jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Startup Technologies
http://blog.tetuanvalley.com/2013/07/startup-technologies.html
In order to better prepare the next generations of Spanish undergraduates on what they really need to know before they enter the real world, were doing the following survey.
Any hackers from Milwaukee?
I am moving back to Milwaukee in the next few weeks and I don't know any hacker types in the area. I grew up in Milwaukee and I never sensed that there was much of a hacker community there compared to Madison.

Am I wrong? Are there Milwaukee hackers out there?
Newest app phenomenon: cheating on tests
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=763011
C'mon, you know that's what it's for.
Finally Tmux pairing from anywhere, on _your_ box
http://iamvery.com/2013/11/16/tmux-pairing-anywhere-on-your-box.html
Remote pair programming with tmux has always been a little tricky. Usually you need a box in the cloud, or at least port forwarding setup on your router (Bad Things™). By George, I think I've found a solution!
Show HN: Data Austerity Notation
https://github.com/djhaskin987/dan/blob/main/README.md
Designed to replace JSON, YAML, and EDN; at least for everything I need those languages for.
How many of you have taken an Autistic Spectrum Quotient Test?
http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/AutismSpectrumQuotient/AutismSpectrumQuotient.aspx
Some of my family have made comments about me showing traits of being higher up on the autistic spectrum than average. So I decided to have a quick go of an 'online test'... yes I know it's probably not very accurate and is no substitute to talking to a professional, I was just interested and not too bothered if I am or not.

I 'scored' a 33 which apparently puts me in the Aspergers range.

Would be interesting to see how many of you are also above average on the spectrum...
Show HN: Docker-Like Tool from Scratch
https://github.com/ntk148v/koker
Koker is a tiny educational-purpose Docker-like tool, written in Golang. It is compatible with both cgroup v1 and v2.
Sony Gets a New Threat – “Anonymous” Says Hackers Aren’t Korean
http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/12/21/sony-gets-a-new-threat-anonymous-says-hackers-arent-korean-release-film-or-more-hacks-coming
http://pastebin.com/xEmKN3ui
Ask HN: What's an inspirational pop book about Computer Science?
A friend of mine just asked me: There are many popular non-fiction books addressing the harmony/beauty/philosophy of physics that really stir up the curiosity and imagination of readers. What's the best example of such a book for Computer Science?

My friend is looking for a popular book on computer science that:

+ is understandable by a freshman.

+ shows the beauty of computer science.

+ gives an overview of main streams in computer science research and applications.

+ gives some visions, e.g. imaginative perspectives and/or philosophical thoughts, on computer science in the future.
Live blogging from DrupalCon Paris 2009
http://www.wearepropeople.com/blog/2009-08-20/live-blogging-drupalcon-paris-2009
Propeople will do live blogging from the DrupalCon Paris 2009. This year, DrupalCon features 800+ attendees, 100+ sessions, 3 conference days, 2 code sprints and a day of commercial Drupal training.
Backbone Fundamentals 
https://github.com/addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals#thebasics
Great beginners tutorial
Show HN: The 300 Alliance (Indie iOS Devs Rejoice)
http://signup.300alliance.com/
We're building a new kind of affiliate network where indie iOS developers can join in and help each other get more visibility for their Apps.
What we're doing different from existing networks:
1. It's targeted on Indie developers without money to spend on Ads - so it's free
2. The affiliate promotion will show up only once in a life time of a user
3. It will not take the user out of the App to download the affiliated apps
4. We're using an algorithm we're borrowing from recommender systems to show the users Apps they might actually like
If you're interested sign-in on our Launch Page - we expect to launch our first version in 4-6 weeks.

http://signup.300alliance.com/
Image recognition technology goes shopping
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2012/03/05/image-recognition-technology-goes-shopping/
OculusAI develops "Productify" app that allows users to submit photos to shop for similar items online, instead of searching with metadata tags.
Perl not so bad at Unicode
http://training.perl.com/OSCON2011/gbu/index.html
Following the smackdown from tchrist as an answer to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-perl-avoid-utf-8-by-default it's worth looking over his unicode-and-you summary that was recently presented at OSCON.
Coronavirus Patient Dodged a Bullet with Hydroxychloroquine
Mar 22, 2020,01:43pm EDT

"Two scientists at major university centers reviewed the French trial for me. They agreed, separately, that while the study is preliminary, small, and not without flaws, its findings were strong enough, given the drugs’ known safety records, to guide treatment decisions in a crisis.

“Despite the limitations of this study, in the absence of any effective treatment, in this urgent situation, this Plaquenil and Azithromycin combination therapy should be given to patients with COVID-19 as a treatment option,” Ying Zhang, a professor of microbiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote in an email. “For now, there is no time to wait."

Brian Fallon, a research scientist and clinical trials investigator at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, agreed on the study’s overall merit despite the patients who dropped out. After analyzing the data and counting all six dropouts as treatment failures, he said the overall rate of improvement was still statistically significant for the entire group, though not for the hydroxychloroquine group alone."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marybethpfeiffer/2020/03/22/one-patient-dodges-a-covid-bullet-is-she-a-harbinger-or-outlier/#4b68d9155b84
Boot Sequence Attacks
http://zitstif.no-ip.org/?p=401
http://zitstif.no-ip.org/
Show HN: How to Sell? Spin Selling: Situation, Problem, Implication, Need-Payoff
https://vivipic.com/templates?q=storytelling
SPIN selling is one of the most prominent sales methodologies.
Vivipic made SPIN image templates for sellers so that you can use this concept for your Amazon product images easily. Don't waste time wondering what you should put on your images. Our storytelling templates guide you to present all the info customers need to make a buying decision.

Try it and see if it works!
Ask HN: As a non-tech solo founder, should I hire this dev to build my MVP?
I've been working on an idea for a web app over the past several months, creating detailed mockups and designing the framework and functionality. My goal is to build a company out of it as I believe the concept has potential and is built to fulfill a direct need I have in my full time job. I have just started learning the basics of programming but feel that I wouldn't be able to reach the level of proficiency necessary to hack together a suitable MVP within any reasonable amount of time. I have a bit of money saved up so I'm looking to hire somebody to build it for me.

I spoke with a Rails developer tonight who I was referred to by a freelance dev I met with to hash out the details of a functional spec, who has a lot of experience and is available to work on the project. I am excited to learn more about his capabilities but find myself at a crossroads:

Do I pay a higher hourly rate now and get a clean app out there in the wild, or do I find somebody on elance or guru who will do it for cheap but might not be as clean? As a non-tech founder, the goal is to gain enough traction with the app to eventually attract devs to work on it in a co-founder/CTO type role. I have a bit of $ but not infinite and would definitely need a fair amount for legal fees and other costs associated with the business. Curious to hear from anybody who has been in a similar situation before, or who has good advice to offer.
Show HN: Stop Hate and Anger in Slack
https://healthydebate.ai/
After working in toxic environment as engineer, I've built this tool in one month, and looking for your feedback.
Google Streetview + Google+ Hangouts = Game Mashup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdAlI-5YqNg
Race against others to find specified works of art as you utilize hints that assist you in searching The Palace of Versailles. Navigate through the map as you would within Google Maps Street View and, thanks to facial tracking, pan the camera simply by rotating your head.
Moztrap - Open Source Test Case Management
https://github.com/mozilla/moztrap
Written by Mozilla on django.
Pocket Tees by a high school senior
http://libraapparel.com
PLEASE go checkout my new clothing company! We make rad pocket tees! :)
A tested and proven tradeshow checklist (by Jason Cohen)
http://blog.asmartbear.com/tradeshow-tips-checklist.html
If you have ever went for a major conference and realized you forgot something.. This guide is useful and provides a sanity check for the stress of a trade-show/conference. The content is still hugely relevant, as conferences for certain industries (healthcare, environmental) are still important events to meet business partners.
A Pragmatic Approach to Problem Solving
http://blog.webnographer.com/2012/12/a-pragmatic-approach/
What everybody - not just programmers - can learn from good software development practices and how one can apply a pragmatic approach to become more efficient and get things done while maintaining the best quality possible.
Why Did Aaron Swartz Face More Prison Time Than Killers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a91WYyhnCP0
The video is a little bit old but it explains the situation very well and I just saw it.
Howto: Testing NodeJS with Jenkins and Mocha
http://johnhamelink.com/blog/2012/11/13/testing-nodejs-with-jenkins/
NodeJS is awesome. I’ve used it for many pet projects and have worked on commercial projects which have made good use of Node in sticky situations. When it comes to testing Node, we’re spoiled. My favourite testing framework is Mocha and my favourite testing library is should.js. We’ll be using that alongside Jenkins to build an automated test suite for our demo repository.
UN-Sopa wikipedia
https://gist.github.com/1632296
Bookmarklet that lets you work today
CMD+SPACE 005 - Being A Harsh Self Critic, with Marco Arment
http://www.70decibels.com/cmdspace/2012/8/28/005-being-a-harsh-self-critic-with-marco-arment.html
On this episode Myke is joined by Marco Arment. They discuss his time at Tumblr, Instapaper, his blog – Marco.org – and a little on the Twitter API.
Top Dying Industries
http://startupblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/top-10-dying-industries/
Not a lot of surprises, but interesting nonetheless. Some of these seem to be dying because of the economic climate, some because of globalism, and yet others because of disruptive technology.

Here are the 10 listed:

1) Apparel Manufacturing

2) Music Stores

3) Manufactured Home Dealers

4) Photo Development

5) Wired Communications

6) Mills

7) Newspaper Publishing

8) DD, Game, & Video Rental

9) Formal Wear & Costume Rental

10) Video Post Production
NASA Solar Observatory Will Make the Best IMAX Movie of the Sun Ever (video)
http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/2/11/nasa-launches-solar-observatory-letting-us-look-directly-at-the-sun-in-imax 
The nearly $1 billion machine is launching today, one day after its Atlas V rocket taxi shut down due to high winds. Using IMAX quality resolution, its cameras and sensors will study the kind of solar weather that's set to interrupt communications and GPS systems in coming years, sending back 1.5 terrabites of data a day.
Poll: Would You Buy Facebook?
http://java.dzone.com/polls/poll-would-you-buy-facebook
The hot topic in the tech world today is Facebook's IPO, wherein big-name investors are scrambling for Facebook share's initially priced at $38 per share. These shares have already hit the market, and the price is rising quickly. We'd like to hear what you think of all this hullaballoo. Please participate in the poll below and let us know: Would you buy stock in Facebook?
SharedHashFile
https://github.com/simonhf/sharedhashfile
Share Hash Tables Stored In Memory Mapped Files Between Arbitrary Processes & Threads
Nick McKeown on how he can finance an altruistic spam blocker
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/21/CMR8P8A78.DTL
"We are looking for Bay Area people with innovative ideas who have put them to use. Please e-mail candidates to brightideas@sfchronicle.com."
Show HN: Mystery Gift Machine
http://www.mysterygiftmachine.com
Seeking feedback on the site and votes in TechCocktail's "Boston's Hottest Showcase Startup" Poll http://j.mp/NlZiqQ

We launched a totally new site this morning and are near 1st in voting against all odds (we have 30 Twitter followers @MrEGiftMachine versus 3,000+ for our competition).

Can HN push us over the finish line?
Ask HN: Cheaper alternative to Yodlee api?
Does anyone know any cheaper alternatives to Yodlee.com's banking API?
Show HN: LayoutHelper, display Android layouts on your devices without compiling
http://layouthelper.com/
Hi folks.

Today is the day I've been working towards.
My first "Show HN" post.

The idea for LayoutHelper was simple enough. I wanted to quickly see my layouts and drawables on all my Android devices without having to compile and work through the app. It's not a replacement for the ADT Graphical Layout tab but rather it compliments it.

There is a free feature limited demo that is still quite useful if you would like to give it a try.

What do you think?
Why WoW Should Save the Global Economy
http://antonioevans.com/taxing-in-game-economies/
The global economy is in a pretty precarious state and quite recently. In no time at all, the real world will be able to recover from economic crisis with the creative collective power of gaming. Huzzah!
Show HN: Open API and GraphQL Fuzzing via GitHub Actions
https://github.com/schemathesis/schemathesis/releases/tag/v3.16.0
Schemathesis is a specification-centric API fuzzing tool for Open API and GraphQL-based applications.

I've been building Schemathesis GitHub app for a while and now it is ready to use. You run it as a part of your workflow, then it comes to PRs and adds little reports about API fuzzing results.

Folks, I'd appreciate your feedback about the tool or its GitHub integration :)
Manager Mathematics
http://blog.assembleron.com/2007/07/16/manager-mathematics/
A simple equation to see how much money is being wasted each day due to stoppers. And without havint into account the fact that these stoppers break the flow.
Ask HN: Best Way to Leave WhatsApp?
I am considering leaving WhatsApp for good.

What would be the best way? In terms of:

1) alternative (Signal, Telegram)?

2) how to make sure you can stay connected with the most important friends (just tell all of them? Is there a better way?)
Health Insurance - premiums up 29% - what to do?
I have a 6 person start up, premiums are up 29% again (last year they quoted a 37% increase). Current deal is pretty generous, how stingy to be on the insurance going forward?
Show HN: Hacker News Mobile - Twitter Bootstrap
http://yhack.net
Weekend project. Got tired of the rough layout and styling of others, so I built a Twitter Bootstrap-powered, mobile optimized reader for Hacker News.

Uses the ruby-hackernews gem:
https://github.com/bolthar/ruby-hackernews
Soundnode App – Soundcloud for desktop (Win/Mac)
http://www.soundnodeapp.com/
A open source project called Soundnode App that support Soundcloud for desktop (Wind/MAc)
Show HN: Win premium domain names for $0.20
https://www.lottonom.com/
Our zero-risk lotteries provides a way for you to win premium domain names for as low as $0, while selling your premium domains for thousands, if not, millions of dollars.

Each domain listed on lottoNom.com is sold in it‘s own lottery game created by seller. Winner is randomly chosen with verifyable random numbers to provide a fair game to every participents, which means no single entity can control who wins.
Ask HN: Magazines and Journals of Computing and Technology
Hello HN. I was thinking the other day about some influential printed computing and technology magazines from years past...

Which made me want to ask: what do you consider to be some of the best magazines, periodicals or journals from the annals of computing history?

I’m thinking mostly available in printed form but understand that the lines are blurry.

Some on my list:
- IEEE Spectrum
- Communications of the ACM
- InfoWorld
- MacWorld
- Bloomberg BusinessWeek

What would make it on your list?
Tell HN: Windows is overwriting Grub boot loader again
For a while, Windows played nice with dual boot. With the latest update it overwrites the boot loader and reboots go straight to Windows.

What are they hoping for over here: that people with a dual boot setup might think "oh Windows 10 this is such a nice OS i dont think i will go back to linux boot ever again" .

Jesus H Christ.

Can someone from Microsoft comment on the thought process here?
YC News Advice Needed: Logo redesigned
http://www.streamfocus.com
Based on previous YC comments and others, we've redesigned the logo and would appreciate your thoughts on it, good or bad. :)
Black Market Database Access To Scholarly Journals
http://chronicle.com/article/Academic-Publisher-Steps-Up/128031/
via http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/06/26/1958256/Black-Market-Database-Access-To-Scholarly-Journals
Show HN: Ranking ML conference papers based on their citation count
https://mdturp.github.io/highest_cited_ml_conference_paper/
Hey everyone,
I built this little website that keeps an updated ranking of scientific papers published
at the ICLR, ICML & NeurIPS conferences (2017-today) based on their citation count.

Hope it can be useful! Please let me know what you think :)

PS: You can also find some additional details about the project in this short
article: https://mdturp.ch/highest-cited-ml-conference-paper/
What language will mobile phone apps be written in, in the near future?
http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/09/10/what-language-will-mobile-phone-apps-be-written-in-in-the-near-future
Beyond simply asking the question, I also created an Inkling Market for it. What do you guys think?
Dotter - World map built one tweet at a time :-)
http://xonecas.com:1234/
You can also view the source here:
https://github.com/xonecas/dotter
Thoughts on a YC bubble
http://sanketfirodiya.posterous.com/y-combinator-bubble-or-not
Have we entered another tech bubble of overzealous founders who are trying to build things which the world simply does not need?
Science in Our life and day to day activity
http://akshar.co.in/blog/archives/293
a deeper look at how the popular theorems in science play a significant role in our day to day life.
Whats the common factor between real estate agents and terrorists?
Why News channels suck ?
If you test positive for breast cancer does it really mean you have breast cancer for sure?
Find the answers.
Popular tablet-based cloud browser spinning out...
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/eng/3634353312.html
and looking for engineer for founding team
Show HN: Statusping.co – Website Monitoring Service
https://statusping.co
Hi everyone

Just launched a website monitoring service https://statusping.co. It constantly monitors your website and notifies you whenever it is unavailable or returns an unexpected response.

If it seems like something useful to you please try it out https://statusping.co and let me know if you have any questions, feedback or anything else :)
Microsoft is loosing œBackwards Compatibility Religion
http://forums.zfirm.com/entry.php?44-Backwards-Compatibility-Religion-Microsoft-Printing-and-You
Microsoft is loosing œBackwards Compatibility Religion , breaks printing in Windows 2008. Company admits breaking printing and refuses to fix it.
Show HN: I built a self-hosted and scalable link-shortener
https://github.com/mohitsinghs/wormholes
Hi HN,

I was curious how to build a scalable and distributed link-shortener. So I built one in Go.

There is no dashboard or production config as of now, since I am still deciding on those.
Stanley Milgram: The Perils of Obedience
http://www.paulgraham.com/perils.html
A thought-provoking study of authority vs. responsibility. It becomes relevant to startups when they start hiring.
Show HN: An open-source alternative to Firebase with GraphQL: Rocketgraph
https://rocketgraph.io/
Rocketgraph is a complete backend that makes it easier to build your web application. We are talking minutes. It comes with a set of incredibly powerful functionality:

1. Authentication: Rocketgraph provides authentication right out of the box. Supports email/password, social and magic link. More coming soon.

2. PostgreSQL DB

3. GraphQL API: We provide a Hasura console where you can manage your Postgres data and add granular level authorization rules. Hasura provides a GraphQL API over your SQL data.

4. Serverless: If for any other reason you want to write your own backend, you can do it by connecting a github repo. Each commit is then compiled to a node function on AWS Lambda automatically.

5. Stripe integration: coming soon.

6. FaunDB integration: coming soon.

Please check it out and let me know in the comments below.
Litecoin (P2P cryptocurrency) goes past $1 USD parity today
http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/comments/1bes28/litecoin_hits_100/
I remember reading about Bitcoin for the first time on HN briefly before it reached $1. Now Litecoin has passed the same milestone.

It seems like now that ASICs are mining Bitcoin, GPU miners are moving to Litecoin which is secured with the deliberately ASIC resistant Scrypt algorithm. I read this recently and think I mostly agree with it: http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/comments/1bbfdc/will_mining_litecoins_make_me_more_money_than/
Show HN: Learn any language by speaking to a Language Model
https://www.quazel.com
Hi all,

Last year I wanted to learn how to SPEAK greek. I did not really need to learn perfect grammar or know how to spell every word perfectly (fun fact: greek has three letters that are pronounced like "i"). Since private tutoring is expensive, dependent on the teacher's schedule, and 1-1 conversations don't scale, I started working on Quazel.

Quazel is a language learning website where you can talk in any* language with an AI(aka language model) in different scenes. You do so by using your device's microphone and hearing the AI's response through your speakers. There is a lot more to it, but I'll let you discover that for yourselves.

My team and I built this tool in a relatively short timeframe, so you should have no problem finding some bugs.

Ask: If any of you are currently trying to learn a new language, I would love to better tailor Quazel to your needs. Send me an email: philipp.hadjimina@berkeley.edu

Cheers
Philipp

*: Currently, we only support Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (from Portugal), and Swedish.
Ask HN: How can I avoid Amazon fulfillment?
I have recently placed orders for regular household goods on eBay and Etsy. Three orders where I specifically picked eBay and Etsy to not enrich Jeff Bezos. But for all three of these packages, they came on Amazon packaging, shipped from an Amazon FC. How am I supposed to avoid Amazon and still shop at these large, market based online retailers?
MoCL - out in 3 weeks
http://wukix.com/dist/mocl_eclm2013.pdf
MoCL presentation from ECLM 2013 - new Common Lisp implementation for iOS and Android