jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Deploy your Rust app with one-line, for free
https://github.com/shuttle-hq/shuttle
Meet shuttle, an open source, Rust-native platform for deploying apps with zero infra hassle. Built by a distributed YC-backed team.

In order to deploy your app, all it takes is one annotation on your main function and you're good to go!

At this point, we support most of the major Rust web frameworks such as;
* Axum
* Rocket
* Tide
* Poem
* Tower

And we’ve recently added support for Serenity, a Rust library for the Discord API — so you can even build & deploy Discord bots, for free.

Our repository has a couple of examples per framework/library enabling you to get started in under 5 minutes so feel free to pick one and give it a go (https://github.com/shuttle-hq/shuttle/tree/main/examples)!

We are in alpha so constructive criticism and feedback are extra welcome!
Show HN: Yuzu – The Stock and Crypto GraphQL/Streaming API for Rapid Development
https://www.yuzu.dev
Hey HN!

Excited to show off Yuzu, the stock market and Crypto API we wish we always had.

We built Yuzu to solve a problem we had while working on a prior project: current market data APIs are not built to enable rapid prototyping and scaling without a significant amount of upfront data engineering. In our previous app, a portfolio tracker, we had to ingest 30 years of historical data for stocks, crypto, ETFs, and mutual funds just so that we could re-expose that data to our frontend in a more efficient way. The number of API calls we would have had to make otherwise have made the app unusably slow.

This is why we built Yuzu to power frontend fintech use cases with a first-ever GraphQL API and unlimited streaming connections for live price data. We believe that you should be able to prototype and launch your app in days instead of weeks without building up your own data warehouse of market data. Just one API call to fetch everything you need and you're off to the races.

The API is live now - use the code "demo" to try it out and sign up to get your own free API key for personal use.

We're excited to show this off to the HN community - excited to hear your feedback
Java version marketshare within Jelastic: December 2011
http://blog.jelastic.com/2012/01/05/java-version-marketshare-within-jelastic-december-2011/
We keep posting monthly updates on usage so you can track the dynamics of Java 7 adoption.
OpenOffice.org 3 released- brings down project website
http://openoffice.org/
I just went to download the new OpenOffice.org 3.0- and I noticed that "unprecedented demand" has brought down the community website. Apparently Sun isn't using their own SunGrid :)
Ask PG & HN: Subscription or Data Licensing, as business model?
I am not sure if PG answers these kind of questions but it's worth asking.

I am working on a simple service to sort reading material. Something, say, like Read it Later or Instapaper which does some sorting based on some social media things. (Of course this is not full idea but that hardly matters).

Now there are two ways I can go:

Subscription based Service There will be a free account but for better experience and features. You pay, say, $5-$15 a month. That's simple charge user for what they use.

But then is asking user to pay for what otherwise is free, is that cool? And not even sure if "technically" selling sorted links is cool with Publishers.

Free Service, Sell Data: Somewhat what Crowdbooster is doing? Service is free but data of, say, reading habits can be useful for advertisers or publishers. That can be licensed.

What are your thoughts on both business models (if I can call them that).
Ask HN: How do I stop being passive-aggressive?
I just had a realization, make it two:

1) I am passive-aggressive

2) Many of my behaviors of which I have been proud all along, all of my life (a few decades) are wrong. I am not Nice (cliche' I know), I am not positive, I am not gentle, I am not polite, I am not polished, I am not the one who takes the high road. My behaviors are not desirable, normal, common, attractive.

In the past, in my quest to overcome my low-self-esteem and attain confidence I did rear "No More Mr Nice guy" and "Not Nice". They both helped a but, but I wrongly assumed that being confident and being "Nice" were compatible. And they are, but not the "Nice" meaning that I had/have embedded in my mind.

I have searched on Google and in Psychology Today about my condition. I have just bought the book "Overcoming Passive Aggression".

Dear HN: can you give me some advice, pointers on how to embark in this battle and this journey? Hold no punches, I know I have done a lot of wrong, while thinking that I was doing good. And it sucks on so many levels.

Thanks in advance.
Own 50% of cashflow from iPhone app if you help complete it
http://www.reserver1.com/safelane/content/home/home.aspx 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSff61nrtqY

Above is a marketing video we produced (one of many actually).

Some friends and I designed an iPhone app with the goal of making it safer to make calls while driving. The app is called SafeLane and is basically a dynamic "favorite" list that you have on the native phone app. Users can add/edit/delete items on the call list in the app or using the web.

The two use cases we wanted the MVP to support were:

(1) User knows they have a 1 hour commute later in the day so, while in their office, using the web interface they add 5 calls to their SafeLane call list and they then make those calls while driving.

(2) User's assistant adds 5 calls to user's SafeLane call list from assistant's office using web interface (think sales person driving between meetings).

The reason SafeLane is safer to use than the native phone app is that the user/driver has only to select a few (larger, easy to glance at) options instead of scrolling through emails, or worse, their address book. The graphic design of the app accounts for this and has giant buttons that are easy to use at a glance.

The iPhone app is 80% complete and alpha versions are working on actual phones. The website is about half done. We spent some time/money creating a nice looking website and produced a marketing video. Check it out here http://www.reserver1.com/safelane/content/home/home.aspx (IE only right now).

If you're interested in helping finish the app (I'm guessing about 40 hours of work for someone who know what they're doing) then we'd cut you in for 50% of the free cash flow. This isn't a business but it could be an interesting app that makes a little money and (hopefully) saves some lives.

Thanks for reading.
Next Gen MacBook Pro teardown
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-Display-Teardown/9462/1
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-Display-Teardown/9462/1
Ask HN: How do you consume and stay on top of news?
Twitter, Facebook, RSS, GReader, Summify, custom intelligence solution? Share your tips or projects that help you:

a) consume a large variety of news sources

b) stay on top of it by reading only relevant interesting news

Edit1: formatting
Ask HN: Reverse engineering that allows software to run on modern systems
Just saw GTA III re[1], but there are other similar projects that impress me. Prince of Persia[2] is an interesting one as is Starcraft running on arm[3].

And what about you? What is the recompiled software that amazes you the most?

[1] https://github.com/GTAmodding/re3 but
[2] https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP
[3] https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/starcraft.73844/
Ask HN: good startup ideas?
Hi everyone - here are couple of ideas I would really love feedback on. I'm in a situation where I could bootstrap something, but I'm working on my own and need some confidence on what I'm working on is worthwhile.

1. API Anything - site that lets you create a rest api for any public website (using some behind the scenes headless brower automation). There are loads of companies with in-house web apps that need to talk to each other, right? Initially provide read only api + search.

2. Browser based js web platform - kindof like a cross between a wiki and heroku. The pages can be written to execute javascript on both client and server side, allowing the creation of proper web apps.

The apps would be deployable to appenginejs, and downloadable as an appenginejs project to avoid people worrying about writing code for a new platform.

3. ShowMyCharts - A site which automatically extracts charts and data from excel documents (and other data sources) that live in a particular dropbox folder, allowing people to share reporting information easily.

4. AutoDba - An app which installs on a SQL Server and monitors query performance, suggesting or creating missing indexes etc.
The average age of HN (in 2012) is lower than the average age of Reddit
http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/social-network-average-age-580px.jpg
Full article with more demographics

http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/08/21/report-social-network-demographics-in-2012/
KnowledgeHives.com - Semantic Web technologies applied
http://semanticweb.com/mobile-app-mila-uses-semantics-to-match-micro-entrepreneurs-to-social-media-customer-leads_b32521
Knowledge Hives , Polish startup developing technologies based on Semantic Web runs for his Partner - Core Systems service for discovering business leads and matching them with micro-entrepreneurs.
Ballmer: "[Microsoft's online unit] are 3 year olds playing basketball with 12-year olds!"
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/10/18/microsoft-google-domination-technology-software-cx__wt_1018microsoft.html
"You're 3-years-old and you're playing basketball with 12-year-olds. You're going to dunk on the other guys some day!"

If that's what the CEO really thinks, maybe time to short MSFT.
Documents say NSA disguises itself as Facebook in surveillance
http://www.freshtechapps.com/documents-say-nsa-disguises-itself-as-facebook-in-surveillance/
The new documents leaked by Snowden say NSA disguises itself as Facebook server in surveillance. The Intercept says the NSA hopes to target millions of computers.
Show HN: a twitter app to poll your followers (a weekend project using Clojure)
http://agleed.com
Comments and critics are welcome!
Who's partying with reddit tonight?
http://drankkit.com/
Anyone else from News.YC getting sloshed tonight in Davis Sq?
Show HN: Airplane for Mac
https://airplanemac.carrd.co
To focus on writing & working, there are the times where I don’t want my machine to be connected to the outside world, so the idea is what if there is a way to kill the wireless tech anytime & anywhere. This is something not new in the market, there is a great example on smartphones - Airplane mode.

Instead of reinventing something new, just like an iPhone, what if there is an Airplane mode for Mac that turns on/off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other things.

Here is the quick video where you can checkout how it works:
https://airplanemac.carrd.co/
Show HN: Mogenius – The easiest way for devs to run any application in the cloud
https://mogenius.com
We've built a platform for developers that automates the entire DevOps workflow. Simply connect your repository and mogenius will deploy your application on a hyper-scaling cloud infrastructure, with built-in CI/CD and DDoS protection.

We have a great free plan that lets you use the platform for as long as you want. We look forward to your feedback, tell us what you think!
Facebook Phone App Spy on User’s Personal Images....
http://www.techieapps.com/facebook-phone-app-spy-on-users-personal-images-text-messages-sent-via-smartphones/
The issues regarding the right to privacy of the users just does not seem to rest.
Ask NH: please evaluate my idea, math exercise solver
It's been a while (some years) that I have had this idea in my mind. Now I'm considering to implement it, but I still have some doubt.

The idea is to build a webapp to solve math exercises aimed to high school (and maybe lower) students having difficulties learning math. The app solves exercises showing passages and explaining the rules used in the solving.

It's not a project where I can release a prototype quickly, because it requires some core functionality to be useful (involving parsing and some AI) as well as some kind of interface capable of printing math on the web.

My doubts are about the market. I know a lot of people have problems understanding math at school, but I don't know if students are a good target when it comes to monetize.

Any feedback on this is really appreciated.
Creator of Dolphin WII emulator, releases new PSP emulator.
http://ppsspp.org/
Creator of Dolphin WII emulator, releases new PSP emulator. Still in early beta, but an Android APK is available, and binaries for windows.
The Birth of a Handmade Tool
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/9326/the-birth-of-a-handmade-tool/
Deep in the Latvian hinterland tools are still being made the traditional way.
Ask HN: Possible ux/interaction design intern opportunity
Hi there,

I know I'm a little late in the game of looking for summer intern, but thought I should try this avenue nonetheless.

I'm currently attending Indiana University's Human-Computer Interaction Design (HCI/d) program.

I'm looking to work with startup as an user-experience/interaction design intern because I love the dynamics of a startup, and the potential to work in a closely-knitted team.

I'm also motivated by the good experience that one of our 2nd year student had while working with one (Rock Melt).

Please check out my portfolio site or contact me for more information: http://www.wang-kai.com

Thanks!

Kai
Ask HN: Bad Application Architecture Example?
I am going to explain architecture of a product on which i am currently working under a Software Lead who has +8 years of development experience.

We are building a school management system on Rails and Laravel ... in short we are building a BACK END of a product not only two different servers but also on two different languages & technologies i.e. Logging, User Management in Rails Accounts, Academics in Laravel while our front end is in AngularJS

According to me this is the perfect example of pathetic architecture because one request from client to Account or Academic module will invoke n HTTPS calls to other servers ( for logging and user management purposes). And biggest mistake is both Laravel and Rails are accessing same Database

There are may other scenarios where one can easily figure out that we are doing it completely wrong

I have tried so much to understand and try to make some sense out of this architecture but unable to do so. My lead insist this the better architecture It will increase performance of the application

Please suggest me Is my Software Lead is RIGHT ... i think NO then what should i do should i leave the company because its effecting my learning as well as patience or should i continue working ....
Local Website Simplifies Car-Buying Experience
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2012/08/17/local-website-simplifies-car-buying-experience/
We love getting feedback on our service.
Small Business Survival Index 2009
http://www.sbecouncil.org/survivalindex2009/
As far as I can tell, this ranking is strictly from a policy and numbers perspective, and does not take into account intangibles such as landscapes and climates.
Ask HN: What did Netflix do differently to survive the Amazon outage?
Inspired by these:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2475729 (Jedberg on Reddit's recent outage)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2476052 (Skynet, EC2, and Zencoder)

Why did Reddit, Zencoder, Heroku, and myriad other services go down, without Netflix encountering the same problem? Can anyone get into the details on what's different about their architectural setup that allowed them to handle the failure gracefully?
10 movies that are better than Wall Street 2
http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-movies-2010-9
Wall Street 2 sucked. watch some of the documentary movies listed here instead, bonus: better acting!
Would you use this classifieds service for domain names?
http://domains.wiffin.com/
After this thread earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652952
I decided that it would be fun to put together a "domain name classifieds".
There's a few things I'd add, but I wanted to get some feedback first, see if I was even heading in the right direction.

Haven't bought a domain for it yet, maybe I'll find one on my own site if this takes off ;)
Boston area Comcast DNS down?
ive talked to about 10 different people, from boston to newburyport, everyones comcast internet is down. supposedly its a DNS
The result of 48 hours of programming at StartupWeekend
I've been spending my weekend working with a great group of developers and designers at StartupWeekend Indianapolis. For those who aren't familiar StartupWeekend is where a bunch of developers, designers, etc. get together, pitch ideas, and then get into groups and spend the rest of the weekend working on making an idea into working product. What we've come up with is a play on Foursquare for eating and drinking where instead of simply checking in you can say what you had at a restaurant.

We just launched minutes ago and would love to get the Forrst community on the site and giving feedback.

http://eatdrink.it

Note: This site is designed to be used from a smartphone, but will work on a desktop/laptop.
Disturbing: A Girl Turns to Reddit and Youtube To Report Past Abuse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl9y3SIPt7o&feature=channel_video_title
Her original Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/lwtna/family_law_judge_beats_own_daughter_for_using/
Ask HN: What to do about an under-performing founder
We're a 1.5 yearold startup with 3 founders. I started the company, and then brought in the second founder two months in, and finally brought in the third founder about 7 months in.

When we brought in the third founder we were pretty desperate. We didn't have funding, we barely had a proof of concept product, and minimal market traction. So just having another warm body to help with the work was very valuable. Pretty much since the very beginning she produced really mediocre work. Better than nothing, but far below the level of work produced by myself and the second founder.

Since then we've moved lightyears ahead of where we were then. We got a beta out, we got a decent round of angel funding, we got customers, and now we're about a month away from being cash flow positive with 11 people full time (not ramen profitable, but actually making enough to pay everyone a decent wage.)

As for the third founder, she has now moved into a low level employee role. Quite frankly if she were just an employee I would have let her go by now, simply because we could easily find someone better.

Here's my dilemma: I feel like it would be a really evil thing to do to fire her. I would be taking away all her equity (since all three founders have 3 year vesting.) Not only that but to be fair, she was there at the very beginning, and did work for minimum wage for 3 months before we finally got funding. But at the same time, it's just not good for the company to keep an under-performing employee around.

I've thought about just giving her 1/3 of her equity (which would be 4%), some severance pay, and letting her go. I feel this would be fair, but still it doesn't sit well with me.

I'm sure there are people that have had to deal with this kind of thing before. I would really appreciate any advice you guys have.
Python web framework roundup
http://www.konstruktor.ee/blog/python-web-framework-roundup
A lot of web frameworks have been built for Python. There are even tutorials around the web for rolling your own web framework in Python. That is because it's really that easy. In the end this has led to a lot of great frameworks and a lot of bad ones also. So lets round them up and separate the wheat from the chaff.
PerfectSight: Self Evaluation of Visual Accommodation with a cell phone.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~pamplona/PerfectSight/
An optometry solution combines inexpensive optical elements and interactive software components to create a new optometry device suitable for developing countries.
Watch With eBay – eBay’s New iPad App to Allow You Shop While Watching TV
http://www.techieapps.com/watch-with-ebay-ebays-new-ipad-app-to-allow-you-shop-while-watching-tv/
The latest app being released by the giant ecommerce shopping portal – eBay aims to combines two of the favorite sources of passing time by the Americans – To shop and watch TV.
Ask HN: What blog platform to use for my SaaS
Hi HN,

I'd like to start writing a blog for my SaaS (https://noisycamp.com). A few years ago, Medium would have been my platform of choice, but it become so bloated lately.

What are the best blog platforms for technical and non-technical articles lately?

Best
Watch music videos in style
http://www.vawk.com/
stream music from youtube without any advertisements
Ask HN: How should I build my API?
I want to build an API for my website but am unsure if I should make it a REST or SOAP based API and what kinds of features to implement in it any suggestions would be great.
BP robot accident badly hits oil spill containment
http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/infrastructure/hardware/news/index.cfm?newsid=20831
A high-tech effort by BP, to slow the oil gushing from its ruptured wellhead, led to a large accident yesterday that forced the company to remove a vital containment cap for 10 hours.
Ask HN: How should I challenge Digg?
Do you think the time is right to startup a challenger to Digg? Im thinking of trying to recapture Digg's initial Geek tech-centric community. The time appears to be ripe, Diggs initial community appears to have left Digg, and Digg seems like its desperate to re-invent itself.
My major concern is: How could I differentiate myself from Reddit. It seems as if the geek community has shifted from Digg to Reddit.

Q: What are your thoughts about starting up in the Digg/Reddit space?
What would compel you to start using a Digg/Reddit competitor?

Your thoughts are appreciated. Thank you
Ask YC: funded startups and their status
Is there a list showing all the YC startups to date, and how they are doing now (eg. funding rounds, acquisition, deadpool)?
The NextFacebook...Really?
http://charleston.craigslist.org/cpg/3269811285.html
I saw this job listed on craigslist and I just wondered how delusional does a person have to be to even think like this.
What's the difference between smart money and dumb money?
http://www.venturehacks.com/articles/dumb-money
Summary: Smart money is money plus the promise of help that's worth paying for, dumb money is money plus hidden harm, and mostly money is mostly money. Weed out the dumb money with diligence. Evaluate supposedly smart money with the smart money test. Finally, assume your investors are mostly money: unbundle money and value-add to get money on the best terms possible and value-add on the best terms possible.
Ask HN: Rate my startup - Backpedalify
http://backpedalify.com
Sorry, we're only in private beta.
The Ed-Tech Bubble
http://lexilewtan.tumblr.com/post/31002491505/the-ed-tech-bubble
There’s an education bubble, and there’s a tech bubble - but the ed-tech bubble isn’t fleshing out either.
Why cant Google acquire Wikipedia?
Googles' mission statement is "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful". So I kind of wonder why it hasnt deemed it fit to acquire wikipedia? I kind of find Jimmy Page annual appeal for donations kind of demeaning for such a useful website. It would make more sense for Google and would be in line with their mission statement for them to acquire Wikipedia, rather than developing sites like boutiques.com (which to me is somewhat lame) and trying to play catch up with Facebook.
New iPad HD Throws Out More Heat,Can’t Charge While Running Apps and Games
http://www.techieapps.com/new-ipad-retina-display-throws-out-more-heat-cant-charge-while-running-apps-and-games/
The latest iPad introduced by Apple Inc, has recently invited a lot of complaints on the various Internet forums. All the comments resonated the same fact – the new Apple iPad gets uncomfortably hot and warm, after repeated and heavy usage.