Hacker News
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How to hack Hacker News (and consistently hit the front page)
Your content needs to be either:
- Newsworthy
- Investigative (research)
The War Room
- Fetch data from Hacker News API
- Set up Google Alerts for your query
- Fetch data from Google Alerts XML
- Enrich data and store it in an SQLite file with a cronjob
- Send alerts with another cronjob to Twist API or Telegram API
- Then add chatGPT in the mix and ask for a rating between 0-100 and why the article is getting that rating. We send ourselves alerts when the rating is 30+
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