jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Coronavirus, a fiasco in the making? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6MZy-2fcBw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6MZy-2fcBw

Perspectives on the Pandemic: Dealing with Coronavirus, a fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data.
Ask HN: What is the total employment of all YC companies?
In recent months in the SF bay area, it often feels like practically every start-up is a YC start-up. One way we could measure the "YC effect" is the total size of employment of all YC companies. I would guess it should be at least 2000 people by now, dominated by a few big ones, and with a very long tail.
Function - design and development agency
http://madebyfunction.com
Just launched our new company website and would love some feedback on it. Good, bad, anything!
SAP Agrees to Buy Concur Technologies for Enterprise Value of $8.3B
http://www.bloomberg.com/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-18/sap-to-buy-concur-for-enterprise-value-of-about-8-3-billion.html
Jake Gyllenhaal is in the Source Code
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz0xGnFKMvE
Rather unfortunate title don't you think?
CRAZY: See how much information is stored in your smartphone photo
http://gospy.org
Hey guys, here is a hack we worked on the last 2 days. It's a website that locally processes an image and displays the EXIF information. You can also add more than one picture...
Goodbye Mars, Hello Malaria: Bill Gates Imprimatur on Science & the 21st Century
http://robertfortner.posterous.com/bill-gates-imprimatur-on-science-and-the-21st
Space exploration, genetic engineering and cancer are out as research priorities. Malaria and global health are in. Because of Bill Gates, the 21st century will look very different from 20th century visions of the scientific and technological future.
Analytics at Spotify
http://labs.spotify.com/2013/05/13/analytics-at-spotify/
Remove Bias, Acquire Data.
The bible uses protocol buffers
http://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/protobuf/google-protocol-buffers
(As found on the comment thread of https://plus.google.com/113026104107031516488/posts/2RCyK3GbAzq )
Show HN: I made a simple tool with GTP-3 and Google Sheets for copywriting ideas
https://www.gridabl.com/productivity-hacks/ai-copywriting-google-sheets
Now that the GPT-3 api has been opened up to the wider public, I've been looking for an excuse to work with it in some way. Although, I would argue this hardly qualifies as "working with" GPT-3, I've paid for tools in the past that offer nothing more than the base models wrapped in a CRUD app. So, at least this replaces middle-men with minimal value-add. Anyways, I'm happy to consider adding additional features. What do you think?
A simple scaffold for angularjs + requirejs + d3
http://kristw.yellowpigz.com/demo/angularjs-requirejs-d3-seed/index.html
See demo at
http://kristw.yellowpigz.com/demo/angularjs-requirejs-d3-seed/index.html

View source on github at
https://github.com/kristw/angularjs-requirejs-d3-seed
Read Barack Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s books in the blink of an eye
http://blinki.st/us-election-in-blinks/
After yesterday's debate, find out what Obama and Romney really stand for behind all the campaigning and posturing. In just a few minutes, you can read through their books’ key messages and truly understand each candidate’s thinking.
Clean up HTML tables with tablecloth.js
http://tableclothjs.com
tablecloth.js is a jQuery plugin that helps you easily style HTML tables along with some simple customizations.
16 Techi-rific Google Logo Doodles
http://www.techi.com/2010/07/16-techi-rific-google-logo-doodles/
When Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, wanted to do something creative with their logo back in 1999 to signify their attendance at the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada Desert, things were simple for the Google logo; just a stick figure stuck in the middle of the second ‘o’.
Generate RSS Feeds from Twitter accounts
http://dizeo.com
Get an RSS feed for any Twitter account by going directly to http://dizeo.com/<@username>
Case study of successful alternative fund raising methods.
http://awillager.blogspot.com/2011/03/alternative-startup-fund-raising-luctor.html
Alternative startup, angybird, Demoday, Denovo, Fund raising, General Associates, google, Lucetor, profitably, Ravio, semper ad meliora et lucrātīvus, thinkfues, willager, Ycombinator
Ask HN: Enforcing a schedule
My friend and I are trying to start-up a software development business. I've worked for corporations before where someone else was responsible for cracking the whip, where he's only worked for himself, so it's been a challenge maintaining discipline.

We're using Redmine to help us keep track of the things and it's been helpful. The difficult part is trying to figure out what happens when we don't meet a schedule. Our client is pretty lax; we do a lot of things for them and have multiple projects for them. A lot of time is spent doing support for them and they seem to be pretty satisfied. Since they're are only client right now, we try to take good care of them.

That being said, we're not getting a lot of pressure from them to finish up this latest project "on time"; they definitely want the features but since all the essential functions work, they don't put any pressure on us.

I want to move us towards a more rigorous and formal schedule with consistent release dates, etc. but I'm finding a hard time figuring out how to enforce discipline, not just for myself, but for my partner also. Any thoughts on this?

To give just a little more context, we're both studying language in China… so it's not like this is our only time commitment, but that isn't really a justifiable excuse for not releasing things on time.
Create a stylish HTML5 template from scratch
http://www.red-team-design.com/create-a-stylish-html5-template-from-scratch
HTML5 is certainly one of the latest buzzwords in the web community. It isn’t something new anymore and we’ve already seen how cool it is.

Features like simplified doctype, more semantic markup, input types and placeholders are just some of the reasons you’d like to use HTML5.

Today we’ll create a HTML5 website template using the full power of CSS3.
Google Plus Overview For Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
http://vidinterest.com/video/4815/small-business-owners-and-entrepreneurs-will-be-using-google
Small business owners and entrepreneurs will be using google plus for social media marketing in a very different way than the geeky types are!
Comprehending Public Key Infrastructure Behind SSL– Part 2
Challenges Faced by the Public PKI Model

The existing PKI model of trust may have satisfied the hidden goal ofg allowing end users in using SSL secured website securely, but the model is suffering from disputes that threaten to ruin the safety of the entire model.
- See more at: http://www.avyaan.com/blog/comprehending-public-key-infrastructure-behind-ssl-part-2/
Reverse Kickstarter
https://plus.google.com/105956130649067247289/posts/4NVu6361GHV
Can someone make a reverse kickstarter web site? For instance, all of the fans of Fire fly pool together money and either ask for someone to do it, or someone offers to do it at specific price points. Then a group is elected to do it when the time limit is up.

I offer this web site idea to the internet, please just someone do it, i am owed nothing.
Show HN: I built an app to save time planning your Google calendar using AI
https://www.atomiclife.app/
Hi HN,

I built a mobile app to help you save time planning your google calendar using AI. One of the biggest problems with tasks and meetings is that they are not fluid and they don’t change with your day. Spending X amount of time to rearrange your calendar defeats the purpose. So how do you keep you calendar sync with your day? This impacts your true availability too.

I realized that 80% of our work is similar so how do I capture that information to help with scheduling? Simple, tags and semantic search. Your past tasks and meetings become templates for your new ones when the scheduler works. Atomic does heavy pre-processing before sending your events to the AI schedule solver. There are many attributes to the event and more info is the landing page. Two big ones are time preferences (time boundaries for your events) and priorities. With these two alone your new schedule should reflect your day. These attributes get copied over when you run the scheduler.

So let’s say you have a meeting with John Doe and John only prefers certain times of the week. You add that information into the event. Next time you have a meeting with John, the scheduler will take the time preferences in to account.

Tasks get a big boost because now you can sync them and let the scheduler place them at the right place. All you have to do is tap a button and choose a range for the scheduler to work on.

Tags work in a similar manner. There is automatic tagging but you can copy over them from a previous template as well. Tags have their own settings including time preferences and event attribute copying settings.

I am seeking beta testers before a full launch and fix any critical bugs.

FYI - there is a playground for the semantic search and smart tagging function on the landing page. Please check it out!

Known limits

1. Google calendar has limits on number of events you can update at a time.

2. You have to set your work schedule under settings of the app or the schedule assist won’t work. Make it wide to cover your whole week.

product hunt link: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/atomic-3
What Can Go Wrong (a poem about code, art, etc.)
https://github.com/ofZach/eyeo_2012_remarks/
Zach Lieberman's stream of consciousness poem from the end of this year's Eyeo creative code festival.
All known methods of injecting a process to start on boot.
http://openhacking.blogspot.com/2012/01/all-known-and-unknown-autostart-methods.html
In case you wanted 10 different ways to make sure your process starts when your computer starts.
Netflix down. Again.
http://netflix.com
Note that even streaming these failsafe titles fails currently.
Selenic / Mercurial is Down
http://mercurial.selenic.com
It appears Selenic.com (Makers of the Mercurial VCS) is down and has been so for at least 20 hours.
Review My App: A Sprite Generator
http://quicksprites.com
After seeing DHH's keynote at RailsConf and http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2336-using-css-sprites-with-rails-helper-methods, I decided to try and build a better Sprite Generator. I don't want to bias any potential reviewers, so that's all I'll say for now. If this gets a good response, I'll post some further details in a few hours.
Ask HN: how to extract the numbers from an idea?
We have an idea. Great. Then how do we prospect the market size? Revenue model? Growth projections?
Extra Ticket to Y Combinator Dinner Tonight
I have an extra ticket to the YCombinator Grubwithus event tonight; I can't make it because of a doctor appointment. If you'd like it, I can email it to you. Shoot me an email, mark@markpneyer.com
Serving Multiple Sites with Django
http://blog.uysrc.com/2011/03/23/serving-multiple-sites-with-django/
Today we released django-dynamicsites, a pure django solution for hosting multiple sites from a single django project. Looking for feedback/comments on the code and design for subsequent releases.
Programming Quotes
http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/
The fact that a lot of the best quotes we have are a bit self-deprecating in one way or another surely must say something about us.
LulzSec goes after CIA.gov
http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec
http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec
The hidden images within PHP
http://mattiasgeniar.be/2012/02/21/the-hidden-images-within-php/
Did you know that the logo's of the PHP project are hidden within the PHP source code and can be magically shown using a simple URL string?
Ask HN: Joomla vs Wordpress for website Migration
I am looking to have someone migrate my website to a better CMS like Joomla or Wordpress, I currently have no CMS system set up and I am looking to use the website to generate leads.

What would be the best bet? I am tired of having to log into Dreamweaver every-time I need to change some content.

Thanks
Neurorobotics to aid development of brain-like computing technology
http://robohub.org/neurorobotics-to-aid-development-of-brain-like-computing-technology-new-treatments-for-alzheimers/
Florian Roehrbein writes: "Neurorobotics is one of the most ambitious fields in robotics and will play a major role in the newly announced Human Brain Project. This project was selected by the European Commission as a flagship project and will receive a prospected funding of 1 billion euro for a runtime of 10 years. The goal of the Human Brain Project is to pull together the highly fragmented knowledge in the neurosciences and to reconstruct the brain, piece by piece, in supercomputer-based models and simulations. It should lay the technical foundations for a new model of brain research that is based on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), driving integration between data and knowledge from different disciplines, and catalyzing a community effort to achieve a new understanding of the brain, new treatments for brain disease and new brain-like computing technologies."
HTML5 localStorage benchmark
http://markopolojarvi.com/research/localstorage_benchmark.html
I'm researching HTML5 localStorage performance and the more people does the benchmark, the more accurate results I can publish. It takes 1 click and few seconds to run the benchmark so please do it :)
Google background images: an attempt to regain traffic superiority?
I might be making up imaginary conspiracy theories, but in relation to the news that Facebook has more traffic than Google this month...

It seems to me that the extra traffic that Google generates by loading huge images on its home page will make it the largest website in terms of traffic once again.

What do you think?
Ask HN: What are the chances that the current SWE interview process will change?
I am a fresh electric engineer graduate, currently working as a Software Enginer (SWE) in a middle-sized company. In the long-term I'd like to join a FAANG company, or at least a big, "famous" company.

My current impression is that most of these companies have a standardized way to sort through applications, namely coding challenges.

I am critical of the current state of the interview process but I actually enjoy doing these small coding challenges if I find some free-time. Therefore, I'd like to start now and contentiously prepare for the interview to land a FAANG job in the future.

Given the high investment of time, how likely is it that the interview process will change anytime soon?
2 logo pixels moved – 52 news posted
https://news.google.com/news?ncl=dwrqSyvZ0hI8iCMt_TaEmkBcU51KM&q=google+logo+change&lr=English&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sXSIU6rkKevQ4QTsnIDoDg&ved=0CDUQqgIwAA
Google is a talented newsmaker
The ebook network - Write your book and find amazing ebooks
http://www.widbook.com/
A social network where writers and readers interact and collaborate on content.

- Write & Upload: Publish your content freely
- Read: Find exactly what you want
- Bookshelf: Store books to read anytime
- Collaborate: Write books with fellow users

And it is all for free! Visit us and send your feedback to support@widbook.com
Show HN: I recreated my SaaS that took me 6 months to build in just 1 week
https://usewildfire.com
Hello all,

In late Feb I launched my first SaaS Leansence.

It was quite comprehensive when it came to features. It was an end-to-end digital presence platform. From social media automation tools, to blogging CMS, to website builders.

However, I quickly realized I was trying to target a very broad range of users and I just couldn't maintain all these features in the long term, not to mention I didn't have any users.

My apps main unique selling point was the cross posting feature that drove me to build Leansence.

Eventually after about 2 months of marketing, I decided to strip away 80% of the features in a weeks time and the result was my new SaaS Wildfire.

I already have over 10 free and one paying user and its just little over a month since launch.

It's lighter, faster and simpler and free to get started, no credit card required.

With Wildfire, you can easily increase your blog views by cross posting your blog to Hashnode, Medium, DEV, Reddit and Twitter.

With Wildfire, you can import your blogs using RSS feeds, markdown, html files or even by posting a link of your Hashnode and DEV blog, after which in just 2-3 clicks you can cross post it to 5 platforms.

AI content generation is in the works right now.

Any feedback would be appreciated.
Ask HN: How to become a good product guy?
What books, blogs, etc can help me become more of a product guy?
Show HN: Devlogs a small CLI for personal logging on a project
https://github.com/aquaflamingo/devlogs
Hi HN, I wanted to share a little cli i've been working on for myself called devlogs.
Tablet Wars
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/digitalfoundry-tech-focus-tablet-wars?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=european-daily
Digital Foundry looks at the challenges Apple faces with the arrival of the Google Nexus 7 and Microsoft Surface.
Lynx Labs - a new 3D capture camera on Kickstarter.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/915328713/lynx-a-camera
First post on Hacker News, thought you guys might be interested in a project my company has been working on for the last year or so. Let me know what you think!
Selene – library for scheduling tasks on iOS
http://engineering.linkedin.com/ios/introducing-selene-open-source-library-scheduling-tasks-ios
Selene is an iOS library which schedules the execution of tasks on a background fetch.
Exotic geometry system for art and games and such. Open source.
https://code.google.com/p/fleen/
I just open sourced it. It's got grammar and generator functions too. Have at it.
Software development team: in search of ideal size
Efficiency is the Holy Grail of any manager. Every COO, project manager, head of department and other executives strive for maximum productivity and the best results. The impact of the team size on the overall performance is obvious, but what lies within?
http://ddi-dev.com/company/blog/20-software-development-team-search-ideal-size/
Ask HN: A tool to log a Spotify user's song history
Was wondering whether anyone knows of any unofficial tools that log a Spotify user's play history by exploiting the "Friend Activity" feed? The "Friend Activity" feed is in the Desktop version, not sure about mobile/web [1]

I am thinking something simple like pasting the user's account [2] into a tool that then starts pinging it every minute and writing to a txt file.

Anything like this out there?

Thanks

[1] https://imgur.com/tNfG4Vf

[2] https://open.spotify.com/user/starbucks
Ask HN: Do you face problems with using Google Chrome?
It seems Chrome has become quite unstable and hangs frequently requiring restart of the linux/mac laptops. Does it happen to you often?
If a callback calls the enclosing function, would it be called a recursive call?
I asked this question[1] on stackoverflow but could not get any convincing answer:

http.request(options, function(res) {
res.on('data', function(chunk) {
data+=chunk;
});

res.on('end', function(){
//do some stuff
http.request(options, function(res) {...});//is this recursive?
});

}).end();

Or a simpler case:
suppose there is a function which reads a file character by character:

var noOfChar = 10;
var i = 0;
readChar(function processChar(char){
if(i < noOfChar) {
console.log(char);
i++;
readChar(processChar); //is this recursive?
}
}
The Risk of ePassports and RFID
http://www.rfidied.com/articles/523/The-Risk-of-ePassports-and-RFID-
Today vonJeek/THC released his tool and a video how to duplicate (clone) and modify a Passport with RFID chip. http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-epassport/ The weakness is in the way the system has been rolled out. The terminal accepts self-signed data. This attack is different to the grunwald attack. VonJeek's attack makes it possible to copy, forge and modify the data so that it is still accepted as a genuine valid passport by the terminal. Using a Certification Authority (CA) could solve the attack but at the same time introduces a new set of attack vectors:
A Day in the Life of a Developer 
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bo55r/a_day_in_the_life_of_a_developer_using_jira/
The new 2.0 release of the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse provides the latest and most complete access to Atlassian’s development and collaboration tools from within the Eclipse IDE. This provides developers with an integrated platform for managing issues, source code, builds, and code reviews. To illustrate the benefits of the connector this article will walk you through a day in the life of a developer using the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse and Tasktop Pro.
Show HN: I created a bot to generate image from DALL-E and create NFT
https://github.com/Outerbridgeio/Outerbridge
The demo workflow: https://demo.outerbridge.io/canvas/W19SEP22-59ZC69JD

I created Outerbridge as an open source low-code tool focusing on Web3 applications.
As one of the DALL-E invited beta user, it was interesting to try out DALL-E + NFT.

Note: you will need relevant credentials to execute the workflow, so reach out!
We are more vulnerable to propaganda than ever before.
http://ts3t.de/en/page/political-education-by-marketing
Marketing is able to form our will because it can explain things to us that we did not ask to understand. And because we decide upon our existing knowledge, marketing does have relevant influence on our decisions within our democracy.
Show HN: A tool to view biodiversity and sustainability for every field in NL
https://demo.farmonapp.com
Hello HN,

We want to accelerate the transition towards regenerative agriculture, by measuring the outcomes of sustainable practices. Knowing what works in which context is essential when working with nature.

With the tool it is possible to quickly assess, on a parcel level, metrics relevant for sustainable agriculture.

We are looking for people who are on a similar mission and who are interested in making regenerative agriculture the norm and not the exception.
TACO: Tweet A COmment
https://github.com/Ragnis/Taco
I needed a commenting system for my blog. At first I thought about using Disqus. But then I thought, why use something that I don't like at all. And then that idea just came to me. I thought, why not use Twitter as my commenting system. And so I created a little javascript utility called Taco (Tweet A COmment).

Taco is a javascript utility, that will let you to use Twitter as your blog commenting system. It's still a very new project and I'm going to improve it a lot over the next days.

You can see an example at ragnis.github.com/Taco/example/
Send AM signals to your Radio from your Monitor
http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
Tempest for Eliza is a Program that uses your computer monitor to send out AM radio signals. You can then hear computer generated music in your radio.
Demo of an Angular + D3 app
http://vicapow.github.io/angular-d3-talk/slides/demos/AI-editor/index.html
I recently gave a talk at the AngularJS meetup in MountView @ Google. This was one of my demos. for more, checkout: http://vicapow.github.io/angular-d3-talk/index.html
Should you add .io to your brand and logo?
If your startup is a .io extension, should you add the .io as part of the brand and logo? I've seen this go both ways.

We are updating our logo, should we go by Commando. Or Commando.io?
Mobile Browsers: Have They Moved Beyond "Only for Emergencies?"
http://advice.cio.com/al_sacco/mobile_browsers_have_they_moved_beyond_only_for_emergencies
Web browsers are improving as more and more business and consumer users purchase Web-enabled mobile devices or smartphones and the potential for monetary gain becomes apparent to software developers and device makers. But have they moved beyond the point of "just for emergencies?"