jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Diagram of My Post Concussive Syndrome Speech Disorder: A Malfunctioning Word Queue
http://www.memestreams.net/users/jello/blogid10335566/
Last Monday I was in a car accident and suffered a severe concussion that didn't manifest symptoms for 24 hours (weird, I know). Since then I've periodically lost the ability to speak. I go from normal speech to slurring, to mute. Its being looked at, but the reason I made this thread is because... I realized that it is exactly like TCP packets overloading the sliding window, or a web server with limited resources getting too many requests: overload the throughput on the queue and everything after that is lost.

So I made a diagram tonight when I had a bad episode to prove I can still think.

When things are bad, and I fill the shrunken word queue, I can't speak until it self empties. Full empty seems to take between 30 seconds and one minute, and seems to happen at a linear rate. However, if I limit myself to the actual word queue/minute throughput, I can speak continuously for a longer period. Normal speed speech very quickly fills the queue though.

Strange, but accurate. If my mind is a Turing Machine, my word queue is malfunctioning and is too small to hold enough words to speak normally.
Eterni.me - Become Virtually Immortal
http://eterni.me
A team of engineers, designers and business people at MIT EDP tries to defeat death by preserving your memories into an intelligent avatar, that can interact with your close ones after you pass away.
Ask HN: Buy the M1 MacBook Pro or Wait for M2?
My usage: blogging, image and video editing, podcasting. I don't program any longer and even if I do, it'll probably be putting together shell scripts and some python for text processing.

The heaviest usage will be using FFmpeg for some video processing, that my 2015 Macbook Pro handles well enough (for comparison).
Share HN: Rilke on how to be an artist (1903)
"Let me ask you right here to read as little as possible of aesthetic
critiques. They are either prejudiced views that have become petrified
and senseless in their hardened lifeless state, or they are clever
word games. Their views gain approval today but not tomorrow. Works of
art can be described as having an essence of eternal solitude and an
understanding is attainable least of all by critique. Only love can
grasp and hold them and can judge them fairly.

When considering analysis, discussion, or presentation, listen to your
inner self and your feelings every time. Should you be mistaken, after
all, the natural growth of your inner life will guide you slowly and
in good time to other conclusions. Allow your judgements their own
quiet, undisturbed development, which, as with all progress, must come
from deep within and can in no way be forced or hastened. All things
consist of carrying to term and then giving birth. To allow the
completion of every impression, every germ of a feeling deep within,
in darkness, beyond words, in the realm of instinct unattainable by
logic, to await humbly and patiently the hour of the descent of a new
clarity: that alone is to live one's art, in the realm of understanding
as in that of creativity.

In this there is no measuring with time. A year doesn't matter; ten
years are nothing. To be an artist means not to compute or count; it
means to ripen as the tree, which does not force its sap, but stands
unshaken in the storms of spring with no fear that summer might not
follow. It will come regardless. But it comes only to those who live
as though eternity stretches before them, carefree, silent, and
endless. I learn it daily, learn it with many pains, for which I am
grateful. Patience is all."

Letters to a Young Poet, 23 April 1903
Startup Advice for Hacker News Founders
http://johnndege.com/2008/03/31/startup-advice-from-someone-who-lost-a-company/
I recently lost my company so thought I would share some unorthodox advice to Hacker News members.
Is America Rooting for a Twitter Downfall?  Some Evidence.
http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2010/02/08/is-america-rooting-for-a-twitter-downfall-some-evidence/
Media fallout from new data that highlighted Twitter's churn rate.
Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education
https://fundingfyre.com/
Student debt is troubling so many recent graduates that we decided to graduate debt-free from the university. We launched FundingFyre - a database of startup pitch decks, pitch videos and investment memos… all together 1,500+ items. You can filter the resources by funding round, size, etc.

Many of you might be raising Seed or Series-A funding and these resources would be immensely helpful.

We kept it a paid service to earn enough to pay our tuition fees and cover living expenses. But for the HackerNews community, we have a 50% discount, please use code “HN2022”.

We’re four students (Grade 12 to 1st year engineering), we’d love to get your feedback on the tool.
Osborne 1 vs. iPad 2
http://www.stormdriver.com/blog/the-tech-archive-30-years-of-mobile-computing/
We pit Osborne 1 against iPad 2 to see how far we went in last three decades of portable computing.
NewServers: Bare Metal Cloud
http://newservers.com/
"The only server cloud that delivers dedicated servers instead of virtual instances on shared servers."
Why isn't HN infinite scroll?
just curious if the design is intentional
HTML5 Canvas performance: low-level optimization tips and tricks
http://www.elekslabs.com/2012/11/html5-canvas-performance-and_9.html
Low-level optimizations matter even if you write your code in high-level language such as JavaScript. Code is still executed on same hardware as if you write it on C++.
Each JavaScript engine is different. You can have significant performance boost in one browser, but at the same time your fix may make your code slower in another browser. Test your code in all browsers your application must work with.
Keep the balance between code readability and performance considerations. Sometimes it makes sense to inline function even if it makes your code less readable. But always make sure that it brings you desired value: it doesn’t make sense to sacrifice code readability for 2 ms performance boost for code that is already fast enough.
Think about object allocation, memory usage and cache utilization, especially if you work with memory intensive algorithms.
Show HN: Replace “NFT” with “silly JPEG” while browsing
https://github.com/k-wong/nft-to-silly-jpeg
Hey HN,

Years ago PanicSteve wrote a hilarious Chrome extension to replace all instances of "Cloud" with "Butt".

This year, I got annoyed at seeing inane NFT articles everywhere. Thus, NFT-to-Silly-JPEG was born.

Repo above or Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nft-to-silly-jpeg/...
How much are your US insurance premiums for self-employed people?
I was curious how much self-employed people are paying for healthcare for single and family plans. I was commenting on another thread and the suggested premium for someone making $50k was on the high side.

If you could ballpark your income that would be great.
Firefox 29 beta arrives with easy Sync tool....
http://www.freshtechapps.com/firefox-29-beta-arrives-with-easy-sync-tool-customization-mode-and-chrome-like-user-interface-australis/
Firefox 29 beta arrives with easy Sync tool, customization mode and Chrome-like user interface Australis
NodeUp: New Node.js Podcast
http://nodeup.com/2
James Halliday, Isaac Schlueter and Mikeal Rogers: New Node Logo, Browserify Plugins, Node on Windows, NPM on Windows, HTTP Client Rewrite, Node Knockout, and NodeConf SummerCamp
NY Judge rules US cloud firms must provide overseas data
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2341817/us-judge-rules-cloud-firms-including-microsoft-and-google-must-hand-over-data-stored-overseas
Link to the ruling: http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/cases/show.php?db=special&id=398
An Identity Map for Backbone.js
http://blog.shinetech.com/2012/12/24/an-identity-map-for-backbone-js/
At Shine, we’ve been working on a large Backbone.js application recently and found that identity issues relating to long-lived objects caused a number of subtle and not-so-subtle bugs. For us the solution was to introduce an identity map.
Show HN: Simplepdf.eu – a browser-based PDF annotator / editor
https://simplePDF.eu
Hi HN!

I've been working on SimplePDF to solve a problem I encounter weekly: filling out non-editable PDFs [1]

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# About SimplePDF

- The documents you load, edit, fill never see the light of my server, everything is processed locally – no remote uploading anything. This includes the PDF generation.

- There are no analytics / third party tracking your every move (I do collect usage data, but it's fully anonymous and processed and stored on my server): therefore no annoying cookie banner. You can read more on the Privacy Policy [2]

- If someone before you has filled the same document, upon opening it you'll see fields already set, ready to be filled-in, think crowd-sourced fields positioning – saving you time and effort.

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# How does the crowd-sourced positioning of fields work?

When a document is loaded in your browser, a fingerprint of the document binary is made, and sent to the server. The document table consists of: document_id, fingerprint and created_at.

As soon as you start editing a document, a template is created, containing metadata about the fields (x, y, width, height, type of field, background color...) that is then tied to this document you created. Once you save, this template gets sent to the server.

The template table consists of: template_id, document_id, fields (the metadata) as well as created_by_customer_id if you're a customer.

As a result, someone else on the other side of the world opening the same document will see the fields you positioned already there – you just saved them the 5min it took you to position them.

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# What's the tech stack of SimplePDF?

- NextJS on the frontend

- Koa with GraphQL on the backend

- Postgres (Managed Database on Digital Ocean)

- A 10€ droplet on Digital Ocean

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If you have any questions, comments or feedback (good or bad), I'm all ears!

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[1] The assignments my estonian teacher gives me are usually scanned documents that do not have any editable fields in them.

[2] https://www.simplepdf.eu/privacy_policy
Show HN: Pfelk, a customizable pfSense/OPNsense firewall visualization
PFELK is a pfSense/OPNsense firewall traffic visualization solution based on ELK stack. It is a highly customizable tool that let’s you have extensive insight into your network traffic.

Key points:

- pfSense/OPNsense support

- openVPN support

- pfSense/Suricata/Snort dashboards with interactive Maps support (MaxMind GeoIp fields, src -> dest locations, Heatmap, etc.)

- deploy with ansible-playbook, docker or script.

https://github.com/3ilson/pfelk
Show HN: BugCam: Add Video to Your Bug Reports
http://www.getbugcam.com
Today I'm launching my project BugCam. It all started four years ago when I sent an email to the folks at Fog Creek Software, asking them to add a video capture tool, just like their screenshot tool, into FogBugz.

Their response: that sounds awesome, why don't you build it!

Well, here we are. We've been in private beta for 3 months, have some happy users, and we're ready to release BugCam to the world today!

BugCam makes it easy to create bug videos and share them via your favorite bug tracking tool (at this point, Bugzilla, FogBugz, Gemini, JIRA, Redmine, Mantis, and Trac. Additional integrations are on the way).

While not a completely new idea, we'd like to help in popularizing the the concept of using "bug videos" to enable testers and developers to save time and communicate more efficiently.

We hope you like it! Would love to hear your feedback and comments here. Windows only for now.

P.S. - I know Windows apps (and desktop apps in general) are quite out-of-style, but we felt it was the only way to deliver the user experience that we wanted.
Music to Hack to: Nintendo Mixtape
http://www.nintendomixtape.com
As far as I know, this is the very first album release on Hacker News. :-)
Save Money By Deleting Your Cookies--A Case Study
http://www.appscout.com/2009/01/save_money_by_deleting_your_co.php
"the room at bally's started at 69 bucks.. then it was 59 bucks.. i just rebooked it again at 50 bucks! i figure if i keep going they're going to pay me to stay there. meanwhile, i also think i figured something else out.. that rate came up after i had been doing some housecleaning on my laptop.. and deleted all the cookies and the web browser history. i wonder if that made me appear on the bally's web site to be a totally new customer?"
Algorithms as a Service
http://www.mikesingleton.net/2010/02/19/algorithms-as-a-service/
Cloud based services are creating huge efficiency increases in cost and development. AWS did it with file storage, VPS systems, queues (and more), drop.io is doing it with media conversion and transfer, Twillio is doing it with telephony...
Localmind closes funding and is moving to SF
http://blog.localmind.com/post/7574018517/localmind-closes-funding-and-is-moving-to-sf
TC article here: http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/13/location-based-qa-platform-localmind-raises-600k/
Did GitHub Suspend Egor Homakov account?
http://homakov.blogspot.com/2012/03/im-disappoint-github.html
I hope this isn't the beginning of something ugly with GitHub.
Ask HN: where do you get your SSL certificates?
I got a certificate from GoDaddy, and it only seems to work without throwing user warnings on only a handful of browsers (FF on windows, but not on Linux, not chrome, etc). Shelling
out several hundred bucks for a Verisign certificate seems awfully steep for a shoe string operation. Are there better alternatives?
Enterprisify your Java Class Names
http://projects.haykranen.nl/java/
Make sure your Java class names are Enterprisified(tm), use the Enterprisify tool!
Show HN: ChessBoss – enhancing physical chessboards with computer vision
https://devpost.com/software/chess-boss
We built ChessBoss at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon this week. It didn’t make the top 10 but I thought Hacker News might think it’s pretty cool.

https://devpost.com/software/chess-boss

There are these really cool smart chessboards that can suggest moves and track your games... but they’re $400 and weigh 19 pounds. And of course there are apps that can analyze games but tracking and inputting games by hand is a huge pain. Or fully-digital chess apps... but board games are way more fun in real life!

We wondered: “why can’t you just do that in software and bring the best parts of chess apps into the real world?” So we did!

A camera passes a feed of the board through our machine learning model which interprets the state of the board and passes it off to Stockfish to display move suggestions in real time.

We didn’t quite get to recording the state over time in PGN but we hope to continue this project and add that soon!

Would love to know what you think. We’re working on enhancing other board games with computer vision as well; if you want to help us beta test sign up at https://boardboss.com
Is it down for everyone or just me?
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
A Quick Way To See If a website is down for Everyone or Just You written by Twitter developer Alex Payne
Projectbook – a free collection of 100 project ideas for learning
https://projectbook.code.brettchalupa.com/
I've been hoarding ideas for what would make good learning projects when exploring new languages, frameworks, and libraries for years. So I decided to flesh those ideas out, create some mock-ups, and share them with the public. I originally just had ~20 projects, but as I kept working on it, more ideas kept coming up and it ended up coming to 109 ideas so far. Hope they offer some inspiration or guidance for those trying to learn but not sure what to build.

Projectbook is free and open source. Contributions are welcome. And I'll keep adding to it as I come across ideas, resources, and implementations.
Robots.txt is a suicide note
http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Robots.txt
"Archive Team interprets ROBOTS.TXT as damage and temporary madness, and works around it. Everyone should. If you don't want people to have your data, don't put it online."
Show HN: Two-way Jira sync in a collaborative spreadsheet and Gantt
https://www.visor.us/landing/visor-for-jira-launch
Hello HN,

Our startup nearly died 2 years ago. We kept losing customers to spreadsheets. And it made us see a problem right under our nose: everyone just wanted flexibility & speed from a spreadsheet. But they have to stay in sync with {Jira / Salesforce / insert SaaS app}.

When we followed this thread, we discovered how broken the integration experience was for flexible products like Airtable, Smartsheet, Monday, and Google Sheets. Their big problem is that they transform external data into their own format. This makes setup harder, since you have to get the mapping just right. And often you can’t sync back.

We took a different path when building Visor. We essentially made a data lake & ETL tool with a front-end. Visor integrates with your Jira instance, reads its schema, helps you import the right data, and lets you work in a flexible spreadsheet* that syncs both ways. There’s also an interactive Gantt & Timeline view.

*Spreadsheet is a generous term for now. Formulas are still on the roadmap. As are many true “spreadsheet” features. But we’re working towards it.

Our roadmap is public, here: https://support.visor.us/visor-roadmap

And for VueJS devs, we eked out more performance from Vue 2 by modifying the core, documented here: https://www.reddit.com/r/vuejs/comments/u6tzv8/how_we_resolv...

For database geeks, you might enjoy learning about the realtime graph DB we built to power the product: https://blog.visor.us/cloudstore-part-1/

I’ve seen so many great companies start out by launching on HN. It’s quite a special personal moment finally to be sharing with you all.

I’m happy to answer questions, take criticism, and generally hear what you think.
Microsoft recommends WA and CA employees work from home
https://news.microsoft.com/2020/03/04/kurt-delbenes-march-4-guidance-to-king-county-employees/
Just got notice from Microsoft HR that we're to work from home when possible due to COVID-19, through 3/25.

Edit: official announcement https://news.microsoft.com/2020/03/04/kurt-delbenes-march-4-guidance-to-king-county-employees/
Show HN: Search Engine for Blogs
https://blogsurf.io
Hey HN,

Blog discovery is a problem [0] due to the decentralized nature of online writing. Everyone writes on their own site or platform, and there’s no central place that brings everything together. Google results prioritize large media publications over blogs, so we need something else.

Blog Surf is an attempt to organize all of the great online writing done by individuals. I launched this project last year as a directory of personal blogs [1], but have now rebuilt it from scratch into a full-text search engine for blog posts.

You can search for blog posts, and filter by publish date and reading time. Blogs are manually reviewed before being added.

Posts are sorted by MarketRank [2], which is a measure of popularity across various online communities. Most projects that have attempted to organize blogs lack any way to measure the quality of a post, reducing their utility. With MarketRank, you can expect the top results for any query to be something you’d want to read.

The mental model for searching Blog Surf is “I want to see the best essays on X”

There’s also a directory so you can browse blogs by category, if you want a throwback to the Yahoo days.

If you’re a blogger yourself, you can check out the rankings page to see how your blog compares to others.

If you want to play around with things, we have a search API, and the full post dataset is also available for download.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28591880

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26506126

[2] https://dkb.io/post/market-rank
Plot.ly: Matlab for the Web
https://plot.ly/plot
I've been working on this tool for a few months. Would love to hear any and all feedback from the HN community and MATLAB/Numpy folks.
Show HN: My Book Bulletproof TLS and PKI (Second Edition) Is Out
https://www.feistyduck.com/books/bulletproof-tls-and-pki/
Hello HN.

I am excited to share with you my new book, Bulletproof TLS and PKI. I've worked in this space since the very early days (think SSLv2), always frustrated with the fact that the field is vast but the documentation poor. That first led me to create SSL Labs (which ended up being very popular) and then the first edition of my book (in 2014), where I aimed to cover everything a curious person needed to know about SSL/TLS and PKI. Most importantly, it's a very practical book that you can use to just learn what you need at that moment. The second edition (just out) adds coverage of TLS 1.3. I publish two chapters as a separate (and free) OpenSSL Cookbook. There's another free sample chapter as well.

The best part of Bulletproof TLS and PKI is that it's a living book. There's nothing worse than obsolete documentation! Because none of the traditional publishers were interested in that sort of thing, we did everything ourselves. The manuscript is in DocBook, I write using OxygenXML, my copyeditor uses it as well, and there's a nightly build process that generates everything. We can even show exact differences across versions, for example you can see that here: https://blog.ivanristic.com/2022/02/bulletproof-tls-and-pki-...

I hope you'll enjoy the book.
Simple - An Obtvse clone written in Python
https://github.com/orf/simple
Not my project, but found this interesting...
GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=59184
Maybe Google can rethink their selection and make a change? It is strange to oppose SOPA on the one hand and use the services of one of its proponents at the same time. #justsayin
The Inquirer reaches end-of-life
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life
The Inquirer is closing the curtains. This is sad, I loved their style.

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life