jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Capture YouTube video screenshots (quick and easy API)
https://abyesilyurt.gumroad.com/l/screenshot-api
A few months back I needed to display arbitrary images from YouTube videos in an app, but there was no easy way, so I built something to scratch my own itch.

Today, I publish an updated version of it, based on the feedback you gave. Now, you can also query for the length, thumbnail, title and description of a youtube video. You can try it out in your browser after getting API keys from Gumroad for free, using the link below.

https://abyesilyurt.gumroad.com/l/screenshot-api

Next, I will add image resolution query to resize the images. What other features would you like to see?
Make A Simple Game With HTML5 Canvas
http://a.shinynew.me/post/11063636700/make-a-simple-game-with-html5-canvas
Basics of creating a simple HTML5 Canvas and 2d drawing API.
Ask HN: what could be the next gen of Delicious? (For orgnizing inforamtion)
I always see Delicious as a human-powered Google, in which our tendency for structure and mob effect organizes the information (links).

However, I wouldn't say Delicious is the only, nor best way to do what it supposed.

So if you can build a new system today, that helps people to organize their information, maybe even leverage the existing social graphs (Facebook/Twitter). What would you have done differently from Delicious?

Let's hear them out.
Slides from useR 2011
http://www.r-statistics.com/2011/12/user-2011-slides-and-videos-on-one-page/
A collection of slides from the annual userR! conference. This conference is about the application and study of the statistical computing environment R. The slides are from the presentations given at the conference.
Show HN: Exabox – Essential Tools for Developers (macOS/Windows)
https://exabox.app/
Hey HN,

I'd like to introduce you exabox, a side project I've been working on in the last few months.
It is a set of tools for developers: convert and format JSON, YAML, TOML, encode and decode Base64, generate fake data, parse JWT, transform text using multiple rules, and many more. All in a single app.

What exabox has to offer compared to other similar apps:

- It works entirely offline
- Buy once and keep it forever (no recurring subscriptions or in-app purchases)
- It is available for macOS and Windows (and soon Linux as well)
- There is a full-featured free web version
- You can personalize the UI

The free web version is available here: https://tools.exabox.app/

I'm expanding it and adding more tools and features. Here is the roadmap: https://github.com/albemala/exabox-app/issues

I'd be interested in hearing what you think about exabox. Questions? Concerns? Suggestions? Thank you in advance!
Scientific Method to Analyze Travel Results
http://www.volunium.com/
Dreaming, Researching, Booking, Experiencing and Sharing. Sound familiar? These are the five steps in the travel cycle that every traveler goes through. While there will never be a website that will be able to improve upon dreaming, we at Volunium have been able to improve on the researching and booking stages of this process. In fact, not only have we improved them, we have combined them into one smooth, efficient and simple process.
Idiot-proofing is for Idiots
https://37signals.com/svn/posts/3415-idiot-proofing-is-for-idiots
Doing something the first time is a challenge. I have 2 young kids, and I watch them struggle with the most rudimentary things. Eventually they figure it out. Usually it comes with tears and pleading. But that’s how they’ll learn to do the next thing.
Ask HN: Can our app successfully challenge the "check-in" model?
Hey All

Our new App called "Kee" went up on the iphone app store the other day. There are screen shots of the app at http://appsto.com/kee.

Functionally, the app attaches content and thoughts to spaces and objects, access to which can be set to public, friends only or private. The "Kees" then appear as pins on a map, which can be sorted and filtered to bring out the most relevant and interesting ones wherever you are.

We'd really like to hear what you have to say about it. We're particularly interested in your views on whether or not it's a model that can contend with four square and the other "check-in" apps in the location based social networking space. We aimed to make Kee as flexible as possible for the people using it so that they can be creative.

Tell us what you like and what you don't. Our web page (that needs alot of work) is http://www.keeapp.com.
Show HN: UI Experiment for Sifting Through Thousands of Stories at Record Speed
https://siftedit.xantasoft.com/
This is not for 'deep' or 'slow' reading with intention and focus. The idea is that you have a large pool of incoming stories and you aren't interested in 'reading' all of them, but you want to reduce the chance of missing a single story. You want to 'screen' all stories.

This UI explores a 'mark-and-clear' idiom; you mark a group of stories as 'read' and then you clear that group, purging the stories from your view completely.
Breaking-up with CMS and moving in with git-hub & checkvist for my blog Amen
http://sameerg.github.com/logj/
<p><pre><code>
#user-experience #blogging #design #productivity
* I want to write my posts by nesting snippets pasted randomly.
* Why! that's how i can write.
* I wanted to do it fast.
* kitchen-sink editors suck.
* Their free themes suck.
* Colour coding rocks.
* I don't have SEO obligations.
* I wanted to have all apps i use plus a wiki in-built @ my blog.
* And I don't want be lost in tabs for that.
* Hence i-frame and script-tags are indispensable.
* I am not going to reinvent the wheel or spend even 10 USD on some web-designer/host for that.
* I hated extra loading time it takes while loading my scripit through it's HTML source hosted at dropbox.
* I hate forced scrolling & pagination, why on earth they don't provide nesting of everything.
* Quora has yet to become blogging.
* This combo works for me.
* Your feedback is highly valued[github pages +iframes]</code></pre>
Google's Music Timeline
https://music-timeline.appspot.com/#s%3Ametallica
http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/googles-music-timeline.html
The best computer interface? Maybe ... your hands
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_patten_the_best_computer_interface_maybe_your_hands
The computer is an incredibly powerful means of creative expression," says designer and TED Fellow James Patten. But right now, we interact with computers, mainly, by typing and tapping. In this nifty talk and demo, Patten imagines a more visceral, physical way to bring your thoughts and ideas to life in the digital world, taking the computer interface off the screen and putting it into your hands
Why Warren Buffett really likes newspapers
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-17/why-warren-buffett-really-likes-newspapers
When companies like Instagram and Pinterest are valued more then NYT , Warren Buffet is doing what he has always done - make prudent investments solely on market fundamentals.
Ask HN: What is Programming?
I know this can seems a silly question, and probably is, but i was asking myself this question.
Often i hear people calling javascript (or even html??), and things like that, a programming language, is this correct?
What is a programming language? what is a scripting language? when is correct to use this terms? Do i have to know some particulare language to call myself a programmer? a developer? a coder?
If i use only java, what am i for example?

Is there a standard or something?

Thanks for your answers, if you don't mind you can also take this little survey, results will make things even more clear .
http://www.whatprogramming.tk

Thanks
Penn State Tops Recruiter Rankings
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704358904575477643369663352.html
Companies Favor Big State Schools With One-Stop Shopping for Graduates With Necessary Skills

I found these school rankings interesting as they come from actual recruiters. In case you don't want to read the article, 1. Penn State, 2. Texas A&M, 3. University of Illinois, 4. Purdue University, ..
Ask HN: UK contractors, what plans are you making around the IR35 legislation?
IR35 seeks to make the end client responsible for determining whether contractors are, in fact, disguised employees. This is leading to FUD amongst many people I know. What strategies, tactics, contingencies are you deploying to handle the uncertainty? (Mixed with an upcoming election and Brexit)
Ask HN: How to promote my opensource project?
http://www.indiameme.com/
Folks I have created a Techmeme clone for "Indian News" as there are very few sources we can go to for quality Indian news.

This is a single person project so I get really small time to spread the word about this tool now only only family and friends are using this.

Please help me with some ideas by which I could promote this tool, as my hypothesis say this is a really good(utility) tool and Indians in general are news junkies.
Now you see me, now you don’t, face detection scripts
http://hackaday.com/2010/06/27/now-you-see-me-now-you-dont-face-detection-scripts/
Tetsu and myself were just posted to Hackaday for our famicam project. It's a face detection application written in Python using OpenCV. Every 15 minutes we snap a photo, detect the faces, and upload the results to twitter.
An Afternoon Project (and How it Turned Into Much More)
http://blog.geoffoliver.org/2011/05/06/an-afternoon-project-and-how-it-turned-into-much-more/
One programmer's journey from invention-by-necessity to fun-from-invention.
The Quora Primer
http://semilshah.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/thequoraprimer/
A compendium of every blog and/or answer I've written about Quora over the past year, looking at its impact, potential, strengths, and weaknesses. There are about 40+ posts linked here.
Show HN: Simple sinatra app for sending notification w/ Google GCM
https://github.com/kureikain/sinatra-gcm
I'm Ruby& Android beginner. Struggling to find a simple webui for sending notification on Android so I build this small app.
Vectorpack.net has just launched
http://www.vectorpack.net
Hi, everybody. We are glad to announce you that we have launched our stock vector store, Vectorpack.net. This is the perfect place where you can find the high-quality stock vectors you were looking for.
Web Agency & IT Outsourcing Company
http://zimo-its.com/
ZIMO iTS provides services in Outsourcing solutions, cheap seo services, web outsourcing, gaming outsourcing, Mobile application development , blackberry application development, android application development, Iphone application development and web services
Possible Meteorite Imaged by Opportunity Rover
http://spacefellowship.com/2009/08/01/possible-meteorite-imaged-by-opportunity-rover/
The Opportunity rover has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite.
Ask HN: Best way to learn design patterns?
I've been working as a developer for a while now but I work a lot on small bugs or on established products - how should I go about learning larger designs and design patterns? I feel like my knowledge is lacking in this area.
D3 Transition Stress Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Qh6VoYAGk
Again, kudos to Mike & Jason

I haven't see any JS library that performs so well when working with transitions (animations) fired in rapid succession on multiple elements with different handlers

In this example, I move the mouse over the map and as I do that I tween the donut either to the state's vote totals or the national total, depending on whether or not the state has any votes

It works miraculously well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Qh6VoYAGk
Traffic Visualisation as Art
http://www.khm.de/~tre/void.htm
server traffic visualisation for a digital art exhibit I found on Museum of Modern Art web gallery (one of my favourite sites ever)

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/elasticmind/#/1/
Web Technology News for Web Developers
http://www.thecodebakery.com
The Code Bakery covers all types of web technology news from javascript, html, css, seo, php frameworks, ror, cakephp, html5, css3 and beyond. We're here to support the web development community, come and help us grow this site!
How To Maintain Momentum With VCs
http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/10/maintaining-mom.html
Getting the VC to invest requires that the deal evaluation process maintain positive momentum. Maintaining momentum can be achieved by the periodic contact strategy described in my post: Creating Momentum. However, another important tactic should also be leveraged to maintain momentum X the creation of urgency...
Google Go Name Change Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/gglgoi9/petition.html
To change the name to "Issue 9" re: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9
GHC 7.8 branch is created
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-January/003896.html
Release notes for version 7.8.1:

http://jsfiddle.net/zmV9D/embedded/result/
Roots of the Object Oriented Paradigm
http://www.314t.com/blog/roots-of-the-object-oriented-paradigm/17-02-2011/ 
Go back to the roots of philosophy (Theory of Forms) to explain where the object oriented paradigm came from.
Mounting a drive directly into RAM in Mac OSX
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&sl=pt&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://guidefreitas.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/montando-uma-unidade-de-disco-direto-na-memoria-ram/
Mounting a drive directly into RAM in Mac OSX
14 Rules For Faster Web Pages (video)
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/1040890/3880720
Great presentation from Steve Souders, Yahoo! web performance guru and author of the YSlow Firebug plugin.

He presents 14 simple rules of thumb to use to improve user perception of a website's performance.

You can download the video here, too:
http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/ydn/yui/theater/souders-performance.m4v
Vulnerability Research Challenge for Hackers
http://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/new-vulnerability-research-challenge-put-hackers-test/
The Vulnerability Research Challenge is open to all Hackers & InfoSec pros who want to test their skills and see how they rank against the global competition.
How to Work with Large Rails Codebase Effectively
http://varaneckas.com/blog/howto-effective-work-with-large-rails-codebase/
Any more helpful tips?
Monkey: a fast and lightweight HTTP server for embedded devices
http://monkey-project.com/
https://github.com/monkey/monkey
The Odd Couples, or, Loose Coupling vs the LAMP stack
http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/05/28/the-odd-couples/
My ruminations on Wordpress, LAMP, and how they aren't very loosely coupled at all.
Google Introduces A New Language to Replace English
http://tatiyants.com/?p=1229
BREAKING NEWS: Google just announced a brand new language called Zoom aimed to replace English. Here’s a quote from the official announcement:

“With Go, we were able to create a better C++. With Dart, we re-imagined JavaScript. With Zoom, we are finally rethinking the English language.”
Show HN: Cool 3D RTS game (up to 8-players) running in the browser
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/conquer-mars/x/4090036
My two good friends have spent months on building a VERY cool 3D game running directly in the browser. Until now they have only been focusing on building the game, but now they wish to turn it into a business. Please tell us what you think about it and how they could improve their current Indigogo funding campaign. It's a little sad that they have not built an audience before they launched their campaign (and on the first day only got 700$ funding), so any good advices about how we could spread the word would be very much appreciated.
32 minutes of Calacanis... on everything 
http://dld2.sevenload.com/watch?v=9EvQOc9
If you're a fanboy you will love this and watch it right now... if you're a jayter you'll write five comments below from fake accounts--and watch it twice.
Help Japan with your expertise
http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/SJA/cgi-bin/index.php
A powerful earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami hit the northern coast of Japan on Thursday March 10 2011. As of March 14, the number of casualties and disappearances has risen to 5,000.

Numerous aftershocks continue to afflict not only the area near the epicenter, but also various other parts of mainland Japan. The Tohoku area in particular remains in strong sense of fear.

In order to help overcome this immense challenge facing our
motherland, Stanford Japanese Association (SJA) is calling for
support. Online donation is available via this website, and if possible, we want your help of technology.

There are tons of information flow of this crisis, and we really need traffic control. We think that what is substantially needed technically is

- collect tweets with several hashtags, such as #save_tohoku or #prayforjapan
- listup and calendarize charity events worldwide on Facebook or Eventbrite
- organize donation websites and applications with social comments
- visualize the damage of this earthquake chronologically
- provide multicast Ustream channels
- deliver worldwide voices of praying for Japan

and so on. Everything that you're imagining is really important for Japan's current information management or future recovery. We're really, really glad if you make it. Of course, it is very helpful for us that you add on your website a link to our website or a donation button to other charity organizations.

Please help us distribute this message to your coworkers and friends. Your consideration will be the very basis of Japan's future.

Makoto Kondo
The Greatest Pre-Launch Start-Up Pitch Ever?
http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20110325/viral-video-the-greatest-pre-launch-start-up-pitch-ever/
As Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta commented, "Selling bottled water is so yesterday -- now you can sell air"
Mark Zuckerberg Answer a Question of Stephen Hawking
http://blog.sudoask.com/stephen-hawking-ask-mark-zuckerberg-answer/
I would like to know a unified theory of gravity and the other forces. Which of the big questions in science would you like to know the answer to and why?
Quick.as - Better Than Google
http://beepinteractive.com/blog/2008/05/06/better-than-google/
Quick.as allows you to put a "command" (a keyboard shortcut of sorts) in front of you search term and you will go directly to the search results of a particular site (e.g. w Boston Celtics searches Wikipedia). Quick.as allows access to the search results from other sites in the one convenient location. The post explains how Quick.as provides you with better information than Google (or at very least the same); and after the commands become second nature, it allows you to access to the information you want quicker and with less mental processing.
Ask HN: Is it time for mobile ads to reconsider how ads should be closed [x]
Like most people, I dislike mobile ads on my phone... especially the ones that get in the way of what I am doing. Sure, they have an x to close the ad, but its just a little too close. Advertisers shouldn't have to pay if I am trying to 'close' the ad, but they do because I missed the x to close. I do it more often than I realized.

Perhaps it's time to redefine the difference between closing the ad and clicking through the ad. This could go either way, but a double click/tap should used to open the ad, not a single click/ tap. If I really want to click through to the ad, I have no problem showing my excitement with 2 clicks/taps... or let me swipe away ads rather than have me click the tiny x.

I think this would make mobile advertising a little less evil and improve the overall experience.
BOXED - A social network for board gamers.
http://www.getboxed.co
A friend and I have made a website for board gamers called Boxed. It is still under development, but currently we have some features that let you register your board game collection, view your friends games, create a wishlist and put games for trade. Besides, it has a matchmaking mechanism that notifies you whether someone wants to trade a game that you wish and this same person wants a game that you are trading. We use the BoardGameGeek API to access all board game data.
Ask HN: Review my WebApp: SongTwit - Share Music on Twitter
http://songtwit.com
Hi Folks,

I've just launched a new app that I've been hacking together to keep busy while home for summer break. It's a quick and easy way to share songs with your Twitter followers.

It's pretty straightforward for now but I have a lot of plans for additional features depending on the response. Any suggestions/criticisms would be appreciated as well as a heads up about any bugs/cross-browser quirks etc.

http://songtwit.com

Thanks!
Verbal diarrhea and philosophical regurgitations
http://stupidnihilist.blogspot.com/
friend started a blog and didnt know to how get some initial traffic,m just tryin to help out
Ask HN: How do you test in CI/CD of large content sites?
For very large sites with thousands of dynamic pages, what are some ways to test the consistency of UI elements, layout, SEO conventions, etc... between builds and environments?

I recently stumbled on a very large WP project for which I've had to build a custom "diffing" tool between different environments for every page / article. I am curious to learn about how other large site owners solve this issue.
The Road to Launch: The Sawce Widget
http://blog.sawce.net/2007/11/02/the-road-to-launch-the-sawce-widget/
A little peek at what we're rolling out at Sawce
Ask HN: Can we use tensors as a database data structure
Taking into account their shape and ability to have tuples as entries, multidimensional entries, and representations, is it feasible to create a version of mysql or postgresql that is built on the assumption of data coming from a tensor instead of tables?
Smashing Magazine - bold revenue move
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/22/smashing-magazine-needs-your-help/
Looks like for a brief period of time they redirected all of their traffic to an advert for their new e-book.
Seemed to have annoyed a few people by doing it and they've put it back.

I can understand sites like this needing to make money, and I love the articles on there, but redirecting all traffic seems a bit of an extreme solution to a revenue problem?

What do you guys think?
Bomb-making tips, hit list behind Blogetery closure
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010923-261.html?tag=topStories2
The site was shut down after FBI agents informed executives of Burst.net, Blogetery's Web host, late on July 9 that links to al-Qaeda materials were found on Blogetery's servers, Joe Marr, chief technology officer for Burst.net, told CNET.
Twit Plot
http://twitplot.com/
See a map of who you follow on Twitter!
Anyone coming to Pixel Hack Day?
http://pixelhackday.com/
Anyone wants to come build some cool stuff?
Minimalist version of Google Reader
http://johnholdun.com/re-reader/
Make sure when you use the bookmarklet to have a folder open in reader and not the home page of google reader.
Show HN: Spent. -- app that shows how much you spent on the app icon
http://spent-app.com
Hi, I've been working on a simple spending tracker and my friend convinced me to release the MVP early to get some feedback.

I think it needs a lot more work like categorization and analytics to actually make it useful. I'm also not done with Android version either. What does HN think?
Must-Have R Packages for Social Scientists 
http://www.drewconway.com/zia/?p=1614
A list of the top ten R packages for social science research
Cloud Computing Market? Global Forecast (2010 -2015) | cloud computing
http://cloudcomputing.tokokomputer3000.com/?p=3511
Cloud Computing Market ? Global Forecast (2010 -2015) | cloud computing
Facebook like suggestions with jQuery content appears and disappears.
http://9lessons.blogspot.com/2009/06/facebook-like-suggestions-with-jquery.html
How to implement Facebook-like users Suggestions. When you click delete(X) button "Do not show this suggestion" the content disappears slowly and to get the new suggestion content appears. I had developed this using jQuery, PHP just some lines of code.