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Hi everyone! Did not expect this much interest! Here's a gist of the code I wrote last night: https://gist.github.com/willmeyers/6fdb4a502b8dffce758bde0842c2362
by willmeyers 3y ago
Hi everyone! Did not expect this much interest! Here's a gist of the code I wrote last night: https://gist.github.com/willmeyers/6fdb4a502b8dffce758bde0842c23628 https://gist.github.com/willmeyers/6fdb4a502b8dffce758bde084.... It's slow, bad, etc... please go easy on me. Feel free to modify and share your findings as well.
As for missing names, since I only grab one timestamp at the end of the day it's definitely likely names get missed as the bar is manually added by the HN team as any time. I'm not purposely omitting names.
As for why only 2016 my script stopped running after going through search results up to a certain page and I don't really want to spend more time on this to fix it on Sunday.
- lawgimenez 3y agoIt's okay to write bad code, etc. Every one does it. Thanks for this!
- vorticalbox 3y agoIt's not bad code it's a prototype
- TrueGeek 3y agohey, this is Bill in sales. I’ve shared your prototype with a few of our customers. They love it! Can you add the follow features by EOW?
- vorticalbox 3y agoOnce in production always in production.
- mindcrime 3y agoLooks like "black bar" instances go back to at least 2009 which is fairly close to the beginning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954 FWIW, one thing you might consider doing if you ever want to do more work on your script, is search for "black bar" in the search index. Two very common patterns we see are people asking "why is there a black bar" as a submission, and/or comments asking "can we get the black bar for <person>?" on the main story about a death. Of course the "can we get the black bar" thing is occasionally asked without the black bar actually being done, so it's not a perfect signal but it might help somewhat.