GIgiancarlostoro·Jul 22, 2025
He is the author of unlurker
https://github.com/jasonthorsness/unlurker
I had no idea what this was... Is this an ongoing problem on HN or something?
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unlurker
Unlurker helps you find the liveliest discussions on news.ycombinator.com so you can jump in before discussion dies.
2Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
62GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Unlurker helps you find the liveliest discussions on news.ycombinator.com so you can jump in before discussion dies.
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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Also in these discussions
No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by week4 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2025-04-30 04:57:15 UTC to 2025-07-22 17:09:15 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28 | 2025-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| May 5 | 2025-05-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 12 | 2025-05-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 19 | 2025-05-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 26 | 2025-05-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2 | 2025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 9 | 2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 16 | 2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 23 | 2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 30 | 2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7 | 2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 14 | 2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 21 | 2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesSince you asked on Hacker News, I will plug my "unl" command-line utility which finds active discussions:
https://github.com/jasonthorsness/unlurker
This is not the only CLI HN client, nor is it the best, here are a few others I've seen:
https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex
https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI
In Ask HN: What are interesting do you know any terminal utilities?I used the API! It only takes a few hours to download your own copy with the tool I used https://github.com/jasonthorsness/unlurker
I had to CTRL-C and resume a few times when it stalled; it might be a bug in my tool
In You Wouldn't Download a Hacker NewsYeah I’m really happy HN offers an API like this instead of locking things down like a bunch of other sites…
I used a function based on the age for staleness, it considers things stale after a minute or two initially and immutable after about two weeks old.
// DefaultStaleIf marks stale at 60 seconds after creation, then frequently for the first few days after an item is
// created, then quickly tapers after the first week to never again mark stale items more than a few weeks old.
const DefaultStaleIf = "(:now-refreshed)>" +
"(60.0*(log2(max(0.0,((:now-Time)/60.0))+1.0)+pow(((:now-Time)/(24.0*60.0*60.0)),3)))"
https://github.com/jasonthorsness/unlurker/blob/main/hn/core...
In You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News