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Re:Show HN: A live map of the news cycle, rebuilt hourly from embedded... on Thursday July 23, 2026 @06:52AM (#49019532)

Surprisingly not a lot. A few $ a day in LLM costs for the labelling, small VPS, and then some proxies for the scraping.

Show HN: A live map of the news cycle, rebuilt hourly from embedded headlines

Posted by sach90 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @06:21AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://journofinder.com/news-graph

Hi HN. This is a live map of the English-language news cycle, with headlines are ingested continuously from Google News, US and UK editions.Each one is embedded with OpenAI's text-embedding-3-large, clustered into stories with hnswlib, laid out in 2D with UMAP so related topics sit near each other, grouped into topic regions with recursive DBSCAN, and labeled by an LLM. The map is rebuilt from...

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Re:Show HN: Pingaroo – a tiny native macOS menu bar app for network stats on Sunday January 25, 2026 @01:31AM (#46751362)

If you want some feedback this is absolutely pathetic and downright egregious behaviour from you. Someone made a tool that you have ripped off in an almost exact way. AND you have the audacity to try and promote it in his twitter thread. What planet are you on where you think this is socially acceptable?

You have a PHD but zero common sense. Get in the bin.

Re:A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's on Saturday January 13, 2024 @12:30PM (#38982239)

I do - taconomical.com

Re:A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's on Saturday January 13, 2024 @12:28PM (#38982212)

I used Appium (selenium based app automation) to screen scrape the McDonald's app on an android phone. It was painful and got blocked once it went viral.

Couldn't figure out the security/certificate pinning in their internal API so just went with what worked.

I'll update it soon and try again at cracking the API security.

Re:A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's on Saturday January 13, 2024 @11:54AM (#38981780)

This is my site. I need to re-run a scrape and update the prices.

McDonald's blocked my scraper when it went viral the first time