jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Cockpito - Monitor and visualize your app/website metrics easily
http://cockpito.com/
Cockpito is an easy-to-use and powerful monitoring and visualization app which lets you to measure any part of your app/website and visualize metrics.<p>You can measure logins, login failures, certain feature usages or any event on your app/website.<p>For more information, the website is:<p>http://cockpito.com<p>Thanks.
Show HN: Custom sonata playlist for sleep and rest
https://www.locserendipity.com/Songs/Sonatas.html
Also available through https://www.locserendipity.com/Songs/Sonatas.m3u

This is a curated from a selection of 600+ sonatas out of 23,000 songs on archive.org. I listened to the songs and selected 10% that would not interfere with sleep to create a relaxing and pleasant auditory experience.
Tactful Error Messages in Web Application Design
http://blog.nerdburn.com/entries/user-interface-design/tactful-error-messages-in-web-application-design
A discussion of some steps to make error messages for tactful, by Shawn Adrian.
New Startup Promises to Help Bloggers Monetize Digg and Reddit Traffic
http://blog.frontpagebids.com/2007/12/07/frontpagebidscom-helps-monetize-digg-and-reddit-traffic/
FrontPageBids.com is launching a limited, invitation only, private beta today at PubCon 2007. This service allows website owners who create popular content, a new method to monetize those quick bursts of traffic.
Should I Risk Getting Covid?
https://www.shouldidoanything.com/risk-getting-covid
I built “Should I get COVID” as a casual way to help people decide how long to isolate, because there’s always a debate about whether it’s worth it to lock yourself in your home for a few months or whether the decrease in quality of life for that time justifies taking your chances.

It’s a simple calculator with reductive assumptions that spits out how many quality-adjusted life years you risk by being reckless/cautious (or lose by hiding away). Also if my math is wrong, please let me know, I definitely didn’t have this peer reviewed.
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A 'rough' guide to Accelerators
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/11/03/roughing-it-in-silicon-valley-a-man.html
An alternative guide to living on an accelerator and how to get the most out of it...
Ask HN: What investment apps do you use?
If you use software to make investments, I'm interested in hearing about what they are, and why you use them. It'd be nice to see some selections that are available outside the US as well. Thanks!
South Africa Parliament Introduces Bill To Legalize Cannabis
http://www.belowthelion.co.za/south-africa-parliament-introduces-bill-to-legalize-dagga/
The Medical Innovation Bill, a bill to legalize Cannabis in South Africa for medical, economic and industrial purposes, is being introduced in parliament today.
Facebook announces new Facebook Profile
http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2010/12/05/facebook-officially-announces-the-new-facebook-profile-teaser-video/
Facebook has now posted the official announcement and an Apple-like teaser teaser video giving you a look at what should be going live tomorrow.
Have kids (or are YOU a big one)? Kindly draw on our startup X-Worlds
http://x-worlds.com/?s_id=hn
X-Worlds is a new hang-out for kids which let's them bring creatures to life!

We've just launched a sneak peak of whats going to be a very cool business model.

For now I'd love to ask any Hackers with kids to let them loose on the site and let us know how they react!

Drawings and donuts appreciated! :)

Thanks a million.

http://x-worlds.com/?s_id=hn
http://twitter.com/x_worlds
http://www.facebook.com/X.Worlds
Show HN: A Gauss-Seidel solver visualization in a single HTML file
https://thabetx.github.io/gauss-seidel-manual.html
Recently I was reading about fluid simulation and stumbled upon the Gauss Seidel method. I got interested in how it works and made a program that visualizes the method in action.

I had the idea of making an interactive book-like thing for a while, so took this as a chance to do just that.

Note that touch input doesn't work and the layout is targeted towards bigger screens, so it doesn't function properly on mobile.

It was fun to make and I wanted to share it. Maybe someone will find it useful. Corrections and feedback are welcome.

Technical Stuff
- A single 1.7MB HTML file with embedded JavaScript and WebAssembly. You can save this single file and double click it to run.
- A math typesetter from scratch in C that compiles/renders the equations in real-time (uses KaTex fonts and STB true type to rasterize the fonts).
- Platform code is done using Sokol (tested on windows and web).
- The UI is done using Dear ImGui (Most of the code is done in C++ to use ImGui without a wrapper except for the equations compiler).
UnionStation
http://www.unionstationapp.com/
New monitoring application by Phusion Passenger guys.
Show HN: Rupt – AI that finds you better stocks
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rupt-stock-analysis-automated/id1583073539
Hi there HN!

Slava here. I’m building Rupt, an app that puts stock analysis on autopilot. It analyzes stock fundamentals, technicals, analyst ratings and hedge funds data. It then converts this information into a single consensus score and updates it every 15 minutes to show investors where the smart money is moving.

You can try Rupt for FREE FOR 7 DAYS, but if you wish to continue using it, use this link to get a discount on your membership:
https://rupt.page.link/WLAsY5mBocTU2Bmn7

There are thousands of different stocks and hundreds of indicators to check each day. Rupt does all this work for you. It breaks down the most important elements of a stock, looks at it from every angle, and makes recommendations. Our proprietary algorithm analyzes 50+ crucial fundamental and technical metrics, analyst rankings, hedge fund activity and other data points on a stock, then aggregates all this information into one simple comprehensive score – the Rupt Score. I have spent countless hours backtesting our numbers to ensure we are not relying on hype or fluff. That's why I'm confident that Rupt can help you get more out of your investments.

Please feel free to stop by with any questions. I’d love to hear your feedback.

Slava
Google Says It Always Requires Warrants for User Email and Cloud Data
http://mashable.com/2013/01/24/google-warrants-email-cloud-data/
Google revealed Wednesday that it always requires a search warrant whenever authorities seek access to the content of a user's emails or documents stored in Google's cloud...
Ask HN: What is your process for planning/starting a new project?
I'm a fairly experienced developer but have only worked as a solo developer on projects. I run a small company of 4 where the other employees are sales & marketing oriented. I've recently begun a project to take our current website and create more of a self service web application. When you're starting a new project, what is your planning process like? Do you go as far as to wireframe/document every screen? Do you rely on any specific tools to help plan the overall architecture? For me, Once I've settled on an idea I'll design a few flows in Sketch (usually the most important part of the project), then use MindNode to create a high level architecture (Rails controllers / actions, models) then I'll hop into the code and build out what I initially mocked up in Sketch. The process then repeats for the next major part of the project. I'd love to hear a bit about and learn from your process.
Easy Restful Rails
http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/1/25/easy-restful-rails-screencast
How to make Restful programming in Rails (1.2 and 2.0) a lot more intuitive, easier, faster and fun using James Golick resource_controller plugin. Take a look at my website akitaonrails.com and James' website at jamesgolick.com.
PhoneGap for the desktop
http://nullisnotanobject.com/2010/04/phonegap-desktop/
PhoneGap can now run on Mac OS and Windows.
Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey
http://waxy.org/2008/10/memeorandum_colors/
Fun project I helped out on. I did the mathematical side.
Google+ adds animated GIF support to profile images
https://plus.google.com/+googleplus/posts/FAUcRGZFGJH
You can now use an animated gif for your profile photo! It will animate on the profile page on both desktop and mobile.
Machines talking to other machines and the market plunge
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/05/the-market-plunge.html
Fred Wilson on trading, AI, and startups
Ask HN: Anyone moved away from GitHub to Phabricator?
I'd like to know the experience of engineers who moved away from github to phabricator. Phabricator is really good but it has no third party app support like github. We use circle CI to run all the tests after send a pull request in github. I couldn't find a support for CI in phabricator.
Brazilians using Trello to organize proposals for government
https://trello.com/board/propostas-para-um-brasil-melhor/51c0d20bf9e3980143000766
I'm Brazilian, and I've been invited to ton of facebook events due to the protests in Brazil, one of then caught my attention, they are using trello to organize the proposals for the government. I found this fact very curious since all those protest started on-line, leaving aside if you are pro or against, this is a good example of how the internet/startups/etc enable people to do things.

If you guys aren't aware of what is happening in Brazil:
http://news.yahoo.com/protests-planned-across-brazil-despite-concessions-155413790.html
100 Years Of Immigrants In America, In Two Graphs
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/21/159026833/100-years-of-immigrants-in-america-in-two-graphs?utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20120821
Canadians seems to have slowed their US invasion in 2010 :)
Effectively Multitasking Projects
https://medium.com/millenial-career-guide/99df315d9044
I know tons of people are against the notion of working on too many ventures, but I really can't help it so here are my tips and tricks for doing it successfully.
Haraka is an SMTP server written in Node.js
https://github.com/baudehlo/Haraka
designed for high scalability and anti-spam features
$100,000 Reward: Y Prize
http://emergentfool.com/2010/03/03/100000-reward-y-prize/
Inspired by the X Prize, Y Combinator’s “Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund” and Kickstarter, I am offering a $100K prize in three parts.
One explanation on why Twitter wants to control the User Experience
http://steveobd.blogspot.com/2011/03/one-explanation-on-why-twitter-wants-to.html
"make it dead simple and consistent across all current and future consumption platforms to try to get widespread adoption"
Clojure/West 2012 Talks
http://clojurewest.org/sessions/
The list of talks and "un-sessions" at the upcoming Clojure/West conference.
'Flying carpet' of conductive plastic takes flight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15106231
A miniature magic carpet made of plastic has taken flight in a laboratory at Princeton University.The 10cm (4in) sheet of smart transparency is driven by "ripple power"; waves of electrical current driving thin pockets of air from front to rear underneath.
Ask HN: Location privacy in a UltraWideBand device world?
Perhaps some of you have recently seen articles on 'tag' devices from Apple/Samsung/Tile that contain UWB chips.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/04/kuo-airtags-ar-device-2021/
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/5/22215381/tile-ultra-wide-band-tracker-apple-airtags-samsung-smartthings
https://www.zdnet.com/article/samsung-announces-smartthings-find-powered-by-bluetooth-and-uwb/

Here is the Product (with anticompetitive platform concerns highlighted below)/Privacy question I have -

Will Apple expose the same location data that AirTags use to locate 3rd party trackers even if the network of iOS devices do not have the corresponding 3rd party app installed? Say for example I don't have a Tile device, but if my iPhone picks up UWB signals utilized by a Tile device (or any 3rd party UWB devices for that matter), am I part of the distributed UWB network that helps 3rd party UWB devices find their owners/provides and subsequently updates the device location?

Here's a scenario - what if a 3rd party product uses UWB signals and someone uses this device device to plant it on someone's car (to stalk them), leveraging the hundred million+ (and growing) iOS UWB capable network to update the location. This is a far more location tracking weapon then anything currently accessible to the public. How could the victim know, especially if its a 3rd party device?

But unless 3rd party integration includes access to the distributed 1+ Billion iOS devices with UWB, 3rd party integration with the 'Find My' app is useless - it's the same old Tile network. The real value is the increasing # of devices (in the 1 Billion+ iOS device pool) that support UWB, as iOS owners purchase new phones. If and how Apple opens up this distributed UWB network to 3rd parties is going to be very interesting.
Facebook: Instant Articles
https://www.facebook.com/hellorob/posts/10153426311769369
Landing page here: http://instantarticles.fb.com
Github Down
https://status.github.com/?r=resubmit
Looks like web and git are both unreachable.
Ask HN: What Happened to Franchises?
I don't see many people here post a show hn about a franchise business and plans they are offering. There are so many creative DIY technologies. I remember my dad explaining franchises to me when I was about 14 in 1990. I think it could be cool to have be either a franchisor or a franchisee. Well for me a franchisee because I rarely succeed in business.

Low volume custom manufacturing of high precision parts would be interesting. Unfortunately I think there is no demand for something like this. So the little guy wanting to take advantage of all this wonderful creative technology cannot really do so to support his shop. He needs thousands of dollars of revenue per month. How could he do that and also pay and come up with genius marketing to make people ever even ring the phone, or order and pickup or ship an item? Maybe their could be parametric design tools for certain parts. Enter power, weight, efficiency now make me a sterling engine. That sort of thing.

Uber could be replaced by a federation of dispatchers. Why didn't one of these monster cab companies in the metros make their own franchise app? It doesn't even have to be an app. It could be as simple as a website like www.yellowcab.com/marion-oh and everything in that page will get you what you need. Railroads need to move crew either by bus or by cab. I don't think they use uber for this.

Franchises give small business a way of accessing big business marketing. Gives us away of transforming a hobby into a viable path to independence. I like the idea of a battle tested business plan that you can use and I can accept the fees to stay with it.

I like the idea of match maker websites. But I hate the idea of becoming even lower than a wage slave, a contract worker. All the liability is on the contract worker. All the profit goes to Uber where it is spent on making 300 mb apps.
A guide to the ways of rich, white customers
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/
Every one of these entries here could be construed as a potential web 2.0 niche waiting to be shelved and occupied! :)
Why Search Is Still King But Ignored
http://cemagnifique.com/2011/04/12/why-search-is-still-king/
Why are there hardly any search startups funded, while the search industry is one of the most profitable industries?
Facebook Just Revealed A Plan To Kill The Tracking Cookie
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-plan-to-kill-the-tracking-cookie-2013-1
Facebook plans to replace cookies with Optimized Cost per Mille (OCPM).
XKCD Meteor Showers Guide
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1249:_Meteor_Showers
Ever been a spectator to meteor showers?
Protect IP, SOPA supporters vow not to give up fight
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57363243-281/protect-ip-sopa-supporters-vow-not-to-give-up-fight/
Internet opponents of a pair of controversial Hollywood-backed copyright bills won a temporary reprieve today, when upcoming votes in the Senate and House of Representatives were postponed.
Easiest way to create cool logos
http://cooltext.com/Logos
It works with GIMP in the background. Many of the logo designs are intriguing enough. Definitely worth a try ..
Punjabi Music Video & Social Networking on iPhone
http://iphone.saddegeet.com
Introducing the first Punjabi Music Video and social networking site on the iPhone. Now you can watch punjabi music videos on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Enjoy!
Ask HN: Warmer font color?
I'm looking at some of the fonts on this page and trying to figure out why they look so much nicer than my regular ones in HTML. So, couple questions:

1. How do I get that colored warm look that the designer has used? (see pic)

http://imgur.com/rOy5T
Oracle vs. Google - Problems in Discovery
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110206222954641
>>Quite a lot to digest, eh? You'd have to be a developer with some experience with Java and/or Dalvik to know who has the stronger argument, but I'm not one, so I'll leave it to you. But at its core, what we are seeing is Google saying, in effect, that Oracle is the plaintiff. It has to tell what it is complaining about enough for Google to know how to defend itself. And so far, its position is that it can't really go forward in discovery revelations unless Oracle gets more specific on a claim by claim basis, telling Google which Android devices are infringing. And just because there's Android code in a public repository, that doesn't prove that the code "has in fact been implemented and/or used in third party devices". That's the missing piece, from Google's perspective.
Oracle so far is saying, if I've understood their claims, and not having their answers to Google's interrogatories, I might not have it fully, that all of Android is infringing the patents, all devices that run Android from 2008 onward. Stating it is to see what the problem is, I think. In any case, we can see why they need the judge to intervene and tell them who has to cough up specifics first and/or to what degree. Although how he will know in such a technical dispute is a little hard for me to see. I'm struggling, not being a developer, and I know he has in earlier cases we've covered made clear that he's not a programmer either. But he surely knows the law, and that is what he'll try to apply, and I don't doubt that it's why he set up a meet and confer for the parties prior to the hearing. He's hoping to encourage them to work it out themselves, if at all possible.
Rate my webapp - Poplytics
http://www.poplytics.com/tour/
I posted on HN yesterday and got some feedback about my web app. Most people hated the design of the UI and copy. I am a bad designer but i decided to work on it again. I would love to know if the UI and copy is better.

Please highlight any specific area that needs work. Thanks!
Google Beatbox
http://translate.google.com/#de|de|pv%20zk%20bschk%20pv%20zk%20pv%20bschk%20zk%20pv%20zk%20bschk%20pv%20zk%20pv%20bschk%20zk%20bschk%20pv%20bschk%20bschk%20pv%20kkkkkkkkkk%20bschk%0A%0A
just listen
Russia’s Anti-Gay Crackdown
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/opinion/russias-anti-gay-crackdown.html
"A few days earlier, just six months before Russia hosts the 2014 Winter Games, Mr. Putin signed a law allowing police officers to arrest tourists and foreign nationals they suspect of being homosexual, lesbian or “pro-gay” and detain them for up to 14 days."
Denying One’s (same-sex) Desires Tied to Homophobia
http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/04/09/denying-ones-desires-tied-to-homophobia/37087.html
The study is the first to document the role that both parenting and sexual orientation play in the formation of intense and visceral fear of homosexuals, including self-reported homophobic attitudes, discriminatory bias, implicit hostility towards gays, and endorsement of anti-gay policies.
Are AMD's Llano shortages over?
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4233501/Analyst--Shortages-may-be-over-for-AMD-s-Llano
And what's the 2012 twist of the x86 drama?
Fast Pathfinding via Symmetry Breaking 
http://harablog.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/fast-pathfinding-via-symmetry-breaking/
Some recent algorithmic results from my doctoral research. Perhaps of interest to the HN community; particularly those hacking on games or robot motion planning.
Show HN: Related Website Finder Experiment Thingy
https://explore2.marginalia.nu/
Been messing with cosine similarity and decided to try calculating nearest neighbors over the entire link graph for the marginalia search engine.

Turns out that you can just bruteforce that in a day or two. And the results are pretty good.

One drawback is that depending on if you're looking at an older website, a lot of the links are dead. The deduplication isn't great either.
The Lulz Timeline (Chrome or Firefox required)
http://www.lulztimeline.com/
The storyline of the epic battles fought on the internets... Feel free to contribute :)
Maybe, but I'd rather go to the EoM Fridays.
Xpra: (GNU) screen for X applications
http://partiwm.org/wiki/xpra
Xpra is 'screen for X' -- it allows you to run X programs, usually on a remote host, direct their display to your local machine, and then to disconnect from these programs and reconnect from the same or another machine, without losing any state. (see the FAQ: http://partiwm.org/browser/README.xpra also, for more)
The School Girl, the Billboard, and Virgin (2007)
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19235/1/c19235.pdf
QUT / Emma Carroll

Tl;dr - Virgin mobile used CC licensed Flickr photos for a major advertising campaign in Australia resulting in multiple law suits.
Show HN: Create StableDiffusion prompts from any image
https://magicstudio.com/pic2prompt
Hey Folks,
I am Vivek, one of the Founders at MagicStudio.com
As we watched the explosion of creative expression with AI rendered pictures, we also noticed that there has been a struggle in discovering levers that make prompts effective.

We believe that people think visually, and in order to get their imagination rendered, they can get substantial help by understanding how AI models “perceive” images.

This is an attempt to give “simple” prompt ideas to someone who has a picture as a reference.
You can use the prompts in any StableDiffusion class generative tool, including our own (MagicStudio.com/imagine)

Looking forward to see what you folks throw at it…
How to Multiply Numbers that are Close to base 100 in just one line
http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.com/2012/03/multiplying-numbers-that-are-closer-to.html
http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.com/
Bobber Interactive and "The Spouse Test"
http://founderdating.com/bobber-interactive/
"You’re not going to succeed on your own. The set of what you don’t know, that you don’t know, is a fuck-ton bigger than you think it is." The Story of how Bobber Interactive co-founders found each other and why it was so important.
Ask HN: Addressing cold start problems in recommender systems?
Hi All,
I have been working on a recommender engine for a while now and have now stumbled across the cold start problem. The problem here is that whatever data I collect is only an indicator of the likes of the user (for eg., if browsing history is taken as a source, then the basic assumption that people don't browse for what they don't like stands true)
So in such a case, any ideas as to how I train the system initially for dislikes?? I do know that the system will gradually tune to the user preferences with continuous feedback, but I would not like the first run to be very erratic either by choosing random dislikes...
Any ideas folks??
Any help in the matter is greatly appreciated....