skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't touched it in years, but during grad school I created a fully operational browser-based app for integrated note-taking and reference management for academic projects, based on locally stored markdown files, and designed to minimize attentional breaks: https://github.com/rkp8000/hypothesize .

I ended up using it for the remainder of my PhD; however, it was unfortunately a bit too easy to accidentally delete an entire note document, and I never got around to fixing it (although at least one other person ended up using it as the primary tool for their grad studies also :) ).

It definitely earned me no more than $0/month.
You joke, but if I remember correctly, in one comic book it's posited that Vader consciously helped the leak, for reasons of internal political competition...
Throughout my life I have found that hard times like what you describe are often the best motivator to start something new. This is an OPPORTUNITY my friend, so don't guess, just get out there and DO. :-)
As little software as possible
> the fault lies somewhere on the airline's side

Hard agree.

> The airline doesn't have access to the tracking data that the customer did.

If that's the case, the customers could have done better. Last year I had a delayed baggage with TAP Portugal. My suitcase stayed in Lisbon and never arrived with me in Brazil. I had an AirTag in it. I sent daily emails to TAP with screenshots of FindMy showing that my bag was within a specific area of the Lisbon airport.

> It's one of hundreds of bags they can't find owners for.

They can certainly do better if that's the case. The bag has a tag with a number and a barcode. Those should point to a specific customer. The customer has already complained about the lost bag. The system should be able to match those 2 ends easily.

> Donating them doesn't seem like too bad of an option, provided they still make the customer whole.

Often getting money doesn't make the customer whole. There are personal items in a bag. There are special gift pieces of clothing. There might be mementos from the trip. There could be other items and artefacts that are irreplaceable to the customer. Money only makes it less bad but it will never completely compensate for the loss of those things.
One wonders if that’s why there’s seemingly been an explosion on ADHD (self-)diagnoses lately.

Not even saying those diagnoses are wrong. It’s just the additional self-discipline requirements imposed by WFH exposed what was already there.
> I'm still appalled at how people can manage to gather the courage to utter they don't need math.

I try to (re-)learn math periodically because I feel like I should, like how one ought to eat one's vegetables and one ought to exercise, but extrinsic motivation is the thing that's lacking. I usually end up on recreational math puzzles or something, before dropping it, since at least those are fun. Probably made three or four cracks at it in a decade, each has gone the same way.

I literally don't know what I'd use most of it for—I can't find that need, even when I try. I'm sure I could make something up just to have an excuse to apply what I was learning, but... why? Probably there are other jobs I could find where knowledge of math was absolutely key, but... why? I've been paid to write code for about 23 years, my pay's great, and I've repeatedly gained a reputation at companies for being the guy to go to for tough or low-level problems. But if you gave me an intro to linear algebra final or calculus 1 final, today, I'd be lucky to score 25% on either (hell, I'd be lucky to get anything right on the Calc final, but maybe there'd be a couple easy questions at the beginning—I've never, once, ever applied anything I learned in calc, for any purpose, so what little I knew about it to begin with is long gone)
I review bad, low budget, and obscure movies on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@calhounsreviews still less than 300 subs but I keep making them because I enjoy it!
Like the UNIX file command, it lists out what the file content probably is/are.

It can also breakdown the file in question by regions and group such data content into most probable types … for each region.

As to its final application, that is not in my contract/task description.
God if I had the patience I’d love to do security research.
https://paymewith.xyz/

Made this to quickly share payment options across multiple apps such as Venmo, Cash, etc.

No intention of monetizing, just a utility I wanted to exist.
https://getsavory.co/

I am making a minimal Pocket/Instapaper/Pinboard replacement. It supports tags as a first-class feature and no-feed as an anti-feature.
Open Source Status Page, Monitoring, and Incident Response Platform
To be honest, the same sentence caught my eye. I can imagine there are some fans of both Dune and Typography. But it's more probable that it's due to some effect I've been observing for a while. Not sure if it has a name, all these pieces of Internet wisdom have a name, like "Gell-Man Amnesia", "Godwin's Law"... maybe I could call it narag's effect?

I mean that any YouTube channel or Instagram account, that has some niche topic as focus, tend to greatly exagerate what is considered a normal engagement with such topic.

As an example, most persons own one watch and one perfume, if any. If you want to buy a new wristwatch or perfume and do your little research, you'll find reviewers that own hundreds of perfumes or dozens of watches, some of them ridiculously expensive. Why? You can create a channel that helps the viewers to choose their one and only cheap purchase, but good luck monetizing that. You need recurring visitors, to improve your watching times. Brand deals also require you are able to send whales to the vendors.

The noble art of Typography and a blog seem a little too sober of a setup to fit that description, but who knows, I'm sure there are pros very passionate about typesetting.

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/907087
I know most of the stuff listed there and do not have a published textbook or papers. It sounds like the author achieved success because they work hard on things they’re passionate about. Knowledge and published works are a byproduct of that.
They could have scanned the beeping AirTag with a compatible device, which would have at least identified the owner - and likely matched a phone number to a reservation ticket.

They certainly do not want to do so, but the capability existed and they declined to exercise it.
WASM is architecture-independent (ARM servers are becoming a thing, for better or worse) and has a lot of investment into sandboxing it performantly (since it also has to run in browsers).
Thanks! Yeah we support iOS, web and android! We are still adding support on web to create events but you can view and respond.
AWS Purity Test
Unfortunately there is little to no real ethical consumption under the current economic systems of the world (at least in the developed world). E.g. my mere existence in the USA funds the actions of the federal government and military. It is not my intention to legitimize actions you speak against (I.e. “there are none without sin” is not an invitation to sin your heart out). I just want to remind everyone that even true statements and facts can nevertheless be used as propaganda (I.e. focus on the bad things our enemies our doing, not that we are doing). I have no doubt that on the Chinese equivalent of hacker news there are people saying that doing any business in the USA is helping the US imperial war machine that has violently over thrown many governments, disappears people into Guantanamo Bay, etc.
https://wordhazard.net/

"Heads Up" but online and in multiple languages at the same time, e.g. even if an English word is up to be guessed, you can enter the equivalent word in Spanish or German, and you will get points for that, too. I created this because I like word games like that but my friend group is quite multilingual and most are not native English speakers.
People forget about the scourge of the open office before the pandemic. Would be nice if RTO was paired with getting rid of those spaces that no one except management liked.
We don't have to wonder with Microsoft. Again and again they have paid billions of dollars for complete failures like the Surface RT and Windows RT. They would have been well advised to cancel the platform before spending a fortune on advertising and unsold inventory.

Hell, how much did they pay for Skype, despite already having several text and video chat clients of their own? Then they completely rewrote Skype before replacing it with Teams.

They have a longstanding habit of taking shareholder value and creating huge bonfires from it.
I don't understand the mechanism by which they lose both bar codes that are put on the bag. I've never had either one go missing.

Even if they did that, doesn't everyone out a luggage tag on their bags with name and contact info?

This just feels like the price of blowing off customers is entirely too low.
I feel like there's some sort of middle ground here. If a device is still registered to the original owner, notify the original owner and give them a grace period where they can permanently lock down the device. After that grace period, the device automatically unlocks. Having to provide the sale receipt feels more like vendor lock in than actual security.
Donating an unclaimed bag is maybe an option (if the recipient is legally required to destroy all personal data). Donating a bag that your passenger has filed a claim for, and can tell you the location of, is a business decision. The penalty in this situation should be so obscenely high as to make it irrational for the airline to consider it.

Merely compensating for damages implies the bag was lost in good faith. I can't just steal your car and pay you fair market value for it without your agreement.
The passwords store is not the same as the configuration file. It's common to upload the password store, not the configuration.
Please do, the US has such a lack of patisseries and boulangeries ( sorry to assume your position )
Started a side project on helping short term renters find a place to stay mexico Riviera Maya that's not gringo priced.

Airbnb and lots of foreigners here with lack of local knowledge are jacking up the price.

Knowledge are generally shared in person or over WhatsApp/FB groups, not the most efficient.
Clever pivot! I was recently thinking it would be useful to track job posts that have been open for a long time. This could be a sign that the company is struggling to make a hire. As a freelance developer, that suggests they may be open to a cold call offer for a contract until they can fill the role. The hiring manager may be more receptive since the seat has been vacant for a while, and they can end the contract when the role is finally filled.

Is that something you can build on top of your dataset?
I wrote a scheduling and training application for fighter squadrons. Used in a number of active duty and ANG sqs. Not sure how to monetize it. Also have a target imagery generator for training that's widespread on one aircraft type.
In a way, this "totalizing" can be looked at as a pro rather than a con.

Yes, today we have an entire collection of ecosystems of services that can provide the key functionalities as described above. Each of these technologies comes with it's own long tail of dependencies, security issues, maintenance effort, plain old computational overhead, etc.

Meanwhile, this 30-year old technology provides matching functionality (yes, admittedly with syntax and object types that simultaneously induce vertigo and motion sickness), but all the bugs have long been eradicated or encased in amber, and pound-for-pound it will rip circles around an alternative solution that's dragging a Java VM or a megaton of node_modules along with it, wrapped in docker images and k8s yamls.

I use yaws as my go-to webserver. It's nuke-proof. It's simple*, and it Just Works. Good luck finding a haxxor that can breach it. I believe that it's in large part due to the very simple conceptual building blocks it's constructed out of (the gen_ behaviours OP describes).
I remember when I was learning Elixir—I asked my co-worker / Elixir mentor how Elixir solves concurrent programming, data access, etc. His cheeky but accurate response was "How do you solve a problem that you don't have?"

His point was that the paradigm is so different at the VM level, that many things become irrelevant to the conversation. That said, there still are concurrent programming challenges on the BEAM, but it's very minimal compared to languages where it's not baked in.

Ruby Ractor is a good example of how a VM-backed concurrency mechanism will likely change how programs in that language can be built.
The history of UNIX is complex...

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix)
Since when do you sign anything when you leave a job?

Weird.
I'm building an End-to-End-Encryption app for Discord private chat, called discryptor.io [0]. It uses a Discord bot to deliver encrypted messages between users, rather than directly using the unprotected Discord chat.

I created an MVP for Windows but unfortunately haven't had the time and resources to make a mobile app yet. I would love to hear not just feedback on the execution, but the idea itself.

Also I'm not sure how monetizable the idea is but I'd like to give it a shot.

[0] https://www.discryptor.io
What's the actual problem with this? They're not issuing more stock to fund expansion are they?
> I think people that take suitcases as carry-on are one of the biggest annoyances of flying domestically in the US. Delays everyone getting on and off the plane and leaves no space for items people genuinely need on the plane.

I imagine you're a casual flyer? As someone who has traveled a lot for work I can't agree. I'm someone who needs to move from A->B quickly and can't be bothered worrying about luggage being lost or dealing with delays at the carrousel.

> Delays everyone getting on and off the plane and leaves no space for items people genuinely need on the plane.

Like what? If it's your laptop/similar it can be in a backpack/small bag under the seat. If it's a jacket it can rest behind you on the seat or if you have a bit of space in your bag (under seat or overhead luggage) toss it in there prior to boarding, it's what I always did.
A lot of cities have some rent control like this covering older buildings in the us but its shockingly politically unpalatable. People think it is better for others to be gouged on housing I guess.
You'd be competing with the likes of YNAB, that provide a lot of features already today (including auto-import in most countries). Tough job.
Collect UBI presumably. If my role gets AI'd then presumably so has the vast majority of humanity.

In a field that is supposedly easy to automate (accounting) but senior enough that I'm essentially just doing crisis management on novel situations and project management.
A friend is a member of quite a few Facebook groups. She doubts my belief that these groups already contain ChatGPT-like influence operation chatbots, but was recently surprised when in one of the groups several participants discussed a photograph of a typical large chest of drawers while referring to it as a "locker". Maybe some people do refer to such furniture as a locker, or maybe the first person did for some reason and the others then just followed along to avoid confusion, but it made me wonder whether it was an example of a group of chatbots talking to each other and making up a nonsense name for the item. (She still doesn't believe me.)
There's also tons of censorship on Wikipedia based on nothing but ideology. Just look at how the Grayzone can no longer be used as a source, based on claims it is "state-affiliated" media, despite ZERO evidence after literally years of such BS claims and now documented evidence of Western states targeting them (look up the exposé on Paul Mason) because they report inconvenient facts about what the security state is doing. There are many more lower-profile harassment campaigns carried out by "editors" looking to smear intellectuals (especially on the left) so that they can't get speaking gigs, print articles in major media, etc. Jimmy Wales himself went after the Grayzone.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-...
how did you launch this? to your existing social circle/friends or did you do any marketing?
https://fetcher.page

Haven't got enough traction for me to want to implement payments
Built a separate service that used spacy
Worth remembering... Our last president made mishandling certain classified documents a felony. And now we have his Vice President announcing it and even calling Congress to notify them... screams internal politics.
Ayep. China's government sucks.
Did you take a moment to improve the article you had an issue with? That's kind of the point...
Gasoline engine or Electric Vehicule?
I've been building MVPs for the past yearish with this stack. Some of these choices are newish / smallish but it's the simplest, most enjoyable stack I've tried so far.

- Frontend: SvelteKit (Dockerized)

- Backend: F# / .NET running Giraffe (Dockerized)

- Data: Postgres (Managed - currently GCloudSQL)

- Hosting: Serverless Containers (currently GCloudRun)

I built a boilerplate for this to make it easier to improve / spin up: https://cloudseed.xyz
It's called garbage collection for a reason. ;)
https://www.artdiario.com/

A new piece of art on your desktop wallpaper every day.

Try it out! It's free! Expose yourself to art!

I have no idea how I will monetize this, or if I ever will. I just want more people using it. I think it's such a fun app, and the effect is subtle. You passively get exposed to a new piece of art every day, and everyone who has the app sees the same art, so you can talk about it. Neat!
Internet often feels it's getting rotten with SEO spam with very little substance already. Now the flood gates are open to generate more shit in a much better wrapping. And it's going to take more effort to check its quality than to produce it. Unless we get better tools to do that - but text has more dimensions to process/understand as opposed to for example AI generated images which (for now) can be told apart by glitches, or trails detectable by software.
The answer to that depends on the timeframe and your risk tolerance: a lot of cryptocurrency people said FTX was profitable, too, right up until it wasn't. When you're talking about retirement funds, the timeframe is long enough that you have to think about how stable something is and whether the profits you're seeing will continue. There isn't a recipe for “highly profitable” and you need to consider both the quality of the leadership and whether they share the same goals you have: there are many companies which were bought by a private equity firm who “improved efficiency” by slashing costs and milking the existing customers for as much revenue as possible. If you're the PE guy who cashes out early in that process, this is highly profitable. If you're the retail investor with some shares in your retirement account, you likely had the opposite experience.
How are you not NDA'd to the wazoo...?
I've spent the past two years or so working on Tachi (https://bokutachi.xyz/) (https://github.com/TNG-Dev/Tachi), which is a modular tool for tracking rhythm game scores.

Generally, everyone was using their own personal spreadsheets or ancient "just render everything" tables to analyse their scores and progress before this and I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out.

What I'm probably most proud of is that adding support for a new game is adding a new module for it - all of the other features automatically work with it. This turns a "each game needs to have its own full-site tracker" into a "each game needs a configuration for this one tracker", not unlike how LSP simplifies adding language support for editors!

Taught me almost everything I know about scaling a codebase, and despite being a niche tool it's picked up a lot of momentum (2k users, ~3m scores).
I've been working on my Twitter bookmark tool (https://getbirdfeeder.com) for the past year. I have some paying subscribers, but I mostly give that money to DigitalOcean for database and storage hosting.
The World’s Most Powerful Languages (2017)
Making music! :) That's something I love so much, I could be drowning in a see of AI generated music and still love music and do my own.
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Robotnikinin

This made my day.
To be honest, I am quite amazed by how nicely all the pieces are coming together now. It all just feels right, it feels like collecting fruit from under a huge apple tree.
Cooking, writing novels, or running a small shop
App is written in JS and uses a JS library to render epub in the browser, how else could it work?
I counter your religious fervor with my own opposite fervor.

Good luck.
Russian cyber attack using Notion for Command and Control [pdf]
Hate to be a downer, but the likely outcome is that a lot of us would get angry, depressed, and addicted. This future is a hypothetical for our industry, but it's happened before with other industries, so we have some precedent to look to. The "don't worry, you'll learn new skills and switch careers" promise has been tried, too. Results have been mixed at best.
Built a fun side project to learn Vue, https://wheelcarnival.com/ a place to create and share roulette wheels.

I'm not working on it but somehow it still has some traction, it averages 20k users/month (mostly teachers). Unfortunately my day job it's very time-consuming and I never find time to create a better version.
I was thinking about this the other day while giving it a spin after the renderer update. To me, the privacy benefits of having community-sourced maps downloaded and routes calculated locally, would be eliminated by adding in what is essentially a GPS data botnet. I would rather lose out on that data.

As with most things in the privacy world, it's a tradeoff. Nearly everything is privacy/freedom vs. convenience.
I think therefore I am. I am aware of being conscious and thinking thoughts. I don't know if others are conscious. Maybe others are robots (Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions). Maybe others are NPCs (non-player characters). This is the modern way of calling people robots. Kurt Vonnegut's solution was to find someone who has a creative spirit, an artist that has a light within them (soul.)
I'm no longer really working on it, but I was developing a "newsbetting" site, where you could read de-titled news articles and place a bet on the political bias of the article (far left, left, center, right, far right).

There's a number of issues with the site, but you can view it here if you'd like. I'll load some articles just in case anyone wants to check it out, but as I said, I'm not really working on it anymore.

https://www.rashomonnews.com/
https://www.jayporeci.in/

I've been working on this CI system for a while.

1. Zero setup. Works on git hooks.

2. Python as the config language. Makes it very easy to do dependencies/matrix jobs/conditional jobs.

3. Offline first. It can work online with gitea as well.

4. Everything is in git. I don't need to muck around in and configure the CI system itself.
Just use a throwaway
https://www.reciped.io

Wikipedia like recipe site. Drag and drop meal planning, and automatically creates grocery lists sorted by grocery aisle. Grocery lists are built for mobile, swipe right to slide that item off the list.
People do this all the time. What, like that means it's not worth looking at?
Thank you for your detailed answer.
If you have kids you don't live in SF. Plain and simple. It's too expensive to raise a family in the city so it ends up being a handful of very rich old money types who send their kids to elite private schools like Covenant & Stuart or the children of refugees, legal, and illegal immigrants from Central America, Asia, and the Middle East (large Yemeni population in TL) who end up in shithole SFUSD schools

Most people in the wfh demographic in SF are either DINKs or Yuppies