jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Launch HN: Polytomic (YC W20) – Get internal data to your business teams
Hello, HN comrades!

I'm Ghalib, with my co-founder Nathan, and we've built Polytomic (https:///www.polytomic.com). Polytomic is a no-code web app to sync your company's internal data from databases and spreadsheets to business systems like Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot, Google Sheets, and others.

Business teams who live in these systems often want data piped in from databases or spreadsheets. Think about the salesperson who lives in Salesforce and wants to generate a report there about which of their customers have logged into the product recently. Well, all the user data sits in a database outside of Salesforce and needs to be piped into the right fields before this report can be generated.

I founded and ran the data team at PlanGrid (YC W12) for four years and was at the crossroads of every data request from the business side of the office. So many of the data problems I witnessed could have been solved by sending data to where business teams lived, but I never prioritised enough of that work because of how painful it was. I've always felt guilty about that - my co-workers on the business side worked so hard and I should have served them better. So we decided to start a company to pay for my sins, by inventing a product that removes the pain from solving these problems.

The integrations market is not a new one; some of you may remember TIBCO from the 90's, which was followed by MuleSoft and countless other vendors. But our approach is different: we're focused on data syncing and don't make the customer create a query workflow from scratch every time they want to move data. Instead, in our web app, the business team can first create a master model of the data they care about, surfaced from any number of databases and spreadsheets with a few clicks (or SQL queries). From there, anyone can sync any fields from this master model to CRMs or spreadsheets with a few clicks. For example, a single scheduled sync to Salesforce can combine real-time data from production databases, fields from spreadsheets, and analytical data from a data warehouse. We transfer the data efficiently and automatically take care of necessary cross-system joins while not storing any of your data.

I've been on HN for 14 years and am always surprised by how varied the community is. So I'm curious: does anyone here regularly work with Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot, or other CRMs? Do you face any annoyances with data integrations? Or perhaps you have more general tales of CRM horrors?
Bootstrap Designer – Generate Bootstrap Templates
http://bootstrapdesigner.com
Online design tool, producing HTML5 templates based on Twitter Bootstrap that you can use for your clients' projects or sell on your own website.
Show HN: Nine Letter Word – Daily Puzzle
https://www.nineletterwordgame.com
I've been playing Wordle and remembered this puzzle game I used to play with my grandfather. It's inspired by the block puzzles in many newspapers but made to be shorter: just guess the nine letter word.

So I made a quick thing to play with my family like we used to. I thought you guys might enjoy it.
UK 'biggest spy' among the Five Eyes 
http://www.news.com.au/technology/uk-spying-more-extensive-than-in-us/story-e6frfro0-1226667900434
The Guardian cited British intelligence memos leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden to claim that UK spies were tapping into the world's network of fibre optic cables to deliver the "biggest internet access" of any member of the Five Eyes - the name given to the espionage alliance composed of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
I got sued for $3 Million by a religious cult
http://www.skeptical-science.com/religion/sued-3-million-religious-cult/
This is relevant to any webmaster who keeps a Web2.0 website. Interesting searching the footer I can't spot any legal terms of use?!
Show HN: I built an extension for analyzing rental properties in Zillow
https://www.homescope.io/
Hey everyone, I build a Chrome Extension for real estate investors to be able to easily calculate the cash flow of a rental property right within Zillow.

As an aspiring real estate investor, I found spreadsheets and proprietary online calculators like Bigger Pockets to be complicated or slow. With Homescope, you can bring this within your workflow and estimate your operating expenses instantly.
The Mother of All Demos
http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
Doug Engelbart in 1968, demonstrating the future of computing--including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface.

Jeff Han's multitouch demo and the introduction of the Macintosh are the only two demos I can think of that have come close to having this much impact since. Can anyone think of any others?
Afghans Build Open-Source Internet From Trash 
http://www.shareable.net/blog/afghans-build-open-source-internet-from-trash-0
Afghans Build Open-Source Internet From Trash. Fast Company reports that residents can build a FabFi node out of approximately $60 worth of everyday items such as boards, wires, plastic tubs, and cans that will serve a whole community at once.
Show HN: Building computer labs in schools in Africa
https://techlitafrica.org/
My name is Nelly Cheboi. I am the co-founder of https://techlitafrica.org, an organization that fosters a more technologically literate Africa by building computer labs in African schools.

I was raised in Mogotio, Kenya, in abject poverty. At nine years old, I collected wild vegetables on my way from school to cook for my younger sister. The only way I knew out was by studying. So I studied. I studied hard. And I ended with a full-ride scholarship to Augustana College, IL.

I was majoring in Chemistry before I discovered computer science my junior year of college. I loved it. With only three semesters left, I decided to get a degree in it. I also built a school with the aim of fostering digital literacy. I doubled down on my work-study program, got some donations from friends and four months later I launched Zawadi Preparatory (www.zawadiprep.tech). We admitted 30 kids at its launch in January 2016. Barely 3 years later, we are at 150 kids.

In summer 2018, we built a computer lab at Zawadi Prep. We collected computer donations, bundled it with elementary OS along with open source education software. There is no broadband internet, so we downloaded terabytes of content for our local server including Wikipedia and Stack Overflow. We showed the villagers how to make a Rails app at our free after school program.

I cannot think of a better success story than the one of my seven-year-old niece, Michelle. My friend came over to the lab. Michelle asked, "do you want to see our content?" They were like, "sure." She then opened up a computer, navigated to `192.168.0.2` and said, "look, we have all these." I teared up a little bit. I did not teach any of that.

Our goal for 2019 is to build 10 more computer labs in 10 different Kenyan schools. I always wanted to end poverty. To me, teaching digital literacy is the best way I know how. We now have over one hundred donated workstations. To meet our goal, we need a few hundred more.
Show HN: I made an app to help insomniacs learn how to sleep again
https://slumber.one
Hi HN! I suffered from chronic insomnia for over a year and tried everything from cutting coffee, blocking blue light, to taking melatonin and antihistamine, but couldn’t find anything that worked. I even bought a $500 research-grade EEG device to track my sleep, which was honestly kind of depressing because it showed that I was sleeping less than 4 hours per night for weeks straight.

In the day, it took an immense amount of energy for me to perform even the most mundane of tasks, such as doing my laundry or ordering groceries. At night, I felt an overwhelming sense of loneliness and resentment as I lay in bed wide-awake, reading and re-reading Sleep by Murakami or mindlessly scrolling through reddit/ HN. My performance at work suffered, my personal relationships suffered, and my happiness suffered.

When I finally decided to see a sleep specialist, I was put on a 3-month long waiting list. Eventually, I was able to get my insomnia treated, but I realized that there is no reason why anyone should wait 3 months to get treatment when the same therapy that I received can be delivered online. My co-founder and I both have experience in digital health, so we decided to partner with sleep experts to create a mobile app to help people with insomnia get better sleep using psychology.

We launched in February this year, and have already helped over 500 patients improve their sleep permanently. Our data shows that our program is just as effective as group, in-person sleep therapy, and we’re doing a clinical study with Brigham and Women’s hospital and Harvard Medical School to prove the efficacy of our product. On average, our users sleep 74 minutes longer than before and spend 52% less time awake in the middle of the night.

If you have trouble with sleep, try our app and let us know what you think!
AMD is working on K12, brand-new x86 and ARM cores
http://techreport.com/review/26418/amd-reveals-k12-new-arm-and-x86-cores-are-coming
Update: http://techreport.com/review/26418/amd-reveals-k12-new-arm-and-x86-cores-are-coming
Show HN: Quantblocks - Backtest your trading strategies
http://www.quantblocks.com
We think backtesting is too difficult, this is our attempt to make it much easier and more fun - let us know what you think!
Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1F0-sTyvsQ
Using stable diffusion to generate and walk through different kitchen renovation ideas.
Show HN: CSS3 Animated Glowing Forms
http://kaylarose.github.com/Glowform/
I remember seeing the Dragon Labs Dragonfish Glowing Form Demo[1] when it first came out, and it always stuck in my head. They implement the effect by using a rather large background image and a mask image and move the background image around via Javascript. I was inspired and wanted to see how close I could get with CSS3.

I recommend using a Webkit browser [and you can see an alternate version of the animation on Firefox 4].

[1] http://labs.dragoninteractive.com/panel/demo/
Google Earth Pro is now free
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2015/01/google-earth-pro-is-now-free.html
... Has tools to measure 3D buildings and other locations, print high-resolution screenshots, view demographic and traffic layers, and even record your virtual trips.
Show HN: A Visual IDE for React
https://dev.aspect.app
I made this because building UIs in a lexical medium like code is super annoying. I have to pre-render what I’m making in my head, and then jump between the browser and IDE to test. I was inspired by the developer console in chrome and safari since I end up editing css there because it’s ironically more convenient. Hope it’s useful!
Lord of War, full movie now on Hulu (US only)
http://www.hulu.com/watch/149427/lord-of-war
Learning from the Web
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1103833
Blackberry messenger still the best, or...
http://bellogee.blogspot.com/2013/11/blackberry-messenger-still-best-or.html
Make your Filters Match: Faceting in Solr
http://blog.florian-hopf.de/2013/01/make-your-filters-match-faceting-in-solr.html
Gulf spill a familiar story in oil-soaked Nigeria
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100705/ap_on_re_af/af_nigeria_oil_spills
Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make a Bid
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-05/twitter-shares-slump-after-report-says-google-won-t-make-a-bid
Real-Time Noise Suppression Using Deep Learning
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-real-time-noise-suppression-deep-learning/
PostgreSQL 10 Released
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1786/
Inspectify (YC S20) Is Hiring a Product Manager in Seattle
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/inspectify/jobs/NDcfaSX-product-manager
Glucose Aversion in the German Cockroach, Blattella germanica [pdf]
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jsilver/Silverman%20and%20Bieman%201993.pdf
A social robot that could help children to regulate their emotions
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-06-social-robot-children-emotions.html
Kindergarten Kids Science Without Long Parental Preparations
https://youtu.be/-_QgA767lvw
Real-Time Messaging in a Distributed Architecture Using SingalR and RabbitMQ,ABP
https://volosoft.com/blog/RealTime-Messaging-Distributed-Architecture-Abp-SingalR-RabbitMQ
How one hospital used AI to optimize their treatment of pneumonia and sepsis
https://medcitynews.com/2018/07/hospital-ayasdis-ai/
An Architect's Guide to Hybrid Cloud Storage
https://blog.min.io/an-architects-guide-to-the-hybrid-cloud/
Trying Too Hard (To Invest Well) by Dean Williams [pdf]
http://csinvesting.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Trying-Too-Hard.pdf
Making Cyberglads 1 – Choosing a Game Engine (Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot)
https://cyberglads.com/
Words matter, and they’re destabilizing the American tribe - Twilio CEO
https://medium.com/@jeffiel/words-matter-and-theyre-destabilizing-the-american-tribe-afaba172e4d1
Vote for Fluent Design in Visual Studio Code
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/26572
Introducing Early Access
http://store.steampowered.com/earlyaccessfaq/
Patent troll that wants $1,000 per worker gets sued by Vermont A-G
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/patent-troll-that-wants-1000-per-worker-gets-sued-by-vermont-a-g/
The World's First Computer Password? It Was Useless Too (2012)
https://www.wired.com/2012/01/computer-password/
Succeeding in the chinese tech market, if you play by the government's rules
http://www.weijieworld.com/succeeding-in-chinese-tech-markets-if-you-play-by-the-governments-rules/
JavaScript Performance Best Practices
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/JavaScript_Performance_Best_Practices
Radical Semiconductor
http://radicalsemiconductor.com
What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Biohacking
http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/04/why-silicon-valley-keeps-getting-biotechnology-wrong.html
Founding Father, Entrepreneur: Washington's Overlooked Business Career [2009]
http://reason.com/archives/2009/02/12/founding-father-entrepreneur
How Catherine de Medici Made Gloves Laced with Poison Fashionable
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-catherine-de-medici-made-gloves-laced-with-poison-fashionable
Rick Roll Hack?
https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/in9gqb/rick_roll_hack/
Are Your Hiring Tactics Unethical?
http://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/are-your-hiring-tactics-unethical.html
The Harvard of online animation education
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fernandopizarro/the-valley-0/posts/141544
Please HN: Help our UX research on "Video editing habits". Under 5 min.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1X5NDO1O9USr18O3Pr_SwkheHN_FTNihXmPZLCKWL1hk/viewform
Why your configuration needs a schema
https://speakerdeck.com/garethr/why-your-configuration-needs-a-schema
Punding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punding
Thoughts on the US Chamber's forum on cybersecurity policy with Rep. Mike McCaul
http://blog.denimgroup.com/denim_group/2013/04/glimpse-into-federal-cyber-security-policy-with-rep-mike-mccaul.html
Inventive Minds – Marvin Minsky on Education
https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4519/Inventive-MindsMarvin-Minsky-on-Education
Pakistan bans Call of Duty and Medal of Honor
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/pakistan/130123/pakistan-bans-call-duty-medal-honor-over-countrys
Indian kickstarter for social development 
http://www.rangde.org/
Auto adapting Signal-desktop to day-night theme
http://pi2squared.blogspot.com/2018/03/auto-adapting-signal-desktop-to-day.html
Ebola and the ongoing global health emergency that no one is noticing
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/ebola-and-the-ongoing-global-health-emergency-that-no-one-is-noticing/
Show HN: Easily Build for Multiple Processors with Archie
https://headmelted.com/introducing-archie-cbf77a7a64fb
EV Charging Stations Across the U.S. Mapped
https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/interactive-ev-charging-stations-across-the-u-s-mapped/
NYC Programmer Begins Coding Lessons With Homeless 'Genius'
http://mashable.com/2013/08/26/programmer-coding-homeless/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link
Political Donations via Pinboard on Twitter
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1018597800483774464.html
The Hardest Problems in Your Software Career Will Not Be Technical
http://www.qdonnellan.com/the-hardest-problems-are-not-technical
MTailor (YC S14) Is Hiring a Creative Director
https://mtailor.workable.com/jobs/735644
Photo project matches tweets and locations via GPS
https://www.format.com/magazine/radar/photography/twitter-photography-geolocation-larson-shindelman
How to Find Out If Your Password Has Been Stolen
http://itblogr.com/how-to-find-out-if-your-password-has-been-stolen/
Vint Cerf: Software and Hardware will become obselete
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31450389
Stanford research: Natural language AI models are bias-prone
https://www.fastcompany.com/90731527/a-new-stanford-study-suggests-ai-still-has-a-bias-problem
OnStar: Why the future of the automobile starts on the dashboard
http://untether.tv/2012/onstar-why-the-future-of-the-automobile-starts-on-the-dashboard-with-steve-schwinke-director-of-advanced-technology//
Tracing With Your Smartphone
http://doriandargan.com/post/47807496171/tracing-with-your-smartphone
Hacker movement gains visibility in Paris
http://openpicus.blogspot.it/2012/09/openpicus-sponsors-first-ouishare.html
Study identifies 'many more' autism genes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10275332.stm
How to query and visualize data from Amazon Athena using Livebook
https://news.livebook.dev/how-to-query-and-visualize-data-from-amazon-athena-using-livebook-4dfQ5y
How to Edit Your Theme Files
http://www.thewanderingbrit.com/how-to-edit-your-theme-files-wordpress/
Found Footage: Project 2000 from 1988 on the direction of computing
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/09/found-footage-project-2000-from-1988-on-the-direction-of-comput/
Scheme R7RS will be dedicated to John McCarthy
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2011-10/msg00116.html
'Tsunami fish' story: Flooded boat. A 4,500 mile trip.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2013/0408/Tsunami-fish-story-Flooded-boat.-A-4-500-mile-trip
The problem with “hero” mental health narratives
https://themighty.com/2021/02/mental-health-founder-struggle-realistic-narratives/
Hold the pitchforks. What LastPass did right.
https://www.arnica.io/blog/a-first-look-at-lastpass-security-incident-notification
A Better, Cheaper Way To Fight HIV
http://www.slate.com/id/2303894/
John Jantsch – Utilizing SEO for Business Growth
http://www.ianaltman.com/podcast/john-jantsch-seo-business-growth/
S20 Demo Day music playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQvE7hrRKvw
U.S.-China trade tensions could slow AVs
https://www.axios.com/china-trade-tensions-autonomous-vehicles-da3c274a-fada-4374-ae91-cd7ca6966539.html
CBC: Open-source mixed integer linear programming solver
https://github.com/coin-or/Cbc
Using Juno for Interactive Test-Driven Package Development in Julia
http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/using-juno-interactive-test-driven-package-development/
The 10 GitHub repos new developers mention the most
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-10-github-repos-people-mention-the-most-in-freecodecamps-main-chat-room-189750600fa4
IE 11 is a zombie that won't die. This is how we can kill it
http://nealbuerger.com/2018/01/the-end-of-life-of-internet-explorer-11/
Chinese Boy with Ability to See in Pitch Black Stuns Medics
http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/08/chinese-boy-with-ability-to-see-in-pitch-black-stuns-medics.html?m=1
Year after launching a corporate card for startups,Brex eyes $2B valuation
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/29/less-than-1-year-after-launching-its-corporate-card-for-startups-brex-eyes-2b-valuation/
WebRTC Video Mixing with Mixology
http://dailyjs.com/2014/07/01/mixology/
AMD Radeon ROCm 3.1 Released with RAS for Vega 7nm
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-ROCm-3.1-Released
10B in funding automated market making crypto exhange
https://block.one/news/launch-of-bullish-global/
SuperUser.com opens "third" site to let users chat.
http://chat.superuser.com/
One of the greatest mysteries surrounding Prince has been solved
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/one-of-the-greatest-mysteries-surrounding-prince-has-been-solved/ar-BBKjg4Y?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp&utm_source=fark
State of Electronics Documentary (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xu154715CE&list=PLIizEY7AraGytx9YRynoCqXuWcvvCjQbg&index=1
Lessons from TV5Monde 2015 Hack
https://blog.comae.io/lessons-from-tv5monde-2015-hack-c4d62f07849d
Hack notes to organise anything and do everything
https://www.evernote.com/referral/Registration.action?sig=2250ebf9b47c4b89e2f429661233ae28872d28ba7795c3e26f849ba2288003d2&uid=41154023
Dear Chase: Your Travel Notice Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It
https://hackernoon.com/dear-chase-your-travel-notice-is-broken-heres-how-to-fix-it-13b08b512bcd
Greenpeace blasts Amazon in latest cloud energy report, lauds Apple
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/greenpeace-blasts-amazon-in-latest-cloud-energy-report-lauds-apple/
Who's next on Facebook's shopping list?
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-04-10/facebook-acquisition-shopping-list/54156726/1
Digital conversations - helping stir real life emotions
http://digitallythere.com/digital-conversations-helping-stir-real-life
On the (in)significance of P ≠ NP
http://v.cx/2010/08/PvNP
Ethereum and Computer Language
https://bitflate.org/post/2019/11/16/ethereum-and-computer-language.html
Cl-beanstalk: A queue service client 
http://boinkor.net/archives/2010/01/cl-beanstalk-a-queue-service-c.html
Merb-action-args ported for Rails3
http://github.com/collin/rails_action_args
The Internet: The great levelling? [video]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qn37q/The_Virtual_Revolution_The_Great_Levelling/
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution
Screenshot of a control panel that caused a 40% jump in sales per month
http://meta.maxkle.in/preview-screenshot-of-the-internal-control-pa
GetMemstoreTs()
https://hbase.apache.org/0.94/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/KeyValue.html#getMemstoreTS()
Tech Blogger Won't Be Charged In Apple iPhone Case
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=139536587
Forensic Handwriting Examination and Human Factors: Improving the Practice [pdf]
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2020/NIST.IR.8282.pdf
Gamasutra - Opinion: Why Do Games Publishers Exist?
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/35231/Opinion_Why_Do_Games_Publishers_Exist_.php
How to support multiple authors in Gatsby.js
https://nosleepjavascript.com/gatsby-multi-author/
When It Comes To Search Trends, Google Is Lagging Behind Bing
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/21/when-it-comes-to-search-trends-google-is-lagging-behind-bing/
OnePlus 2 – successor to flagship OnePlus One – launching on July 27
http://betanews.com/2015/06/25/oneplus-two-featuring-snapdragon-810-and-usb-type-c-launching-on-july-27/
A Brief History of Non-Aqueous Metal-Air Batteries
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1.2838193/meta
All about averages
https://plus.maths.org/content/all-about-averages
The Relationship Between Baseline Pupil Size and Fluid Intelligence (2016)
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/11/20/pupil-size-intelligence/
What information should a startup collect while beta testing its product?
http://startorbust.com/what-information-should-a-startup-collect-while-beta-testing-its-product/
Amazon brings EC2 auto scaling to the graphical console
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AutoScaling/latest/DeveloperGuide/GettingStartedTutorial.html
An Artificial Ear Built By a 3D Printer and Living Cartilage Cells
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/02/an-artificial-ear-built-by-a-3d-printer-and-living-cartilage-cells/
Who’s Hiring? Who’s Firing? Checking in on Tech Jobs
http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/whos-hiring-whos-firing-checking-in-on-tech-jobs-starting-with-bad-news-from-volkswagen