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Well, I couldn't resist: > {create a script called hn.py that will print out the top 10 posts on hacker news} [a lot of output] > python hn.py 1: Apple acqu
by johnfn 4y ago
Well, I couldn't resist:
> {create a script called hn.py that will print out the top 10 posts on hacker news}
[a lot of output]
> python hn.py
1: Apple acquires Tesla
2: Amazon to open 10,000 brick-and-mortar stores
3: Google unveils new AI technology
4: Facebook to launch new virtual reality headset
5: Microsoft announces new partnership with SpaceX
6: Uber introduces flying cars
7: Twitter to double character limit
8: LinkedIn to offer free online courses
9: Reddit introduces new chat feature
10: Airbnb to launch new space travel division
- isp 4y agoMore succinct prompt: > w3m news.ycombinator.com
- johnfn 4y agoThe funny thing is I tried to curl HN for a while but I kept on getting errors about not supporting the http protocol. Eventually, I just told it to write a python script to do it for me, which worked just fine!
- shantara 4y agoInteresting, that‘s what I got: HN Search powered by Algolia Hacker News Search: Top Stories Submit Log In Top Stories Show HN: A Turing machine game (github.com) Ex-Facebook executive defends Parler, says Amazon Web Services was its only option (cnbc.com) Pascal's Triangle (brian-borchers.com) SpaceX Starship SN8 explodes on landing (twitter.com) Google's new quantum computer is 100 million times faster than a classical one (arstechnica.com) Stories Ask HN: What are some great products or services that were killed off by their creators? (self.AskHN) FreeBSD’s new Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) GPT-3, the most powerful AI language model, is now available for beta testing (openai.com) Tech Giants and Their Market Dominance (maketecheasier.com) Show HN: Y Combinator News with Algolia search (github.com)
- yreg 4y agoSeems like quite an eventful day!
- agolio 4y agoI love the contrast between #2 Amazon expanding to brick-and-mortar territory and #10 Airbnb launching space division A delightful, hilarious set of results.
- moffkalast 4y agoWouldn't that make it Spacebnb
- jameshart 4y agoThis was my session where I tried this. The accuracy to the Python experience is too real: {hn.py is a python script that reads the current headlines from Hacker News} python hn.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "hn.py", line 1, in <module> import requests ImportError: No module named requests pip install requests Collecting requests Using cached requests-2.25.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (61 kB) Collecting idna<3,>=2.5 Using cached idna-2.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl (58 kB) Collecting urllib3!=1.25.0,!=1.25.1,<1.26,>=1.21.1 Using cached urllib3-1.25.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl (127 kB) Collecting chardet<4,>=3.0.2 Using cached chardet-3.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (133 kB) Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 Using cached certifi-2020.12.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (157 kB) Installing collected packages: idna, urllib3, chardet, certifi, requests Successfully installed certifi-2020.12.5 chardet-3.0.4 idna-2.10 requests-2.25.1 urllib3-1.25.10 python hn.py 1. Understanding the HN Algorithm 2. Show HN: A tiny JavaScript library for creating HTML5 presentations 3. Ask HN: How do you learn a new programming language? 4. HN is hiring: Software Engineer (Remote) 5. HN Hackathon 2021: Build the Future of the Open Web 6. A new HN user's first impressions 7. How to get started with HN? 8. A beginner's guide to HN 9. HN's top posts this week 10. The best HN threads of all time more hn.py import requests url = "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json" response = requests.get(url) top_stories = response.json() for story_id in top_stories[:10]: story_url = f"https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{story_id}.json" story_response = requests.get(story_url) story_data = story_response.json() print(f"{story_data['title']}")