Reader fetches the top 30 stories from the Hacker News API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
For each of the top stories, an output contains:
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The story title
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The top 10 commenters of that story
For each commenter:
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The number of comments they made on the story
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The total number of comments they made among all the top 30 stories.
For instance, if we consider just the 3 top stories (instead of 30) and top 2 commenters (instead of 10):
| Story A | Story B | Story C |
|---|---|---|
| user-a (1 comment) | user-a (4 comments) | user-a (4 comments) |
| user-b (2 comment) | user-b (3 comments) | user-b (5 comments) |
| user-c (3 comment) | user-c (2 comments) | user-c (3 comments) |
The output to look as follows:
| Story | 1st Top Commenter | 2nd Top Commenter |
|---|---|---|
| Story A | user-c (3 for story - 8 total) | user-b (2 for story - 10 total) |
- Dependency Golang v1.17
To run the service with default numbers of stories (30) and commenters (10):
go run ./cmd
To run with custom number of stories and commenters, i.e. 5 stories and 3 commenters:
go run ./cmd -story 5 -user 3
- Without Golang installed, you can run the binary
For Mac or Linux:
./hnreader
./hnreader -story 5 -user 3
For Windows:
hnreader.exe
hnreader.exe -story 5 -user 3
You can verify the checksum for hnreader.exe if required:
sha512sum -c hnreader_sha512sums.txtDefault output printed as a table. Depends on the number of stories and users, it might look unreadable. You can pass a flag to print the output as a list:
./hnreader -story 5 -user 3 -output list
╭─ Cog: Containers for Machine Learning
│ ╰─ nigma1337 (1 for story - 1 total)
├─ Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond
│ ├─ orlp (8 for story - 8 total)
│ ├─ tsimionescu (7 for story - 8 total)
│ ├─ danlark (4 for story - 4 total)
│ ├─ jeffbee (4 for story - 4 total)
│ ╰─ samhw (4 for story - 4 total)