Hacker News Daily

Website accessible at https://lopespm.github.io/hackernews-daily

More details about this implementation in this blog article

Features:

• Best Hacker News stories from the past 10 days, or from the most recent day. Updated every day
• Web Page screenshot and top comments for each story
• Responsive layouts for Mobile and Desktop
• Clean and Lightweight
  • Stories Links screenshots
    • Can be disabled (will not be loaded)
    • WebP and PNG files are generated for each screenshot. WebP will be used if your browser supports them
  • Simple HTML and CSS pages
  • No extra web frameworks
  • No Javascript scripts
• Deployed via GitHub Actions

Use the public online version

Every day a GitHub workflow is run, which deploys the results to a publicly available GitHub page at: https://lopespm.github.io/hackernews-daily

Local usage

Step 1 Clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/lopespm/autocomplete.git

Step 2 (optional, but recommended) Create a virtual environment:

$ python3 -m venv env
$ source env/bin/activate

Step 3 Install required packaged

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 4 Run - this will create/update the best hacker news stories, and generate the web pages and screenshots:

$ python3 main.py

Step 5 The generated web pages and screenshots will placed in the generated local folder. Open one of the generated web pages in your browser, such as generated/index.html

Page Load Benchmark

Measurements taken in late December 2020 (all downloaded resources taken into account):

• "Latest" without screenshots: about 18 KB
• "Latest" with screenshots: about 160 KB
• "All" without screenshots: about 109 KB
• "All" with screenshots: about 1220 KB