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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

634 points david927 | 2 comments | 24 Aug 24 22:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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chris_l ◴[25 Aug 24 16:12 UTC] No.41348423[source]▶
My current project is TrendBowl (https://www.trendbowl.app) which summarises trending entities across multiple sources on the web, including Mastodon and Wikipedia. On a 24 hour basis you can see which terms are relevant in different languages and sites.

It is implemented in Go, Python and JS, with support from Postgres, TimescaleDB and Kubernetes.

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chasetca ◴[25 Aug 24 19:10 UTC] No.41350264[source]▶
Why no Twitter/X? I believe they have an API that you can use, but they've locked down scraping pretty hard. The API should be cheap however, if you're only scraping trending once per day.
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1. chris_l ◴[26 Aug 24 14:01 UTC] No.41357181[source]▶
Originally I had Twitter support, but they changed the API around and it ended up not working any more, see the project blog for more info: https://blog.trendbowl.app/

The Pro subscription to the API now seems to be $5000 per month!

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2. chasetca ◴[26 Aug 24 23:03 UTC] No.41363069[source]▶
Wow, pricey!