jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Linkians, a sims-like game that happens in your url bar with emojis
https://linkians.com/
Hey HN,
I made https://linkians.com which is a game where all the action and state is contained in the url. There's no server, just emojis in the url and client-side logic. Any linkians url using the supported emojis is a valid game state so you can save your game, or type out your own url and send it to a friend.

The game involves taking care of little pets (emojis) that live in your url bar. Kind of like tamagotchi or sims. Feed them, play with them, and watch out for enemies!

In terms of the technical details: It's a static web page. It looks at the url for the initial game state, or starts you off with the default. On an interval the game loop kicks in by reading the url, producing a new game state by having one character act, and updating the url again using history.replaceState. Handling unicode has been fun (like a right-to-left bug).

I'd appreciate any feedback.
Musescore 3: Faster, Easier to Use, yet Powerful and More Customisable
Musescore has just announced the latest version of Musescore 3, which includes work by Martin Keary (formerly a designer at Microsoft and a classically trained composer), who joined the team as the Head of Design in November. He has been collaborating with the community and internal team on a design plan to make Musescore faster and more intuitive. This release is the first step towards that goal.

Musescore 3 features refinements that aim to improve first-time experience without disrupting the workflow of existing users. The most notable of these improvements is the new 'Palettes' menu, which allows users to edit and rearrange individual palettes as well as hundreds of individual elements. This allows users greater freedom to determine their own workflow. Another goal of the company is to make small ‘under the hood’ UX improvements to existing features with each release. In Musescore 3, the system for inputting notes and applying accidentals has been made more flexible, which should remove some friction for new users as well as those migrating from other programs.

There have also been multiple improvements to accessibility in Musescore 3, thanks to the work of our community contributors, Peter Jonas and Marc Sabatella. The Palettes panel has been made accessible to keyboard control and navigation has been made easier too. Accessibility has also been optimized in the Score View, where screen readers are now able to describe more elements than before. This will vastly improve the experience for users who are blind or visually impaired.

ABOUT

Musescore is powered by an open source community and has more than 200,000 downloads per month. Over 20,000 unique scores are uploaded to musescore.com by professional and amateur composers per month, making it the biggest online catalog of publicly available scores. The audience of Musescore grows by 30% each year.
Introducing atfight.me
http://atfight.me
We just launched the beta of atfight.me. We would love to get feedback! We have a short blog post about our launch here: http://blog.atfight.me/
Tips for writing 2011 New Year Prediction articles. (or 'Stop doing this')
1. Pick a catchy phrase filled with business and development buzzwords - protip: mobile platform stuff is gold.

2. Pick 10 Barnum statements and write like you're a high brow business analyst.

No but seriously, please don't write like this. Happy new year.
What's the sound of one hand texting? Mindfulness is Getting Attention
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/fashion/mindfulness-and-meditation-are-capturing-attention.html
This is not just a geek thing. Everywhere lately, the here and now is the place to be. George Stephanopoulos, 50 Cent and Lena Dunham have all been talking up their meditation regimens.
Ask HN: What is the best programming language to learn first?
I am looking for something less verbose than Java but more robust than PHP.
I have been exposed to software as a product manager for several years and have witness how much longer coding in Java takes and how less scalable, less organized and consistent PHP is
Good Advice For Pitching to Investors
http://www.fastcompany.com/1797981/one-shot-persuasion?partner=leadership_newsletter
(this is actually a fastcompany article on single shot persuasion in general, but it's very applicable to pitching)
Top 1000 sites by uniques
http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/
With analytics from Google's adplanner. via @ptorrone. Oh, skipped to the end and saw dropbox categorized as myth and folklore, hah.
Ask PG: How to Start a Startup
http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html
PG:
This essay appears to be No. 1 result in Google search "How to startup". It is written in 2005. With your rich experience with YCombinator, are you willing to update it with a 2011 version?
Show HN: Conzept encyclopedia
https://conze.pt/explore
Conzept is an attempt to create an encyclopedia for the 21st century. A free topic-exploration tool based on Wikipedia, Wikidata, the Open Library and more. The project is free software (GNU GPL v3).

A big new release was made today:
- https://github.com/waldenn/conzept/releases/tag/2022.10
- https://twitter.com/conzept__/status/1586689998702665730
Is iPhone coming to Africa?
http://www.techzim.co.zw/2012/06/can-an-iphone-deal-for-zimbabwe-be-in-the-works/
With a market of over 600m subscribers on the prepaid platform is Apple's experiment with Cricket Wireless a prelude for an African assault?
Ask HN: Sunsetting Google Apps Accounts?
Google Apps accounts cost $5/user/month. We have a bunch of "dead" users since we have teachers that start and stop teaching, but occasionally we have to bring them back.

I'd love a tool that, for a small one-time fee, backups a user's account and allows it to be restored in one click if they ever "come back from the dead". All the tools I've seen charge a monthly fee for this kind of service. Any ideas?
Isaac Asimov memorial debate - Hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson 
http://www.amnh.org/live/
Its live now, catch it if you can!
Ask HN: Recommendations for web analytics tool to analyze user behavior?
I'm interested in understanding better HOW our users are using our product. One possible tool to use is Inspectlet; I like it because it creates a playback video of the user's behavior.

My preference, though, would be something similar to a traditional approach where you pepper your front-end code with calls to something like:

mixpanel.track("This event")

The reason why Mixpanel isn't ideal for us is that it tracks events but NOT sequences of events. I'd like a timeline of my user behavior to understand better the paths they attempted or the tasks they they are trying to accomplish.

What are some of the tools you use to monitor this? I've looked at all of different tools already:

clicky
Google Analytics
Heap
Inspectlet
MixPanel
Clicktale
Pre3, Veer, and Touchpad now live on Palm's website
http://www.palm.com/us/index.html
Out of the three new devices, I would have to say I am most interested in the Veer given its small size. Either way, bravo HP Palm for getting back into the game.
HelloWorld Application For Graph Databases
http://blog.stavi.sh/get-a-taste-of-infinitegraph-helloworld-for-g
A getting started on writing a java application to tag URL's and store the results in a graph database. This article will teach you the fundamentals of graphdb's.
Does creativity love constraint?
http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1530
I also submitted this link because she is pretty! :)
Show HN: MakeTime – A simple tool to help you schedule reading time
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/maketime/opemcdmminnilnnemhckknldkpolhmka
There is so much good content on HackerNews. Too much sometimes. I often just click on articles, realize it's very long, go back to HackerNews, and never really read anything!

Introducing MakeTime! When you come across an artcile worth reading, use MakeTime to help you schedule a time dedicated towards reading that article.

I built MakeTime for myself and I've been getting so much more value out of being on the internet. Hope you enjoy!
Show HN: Random Data Generator for arbitrary data types
https://github.com/rixed/datasino
Datasino is a command line tool that can come handy when load testing a service or database.

Give it a data schema (many compound types supported, including recursive types), an encoding (JSON, CSV or ClickHouse) and a target (a file or a Kafka partition) and a data rate and it will generate a reasonably optimized (native code) random data source.

See the top of the README for some examples.

If you have any ideas on how to extend this tool so that it's useful to more people, please let me know.
Show HN: Mathalon
http://fameoflight.com/Mathalon/
Community Based Problem Solving Website. Users from 18+ Countries are now registered.

Would love to hear feedback on this.
Bitcoin24 Polish Bank-Accaunt sized by authority
https://bitcoin-24.com/
Our Service is momentarily not available.
1. All funds (EUR, USD, PLN, GBP & Bitcoins) are safe.
2. All withdrawals will be gradually processed chronologically from another bank account.
3. The Polish authority closed your Bank account in Poland.
4. Our lawyers are working with high pressure on a solution.

We will back with Bitcoin-24 2.0 on when all declarations are finished.

All important Emails can be send to help@bitcoin-24.com
JRuby’s Future at Engine Yard
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/jrubys-future-at-engine-yard/
Charles Oliver Nutter talks about the JRuby team's recent announcement about the move to Engine Yard, and what the future holds.
Show HN: Instant streaming APIs with built-in auth for new or existing Postgres
https://hasura.io/blog/instant-streaming-api-built-in-authorization-new-existing-postgres/
Hey HN!

We recently launched a new capability to Hasura GraphQL Engine: Streaming Subscriptions for Postgres.

Today we have a variety of solutions to ingest and store a large amount of data or a stream of data.
However, once this data has been captured, securely exposing this data as a continuous stream to a large number of HTTP clients concurrently is a challenge.

These are the challenges that Hasura aims to address:

1. Allow for Authorization rules so that clients can only consume the subset of the stream they have access to
2. Prevent missing events and allow each client to move through its stream independently
3. Scale and manage WebSocket connections to support hundreds of thousands to millions of HTTP clients concurrently

Hasura's new streaming API on Postgres addresses these challenges so that teams focus on how their streams are modelled and secured instead of building and scaling the API. We benchmarked this solution to up to 1M active requests and documented the performance in the post.

Happy to answer questions and let us know what streaming workloads you are running and the challenges you are facing.
Ad Revenue Per Visit - What Your Eyes Cost
http://www.alexwilhelm.com/alex_wilhelm/2009/01/ad-revenue-per-visit-what-your-eyes-cost.html
A breakdown of what it costs advertisers to have you visit a major blog.
Ask HN: How much of a pain is it to integrate FedRAMP
I'm job searching at the moment and have been interviewing with a company that I'm definitely passionate about, but have learned the role is around getting their servers "FedRAMP" ready.

In my career, I have been told by other more intelligent engineers to avoid any kind of government work like the plague, because it is slow, bureaucratic, old-tech, and generally terrible to be a part of.

Is making a service support "FedRAMP" as tedious as other government work? What exactly does it involve?
Show HN: My future's so dire, I'm required to wear shades
https://www.lancesells.com
This is my latest exhibition of paintings centered around the near future and dystopian themes. I've been on the fence on whether I should submit this but I've found a lot of my more technically-minded friends have enjoyed them and the HN crowd might as well.

The exhibition overview:

My future's so dire, I'm required to wear shades is a world of sagging, crooked, 16-bit color fields interrupted with parts and pieces of humanity breaching the surface. It's surveillance. It's faulty optics. It's that hidden slice of frontier between the present day and dystopia.

Using oil paint each piece has an underlayer filled with details. People, places, objects, and symbols make up the ground of the painting. Each new layer covers more and more of the last leaving a heavy canvas filled with marks and texture.

I approached these works starting directly on the canvas without any kind of formal plan or idea on the outcome. My only two directives being "allow the work to be a mistake" and "there is no plan, only the feeling of dread".

https://www.lancesells.com
Learn a language in 22 hours
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/09/learn-language-in-three-months
Joshua Foer: 'What if, instead of tabbing over to the web browser in search of some nugget of gossip or news, we could scratch the itch by engaging in a meaningful activity, such as learning a language?'

Yeah, right.
10 Counter intuitive Ways to Increase Productivity without a Productivity App
http://iqtell.com/2013/08/10-counter-intuitive-ways-to-increase-productivity-without-a-productivity-app/
It’s common knowledge that not everyone shares common ground with what others consider as common sense. We are constantly surprised to find cool new facts that affect productivity...
Ask HN: If sitting is a lethal activity, what are some practical alternatives?
I have read a number of stories in the past few months like the recent article in the NYT magazine ("Is Sitting a Lethal Activity?" link below) which nearly all come to the same conclusion: sitting is bad for your health and we should all be more active throughout the day (exercising a few times a week doesn't help).

Does anyone have any innovative, and preferably inexpensive, ways to achieve this? Solutions like a treadmill desk seem a bit overkill, expensive, and I would imagine might make it hard to concentrate.

link to NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17sitting-t.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage
Show HN: Visualize and explore GitHub data in realtime
https://github.com/pingcap/ossinsight
An attempt to visualize and explore the trending of OSS repo in Github
Ask HN: Is there a great open source crawler?
I want to crawl a site, like foxnews.com and find all the URLs that match a pattern.

A pattern like:

http://www.foxnews.com/\w+/\d+/\d+/\d+/.*/<p>That would find all URLs like:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/02/report-natalee-holloway-suspect-sought-murder-peru/

I know I could do this myself. I also know it's a seemingly easy problem, that is actually quite hairy.

I'm hoping there's an open source crawler that I can point to a start page and say "Find all the URLs that match this pattern.".

I know there are dozens of crawlers out there. I just don't know if there's one or two that are really great. I'm really hoping there's a modern/simple/fast one that would be good for this purpose.

Does such a thing exist? If not, are there any great documents detailing the common problems and how to solve them?

Thank you.
Unable to disable Google SafeSearch when using simplified Chinese
http://www.google.com.hk/preferences?hl=zh-CN
I was curious to see what would happen when I searched for 'porn' on the default Google setup from here in Beijing and I found I had no results because SafeSearch was on. Then I was surprised to learn that I was unable to disable SafeSearch unless I switched languages. Traditional Chinese is able to disable SafeSearch.
Show HN: Smort.io – Annotate and share ArXiv papers and articles
https://www.smort.io/##
Hey HN,

Smort lets you easily edit, annotate, share and save ArXiv papers and articles! Just add smort.io/ before a URL to read it in Smort. No login needed!

Here is a demo- https://www.smort.io/demo/home

I posted a Show HN for the v1 in March [1]. The v2 is a major upgrade and lets you save articles permanently and read arXiv papers natively in Smort rather than handling PDFs. All ArXiv papers released up till 20th May 2022 can be parsed.

When I was a grad student, I found it hard to collaborate on arXiv papers and share my annotations, so I built Smort to solve a problem I faced. Smort can be used instead of Github to host your annotated papers collection and share it with the world!

Please send feature requests or feedback by joining our Discord [2] or following us on Twitter [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30673502 [2] https://discord.gg/V8yageC6ud [3] https://twitter.com/SmortApp/
Show HN: Compare long Covid treatments using peer-reviewed evidence
https://www.glaciermd.com/conditions/long-covid
Hi HN!

Disclaimer: A blog post[0] on this topic ended up on HN's front page recently (which had a link to GlacierMD) but I'd already written this whole "Show HN" spiel so I figured I'd submit it anyway. Hopefully this doesn't come across as too spammy! (The previous post was really more about the problem, not my proposed solution.)

Anyway, thanks for checking out GlacierMD—a consumer health tool I've been hacking on for the last few months.

I chose long COVID as the first condition because (sadly) lots of people have it[1] and the research is changing rapidly[2]. Unlike other health references—which are editorial-driven—GlacierMD's data is structured, so (eventually) you'll be able to sort, filter, and compare different symptoms, treatments, and conditions.

All the data is based directly on peer-reviewed evidence. Right now the "primary-research-to-user-friendly-summaries" pipeline is partially automated, and eventually the plan is to automate it to the point where it's cost effective to offer this information at a consumer price point. (Unlike UpToDate and other physician references, which have awesome information but are priced waaaay outside the budget of most consumers.) Another advantage of this pipeline: it runs daily, which means GlacierMD's data is a lot fresher than most other long COVID resources.

Long-time HN readers might remember a postmortem[3] about a similar concept I had five years ago—hopefully I've taken some of those lessons to heart!

I'm always looking for feedback—I'll do my best to respond to comments here but feel free to email me at tom@tjcx.me. Thanks for reading!

[0] https://blog.tjcx.me/p/why-is-webmd-so-awful
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/
[3] https://blog.tjcx.me/p/40k-fantastic-startup-idea
Feed Each Other
http://feedeachother.com
PG didn't accept this idea for YC funding because he was afraid of Google (wimp ;).

We just launched it last week. It's a new type of social feed reader. It would be great to hear what you all think. Thanks!
Show HN: List of Hacking Resources
I have a list of hacking resources that I have recently been collecting, they include resources where you can learn hacking and tools to hack, most of it is for pentesting

Practical and tools
https://www.youtube.com/c/PentesterAcademyTV/videos
https://malwareunicorn.org/#/resources
https://sectools.org/
https://start.me/p/EL84Km/cse-utopia
https://start.me/p/b5Aow7/asint_collection
https://start.me/p/rx6Qj8/nixintel-s-osint-resource-list
https://start.me/p/wM7y15/search-engine
https://start.me/search/google-startme?q=s
https://github.com/moonD4rk/HackBrowserData
https://hackaday.io/projects

Learning
https://www.youtube.com/c/PentesterAcademyTV/videos
https://tryhackme.com/room/tutorial
https://malwareunicorn.org/#/workshops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFbV7sTSAlA&t=108s
https://class.malware.re/
https://www.thehacker.recipes/
https://www.malwaretech.com/tag/tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KBm3tBNK74&list=PLidcsTyj9JXL4Jv6u9qi8TcUgsNoKKHNn
https://academy.hackthebox.com/
https://casvancooten.com/posts/
https://start.me/p/rx6Qj8/nixintel-s-osint-resource-list
https://cryptohack.org/
https://hackaday.io/projects
https://www.hacksplaining.com/lessons
Building cloud images with Ansible?
http://lesterwade.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/building-cloud-images-with-ansible/
I recently presented at AnsibleFest on some AWS and Eucalyptus-related orchestration topics. One of these topics was the possibility of using Ansible to build cloud machine images. I think using Ansible and its easy to read YAML syntax, together with some module developemnt could result in a very slick and easy way to cater for image building and management. Thoughts?

Disclaimer: the example in my blog post is purely a proof of concept :)
Taffy DB version 1.4
http://blog.joesgoals.com/2008/05/01/taffy-db-version-14/
I know front end isn't always the biggest topic here but JavaScript is very powerful for both front and backend. I just launched version 1.4 (4th improvement since March 10th) of Taffy DB and put together a little article showing how useful TaffyDB can be.
Phrack #66 (June 11 2009)
http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=66
Sorry, dupe detector failed on this one.
Event: YC Applicants Unite
Couple other YC applicants for Winter 2011 (some rejected, some accepted) are getting together to have drinks and swap interview war stories at Red Rock tonight. If you’re still in town join us at Red Rock around 7:00 PM in Mountain View. This is an open invite not organized by YC, so spread the word to anyone else who applied or just vote this up.

Meetup Details:
What: Meetup for drinks
Who: Any YC applicant for Winter 2011 still in the Bay
When: 11/20/2010 @ 7:00PM
Where: Red Rock: 201 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=4140843673288073926

-Alan
Have we lost Google as our biggest ally against controversial bills?
http://haekuh.kinja.com/has-the-online-community-lost-google-as-its-biggest-all-475128880
First article, any and all criticism is gladly appreciated.
Ask HN: know an industry well?
I'm looking for startup ideas, and feel like there's a nice market to be had in many of the industries that aren't consumer facing or household names - and hence get less attention from the tech community. Does anyone on HN know a specific industry - and its technical/technically solvable bellyaches? I'd be interested to hear about it / collaborate.
Ask HN: Somewhere just a little better than HN?
I'm not exactly trying to be snarky about this, but basically, there's a subset of content on HN that I actually care much about, what I'd describe as the hard facts and interesting invention components. I do want to read articles from totally disparate fields, but I don't give a damn about entrepreneurship and start-ups as a culture... usually. I want to read technical papers and reporting, I want blog posts on new frameworks and languages and robots, but I could happily dispense with the "My favorite language is better than your favorite language" posts. Simply put, the usual business of software is tiresome, but software and science are not. Is there an aggregator out there for me, momma?
How You Sleep is Who You Are
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/primarysources?wtID=33.3czt.11.3lcx
... scroll down to the title text, or 'Psychology' (sorry 'bout that).
Netsparker - A False-Positive-Free Web Application Security Scanner
https://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker/
Netsparker web application security scanner automatically exploits detected vulnerabilities to ensure no false positives are reported.
Ask HN: So what have you published recently? (Books or papers)
Well, by recently, I mean "your" last book or paper that you consider worthwhile sharing. As usual, more power to you if you can keep it under a tweet.
Ask HN: How to pitch an idea through email
I absolutely hate pitching my ideas through email, but sometimes it's necessary to establish that initial contact.

What are some tips to successfully doing so?
20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need To Watch
http://www.businessinsider.com/hot-silicon-valley-startups-2010-3
Click "view as one page" on bottom right if you prefer scrolling to clicking.