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HPI
Python2020–2025
karlicoss / HPI

HPI

Human Programming Interface 🧑👽🤖

6Distinct people
17Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.6KGitHub stars
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Human Programming Interface 🧑👽🤖

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:03:49 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-05-08 09:31:58 UTC to 2025-10-08 11:17:44 UTC.

02462020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Take a look at https://github.com/karlicoss/HPI It builds an entire ecosystem around your data where it is programmatic rather than just dumping text files. The point of HPI is to build your own stuff onto it and it all integrates seamlessly together into one Python package. The next stop after Karlicoss is https://github.com/seanbreckenridge/HPI_API which creates a REST API on top of your HPI without any additional configuration. If you want to get more fancy / antithetical to HPI, you can use https://github.com/hpi/authenticated_hpi_api or https://github.com/hpi/hpi-graph so you can theoretically expose it to the web (I am squatting the HPI org, I am not the creator of HPI). I made the authentication method JWTs so you can create JWTs where it will give access to only certain services' data. (Beware, hpi-graph is very out of date and I
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haven't touched it lately but my HPI stuff has been chugging away downloading data). Some of the /hpi stuff I made is a bit mish-mash because it was rip-and-replace from a project I was making so you'll see references to "Archivist" or things that aren't local-first and depend on Vercel applications.
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