Hacker News Monitor

Watches HN front page + newest + best, alerts on score and comment-count changes. Maps to "news monitoring / topic alerts / brand-mention tracking" briefs.

Built 2026-05-03 as Demo #6. Pattern generalizes to any vote-based aggregator (Lobsters, Designer News, Reddit hot subs).

Run

. ~/freelance/.venv/bin/activate
cd ~/freelance/portfolio_demos/hackernews_monitor
python monitor.py --reset
python monitor.py --once
python monitor.py --simulate-changes 4
python monitor.py --once

Result

• 90 stories tracked across 3 HN feeds ✅
• Idempotent re-run ✅
• 4 simulated score changes detected ✅