Show HN: A HN Api to provide random HN posts to read upon (opens in new tab)

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5 pointsbluerail10y ago4 comments

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  hn_url := "http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/"
  page := rand.Intn(50)
  points := randomInt(200, 600)
  url := hn_url + "search?tags=story&numericFilters=points>" + strconv.Itoa(points) + "&page=" + strconv.Itoa(page)

That's an odd definition of random.

bluerailOP10y ago

The points is just a threshold to get a good article instead of just anything. And, Algolia returns maximum of 1000 hits for a query with 20 per page. So shuffling the page to pick up too.

Killswitch10y ago

Not bad, but instead of displaying title and just url, maybe put HN url too, because I refreshed the endpoint a few times and got a couple self posts that had blank urls, but titles looked interesting...

Maybe at least if it's a self post, show the HN url.

bluerailOP10y ago

Yeah, sounds good. I'll add it today. I also am building another Ruby script which works on top of this to save the articles to pocket.

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minimaxir10y ago

  hn_url := "http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/"
  page := rand.Intn(50)
  points := randomInt(200, 600)
  url := hn_url + "search?tags=story&numericFilters=points>" + strconv.Itoa(points) + "&page=" + strconv.Itoa(page)

That's an odd definition of random.

bluerailOP10y ago

The points is just a threshold to get a good article instead of just anything. And, Algolia returns maximum of 1000 hits for a query with 20 per page. So shuffling the page to pick up too.

Killswitch10y ago

Maybe at least if it's a self post, show the HN url.

bluerailOP10y ago

Yeah, sounds good. I'll add it today. I also am building another Ruby script which works on top of this to save the articles to pocket.

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