hackernews-api

Scraper for HN to SQLite DB and Python API returning topics

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Scraper for HN to SQLite DB and Python API returning topics

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2023-09-16 09:10:05 UTC to 2023-09-16 14:50:06 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Sep 16, 09:00	2023-09-16 09:00:00 UTC	2023-09-16 10:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
Sep 16, 10:00	2023-09-16 10:00:00 UTC	2023-09-16 11:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 16, 11:00	2023-09-16 11:00:00 UTC	2023-09-16 12:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 16, 12:00	2023-09-16 12:00:00 UTC	2023-09-16 13:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 16, 13:00	2023-09-16 13:00:00 UTC	2023-09-16 14:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 16, 14:00	2023-09-16 14:00:00 UTC	2023-09-16 15:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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cheeaun·Sep 16, 2023

Interesting to see that you built your own API "wrapper" https://github.com/ddxv/hackernews-api and storing them into a SQLite db. Seems that you run it once an hour so the stories are not updated that fast, especially /newest

In Show HN: Android Hacker News Widget and App

ddxv·Sep 16, 2023Submission

Show HN: Android Hacker News Widget and App

This app and widget and related code is free to use for anyone. This was a side project to learn Android, Kotlin and the many libraries that came along with it. Screenshots in the Google Play link above. app code: https://github.com/ddxv/hackernews-app backend api: https://github.com/ddxv/hackernews-api There are many Hacker News apps, but this one focused on two features: - Widgets: This app supports dynamic widgets using Compose Glance. The widgets can be themed and set up with one of the three main categories: "New", "Top" and "Best". - Themes: Both the widgets and the main app support a number of color schemes based on user preference.

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