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Hacker News Live Feed

https://jerbear2008.github.io/hn-live/
93•gregsadetsky•3h ago

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gregsadetsky•3h ago
Source code: https://github.com/jerbear2008/hn-live

And live firebase source/api (run by HN) used for this: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

(just making sure it's obvious - I didn't create this site! all credits to @jerbear4328 who is here on HN - I'll email them to let them know it's trending) :-)

toomuchtodo•3h ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

(edit: terminal version available?)

gregsadetsky•1h ago
I'm not the author of this live feed site, but I did just find

https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm

from the author of llama.cpp (!!).

it also has a beautiful web version thanks to emscripten: https://hnterm.ggerganov.com/

bigwheels•1h ago
It would be great to have the "on: x y z thread" field included.

This is literally the only thing that seems missing- Stupendous work!

jasonthorsness•1h ago
Ha amazing that this is just an HTML file
insin•2h ago
If you want a live version of most of the site (including tracking new comments in items you've already looked at), I made this to improve my React skills when the HN API first came out:

https://insin.github.io/react-hn

MrCzar•1h ago
Wow it looks really cool, I think I might enjoy actually using it as the main way to view the site
Imustaskforhelp•22m ago
I was going to say the same thing too!

I just wish there was a dark mode.. Let me install night reader to see how well it looks :p

Edit: would've loved if there was a way to sign up or make comments from there, oh well :< I wish there was, I am not sure if that's possible tho but I hope it could be.

ranger_danger•2h ago
Bets on how overwhelmingly negative the comment sentiments are? Anyone got an LLM handy to analyze that
AlecSchueler•2h ago
It's actually quite stark looking at it this way and makes me question how healthy it is to use this site as often as I do. Fully aware that we're also piling on the negative sentiment.
gregsadetsky•2h ago
a very very quick copy/paste of 73 comments there - fed to claude with a basic "characterize+count comments" give me 70% neutral/technical, 14% positive, 16% negative.

claude also said "The negative comments tend to be more substantive critiques of systems or research approaches rather than personal attacks." - so... that's good? :-)

Karrot_Kream•1h ago
I've done it before on large threads. Neutral sentiment tends to dominate at roughly 50% but negative sentiment is much higher than positive sentiment. Negative sentiment is also higher if you just take the highest ranked comments.
Rendello•2h ago
I often wonder if dang and tomhow have something like this running.
poly2it•2h ago
I wonder to what extent they read everything which is posted here.
krapp•2h ago
I know they get an alert whenever a comment is flagged. I assume they get an alert whenever certain "problematic" accounts post. Maybe they get an alert whenever the flamewar detector goes off? This forum is written in a Lisp so they can probably hotpatch whatever code they want and add whatever filters they want.

But dang has said numerous times that he doesn't read everything, that would probably not even be feasible.

The question is, YC being what it is, are they using LLMs to automate moderation or do sentiment analysis?

dang•1h ago
We're working on the latter but it's not yet in production. We're only going to deploy it once it's clear that it significantly improves on what mods + the existing software are already doing. The hard part, of course, is how to evaluate that.
dang•1h ago
Not even close.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20652157

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

bigwheels•1h ago
A person would lose their mind pretty quickly this way.

Great potential job for an LLM to potentially spot abuse. The existing mod tools/system seem to work quite well.. I like HN how it is!

Imustaskforhelp•20m ago
Lol. Imagine them having a whole room of tv's running it...

Could be a cool movie scene where the stream of data is actually live HN comments lol.

Descon•2h ago
Fun! A css animation would make the updates less jarring and the feed easier to read
ChrisArchitect•2h ago
(2024) Show HN from the dev https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39509910
blinding-streak•1h ago
Cool!

Would be slightly more contextual if the title of the original post was displayed.

neom•1h ago
I found it a fun game to guess what I thought the post was about.
jkarneges•57m ago
The HN/Firebase API doesn't make this easy. For https://hnstream.com I ended up crawling items to find the article.
jerbear4328•37m ago
I tried this, but it required making a request for every comment and would probably call for a backend, wheras this can run just off of the Firebase websocket stream on a static HTML file.
1zael•1h ago
Pretty cool! I must manually refresh to see new posts. Implementing real-time updates (e.x. via WebSocket or Server-Sent Events) would significantly improve usability.
geuis•1h ago
It sounds cool, but for usability its not great. Think about how reddit recalculates the results order as you're paging through, and you see items from the previous page show up on the next. Now imagine that happening in realtime. Maybe there's a link you want to read, but you get pulled away for 10 minutes. By the time you get back the link is higher or lower, or may be completely missing.

As a side feature, that would be neat though.

geuis•1h ago
oh boy I wrote one of these many years ago for HN.

Within like an hour or two pg emailed me asking me to stop. I didn't know it at the time, but HN was being run on a rusty potato and scraping the homepage every 5 or 10 seconds was causing significant load.

wizzwizz4•1h ago
Afaict, HN is still running on a rusty potato. The software's written well, so it doesn't need to run on more than that. (What's going to happen to it? Someone links to it from HN?)
gregsadetsky•51m ago
less rusty as of ~sep 2024 :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099006
wizzwizz4•26m ago
They've upgraded to a multi-eye potato‽ Truly the wonders of modern technology have no bound.
jerbear4328•39m ago
Haha, my version makes a websocket connection to the official Firebase that the HN servers already send everything to, so it is zero extra load on HN
jasonthorsness•1h ago
Another great use of the HN API! It would be nice to filter it somehow to threads where I have commented, sometimes I don't notice until days later that someone replied to me.

To shill my own use of the API:

I did an animated "replay" view for historical threads like Rust 1.0 launch: https://hn.unlurker.com/replay?item=9551937

And a (static, refreshable) view of recent activity grouped by topic: https://hn.unlurker.com

onli•54m ago
You know about https://www.hnreplies.com/ ? Sends you a mail when someone replies to your comment.
jasonthorsness•49m ago
perfect, thanks
Imustaskforhelp•9m ago
Didn't know about this! Thanks, I just wish something like this was on signal or discord but maybe that's because I don't operate much mail and I really like signal...

But anyways, just as a headsup for a moment I was confused that I wasn't getting the verification mail and I was literally going to comment it but then I got the mail just in time, so maybe to anyone out there, maybe be a bit patient as its worth it (or it could totally just be an issue from my side as I spammed it twice or maybe it got congested I am not sure)

EDIT: It wasn't that they sent me 2 mails but rather that they sent me 1 mail and I clicked on it and then got another and I thought it was because of me spamming verification twice but it turns out that they sent me a mail because someone had responded to me :)

Neato. I really like this.

lovich•1h ago
Cool idea.

Separately I didn’t know posts/submissions could be instantly flagged dead and I didn’t know there are decade+ old bots still configured to spam this site https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=VivaTechnics

Retr0id•1h ago
Writing this comment just to see how quickly it shows up

Edit: Felt like it took almost a minute, I wasn't timing precisely because I didn't expect it to take so long!

jerbear4328•33m ago
It (hopefully) took exactly 30 seconds, the page delays every item until 30 seconds after its posted date. It doesn't poll HN's server, it opens a websocket to the official HN Firebase, and without the delay, items appear in large chunks. I'm pretty sure the HN server syncs with Firebase every 30 seconds, so this is as fast as it can go while still being accurate.
HotGarbage•59m ago
I did this too: https://hn.hotgarba.ge/

Edit: Through my own tool I see this comment got insta-marked as [dead], rude.

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF•29m ago
I wonder if the domain is banned for some reason. Another comment of yours is dead, which includes a link to the same domain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39669357

https://hotgarba.ge/

(Edit: Yep, this comment is dead on arrival.)

Imustaskforhelp•17m ago
I checked the github repo and I found out that its a single static html page and ahh I forgot to see that its hosted on github.io as well because of their static hosting, somehow I didn't see it!!

Static hosting is super cool and I am going to tinker with it to have monospace-web instead for something like this https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/

Thanks a lot for creating this! Appreciate it, I haven't read the source code but I am going to read it oneday (If I don't procastinate lol)!

Have a nice day!

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