jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The BROpener bottle opener on Kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thebropener/bropener-turn-anything-into-a-bottle-opener
Yeah, this looks pretty awesome...never funded a kickstarter before but I think I'm going to start with this one
How to reverse-engineer website for keyword?
How can i find the best keywords that google brings it first or in top rank?
Example:animoto.com doesn't have keywords or description but it is very popular.
I want to know in which keyword combination google would bring this site in top 1 or in the maximum rank.
Recent aggression in London and around the UK 
http://www.peaceful.me.uk
Recent aggression in London and around the UK
Finally: an XMPP pub sub search engine is being made
http://buddycloud.com/cms/content/pub-sub-search-engine-progress-report
A progress report on the development of an XMPP pub sub search engine from our GSoC participant Abmar
Show HN: Live Sync Google Analytics Data to Google Sheets
https://avian.io/connector/google_analytics/
Our tool makes it easier to get Google Analytics data into Google Sheets and live sync that data automatically. We plan to increase the number of sources that you can live sync with, including Google Search Console, Facebook Ads. With GA4 coming, a change we don't like, we wanted to provide an option to query and extract relevant reports to Sheets before marketers / agencies / freelancers make the transition.
Cisco Brings Smart Cities Within Reach
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/01/cisco-brings-smart-cities-reach/
Cisco created an interactive infographic showcasing its smart, connected City of the Future.
ShowHN: Answers OnStartups mirror
http://answers-onstartups.tlvince.com
Sometime in December, Answers OnStartups (http://answers.onstartups.com/) vanished due to not having enough activity during its Stack Exchange beta period (http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6243/startup-business).

With the help of Stackdump (https://bitbucket.org/samuel.lai/stackdump/), I've hacked out a useable mirror from the provided XML data dump.
LowEndBox are Kickstarting somebody into the hosting industry with $5000
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/lowendbox-kickstarter-competition/
LowEndBox are offering $5000 of freebies to the winner of their kickstarter competition.
Peter Thiel’s CS183 Class Notes: If You Build It, Will They Come?
http://blakemasters.com/post/22405055017/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-9-notes-essay
Very well written Class notes from Peter Thiel's class - CS183: Startup. Credit goes to Blake Masters who wrote the essay.
Sign for a full recount of votes be done in Venezuela's presidential elections
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/call-upon-international-community-urge-full-recount-votes-be-done-venezuelas-presidential-elections/0MNp0Bys
The last election was a total fraud, in Venezuela people vote using machines (and they have control of the data so you can imagine that is very easy to commit fraud), and they dont want to make a manual vote count.. please vote
Nokia released voice navigation for Mobile HTML5 Maps
http://m.maps.nokia.com/
It's still in beta and works quite well on iOS5 and Android 2.3. Make sure you have location sharing enabled, search for something, create a route, and press the "play" button in the upper right corner.
Gmail design change.. could somebody explain?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/TFMC6Ee1bvI/AAAAAAAAW5k/Q4HSClIbd6s/s640/gmail-googler-ui-2010.png
I noticed that my gmail's design was changed a bit this morning... basically, tasks and contacts along with Mail have been brought at the top..a screenshot i found on net:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/TFMC6Ee1bvI/AAAAAAAAW5k/Q4HSClIbd6s/s640/gmail-googler-ui-2010.png
Now, I don't really understand the changes. I am by no means a usability expert, but considering "Contacts" and "Tasks" are rarely used by any gmail user I know, what's the rationale behind bringing them up?
I found the design less intuitive than the basic one. So, I am really curious what would have been the designers motive?
Dead Hollow - HTML5 game
http://marcinwieprzkowicz.github.io/dead-hollow/
Dead Hollow is a HTML5 game built like a typical website where animations and transformations are made by CSS3.
Ask HN: What's an interesting project to get started with Kubernetes?
I learn best by making something, and it's generally not hard to come up with a learning project for, say, a new programming language. But I'd like to learn what it takes to configure and use Kubernetes from scratch, and given that a) it's mainly for scaling/managing something, not building something exactly, and b) you don't typically need to scale/manage something the size of a one-off personal project, I'm not really sure what would make for a satisfying and completable goal.

Any ideas, or suggestions that have worked for you?
Bash/Shell/PowerShell
On the nature of time [BBC]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3577241
FWIW after reading this I felt like the time I finally got C pointers right.

If you pay attention you can even feel your mind expanding a little bit... ;)
Show HN: Random Emojis – A live feed of emojis using Cloudflare and WebSockets
https://emojis.cadell.dev/
Hi HN! I built a simple, fun and realtime app with Cloudflare, WebSockets and Redux because I've never used Cloudflare or WebSockets before and they sound pretty cool.

It uses Cloudflare Pages which offers a full stack deployment pipeline and Durable Objects for a realtime data store.

I also wrote about my experience and some tips if you're thinking about doing something similar.
Ask HN: Lawyers for individual techies
Dear HN Hivemind,

I'm an individual entrepreneurial techie, but I'm finding that I am woefully undereducated in the ways of contracts and the legal aspects of options, founders shares, incorporation, etc. Can anyone offer advice for finding a good lawyer who won't (at this stage anyway) charge me an arm and a leg to give basic advice on contracts and options?
Chargebacks can kill crowdfunded businesses
http://blog.airbriteinc.com/post/68281049873/chargebacks-kill-crowdfunded-businesses-you-can-avoid
Chargebacks are basically refunds. But they happen before you ship. Early-stage hardware makers and product design firms usually get hit during their manufacturing lag. If more than 1% of your total transactions result in chargebacks, credit card companies can refuse to let you process payments with their cards. And that's game over.
Transforming cities
What do the HN community think will be the most transforming technology to emerge in the modern city ?

We are hosting a Tech Insight about 'Transforming Cities' using emerging technologies this Thursday in Berlin.

http://www.techinsight.io/event/berlin-march-2015/

Anyone in Berlin welcome to come !

P
Ask HN: E-Commerce Templates?
Hey Hacker News -

A month or so back there was a pretty nice open source e-commerce / web storefront template posted here that I am trying to find.

What are the best e-commerce templates you've seen around?

How would you bootstrap a custom hosted web storefront?
Object oriented concepts survey
http://www.sefolklore.com
We are two researchers who are trying to investigate how developers understand and use object oriented concepts. The purpose is to increase understanding of how development is actually done not what theory says.

We would appreciate all help, please take 10 min and fill in the survey. (anonymous and results will be open source)
When do you consider a website a failure?
http://joejoelle.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/when-do-you-consider-a-website-a-failure/
There is a thin line between success and failure and between it is a huge load of work. How do yu turn a failure into a success story? What is your routine or plan to turn this thing around?
OpenDNS Partners with the US Postal Service to Enhance Local Searches
http://www.opendns.com/about/announcements/162/
OpenDNS Announces A Landmark Partnership with the Postal Service to Offer Enhanced Local Searches to OpenDNS Users
Uber/Lyft for dropping off children after school
http://astu.co/#/posts/533849f7e4b07a042a3c2ad7
It will be great to have a service for dropping off children to home or any other day care after school. To make the service more secure all the drivers should be verified.
10 Great WordPress Photo Gallery Plugins
http://www.eugenoprea.com/10-great-wordpress-photo-gallery-plugins/
10 great WordPress photo gallery plugins to help you manage and publish photos on your WordPress blog.
Show HN: Training Mobs - Awesome workouts near you
http://trainingmobs.com
The Pitch: Training Mobs is an online health and fitness community that connects you with awesome group workouts near you.

The Name: The application of the flashmobs concept to fitness. Training Mobs!

The backstory: We were sick of the same old gym workout. Its boring, de-motivating and unsocial. We also realised that it was when we were working out together that we had the most fun, got the best results and actually looked forward to the workout. What we wanted was a quick and easy way to find a great workout somewhere nearby and go out and do it, but nothing seemed to exist that did this for us.

We figured it was a problem that a lot of people were likely also having, so we built a business and a community around this idea to scratch our own itch and hopefully solve the same problem for a lot of other people. So far, signs are encouraging. We're still a small startup, but growing.

Would love to hear your feedback!
Ask HN: ML, DNN and Creativity in Battle vs. Covid-19?
Everything I see about Covid-19/coronavirus is old-school standard statistics - no ML, no DNNs. Doctors and statisticians screaming and warning to not do X unless we have proven X effective with classically statistically-controlled studies (which they confess, will take months to complete, write up, peer review and publish in the journal of their choice). But when we look around, having done over the last 5 decades literally tens of thousands of such studies, none of them seems to have any relevance!

Seems the medical community thinks success against Covid-19 can only be achieved with more masks, more gloves, more hospitals, more randomly-selected controlled double-blind studies and particularly more money for a (bigger) medical community.

I hate to be critical of the very people who are doing so much work, but I am sorely pressed to see how the group of dullards in charge (and I mean the entire medical and drug community) can possibly come up with a solution.

Example: look at this - this is a solution from the boneheads in charge:

https://www.jpost.com/International/Israeli-doctor-in-Italy-We-no-longer-help-those-over-60-621856

"Let the old and weak die! " What a novel solution!

Seriously, WTF happened to creativity? Where are the ML and DNN people? Where's the "artificial intelligence" (b/c there apparently isn't enough of the real thing to solve this problem. Why isn't more of the work done to date useful in finding solutions? Medical "science" has let us down.
Exclusive interview with BinaryNights, makers of Forklift
http://fishtrain.com/2007/09/17/interview-with-binarynights/
Find out about the crew and the new features in Forklift, the file utility that replaces the Mac OS X Finder.
Ask HN: Has WP7 app pricing turned you off from development or purchase?
I just got my new windows phone today after being a happy ZuneHD user since the device was introduced. Living in Canada, I never had access to the Zune Marketplace to purchase music, so it wasn't an issue.<p>Somehow I never understood that Zune didn't work like iTunes (or any logical establishment) where you pay for what you purchase. Zune makes you purchase points which are then redeemed for apps and media.<p>My instant reaction, I'm not going to 'top-up' on Zune points so I can buy something later. I'm not going to give Microsoft (or anybody else for that matter) a balance to hold until a later date. Why would I?<p>I find this particularly interesting as I can get netflix on my phone, I can probably build an app that will connect to the amazon music store, or other source where I already have an account, etc. etc.<p>I'm surprised there hasn't been more discussion around this 'strategy' which I can only believe is setting Microsoft up for failure in the apps world.<p>As a developer, I'd steer away from a paid app just because I'm sure there are lots of WP7 uers who won't use the credit system.<p>Am I the only one that feels this way? Or am I just the only one who bought a windows phone?
Apple OS X 10.9 Mavericks
http://www.soft32.com/blog/platforms/apple-os-x-10-9-mavericks/
The Year of the Cat is done. Surf’s up, Dude!
Parkinson's law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law
Parkinson's Law states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
Rypple
http://dreamforcenews.salesforce.com/press-release/salesforcecom-unveils-next-generation-social-enterprise-dramatically-expands-salesforc
Salesforce.com releases Rypple, a social based performance management. HR tools for social enterprises that utilizes badges, and gamification tactics to monitor and promote performance.
Ask YC: Summer cycle?
I am still in school and will be completing the academic year in June 29th, 2011. Can I still apply for the summer cycle? when does it begin and end?
A123 worth $950 million?
http://www.pehub.com/wordpress/?p=2915
Does that seem high?
This is why I act like a man
http://baglady.dreamhosters.com/2008/05/25/this-is-why-i-act-like-a-man/
Do women in science and technology have to act like men to succeed?
Wantcy.com Launched Finally
http://http://wantcy.com/
I can't believe it's finally here! So much awesomeness.
Ask HN: Would you use a social media optimization service?
I'm thinking of building a SAAS solution for social media optimization from a developers point of view. It would help you make sure your technical bases are covered on sites you're running and hoping to share on Facebook, Twitter, Google etc.

It would scan your shareable pages and ensure that all of the opengraph/schema.org tags are present, meta tag images the correct sizes for different screens and that everything is up to date with the changing resolutions/standards. It would continuously monitor your pages so that if standards change or say a software update nixed the og tags you would know immediately. I'd also try to provide accurate previews of what the posts would look like on different screens given your sites meta info. I'd have it set up so that you could test a site behind http basic auth etc, so you could test your social tags before going live with the site. (this has been a particular annoyance to me at least)

Similar to http://smo.knowem.com/ but a bit more fully featured and with continuous testing features.

Is this a service you would use? I was thinking of a 19/49/99 pricing structure depending on 1/3/5+ users and the number of pages it'd test.
Freelance Job Aggregator Launched Today.
http://SearchFreelanceJobs.com
Feedback?
A Tumblr Analytics Tool Called Numblr
http://tumblr.undercurrent.com
I put together an analytics dashboard that allows you continually track any public Tumblr. It's rough around the edges, but I'd love a bit of feedback on it if anyone's interested in dishing it out.
BetNext-Play Virtual betting on Twitter 
http://www.betnext.in
Betnext.in allows virtual betting on your favorite teams in leagues like NFL,NBA,EPL,La liga,NHL etc.,

You can bet directly from Twitter tool or client without signing in..:)
Website lets you buy Facebook & Google
http://www.gigapie.com
Gigapie lets you virtually trade hottest web companies & make real money. It is fun, safe and lucrative
1M/1M: Looking For A Pilot Entrepreneur To Invest In
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/02/23/1m1m-looking-for-a-pilot-entrepreneur-to-invest-in/
Entrepreneurs, I am looking for an entrepreneur with whom to pilot a new service that will be part of the 1M/1M initiative. In collaboration with an outsourced product development company in India, we will invest engineering resources to bring a product to market for an early stage startup.
Genetic programming experiment with Brainf***
https://github.com/primaryobjects/AI-Programmer
After searching for practical tutorials on the subject months ago, today I suddenly stumbled upon this one.
Play Online Games
http://www.ubugames.com/
There are a lot of online games on the internet, why should you spend your time searching for the best when you can find them all on UBUgames.com
A small game with open pvp that encourages stealing. All on 58kb of script.
http://aberoth.com/
58kb of script does not mean there is a lack of content. A small community full of drama that is unlike any MMO. A game that has personally entrapped me and had its ups and downs. It is my addiction. The creator can be reached at support@aberoth.com, he responds daily and updates the game weekly using player suggestions if he thinks it will fit. Up 24/7 and a great find.
Ideas on Marketing the OLPC
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071125113058548
The article is a response to the Wall Street Journal's article on the OLPC.
How to be smart in a world of dumb bloggers
http://boostblogtraffic.com/smart-blogger/
Building traffic by blogging isn't so much about design or traffic techniques or any other "hacks." It's about being someone worth listening to, and this post shows you how to do that.
Show HN: Binary Search Visualisation
https://vladisov.github.io/binary-search-visualisation/
Hey folks! Buddy of mine recently asked me how do I write binary search, so I spent my Saturday (not like I was going somewhere, got flu anyway) on trying to visualise different variants of the algorithm.
Please let me know if you have other variants in mind, or if I missed smth here. Cheers!

Note: not mobile friendly.
Show HN: my weekend project, an email based blogging platform
http://timid.me
I was messing around with some email APIs. Its just a proof of concept.

Roadmap:
- Linking to an RSS feed
- Mobile friendly blogs
- Photo posts via attachments
Show HN: AI-Based Generation Tool (Name, Truth or Dare, ...)
https://ai-based-generation.fly.dev/name
I was a little bored today and decided to build an AI-based generation tool, which piggybacks off of GPT-3.

Silly, fun, and absolutely ugly, but it's been interesting.

The output isn't always perfect, but it does generate some interesting results.
Derren Brown beats 9 chess players simultaneously.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evZmpsl3jI0
nice game!
Distributed CEO
http://ganceanu.com/post/478431011/distributed-ceo
In our team at Summify we are 3 technical co-founders. In this post I describe our "distributed CEO" system that makes things happen for the company in such a way that we all get to taste the CEO experience.
How To Install And Use MyDLP
http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-and-use-mydlp
This document can be used as a guide to installation of MyDLP Appliance. It also describes the basic usage.
Animated Gifs the Missing Link?
http://blog.wegif.com/?p=12
Why make an animated gif? Babies and Dogs.
Show HN: Someone asked recently why GCP more popular as a cloud provider
https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-roles
Take a look at the linked document.
IAM is the cornerstone of good access control. This document is utterly useless for actually doing anything (and it is massive!) Ask yourself any question, any question at all about setting up or configuring IAM. This document will fail to help. It might help if you've already got most of the way there and need the specific role name, but it cannot get you from task to solution.
This is a prime example of how GCP is not customer-centric. Customers have tasks they're trying to get done. ("As a customer I'm trying to do X"). Failure to create task oriented documentation (or interfaces) means your customers can't (easily) solve their problems which means customers will end up gravitating to cloud providers who DO take their perspective seriously.
I think this is an example of failing to follow one of Dale Carnegi's fundamental principles of getting along with people (and who better to get along with than your customers!) "Talk in terms of the other person's interest."

If anyone at Google is looking to improve GCP marketshare or turn it's fortunes around I highly recommend reorienting the product around customer needs. It baffles me that I'd need to say this but here we are.
Ask HN: offline programming tutorials?
I have a school-age family member who is interested in programming, but does not have internet access.

As a beyond-last-minute Christmas gift, I'd like to make a CD, DVD, or thumb drive (as needed) with programming tools he can use offline.

He has access to Windows PC that was probably mid-grade when they got it about 3 years ago.

Can you suggest any environments or tutorials that are simple enough for a beginner and can be used without internet and without any major changes to the computer (such as installing IIS)
Ask HN: Anyone has experience with running YC clone *inside* a company?
Toying around with the idea of running a mini YC startup competition inside a larger company to encourage innovation?
From PHP to Python – my first application
http://www.gogolek.co.uk/blog/2012/08/from-php-to-python-my-first-application/
I’ve been coding in PHP for years now, and even though I would stray from time to time, it was always to fix a bug or add some small bit of functionality, and never to build a site in Ruby or Python “from the scratch”.
Ask HN: Good Referral / Rewards Service?
I'm looking for a service to facilitate referral codes, and tracking points progression to give rewards to users. Every service I find seems to be priced at $200/month for only 1,000 users. That seems surprisingly expensive!

Have you used any alternatives for your service? There's gotta be better solutions.
Bitcoin Explained - Video Introduction
http://payament.com/bitcoin-video/
If you don’t understand the principle behind bitcoins, watch the next introductory video.
How to cache https YouTube videos?
We want to cache youtube videos but the problem we are facing is that youtube is https. End to end everything is encrypted. Even though we have found the unique parameters attached with the dynamic changing URL to correctly recognize a single video, we are not able to convert https to http so as to get the traffic and see those URLs.
Any help is appreciated.
Ask HN: online exam/testing software or service?
i've been searching for a little while now for something that fits my needs, and i figured i'd ask HN to see if anyone has any thoughts or recommendations.

i need some sort of robust testing software or service. i need the ability to enter in a test with text, picture, and video-based questions, charge people to take it, have it automatically grade itself, and then push results through various methods (email, text, and/or an api).

does this or something like it exist? the closest thing i've seen so far is some of the modules that exist inside of moodle, the e-learning software suite.
Brute force attack against restrictions code is possible on iOS
http://www.journaldulapin.com/2013/06/04/brute-force-attack-against-restrictions-code-is-possible-on-ios/
Working on a hack for the blog, I found a security flaw on iOS that allows you to brute force attack the code used for restrictions, despite Apple’s protections. Let me explain...
New COPPA Laws Mean Age Gates for Most of the Internet
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=8eae26f2-203a-4763-9611-6c8840aa92e4
The updated COPPA laws that go into effect on July 1, 2013 will require that most websites implement age gate technology to prevent collecting personal information from kids under 13. Even sites that do not specifically target children are advised to add age gates to avoid accidentally collecting personal information.

For example, the data that Google Analytics tracks about each user (specifically geolocation) technically qualifies as "personal information" under the new law, so if you're using GA you will likely be in violation of the law if anyone under 13 visits your website.