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Re: Hacker News Official API

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Post by Asdrubalini »

password4321 wrote: post #56
Asdrubalini wrote: post #23

I'm currently writing an HN posts score tracker (basically it plots score variations over time since they were in new for each popular post) and it's really handy that you can just subscribe with eventsource [0] and get realtime update when something changes without having to manually poll each post wasting resources. Not yet sure about the latency though. [0] https://github.com/jpopesculian/reqwest-eventsource/

https://hnrankings.info/

I know but it does not provide detailed and raw data, making it impossibile to do a bunch of interesting in-depth analysis. Also, I like to build this kind of stuff to explore async rust capabilities.

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Post by dinkledunk »

ElCheapo wrote: post #20
O__________O wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Again, just expressing my opinion, but another example would be it would allow custom ranking algorithms like PageRank, TrustRank, etc. And yes, aware of Lobste.rs mod logs, but Lobste.rs is basically dead compared to HN — largely because it’s an HN clone.

This is a website where people post links and other people comment below them. Most front page discussions don't surpass 50 replies. I don't really think we should care so much about this place to the point that we're willing to employ state of the art data analysis tools just to read a blog post and see if someone has critiqued it in the comments

Yes, it is. And if you feel that way, that's fine. Why gatekeep?

Re: Hacker News Official API

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Post by tailspin2019 »

BeyondSchwifty wrote: post #57

Anyone know of a good tool to get something like push notifications when specific topics come up on HN? I've been thinking maybe I should build one, but I also feel like someone must have already done it by now.

Don’t have any suggestions but as an alternative to notifications, I wrote a script to check the HN API for keywords such as “outage” “downtime” “breached” and show the results on a TV screen in my office.

Has been quite useful for the ops side of what I work on!

Re: Hacker News Official API

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Post by ElCheapo »

dinkledunk wrote: post #62
ElCheapo wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a website where people post links and other people comment below them. Most front page discussions don't surpass 50 replies. I don't really think we should care so much about this place to the point that we're willing to employ state of the art data analysis tools just to read a blog post and see if someone has critiqued it in the comments

Yes, it is. And if you feel that way, that's fine. Why gatekeep?

What am I gatekeeping, exactly?

Re: Hacker News Official API

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Post by 1123581321 »

O__________O wrote: post #8

Wish API would show comment votes instead of only showing them up until 8 years ago when displaying them was turned off on the main site. Aside from allowing users to enable them via their on interface, do analysis, etc — it broke HN’s comment search based on comment popularity. Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32535637

I don’t want vote information to be publicly available. Hiding those numbers was good for the site. Users have ways to get their own data. That’s enough.

Re: Hacker News Official API

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Post by mavci »

BeyondSchwifty wrote: post #57

Anyone know of a good tool to get something like push notifications when specific topics come up on HN? I've been thinking maybe I should build one, but I also feel like someone must have already done it by now.

You can check this [1] service that I prepared for myself then made it publicly available. For now it’s only sending popular stories as notification. Planning to add keyword feature.

[1] https://hnn.avci.me/

Re: Hacker News Official API

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Post by avg_dev »

maxique wrote: post #46
avg_dev wrote: post #37

I wrote a fairly simple "Who is hiring?" browser (using this API) that fetched the post listings and stored them locally in an HTML file accessible by pointing your browser at file:///... . It supported filtering by "Remote", "Interns", and "Visa" with buttons, had an ad hoc Regex filter, and the ability to remove posts using a delete button and not see them again (or to restore all deleted posts) using the localStor…

I'd still like to see yours if you're up to sharing! :)

Hi, thanks for your interest!

I am definitely happy to share, but I didn’t expect any interest and I posted my comment under my HN pseudonym account. However when I link to the repo on GitHub that thin veneer of obscurity will disappear and I’d prefer that it did not. Being a programmer, I am quite familiar with workarounds and I am happy to offer you couple of different options:

1. You could add an email address to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maxique and I can email you there - I’m happy to share my name and contact info in a one-off request, just not on an ongoing basis for anyone to see.

2. I could clone the repo onto my current machine and delete the .git dir, leaving the code and the README.md intact, produce an archive of that stuff, and link it here in this thread. While I’m sure it may be possible to use a code search tool to find the repo on GitHub after that, I am not terribly bothered by that.

I am open to other options as well if you have any suggestions. Finally, the code was written for whatever version of the Ruby interpreter (MRI) was current in 2016, in case that will dissuade your interest.

EDIT: I have a bias to action, appreciate interest in my work, and figured it was likely that you would see my reply at some later point and then I'd have to see your reply to my reply at some even later point, and we'd continue the loop, and eventually your interest would wane. So I went with option two. Here you go: https://we.tl/t-Bu257EdQn9

This is my first time using WeTransfer; let me know how it works out for you. I actually originally had a link that I hosted on file.io (which I've also never used before), but it looks like that gets automatically deleted after one download, which seems slightly excessive to me.

Re: Hacker News Official API

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Post by djbusby »

BeyondSchwifty wrote: post #57

Anyone know of a good tool to get something like push notifications when specific topics come up on HN? I've been thinking maybe I should build one, but I also feel like someone must have already done it by now.

Cronjob to the Algolia Search API, send to your email.

Re: Hacker News Official API

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Post by dang »

In response to people's complaints about the usability of the HN Firebase API: yes. We're going to eventually have a new API that returns a simple JSON version of any HN URL. At that point we'll phase out the Firebase API, with a generous deprecation period. I'd be curious to hear people's thoughts about what a generous deprecation period might be.
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