Organize monthly Hacker News jobs

Description

Ask HN: Who is hiring? at the first day of each month at 9 AM Eastern time is a great source of jobs and trends in the startup world. Following it is quite a hassle as the UI is not designed for hundreds of posts in a single page. This application is cloning it into a local database and adds a UI to select interesting jobs and hide the unattractive ones.

Installation

The current database is RethinkDB, use they instructions to install it. On OS X with brew it's as easy as:

brew update && brew install --upgrade rethinkdb

Backend is written in python 2.7 using a minimalistic approach with flask. To run it use scripts/setup.sh to create a virtualenv with the required packages installed in it.

Frontend is using ReactJS, jquery and bootstrap with on the fly JSX transformation.

Starting the service

• start your database somewhere with rethinkdb -d YOUR_PREFERRED_DATABASE_DIRECTORY_LOCATION. db/ is already ignored, if you don't want to think.

• activate the virtualenv with source ./bootstrap_venv/bin/activate

• run ./hn.py to collect data using firebaseio.com. This will take around 10 minutes. At the first days of the month you should run this frequently to collect the latest jobs and comments.

• start the local server as ./server.py and point your browser to http://localhost:3000. To run it on a different port use env PORT=XXXX ./server.py

You can be lazy and run all of the above in a tmux session with scripts/run-tmux.sh.

Stopping the service

• stop server.py with a CTRL-C
• stop rethinkdb with a CTRL-C
• stop hn.py with a CTRL-C

Stopping all of the processes in tmux will also close the session automatically.