Show HN: TopicRadar – Track trending topics across HN, GitHub, ArXiv, and more

36 pointsposted 18 days ago
by MickolasJae

13 Comments

Imustaskforhelp

18 days ago

Crazy how me and my brother had the same idea 7-8 months ago when claude was hosting their own challenge and we were gonna use Apify or build on top of apify itself something eerily similar to this

Though we wanted to include reddit & twitter as well. Reddit's got a recent database and being able to query it with hourly updates iirc so you can probably query this as well or use that as well

Not sure about twitter but twitter does seem to be the most valauable insight in AI/ML right now (considering that I see tweets of qwen guys or similar AI teams on r/locallama whose link might be even on hackernews haha!)

Personally I don't use twitter and follow HN/reddit as such for that sometimes especially reddit's r/localllama

Also my brother wanted to expand this to something general ie people can search for anything on reddit/twitter or get updates if people reference something iirc about anything not just particularly AI/ML

Anyways coding challenges are great and so good luck!

MickolasJae

18 days ago

Yeah, honestly it's just consolidation of data. I don't want to have to go to 8 different sources and try and click through all of that nonsense. It's really because I'm lazy.

plastic041

17 days ago

"Support" says to open an issue on GitHub if I need help. You should remove the line since this looks like a closed source project.

MickolasJae

17 days ago

thanks for pointing that out, i'll update it

EarthAmbassador

17 days ago

Why not just use RSS?

trippyballs

17 days ago

You need to generate feeds to track topics across different sites, which opens up a whole new can of worms.

jagged-chisel

17 days ago

Take this aggregation as it is, generate RSS. Not sure where the night crawlers are hiding in this plan.

trippyballs

9 days ago

How do you generate RSS feeds for sites that do not expose native RSS endpoints (e.g., Twitter pages without Nitter or YouTube pages)? Additionally, how do you classify the extracted content into topics?

jagged-chisel

9 days ago

The generated feed just points to the articles. The destination doesn’t need to care about RSS.

Classifying is not the purview of RSS. Presumably, TopicRadar is already doing this classification.

4b11b4

17 days ago

yutori scouts

-warren

18 days ago

25 trackers blocked. Certainly there's a better way

user

18 days ago

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