Hacker News API VS hnterm

I built a plugin that allows Coze bots to make requests to the Hacker News API.

I recognise the huge amounts of effort involved in this and I applaud the moderators for keeping HN an interesting place to be.

That said, I think it's reasonable for us to have visibility on their manual interventions, and this could be easily surfaced via the Hacker News API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API), if the Story JSON included the values of "contro," "bury," and "gag" fields, which are currently opaque to users of the API

See https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-hacker-news-ranking... for more discussion on terminology

Google probably stopped updating BigQuery when they started hosting live Hacker News data in Firebase: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

The live nature of the Firebase data is awesome, but the lack of ability to query is a loss.

Nice work! I did something similar with a personal project a few months ago using an open source llm. Also, not sure if you know, there is an api you can use. https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Hi HN, I made a live feed for viewing all of the new items on Hacker News in almost-realtime. It is a single, modern HTML file that doesn't use polling.

It works by establishing a websocket connection to the Hacker News Firebase database, to receive updates every time the HN server updates Firebase, which is about once every 30 seconds. This is very efficient, putting no load on HN's server and using minimal bandwidth.

To make the feed continuous despite the delay, it waits to display each item until exactly 30 seconds before displaying it. I think this is a fair tradeoff, it gives you a sense of how active HN is. For comparision, there are something like 6-7 thousand tweets every second.

Official HN Firebase API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Source code: https://github.com/jerbear2008/hn-live/blob/main/index.html

You could use the API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

You can now get Hacker News data in real time from the Hacker News API powered by Firebase: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

This is great (real time!), but also kind of a pain (38+ millions individual http requests to get the whole thing).

Thankfully there's no authentication or apparent rate limiting. I fumbled my way through downloading the whole thing with curl. I screwed up a few times so made over 70 million requests in total.

Toy analysis of the data I downloaded here: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/isna/viz/HackerNewsDa...

Get your submissions from this API

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/ohjeez.json?print...

and then scan the "submitted" articles as described here

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

I have a crawler that sucks down all the posts from HN and then I read it into Pandas and write all sorts of queries. The boggle I have now is that I want to use the same system to (1) make sure YOShInOn never submits duplicate articles, and (2) have accurate vote and comment scores. (1) requires picking up articles as soon as possible, (2) requires waiting two weeks or so until the scores have settled down to what they are going to be. I guess I gotta come back and rescan things in 2 weeks so I have the right scores.

From looking at the Hacker News API, you might be able to use that instead of scraping from the DOM: https://github.com/HackerNews/API#users

There is HNTerm [1], which also has an online demo [2].

[1]: https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm

Love this! Bubbletea is a great library for TUIs. I've been a long time user of hnterm (https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm) which has a nice feature for collapsing comment threads, but doesn't look as nice otherwise.

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https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1337719342465748993

Wow this looks dope. I'll try it out.

I just realize that you are the author of https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm. I just came across with it recently while finding some HackerNews apps on GitHub. If I understand correctly, `hnterm` seems to use the official Hacker news API for rendering. I found it quite hard to use compared to the HN Algolia APIs. Do you have any suggestions on how to utilize the official APIs better?

There's this: https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm

Appears to be browse-only though.