Hacker News API examples & templates

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// Initialize sample stories and store them in blob storage

// Initialize Steel client with the API key from environment variables

A simple utility to summarize Hacker News articles, using Gemini Models. Inspired from Simon Willison's TIL , Prompt Inspiration

An interactive, runnable TypeScript val by janpaul123

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An interactive, runnable TypeScript val by iakovos

Val Town inspiration & use cases list List [as object] used in Val Town's use cases and inspiration. Check it out at in /examples/use-cases and /docs/tutorial/4

Code Search is Easy Earlier this week, Tom MacWright posted Code Search is Hard . He describes the research he his doing to improve the code search experience of Val Town . It was a great read, and you might have seen it trending on Hacker News . As Val Town's most active user (behind Steve Krouse, one of the founders of Val Town), I for sure agree with Tom that the search feature needs improvements. But while reading his post, I immediately thought of a different approach to the problem. And a few hours later, Val Town Search was born. Do things that don't scale How does this new shiny search engine work? Well, it's quite simple. I wrote a Deno script that fetches all vals from the Val Town API. #!/usr/bin/env -S deno run -A import * as path from "https://deno.land/std/path/mod.ts"; const dir = path.join(import.meta.dirname!, "..", "vals"); const blocklist = Deno.readTextFileSync( path.join(import.meta.dirname!, "blocklist.txt") ) .split("\n") .map((line) => line.trim()) .filter((line) => line.length > 0); let url = `https://api.val.town/v1/search/vals?limit=100&query=+`; const vals = []; while (true) { console.log("fetching", url); const resp = await fetch(url); if (!resp.ok) { console.error(resp.statusText); Deno.exit(1); } const { data, links } = await resp.json(); vals.push(...data); if (!links.next) { break; } url = links.next; } Deno.removeSync(dir, { recursive: true }); Deno.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true }); for (const val of vals) { const slug = `${val.author.username}/${val.name}`; if (blocklist.includes(slug)) { console.log("skipping", slug); continue; } const userDir = path.join(dir, val.author.username); Deno.mkdirSync(userDir, { recursive: true }); Deno.writeTextFileSync(path.join(userDir, `${val.name}.tsx`), val.code); } I pushed the data to a Github Repository (now private) I added a Github Action that runs the script every hour to refresh the data. #!/usr/bin/env -S deno run -A import * as path from "https://deno.land/std/path/mod.ts"; const dir = path.join(import.meta.dirname!, "..", "vals"); const blocklist = Deno.readTextFileSync( path.join(import.meta.dirname!, "blocklist.txt") ) .split("\n") .map((line) => line.trim()) .filter((line) => line.length > 0); let url = `https://api.val.town/v1/search/vals?limit=100&query=+`; const vals = []; while (true) { console.log("fetching", url); const resp = await fetch(url); if (!resp.ok) { console.error(resp.statusText); Deno.exit(1); } const { data, links } = await resp.json(); vals.push(...data); if (!links.next) { break; } url = links.next; } Deno.removeSync(dir, { recursive: true }); Deno.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true }); for (const val of vals) { const slug = `${val.author.username}/${val.name}`; if (blocklist.includes(slug)) { console.log("skipping", slug); continue; } const userDir = path.join(dir, val.author.username); Deno.mkdirSync(userDir, { recursive: true }); Deno.writeTextFileSync(path.join(userDir, `${val.name}.tsx`), val.code); } I created a simple frontend on top of the Github Search API that allows you to search the data. It's hosted on Val Town (obviously). That was it. I didn't have to build a complex search engine, I just used the tools that were available to me. Is this a scalable solution for Val Town? Probably not. Am I abusing the Github API? Maybe. Does it work better than the current search feature of Val Town? Absolutely! I hope that the val.town engineers will come up with a search feature that will put my little project to shame. But for now, you won't find a better way to search for vals than Val Town Search . PS: This post was written / is served from Val Town

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petemillspaugh.com clippings: #1 – January 2024 Process for sending out a newsletter: Publish newsletter on the Web Fork this val and update subject, webUrl, targetSendDate Uncomment call to insertIntoNewslettersTable Add to @petermillspaugh/newsletters list Val

Scrapes hnhiring.com for the total count of job postings in every Who's Hiring post on Hacker News: 194 jobs, january 2025 337 jobs, december 2024 325 jobs, november 2024 342 jobs, october 2024 311 jobs, september 2024 328 jobs, august 2024 384 jobs, july 2024 351 jobs, june 2024 418 jobs, may 2024 306 jobs, april 2024 313 jobs, march 2024 356 jobs, february 2024 294 jobs, january 2024 337 jobs, december 2023 388 jobs, november 2023 353 jobs, october 2023 318 jobs, september 2023 367 jobs, august 2023 342 jobs, july 2023 358 jobs, june 2023 423 jobs, may 2023 380 jobs, april 2023 434 jobs, march 2023 465 jobs, february 2023 386 jobs, january 2023 505 jobs, december 2022 544 jobs, november 2022 481 jobs, october 2022 529 jobs, september 2022 664 jobs, august 2022 556 jobs, july 2022 753 jobs, june 2022 792 jobs, may 2022 771 jobs, april 2022 829 jobs, march 2022 841 jobs, february 2022 686 jobs, january 2022 788 jobs, december 2021 993 jobs, november 2021 816 jobs, october 2021 958 jobs, september 2021 882 jobs, august 2021 921 jobs, july 2021 1022 jobs, june 2021 888 jobs, may 2021 918 jobs, april 2021 945 jobs, march 2021 979 jobs, february 2021

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