jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Alternative for Zapier/Make to cut the costs significantly
https://dotenx.com/
Great opportunity if you're a user of Zapier/Make or if you provide services based on these platforms, to cut your costs significantly.

Excited to announce the launch of DoTenX(https://dotenx.com/), an open-source alternative for Zapier/Make:

https://github.com/dotenx/dotenx

If you're using platforms like Zapier or Make to automate workflows for yourself or provide it as a service to your clients, I invite you to get early access to our platform (Just mention here, or even better, DM me on Twitter).

At this stage, the service will be available to a closed set of customers and if we have the capacity to give you access, you won't be charged until we provide the equivalent of the automations you have on other platforms (No CC required).

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*Note*: Registration is accessible to public, but unverified accounts won't be kept on the platform.

Also, I'll contact those who've already shown interest in early access, but no harm in mentioning it here too.

NoCode FTW!
Judge William Adams beats daughter for using the internet [video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl9y3SIPt7o
Texas district attorney has said that the statute of limitations has run out on charges.
Ask HN: Best Node.js hosters
For those deploying apps built with Node.js, who - in your experience - provides the "best" hosting service? By "best" I mean reliability most of all, good/fast support, reasonable pricing, and a facility to host non-node apps (such as, say, PhantomJS) alongside the main Node app. We're currently using one provider who'll remain nameless, but whose support is sketchy, provided by someone whose native language isn't English and has difficulty understanding some questions, and whose deploy cycle takes several minutes, and who suffers from periodic outages. Frustrating, and we need someome more reliable. Current candidates include Heroku, Modulus looks promising, but who else would you recommend? Thanks!
Ask HN: If you owned MySpace what would you do with it?
So we all know Myspace is for sale, but if you had the $100mm or whatever it sells for, and managed to snag it, what would you do with it?
18 Sites For Finding Startup Jobs
http://mashable.com/2008/09/10/startup-jobs-sites/
not to mention http://www.indeed.com/ and http://www.simplyhired.com/
Linus on git, central repositories, and commit access lists
http://lwn.net/Articles/246381/
Linus responds to various questions about Git, development methodologies and tools.
Someone Figured Out How To Compromise VMware From Inside
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2009/04/11/Someone-Figured-Out-How-to-Step-Up-in-VM-Ware.aspx
Finally seems there is code in the wild to step up and compromise a hypervisor from the inside.
Ask HN: Do any small profile changes increase usage in your app?
http://rypple.com/blog/2009/09/21/uploading-your-logo/
We found that adding an avatar can increase response rates in Rypple by 20%.
Show HN: shrtn.co - a revenue generating affiliate tool for the masses
We have just finished the beta release of shrtn.co, and are excited to
get HN's feedback on our new tool.

shrtn allows you to monetize your links seamlessly in an unobtrusive
manner by adding affiliate codes to the merchants that we support.
Whenever a sale is made via your URL, we share most of the revenue
generated with the you. shrtn is currently connected with around 50
merchants, but that number is increasing daily.

The application is pretty lean at the moment. We have a few ideas for
future developments which includes a more advanced bookmarklet, a
browser plugin to inform you of affiliate link opportunities, advanced
analytics & a sexier JS/ajax interface.

Please try us out - we would love to get your feedback on this HN!
A startup for social begging
This is an interesting concept for a social game site, even if I am not so sure what its business model is.

Being the first person to have just won something on it I feel I owe them a plug in (I have no stakes in it, just happy to have won, trying to give back).

The site has its quirks and it is still in beta, there is loads of work to be done on it to get some traction.
Improvements to the UX are being made all the time, would you have any suggestions as to what they could do better?

The site url: http://begfor.it
Outspokes: Startup Chapter One of Many
http://blog.outspokes.com/2009/11/06/outspokes-startup-chapter-one-of-many/
The beginning of one Berkeley company's story: from class project to web startup.
Howtoweb3.guide – A collection of resources for hackers
https://www.howtoweb3.guide
A collection of resources to get you started programming NFT's, Dapps & all things Web3.
Is this Official Google merchandise site?
http://www.google-store.com/
Where to buy original Google merchandise online?
Show HN: We're building an automated CO2 emission tracker app for households
https://www.zerofy.net/2022/08/19/automated-carbon-tracking-app.html
Hi, we're Zerofy, and our goal is to build a fully automated, real-time, and holistic carbon emission tracking app for households!

Our approach relies on tapping all digital data streams representing your life and calculating carbon emissions from them.

In the linked post, we describe our approach, show a demo app, and are soliciting feedback!

(Once we track emissions, we want to build AI tech that helps reduce. But that's for another post.)
Review my Startup. Help a guy out. 
http://helpaguyout.com
With my own experience, and others, I always thought there is a market for a service where an otherwise socially awkward guy could ask a girl a question (about anything) and get genuine advice. I wanted to make the service paid, so the women actually had some incentive to spend some time crafting a thoughtful response. Also, wanted to make everything discreet, so that women did not need to hold anything back, and guys owned the responses they paid for. At the same time, wanted money to be very nominal so that anyone could use it - so thought $2 would be just right. I split a buck with the answer provider. Guys can request responses from multiple ladies (5 responses = $10). Guys have option to reject any reponse deemed unthoughtful and request refund.

Income has been interesting so far. About 20 guys asked questions last month. Some of them requested multiple responses. October total $90. Through word of mouth, about 600 ladies have signed up so far to provide reponses. An email is fired every time a new request gets posted, ladies "reserve" the question and respond on a first-come-first-served basis and guys receive reponses within a few hours.

I would like to get some suggestions from the HN community as to how to make it scalable? I know there is a market for a service like this but just haven't been able to get any traction. What can I change, improve? Or is this whole concept is just flawed and I should just "move on".

Thank you for your feedback.
Pete
Ask HN: Examples of Great UX?
What sites, products, or services have a great user experience?

Edit: the things that I know of are all popular things -- like Apple products, Facebook, Dropbox, HN. I'm most interested in discovering new, and perhaps niche things that I'm missing.

Even if I don't find a certain product or service useful, I love discovering great user experiences.
Simple & Easy Executable JARs
http://mesosphere.io/2013/12/07/executable-jars/
A simple way to make executable JAR files.
Go go java ... play catch-up with C#
http://blog.jonasbandi.net/2008/12/go-go-java-play-catch-up-with-c.html
Future features of the Java language ... old stuff in C#?
Introducing django-bakery, helpers to bake out your site as flat files
http://datadesk.latimes.com/posts/2012/03/introducing-django-bakery/
A set of helpers for baking out your Django site as flat files.
IBM's response to Web 2.0 start-ups: We're Safer
http://www.cio.com/article/133000/IBM_s_Web_._Sales_Pitch_We_re_Safer
With innovative web-based start-ups changing the business model for how software is delivered, IBM tries to play its cards by playing up its emphasis on security.
Army has been developing a GPL'd CAD package since 1979: BRL-CAD
http://brlcad.org/
Can't believe I'm submitting this to you guys three days after GSoC applications closed.
HN iPhone App Live (free; unofficial but very functional)
http://www.danielodio.com/drodio/index/Entries/2010/7/7_Hacker_News_iPhone_App_Live.html
Would love the HN community's feedback on what else you'd like to see in the app.

We're just moving our company to SF, so this is a housewarming gift of sorts, from AppMakr, the tool used to create the app.
My Tribute to Steve Jobs
http://netspencer.com/stevejobs/
You've made me a better person and I will miss you but I will never forget what you've taught me.
Rest in peace, Steve.
Show HN: Gutenberg a scaffolding tool for Erlang. Like rails generate or yeoman
https://unbalancedparentheses.github.io/gut/
I am the creator of gut/gutenberg. I am really interested in your comments. Please let me know what you think about gut :).
Show HN: I Built 0xFast Stream – 100x Faster Ethereum Block Downloads
https://manishrjain.com/launching-0xfast-stream
Getting web3 data out of Ethereum nodes or node services is excruciatingly slow (at least days if not weeks). I had wanted a way to just download the blocks quickly since I started exploring the web3 space. Took me a bunch of trial and errors to get to a way where I can parse all the blocks since genesis within 12 hours. But, instead of moving on to the next thing, I put this service together over the last few days, so everyone can benefit.
Signs that It May be Time to Consider Software as a Service (SaaS)
http://www.focus.com/ugr/how-to/hosting-bandwidth/10-signs-it-may-be-time-consider-software-service-saas/
Software as a service (SaaS) enables organizations to take advantage of critical functions and services without building, expanding or operating computing hardware, software or infrastructures. SaaS is the most widely used and mature element of the evolving set of resources known as "cloud computing," and often takes advantage of cloud-based computing, storage and management resources to deliver its business benefits.
Public Table of Seed Funding Incubators
http://startupmelbourne.com/2009/10/seed-funding-incubators/
I have created a Google Docs Spreadsheet with all incubators/accelerators and their characteristics I have found.

Feel free to correct or extend the data!

The table includes Y Combinator, Seedcamp, Springboard, Start@Spark, DreamIt Ventures, TechStars, Summer@Highland, LaunchBox, iVentures10, NextStart, Capital Factory, Shotput Ventures, NYC Seed, Bootup Labs, You be the VC and Obsidian Launch.
Marg - A Simple Request Router written in PHP
http://vaidikkapoor.info/blog/marg.html
Marg is a simple light-weight request router written in PHP.

It was a weekend project and I worked on it for my personal use and to apply whatever I had learned in the past few months. Its new and it perhaps needs a lot of work.

I'd be really happy to get some feedback. Positives and negatives, both!
Show HN: Anysphere, home for important, long-form conversations
https://gist.github.com/arvid220u/d960ca6483bf5f295498d9de990de7ef
Hi everyone! I’m Arvid, cofounder of Anysphere (https://anysphere.co). With my two friends Sualeh and Shengtong I have been spending the last few months building a dedicated home for important, long-form conversations. We’re super excited to let the HN community test it out!

We think that no existing platform for point–to-point communication prioritizes the conversations that you actually care about and that really matter. Instant messaging is filled with careless texts and stickers, email is filled with receipts and spammers, and physical mail, while better in those respects, is slow and cumbersome. None of the existing platforms are private enough.

Anysphere attempts to fix this. It is private, secure, desktop-first and only allows people you added to contact you. Our whitepaper (https://anysphere.co/anysphere-whitepaper.pdf) describes our privacy and security model in detail — in short, we protect all of your data and metadata against everyone (even our own server). Our client is fully open source: https://github.com/anysphere/client.

We deployed a small server to open up testing to everyone in the HN community. Instructions are here: https://gist.github.com/arvid220u/d960ca6483bf5f295498d9de99....

I can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
Chris Pirillo’s CDN in a Box looks to make Web sites hum at ‘Google-like speeds’
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/chris-pirillos-cdn-box-web-sites-hum-googlelike-speeds
Seattle super geek Chris Pirillo has a loyal following who love his offbeat musings on technology. But sometimes Pirillo’s network of sites, including LockerGnome.com, get overloaded with traffic. Faced with that challenge, Pirillo and his team have developed a new service called CDN in a Box that’s designed to handle huge traffic spikes and accelerate page loads to “Google-like speeds.”
Show HN: ColorAround – where you need to find a color around u using the camera
https://coloraround.xyz/
Hi I made a game in an evening, I would like to share and get feedback.

You get a random color palette and have to find it for yourself.

ColorAround is an easy and fun color game. It is recommended to play on mobile devices
Show HN: Gem to search for random domain names
https://github.com/eljojo/turboname
Just created this ruby gem that creates random domain names based on a dictionary and tells you if they're available.
Why Open Source Hardware Is No Oxymoron
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/open-compute-rackspace/
“It’s time to stop treating data center design like Fight Club,” said Jonathan Heiliger, “and demystify the way these things are built.”
"Fuck the EU" – Phone call intercept (Google translate)
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tagesschau.de%2Fausland%2Fukraine-mitschnitt100.html
Somebody, possibly the Russian government, intercepted a phone call between the "Europe person" in the state department and the US ambassador in Ukraine. The phone call was then put on Youtube, see [1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxaa-67yGM
Ask HN: To fight or not to fight piracy?
I recently released a new iPhone and iPad application which requires external servers to run, thus making each pirate copy a money loss to me. I decided to build a mechanism for copy protection which can be remotely enabled.

The app made it to the top 20 in its category, so pirates didn't take more than a couple of hours to post cracked binaries. I've been checking the server logs and the legit users to pirates ratio is around 20%. I've downloaded the cracked binaries and the copy protection is still there. Basically, the app runs some critical operations using a custom bytecode through an interpreter, which means it's not easy to crack. I'm sure a determined cracker can reverse engineer all of that, but it will take them some time.

I haven't enabled the protection yet and I'd really like to hear from someone who has done something like this before, specially:

- Did it increase sales?

- Percentage of pirates converted to legit users?

- Would you immediately prevent the pirates from using the app or let them use it for a couple of days, maybe a week, so they can properly test the app before deciding if they're going to buy it or simply look for an alternative?

- Would you disable the app completely or just introduce some painful limitations?
A free text-based MMO alternative to SimCity
http://www.reign.ws/?c=42
Totally exploiting this SimCity mess to plug my free game :P Reign is a completely free browser-based text-based persistent multiplayer strategy game.

It's kind of a 'coffee break game' as you make decisions, such as what to build, and then your nation carries out your orders while you're out living life.

The game is in active development (beta) and has about 130 active players right now.

Here's the game in a nutshell: Pick a modern day nation (that another player hasn't picked yet), build power plants, build residential, manage agriculture, issue executive orders, consult your general, draft citizens into military, manage citizen morale, build factories, trade uranium in the black market, trade with other players, form alliances, war.

Again, community-run, 100% free, no ads, no bullshit. Just pure fun.

Sorry to blatantly advertise, literally no other way to get the word out with a free game like this. I hope this isn't seen as out of bounds plugging. Honestly sorry if it is. I do genuinely think it's of interest to a sizable portion of the community and, again, it's a free thing.

Anyways, check us out if you're interested. Great community, good fun. Email me your feedback: ty@reign.ws

Screenshots:

Mobile UI:

- What to build next? http://i.imgur.com/4NR5vYE.png
- Managing assets: http://i.imgur.com/kDgCsi5.png
- World chat! Where nation leaders negotiate: http://i.imgur.com/nMAsVLc.png
- When duty calls. Drafting an army: http://i.imgur.com/n4JzzNw.png

Desktop UI:

- The mysterious Black Market: http://i.imgur.com/KKgpRys.png

Random ad I made but don't know what to do with: http://i.imgur.com/k8mCprV.jpg
Why The MongoDB Hate?
http://yourstartupsucks.com/post/12416816599/why-the-mongodb-hate
A wise opinion on "MongoGate" haters.
Show HN: Measure CO2 emissions of your APIs
https://docs.stepci.com/guides/co2-testing.html
Have you ever wondered about the carbon footprint of your API?

This week, the 27th climate summit takes place in Egypt. This inspired us to draw attention to the emissions produced by our online behaviour.

We introduced some CO2-related features to our API testing tool:

- Calculate carbon emissions of an API call
- Set up a check to validate that your API endpoint doesn't cross the limit when it comes to emissions
- Test all your API endpoints and get an approximate calculation of your API emissions in total

We hope that by using these features, you will become more aware of the carbon footprint of your infrastructure and act accordingly. You could for example switch to a sustainable hosting provider.

http://github.com/stepci/stepci
Ask HN: What do you want for Christmas?
What should be on the Christmas list of geeks everywhere?
How we deal with business cards [infographic]
http://blog.mynameise.com/post/3086146716/how-we-deal-with-business-cards
The business card problem and the solution we're building on a daily basis
Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)
https://www.figr.app/
Hi all, just posting an update to my previous Show HN, where I announced a side-project I worked on which was a (web version) of a multi-user, notepad style calculator:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31817997

After a couple of user requests (and having a good think about it) I decided to migrate the web UI to create a Mac and Windows desktop app. After using it a little bit, I feel this is a much better experience than the webapp, and reduces a lot of the friction if I wanted to run a few small calculations.

You can find the download links below:

https://www.figr.app/download

For context, Figr was a side project I worked on to get back into coding after being in management for the last few years. It's kind of a cross between popular notepad style calculators (like Soulver, Numi, etc), but also has multi-user editing (like Google Docs). I've got some example templates below which hopefully show what it can do, and hopefully is relevant to the community:

- https://www.figr.app/s/RUNWAY - An example to work out your burn rate / runway

- https://www.figr.app/s/LTVCAC - An LTV/CAC calculator

- https://www.figr.app/s/CONTRACTOR - Hourly rate calculator for contractors

Opened to feedback, or technical questions if others are in the process of moving, or thinking about moving their webapps to desktop apps, as it's been quite a journey!

Thanks!
Clickpass v. Justin.tv
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9950868902
OpenID - what is it, how do you implement it and how can you layer the magic that is Clickpass on top of it.

This Thursday, 27th March, 12pm at Justin.tv in San Francisco:

36 Clyde St. San Francisco, California 94103
The Wilderness Downtown: A future of Internet Music Videos
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
This is the most evocative use of APIs I've ever seen.
Ask HN: Am I a Bad Programmer?
I’ve recently taken on a new job as a full-stack developer. In the past I’ve delivered fully completed projects without too much fuss.
I’ve also taken on legacy projects and been able to dive in and solve major bugs in old legacy code that other developers at those companies have been unable to solve.

The new job uses .NET on the backend and VueJS on the frontend. I’m not a pro at .NET but I’m familiar with the design patterns and I can read the code and understand it, and I’ve been able to make contributions in the weeks I’ve been here. Other than engineering themselves into a special kind of microservice hell, the code is workable.

The front-end code is infuriating. I’ve never seen anything so fragmented and modularized, and I don’t mean in a good way. I’ve never run into any project that I couldn’t work with until now. It’s only Javascript, I should be able to grasp what they have going on, but there are several problems that stump me:

1. They always use the most terse and clever syntax possible; without any comments or documents, I’m having a hell of a hard time figuring out what they were thinking when some code was written.

2. The frontend guys are somewhat hostile. If I ask a question, it’s always “simple” or “easy” and I get a terse answer that doesn’t really take the details into consideration. I feel like they don’t want me around and it’s nigh impossible to get someone to actually jump on a screenshare and pair on something.

3. DRY is a religion here, to the point where everything is fragmented to hell. I have a hard time explaining but I feel like there’s a tradeoff where things can be split apart into their own modules to a degree that becomes counter-productive. Am I wrong about that?

In a nutshell, am I a bad programmer? Am I an asshole? Am I just getting old? Time to quit? Feeling burned out already and I need to figure something out.
I'm 16, and need advice
Hi, I'm a 16 year old student living in israel and about 6 months ago, i was approached by a friend with a ridiculous web site idea. while he thought it was a million dollar idea, i saw it as a great opportunity to really get started in web development, something i have been interested in since i started programming at 14.

so after some months of my php and mysql for dummies book, yahoo answers, and a lot of google, i finished that website. 2 months later, finished another website for another friend.

so currently, i know php, mysql, css, html, and am learning javascript.

i have some great website ideas and want to apply to YC after my senior year. but my question is, what should i be focusing on now?

I was wondering if you can please give me advice on what to do. Thank you very much.

-Binny Zupnick
bzupnick@gmail.com