Show HN: Daily snapshot of Hacker News' frontpage (deja.de.hueve.ar)

Hi there!

I'm trying to fight my bad habits of reloading news sites every 5 minutes while procrastinating work, so I've made this nightly snapshot of the Hacker News' frontpage consuming the API.

My intention is that the third day in a row that I get used to seen the same list every five minutes, I will start killing the (bad) habit.

It has a bit of (mostly irrelevant) text in Spanish because it's part of a larger site I'm building for this, but you can probably ignore that.

Under the hood, it's a simple Ruby script[0] that crawls HN's API and generates a static HTML - run every night in a Github Action that deploys to Github Pages.

Hope it's useful for somebody else out there!

[0]: https://github.com/mgarciaisaia/deja.de.hueve.ar/blob/main/c...

3 comments

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josephcsible 3y ago ↗

How does this differ from using "past"?

filoleg 3y ago ↗

Does the "past" feature allow you to see exactly what the frontpage looked like on a specific date? If no, then that's how it differs.

Not trying to rebut you, just asking because I haven't used "past" much, and I don't remember it being able to do so. I definitely could be wrong, though.

> Does the "past" feature allow you to see exactly what the frontpage looked like on a specific date?

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it does.