Hacker News Notification

This is a third-party, unofficial, open-source service and not affiliated with Hacker News or YC.

Hacker News is part of my daily life. I try to follow the top stories every day when I have the opportunity. In order not to miss important stories on my busy days, I prepared a notification service. It was a very simple, 43-line PHP script that sends me notifications for stories with over 200 points. I have been using this service for 7 months and I no longer worry about missing important stories.

Finally, I made this service available to everyone so that it can be useful to others. I have also obtained the necessary permissions from the HN moderators to share such a service with you. So, I hope you will not miss important stories from this awesome platform with the help of this service. Also when I share this service with HN, I hope I will receive this story as a notification.

Roadmap

  • Send notification for the top story with the desired score
  • Send notification for stories with requested keywords
  • Send notification for replies to my comments

Built With

Installation

cp docker/mysql/.env.example docker/mysql/.env
cp .env.example .env
# Update the following environment variables inside .env file
# Pushover app token (PUSHOVER_APP_TOKEN and PUSHOVER_APP_URL)
# Pushover groups keys (PUSHOVER_..._SCORE_GROUP_KEY)
# UID for proccess user, make sure files also 'chown'ed with that UID

docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker-compose exec php composer install
docker-compose exec php php artisan key:generate
docker-compose exec php php artisan migrate

Build PHP FPM Docker image

cd docker/images/php-fpm
docker build -t ghcr.io/mavci/hnn-php-fpm:latest .
docker push ghcr.io/mavci/hnn-php-fpm:latest

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

This project is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.