ROrobert_jensen·Jul 10, 2017
I have been working on a news aggregator
site-
https://news.r1b.solutions/
github-
https://github.com/r1b/news-wires
In Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?r1b
news-wires
JavaScript2017–2017
r1b / news-wires
news-wires
Wire services for everyone
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
17GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Wire services for everyone
GitHub
Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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Also in these discussions
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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, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by day2 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2017-06-28 02:13:35 UTC to 2017-07-10 00:25:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28 | 2017-06-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-29 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 29 | 2017-06-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 30 | 2017-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 1 | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2 | 2017-07-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 3 | 2017-07-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 4 | 2017-07-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 5 | 2017-07-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 6 | 2017-07-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7 | 2017-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 8 | 2017-07-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9 | 2017-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 10 | 2017-07-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-11 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesIt comes from Twitter! It is v expensive to directly subscribe to each wire service - also difficult to maintain scrapers for each. Many services already post links to Twitter - for the ones that don't it is easy to create an account driven by a scraper & maintain the common interface.
You can check out the code here:
https://github.com/r1b/news-wires
In Redesigning Google News