jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Review my startup: An artificial intuition based Q/A engine.
Link: www.snolr.com

Snolr works best currently finding short facts which you might need on the go. It's an early release and I need to iron down many things, but some feedback would be great.

Although we were doing private beta, it made sense to release and get some real feedback, hence a highly controlled initial version of the system.

Here is a list of sample questions - Where was obama born? What is the real name of lady gaga? Where is Bolivia? What country is Manila in? What is the largest city in Southeast asia? What is the capital city of India? Who founded carnegie mellon? What is the world's longest railroad? What is the fourth largest city in france? When was bill gates born? Who founded the facebook? When did martin luther king junior die?

PS: I submitted this before, but maybe at the wrong time as I am in a different timezone. I am not sure if I am breaking a guideline, but it seemed important as for a single founder, I can really use some feedback.
Giant brain-training dataset attracts scientists
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/global-neuro-lab
People who drink once a day and get 7 hours of sleep outperform averages according to luminosity data.
The Humble Music Bundle
http://www.humblebundle.com/#
Get it here: http://www.humblebundle.com/
Bitly For Feelings
http://yaythis.me/14zvRgM
Tech writer Tim Carmody astutely noted, "Branding/commentary in the link for you + sentiment analysis for them."
Rekapi Presentation - A keyframe animation library
http://www.techspringboard.com/bayquery-rekapi/
Jeremy Kahn demonstraits his Rekapi keyframe animation library for JavaScript at the BayQuery Meetup April 27th 2012.
SugarCRM Case Studies
http://www.crmlogic.com.au/index.php/case-studies/sugarlogic-mobile-gunz-dental
CRMLogic is a professional services firm focused on CRM business solutions. Our approach is a blend of management consulting and technology know-how, which provides you with contemporary business outcomes - not just software.
A thorough, simple introduction to the Android framework
http://androiddevblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/my-best-attempt-at-a-thorough-simple-introduction-to-the-android-framework/
"Some of the more common questions that I see posted to various Android development forums are from developers curious about, or new to the platform, and looking for a good, light introduction to it all."
Ask HN: Undelivered email or false claim?
I am the client/developer facing girl at our tiny little startup. We have outsourced a lot of miscellaneous tasks to independent-freelance developers in the past very successfully.

But recently, this developer we are working with, has come into the habit of responding to emails too late (which lag the projects and hurt our client relations). When inquired, he claims that he had already delivered the email and chances are that I missed it because of possible technical reasons. And he sends in the email again (2-3 days late). This has already happened 4 times during past 3 weeks. Is there any way to verify if he is being honest?

In short, I would like to know if there is a way to verify false email delivery claims.
Slime Molds- single cell organism solves shortest path algorithm
Scientists arrange food sources around a slime-mold as major cities in Japan. The slime-mold grows and creates a nutrient transportation network that's almost identical to the rail-system in Japan. Mind blowing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNAxrpzc6ws&feature=player_detailpage#t=3830s
Bing sends login information unencrypted
Login page : http://blogs.bing.com/wp-login.php

Screenshot of sending login data over plain text : https://i.imgur.com/dkVEFa7.png
Show HN: LivGiv - Be more than a Face in a Book
http://livgiv.com/
The time has come for us to move for greener pastures yet again. Our species migrated from Friendster to MySpace in 2003 and then to Facebook in 2005. Well, in 2009, Facebook turned to the Dark Side under the influence of Microsoft while locked in an epic war with Google. Many are still in denial and are suffering from Like Syndrome. The future of our species is at stake and Earth is getting hot and bothered about it too. LivGiv exists to restore sanity back to the Web and give power back to the biosphere.
Highest Paying US Cities for Programmers & Developers
http://wajeez.com/2012/03/14/top-10-highest-paying-us-cities-for-technology-jobs/
CyberCoders released their survey results of the US cities which pay the highest average salary for technology jobs. Established tech hubs such as San Jose (yahoo), San Francisco (Apple) and New York’s silicon alley rank highest in pay versus smaller cities such as Phoenix, St. Louis and Tampa.
Perfect Time to Sell Skype: Today
http://blog.tippingpointlabs.com/2009/05/perfect-time-to-sell-skype-in-the-gestation-phase/
Skype is almost certainly in the Gestation phase of it’s new media life cycle. The end of this phase is characterized by a ‘celebrity hit,’ meaning that someone figures out how to demonstrate the power of the new platform (in this case it happens to be Oprah) and just around the corner we’ll see massive media attention and a tremendous explosion in growth.
Ask HN: What is the most attractive, valuable, and learnable skill?
Attractive defined as increases your mate value.

Valuable defined as increases your income.

Learnable defined as fluency in 2 years or less.
Ratchet - WebSockets for PHP
http://socketo.me/
Ratchet is a component library for PHP that provides developers with the tools to create real time, bi-directional applications between clients and servers. This is not your Grandfather's Internet.
State of ECMAScript 4
http://ejohn.org/blog/state-of-ecmascript-4-dec-07/
"I think it's fascinating to note that there's 3 implementations that already have over 25% of all the new features in the language implemented." -John Resig
Show HN: I created a feed of interesting content for myself
https://feedium.app
I stopped using Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok etc long back for various reasons. But that left me wanting a simple feed of interesting content because I think that really has some value. So I built one for myself using public APIs and free datasets. I have been using it for couple years now. Thought I should share it wth HN, because why not.

Here’s how it works: every few minutes, a cron job fetches content from various APIs and datasets and populates a database table ‘cards’. When you open feedium.app, you are shown some cards from that table chosen randomly. That’s it. :)
work at a startup with low pay and long hours
Razors, what a DEAL 
http://www.businessinsider.com/dollar-shave-club-review-2012-4
So, I thought this service was something we can all afford especially if your strapped for cash! Check them out! Oh, yea if you do please copy my referral link below: https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/ref/21tm/mg837g
Google Hacked?
http://www.googlewatchdog.info/2007/09/spam-and-virus-sites-infesting-google.html
It seems the more popular the site, the more people are desperately trying to game the system. Has it reached the point where any startup looking to burn through a lot of hits had better think a bit about how to handle the attacks? You obviously can't spend a lot of time defending a site that isn't even popular yet, but you can't get caught blindsided either, right? I wonder where the balance is.
Memfd_create() syscall merged into Linux tree
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9183df25fe7b194563db3fec6dc3202a5855839c
Blog post on memfd
https://dvdhrm.wordpress.com/tag/memfd/
Hackers and Painters:  Rails apps at the Museum of Modern Art
http://davetroy.blogspot.com/2007/10/moma-ny-selects-twittervision.html
Show HN: Tetra – A full stack component framework for Django using Alpine.js
https://www.tetraframework.com
Hi HN,

I have been working on Tetra for the last few months and feel it’s now time to put it out there and get some feedback.

Please take a look. There are a few fully functional examples on the homepage: https://www.tetraframework.com

Tetra is a full stack component framework for Django built on top of Alpine.js. It is heavily inspired by frameworks such as Laravel Livewire and Phoenix Liveview, enabling you to create server rendered components that respond to user interactions reactively. However, it builds on the concept by allowing you to build “hybrid” components that also have full JavaScript capabilities using Alpine.js.

It also builds on the trend of bringing the different parts of a component (Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) into closer proximity, by keeping all related parts in the same file. It uses esbuild to bundle your JavaScript and CSS, whilst also creating source maps, making it possible to trace errors back to the original Python source files.

In terms of future plans, I’m aiming for a v1 release this summer - there is still quite a long to-do list! I have been working on this in my spare time so far, but hope to find the opportunity to work on it full time. I think there is a gap in the current Python framework ecosystem, and I believe, that what I have designed in Tetra plugs that gap. I hope to build this into a significant contribution to the community.

Finally, the docs are here: https://www.tetraframework.com/docs/
Bit of fun :: Dhtml Lemmings
http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/index.php
this is a great version of lemmings using javascript.
Show HN: An experiment - IRC channel from just a URL
http://lalo-g7stltno.dotcloud.com/
This is related with a previous story I've seen today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5330020

I've been working on a similar concept but based on IRC.

Once authenticated with your Twitter account you can join a room using the URL, the path represents a channel. As I said, it's based on IRC which means that you can also join the same room using an IRC client.

The code is here: https://github.com/malditogeek/lalo
Ask HN: Physical skills/activities for programmers
I love programming; it's JavaScript, PHP and Python at work - Lisp and Erlang at home. It's addictive, the more I learn and create the more I want to learn and create.

However, I think it would be beneficial to exercise my mind (and body) with none computer (or even electricity) related pastimes. Ideally these new skills could draw on and complement those I have gained developing software.

I already run and play football (soccer), so I'm pretty well satisfied for sports.

It'd be great to get some advice/inspiration from other HNers who've found solutions.
Web 2.0 Startups Beating The Odds in Down Economy
http://www.cio.com/article/460014
Here's nine Web 2.0 companies, some of whom started with Y Combinator funding, who are making their products work in the worst of times.
LDAP schema, LDIF tools for .NET
http://zetetic.net/blog/2009/09/01/zetetic-ldap---bringing-ldap-ldif-tools-to-net/
A new, open-source API for working with Lightweight Directory Interchange Format (LDIF) and LDAP. Useful to almost anyone who does directory services in DotNET.
Show HN: Learn words in a foreign language by typing
https://www.termtyper.com
I’m Brazilian and I made this tool for my brother to learn English. He’s also trying to learn the keyboard layout at the same time. So far he seems to be liking it and getting better.

I manually built and open-sourced the dictionary on github, so anyone can contribute and add more languages. I’m doing that manually because I want to do that in the most easy and didactic way possible, with a very accurate translation and most used words. Ideally, in the next version, it will be using some sort of API or automated tool.

I’m not sure how to make the dictionary work effectively because each description needs a very close translation (ideally as exact as possible). We’re not able to just copy words and descriptions because they won’t necessarily line up with the other language translations. We’re currently manually translating to be accurate, though ideally we can figure out a good way to scale this, if anyone has suggestions please let me know!
Ask HN: Does Building a startup feels like doing the work of 10 people?
CEO,
HR,
CFO,
Sales,
COO,
Purchases,
Project manager,
Quality insurance,
Product Development,
Customer Developer,
Product Owner,
Customer relationship,
Product Manager

In reality a startup company without at least 18 millions in funding for 5 years of development is just like a crippled man.
The Growth hacker: How To Guide On Acquiring Users
http://startupplays.com/blog/the-growth-hacker-how-to-guide-on-acquiring-users/
Startup marketing is more than just a simple pitch and big press day following the availability of the product or service on a site or app store.
Show HN: Real-time web-based collaborative open source mind mapping.
http://beautifulmind.io/
Real-time web-based collaborative open source mind mapping v0.1
Erlang - Google TechTalk Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=240707194662243675
This talk will cover the history of Erlang, demonstrate major design goals with a few programming examples and also touch on the subject of the future of Erlang.
Ask HN: Would you pay for this?
So, I've been doing this anti-procrastination experiment with a friend over the last few months, and I'm wondering whether it would work as a product.

When I'm working I have a VNC viewer showing my friend's desktop, and likewise he can see mine. I check it out from time to time, and if he's browsing the web or watching movies, I send him a message in gtalk asking to stop. This simple method has been close to 100% effective in stopping us both from procrastinating, over the last few months, because it works on social pressure that humans understand well.

I'm thinking of turning this into a product somehow. Perhaps allow multiple people who wish to avoid procrastination to be "watched" by few human operators, and charging a monthly subscription for it.

Is there a market for this? At which price point?
Wireworld computer [Flash]
http://www.rezmason.net/wireworld/
Simulation of the Wireworld computer, calculating primes.

A description of how the computer works can be found at http://www.quinapalus.com/wi-index.html
Effective Developer Experience (DX)
http://uxmag.com/technology/effective-developer-experience
Interesting article by Jeremiah Cohick about how platform product developers can facilitate better user experience (UX) outcomes on their platforms by crafting better developer experiences (DX) for engineers building apps on their platforms.
Show HN: Persona authenticated, wwwhisper authorized web server on OpenShift.
https://github.com/wrr/wwwhisper-openshift
Any comments are very welcome! The readme file includes links to a demo site that anyone can access (sign-in with @mockmyid.com email if you don't want to create a real Persona account).

Do you have any use cases for which an authorization layer like this would be handy? What additional features would you need?
Ask HN: Are there studies on the most efficient way to learn programming?
I'm planning on learning python soon and I'm already familiar with a fair few ways I could learn it but I'm curious if there have been any studies on the most efficient way to learn it.

Anyone familiar with any research in the area?
Airtime, a Pedigreed Start-Up, Is Tested
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/technology/airtime-a-pedigreed-start-up-is-struggling.html?pagewanted=1&ref=business
Ugh.
Tell HN: Roblox going public via Direct Listing
Just heard from a friend that Roblox has announced Series H funding and is planning to go public via direct listing on NYSE
Ask HN: Review my startup, Wedoist
I just launched http://wedoist.com/ and would like feedback.

Wedoist is a project manager that has status updates, a task manager and a comment system. It also uses game mechanics to increase productivity and usage.

Wedoist should be a lot more dynamic than most other applications as most of it is rendered in JavaScript and Comet is used for realtime updates. The future plan is to make the realtime aspect more central (such as adding a group chat).

Try it out and hopefully you can find it useful for managing your startup :)
Rate my web app: 360 Voltage is in Alpha (see comments)
http://360voltage.com
Good morning, HN. We've been slaving for months and we're finally launch-ready.

This community was so amazing last time we launched a web site that we're taking our own advice (http://blog.200nipples.com/2008/07/launch-the-first-24-hours/) and doing a Hacker News launch. We're basically in Alpha right now, we'll be in Beta next week with all initial features online by 4th quarter 2009.

Anyway, this site was built with guys like you in mind, so let us know what you think.
Ask HN: The best Cookie Warning popup you've seen recently?
Linux Reviews have this one:
https://imgur.com/mk9jjwC

"In order to offer an "ad-filled experience" and maximize our profits, LinuxReviews would very much like you to allow our Google AdSense ad-partner to use tracking and cookies so we can show ads from them on our website.

resist ALLOW"
Spinning wheels [Storing energy using flywheels, not batteries]
http://www.economist.com/node/21008109
Take home paragraph: Back on the road, flywheel hybrids that cut both fuel consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions by 30% or more appear to be only three or four years away. When they arrive, today’s coal-fired electric cars will look decidedly dirty by comparison. Roll on the day.
EFF requests not to consider iPhone jailbreaking illegal
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking-illegal
As part of the 2009 DMCA rulemaking, EFF has asked the Copyright Office to recognize an exemption to the DMCA to permit jailbreaking in order to allow iPhone owners to use their phones with applications that are not available from Apple's store
No Backbone As Google Bows To Korean Government And Bans Users With Fake Names
http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/04/no_backbone_as.php
"What's the point in Google portraying itself as company with strong principles when it won't stand up and defend them? What would it be losing if it refused?"
Tell HN: The Secret To Launching Is Removing Unfinished Features
The secret to launching your start-up is removing unfinished features. It's that simple.

Many things you think you need in your first version can usually wait. That unfinished social feature? Remove it. That broken button to let users tag content? Comment it out. The extra benefit of removing those unfinished features is that users won't appreciate them if they're in the initial version. If you add those same features later, users will actually notice the features and get to share your thrill of improving your product.
work at a startup with good pay and long hours
.co TLD appears to be down
Has anyone else noticed the .co TLD seems to be having issues? Lots of reports on Twitter today that t.co won't resolve for anyone so all links are broken. https://twitter.com/support/status/559087122192150528

It appears to be a DNS problem, with no A records being reported when running a simple 'dig t.co'. I personally can't load any .co domains. Someone suggested it may be an AWS -> .co issue: https://twitter.com/maccaw/status/559077778507571201

Anyone else being affected by this?
Ask HN: do I want to work at a trading firm?
I've worked as an early stage engineer at a string of startups since 1998. They were fun (for the first 18 months), but poor choices financially. As such, I'm a 34 year old guy without much savings (but hundreds of thousands of worthless stock & options.)

I feel the need to save up some money for at least few years and want to maximize my salary. I have a nascent interest in financial markets and an undergraduate degree in applied mathematics. My C++ is pretty good, although I haven't really had to use it in the past five years. I have the typical startup skills in Java, Python, Ruby, unix admin, staying up until 5 in the morning debugging network or database issues, and all that sort of thing.

I am located in NYC and there are a couple trading firms that look more interesting to me than most of the local startups. Namely Two Sigma investments and Jane Street Capital. I have a friend who thinks he could get me an interview at Jane Street and a recruiter acquaintance who claims to be able to get me an interview anywhere. I'm not totally convinced about the 2nd guy's connections, but we'll see.

I was wondering if anyone on HN works in this sector (proprietary trading) and if they actually like it, or if it's just a drudge. And also, I'm wondering if it really pays that well. I'm doing ok now salary-wise, but no bonus potential and am very bored.

Note that I'm usually someone else on HN but wanted to remain anonymous for this.
Ask HN: Instant Messaging for the paranoid?
I'd like an IM client which supports:

- persistent logging (no matter which computer I'm on, all logs from all conversations are available)

- encrypted logging (unless I enter some passphrase, no one can read my logs)

- the ability to turn off logging for a specific conversation

- the ability to edit / delete parts of log files and have those changes eventually reflect to all other machines, Dropbox-style

- multi-service (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, perhaps IRC too?)

Does such a thing exist, or some combination of plugins exist to achieve the same?
Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis on a Relativistic Turing Machine
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322222352_The_Proof_of_the_Riemann_Hypothesis_on_a_Relativistic_Turing_Machine
The physical proof of the Rieman hypothesis is presented in the article: Y.N. Zayko, The Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis on a Relativistic Turing Machine, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics, V. 3, № 6, Dec. 2017, PP. 219-224
Show HN: My 1-week project, OpenCombinator.com
http://www.opencombinator.com
Anyone can be a mentor or investor in some walk of life. Anyone can be a founder, creator or student in another. Anyone can mod their own, or someone else's news list.

A tool without restrictions, operating on a finite set of rules. You decide whether it evolves to be used for good or evil.
Show HN: Mercurio, the deployment black box
http://madewithbytes.com/writting/mercurio-the-deployment-black-box/
I built mercurio the deployment black box. It is meant to be easy to assemble, reusable between projects and fun!
Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid
https://hexapipes.vercel.app/hexagonal/5/1
Hello, HN - I wanted to share this puzzle game I made during my vacation.

I'm rather fond of the pipes puzzle where your goal is to restore a scrambled network of connections by rotating tiles. It's usually played on a grid of squares and this all started when I decided to make a programmatic solver for that kind of puzzle. Then I realized that with some minor changes the solver could generate new puzzle instances. I thought about what kind of puzzle to make and someone suggested a hexagonal grid. Adapting the generator wasn't too hard but then I had to create a way to play this variant. So I did just that =).

I find hexagonal pipes a bit more difficult than the square variant because there's a larger variety of possible tile shapes. For an extra challenge I implemented wrap mode where the board can connect to itself (right to left and top to bottom), so there are no convenient outer walls to start from.

The site is made with Svelte Kit, its code is available on github at <https://github.com/gereleth/hexapipes>.

Hope you enjoy playing =).