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Show HN: Hackernewsd v3 – Automate monitoring topics on Hacker News and Lobsters

https://github.com/somegenericdev/hackernewsd

Hello everyone.As mentioned in a previous submission I've built a daemon to automate monitoring topics on Hackernews. It takes a list of queries (say, "Ruby", "C#" or "Laravel" for example) and exposes stories that match them through an RSS feed.In the two major versions released since then, I’ve made several improvements:* added support for Lobste.rs* switched from scraping Hackernews' HTML...

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Re:2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal on Thursday January 01, 2026 @09:08AM (#46454243)
Python packaging isn't really any more difficult than Rust, C# or Go if you use pyinstaller [1]

A single executable is always just one "pyinstaller --onefile --noconsole main.py" away.

[1] https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/usage.html

Re:What do I mean by some software devs are "ngmi"? on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @03:49AM (#46442504)
Hard disagree, it's literally backwards.

The devs who are "ngmi" are these professional sloppers who are increasingly dependent from their glorified chatbots.

Thanks, I didn't even realize this was a thing. I'll definitely switch to this ASAP.

Show HN: Hackernewsd – Automate monitoring topics on Hacker News

https://github.com/somegenericdev/hackernewsd

Hello everyone.I've built a daemon to automate monitoring topics on Hackernews. It takes a list of queries (say, "Ruby", "C#" or "Laravel" for example) and exposes stories that match them through an RSS feed.I've made this for my own purposes really but given that it's worked well for about a year I thought I'd share it here for anyone who might be interested.

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