jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Who needs angel financing/help?  Testing hacker news for this purpose.
http://betashop.com/post/249983268/new-investments
I'm currently evaluating potential new angel investments. Checking out hacker news as a potential source of discovering interesting startups in need of some help.
Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
https://coffeehouse.chat/hn#
One-on-one, because it's simpler:

- When one stops talking, the other starts.

- No groups, no hierarchy, no status.

Voicechat, because it's more intimate then text and more private then video.

With other HN readers, because that creates some common ground.
The open-source "svblte like" blogging platform
http://simvla.net
Simvla is an open source Publishing Platform and Blogging Network.
IE8/9 crash with CSS only
http://schinken.github.io/experiments/iecrash/
Attention: this link can crash your IE!

See an explanation here: http://www.hackerspace-bamberg.de/Benutzer:Schinken/CSS-IE-Crash

Maybe someone can change the URL for this entry... looks like i can't ;)
What happens when a basebal goes at nearly the speed of light (what-if.XKCD)
http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
Read the whole article but note the closing - A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered "hit by pitch", and would be eligible to advance to first base.
Show HN: A collaborative pixel drawing game for when you're bored (Attempt #2)
https://pixel.vkoskiv.com
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167391

Hello again HN!
It's been 3 months since I last submitted this project and the back-end server software melted down.

I was really bummed that many people didn't get to play, so I've spent most of my spare time since that last post completely rewriting the back-end server software using small, carefully selected dependencies (C99, sqlite, mongoose.ws & cJSON)
I've done some basic performance testing and I'm cautiously optimistic that it can now handle up to ~1000 concurrent users.

If you have any ideas for improvements, do let me know! Bots are permitted, but try and do something creative instead of just filling the canvas with junk :^)

You can view the source code for the new back-end here: https://github.com/vkoskiv/nmc2
You can also check out a recent time-lapse here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUmnUvTqn6M
The time-lapse gets generated from the server log output using this tool: https://github.com/zouppen/pikselipeli-parser/

(Note to HN staff: It wouldn't let me repost this unless it had a 'slightly different url', hence the sneaky redirect there. If this is a big no-no, I apologize, otherwise feel free to swap out the URL to the redirected one :^))
I'm in operations
Ask HN: What have you done to improve your desk ergonomics?
I've been having elbow pain recently and decided to do an audit of my desk ergonomics. It turns out, my desk was too high to enforce proper typing technique. I've been looking into some split keyboards, as well as vertical mouses.

What have you guys done as professionals that sit at a desk most of the day to improve your ergonomics?
Skyim breaking Steam record -- a singleplayer game has 240,000 users online
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
Almost twice the former record keeper -- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, released in 2009
Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/25/apple-wwdc-2013-tickets-sold-out
Sorry, tickets are sold out.
However, you will still be able to take advantage of great WWDC content.
Stay tuned for exciting announcements on videos and more.
Ask HN: My lifetime mentor died. How to move on?
On September 4th my father and lifetime business mentor was murdered. We spoke daily, often for more than an hour, about business, psychology, economics, or simply life. Since his death, I barely know what to do with myself. Even nearly three months later, I'm still emotionally in limbo.

I've come to the conclusion that I must move forward. I'm sure some of you (sadly) have similar experiences - how did you put your life together again?
Show HN: Dockerized – Run CLI tools without installation
https://github.com/datastack-net/dockerized
Dockerized is like npx for unix tools: Run popular cli tools without installation.

Example:

dockerized npm init
dockerized python2 somescript.py

Run an older version of a tool:

NODE_VERSION=15.0 dockerized node

Use cases:

- Maintaining multiple versions of an app

- Installing without polluting host machine

- Quickly run some commands you may not have installed

Features:

- intuitive use. Just the original command, but with 'dockerized' in front.

- dockerized apps can access the current directory and read/modify files, just like native apps.

- no need to know which docker image this package comes from.

- support for tools which don't have an official docker image.

- container cleaned up after use.

- ability to specify the version.

- version specification per directory (share exact versions with your team mates).

The inner workings are pretty simple, it's just a docker-compose file.

As expected with dockerization, there are limitations related to networking, and file persistence (outside current dir), but it can make life easy for simple scenarios.

Pull requests welcome!
Ask HN: What is really wrong with the US economy, really?
I only have my own situation and experience to go on, so I will start there. I'm in my late 30's. I make roughly $110k per year. I am single, no dependents. I live in a studio apartment near Seattle. I drive a 10 year old economy car. I do eat out some of the time, but nothing extravagant, and no drinks. Overall, I am not absolutely as frugal as I could possibly be, but I think I'm fairly frugal. My biggest expenses in the last couple years have been rent, medical, and dental in that order. My retirement is very under-funded. I do have more savings than most people, but it isn't enough to change my lifestyle in any big way.

A couple things. I am not here to complain about my lot in life, or seek advice. I understand that I'm better off than most. I realize it is unavoidable that some people will argue that the economy is better than ever, and it's all about personal responsibility. I accept that - I can just ignore those comments.

The only people I know who seem to be comfortable and have their financial lives in order have had steady, high middle-management type positions for a long time. They're a small minority of the people I know.

My question is, what is the problem, really? I am fairly sure this is not the type of situation my grandparents lived in. I feel under a lot of pressure all the time, and yet it seems I am not quite 'making it' financially or materially. Is that how it is for everybody? Is something wrong with the economy, or is this just how the human hierarchy has always worked? Is it me, the country, the region, the times, or everything, or nothing?
High blood pressure damages brain long before old age
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-blood-pressure-brain-damage-20121101,0,3791840.story
...the brain integrity of a 40-year-old with hypertension, for instance, was roughly equivalent to that of a person 7.2 years older whose systolic blood pressure reading was in the normal range.
We're only being dishonest to get your attention. Join us!
In response to a story currently on the front page titled "FB is the Only Other Platform Used by 20% of College Students. Join Us!" [1]

Do you actually want to hire people who are going to fall for dishonest linkbait like that?

YC companies, I understand that you get to post job ads on HN and they automatically show up on the front page. Great. But please, show some respect to the people you are trying to recruit, and show some respect for this exclusive privilege PG gives you.

If you read the full post[1] you'll see that what they are referring to is the college students at a single university. At this university, apparently, 20% of students signed up at launch, and 30% of those use it daily. Making it more like 6% of students, at one university, who use their app. Probably a little more if you count weekly or monthly users. But still. That, in comparison to what the headline claims (20% of college students, everywhere) is ridiculously inaccurate.

And also, what about Google? Way, way more than 20% of college students use Gmail, Docs, etc. And what about things like Craigslist? It is even claimed that their app can tell you "exactly what you need to get done every day, with no input". No input is qualitatively different than "very little input, but it's really easy and quick."

You can, and should, do better. In addition to misleading people being a mean thing to do (even when effective), it doesn't do you any good to mislead your own future employees, anyway. Geez.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6269664
How sharp is the iPhone 4's screen? High Res 4 vs 3GS images
http://scobleizer.com/2010/06/13/how-sharp-is-the-iphone-4-0s-screen/#
not shabby.
How to intercept Skype calls
http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/258827,how-to-intercept-skype-calls.aspx
"Researchers have discovered trick that allows encrypted VoIP calls like Skype to be deciphered without the need to crack encryption.

The method, dubbed "Phonotactic Reconstruction", exploited the Linear Predictive Filter, a system used by Voice over Internet Protocol platforms to transmit conversations by creating data sets from spoken English.

The researchers from the University of North Carolina said while you shouldn't ditch Skype, cryptographic system that leaked as much information as they managed to get are immediately deemed insecure.
Airplane is tripping on Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=100525912373773450724.000488df669787f20600d&ll=35.007009,-81.019181&spn=0.001619,0.003484&t=h&z=19
Weeeeeee
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?hp
I say less PowerPoint, more Latex.
Alaska National Weather Service office begs “please pay us” in secret message
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/10/04/weather-service-office-begs-please-pay-us-in-secret-message/
This may help:
http://i.imgur.com/N6XipNQ.jpg

From:
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1nr3oh/subtle_noaa/
Show HN: PubKey – Communicate Privately in Anonymous Public Spaces
https://www.pubkey.pm
A little while back I remember seeing a user on a certain anonymous imageboard asking for an invite to a selective email host. Only after a few minutes did the guy realize the perplexity of the situation. How do you insure against a race condition in a public forum with no way to direct message?

Luckily, he nabbed the invite code, but it got me thinking about using PGP to provide a solution. This is meant to be a rough PoC and the UX is definitely not ready for the average Joe, but the functionality I'd like to think is there.

What catbox.moe is to dropbox is what I'd like this to eventually be to keybase. Btw, "this page uses NO SERVER" just means it's static. I'm not trying to fool anyone lol.

Edit: Source Code: https://codeberg.org/popcalc/pubKey
Bioelektryczność – Polish Robotics (1968) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjrYk546uBA
I'm curious what was the state of an art in robotics area in 60s in different countries, feel free to post links to videos and pictures.

Here is my country - Poland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjrYk546uBA
Ev News? Did I just see a test, Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second.
http://dougaitken.tumblr.com/post/13849170869/hacker-news-ev-news
Did I just see a Easter Egg / Glitch / A/B test?

Hacker News was titled Ev News for a second there!

Refreshed in a new tab & it was back to Hacker news.

(click source in the link for full scrnsht)
News.YC Greasemonkey script to hide iPad articles
https://secure.grepular.com/projects/yc_ignoreipad.user.js
A greasemonkey script to hide all of the annoying iPad articles when viewing news.ycombinator.com. You can modify the regular expression in the script to hide other articles as well if you know regex.
Show HN: Natural Language Processing Demystified (Part One)
https://www.nlpdemystified.org/
Hi HN:

I published part one of my free NLP course. The course is intended to help anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the very basics all the way to today's mainstream models and frameworks.

I strive to balance theory and practice and so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook (in most modules) putting the theory into practice.

In part one, we cover text preprocessing, how to turn text into numbers, and multiple ways to classify and search text using "classical" approaches. And along the way, we'll pick up useful bits on how to use tools such as spaCy and scikit-learn.

No registration required: https://www.nlpdemystified.org/
The Most Powerful Colors in the World ...And How You Make The Next Ones
http://www.colourlovers.com/business/blog/2010/09/15/the-most-powerful-colors-in-the-world
As a YC W10 startup, we were lucky to have dinner with Zuckerberg and I asked him afterwards why he chose that blue for Facebook... Cause he's color blind. Not a majestic response about how color influences mood, buying habits, etc.

He used a color that was personally best for him. And a lot of the top brands in the world now, started in garages & workshops... where the branding research consisted of a couple rounds "what if we..." before a name was born and then a logo & design.

My favorite example of this is Mercedes. The brand now stands for luxury cultivates a significant vibe... but why did the founder call it that? Simply, he named the company after his daughter... and now people name their daughters after the car!

A lot of YC companies get greif for their names (most.ly the ly.ly ones) but how much does a name / brand have on the actual product being successful.

I think it can have an influence, but at the end of the day... the quality of what you build will determine its success.

With that in mind, my fellow hackers & founders... from a guy that runs a website about color... Be more adventurous with your colors. Have some fun.
So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it
http://www.hitlerhops.com
I really wanted a project that I could use map reduce on and this idea came up amongst a group of friends as a joke.

Unfortunately the link graph was really stale when I ran it so it is not always correct. Also dates make it boring sometimes.
My short history of Engine Yard and my Resignation
http://brainspl.at/articles/2010/08/13/4-years-at-engine-yard-what-a-long-strange-trip-its-been
This is the story of my startup experience of a company that took $38million in funding in 3 rounds. I am almost fully vested and I've just resigned and here is my story.
Code.Google.com now supports git
http://code.google.com/
Project administrators can now switch their source repo to git (or mercurial or subversion).
From the page:

"This chooses the type of version control repository used to store the project source code and wiki.
Modifying this setting will not delete existing Git, Mercurial, and Subversion data, but it will change the way the site displays your project's contents."
Show HN: Stock Photos Using Stable Diffusion
https://www.ghostlystock.com/
Hi HN, this is an early version of what we’re imagining as a truly functional stock photo platform using Stable Diffusion.

We’re doing our best to hide the customization prompts on the back end so users are able to quickly search for pre-existing generated photos, or create new ones that would ideally work as well.

If we keep going with it, in future versions we’d like to add voting, better tags, and more varied prompts, or maybe whatever you recommend!
Show HN: Marginalia – Exploration Mode
https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random
I've been a bit obsessed with the idea of flipping through the internet a bit like you would a magazine, of undirected browsing as a discovery mechanism, and I think I'm approaching something that's beginning to feel pretty fun.

The link at the top will return results out of a pool of approximately 10,000 domains, you can refresh to get new ones. You can also explore in a directed fashion by using the 'Similar Domains'-buttons. These are not random.

A sampler, beyond the random sites offered with the head link

https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/www.amiga-news.de

https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/www.aaronsw.com

https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/therealbitcoin.org

I don't have thumbnails for all 500k domains in the database yet, but I think it's getting to a number where it's reasonable useful.
Negative SEO Does Exist
http://webmarketingschool.com/negative-seo-exist/
Last week Matt Cutts said at SMX advanced that negative SEO wasnt a thing. Rand Fishkin asked for evidence it does. Well....... hows this?
Getting A Job: Observations From A College Senior
http://blog.brodie.me/2013/01/getting-job-observations-from-college.html
Show HN: An app that replaces the sign-in sheet at meetings
http://simplesign.in/
A week of startup news from Eastern Europe and Russia 
http://goaleurope.com/2012/02/06/eastern-europe-innovation-startup-russia-venture-capital-cee-weekly-news/
Uber Preferred Pickups Concept
http://william-felker.apps.runkite.com/2014/01/11/preferred-pickups-uber-favorites/
The Whole Brain Billiards Biohacking Project
http://www.billiardsbiohacker.com/brainhack/
Spent My Weekend doing some Honeypotting for Justice.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/david-horscroft/uct-exposed-exposed/10151886514077847
Thought Leaders and Chicken Sexers
https://ideolalia.com/essays/thought-leaders-and-chicken-sexers.html
Django 1.3 released
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2011/mar/23/13/
They think they are above the law: the firms who own America's voting system
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/22/us-voting-machine-private-companies-voter-registration
California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/california-port-truckers-drowning-in-supply-chain-inefficiencies
How GitHub Uses GitHub to Document GitHub
https://github.com/blog/1939-how-github-uses-github-to-document-github
Tiny Trains: Neat Narrow-Gauge Rail Connects German Island to Mainland
https://weburbanist.com/2018/05/08/tiny-trains-neat-narrow-gauge-rail-connects-german-island-to-mainland/
GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code
https://torrentfreak.com/github-reinstates-popcorn-time-code-despite-mpa-threat-200520/
U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving time permanent
https://fox8.com/news/u-s-senators-reintroduce-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/
Huawei is apparently showing ads on lockscreens for some of its phones
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/13/18678220/huawei-phones-lockscreens-ads-android
Using the Apple USB-C to 3.5mm Adapter on the Raspberry Pi
https://github.com/boboianbobo/piusbc/wiki/Apple-USB-C-to-3.5-mm-on-the-Raspberry-Pi
SMART Kapp – Capture, Save, Share
http://www.smartkapp.com/
The Internet drives popular culture now
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120203/00520517643/hollywood-still-doesnt-realize-that-internet-drives-popular-culture-now.shtml
Visualizing Deep Learning Networks
http://blog.qure.ai/notes/visualizing_deep_learning
“One Time Password” Bruteforce Calculator
http://sakurity.com/otp
Dependency Injection in JavaScript
https://www.devbridge.com/articles/dependency-injection-in-javascript/
"Growth Hackers" are all Around Us
http://allenc.com/2012/08/growth-hackers-are-all-around-us/
Customize Minitest Assertions and Expectations
http://chriskottom.com/blog/2014/08/customize-minitest-assertions-and-expectations/
Uber data leaked in Google search results
https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=m43oVb30LMKr-AXdkIfIDw&gws_rd=ssl#q=site:trip.uber.com&start=30&filter=0
How to Demonstrate a Paul Trap
http://physicsfootnotes.com/demonstrate-paul-trap/
Code Reviews: From Nitpicking to Cooperation
https://curlybracket.net/2020/08/24/nitpicking.html
Announcing the New Cloudflare Apps
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-apps-2/
DoubleAgent DLL Injection
https://github.com/Cybellum/DoubleAgent
Dutch Firm Plans 3D-Printed Canal Boat
http://techonomy.com/2013/03/dutch-firm-plans-3d-printed-canal-boat/
Comcast to Follow the Million Who Left Bankrupt Detroit
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-01/comcast-to-follow-1-million-who-ve-fled-bankrupt-detroit.html?cmpid=yhoo
Veedeo app / Video Blogging for WordPress made easy and free
http://veedeoapp.com
Sending e-mails with Node and NodeMailer
http://howtonode.org/sending-e-mails-with-node-and-nodemailer
Behind the Library: Rhizome
http://ideolalia.com/2013/12/18/rhizome.html
Amazon Seeks Trump Testimony About Pentagon’s Jedi Cloud Contract
https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2020/02/amazon-seeks-trump-testimony-about-pentagons-jedi-cloud-contract/162995/
Towards practical reactive security audit using extended static checkers [pdf]
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/185784/paper.pdf
Outsourcing: Most common mistakes IT departments make
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/business-intelligence/analytics/news/index.cfm?newsid=18459
Bordering on Mediocrity
http://tpgblog.com/2010/08/15/quickux-accessibility-borders/
BRITify 
http://www.britify.com/
Incoming Facebook UI Update
http://dribbble.com/shots/215154-System-Messages?list=following
LackRack
http://wiki.eth-0.nl/index.php/LackRack
Microsoft Research: Real-Time Non-Rigid Reconstruction Using an RGB-D Camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNiPirnvMHc
Meet Gwynne Shotwell, the Woman Who Could Take Us to Mars
http://www.marieclaire.com/career-advice/features/a28837/gwynne-shotwell-spacex-people-going-to-mars/
What to Expect at the Independent Particulate Matter Review Panel Meeting
https://blog.ucsusa.org/gretchen-goldman/what-to-expect-at-the-independent-particulate-matter-review-panel-meeting
Anarchy, Bitcoin, and Murder in Acapulco
https://www.wired.com/story/anarchy-bitcoin-and-murder-in-mexico/
Ubuntu 18.04 Beta distros released
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/14/ubuntu_1804_beta_flavours/
Porsches and Other Elite Cars Don't Get Crash-Testing
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-13/fast-furious-and-safe-porsches-and-other-elite-cars-dont-get-crash-testing
My Journeyman Tour
http://codecoupled.org/journeyman-tour/
CoffeeScript makes its way into hosted CMS
http://www.gethifi.com/blog/hosted-cms-coffeescript-support
Man accidently sends 800 Bitcoins to Mt. Gox
http://www.usacryptocoins.com/thecryptocurrencytimes/uncategorized/man-accidentally-sends-800-bitcoins-to-mt-gox/
Everything Nodes and the Scattered Stone
https://code.blender.org/2020/12/everything-nodes-and-the-scattered-stone/
HP: Is it a broken company?
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hp-is-it-a-broken-company/59293
Energy storage membrane set to revolutionize rechargeable batteries
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/energy-storage-membrane-set-to-revolutionize-rechargeable-batteries-20110930/
A Reflection on JavaScript Hate
https://www.ralphminderhoud.com/blog/a-reflection-on-javascript-hate/
The fall of the startup evangelist CEO
http://valleywag.com/tech/hires/the-fall-of-the-evangelist-ceo-291459.php
MegaWords - The game we've been working on for the past 4 months
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.scroggler&hl=en
Swift's “guard”
https://medium.com/swift-space/swift-s-guard-893c24c7ef2c
The Unselfishness Trap (1973)
http://harrybrowne.org/articles/UnselfishnessTrap.htm
FIA Formula E Championship
http://www.fiaformulae.com/
Genetic conflict outweighs heterogametic incompatibility in mouse hybrid zone?
https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-8-271
Casetop - Finally, a universal accessory. Turns any Smartphone into a laptop.
http://livi-design.com/?attachment_id=405
Using semantic versioning for a technical book
https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/2aa5cff10010
Search Guard's Response on Elastic's Lawsuit
https://search-guard.com/search-guard-elastic/
IBM Research | Ponder This | February 2009 challenges
http://domino.research.ibm.com/Comm/wwwr_ponder.nsf/challenges/February2009.html
The Higgs boson could destroy the universe in the wrong conditions
http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/08/higgs-boson-could-end-us-all