jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Long or Short Capital » The Bailout, A Play - Paying Dividends Since Q1'06
http://longorshortcapital.com/the-bailout-a-play.htm
I'd like to add my favorite quotation from Dr. Faustus:

"What, weep'st thou? 'tis too late; despair! Farewell:
Fools that will laugh on earth must weep in hell."

Or

"What, bail'st thou? 'tis too late; despair! Farewell:
the fools that bubbles ride must weep in hell."
The missing link:Announcing Nexmo SMS reach to North America
http://blog.nexmo.com/post/10130847666/nexmo-sms-api-usa-canada
Nexmo is a cloud based SMS API that lets you send
and receive high volume of messages at wholesale rates.
A memoir about working in a startup
http://lookingbackaretrospective.posterous.com/
The true and maddening post-mortem of life in an unnamed startup, as seen through the eyes of a young developer, told via a series of blog posts.

So far it's 3 posts in, with several more to come. Start at the first post and work your way forward if you want the full experience.

All questions, comments, criticisms welcomed. Its long winded and rambles, so if you're looking for a quick blog to read in between F5-ing reddit all day ...er... I mean, working, this is not it.

Enjoy
Show HN: Maroofy – discover music you'll love, via 30s song clips
https://maroofy.com/?hn
Hey HN!

I've built an iOS app called Maroofy (maroofy.com), which lets you find new favorite music by swiping through an infinite mix of 30s song clips.

It originally started out as an AI-based search engine where you could search for songs that sounded similar to any given song: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051909 -- (btw, I've integrated all of the feedback from that older post into this latest version! :))

But based on early user feedback, I realized that a "discovery-based" UI (using the same AI model) would offer a much better UX than the "search-based" UI that I had built -- which lead me to create this app.

I've been able to find a lot of new favorite songs from my own testing so far, so I thought it would be nice to share it here and let others try it out as well!

Early access: https://airtable.com/shr2t9o35UbHFq5nI

Would love to hear your thoughts & feedback on the app, idea, your music discovery experience, etc.! :D

Note: In order to try Maroofy, you'll need an iPhone w/ TestFlight installed + some public playlist URLs containing songs that you love, so that I can teach the app's AI about your particular music tastes when I create your early-access account! :)
"Ten Seconds": A useful iPhone app with almost no UI in ~500 lines of Obj-C.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ten-seconds/id353808593
To elaborate:
It's a camera timer app. Instead of waiting for Gorillacam to load and then fiddling with the timer menu, you just start up Ten Seconds and -ten seconds later- it takes a photo, then exits.<p>Full disclosure:
It <i>is</i> my app, but it's free (<i>and</i> ad-free) and shall remain that way forever. So I don't feel too bad about pimping it out to everyone.<p>Enjoy, and tell me what you think!
Product Designer  Lift
https://medium.com/inside-lift/a882effb686a
We’re looking for a product designer to help us chisel product concepts into clear, simple, potent applications. It would be good if you were strong in visual, had mobile experience, and cared deeply about the reactions your designs get in the real world. It would be bad if you aspire to be a specialist or don’t enjoy long-winded job postings.
Robotic arm for shooting smooth video, manipulating objects
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/392540503/cardboard-robot-robotic-arm-and-smart-phone-camera?ref=live
Very affordable robotic arm for picking up small objects and shooting smooth video pans with a smartphone. All the design files and source code will be made available to download, modify and hack. The software is currently written for Windows in C#. Creators says he hopes to have an OSX version ready by the time the product ships.
My night's project
http://MeAndMyJourney.com/
Write your journey of life and leave mark in history!

Write your thoughts, secrets, ideas and etc. and choose a date, when your diary will become public and everyone will be able to read it. It can be hundred or hundreds years from now or whatever you want.

Imagine people in 100, 200, 500 years from now. Don't you think they would be interested in reading your thoughts, ideas, secrets, your worldview..?

Have some words for future generations?

If yes, start recording your life's journey right now!
We assure you 100% privacy!

Any suggestions will be very appreciable.
Deploying Play 2.0 Apps like Heroku to your own servers
http://justinholmes.co.uk/post/24491707692/deploying-play-2-0-apps-like-heroku-to-your-own
How to hook into Git hooks to deploy Playframework web applications like Heroku or CloudFoundry.
A simple, no-BS platform for running your Node.js apps.
http://nodesa.silentinteraction.com/
Get set up with any SQL or noSQL database. Just plug in and your ready to go. Host all of your Node.js apps without any extra setup and tangled wires. Deploy like a pro with any global npm modules you use on your local setup.
Be Aware, Hollywood Steals Copyrights
http://passwordbreaker.blogspot.com/2009/07/be-aware-hollywood-steals-copyrights.html
This story began in 2003 the Santa Monica-based filmed entertainment company released the long-awaited sequel to the blockbusters The Terminator and Terminator II which was called Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines. Terminator 3 was quite a success and as every movie in the series it has got its fans.
Show HN: My own hosting company
http://livebyt.es
I've just launched my own hosting company website, let me know what you think!
Ariba releases AribaWeb RIA development framework
http://aribaweb.org/
Massive reduction of lines compared to Rails
Ask HN: Idea of building music player depends on your mood
I thought of doing an side project, which does this. Based on what I'm currently doing in my PC, the app will play a music.

To get started I thought of doing this: Build an chrome extension, which does analyse the web page your currently in, find the mood of it, and play the corresponding songs from your local system.

The idea looks good to me, but I wonder, whether this can be really achievable.

I really need your thoughts and inputs regarding this.
The inside of the microwave 
http://perfectumlab.com/galery/panorams/unusual/microwave/micro.html
Panoramic view. Feel it!
Successful Infographic Marketing Part 1
http://voltiercreative.com/2011/04/diy-guide-to-successful-infographic-production-by-voltier-creative-2/
A multi-part series describing how to use high quality content (infographics) as a highly engaging and efficient way to market online.
Task is a calendar app while Clear is a to-do list app
http://1button.co/blog/2Cd/a-look-under-the-hood-of-task-2
Task major update (Task 2?) was released this morning on the App Store

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/task/id505799171?mt=8
Open source Mindcraft server
http://github.com/TkTech/Creativity
Creativity is a custom, from-scratch Minecraft SMP server developed by Tyler
Kennedy (aka TkTech). Its ultimate goal is to be an exact clone of the the
vanilla server with efficient, low-memory usage and the essential features
required for any game server (user management, chunk ownership, etc..).
New Youtube Layout
http://mashable.com/2011/11/21/enable-new-youtube-design/#354673-Add-Channels-to-Your-Homepage
<p>I'm pretty excited that Youtube has decided to update (and no, this is not another April Fools prank ;). I haven't fully decided how I personally feel about it (the filters do seem more personalized), but it most definitely has a Google+ flavor to it--which again, may or may not be a good thing.<p>

<p>What do "you" think?
Leaflet.js plugin to add circular menus on markers
http://github.com/umurgdk/leaflet-marker-menu
This is my second leaflet.js plugin and trying to do things in way of leaflet. Please check it and write your thoughts about it :)
First ever single-mode low energy module Bluetooth chip for wireless devices 
http://www.borntechie.com/entry/first-ever-single-mode-low-energy-module-bluetooth-chip-for-wireless-devices/
Nordic Semiconductor has announced a new single mode Blue-tooth ultra low power technology µBlue that will revolutionize the Blue-tooth devices. The low power wireless transfer technology will provide way better Blue-tooth solutions combined with astonishing battery life. It is basically a single chip which has integrated radio, base-band and micro-controller having fully attuned software stack.
Limited promo codes to test out asknative web private beta
http://journey.asknative.com/post/67858689013/web-app-is-coming-around
and give feedback at hello@asknative.com
Show HN: DIY Programmable Voice
https://www.somleng.org/blog.html#introducing-diy-programmable-voice
DIY Programmable Voice
Caffein - Nota Inc.  launches revolutionary free Web-based P2P group video chat
http://www.caffein.tv/
Nota Inc. has released caffein.tv on March 31st.
http://www.caffein.tv

Caffein brings P2P group video chat to the web.
Users can engage in simultaneous peer to peer group video chatting for free.

Each chatroom is given a unique short URL so that users can easily
share it across their favorite social networks or in any text format, however the short URL
is not listed anywhere so that chat rooms default to private.

Combining web-based chat with a short link creates the revolutionary experience of seeing friends by video chat
casually and quickly throughout the course of regular web browsing and without the need for additional software.

For example, as soon as users see an IM, tweet, or status update come up in
their feed, they can instantly jump into a video chat with up to 15
peers who see that same message.
Help Alvin Get into School
http://www.helpalvingetintoschool.com/
A friend of mine desperately wants to get into a Comp Sci major at his local university, but due to intake limits he was turned away. Not satisfied, he is turning to social media to put in his appeal, what do you guys think?
The Tinder Swipe of Startup Life (a svbtle rap)
http://zack.svbtle.com/the-tinder-swipe-of-startup-life
this calls the top of the bitcoin bubble, and other silly stuff in rhyme
Show HN: Scoring Rubric for Software and Web Projects
http://scorecard.franklinstrube.com/
This is a scorecard app that I whipped up to use for our post-mortem reviews. The idea is to score a project so that you can quantify its adherence to standards. As you check the items in the scorecard, different levels of points are added into the total.

I built it in a way that is flexible, as the list is rendered from a JSON array. So if you have a different process, you can fork the project and replace the JSON with your own.

Some other possible uses can be as a grader for classroom labs, scoring technical interviews, or grading essays and thematic writing.
Show HN: Call Ring Duration, my first app on Google play store built in 2 days
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=call.ring.time
Call Ring Duration is an Android application that shows you exactly how long your phone was ringing, for incoming and missed calls.
Ask HN: What are your favorite remote working tools?
Hey HN, I wanted to recognize the best tools for working remotely so I created BoundaryLess Awards.

http://BoundaryLessAwards.com

Votes & nominations are open only for a few more days.

I'd love to know your favorite tools
Show HN: Gitwall: Card wall or Todo list for all your Github projects
http://gitwall.herokuapp.com
Gitwall is a card wall or todo list for all your Github projects. It is built using Clojure, Mongo and Bootstrap.
Weak passwords leaves Facebook, Twitter users ripe for being hacked
http://lastwatchdog.com/weak-passwords-leaves-facebook-twitter-users-ripe/
33% of FB users have never changed password.
Oracle Politics with Java
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterprise_apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229100250
"Oracle will support open source procedures and goals as long as they are aligned with Oracle's business interests." Does this sound like a dictatorship? Us programmers like to be free and creative. If Oracle keeps this up I'll likely move to another platform!
Can entrepreneurs create demand?
http://elementalchange.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/is-it-possible-to-truly-create-demand/
Demand creators take a risk that demand fillers (or even revealers) never do. They have to have the conviction to believe that demand will emerge once people “wake up.” They have to be thought leaders as well as innovators. Motivators as well as inventors. Mentors as well as managers. And if it is about ego (i.e., “I know what’s best”) instead of a genuine attempt to guide people to a new beneficial perspective, then they’re likely to fail.
Statistical Testing Overview Poster Beginning Draft
http://codelikebozo.com/first-draft-of-a-statistical-testing-overview
I'm sharing this not because it is done, but because I could use help. I need ways of trying to make the information more digestible. Any thoughts are very welcome. Thank you.
Ask HN: Where do you go to find Freelance Web Designers?
I've been trawling websites like Dribbble and Forrst. Any other suggestions?
Ask HN: Keep scroll position in Google search results on back?
For a while now the google search results page will always scroll to the top (focusing the search box?) when going back after having clicked a result. It's driving me crazy. Any ideas how to prevent this from happening?
Opera Web Pass Gives Pay-As-You Go Internet Access, No Data Plan Required
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/08/opera-web-pass-gives-mobile-subscribers-access-to-pay-as-you-go-internet-access-no-data-plan-required/
"Web browser maker Opera announced a new way for mobile operators to offer web access to subscribers who don’t have a data plan. The service, called “Opera Web Pass,” will instead allow subscribers to purchase temporary web access for an hour or a day, or even just purchase access to a particular online service like Facebook or Google+."
NSArray's privates
http://blog.zats.io/2014/05/09/nsarrays-privates/
Several private methods from NSArray API, complexity analysis, and how to implement it yourself.
Show HN: BootCamper - a resource for all things programming bootcamps
http://www.bootcamper.io
I've built this website with an intention of making it a one-stop resource to easily find programming/technology bootcamps, schools and academies, learn about them, and most importantly engage students and other interested parties in asking questions and sharing their experiences.

Currently the list is by no means complete, but I am adding new bootcamps on a daily basis.

I hope it will be of use to many new aspiring students and alumnis alike.

Feedback and ideas are always welcome and appreciated.

Thank you :)
Tips for making photo-mosaics
http://intellithoughts.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/photo-mosaic-tips/
Photo mosaics are impressive to look at and are easy to make. Programs automate the generation of them, all you have to do is provide lots of source images. If you want to spend a bit of time you can have even better results, here are some tips for generating great photomosaics.
Sirix - a versioned, treebased storage system in Java (free software)
https://github.com/JohannesLichtenberger/sirix
Think of it as a persistent DOM with versioning capabilities especially well suited for flash disks. Furthermore moving subtrees is allowed as well as copying nodes/subtrees from other resources. All XPath-axis and more are provided. Very soon, in a couple of days maybe we will provide temporal axis. Furthermore hashes for each node are efficiently generated (based on it's subtree) and persisted as well as the number of children and descendants of a node is. A diff-algorithm facilitates the import of differences between tree structures. A GUI which is currently revised supports a Visual Analytics approach for comparing tree-structures. A rudimentary XPath 2.0 engine currently will be replaced with a brackit.org binding to support XQuery 1.0 and the Update Facility. Work on incremental indexes also started. Saxon might be used (XSLT, XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0) as well.<p>Sirix will be nothing without a community, thus try it :-) Furthermore I more than welcome further open source developers which are also eager to bring Sirix one step forward. As described, there's a bunch of work todo and I have even more ideas sticking in my head ;-)
Show HN: Head of Growth as a Service
https://www.growthjoy.io/
Hi HN, I launched GrowthJoy to offer unlimited viral campaigns for your growth and marketing team. Make your product viral with unordinary growth campaigns not yet covered by your competitors. I will provide your team with organized growth hacking campaigns ready for execution.

The purpose of all campaigns and experiments is to grow your North Star metric and scale your startup to the next level.

Looking forward for you comments how to improve it. Thanks
iOS Devs, CoreData giving you headaches? DBAccess iOS ORM might be for you!
http://db-access.org
A free to use and distribute ORM, that is designed to make development rapid and developers lives easy. Open to feedback, questions or suggestions.
QuadraClicks Mouse?
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-quadraclicks-mouse/x/3701565
This is a really good product, how come no one thought of it earlier?
Hubspot’s Mark Roberge On Startups, Growing Sales Teams and The Future of Software
http://blog.getbase.com/hubspots-mark-roberge-and-base-ceo-uzi-shmilovici-talk-startups-growing-sales-teams-and-the-future-of-sales
Hubspot’s SVP of Sales Mark Roberge & Base CEO Uzi Shmilovici talk startups, growing sales teams & the future of sales in the first of this three-part interview.
Cloudjot
http://cloudjotapp.com/
Enjoy
Ask HN: How many flags does it take to drop a story down several pages?
I've noticed a few times (most recently with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464228) that articles that seem on a trajectory towards the front page sometimes drop unexpectedly. Can this come from just one flag, or does it require multiple flaggings?
A song played on 8 floppy drives controlled by raspberry pi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsK-PPg-lOA
Orignal song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvxG3zl_WhU
Looks like ReactOS finnaly has a sponsor 
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/21464t/reactos_the_revolution_is_now_here/
ReactOS. The (R)evolution is now here. Looks like they finnaly have a sponsor! Mr. Nikiforov?
Young Startups with Sweet Offices (Pic)
http://www.sproutly.com/2007/08/03/young-companies-with-sweet-offices/
Move over big corporations, the youngin's are here.
Show HN: Vaga, the Embeddable Community Chat
https://www.vaga.chat/
Vaga is Intercom for communities. It is the chatbox you can copy paste into your app or website to build a community natively, instead of Discord.
Ask HN: What do you do while waiting on a process?
You know the feeling when that program runs. That download starts. It's blocking, and it'll take 30 seconds - 5 minutes. And you must run 100 of these in a day. They're small blocks of time, but they add up. What do you do during this time?
Why San Francisco is tech's utopia
http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/17/technology/startups/silicon_valley_promised_land/
They make a point about the Bay Area by giving numbers for California.
30 Free Fonts for Designers and Logo Artists
http://designmodo.com/free-fonts-design-logo/
Typography is an essential part for the professional designers and for those who want to make it big in the promotion market. Popular fonts used by professional designers.
Personalized Recommendation using SQL 
https://github.com/Sarwat/recdb-postgresql
A system that allows developers to easily express personalized recommendation using SQL
San Francisco Dreamin'
http://thetwohalves.com/2012/02/san-francisco-dreamin/
travel, SMM, Slovenes in the USA
Noombers – Organize Better Tournaments
http://www.noombers.com
Noombers is a startup that will be the reference model for sport platforms in the world. It offers an online solution for tournament organizers so they can easily coordinate and manage every aspect of sports tournaments including statistics and communications. On the other hand, it also offers a social network for players, teams and fans to take their pre-match and post-match experience to the next level.
Show HN: Simple Friends bingo web app
https://www.frndsbingo.com/
Built a simple friends bingo web app, after playing some with my girlfriends family and loving it. Stack is pretty much Next.js deployed on Vercel hobby tier.
Ask HN: Keyboard shortcuts in web applications
I am looking for good advice on implementing keyboard shortcuts for web applications.

Unfortunately I'm drawing a blank on finding a standard set of expected behavior (although quite a few people recommend just copying gmail). Technically Firefox will let you emulate a desktop application pretty well, but IE and others won't, so options are pretty limited.

Has anyone found a good set of data about what users do/don't expect from heavy web applications and keyboard short cuts? Is it OK to accept that only power users will be working with shortcuts and bind things like ]-c as copy?

Right now I'm thinking of binding ] to bring up a shortcut options overlay that looks like http://revis.co.uk/shortcuts.png
Insane project: crowdsourcing car design & production
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1w23nuyhG8&feature=player_detailpage#t=609s
Jay Rogers of Local Motors is making cars designed by folks on his message board.
Zibusiso Mkhwanazi: Young, Gifted and Taking Over
http://www.kasitimes.co.za/profiles/zibusiso-mkhwanazi-young-gifted-and-taking-over/
Zibusiso Mkhwanazi is an inspirational young businessman who started moving towards his dreams of starting his own business at the age of 17 in his bedroom, with nothing more than only R2000 between him, his business partner Neo Motlhabane, and their business ideas.
EVidence Beta – Coming soon – Generating ease
http://www.evidence-project.com
eVidence is a solution to ease software testing and documenting in agile teams. I'll will support quick benefits such as: OPEN API to plug third party services, Easy requirements lookup, Tagging, Test generation. More details at: http://evidence-agile.blogspot.com
4 days left to apply for $50,000 in free seed funding in St. Louis
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/blog/BizNext/2012/12/4-days-left-to-apply-for-50000-in.html
Move your startup to St. Louis, get $50,000 in non-equity diluting seed funding.
Are The Economics of the Web Making Us Stupid?
http://www.techi.com/2010/07/are-the-economics-of-the-web-making-us-stupid/
Whenever someone talks about how the internet is making us stupid, I tend to get a little skeptical.
Show HN: MALROT – Making Cultural Event Data Universally Accessible
https://malrot.org
MALROT specification intends to be for Arts & Culture what GTFS was for Transportation & Mobility. No less than a revolution.

PS: Sorry for my english. Not a native!
Ask HN: Do you use your hacker skills to be 'creepy'?
These "creepy" Assange emails got me thinking.

I'm sure most or all of us are experts at using google, web scraping skills, and knowledge about online habits to find nearly anything about anyone online. I'm more than guilty at doing this.

Most people would find this creepy, and even an invasion of their privacy in and of itself, no matter how easy it is using publicly accessible data, they'd probably even call it stalking.

As an example, I've been able to find out almost everything about people on okcupid just by unique enough words, or even the sequence of words, they've had in their profiles using smart guesstimates about online habits and usually physical location. On some level, I used these same skills to get the job I have now (knowing your audience is a huge advantage when writing a cover letter)

Do you do this?
Do you ever refrain/limit yourself from doing it (Is ignorance bliss?)
How far have you gone/typically go?
Technology Has Filled the Void of Meaning Left by the Decline of Religion
http://www.replyall.me/zach-talks/smi-dylan-tweney-executive-editor-at-venturebeat/
A conversation with Dylan Tweney from VentureBeat