jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Relevant placeholder images (alternative to placeholder.com etc.)
https://imgy.dev/
I made https://imgy.dev/ last week. Provides more relevant placeholder images for comps and so on. Same idea as the old Placeholder site, but prettier. Just embed an image tag linking to the service, and tell it what you want. For example

img src="https://imgy.dev/puppy"

Will give you an image of a puppy. You can also specify image size to crop to or use landscape / portrait. See the site for examples.

Very simple build. I needed it and it was quick to dev. Took about a week to get the API uncapped before I could share it. Uses pexels API.

Give it a go. Let me know if it breaks.
Faster JavaScript
http://www.yusufaytas.com/faster-javascript/
JavaScript Performance Optimization clues.
Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig
Great Documentary about the release of the Mozilla Code to the Open Source community.
Reddit fuzzes upvotes/downvotes
Thought this was pretty interesting, according to:

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/eaqnf/pardon_me_but_5000_downvotes_wtf_is_worldnews_for/

Jedberg (a reddit admin) says:
"The numbers you see are fuzzed for anti-spam reasons.
The more active a post is, the more out of whack that fuzzing becomes."

I wonder with sites like reddit/HN if theres a positive-feedback loop, where if a comment has a reasonable number of upvotes it also gets upvoted, or downvoted, if it has negative votes.

It would be interesting to see how fuzzing effects peoples voting behaviour.
Key Lessons on Enterprise Sales and Leadership by Mark Leslie
http://serrastreet.blogspot.com/2010/03/key-lessons-learned-from-prof-mark.html
I've had the fortune to learn about enterprise sales from Mark Leslie (http://bit.ly/MLeslie), a well-known leader in the technology industry. In our last day of class, he shared some key lessons, including some practical tips, I thought were great and I would love to share here: http://serrastreet.blogspot.com/2010/03/key-lessons-learned-from-prof-mark.html
Blog Comments Link Building – Google Just Opened a Can of Worms
http://techjunk.co.za/blog-comments-link-building-google-just-opened-a-can-of-worms/
The recent Google webmaster video series where Matt Cutts gave clarity on a question about blog commenting as a link building method raises a lot of questions about the state of link building in 2013 and Google’s efforts to get rid of spammers.<p>Read more: http://techjunk.co.za/blog-comments-link-building-google-just-opened-a-can-of-worms/#ixzz2l5vwpkaA
Fog 0.4.0 Release
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2011/happy-new-year-and-0-4-0-from-fog/
Wes Beary is rocking in 2011 with a bang by pushing a big “minor” release of fog. Fog is a provider agnostic cloud services library for Ruby. If you are a Rubyist using (or considering using) cloud services, look no further, we have you covered with one API for any cloud.
Track custom events without JavaScript?
http://trialfire.com
We wanted to track user behaviour on our web application. At first we were a small startup that didn't have the time to code for all the behaviours we wanted to track. Then we sold our company to a large public software behemoth. Then we had many more resources, but management still kept them focused on developing the core product, even as our user base grew further. So we still didn't collect the detailed user behaviour we wanted to track, and we didn't get to run insightful reports in Mixpanel or Google Analytics, and we didn't learn from our experiences.

So when we left to start a new venture and ended up building a solution that solved our problem. In fact we found it so exciting and got such great feedback we decided to build our entire business around it.<p>So whats my question? Simple. I'm looking for sniff testers, tire kickers and nay-sayers that might be interested in having a deeper dive and giving some honest feedback. No matter what I've shown her, my mom still says my ideas are great ;}

Check us out at http://trialfire.com - We're currently looking for testers to be part of our closed beta.
D3 improved "Reusable Chart Pattern"
http://javacrypt.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/improvements-to-d3s-reusable-component-pattern/
whatever... take it or leave it
I'm 16, and this is my first (real) iOS App
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/locopix/id549360793
This is the first app I've ever released on the App Store coded in Objective-C. Let me know what you guys think.
Heartbleed Hit List – Websites affected by heart bleed
http://hackingnews.com/vulnerability/heartbleed-hit-list-affected-websites/
Have you changed your password? You definitely should do it!
Visa snaps up SA mobile financial services company Fundamo for $110m
http://memeburn.com/2011/06/visa-snaps-up-sa-mobile-financial-services-company-for-110m/
Visa, the world’s largest credit and debit card network, has snapped up South African mobile financial services company Fundamo for $110-million in cash.
Sentence Based Password Program
http://16s.us/sha1_pass/

I posted this last week. I did not get much feedback then. I wanted to post it to HN one last time. I call it SHA1_Pass. I have compiled Mac, Linux and Windows versions (working on a few BSD builds too). It would be neat if an Android/iOS dev would implement versions for those devices as well.

I won't rehash all the details in this post (read them at the URL if you like). It's not a web 2.0 app, so it's not snazzy and new, but I think it's a good idea. I've used it myself for many years now, and wanted to share it more broadly after the Gawker incident.
Virtual Companies, Virtual Teams Real money
http://8kmiles.com
8kmiles is a startup that redefines the concept of out sourcing. Now even individuals as well as SMEs can take advantage of outsourcing.
It's VCE (virtual computing environment) even takes care of the hardware/software requirements.
University of Delaware hacked
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130730/NEWS03/130730007/UD-employees-information-compromised-cyber-attack
The names, addresses and social security numbers of roughly 72,000 current and former employees were accessed, possibly by a struts2 vulnerability.
Ten things I wish I knew earlier about the Linux command line
http://tuts.pinehead.tv/2012/09/13/ten-things-i-wish-i-knew-earlier-about-the-linux-command-line-2/
We all learn new things over time as we use applications with a vast amount of possibilities. Of course, some of those things would have been so useful if we had known them earlier. Here are 10 command line tricks that I wish I had learned much sooner.

Note: these tricks apply to bash, which is the default shell on most Linux systems. If you’re using a different shell, they may not work for you. If you don’t know which shell you have, it’s probably bash, so go ahead and try them!
Show HN: Visualization as a Service
https://columns.ai/dev?hn=1
Talked to a bunch of people, looks like there is a need, one company uses SQL Server Cube to handle intermediate dataset exploring for their customers, but it's not flexible, fast, and scalable. VAAS is the API that you can call any time with any dataset to provide an instant visualizer URL for exploring and visualizing the data.
A case against syntax highlighting
http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/index.php
Do you rely on syntax highlighting when developing software? If so, you may be shooting yourself in the foot.
Facebook just broke the mobile authentication dialogs
https://developers.facebook.com/x/bugs/1475858535971207/
Does any one know someone at facebook who can address this?
Crash Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, 6, 7, and 8 With HTML, JavaScript
http://www.botcrawl.com/how-to-crash-microsoft-internet-explorer-5-6-7-and-8-with-html-javascript-and-wordpress-plugins/
How To Crash Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, 6, 7, And 8 With HTML, JavaScript, And Plugins
RubyMotion Review
http://aelogica.com/newsletter/rubymotion-review/
An updated review (October 2012) in RubyMotion coming from someone without prior iOS Development knowledge with some Ruby on Rails experience.
Ask HN: Is there a detailed description of N95 masks online?
I'm just curious about how they work.
Indesign Vs. QuarkXPress 
http://www.erisfire.com/articles/article01_idvq.htm
The debate about which layout program is better, InDesign or Quark, is not quite as old as the PC vs. Mac debate, but often just as heated and polarizing.
The Varnish Experience: Writing Software for Modern computers
https://speakerdeck.com/multicorenz/writing-software-for-modern-computers
Poul-Henning Kamp @ Multicore World 2013 (NZ) describes his experience with Varnish Software.
Five Suggestions for Entrepreneurs from Nantucket
http://www.gototheboard.com/articles/Thinking_About_Design_on_Nantucket
The article has 5 suggestions plus a link to a post by Sim Simeonov from Polaris Venture Partners, might be especially useful for anyone in the Boston area.
Tips for Hackathon Success
http://appsembler.com/blog/10-tips-for-hackathon-success/
If you've never been to a hackathon, they are typically a 24-48 hour event during which time your team needs to build a working prototype for a product, usually a web or mobile app, but some teams build actual hardware devices. I've been to a lot of these hackathons, and have observed some patterns for what makes for a successful hackathon experience.
Pure white paper
http://vimeo.com/54967505
Li Hongbo paper scupltures
Tips on scaling on the FB Platform
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agentdero/sets/72157601461292940/
by R. Tyler of Slide
Pokemon Yellow Total Control Hack
http://aurellem.org/vba-clojure/html/total-control.html
Go to 666s into the video to see the bootstraps running.
Wi-Fi is the new 4G
http://trends-in-telecoms.blogspot.com/2011/07/wi-fi-is-new-4g.html
An interesting presentation. Take a look at it
Usability Testing in Code Review
http://kilon.org/blog/2012/10/usability-testing-in-code-review/
It means that as far as is humanly possible, when I look at code it should be self-evident. Obvious. Self-explanatory.
I should be able to “get it”—what it is and how to use it—without expending any effort thinking about it
Show HN: Sell Notion Pages with Teasers behind Paywall
https://notion-paywall.com
I built a Next.js template that lets you:

→ Write content in Notion

→ Publish it on your own web domain

→ Gain traffic through fast, SEO-friendly page previews

→ Hide your most valuable content behind a paywall

→ Sell access to the full content
Of the top 6 results for "Real World Haskell" on Amazon, 2 are Haskell books...
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=real+world+haskell&x=0&y=0
asdf
Responsive URLs - URLs which respond to your browsers width!
http://responsiveurl.co.uk/
URLs which respond to your browsers width!
"Write Your Own Book" - Lessons from Woz in Santiago
http://laestrellasolitaria.tumblr.com/post/26588856732/write-your-own-book-lessons-from-woz-in-santiago
Steve Wozniak is currently in Chile and gave a talk this morning at the Entel Summit. I've shared five quotes from this, and what they meant to me.
Jon Stewart (The Daily Show):  The Anti-Social Network
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-6-2011/the-anti-social-network?xrs=eml_tds
Thursday night's episode from the daily show! ...
'Mark Zuckerberg's immense success is founded on mining personal data, but he doesn't want to be transparent'
Tell HN: Make the karma invisible, please
It's a distraction to the soul.

Thank you
Show HN: "Pick their brains” for a fee or for free
https://geeksandexperts.com
Don't rely on warm intros or cold DMs!
Just the way you shouldn't webm* symptoms, don't googl* your startup questions. Get on a call with a domain expert and ask them questions on shipping, scaling or selling your startup! Know what you don't know.
The Nation's First State-Level Equity Crowdfunding Bill [pdf]
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2013-14/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2023.pdf
This is exciting. A crowdfunding bill designed to not have to comply with the federal law at all.
Google Analytics for the real world.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/21/infoscout/
check out infoscout.co : InfoScout Tells Brands Who Buys What By Getting Meatspace Shoppers To Photograph Receipts.
Reuters: Yahoo sues Facebook over 10 patents
http://www.reuters.com/?nostoryyet
can't edit link, so: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3695360
On National Internet Filters: A Metaphor for Internet Neutrality
https://github.com/CharlesAnifowose/Metaphor-for-Internet-Neutrality
The UK's recent steps towards modifying their Internet infrastructure has prompted me to find a way to explain the situation to friends and relatives. I am no network engineer so please make noise if you find the metaphor to be jarringly inaccurate.
Show HN: Toolbox – A framework for modular Bash scripts
https://m10k.eu/toolbox.html
Everyday, I have to deal with Bash scripts and all the code duplication and unreadableness that comes with it. One day I found myself implementing an include function so that I could easily modularize my scripts, and it worked better than I had anticipated. That's how toolbox started.

At first, I wrote some simple modules for command line parsing and locking, but then I tried to see how far I could push the poor shell. I wrote modules for semaphores and "thread"-safe queues, and this is where things quickly started to escalate. To implement a distributed build system that automates packaging/signing/publishing of toolbox Debian packages, I wrote a module for message-based IPC that supports point-to-point and pub-sub communication. Performance was never a consideration, but it works really well without consuming excessive resources.

Some of the modules are arguably serious abuse of the shell, but I found that toolbox makes it possible to write Bash scripts that are readable, testable, and reliable. Shell isn't a terribly nice language, but it's great for integrating and automating things, so I thought others might find this useful, too.

(I am going to publish the build system as well, as soon as I am done writing the documentation.)
Tomboy gains websync
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/06/tomboy-note-app-gains-web-sync-showcases-power-of-open-web.ars
http://live.gnome.org/Snowy
Foam swords, electronic scoring (54% backed after day one)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/levelup/sabertron-foam-swords-with-electronic-scoring
These are like laser tag but with swords. Already 54% backed in less than 24 hours.
No more Chrome updates for Red Hat users?
https://plus.google.com/112648813199640203443/posts/7LrVTf43yz8
Seems that Chrome from the official repos at Google will not get updates anymore as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is deemed "obsolete". Note that they continue support for Windows XP at the same time ...
City of Decay RPG
http://www.cityofdecay.com/
Here's a fun game to play that is constantly updating and adding new things, has great staff, chat, forums, and good community. From joining gangs to committing crimes, gambling to searching the streets, you can choose your own strategy.
Web Developer Documentation Manuals You Need To Bookmark
http://www.codedevelopr.com/50-web-developer-documentation-manuals-you-need-to-know-about/
This is a list of over 50+ Documentation Manuals and Guides for Programmers, Web Developers, and Web Designers.
Tesla's CyberTruck, Is This a Joke?
https://www.audibrow.com/blog/tesla-cybertruck/

Tell me this is not real. Check out the above link and pics.

Is this April Fools Day???
Jekyll and Client Side Web Applications.
http://peterkinnaird.eu/programming/2013/07/29/jekyll-for-client-side-apps.html
Recently moved one of my projects to Jekyll and I'm finding the advantages pretty good.
AMD attempts to exert editorial control over tech press
http://techreport.com/blog/23638/amd-attempts-to-shape-review-content-with-staged-release-of-info
Today, AMD lifts the embargo on "limited previews" of its desktop Trinity processors. There are very specific rules about what can be discussed: specifications, power consumption, and gaming performance data are OK, but pricing, overclocking, and non-gaming performance data can't be published until a later date--after AMD's carefully orchestrated previews grab all the headlines. This behavior could be considered unethical, and it certainly indicates that the previews out today don't tell the whole story.
Show HN: I made a Slack bot to summarise long threads with GPT-3
https://www.buildwithforest.com/summarise-with-forest
Hi, we built a Slack app to summarise long threads. We built this using our product Forest(http://buildwithforest.com/) which allows developers to build workflows and connect APIs remarkably fast. We wanted to show what all you can build with Forest. We are still early in our journey and would love to chat with developers who think Forest could be useful for them and get feedback.
Why clean code matters
http://samheuck.com/code/why-clean-code-matters/
Wanting to write clean code is not simply an expression of developer idealism, it saves money and prevents headaches.
Show HN: Kurynt – The last tool you will ever need to manage third party code
https://kurynt.com
I built Kurynt after numerous and repeated headaches maintaining multiple codebases with innumerable dependencies. Many developers know that sinking feeling every time they inherit a codebase where many packages are long outdated and in need of updates or upgrades. Kurynt is the solution to this problem by rapidly giving you an overview of how far behind you are on all packages used by your codebase.

In my opinion, Kurynt is a step above 'dumb' tools like Snyk or Dependabot, which simply create a pull request on your repository on your code with the latest version changes in your package manager. How many of us have honestly immediately merged those changes? I never have, because I know it takes time to review the content of the upgraded packages, review breaking changes, actually install the new packages, and then finally, test the entire codebase to ensure the suggested upgrades are working as suggested.

Kurynt seeks to bring intelligence to third-party code management and upgrades. Kurynt can summarize and identify the most critical raised GitHub issues, run sentiment analysis to determine the most cryptic or confusing bugs, and much more. I hope you'll consider giving Kurynt a test drive!
Light Touch interactive projector turns any flat surface into a touchscreen #CES
http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/light-touch-interactive-projector-turns-any-flat-surface-into-a-touchscreen/
A 2010 CES Innovations Honoree in both the Media Player and Personal Electronics categories, the Light Touch from the house of Light Blue Optics is an amazing interactive projector featuring multi-touch technology that turns any flat surface into a touchscreen (keyboard,
Light Blue Optics is headquartered in Cambridge, UK with a Development Facility in Colorado Springs,
Hacking the London Underground
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7655292.stm
Details of how to hack one of the world's most popular smartcards (used in the London Underground system) have been published online.

For the technical details see:
http://www.sos.cs.ru.nl/applications/rfid/2008-esorics.pdf
A redundant, distributed file store way more secure than AES? 
https://github.com/jontonsoup/tin-foil-hat/
This is a project that I'm on the team for. Would love any comments and to gauge interest in the idea (or if you would like to help us)
submissions bug
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=curi
test
Real life hacking - A flying hovercraft made from parts of a car and a scooter
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7356127/New-Zealand-inventor-creates-flying-hovercraft.html
Video here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7GRQbvKZos
Coprimality test with a regular expression
https://gist.github.com/1520171
A coprimality test based on Abigail's technique.
Why I do contribute to open source: a how-to for beginners
http://antics.posterous.com/contributing-to-open-source-a-guide-by-a-begi
I wrote this mainly in response to a discussion I heard here. I hope our experiences are helpful to people in this position.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2510964
Show HN: Instant Kittens
http://instantkittens.com/
Time to put off Monday morning a little longer...
(More) Code Crackers Wanted
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2008/05/15/code-crackers-wanted/
The Fermilab letter was originally assumed to be associated with neutrinos due to time proximity with the 20th Anniversary of SN1987A, and the letters mention of Frank Shoemaker, who worked with neutrino detectors. Confirmation has been found as time stamps in section 2.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/34230168/Fermi06222010

https://sites.google.com/site/sfcanalysis/
The Importance of the Home Button
http://fishtrain.com/2007/10/15/the-importance-of-the-home-button/
The Home Button is highly important. Here's 3 reasons why.
Don't Steal Computers From People Who Know Computers
http://www.betabeat.com/2011/03/21/dont-steal-computers-from-to-people-who-know-how-to-use-computers-video/
Startup Whiz Kid Mark Bao catches the thief who stole his laptop uploading pics and video of himself. Now he has the thief's facebook and is planning some LULZ!
Show HN: A small open-source logic game based on an a early DOS game
https://peterfication.itch.io/space-jumper
I wanted to try out Unity so I created a small game with it. The reason I post it here is because it is based on an old DOS game that I barely remember but I liked very much. I don't remember the name of the original game but would love to play it again some time. So maybe someone of the HN crowd knows the game and can tell me the name :)

The game might amuse you for 5 minutes or half an hour. After some levels, you get the gist of how you can move and it's not really possible to create a super hard level. It could be extended with different movements to make it more complex, but I'm not planning to do so for now.
Ask YC: talking to Navy docs about FOSS & healthcare IT in ~ 3 wks. Please comment on outline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Niels_Olson#Day_2:_Historical_and_current_development
I plan either two 30 minute sessions after morning report (so 0800 to 0830 two days), or 30 minutes one day, and a 1 hour lunch the next. What to add? What to remove? Semi-intentionally put more than necessary in timeline because I didn't really know what to <i>exclude</i>, so whack away at it, please!
How do such obvious things get past a QA team 
http://imgur.com/6NYCc
Looks like there is a bug in the AppStore. My question is I am sure there is a dedicated team for testing before release. My question is how does these obviously visible bugs get past standard manual and automated testing procedures
JDistiller, A DSL for web-crawling built on Node.js and jQuery
https://github.com/bcoe/jDistiller
A couple weeks ago I posted a web-crawler I'd built for parsing Wikipedia articles (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436349). jDistiller grew out of this project. As a test I rebuilt the crawler in thirty lines of code using the jDistiller API:

new jDistiller()
.set('title', '#firstHeading')
.set('links', '#bodyContent p a', function(element, prev) {
var href = element.attr('href'),
key = href.replace('/wiki/', '');

if ( key === href) return;

element.replaceWith('[[' + key + ']]');

return [key, {
title: element.attr('title'),
text: prev[key] ? prev[key].text : element.text(),
occurrences: prev[key] ? prev[key].occurrences + 1 : 1
}]
})
.set('sections', '#bodyContent p,#firstHeading,h2,h3,img', function(element, prev) {
var images = [];

if ( element.is('h1') || element.is('h2') ) {
this.heading = element.text().trim();
return
}

return [this.heading, {
text: prev[this.heading] ? prev[this.heading].text + element.text() : element.text(),
images: element.is('img') && element.attr('width') > 50 ? [element.attr('src').replace('//', 'http://')] : []
}];
})
.distill('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog', function(err, distilledPage) {
console.log(JSON.stringify(distilledPage.sections));
});