jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Coolest College Startup of 2014
http://www.inc.com/diana-ransom/the-coolest-college-startup-of-2014.html
With thousands of votes cast, Inc. announces the Coolest College Startup of 2014

The fans have spoken and this year's Coolest College Startup is: Applits.

Applits takes home the top honor: lifetime bragging rights as the Coolest College Startup of 2014. But the founding team also wins free tickets to Inc.'s 2014 GrowCo conference in Nashville in May...
Google Discovers Fraudulent Digital Certificate Issued for Its Domain
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/google-fraudulent-certificate/
Google Discovers Fraudulent Digital Certificate Issued for Its Domain.
Seed technology investment with a twist
http://startupkarma.com/?p=47
Prototype Invest is a bringing new meaning to seed technology investment. They will build you a working prototype in exchange for equity in your idea. Interesting...
Show HN: ChIPs – A Polycube/Voxel Construction Set
https://github.com/choonway/ChIPs
Have you wanted to use a construction set to build a model, but don't want to deal with complicated techniques to remove studs / build sideways? Not Square? Too many different types of bricks? Something you can freely 3D print cheaply? etc. Look no further, this is the construction set for you!
Are standardized angel contracts a good idea?
http://www.coderights.com/2007/10/standardized_angel_contracts.html
One of the strengths of individually negotiating contract terms is that a court will have little doubt that the bargain was fairly reached. However, in this situation, where you've got hungry entrepreneurs signing something that looks more like the kind agreement you'd sign at a car dealership and perhaps without a lawyer, it might raise some interesting flags
Show HN: Create intelligent shareable media libraries
https://speakai.co/shareable-media-library/
Hey HN,

Our team at Speak Ai is excited to share V1 of our shareable media library with you!

As more marketers, researchers and every day people starting using our software we realized they were looking for better ways to collect, analyze and share information-rich language data.

They needed to do this quickly and without code or a development team. They also wanted to be able to custom brand their libraries and update data in real-time.

That is why we built this. The shareable media library is a culmination of years of work in speech recognition, NLP and media.

We are evolving the function to include better insights, more inputs, and simple ways to get answers through natural language queries.

If you work in research, marketing or are passionate about exploring personal insights, we would love to get feedback on how we can make this offering even more valuable for you.
Accessibility Hackathon
http://accessibilityhack.com
Want to use your coding and design skills to help improve the lives of people with various disabilities?

Here’s your opportunity.

We’re providing a space in the Google Campus for programmers, designers and disability groups to design apps, tools and utilities that could be adopted for use by disabled communities.

The Accessibility Hackathon is brought to you by Central Working in association with Barclays and Rackspace, with the support of leading UK disability charities including Help for Heroes, RNIB, Age UK, Action on Hearing Loss and others.

Sign up here: lanyrd.com/cpkcg
My 8 predictions if IBM acquires Sun Microsystem
http://vinsol.com/blog/2009/03/18/my-8-predictions-if-ibm-acquires-sun-microsystem/
There are rumours on IBM aquiring Sun Microsystem for $6.5B. Is it going to change things around for people? I have some predictions..what are yours ?
The Downfall of the Microsoft Empire
http://fishtrain.com/2007/11/13/the-downfall-of-the-microsoft-empire/
Microsoft is seeing a monumental, momentum shift. Never before has Microsoft seemed so vulnerable. It is being attacked on all fronts by huge, game-changers. Is this a repeat of computing history? Microsoft changed the scene when they licensed MS-DOS and later Windows to IBM -- which was the dominant force, at the time. In those days, everything had to be IBM-compatible. Microsoft's operating system powered IBM computers -- and, as we know, software can be highly profitable. Thus, Microsoft quickly eclipsed IBM and went on to rule the world with an iron fist. Is this deja vu'?
Show HN: Visualizing Startup Management with Timeline
https://collow.io/
Hi everyone,

We are building a web app for startup founders. Like Jira, Notion, or ClickUp, we support task management. However, we think time is more important than the tasks, because startups need to build product fast, and shift focus fast. Therefore, we built one universal timeline to help you easily manage tasks, clients, projects and deadlines, so you can directly compare the important dates from all your departments and find one which matter the most now. We also support task auto scheduling, so when you shift your team to a new direction, you just need to change the priority, and we help you reschedule all the tasks in you team. So you don't need to manually updating the start date or the end date fields in Jira, Notion, or ClickUp.

You may have heard of Motion (https://www.usemotion.com/), which also supports task auto scheduling. Unlike it, our app focuses on serving the startup teams and innovation teams. So we also have the goal tracking feature to help startups meet the annual growth goal from every day.

We are actively learning, and we want to build something people want. We are looking for any feedback from you.

Best,
Zhe
Show HN: A Simple Platform for Team Blogging (with Markdown Editor)
http://windspeaker.co/
This is a 48 hrs working to test my framework, but it is completed to use, please try it. Thank you.
Boarder, There and Marshall Law
There instead of their

Boarder instead of border

Marshall law instead of martial law

Basically those are the most frequent errors I see on discussion boards. Also I am not sure why but "there" and "boarder" irritate me way beyond anything reasonable. I am curious why. And English is not even my native language and I suck at it.

Anybody else has similar feelings about the errors I've mentioned?
This Indian song gets 2 million view in 6 days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR12Z8f1Dh8
Why this kolaveri di?
What is swap space and how to use it
http://aarvik.dk/what-is-swap-memory-and-how-to-use-it/
If you do not know about swap space, see here how to configure and use it on Debian.
Show HN: Blazing Fast Domain Name Search built with React and Elasticsearch
http://blazingfast.domains/
We wanted to provide an interface where people not in the domain industry could realize the huge number of domains that are now available on the market. The aim is not to give a 100% accurate search result but to give a quick overview of what is still available or not on a single string. The search is based on zone files and other static sources which don't include the premium names nor the "Trademark Claims"

I'm open to feedback of course!

Cheers.
Show HN: Crypto coin screener I build
https://coinsscreener.com/#hn
Working on this for some time in my spare time.

There are already existing screeners but they dont seem to have the data/filters i wanted so i build it myself.

Would also like to add some backtest functionality later (and once there is more data).
Suburban Commercial, Cubicles
High-Rise Commercial, Open
The last of London's metal men: The London Chroming Company
http://www.humansinvent.com/#!/10455/london-chroming-company-masters-of-a-fading-craft/
Step inside the London Chroming Company and explore the process behind a fading craft. They even chromed David Bowie's Mini...

"You are dealing with lots of chemicals and there is a lot of legislation that you have to keep up with. But also, young people don’t want to get dirty, they all want to go into IT."

http://bit.ly/VTqyyX
How a frozen current account in Cyprus Laiki Bank looks like
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=160292.0
Capital controls affecting business in Cyprus.

Note this is not a deposit, it's a current account used to operate an IT business.

Also in http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1b6v1u/my_bank_accounts_got_robbed_by_european/
The Economist Fails at Statistics.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/06/obesity-and-driving?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fdc%2Froadhogs
This is why the Economist is not the Statistician.
Warning: Java Exploit Potentially Affecting More Than 850 Million Computers
http://mashable.com/2013/01/13/java-exploit/
Security experts are recommending computer users disable or uninstall Java following the discovery of a zero-day Java exploit which allows hackers to take control of vulnerable Macs, PCs and Linux computers.
Show HN: TapeMeasure – Swift class for creating segmented, labeled lines in UI
https://github.com/geoffsdavis/tape-measure
TapeMeasure is a utility class, written in Swift, for generating a visual tape measure, or any other graphical elements that need layout in a measured sequence.

I created this class to help with a pet project I'm working on, where I needed to generate segmented, labeled lines to use as axes on charts and graphs. It occurred to me that this seems to be a pretty common task, involving a lot of boilerplate code and tedious calculations. Why not decouple the code and move it into a dedicated class? It's self-contained, nice and simple, and easy to unit test.

It can also handle a lot of tweaks to the "tape measure", such as boundary clipping and shifting offsets. It's especially good for animation, where you can just change a parameter or two during animation, and call for the re-calculated data to re-render your measured line. That makes it great for animated sliding and scaling effects.

Anyway, enjoy!
5 reasons why you should travel alone
https://medium.com/architecting-a-life/5acfd5050b33
I've always loved travelling and only in the last few years discovered how incredible solo travelling is. Some of my best stories in life come from experiences I've been able to say Yes to travelling by myself.
Computers Without Borders is born \o/
http://www.cwb.io
At the origin, this place was just to have a cool email adress ... days after days it comes out as a need for all to express their voice as this place too but for free software / hardware and then to help and spread all over the world.
The fact is that most of people here do not have trouble with computers, software, hardware LAN ... But in some place on this world some people at this time just never touch a keyboard.
Computers Without Borders just offer to be this link with us and them, to help that people to discover on their 1st boot the best of GNU/Linux-libre.
You have a hacker fiber in your hart and want to spread your best all over the world?
Come on to www.cwb.io and join the Computers Without Borders Green Arrow Volunteers!
Twisted implementation of websocket protocol (Python)
https://github.com/tuxlinuxien/TwistedWebsocket
Python Websocket protocol implementation based on Twisted (Pre-Alpha)
What is the simplest way to explain Bitcoin?
i understand the basics of Bitcoin (purely digital virtual coins with no middle man for exchange) but can someone explain some of the details like why only 21M cap and what mining vs buying entails (eg can anyone with right hardware mine?). Also what roll do the exchanges play and is there compatibility between different currencies on the Bitcoin protocol? Would love a simple primer on some of the nuances.
National Park Week
http://www.nps.gov/npweek/
For all outdoor enthusiast starting today all National Parks are free for one week. Enjoy.
WIKISPEED: a crowd-funded, open-source 100 MPG car
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/crowdsourced-car-wikispeed-raising-funds-100-mpg-opensource-vehicle/
WIKISPEED, the company that makes a 100 MPG car that won 10th place in the Progressive automotive XPrize is looking to crowd-fund their next-generation comfy commuter car.
Need Beta Testers for an Anonymous Forum App
Shyne is a simple forum mobile application where anyone can posts topics and comments anonymously. Currently doing a beta test, if you are interested in participating please let me know. I have both builds for IOS and Android available for testing.

Beta test link invitation => https://forms.gle/Hp7hGHCbe9rxpUdw5

Thanks!
Access Control for Your RESTful API
http://wuher-random.blogspot.com/2011/09/access-control-for-your-restful-api.html
An approach for implementing access control for your REST API.
Nuclear power: The dream that failed
http://www.economist.com/node/21549936
The problem of energy sources is very important and we have to work out some plan for the future.
Any ideas?
Inferential database seeding in Clojure
http://michaeldrogalis.github.com/dibble/
Write seeding instructions using a programming language. Database schema and seeding instructions are orthogonal.
Bigger Tweets than Twitter
http://woofertime.com/
Woofer = Twitter * 10;
Variety of tech jobs at social games co. omgpop
http://www.omgpop.com/#/info/jobs
We are hiring product people, ruby and flash folks to help us continue to grow in making real time multiplayer games!
How to manage an invention?
I hope I can get some advice from this great community. Here are the pertinent points of my situation:

1. Me: Established academic researcher with international reputation. The invention is in my own area of expertise. No startup experience. Based in major university, but the city is not a hotbed of technology. The university has a poor track record in IP development, must be bypassed.

2. The invention: unpublished, unpatented, undisclosed. It is a technology invention, about making a (digital) device which will address a serious and documented market need, quite possibly with multibillion dollar implications. The idea is new, based on newly available technology (not developed by me), fairly technical (not likely you'll come up with it) but if I explain it to you in 15 minutes I think you could do it. I have a working prototype.

3. The question: I have a conundrum regarding commercializing the invention while protecting my IP. The idea can be stolen and perhaps a variation of it can be built. I don't have the financial resources to file a comprehensive portfolio of patents to protect it. I also wouldn't have the financial resources to defend the patents in court.

Any advice on how I might move forward?

The Aeolist
2 month development - 1 Android game
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lateformydatelite
We asking for feedback in terms of game control and game design.
Ask HN: Is there an easy way to release a CLI program for all major platforms?
I just wrote a small CLI program[0] (actually a wrapper for a collection of shell scripts, similar to git) and would like to package it for easy installation on Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, macOS, and hopefully even Windows (via WSL?).

Is there a tool or service for making this easy? So far, I've found fpm[1]. I haven't dug into it enough to know whether it's the solution I'm looking for, but I also wanted to solicit the community for alternatives in case I'm missing something even better.

The dependencies are minimal (just Ruby stdlib). Here are options I've considered and opted against:

• rubygems: I'm not a huge fan of using a language's package manager for end-user software. What happens when the system upgrades its version of Ruby? Does the user have a ruby version manager like rvm or rbenv installed? and so on.

• docker: a couple weeks back, an article entitled "Run More Stuff in Docker" was trending here[2]. I like the idea, but the approach is a minor hobby unto itself and way too burdensome to ask of general-audience, potentially not-very-technical end-users.

My program is simple enough that I hope it could be used as an introduction to CLI concepts/UNIX/shell pipes for the uninitiated; someone should not have to be a developer to use it or understand how it works. Assuming a very limited familiarity with the command line, I want to offer install instructions that make no assumptions about the user's system and should always just work; e.g., `brew install cram` / `sudo dpkg -i cram.deb` / etc.

[0]: https://github.com/rlue/cram

[1]: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

[2]: https://jonathan.bergknoff.com/journal/run-more-stuff-in-docker/
Show HN: Stable Diffusion implementation in Rust/libtorch
https://github.com/LaurentMazare/tch-rs/tree/main/examples/stable-diffusion
This is an implementation of Stable Diffusion in Rust using libtorch bindings - including some nice samples of rusty robots! It follows the lines of Huggingface's (amazing) diffusers library. The main goal is to show how a complex model can be converted and re-used on the Rust side.
Ask HN: Hacker Philosophy?
I was wondering if there is a philosophy that most encompasses what most hackers on this sight seem to live by.

i.e.: Release early release often,
Sharing work vi open source,
Simple and well designed vs. feature bloated,
etc.

Is there already a name for this philosophy? Is it just the hacker philosophy? What else does/should it include?
Ask HN: Why isn't Zappos the first result for the query "shoes"?
http://www.google.com/search?q=shoes&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Shoes.com has a pagerank of 5 and 200k inbound links.

Zappos.com has a pagerank of 7 and 2M inbound links. 10 times that of shoes.com!

Does the domain name matter that much?
Show HN: TypeScript query builder with full type inference
https://www.edgedb.com/blog/designing-the-ultimate-typescript-query-builder
Hey HN! Colin here - a TypeScripter, open sourcer, and engineer at EdgeDB. As the creator of Zod and tRPC, I'm interested in designing tools/APIs that use type inference and generics to make life easier for devs. This query builder represents another step in that direction.

We set out to build an EdgeQL query builder that can express queries of arbitrary complexity (EdgeQL has feature parity with SQL, roughly) and infer the static type of the query result. We introspect the database and generate a schema-aware client that represent any query, including ones that use built-in functions, operators, string/array/tuple indexing, aggregations, conditionals, type casting, subqueries, computed properties, etc—things most ORMs can’t represent.

This post mostly discusses the API design, which I think will be interesting regardless of familiarity with EdgeQL. I’d love to see some of these ideas bleed into future generations of TypeScript ORMs/query builders too.

Best way to try it is to clone the sandbox repo and follow the instructions in the README[0]. Or jump into the docs[1].

[0] https://github.com/edgedb/mcu-sandbox

[1] https://www.edgedb.com/docs/clients/js/querybuilder
Show HN: ProxSNI, a transparent HTTPS tunnel for self-hosters
https://proxsni.com/?hn
I'm self-hosting my stuff, and pay dearly for a fixed IP from my ISP. Either you do that, or you rent a VPS and set up a somewhat complicated scheme to forward traffic to your home, or maybe you feel like giving Cloudflare access to all your files on the way to you [1]. Maybe that's too much, and you change again to a VPS setup.

Well I felt like an option was missing: An SNI-sniffing reverse proxy. That's exactly what ProxSNI [2] is.

Using the open-source (!) client, all HTTP and HTTPS traffic is forwarded to you, without breaking any encryption (since SNI was never encrypted in the first place). That means your traffic is always yours, and ProxSNI just forwards it to you. You are in charge of getting a domain and setting up your server at home, we just send you your traffic.

Where other mail men in this area will open your letter to make sure nothing bad is inside, we simply read the address on the envelope and deliver it, and put some pride in letting you decide what's best for you.

I hope you'll try our service free of charge for the duration of this beta-launch.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443178
[2] https://proxsni.com
Firefox spam includes password stealing software
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Fake-Firefox-update-includes-password-stealing-trojan-1319477.html
Sophos has discovered spam that notifies firefox users to download a security update. The update actually has a password stealing trojan.
Google Chrome haters
http://isizulu.net/
Is this the best way to say that a browser is not supported?
What's OpenOffice's Niche?
http://fourstarters.com/2007/09/20/whats-openoffices-niche/
Last week the newest version of OpenOffice was announced, and the new release revived the discussion whether or not OpenOffice is better than Microsoft Office. Although I don't particularly like Microsoft and normally don't care about office suites, this latest release did get me thinking.
Earthquakes' Many Mysteries Stymie Efforts to Predict Them
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/science/14quak.html?ref=science
"How does a rupture go from an inch a year to 3,000 miles per hour in a few secon" asked Ross S. Stein, a geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey.

No one knows.
Show HN: Tuesday Triage, weekly crème de la crème of the Internet
https://tuesdaytriage.com/
For the past two years I curate a newsletter with ~10 posts I've enjoyed reading and ~10 things I didn't know before, as well as a tad of my ranting and a book or two.
Show HN: Datagridxl.js v2 – no-nonsense fast Excel-like data table lib
https://www.datagridxl.com/
Hello HN,

I’m Robbert, the creator of DataGridXL.js. After 1,5 years of hard work I have just released version 2.

DataGridXL is a free (and commercial) editable data table library written in ES6.

My goal is to develop the most performant & user-friendly spreadsheet-like data table out there:

- It has zero dependencies. You don’t need any framework to use DataGridXL.

- It is lightweight (~250kb) and easy to use. It does not even require messing with CSS.

- It has its own Virtual DOM implementation to prevent DOM errors.

- Developer friendly. Supports all modern web browsers

Please take a look at the performance demo (https://www.datagridxl.com/demos/one-million-cells) to see the difference with other data grids out there. And let us know if you have any suggestions.

What's new in version 2:

* Rapidly search cells via top bar, just like Google Sheets.

* Freeze any amount of rows and/or columns.

* Hide and unhide rows and/or columns, just like in Google Sheets.

* Multi-Range Selection

* Fullscreen Mode

* Input bar at the bottom, so it works on touch devices too.

DataGridXL on Github: https://github.com/DataGridXL/DataGridXL2
DataGridXL on NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@datagridxl/datagridxl2
DataGridXL Docs: https://datagridxl.com/docs

Please let me know if you have any suggestions or comments!
Learning JavaScript: Where To Start?
I have been programming off and on for a couple of decades. Most recently Obj-C and RonR the past few years with a little Java mixed in. I would like to learn JavaScript, JQuery and JQuery Mobile. I tend to learn better by example than by theory. Given my programming background, where do I start?
Ask HN: What extension would you like to see in the next C standard?
There are some interesting new proposals for what will likely become c23. Some I like:
- true and false as first-class language features: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2655.pdf
- a fundamental type for N-bit integers: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2646.pdf
- auto, closures and lambdas: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2638.pdf
- preprocessor embed to include binary files: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2592.htm
- typeof: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2593.htm
- defer: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2542.pdf

What else would you like to see in the next revision of the C programming language?
Unix for Poets
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs124/kwc-unix-for-poets.pdf
As suggested by Stanford's NLP course.
Shadowcasting: a tutorial
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/12/12/shadowcasting-in-c-part-one.aspx
A very approachable tutorial in C# on the principles of shadowcasting.