jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
‘New’ Demonoid D2.vu Quickly Shutdown For Hosting Malware
http://torrentfreak.com/new-demonoid-d2-vu-quickly-shutdown-for-hosting-malware-130508/
Text from an email that was sent out:

"Dear Demonoid Community Member,

We have all read the same news stories: The Demonoid servers shut down and seized in the Ukraine. The Demonoid admin team detained in Mexico. The demonoid.me domain snatched and put up for sale. The Demonoid trackers back online in Hong Kong, but then disappearing.

We all wanted to believe that Demonoid would be resurrected once again; but it seems that these events have spelled the end of Demonoid as we have always known it. We all waited to see if Demonoid would return, though its now clear that this time its really gone.

Now for some good news: The heart and soul of Demonoid lives on!
Through an amazing sequence of unlikely events, the data on those Ukrainian servers has made its way into the safe hands of members of our community and has now been re-launched as d2.vu

Invitations to return are being sent out only to existing Demonoid members, which is the reason you have received this email. For the foreseeable future d2.vu will remain a semi-private site and no new invitations to join will be issued until we are certain that the system is stable. To login, click here and authenticate using your old Demonoid username and password.

Demonoid may be gone, but the community lives on at d2! Welcome home!

Sincerely,
admin"
MySpace: the story of its creation. by Brad Greenspan
http://www.freemyspace.com/content1.htm
Story uploaded October 2006 (http://qurl.co.uk/n0tc). MySpace acquired July 2005 by News Corp.
Ask HN - Web based agile development tool - Please Review
http://www.skinnyboard.com
Try out this tool and see how you like it. Feedback appreciated.
Ask HN: Anybody want to work on something together?
I'm starting to feel a bit lonely and less motivated than ever before. If anybody feels the same way and wants to collaborate on a project or even just chat about some ideas let me know in the comments. Now feels like a great time to be building and not just consuming!

I've struggled to meet like-minded people and this has become harder with lockdown for me. I haven't found a good forum for doing so and having been on hackernews for the last decade I figured why not post here.

I'm a data scientist by day and have worked in finance, healthcare, and public policy. For fun I like to work on a wide range of side-projects using python and django/flask but would be open to trying something new and even non-technical.
How to get SASS to work with Rails 3 on Heroku (without using any plugins)
http://frontcube.com/blog/2011/how-to-get-sass-to-work-with-rails-3-on-heroku-without-using-any-plugins
Using SASS in Heroku could be a little tricky. This post explains how to do it without using any 3rd party plugins.
Making CSS a lot more useful for many layouts
http://xulplanet.com/ndeakin/xul/specs/flexbox.html
A lot of the CSS layouts you see around the Web are gross hacks, break on edge cases, and are indeed difficult to get right.

This is what's needed to fix it.
Show HN: C++11 immutable string
https://github.com/syvex/native
I'm looking for feedback on this approach to an immutable string (istring). The idea is to provide a super fast immutable string that can be efficiently passed to lambdas as well as be 100% thread safe.

Another bonus is faster hashing. If a string literal is given to istring, then the hash is computed at compile time! Other strings will have their hashes cached for later use. The istring is designed more or less after the python string in this regard.

It should also consume less memory than std::string and perform faster in all other areas.
Journalist detained at US/Canadian Border
http://www.onthemedia.org/story/my-detainment-story-or-how-i-learned-stop-feeling-safe-my-own-country-and-hate-border-patrol/?utm_source=local&utm_media=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed
Systemic abuse at border crossings.
StepWise is no more
http://www.stepwise.com/
StepWise was a place for technical content on the NeXT platform and what followed it. It was not very active recently anyway.
Show HN: Just – Zero Config TypeScript Development Tool
https://github.com/sonnyt/just
I built a cli tool that gets you started with TypeScript development with zero config. Initially created to solve my own problem but thought it might be useful for others as well.

- SWC compiler

- TypeScript type check support

- Live reload support

- .env file support

- Path alias support

- Typescript script runner

- REPL support

Please tell me I am not going down a rabbit hole.
Show HN: Watchlimits – Chrome extension to solve excessive video watching
https://watchlimits.com/
Hi all, I'm an indie hacker and I've been working on watchlimits.com over last couple months.

It's a chrome extension that helps you set limits (greatly customizable) and provides you stats and various accountability features.

It only runs on the video streaming platforms (not everywhere) and it's privacy centric.

Almost all functionality is available for free, but some advanced features only available in the paid version (password protection, allowed youtube channels).

It's a pretty niche tool that originated from my own occasional struggles (lost sleep anyone?), even though many people don't have a need to use it, it solves a big problem for some people and that is in itself already a success. If you know someone who would find it helpful, please share!
Mono state of the union by Miguel de Icaza
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Feb-17.html
Includes details of the plan to use Mono to unite IPhone and Android development.
Ask HN/PG : Why are comments ordered like this?
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1162965

pg's comment, with just 17 points, is placed above brh's comment, which has 110 points. Both the comments are from 262 days ago.

Why is this so?
How to Kill a Successful Business:  The Slow-Motion Death of VeggieTales
http://www.philvischer.com/?p=38
The creator of VeggieTales outlines how he plodded towards the death of his company, Big Idea Productions.

It all seems to have been painfully avoidable, and I find this story a reminder that even successful businesses can be brought to failure if one isn't vigilant.
That's Not a Memory Leak, It's Bloat
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/thats-not-a-memory-leak-its-bloat/
Think you know the source of the issues in your Rails app? Check again ...
Please Discourage The Region Wise Fragmentation of Hackernews
We saw an Indian version of Hackernews earlier today. And then there was a post about DC getting it's own Hackernews. If this fragmentation goes on we will end up killing this awesome Hackernews community and it's awesome visitors.
Advanced Data Structures  MIT
http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/spring12/
Videos and lectures notes on the advanced data structures course (spring '12; graduate course) at MIT.

Prof. Erik Demaine (youngest MIT professor ever) is one of the most respected researchers in the field.

Topics include: persistent data structures, dynamic graphs, succinct d.s., dynamic optimality, geometry, integers, memory hierarchy, hashing and strings.

Lectures are twice a week (tue, thurs), videos uploaded on the same day.
Korea’s Team KAIST Wins the 2015 Darpa Robotics Challenge
http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/06/koreas-team-kaist-wins-the-2015-darpa-robotics-challenge/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_yfvlplJe0
Ashton Kutcher’s Inspiring Speech, Startup Version
http://blog.datafox.co/ashton-kutcher-startup-school-2011/
Ashton's talk from YC Startup School 2011 was great. So I put together some notes. Lots of great insight on what he looks for as an investor, with the main point being don't try to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. All feedback appreciated... Enjoy.
Show HN: W3clan – User-Curated Tutorial Network
https://w3clan.com
w3clan Tutorial Network is platform to create tutorials or documentation of your product or services or any guide/story you wish to share on internet.

Each courses or tutorials or documentation have option to use user custom domain or user custom sub-domain or default is which w3clan sub-domain for free to all users.

site : https://w3clan.com
RealTime Network Data from german 28c3 Hacker Congress build with node.js
http://dashboard.congress.ccc.de/
This year, the 28c3 Hacker Congress in germany provides you with realtime network data. If you like to get some insights in what amounts of data are send, received etc., take a look.<p>we'll release the code after the congress on github.
Ask HN: Boss ignoring me – what next?
I am an individual contributor with very high performance rating. My boss has been ignoring me for a few months. (Hasn't spoken to me for a long time. No new work). My guess is that, he wants to promote his favorites and he wants me to leave on my own. How do I handle this situation?

I know that the most common advice would be, speak to him. I am not considering it. Because it might turn out to be a false alarm I would be assigned a module which I am not interested in.

My current plan is to pretend that I am not aware of him ignoring me. And I will spend a lot of time learning technologies (Initially I wanted to quit, because it hurt me. But after reading various reviews, I learned that its pretty much the same everywhere. At least in my current company, the work life balance is very good. Since I am in 40's, I may find it a little difficult in a new company)

My question is, have you been in a similar situation?. How did you handle it?. If I want to pretend (that I am unaware), for how long can I do with some self respect?
Show HN: I built a platform for projects to find maintainers
https://seeking-maintainers.net
A few days ago, someone I follow asked the community for help maintaining his side-project, 512kb.club. This got me thinking.

There are loads of maintainers out there feeling burnt out, but they can't abandon their project since people are depending on the project to be maintained.

In an effort to combat this, I built a website that lists projects looking for new maintainers. It's still quite empty and has some rough edges. Any feedback is very welcome!
Android: float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I
http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/hardware/SensorManager.html
Fourth entry from the top: const float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I = 3.5303614E-7.
Show HN: Open source machine learning inference accelerators on FPGA
https://www.tensil.ai/
Tom from Tensil here - happy to answer questions!

We developed Tensil to bring custom ML accelerators to people who don't have the resources of companies like Google, Facebook and Tesla. Currently, we're focused on supporting convolutional neural network inference on edge FPGA (field programmable gate array) platforms, but we aim to support all model architectures on a wide variety of fabrics for both training and inference.

Tensil is different from other ML accelerators in that it is open source and really easy to use. For example, you can generate a custom accelerator with one command:

$ tensil rtl --arch <my_architecture>

You can compile your ML model targeting that accelerator like so:

$ tensil compile --arch <my_architecture> --model <my_model>`

Running your model on FPGA is as simple as doing the following:

$ tcu.load_model(<compiled_model>)
$ outputs = tcu.run(inputs)

The accelerator generator was developed in Chisel and we built our own parametrizable compiler to target it. The link in the post takes you to the documentation, and here's a link to the Github repository: https://github.com/tensil-ai/tensil/
Tengine - A variant of Nginx used on #1 Chinese ecommerce site goes open source
http://tengine.taobao.org/
Tengine is a web server developed by the Servers Platform Team at Taobao. It is based on the popular Nginx HTTP server with many convenient features.
Kima15: $150K for 15% in 15 days
http://www.kima15.com
New offer from KimaVentures: Kima15

Raise $150,000 for your startup in 15 days for 15% equity
Ask HN: Best Text Mining Resources
I plan a deeper dive into text mining this year, and am looking for some suggestions on what resources are best. A friend suggested Text Mining by Weiss, et al http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/book/978-0-387-95433-2

What would you suggest?
More, better, faster: UX design for startups
http://www.cooper.com/journal/2011/03/more_better_faster_ux_design.html
For a startup, design may mean the difference between simply shipping, and taking the market by storm. But with tight budgets, and aggressive timelines, how to include design and get the best value for the investment?
Web App Directories to Promote Your Startup
http://justinmcgill.net/massive-list-of-web-app-directories-to-promote-your-startup/
Has 105 different websites that you can promote your startup or web app to. The post itself also includes a downloadable excel file.
Comment scores should be HIDDEN.
Show HN: DTL: a language and JavaScript lib to transform and manipulate data
https://getdtl.org/
DTL is a project that began it's life as part of a another piece of software for a startup I founded a few years ago.
For that project I needed a way to describe how to rewrite data in a portable way. I needed to be able to create the rules on the fly and store them in a database, I needed them to be able to describe transformations I hadn't thought about, but also needed them to be safe and predictable. Though the startup didn't survive, the language I made was so useful to me I felt I had to extract it and make it usable to everyone. DTL is the result. Though the npm module is relatively new, the language itself has been in use in production systems for years. Over the past couple of years I have been working to make it more accessible and useful to newcomers. Though it's really powerful, I tried to make it easy to use and simple to understand so that you can get up to speed quickly and use only as much as you need.

To summarize: DTL is a javascript module and related CLI tools that are really handy for transforming data from one format to another. It's made to allow you to specify your transformations as data (JSON by default) which means they are easily shared from frontend to backend and vice versa, as well as making them easily stored in databases, etc. It can be used as part of your project to transform data between APIs, between the frontend and your database, etc. and can do simple mappings as well as complex calculations. It can also be used for validation and is really handy for extracting useful information from large / complex datasets (there are some great examples of this you can try on the website). The CLI tool (dtl) is like jq on sterooids, allowing you to slice, dice and remap csv, yaml, json or even plaintext data doing anything you can describe in a DTL transform. If you ever wished you could `grep` in complex data structures, today is your lucky day. :)

I'd love any feedback you have and if you think of anything it doesn't have that it should, I'd love to hear that too.
AbsurdJS – JavaScript based CSS preprocessor
http://krasimir.github.io/absurd/
A new CSS preprocessor written in pure javascript. It's available for nodejs and client-side.
Show HN: Loadjitsu – a modern load testing alternative to JMeter
https://loadjitsu.com
Please meet Loadjitsu, my weekend project, years in the making.

Over the years while building different apps and sites, I always felt that I need a modern load testing software.Tools like JMeter, ab are not very easy to use and it seems innovation in load testing which is a crucial part of any software release cycle has been ignored.

This is my third attempt at making Loadjitsu, I am so glad that I can finaly release this.

A bit more about the software
1. Powered by golang you can run load tests for tens of thousands of connections per second on very average hardware.
2. Cross platform, run it on Windows or Mac or host it on your linux machines
3. Lets you load test databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongodb out of the box.
4. Will keep adding more load testing targets in the future (even the more esoteric ones)

I hope to open source Loadjitsu soon and let users contribute new targets.
Hope this makes load testing fun again
The 404 Test: Wildly Brilliant or User Suicide?
http://blog.dougpetkanics.com/the-404-test-wildly-brilliant
Alternate link - http://dob.posterous.com/the-404-test-wildly-brilliant

Apparently the DNS may not have propagated fully. But it's quite ironic that the link is leading to a 404 for some people.
Ask HN: I really don't understand node.js, could someone explain it to me?
That's it. I guess I try to understand node.js as a traditional webserver where you set up files in a folder and you are going.

Is this the case? How is node.js different from Apache/Nginx/Lighttpd/Cherooke/etc

Thanks.
Backbone.js localStorage + remote sync
https://github.com/lucian1900/Backbone.dualStorage
We needed to use localStorage as a cache for a project, so we forked Backbone.localStorage (https://github.com/jeromegn/Backbone.localStorage)
Comment scores should be SHOWN.
Show HN: Run WASM in Containerd
https://github.com/cpuguy83/runwasi
I've been working with a partner team to integrate wasm workloads with existing container toolchains with the goal of enabling wasm workloads anywhere, be it on the edge, in kubernetes, or wherever.

To that end, this project implements a containerd shim which runs those wasm workloads.
It is designed as a library to bring your own host implementation, but also includes an implementation for WASI.
Right now the library assumes you are using wasmtime, which is embedded in.

It works either standalone (run with containerd directly) or in kubernetes. Kubernetes networking and storage are wired into the wasm host and the wasm can run side by side with native workloads on the same machine. Wasm pods can be exposed as a service like any other pod.
HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/analysis_what_are_the_webs_top_sources_of_referral_traffic.php
Note: I work on Woopra projects :-)
The myth of America's missing software engineers
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/08/05/immigration-h1b-visas-tech-jobs/?iid=HP_Highlight
Interesting to see some mainstream media finally picking up on this.
Voluntary List of YC W11 Submissions
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tbR-rs4TnGc8lleTXTqDinQ&hl=en#gid=0
to Enter your Info: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFZkT2QxZXFFRWlYUWoyUG4zRVBIZGc6MQ

View the Results: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Ataf_IejHzNydFZkT2QxZXFFRWlYUWoyUG4zRVBIZGc&output=html

Thanks @kellyreid for the updated links
We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate
https://status.github.com/?2013-03-24
"We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to mitigate. The site may be slow to respond, and you may struggle to pull/push code via SSH - we apologise for any inconvenience."
The amazing iOS 5 API and iPhone 4S hardware nobody talks about
http://www.de-de.com/blog/14177518904-bluetooth
CoreBluetooth 4.0 LE
9 year old's DIY Cardboard Arcade gets Flash mobbed: Video
http://danielhope.org/post/20914927615/9-year-old-caine-sets-up-an-arcade-in-his-fathers
Watch his reaction! Over $82,000 has been raised for his scholarship fund.
Tell HN: Our VC told us they won't follow for Series A. At the worst moment
Ten months ago, after attending YC, my co-founder and I decided to throw our product in the trash and start a new idea.

Morale was at an (I believed) all-time low. We came with a 'verticalized neobank' idea (we have a strong background in fintech) and got slapped in the face by our VC.

It was hard to hear, the temptation to push back and/or shut down to end the spiraling was strong.
I believe this happened to a lot of founders, but we decided to put it out on the open on Sifted, to normalize this very messy moment, and the mental health challenges implied: https://sifted.eu/articles/startup-pivot-part-2/
PrismJS
http://prismjs.com/
Prism is a new lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind.
Calling All Broadcasters
http://blog.bittorrent.com/2012/11/20/calling-all-broadcasters/
Do you have a Ustream channel? A justin.tv following? A webcam, and a dream? Do you want to help invent the next generation of live streaming? Cool. We’re looking for people like you.
Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ...
http://repl.it/
Everything is open source at http://github.com/replit/
Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 years
https://playcode.io/
Hi HN!
Thanks for your attention to my post.

It was a big challenge to run most of Node.js packages in browser, fast moreover. Virtual File system, resolve import/export. I got cold many times, depressions, burned out, yet still alive and finished it.

Many guys helped me with an advice. Many users give a lot of positive feedback.
There are 200,000 monthly unique users.

I work full time now because of the freemium business model. To be honest - I am happy after many years of hard work.
Show HN: TensorDock Core GPU Cloud – GPU servers from $0.29/hr
https://www.tensordock.com/product-core
Hello HN!

I’m Jonathan from TensorDock. After 7 months in beta, we’re finally launching Core Cloud, our platform to deploy GPU virtual machines in as little as 45 seconds! https://www.tensordock.com/product-core

Why?
Training machine learning workloads at large clouds can be extremely expensive. This left us wondering, “how did cloud ever become more expensive than on-prem?” I’ve seen too many ML startups buy their own hardware. Cheaper dedicated servers with NVIDIA GPUs are not too hard to find, but they lack the functionality and scalability of the big clouds.

We thought to ourselves, what if we built a platform that combines the functionality of the large clouds but made it priced somewhere between a dedicated server and the large clouds? That’s exactly what we’ve done.

Built to make engineers more productive. We have 3 machine learning images so you can start training ML models in 2 minutes, not 2 hours. We provide a REST API, so you can integrate directly your code with ours. And, there’s a community CLI you can use to manage your servers directly via command line

We provide a feature set only large clouds supersede. We have storage-only billing when the VM is stopped (for only $0.073/GB/month) so that you aren't paying for compute when you don't need it. We also provide the ability to edit virtual machines after they’re created to downsize costs. If you provision a NVIDIA A6000 and find out you’re only using 50% of it, stop the VM, modify it to a NVIDIA A5000, and you’ll be billed the lower hourly rate without needing to recreate your server and migrate data over! Our infrastructure is built on 3x-replicated NVMe-based network storage, 10 Gbps networking, and 3 locations (New York, Chicago, Las Vegas) with more coming soon!

- CPU-only servers from $0.027/hour
- NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000s from $0.29/hour
- NVIDIA Tesla V100s from $0.52/hour
- and 8 other GPU types that let you truly right-size workloads so that you’re never paying for more than you actually need

We're starting off with $1 in free credits! Yes, we sound cheap… but $1 is all you need to get started with us! That’s more than 3 hours of compute time on our cheapest configuration! Use code HACKERNEWS_1 on the billing page to redeem this free credit :)

TensorDock: https://www.tensordock.com/
Product page: https://www.tensordock.com/product-core
API: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/10732984/UVC3j7Kz
Community CLI: https://github.com/caguiclajmg/tensordock-cli

Deploy a GPU: https://console.tensordock.com/deploy

I'm here to answer your questions, so post them below! Or, email me directly at jonathan@tensordock.com :)
Hacker Newspaper: reformatted Hacker News
http://hacker-newspaper.gilesb.com/
More information about this here:
http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/04/miniapp-hacker-newspaper.html
Microsoft Azure Outage
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#current
Is Azure down?

Status: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#current

Twitter: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=azure&src=typd