jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
StackMob is shutting down
https://www.stackmob.com/
Ouch to their customers who have built their mobile SaaS solutions on StackMob...
Ask HN: How can I get 3 text meeting options from my calendar?
I am very often coordinating meetings with external stakeholders, and need to suggest my team's open time slots. Most often I'd like to just suggest 2 or 3 possible, and need to type out the time slots with time zones and necessary formatting details.

Is there such a service/API that could help with this? Services like Calendly are great, but it feels presumptuous to send their link, and often inappropriate.
Show HN: We built a platform for listing NYC addresses without power/water/heat
http://gethomesafenyc.com
I live in NYC, and I have family and friends who were evacuated and didn't know if they could even go home. We built this over the past couple of days as a way for people to help neighbors find out if their homes are safe to return to. The data is crowdsourced, so getting people to add info is a challenge. Feedback and advice on getting lots of accurate data is very much appreciated.
What Is The Secret Of Making Millions?
http://www.sourcepep.com/what-is-the-secret-of-making-millions/
There is a science why some people are successful and some are not. Author of the Book ‘Rich People Think’ Steve Siebold makes some extraordinary observations on the difference of mindset of people who are financially successful than those who are not.
National Library of Finland launches crowdsourced archive digitization
http://www.digitalkoot.fi/en
The National Library of Finland announced today it has launched a national e-program for the digitization of Finland’s historical documents and material. The first of its kind in Europe, the e-program Digitalkoot (Digital Volunteers) harnesses the power of crowdsourcing to mobilize people to help digitize millions of pages of archive material.<p>In the first phase, The National Library of Finland’s e-program consists of two online games. The online gaming experience provides both entertainment and the opportunity to contribute to the preservation of Finland’s cultural heritage
Linear regression with Numpy
http://glowingpython.blogspot.it/2012/03/linear-regression-with-numpy.html
This post shows how to compute a linear regression line with python.
Mobile First, Mobile Only
http://www.plexical.com/blog/2011/09/29/mobile-first-mobile-only/
More than 20% of users in developed markets, such as the UK and US do not use the internet on a PC
Show HN: Zanda.com – Rate Everything 
http://www.zanda.com/
Finally! I have been looking forward to posting this on HN and I am very excited to hear your comments.

Zanda is a rating platform where you can do the following:
- Rate and review everything: items, people, places, events and more.
- You can create compares between two or more items and have the users or your friends cast their vote on an item.
- There are toplists which sort highest rated items based on all Zanda users.
- You can follow items, toplists, compares and users. All new actions around the items you follow will show up in your stream.
- You can earn badges for adding reviews, photos, ratings and many other actions you take.
- Zanda will rank you for the keywords you interact with. For example, you could be #1 in books because you comment and rate several items with the keyword “books.”
- If you do a search or check out toplists you will see items the people you follow have interacted with.
- You can see lists of trending items, compares, toplists and users.
- All items you own, have experience with, viewed, visited, listened to, etc., you can check as “Have” and they go to your achievements list
- All items you set as “Want” will go to your wishlist

Apps for iOS and Android are currently under development and are planned to launch in the near future.
TeachMate goes opensource, need an opinion
http://teachmate.org/opensource
I've just submitted TeachMate to github, which makes it an opensource project now. And I really think it should be one, for community could actually make it the way they see it and development could go slightly faster. Would be grateful for a good advice, suggestion or opinion about the whole idea of opensourcing it.
Would you call this racial profiling?
http://pastebin.com/tgBi72Gp
I'm not being a troll. I genuinely want to know what you'd think if this happened to you. I just want people to know that it happens.
Quirks of Scala specialization
http://axel22.github.io/2013/11/03/specialization-quirks.html
Tips and tricks for Scala specialization.
Why is it building so long?
http://www.bartlomiejfilipek.blogspot.com/2013/02/why-is-it-building-so-long.html
Blog post about taking care of the physical side of large C++ project.
Most sought after bitcoin merchandise
http://www.searchbitcoin.com/blog/most-sought-after-bitcoin-merchandise/
:-)
Show HN: Converto.in the easiest file converter.
http://converto.in
Converto provides you facility to convert files in desired format just by drag-n-drop on the site.
We are starting with Images and plan to add all the desired and possible file conversion pairs.

Really I need your help.
What can you do?

1. Help us to beta test features, Your feedback and suggestions are valuable for us.

2. Lets us know which file type conversion you would love to see added in next update.

3. If someone want to contribute, feel free to know about your working conversion module, but must be in PHP.

Thank you very much.
Dominos: A New Web Crawler's Design
http://iwaw.europarchive.org/04/
a paper presented during web-archiving workshop by Younès Hafri and Chabane Djeraba. seems pretty neat...
A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn't Working
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Tech-Happy-Professor-Reboots/130741/
Michael Wesch has been on the lecture circuit for years touting new models of active teaching with technology. The associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University has given TED talks. Wired magazine gave him a Rave Award. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching once named him a national professor of the year. But now Mr. Wesch finds himself rethinking the fundamentals of teaching after hearing that other professors can't get his experiments with Twitter and YouTube to work in their classes. Is the lecture best after all?
New Business Models for Anyone Selling IP
http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/12/david-byrnes-su.html
Great article loaded with ideas,
Heroku vs. Nodejitsu for node.js
http://architects.dzone.com/articles/heroku-vs-nodejitsu-nodejs
It all started when I wanted to try out node with websockets with ws and found that -- strange but true -- Heroku doesn't support node's ws.
The Rise of Letting Developers Play
http://www.d80.co.uk/post/2011/08/25/The-Rise-of-Letting-Developers-Play.aspx
More and more companies are trying their own spin on Google's 20% time, mine included, are we witnessing the rise of developer play time?
The Next Secrets of the Web
http://www.nirandfar.com/2012/06/the-next-secrets-of-the-web.html
HERE’S THE GIST:
- A secret is at the core of every big innovation.
- Entrepreneurs should focus on discovering secrets about human behavior, which are cheap to discover but can have a massive impact.
- Behavioral secrets are plentiful whenever major changes in interface occur.
- For startups, secrets need to quickly turn behavioral insights into network effects to sustain competitive advantage.
Beautifully Hand Drawn Video Game like Machinarium for Linux, iOS, Mac & PC
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1657341933/circus-of-light
We're a group of enthusiastic creative coder, illustrator and an interaction designer that just launched this beautiful hand-drawn video game project on Kickstarter and are looking for your help.
First MITx course launched today
https://6002x.mitx.mit.edu
Sign up and log in using the "log in" button in the top-right corner to experience your first taste of MITx goodness. So far, the online learning platform is looking excellent. MIT is giving this a serious effort!
Dependency Injection In JavaScript - Angular JS Style
http://merrickchristensen.com/articles/javascript-dependency-injection.html
An article to explain dependency injection and how it applies to JavaScript. Meanwhile throughout the post we do some reflection in JavaScript to accomplish the AngularJS style dependency injection syntax.
QR-Code Geek Christmas Cake
http://www.younic.de/qr-code-christmas-cake-really-geek
A QR-Code cake we built for our christnerd party from chaostreff essen. And yay, it not only tasted good but also worked without any problems! :-)
Feel the mighty power of the hacker ethic
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/0,1518,732785,00.html&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhhSF-6ynyJW-WLWjDYYACPo1Xlbow
Translated from German from Der Spiegel.
Changing my life (and learning to code)
http://pmcpinto.com/learningtocode.html
This blog post is about the beginning of my journey to change my life and what led me to learn to code.
Hot New Domaining Trend: Backwording
http://logistiklabs.blogspot.com/2008/02/next-hot-domaining-trend-backwording.html
Featured at TrendHunter.com and AdCult.com. Can't afford a million-dollar premium domain name? Why not own the next best thing, the reverse spelling of it. It's called Backwording and it's the newest domaining phenomenon that is changing the landscape of the Internet.
IOS 6 Maps Leaked?
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/04/ios-6-maps-leaked/
Stamen’s gorgeous Watercolor tiles for OpenStreetMap (CC BY 3.0), and if this were to be the map generated by iOS 6, then it would certainly get the attention of Google’s executives.
Show HN: Recurring tweets for Dynamic Content
https://flutter.social
Hi all,

Flutter makes it possible to tweet out, on a recurring schedule, any dynamic content on the web. On a previous project, I wanted to automatically tweet out the oil price on a recurring schedule. Yes, I could have built a one-off solution for this but I thought it might be cool to make it a generic reusable tool. I think it has some potential as a type of growth hacking / social media automation tool but would like to see what everyone else thinks.
Burning Man-friendly disc for night play
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/140443973/lunadisc-bringing-leds-to-the-one-of-a-kind-fair-t?ref=live
Handmade disc with LED lights. Perfect for Dead concerts, Burning Man, camping, office disc golf, rambunctious kids.
What the heck is DevOps? 
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/06/what-is-devops.html
Find out about the evolving role of "operations" and how it's transformed from the segregated BOFH to the fully integrated DevOps in Mike Loukides' "What is DevOps" over on O'Reilly Radar.
Behind The Syndicate - 0 to StartUp in 24 days
http://behindcompanies.com/2011/10/behind-the-syndicate/
An interesting read about a new ad network. Great story about how you can start your business and succeed if you believe in yourself.
Will Work For Food: Why I Left Microsoft for a Startup
http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2007/08/will_work_for_food_why_i_left_microsoft_for_a_startup_.html
've been asked by many of my friends and family why I decided to leave my position at Microsoft, where I was appreciated and rewarded, for more work, more responsibility, and more stress. Well, the decision was mainly a result of three factors. First, someday I may start my own company, and transitioning from a startup makes that much easier. Second, I didn't agree with many of Microsoft's decisions and direction. Third, I wanted to build a product that would really cater to consumers and could stand on its own.
Visualization of Github development in D3.js
http://artzub.com/ghv/#repo=bootstrap&climit=100&user=twbs
Amazing time-lapse visualization of code commits and contributors on Github!
Ask HN: Does your work support your side projects?
Hi all,

As I mature as a developer and my capabilities expand, I find myself with more and more ideas I'd like to see through. Thinking about my future career, my greatest desire - more than salary or benefits considerations - is autonomy and the freedom to pursue a development life outside my employer.

I know support for side projects is rare, and that even Google has pulled it's 20% support policy, but does anyone here have examples of an employer that encourages and rewards employee projects? Even in small ways? Or is freelancing the only answer?
Is God a Delusion? Probably Yes …
http://www.scitechexplained.com/2010/02/is-god-a-delusion-probably-yes/
SLAP THE REALITY’s IGNORANCE SHEEP HERD
Visualization of SBCL Development History [video]
http://www.imagine27.com/articles/2009-04-09-020511_visualization_of_sbcl_dev_history.html
See how one man's private hack becomes a movement to take a free optimizing Common Lisp implementation (CMUCL) and make it self-hosting and bootstrapping from ANY Common Lisp implementation, adding unicode, threads, porting to Win32, statistical profiling, code coverage, a massive ANSI regression test suite .. the story continues at http://www.sbcl.org/
Show HN: SayNo2SEO - Google Search with less SEO spam
https://sayno2seo.com/
Hello HN, recently I've been seeing more discussion about the declining quality of Google's search algorithm. So I put together this page with some tools and tricks for getting better search results.
APIs have the signup process backwards
http://codeodor.com/index.cfm/2012/1/27/APIs-have-the-signup-process-backwards/3489
Given the focus of this community, I'd expect there to be a high density of people producing APIs, so I'm particularly interested in feedback from you all.
Questions Over Absence of Cellphone Calls From Missing Flight’s Passengers
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/world/asia/questions-over-absence-of-cellphone-calls-from-missing-passengers.html
A version without paywall:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Questions-over-absence-of-cellphone-calls-from-missing-flights-passengers/articleshow/32230806.cms
Every Day I Try and Get Rejected
http://ryanborn.net/how-to-handle-rejection/
A post about how to handle rejection in life.
Show HN: 4-player air hockey WebGL game
http://www.4irpucks.com/
My final year project.

Let me know what you think!
How the Boston Red Sox Keep BlackBerrys from Striking Out
http://www.cio.com/article/164650
Story about how the Boston Red Sox's tech support team keeps it BlackBerrys up and running.
Iphone hack: Type *3001#12345#* and then hit call
This brings up the Field Test app, where you can change the standard reception bars to decibels referenced to one milliwatt (dBm) for greaer accuracy when looking for a signal.

https://www.quora.com/What-cool-things-can-one-do-with-an-iPhone-and-iPad-that-most-people-dont-know-about

FanFootage.com
Google PrettyEarth: high-quality satellite images from Google Maps
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xurpdxmkn33r5ew/AACLEuQYca9gons9IONYvHf0a?dl=0
Image downloaded from chrome extension.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-google-ma/bhloflhklmhfpedakmangadcdofhnnoh
Earth View displays a beautiful, high quality and unique Satellite image from Google Maps every time you open a new tab.
"I am so bored" is girlish
http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=20225331130&page=6&q=i+am+so+bored
After seeing http://whatthefuckismysocialmediastrategy.com/ and http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/ i was thinking of making a similar site.

Thinking of an idea i was reminded of a friend who keeps iterating "I am bored!"

and why not create a site IamsoboredWhatthefuckshouldIdo.com and doing a search on twitter for "I am so bored" I found that most of the people who tweeted "i am so bored" are girls or women!
Redis plugin for Dokku
https://github.com/luxifer/dokku-redis-plugin
I wrote a small plugin for dokku to easily create redis containers and link them to deployed apps
Get More Comments with a Better Discussion Experience
http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/get-more-comments-with-a-better-discussion-experience/
This post explores different ways to enhance user experience in blog discussions, while encouraging more viewers to leave comments.
Ask HN: What are best practices for hiring in a start up?
What are the best recruiting strategies and how can you best measure for quality in a candidate? Intelligence vs. Experience?
Ask HN: Are most companies just making things needlessly complex and abstract?
Hello,

I am able to spin up a relatively complex REST API and a UI for it in a matter of hours or days. I can have it simulate most of the complex logic that a business would need.

I am able to do this without complex build pipelines, IDE settings, run configurations, daily meetings, cloud providers, 700 maven/npm dependencies, code reviews, docker images, unread library books, coursera courses, certifications, conferences, design patterns, factory/builder patterns of my own creation, sharded databases, distributed systems, messaging queues, front-end-framework-du-jour...

I can totally accept that these things have their value and everyone is free to use them if they like.

However it is seriously making my career a living hell because there is always a new thing to learn, and the managers don't accept my way of doing things.

Perhaps I am best suited for rapidly prototyping and not building "robust enterprise systems", but I am curious to know if most people think all of the things involved in enterprise software are 100% worth it, or if some of it is needless stuff added to make a system deliberately more complex and difficult to operate within.
Build your Wi-Fi app from an out-of-the-box Wi-Fi module?
http://www.gainspan.com/applications/market_overview.php
Here's an idea for your next YC app: If any of you are thinking about building devices based on hardware, consider using an out-of-the-box Wi-Fi module from GainSpan. Unlike most Wi-Fi modules and chips you see in the market today, GainSpan has optimized their chips and modules for low data-rate, low-bandwidth devices. Think Wi-Fi thermostats, Wi-Fi blood pressure monitors, Wi-Fi enabled treadmills, etc. Note that these applications are the ones that can leverage internet connectivity for monitoring data and controlling some data parameters. There are tons of possibilities for apps that can come out of these modules.
Show HN: streamplayer.js
http://player.streamomatic.com/
Made a pretty simple Flash+HTML5 video player controlled by streamplayer.js
A better Random Number generator
http://www.random.org/
Uses atmospheric noise. An API around this would be useful.
Bringing vertical farming to London
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/11478/grow-up-bringing-vertical-farming-to-london/
Growup are bringing vertical farming to London.

"Aquaponics is a re-circulating system that combines two very efficient food growing technologies..."

http://bit.ly/14o5Wqc
Show HN: Heardle Is a Phonemic Wordle
https://heardle.glitch.me/
Snowy weekend project with my partner who studies speech production.

Five-phoneme words can be long or short orthographically, which keeps the gameplay interesting. We designed this to be playable for folks (like me) who don't know IPA, but this is also a great excuse to ping the linguist in your life.

Powering the interface is CMUdict, a great and openly licensed source of pronunciations (though it doesn't include all inflected forms, which leads to some gaps in the allowed word list).
Feature table design with CSS3
http://www.red-team-design.com/feature-table-design-with-css3
I love shadows, rounded corners, gradients and all the CSS3 features. That’s why, there are some days when I find myself designing in CSS more than in Photoshop.

The idea of building a features table just by using CSS3 came to me a while ago and I decided to share it with you in this article.
Creator of ground-breaking 1980s game "Lords of Midnight" has died
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/the-father-of-home-computer-gaming-died-last-week/564063/
Mike Singleton, the creator of the legendary 1980s home computer games "Lords of Midnight" and "Doomdark's Revenge" (among many others), has passed away.
Music Band Teaser in HTML5 Audio and CSS Animation
http://teaser.cherrybloom.net/
For announcing their upcoming LP, the rock band Cherry Bloom just released an HTML5 teaser, worth to watch on the iPhone and/or iPad.
No,IE6
http://www.awhitebox.com/no-ie6
Why am I not supporting IE6 anymore.
Matt Haughey (Metafilter founder) on creating a good community [video]
http://vimeo.com/11916466
Talks about separating meta discussion from the main site, managing member numbers (with a $5 signup fee), the need for moderation and more.
Show HN: Windows Context Switcher – App Launch Groups
https://github.com/StreakSharn/Windows-Context-Switcher
Quickly open a Context (group of apps) with just one click. This makes context-switching, moving between multiple different projects, MUCH easier!
Userlook - Be aware of what is happening in your site in live
http://www.userlook.com
Userlook provides a lot of features for real-time monitoring of website, you can see traffic in live
Airlines, Twitter and Customer Service
http://atrampabroad.com/airlines-twitter-and-customer-service/
How are the major airlines really using Twitter? Is it a viable customer service channel for those people who are trying to avoid the large surcharges for a phone call? How quickly can one expect a response through Twitter? Which airlines don’t bother to respond at all?
Are you looking to run the Google Android OS on your Windows Mobile device?
http://androgeek.com/dual-boot-google-android-windows-mobile.html
To do so, you need to download the Nexus One build and dual boot your Windows pda. Dual boot allows Windows Mobile users to run the Google Android mobile operating system on their mobile phone.
Show HN: The Startup Spinwheel
http://mpjannuzzi.com/pages/ssw/ssw.html
Randomness as a means of inspiration for products and startup ideas
Arise & Shine App: Sleep more & always wake up on time.
http://ariseandshineapp.com
This wonderful alarm clock combines the snooze function with your daily routine, allowing you to manage both at once. So you can sleep up to the very last minute and not worry about waking up late.
How to turn your social media efforts into leads and sales
http://swp.it/1bDBzuV
Learn how to link your social media efforts to business goals and drive leads and sales.
Ask HN: What do you still use email for in 2021?
We use Discord at work for collaboration.
My email inbox is a flood of GitHub notifications and newsletters. But I've recently resigned myself into making it into a notification center, rather than using push notifications.

How does it work for you?
Hacker Conferences, an Editorial
http://www.music-piracy.com/?p=244
Wrote this myself, as an editorial on hacker conferences. Would love some feedback.
Show HN: Vetd – SaaS Buying and Decision Platform
I've been working on Vetd since the beginning of the year. It's a combination of tools to discover & evaluate SaaS options for your company's needs.

Vetd shines when you are in a community (usually a VC (all of their portfolio companies) or an accelerator, etc). Communities let you share your stack with each other, view peer's median cost paid & reviews on products, and discussion board.

Without being in a community you can still use our primary feature: VetdRounds. VetdRounds (i.e., a buying round) are a grid of products and topics. You can add any topics (E.g., "Does your product integrate with XYZ service?") you want vendors to respond to (if they aren't using Vetd, we will get a response for you on their behalf).

Tech Stack:

- Clojure(Script) from front to back

- Re-frame (Reagent (React)), Semantic UI React

- GraphQL (written in CLJS with EDN) over WebSockets for realtime data subscriptions

- Hasura + PostgreSQL

- Python for some data processing

- AWS + Docker

- Segment, Honeycomb, SendGrid

- Plaid & Quickbooks integration

For the privacy-concerned: heads up, we use FullStory for session replay.

Link to the platform: https://app.vetd.com