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NewsNerd HackerBot ??

Greetings, fellow news nerds! Welcome to the NewsNerd HackerBot, your ultimate companion for hacking into the latest tech scoops on Hacker News! ‍♂️

Features

Right now, NewsNerd HackerBot is able to:

1. Get you the top, best, new, best, ask, show, and job stories of Hacker News.
2. Filter the stories by any keyword/keywords you want (e.g., Give me 20 stories about Sam Altman and OpenAI).
3. Extract the comments from a story. You can use this to evaluate the general sentiment of the story.
4. Read blogs/articles linked to a story in order to reason about them.

If you want to see them in action, check the examples down below! ???

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_{Fetching top stories related to a topic}

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_{Conducting sentiment analysis on comments}

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_{Reading the linked article for additional insights}

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Local Use

The application is available in Streamlit Cloud (https://newsnerdhackerbot.streamlit.app/), but if you want to run it locally, just follow these steps ?

1. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Run Streamlit application:

   streamlit run newsnerd_hackerbot.py