try out AudioOne FYI.

AudioOne FYI delivers a personalized radio experience of everything that matters to you, no one else. Just create an account and tell AudioOne what you like, it will deliver everything as an audio first experience.

Get up to 3 personal audio newsletters a day, with The latest news, subscribed and preferred podcasts and short topical audio clips.

Search for the latest news and podcast episodes powered by Google and other sources and listen, not read the results. You can also follow your search topics and they will be delivered in your own personal radio station. AudioDrops are going to change how you follow content that matters forever.

Soon you will be able to build your own custom radio stations and share them with others. Create a curated experience of music, news and podcasts that you and your audience can enjoy, always up to date. You will also be able to go live and host guests on your own dedicated radio station or broadcast in syndication.

Try it. Want the personal experience, create a free account.

More features to come. Will keep you up to date, here on Hacker News.

Thanks,

Tony
An electric motorcycle
https://www.mission-motorcycles.com/r
Quite expensive though and far away from being the Tesla for superbikes.
Researchers uncover Tor-powered Skynet botnet
http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2357
Rapid7 researchers have recently unearthed an unusual piece of malware that turned out to be crucial to the formation of an elusive botnet - dubbed Skynet by the researchers - whose existence has been documented in a very popular Reddit "I Am A" thread.
ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity
https://martinfowler.com/articles/201708-tw-sale.html
Several employees vouching the info of the record, no public links available yet.
The DHH Problem
http://codon.com/the-dhh-problem
Slides and audio from a lightning talk by Tom Stuart at Scottish Ruby Conference 2014.
Show HN: IPDetective – An API for IP bot detection
https://ipdetective.io
IPDetective collects data from about 60+ different sources such as official cloud provider endpoints and public VPN/Proxy/Tor/Bot net lists. Then aggregates this data into a fast and easy to use API that can be integrated into applications or scripts easily.

IPDetective started as a hobby project for my other hobby projects :) and I decided to wrap a simple website around and offer it as a service.

Let me know what your thoughts, if you find value in this service or if you have any feature requests.
Show HN: A collaborative pixel drawing game for when you're bored
https://pixel.vkoskiv.com
Hello HN. This is a project me and some friends built at university in 2017. It was originally built in a rush, but we've added a few improvements over the years. It's a fun game to host at a demoparty and project on a big screen - We did that at Instanssi many times. The implementation is still rough, and suffers from the fast pace of the modern web - The frontend is likely very outdated, and the backend is built with Vapor 2 and Swift 3.1, both no longer supported. You can host this yourself, but it might be a bit of a pain to set up. The WebSocket protocol is fairly trivial to work out and write a bot for to ruin the whole canvas, but I trust that the HN crowd can come up with clever things to draw with a script, should they choose to do so. The server is recording draw events into a log, and I will be posting a timelapse here in the comments after some time. Have fun!
Why it's hard to love Google Plus in Africa
http://www.techzim.co.zw/2012/05/why-its-hard-to-use-google-plus-in-africa/
I don’t use Google+ much. It’s not that Google plus is a ghost town. No. There’s a flurry of activity from the people I follow - Zimbabweans, Kenyans, Googlers in Africa, and Robert Scoble. The decision for me boils down to one practical thing; page load speed.
Show HN: A weekendproject, disposable web chats
http://beta.mss.gs/#!/page/home
Create a chat, copy the URL, paste it wherever you want.
Perfect for those that would like to continue a discussion on a social network without having to sign up for anything.

http://beta.mss.gs/#!/page/home
Show HN: Giggle – A self-hosted customizable and ad-free Google Search interface
https://github.com/dan-lovelace/giggle
Hi HN!

Wanted to share my weekend project, Giggle. I started using Google's Programmable Search Engine recently and needed an easy way to use it. Let me know what you think!
Quickly go back to a directory instead of typing cd ../../..
https://github.com/vigneshwaranr/bd
Description: Quickly go back to a specific parent directory in bash instead of typing "cd ../../.." redundantly.

How to use:

If you are in this path /home/user/project/src/org/main/site/utils/file/reader/whatever and you want to go to site directory quickly, then just type: 'bd site'

In fact, You can simply type 'bd <starting few letters>' like 'bd s' or 'bd si'

If there are more than one directories with same name up in the hierarchy, bd will take you to the closest. (Not considering the immediate parent.)

Using bd within backticks (`bd <letter(s)>`) prints out the path without changing the current directory.

You can take advantage of that by combining `bd <letter(s)>` with other commands such as ls, ln, echo, zip, tar etc..

Check out the screenshot.
Wikipedia processing. PyPy vs CPython benchmark
http://rz.scale-it.pl/2013/02/18/wikipedia_processing._PyPy_vs_CPython_benchmark.html
What PyPy can do for Wikipedia processing tasks? Speedup!
How to understand non-trivial declarations in C. (right-left rule)
http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~cs30x/rt_lt.rule.html
A big thanks to the best professor I had in undergrad for making this.
HN, Help. Launching my app in front of 3,000 tomorrow, Apple withholding bugfix
My Plea:
I submitted an app a couple weeks back which just recently got approved for a soft launch. After playing around with it on older devices we found a massive memory leak that severally effects stability and performance.

We quickly submitted a 1.1 version and contacted "appreview@apple.com". They said not to worry, and that it would be ready by Sunday. Fast forward to Saturday and my 1.1 version says that it's still "Pending an Apple release". I've gotten nothing but radio silence after Apple said they would have it ready by Sunday. I show this puppy off in less then 24 hours in front of 3,000 people and I'm starting to sweat bullets.

I know that I'm grasping at straws here, but I don't know what else to do. If you guys could up vote this, maybe someone who knew what to do would see it, and be able to help me out of jam.

Thanks HN community! I really appreciate it!

My email address is in my profile.
Wozniak praising Android over iPhone limitations
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/17/woz_praises_android_highlights_iphone_limitations/
Likes Android for its openness to dev, better software. iPhone is still better UX.
Show HN: Open-source APM with support for tracing, metrics, and logs
https://app.uptrace.dev/play
Uptrace is an all-in-one tool that supports distributed tracing, metrics, and logs. It uses OpenTelelemetry observability framework to collect data and ClickHouse database to store it.

You can ingest data using OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Vector Logs, and Zipkin API. You can also use OpenTelemetry Collector to collect Prometheus metrics or receive data from Jaeger, X Ray, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL and many more.

The latest Uptrace release introduces support for OpenTelemetry Metrics which includes:

- User interface to build table-based and grid-based dashboards.

- Pre-built dashboard templates for Golang, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and host metrics.

- Metrics monitoring aka alerting rules inspired by Prometheus.

- Notifications via email/Slack/PagerDuty using AlertManager integration.

There are 2 quick ways to try Uptrace:

- Using the Docker container - https://github.com/uptrace/uptrace/tree/master/example/docke...

- Using the public demo - https://app.uptrace.dev/play

I will be happy to answer your questions in the comments.
I've made an open source flappy bird clone
https://github.com/ellisonleao/clumsy-bird
Hi guys! Getting a ride on all the hypeness involved on Flappy Bird game, i've created a clone of the game, with almost all the elements involved in the game, using MelonJS , a fantastic javascript game framework. Hopy you guys enjoy!

https://github.com/ellisonleao/clumsy-bird
Startup jobs with low salary and negligible equity, what gives?
Hi HN,
I am a developer in my 30s with over a decade of experience. Being on a lookout for a new job, I have been researching lots of jobs lately (since I don't mind moving, been looking in most parts of the US). I am divided at the moment between finding a startup job or finding a rather drab big corp job with good money.

I noticed some rather unsettling job adverts in the past while. Some pre series-A startups in the valley offering like $90k in salary for an experienced developer and 0.05% equity. I am just trying to understand who are their target candidates that they expect to join for such an offer (not to mention crazy working hours)?

I have a small family with SO not working. So, I'd be at best manage to make ends meet at that kinda salary in SF, plus the equity is negligible, and the work hours... seriously, am I missing something here? Who would take these deals? And then I often find popular posts on HN where founders are giving out about how tough it is to get good engineers!
How to make awesome diagrams for your slides
http://www.slideshare.net/otikik/how-to-make-awesome-diagrams-for-your-slides
This meta-presentation can help anyone making a powerpoint with diagrams and/or flowcharts. It contains a set of very simple, easy to follow guidelines that should improve their visibility and attractiveness.

I was meant to be a short presentation to help my brother with his work, but it kindof took a life of its own. It was promoted to Slideshare's front page in less than 12 hours.
Bitcoin is Not Anonymous
http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.com/2011/07/bitcoin-is-not-anonymous.html
TL;DR: Bitcoin is not inherently anonymous. It may be possible to conduct transactions in such a way so as to obscure your identity, but, in many cases, users and their transactions can be identified.
Show HN: A tiny solar-powered server only awake during the day
https://witch.solar
Solar Witch is a little webpage and server which receives and displays messages, so I suppose it's a tiny message board. It's coded in very dubious Arduino C.

It's not a 24/7 website. Depending on the state of the battery, the server itself might run all night, but all the messages it receives during the day are deleted at sunset, and the messaging function itself is only active between sunrise and sunset. This is for two reasons:

1. Less usage of Solar Witch during the night conserves battery power.

2. I like the idea of websites which _aren't_ constantly available. Websites which have to sleep too. Websites living on servers which aren't somewhere in the cloud, but which are bound to a particular location, giving you a sense of where in the world they actually live.

Solar Witch is very much inspired by the solar-powered version of Low Tech Magazine (https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/) and the not-always-online chatroom Gossips Cafe (https://gossips.cafe/), but at a far, far smaller scale.

PSA: Solar Witch is a teensy hand-written C server running on a teensy microcontroller attached to a teensy solar panel which can only handle one HTTP request at a time and may have buffer overrun issues due to my ineptitude with C. If it's gone down, please don't be surprised, and rest assured I'll hit the reset button soon! Solar Witch encourages patience.
Show HN: Micro-mitten – Research language with compile-time memory management
https://github.com/doctorn/micro-mitten
I've been working on implementing the compile-time approach to memory management described in this thesis (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-908.pdf) for some time now - some of the performance results look promising! (Although some less so...) I think it would be great to see this taken further and built into a more complete functional language.
Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in
https://www.recall-app.com/
I've been working on Recall for a while now, it had some initial traction in the beginning which has since died down now. I am facing the inevitable question of whether to continue with the project. I just put out a new release and it would be helpful to get advice from the community on what they think of the idea and my implementation.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2015)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.
Greenbox, the iOS-powered smart irrigation system
http://kck.st/XbEE0w
Bypass Three Network Tethering Block
http://gezby.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=69
Adobe rolls out iPad-focused magazine publishing tools
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/adobe-rolls-out-ipad-focused-magazine-publishing-tools.ars
Harvard restores early admissions for fall 2012 class
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2011/02/harvard_restore.html
Geolocation OSINT Tool Creepy v1.0 released
https://github.com/ilektrojohn/creepy/releases/tag/v1.0
NodeJS library for interacting with MSF
https://github.com/SomeoneWeird/msfjs
Money Temperature (thoughts)
http://www.phari.co/money-temperature/
Rock Climbing - The Sport
http://www.workout-x.com/fitness-articles/105/Rock-Climbing-Workout
Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs
https://daringfireball.net/2017/08/safari_should_display_favicons_in_its_tabs
From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way
https://medium.com/code-like-a-girl/from-secretary-to-software-developer-the-hard-way-ddfc60c8b675#.xnhuvooy6
Show HN: Find recommendations from good people
http://abyjames.com/projects/recommendations/
Building System Packages from Python Modules (with Dependencies Included)
https://tech.zalando.com/blog/building-system-packages-from-python-modules-with-dependencies-included/
Authentication for the decentralized web
https://dauth.co/
New Study Suggests Lead Generation Is a Key Growth Challenge for Most Companies
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimberlywhitler/2020/01/04/new-study-suggests-lead-generation-is-a-key-growth-challenge-for-most-companies/#4d06f8c15604
Toybox – Common Linux command line tools combined into a single executable
http://landley.net/toybox/#21-02-2017
Courage is Contagious - (or Wiki and the Leeks)
http://www.wikileeks.co.uk/
Reddit search on Reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fwjwb/after_a_bout_with_infamously_disappointing_search/
Squareone: Make money posting to Slashdot
http://squareone.pheared.net/2009/10/make-money-posting-to-slashdot.html
How to follow Advice from the internet
https://medium.com/@cgrusden/following-jason-frieds-and-a-couple-others-advice-on-how-to-run-my-company-for-the-next-14-days-ba33e6ab6b1a
‘Fire Your Agents,’ Unions Tell TV Writers in Hollywood Labor Dispute
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/business/media/writers-guild-of-america-talent-agents.html
Snap launches new gaming platform
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/04/snap-games/
Canadian Launches The Founder Project, a Seed Stage VC Fund for Student Startups
http://www.techvibes.com/blog/the-founder-project-2013-03-01
South Park creators use Transportation Theory to keep you interested
https://medium.com/feedium/psychologists-are-studying-why-transportation-theory-helps-captivate-your-readers-ac4796289c43
The Python Session by Women Who Code, Tavisca in Pune on April 22, 2017
http://www.tavisca.com
Slightly confusing F# error messages
http://www.artisancode.co.uk/2014/10/slightly-confusing-f-error-messages/
A Man Behind Getty Images' Drive into Africa
https://www.iafrikan.com/2019/07/08/meet-lee-martin-the-man-behind-getty-images-strategic-drive-and-who-is-now-planning-on-giving-africa-a-new-perspective-2/
Interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunas on micro credit’s long shadow
http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/13/interview-with-nobel-peace-prize-winner-muhammad-yunas-on-micro-credits-long-shadow/
AI could help solve privacy problems it created
https://www.iafrikan.com/2020/07/09/artificial-intelligence-could-help-solve-the-privacy-problems-it-has-created/
Invite your friends to have fun in Summer
http://osell.com/Shop/Product/60-Inch-1-5m-Giant-White-Swan-With-Handle-Inflatable-Water-Float-Pool-Toy-For-Kids-And-Adult-Swimming-Ring-Raft-PVC-Air-Mattress-p3310770-4164-441612.html?ffid=20170505134330802
Metacademy.org: Curated Personal Learning Plans 
http://www.metacademy.org/
Fixing Bugs and the "Five Whys" of the Toyota Production System
https://www.newfangled.com/five_whys_in_software_development
Show HN: GitHub File Filter – Chrome Ext to filter PRs and Commits by file type
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-file-filter/eiehflbilhldhfbnolbnggcapbjmnpmo
How to Decide What to Write About
https://medium.com/p/a1c36b2bfe9c
Show HN: Fleep – Slack-like messenger that also enables chat across teams
https://www.producthunt.com/tech/fleep-teams
Average Number of Rounds Raised by Startups Up 27% Since 2008
http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/02/more-growth-equity-please-average-number-of-rounds-raised-by-startups-up-27-since-2008/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techcrunch%2Fstartups+%28TechCrunch+%C2%BB+Startups%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
RBI Bars MasterCard from Taking on New Customers in India
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/rbi-bars-mastercard-from-taking-on-new-customers-in-india
Asynchronous Tests and Fixtures with Mocha and ChaiJs
http://zsolt-nagy.github.io/Asynchronous-Tests-and-Fixtures-with-Mocha-and-ChaiJs/
Getting Over Imposter Syndrome
https://swoleengineer.com/programming/combatting-imposter-syndrome.html
Dark Web Drug Dealers Are Making Sloppy Mistakes
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/dark-web-drug-dealers-are-making-sloppy-mistakes-onionscan-tor
Algorithm appointed board director (2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27426942
Show HN: A Multiplayer Geography Game Written Using Flask-SocketIO
https://posio.abrenaut.com/
Sales/Negotiation Lessons I learnt today while buying vegetables
http://aman.pro/post/136199976439/salesnegotiation-lessons-i-learnt-while
Data Transformation: Getting your engineers talking to your business
https://www.venturi-group.com/podcast/integrating-data-into-your-business/
Vue, Storybook, TypeScript: starting new project with the best practices in mind
https://habr.com/en/post/438354/
Paxos-replicated key-value store in 3 hours or less
https://github.com/rescrv/pocdb
Print your own house
http://www.wikihouse.cc
Hidden Supercluster Could Solve Milky Way Mystery
https://www.quantamagazine.org/hidden-supercluster-could-solve-milky-way-mystery-20171121/
'Mass Equals Time' Redefines Weight Standards
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/test-and-measurement/mass-equals-time-redefines-weight-standards
Max Levchin's VC Firm Theses: Embedded Lending
https://scifivc.substack.com/p/embedded-lending
9 Things You Would Immediately Fail Without Your Smartphone
http://mashable.com/2013/12/15/smartphone-dependency/#!
Color-Coding Complex Maintenance
https://gridium.com/color-coding-complex-maintenance/
Evolution of a Logo Animation - 37Signals
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3036-evolution-of-a-logo-animation
A Story About a ‘Magical Switch'
http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
IoT growth may bring trouble for IoT networks in unlicensed spectrum
https://translate.google.nl/translate?hl=nl&sl=nl&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Ftweakers.net%2Fnieuws%2F116349%2Fgroei-internet-of-things-kan-ongelicenseerde-netwerken-in-problemen-brengen.html
Fuel efficiency
http://longtailpipe.com/ebooks/green-transportation-guide-buying-owning-charging-plug-in-vehicles-of-all-kinds/gasoline-electricity-and-the-energy-to-move-transportation-systems/the-6-kwh-electricity-to-refine-gasoline-would-drive-an-electric-car-the-same-distance-as-a-gasser/