Ask HN: Who is hiring? at the first day of each month at 9 AM Eastern time is a great source of jobs and trends in the startup world. Following it is quite a hassle as the UI is not designed for hundreds of posts in a single page. This application is cloning it into a local database and adds a UI to select interesting jobs and hide the unattractive ones.

python3
virtualenv

The current database is RethinkDB, use they instructions to install it. On OS X with brew it's as easy as:

brew update && brew install --upgrade rethinkdb

Backend is written in python using a minimalistic approach with flask. To run it use setup.sh to create a virtualenv with the required packages installed in it.

Frontend is using ReactJS, jquery and bootstrap with on the fly JSX transformation.

• start your database somewhere with rethinkdb -d YOUR_PREFERRED_DATABASE_DIRECTORY_LOCATION.

• activate the virtualenv with source ./bootstrap_venv/bin/activate

• run ./hn.py to collect data using firebaseio.com. This will take around 10 minutes. At the first days of the month you should run this frequently to collect the latest jobs and comments.

• start the local server as ./server.py and point your browser to http://localhost:3000. To run it on a different port use env PORT=XXXX ./server.py

• stop server.py with a CTRL-C
• stop rethinkdb with a CTRL-C

While the program selects the current month by default you can override it both for data collection and serving using command line arguments:

-y YEAR, --year YEAR
-m MONTH, --month MONTH
-t THREAD_ID, --thread THREAD_ID
-h, --help