jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Google Invested with CIA?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future
This is interesting in that Google top execs say the government coerced them into giving up data.But looking upon their investments into companies that are funded to analyze and discover trends it paints a far different picture. Is there any more evidence of Google's backing into government funded social media analytics?
This is why we work so hard
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20684882@N05/2015530976/
So future kids with dreams can become inspired by our success. This picture was taken a few weeks ago in Stanford, shortly after we submitted our YC app.
Request HN: Mentor/motivator (Give me something to work for)
I am extremely eager to work on my own projects, and with some meta-cognition (outsmarting myself) I have realized that I will be better able to work on the things that make a difference if I have some people I can talk to about my endeavors because I really don't like disappointing people.

If you can spare 10 minutes a week, it would be great to have someone I could contact for support (possibly starting with email and maybe moving to Skype), doing things like talking about what I have accomplished, struggled with, where I wasted time, etc.

Otherwise, just reply below and motivate me and everyone else using whatever means you choose (for example, listening to E.S. Posthumus - Arise gives me a nice boost)

Contact me at hn@withoutfriction.com, or reply below in this thread
Client-side conditional loading with HTML comments
http://responsivecomments.com/
ResponsiveComments was designed to bring simple conditional loading to the client side. Although not the complete answer to conditional loading in responsive web design, ResponsiveComments provides a solution to simple conditional loading, directly within your markup.
Show HN: Mindstone – Save Time by Optimising Your Information Diet
https://www.mindstone.com
One click to save articles, podcasts, videos or anything else for later. Get to what’s important, discard the rest.

Get automated Summaries. Dive deeper into the content that really matters. Highlight and annotate important passages.
Show HN: Shirtloop
http://www.shirtloop.com
Hey, this is a very basic MVP, tech-wise but the underlying business infrastructure runs deep. I have the relationships, my grand picture is to build a portal etc, where independent printers can bid on jobs, text alerts etc, but for now, I am doing things the old fashioned way, via email and phone calls. What are your guys' thoughts?
How can one make most of their youth
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/03/08/how-can-one-make-the-most-of-their-youth/
Sometimes I see posts by lot of young kids want to learn programming or do something. I thought this was very well written so submitting it.
Ask HN: What lib/tool do you use for translation of your app?
Hi!

I'm working on a side project at the moment, it's basically a tool to help with translating a given application.

I'm now at a point where I need to know which libs or tools are most commonly used, eg gettext, yaml, ...

So what are you guys using?
You're Not as Smart as You Could be
http://www.enter.net/~torve/critics/Renshaw/notassmart/notassmart1.html
Here's where Heinlein got the Renshaw Tachistoscope from (Gulf, Citizen of the Galaxy, etc.)
Ask HN: Your experience of using an alternative to WordPress?
WordPress elicits strong opinions among developers. Whatever your thoughts about WordPress, it remains the leading website builder among the myriad site builders available.

Uniquely (I think) it is the only self-hosting option which is relatively simple for non-technical users to install via one-click installers (available via hundreds of hosting companies).

What are the alternative website builders (self-hostable) that match or exceed WordPress in terms of core features? In particular, alternatives with modern codebases, with customisation, and a GUI WYSIWYG (not markdown)?

Some modern examples alternatives I'm aware of:

- October CMS (PHP, Open Source) https://octobercms.com/

- Craft CMS (PHP, Paid) https://craftcms.com/

- Kirby CMS (PHP, Paid) https://getkirby.com/

- Ghost (JavaScript, Open Source) https://ghost.org/

- Wagtail CMS (Python, Open Source) https://wagtail.io/

Have you used any of the above (or any other) as an alternative to WordPress? What was your experience like? And has anyone gone back to WordPress after trying an alternative? Thanks
SQL: The Successful Cousin of Haskell
http://thoughts.j-davis.com/2011/09/25/sql-the-successful-cousin-of-haskell/
Comparing one side-effect free, lazy language to another. One is wildly popular, and in many ways successful and productive, while another has yet to demonstrate those properties in a repeatable way.
Benchmarking Talkinator
http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/08/benchmarking-talkinator.html
Shooting for 39,000 messages per second
Gitlab dropping Gitolite in v5.0 in favor for own solution
http://blog.gitlabhq.com/gitlab-without-gitolite/
Gitlab will drop Gitolite and replace it with its own replacement called Gitlab-Shell:

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-shell.git
Ask HN: GitHub mirror
Is there a GitHub mirror somewhere?

My boxen setup is failing, because

```
Cloning into '/opt/boxen/nodenv'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/wfarr/nodenv/': Failed connect to github.com:443; Operation timed out

```

I believe this is caused by DDOS. Any suggestion?
Show HN: Webhooks for Strava
https://stokehook.com/
Strava doesn't provide a way for getting webhooks from your activities, so I wrote up a little application to do just that.

Using:

- Tailwind

- Sveltekit

- Netlify

- Firebase/Firestore

Check it out and let me know what you think. I don't have any expectations that Strava won't break it or keep me at the 1000 requests/day quota, but hey it was fun to make!
WANdisco integrates social networking with source code management
http://blogs.wandisco.com/2011/04/21/welcome-ubersvn/
Looks like these guys have done a good job of dragging SVN into the present.
Show HN: Adless – Consumer-Friendly Monetization with Subscription Networks
https://adless.net
Adless is like advertisement networks (e.g. Google AdSense), but for the subscription economy: We connect subscribers (instead of advertisers) with content creators without the need of a direct business relation between the two.

Simply put, Adless sells subscriptions which content creators can partake in by delivering content in accordance with the terms (e.g. without display advertisement or grant access to paywall’ed content, which are the initial subscription offerings). In return, content creators earn a share of the revenue (+ we take care of pretty much everything customer, sales and technology related for them).

Effectively, this is a "one subscription that works everywhere" value proposition for consumers, using collective bargaining power to keep the price reasonable.

The dream is to replace the de facto ads-based revenue model (with its dependency on tracking and privacy-invasion) with a sustainable privacy- and user-friendly revenue model that does not involve any dependencies on user profiling.

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

You’ll find some live demos at https://adless.net/get-started.

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Are you a content creator? Feel free to give Adless a try! The networks are currently (very) small, but we are working on bootstrapping them so any help in this area is much appreciated

It doesn’t matter if you made a blog, a game, a SaaS or something entirely different. The aim is to eventually cover all these customer types and more so we would love to have you onboard if you want to offer your content without display advertisement or provide access to otherwise-paid content (full eligibility criteria available when signing up as an earner). We compensate based on time spend on content so no need to be clever about triggering page view events.
Ask HN: Best way to do a screenshare with 50 people?
I'm running a sales presentation tomorrow where folks are going to watch a Power Point demo remotely. We've been using Adobe's ConnectNow product for these and it works pretty well. But it has a 20-person ceiling.

Just found out tomorrow's call is going to have 40 (!) people on it.

Adobe's got a crazy expensive thing that takes 3 days to provision. Webex is telling me the same story.

Anyone have a better way to do this?
Ask HN: Will Ethereum 2 lead to geographically well distributed mining?
As far as I know, currently most mining happens in China because of lower prices for electricity.

With Ethereum 2, the power consumption will probably negligible, right? Does this mean we will see mining of Ethereum to take place in a geographically well distributed fashion?
If you want to test a man's character give him power*point
http://www.outoftheborders.com/2009/12/if-you-want-to-test-mans-character-give.html
7 rules for effective presentations from slide:ology
Ask HN: How to start on the stock market
Hi guys, I wanna start learning on stocks and stuff. I might even be interested in attending to courses or even finance school. What's the best school in the US? In NY?

Thanks amigos!
Show HN - 9bro.com (meme comic creator)
http://www.9bro.com/
This is my first programming endeavor - a simple meme comic creator inspired by my addiction to a friend's wildly successful site - 9gag.com.

More than anything else, as my first project, I learned that I have a LOT more programming to learn. And also, that programming is freaking awesome regardless of my current ineptitude.

I built the site using JS/jQuery/HTML/CSS and a dash of PHP (for base64 string to file conversions) and the Bing Image API for image searches (not currently working because Microsoft moved to pay model - boo!) all running on micro Linux instance on AWS.

For a few month learning all that stuff from scratch, I'm pretty proud of myself. For my next project, I've been playing with Node.js and MongoDB to try to sort out server-side magic.

Anyway, Hacker News has been pretty inspiring for me - I started reading it about 10 months ago just out of curiosity and understood about 1% of what everyone was talking about. Now I understand...10%? That's progress at least, right? :)
Nintendo's WiiU "hacked" day one
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=500411
Apparently every console has access to the admin interface of the online component. One user accessed it by mistake.
Show HN: Algochurn - Ace your next Technical Interview Round
https://www.algochurn.com/
Hey HN!

I built Algochurn - A place for front-end developers to practice most commonly asked front-end interview questions.

Of all the available resources out there, I wanted to have a place where I could practice coding questions myself (and to mimic a coding interview setup) and solve the problems with a time based approach.

After 2 months of questions curation, I've come up with the first set of questions that are being asked in Big product based companies that assess candidates on their React skills.

Use Algochurn to speed up your interview preparation. Save and Bookmark questions, Mark question as completed and use a time bound approach to solve problems.

Link: https://algochurn.com

To all the developers out there looking for jobs, I wish you all the best. Let Algochurn help you in landing that dream job. :)
Help, my iPhone app made it into the New York Times, what now?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/technology/03atheist.html?_r=3&hp
So I have this app that has been steadily bringing in a tiny amount of passive income & then suddenly today I saw a huge spike in sales. I googled around a bit & it seems my app has made it into the paid Top 100 & the NYT has mentioned it.

My dilemma: this attention comes at a pretty bad time, because I'm working on a new venture & I really need to focus on that one.

Should I focus on the new venture & let this spike die out? Or should I try to use this spike in media attention now, & if so: how? I'm torn between long-term focus & short-term profit.
The biggest oversight of iOS app developers
http://tapcommerce.tumblr.com/post/50606628049/the-biggest-oversight-ios-app-developers-make
A look into how custom URL structures work in iOS 6 and how to leverage them.
Crap, iTune store is down
https://buy.itunes.apple.com/financeOverflow.xml
Couldn't sign in.
Ask HN: My snail mail has me going postal
I've come to my whit's end when it comes to managing my real life inbox: the mailbox in my driveway.

It's enough to drive a person mad. Not only do I receive tons of worthless crap everyday (those senders should be prosecuted and sent to prison for destroying the environment and wasting everyone's time) - I also get statements from the bank/credit cards that have sensitive information in them.

After moving a couple of times in the past few years I'm sure there have been plenty of opportunities for identity theft of my info. It's probably just pure luck it hasn't happened yet.

My question is this: How the hell do I stop snail mail from coming to my address? There is one solution I know of at http://www.earthclassmail.com/ which might be a little pricey but for the peace of mind it definitely seems worth it.

Anyone else out there had success with this "problem"? Any solutions you know of I could try? I'm thinking of having a giant bonfire in the backyard otherwise..
Extending REST APIs
http://3scale.github.io/2013/04/18/accelerate-your-mobile-api-with-nginx-and-lua/
REST APIs are too chatty for their own good. This problem is critical on mobile apps due to the large latency of wireless networks. We present a demo of a mobile app consuming a REST API, this app uses API Aggregator to reduce its page load times by a factor of three. API Aggregator is a system that combines lua and nginx to have a sandbox environment where you can safely run user generated scripts that do API aggregation. Stored procedures anyone? This is the API "version" of them.
Coursera courses on Android app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.coursera.android
No more need to be on your laptop to get Coursera course... Awesome
Best Way To Learn iPhone Programming
I'm a 20-year-old college student who's been programming for a long time in PHP (I know...I know. Sorry.) and most recently Python.
HN down?
http://news.ycombinator.com/
So... what happened? ;-)
Show HN: Boply - Sell Stuff Simply
I would love some feedback on a project I have been working on here and there for about a month. The idea is to make it super simple to sell something without having to setup a store. It is just one form to post your product. You can easily sell a book you have sitting around, a dress you made, access to a url, or allow people to purchase a file. You can check it out here: http://bop.ly. You can also see something I am selling here: http://bop.ly/DgRF1
The Seven Deadly Sins of Web Design.
http://visualidiot.com/articles/seven…
http://visualidiot.com/articles/seven-sins
Facebook First Teaser Video
http://mashable.com/2010/06/25/social-network-teaser-trailer
Did you guys read the book? "Accidental Billionaires" How well do you think the movie is going to do?
The Secret Online Weapons Store That'll Sell Anyone Anything
http://gizmodo.com/5927379
My jaw kept dropping lower and lower as I read this.

I know Tor encryption is good and all, but surely there must be SOME way of taking this site down?
How Startups Get A Foot In The Door
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/how_startups_ge.html
How do startups attract those crucial first customers? A venture capitalist shares four key steps. In a previous post, I wrote about balancing the risks and rewards of buying from a startup.
Ask HN: How do you communicate what your browser compatibility policy is?
Alright HN, maybe you can help me with this:

I am working on putting together a Browser Compatibility/Support document for our company and was wondering if anyone here has a template/example that they used to create their browser support statement?

I found a couple good ones I like:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/futuremedia/technical/browser_support.shtml

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/

but they don't have any reasoning behind why selected those specific browsers. I am hoping for something that has a bit more information on not just the what but the why behind those selections. And something that communicates that in a nice and convincing fashion to the clients. :)
Security tips for Amazon S3 users
http://securitybits.net/security-tips-amazon-s3-users
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a popular and great service to store and share large amounts of data. It’s reliable, scalable, cheap and secure. Unfortunately, Amazon lacks decent documentation and guides on how to use its service properly and how users should implement S3 security to protect their content. SecurityBits compiled a list of essential security tips for S3 users.
Show HN: our (bootstrapped) Real Time Analytics + Social Media Monitor Startup
Hi HN,

The two of us are working on our real time analytics service Worldlogger for two-an-a-half months now. Today we rolled out a new version. It still has some bugs here and there, but it works :) Worldlogger kind of does what Chartbeat and Getclicky are doing, but we try to mix the best from both worlds ;) Curious what you think about it!

http://worldlogger.com/

Cheers

E
Ask HN: how to get a list of domain names?
I have an idea I want to explore about domain name patterns. How would one obtain or create a listing of all domain names taken/registered?
Ask HN: Update Heinlein’s “Competent Man”
[..]A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.[..] - Time Enough For Love, Robert A. Heinlein

This famous Heinlein quote uttered by Lazarus Long is almost half a century old.

How would you update Life Skills of The Competent Man for the next 50 years? Of course, meant for all genders etc.

Shouldn’t include the words: ‘money’ or ‘coding’. (And variations thereof..esp not Bitcoin or NFTs)
Zero to Binary in 60 days. The value of technology immersion.
http://www.mbahacks.com/from-zero-to-binary-in-60-days
This is an MBAHacks follow up to Why I am learning to program. I got such a great response from the initial post that I felt compelled to quickly follow up.
Help me test my open source budgeting web app
https://sumapp.com
Okay, so its no Mint, but its perfect for people who think Mint is overkill or don't want to give a web app their bank information.

I made it for semi-computer illiterate people to manage a budget over email. So far it has changed my girlfriend and my mom's life.

On a side note, I wrote it in Ruby with help from Sinatra. I think it is a pretty good example of how to write a class-based Sinatra app with a full test suite.

Any suggestions or help spreading the word would be much appreciated!
"Game" Twitter Trending Topics
http://trendingnext.com/how
TrendingNext is my new project and I think it's really cool. It basically lets everyone tweet about a new topic everyday and submit their own topic ideas. The goal is to everyday get a randomly selected topic to trend on twitter.

What do you think? Will it work?
Interning and Expanding Reach As An Entrepreneur
Hello Hacker News,

I'm in a bit of a frustrating situation.

First off, let me introduce myself. My name is Will and i'm 15, living in the SF Bay Area. I've been coding for a few years now, starting at 11 with C++, then moving to iPhone later that year and spent a while working as a freelance iOS Developer. Since 6 months ago, I've worked with PHP, HTML, and CSS, because I've interesting in creating my own Web Apps and really working with starting some websites/companies. I have a distinct passion for entrepreneurship and I really want to explore the realms of the business.

Anyway, now to the point. I've been encouraged by parents and by my own intuition to explore for a summer program at a college or a summer internship at a SF Bay startup. I really want to get into the community and learn from all those more experienced than me. I've done camps for middle school age kids in the past but I have always been too experienced for the camps.

What I'm asking:
Is there any startups that you know of that are in the SF Bay Area and are looking for an unpaid intern who doesn't suck?

If not, do you know of any high-level college programs for teenagers with a passion for programming and business where I will be challenged?

I'm looking forward to reading your responses, and hopefully doing some awesome stuff this summer.

Thanks,
Will
Looking For A Co-Founder For An Online Programming Interview Tutor
http://blueberrytree.ws

I once blew a programming interview at Microsoft. I was disappointed in myself and I was sure I could have done better had I only studied the correct things (Date and time algorithms).

Instead of looking for another job, I decided to start living off my savings and build an online programming interview tutor smart enough to figure out what topics I needed more practice with. I started building BlueberryTree because I wanted to use it.

I've finished enough development for a potential MVP and I'm working on adding more programming interview exercises, tutorials and video lectures. I'd like a partner and I'm willing to split equity 50/50.

I'm a software developer and I love what I do. I read technical books on the toilet, I don't care what language or framework I use, I'm easy to get along with, and I drink my whiskey neat.

I'm looking for a new best friend and partner. You could be a developer, a designer or someone who loves to get sales.

If you'd like to know more contact me at "cozysystems at gmail.com"
Dreamhost Outage
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2013/03/19/power-disruption-affecting-us-west-data-center-irvine-ca/
A combination of power and network issues are affecting Dreamhost customers on the West Coast.
Ask HN: Which online CS course to take if I want a job tomorrow?
Background: I taught myself iOS app development and have been doing so for about 3 years. I have enough income/savings to survive for a while, so there's no rush, but I've been considering finding a job, perhaps at a startup or an app dev shop. My apps are mostly kids games/entertainment, nothing super complicated.

I took a couple courses, CS1 and Intro to C/Unix, at a local university, got 4.0 GPA each (bell curved up).

I can program, but I lack most of the formal CS education that normal engineers have. If I wanted to apply for a job after 1 month, what online CS course would be most beneficial for me (things I would actually need/use day to day or in an interview to show competency)?

Algorithms? Databases? Data Structures? Entry level courses of course. Any input appreciated. Thanks
Show HN: Mathle – Wordle for Math People
https://mathle.bykiru.rocks/?ref=HN
Hey HN check this really cool worlde-inspired project of a friend of mine. :)
Startup founders likely to be replaced if company thrives
http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=2472
Jeff Bezos, president and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, is an anomaly among modern-day entrepreneurs. He still has his job.

Unlike Bezos, many founders are replaced after launching a successful company, say Warren Boeker, a professor of management and organization at the University of Washington Business School, and graduate student Rushi Karichalil. Ironically, the founders who do remain in control usually launch only moderate performing ventures.
Cryptographically and Constantly Changing Port Opening
http://www.jgc.org/blog/2007/11/cryptographicallt-changing-port-opening.html
A little layer of security I use for my servers.