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Show HN: My weekend project for those who obsessively follow AAPL, GOOG & MSFT

39 points by magsafe 16y ago

wippler 16y ago
Cool project. Identifying common news and showing them as one that spans across will look awesome
joshes 16y ago
Are the articles meant to be sorted by their respective companies (like the financial info)? Because I see some stories that are meant for one but under the column of another. Maybe I am misunderstanding how this is organized? Any any event, I like the idea a good deal. It would be neat to see this expanded and perhaps customizable so that users could pick which companies to place in their "3some".
- euphoria83 16y ago
  Yeah, I too found the same issue. But overall a great implementation.
- magsafe 16y ago
  The news articles come from Yahoo! Finance's RSS feeds for each ticker symbol. Some stories may be duplicated across multiple companies, and I'm currently not doing anything special to detect dupes. (Btw, you will notice the same new stories in the iPhone Stocks app)
natmaster 16y ago
How much of that AAPL stock is owned by MSFT?
- andyman1080 16y ago
  none. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/05/apples-stock-rise-could-have-meant-5-billion-for-microsoft.ars http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/05/apples-stock-r...
  - natmaster 16y ago
    Thanks. Didn't realize they had been sold. Not sure why people are downvoting my honest question though.
    - awa 16y ago
      I think because that information could have been easily found on the web (lmgtfy)
tybris 16y ago
Interesting, 5 year change: AAPL +400% AMZN +400% GOOG +40% MSFT +4%
- patrickaljord 16y ago
  It's hard to grow when you have +95% of market share.
rlmw 16y ago
I hope you've got tech4some.com registered, so you can add facebook in April 2012.
- spoiledtechie 16y ago
  Sadly, I don't think Facebook has the right to sit among these companies. All three of these companies push out software that has a substantial impact on the world and push out more than just one product. I know Facebook has made a definite impact on the world, but what else does it do except for being facebook. They really haven't actually given anything back to the world except for social aspects. This might be a losing argument, but I can't see facebook sitting among any of these companies in competition. These three are in direct competition with one another. While facebook partners with MSoft.
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olalonde 16y ago
I'd love to see net income in those columns! From Wikipedia: AAPL: $ 14.01 billion [1] MSFT: $ 18.760 billion [2] GOOG: $ 8.505 billion [3] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
vnorby 16y ago
Neat. Do the columns/wording ("92b more than Microsoft") change dynamically if the order changes (not that it's happening anytime soon)?
- magsafe 16y ago
  Yes, the stock price, market caps, difference in value and other numbers all update dynamically (approximately every 5 seconds) when the stock market is open.
kirpekar 16y ago
Nothing technical of value here; Just being frank. At the very least, include P/E, EPS and Beta.
- olalonde 16y ago
  There's Google/Yahoo Finance and many other sites for that ;)
  - aaronmarks 16y ago
    I think the idea is that anyone interested enough in these companies to use this site would also be interested in / see the value in that data.
nikhilpandit 16y ago
Very cool. Would love to be able to compare other companies too (even a simple textbox that lets me change one of the columns by entering a different ticker symbol would work).
rohitnair 16y ago
Couldn't you just use the multi-quote search option on Yahoo! Finance? Streaming quotes, charts, multiple views and de-duping of news articles. http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG/view/v1 http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG/view/v1 http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG/view/dv http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG/view/dv Want to add more quotes? Just add it to the URL (or use the Add Symbol option on the page) http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG,YHOO/view/v1 http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG,YHOO/view/v1
dgudkov 16y ago
For explicit linking articles to stock data you might want to use something like this http://explainum.blogspot.com/p/sample-widgets.html http://explainum.blogspot.com/p/sample-widgets.html Disclaimer: I'm founder of Explainum. The service is still in development phase but we're looking for early users.
angryasian 16y ago
do hackers really care about stock prices of major corporations ? The fact this is on the front page lends to the discussion of the decline of HN. Anyways.. good stock and news aggregator.

39 points by magsafe 16y ago

Cool project. Identifying common news and showing them as one that spans across will look awesome

Are the articles meant to be sorted by their respective companies (like the financial info)? Because I see some stories that are meant for one but under the column of another. Maybe I am misunderstanding how this is organized? Any any event, I like the idea a good deal. It would be neat to see this expanded and perhaps customizable so that users could pick which companies to place in their "3some".

euphoria83 16y ago
Yeah, I too found the same issue. But overall a great implementation.
magsafe 16y ago
The news articles come from Yahoo! Finance's RSS feeds for each ticker symbol. Some stories may be duplicated across multiple companies, and I'm currently not doing anything special to detect dupes. (Btw, you will notice the same new stories in the iPhone Stocks app)

natmaster 16y ago

How much of that AAPL stock is owned by MSFT?

andyman1080 16y ago
none. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/05/apples-stock-rise-could-have-meant-5-billion-for-microsoft.ars http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/05/apples-stock-r...
- natmaster 16y ago
  Thanks. Didn't realize they had been sold. Not sure why people are downvoting my honest question though.
  - awa 16y ago
    I think because that information could have been easily found on the web (lmgtfy)

tybris 16y ago

Interesting, 5 year change: AAPL +400% AMZN +400% GOOG +40% MSFT +4%

patrickaljord 16y ago
It's hard to grow when you have +95% of market share.

rlmw 16y ago

I hope you've got tech4some.com registered, so you can add facebook in April 2012.

spoiledtechie 16y ago
Sadly, I don't think Facebook has the right to sit among these companies. All three of these companies push out software that has a substantial impact on the world and push out more than just one product. I know Facebook has made a definite impact on the world, but what else does it do except for being facebook. They really haven't actually given anything back to the world except for social aspects. This might be a losing argument, but I can't see facebook sitting among any of these companies in competition. These three are in direct competition with one another. While facebook partners with MSoft.

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olalonde 16y ago

I'd love to see net income in those columns! From Wikipedia: AAPL: $ 14.01 billion [1] MSFT: $ 18.760 billion [2] GOOG: $ 8.505 billion [3] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

vnorby 16y ago

Neat. Do the columns/wording ("92b more than Microsoft") change dynamically if the order changes (not that it's happening anytime soon)?

magsafe 16y ago
Yes, the stock price, market caps, difference in value and other numbers all update dynamically (approximately every 5 seconds) when the stock market is open.

kirpekar 16y ago

Nothing technical of value here; Just being frank. At the very least, include P/E, EPS and Beta.

olalonde 16y ago
There's Google/Yahoo Finance and many other sites for that ;)
- aaronmarks 16y ago
  I think the idea is that anyone interested enough in these companies to use this site would also be interested in / see the value in that data.

nikhilpandit 16y ago

Very cool. Would love to be able to compare other companies too (even a simple textbox that lets me change one of the columns by entering a different ticker symbol would work).

rohitnair 16y ago

Couldn't you just use the multi-quote search option on Yahoo! Finance? Streaming quotes, charts, multiple views and de-duping of news articles. http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG/view/v1 http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG/view/v1 http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG/view/dv http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG/view/dv Want to add more quotes? Just add it to the URL (or use the Add Symbol option on the page) http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG,YHOO/view/v1 http://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/AAPL,MSFT,GOOG,YHOO/view/v1

dgudkov 16y ago

For explicit linking articles to stock data you might want to use something like this http://explainum.blogspot.com/p/sample-widgets.html http://explainum.blogspot.com/p/sample-widgets.html Disclaimer: I'm founder of Explainum. The service is still in development phase but we're looking for early users.

angryasian 16y ago

do hackers really care about stock prices of major corporations ? The fact this is on the front page lends to the discussion of the decline of HN. Anyways.. good stock and news aggregator.