Top 20 Hacker and Designer News 2014

Last year around this same date I started The Hacker and Designer News newsletter as a weekly curated recap of the what I thought were the best articles from Hacker News and Designer News on startups, entrepreneurship, hacks, programming, design, etc. I built and open sourced an aggregator to help me collect posts. I later built news.hdn.io using that same… Continue reading Top 20 Hacker and Designer News 2014

The Hacker and Designer News Newsletter

After recently building a scraper and web API for The News, I thought  it’d be a cool idea to use that data somehow. First thing that came to mind was to build a newsletter. And so The Hacker and Designer News Newsletter was built. Newsletter Every week I’ll send a newsletter with a curated recap… Continue reading The Hacker and Designer News Newsletter

Scraper and Web API for The News

I recently found out about http://thenews.im thanks to @gcollazo. The News is a pretty cool project by ahmetsulek that brings together under one same site LayerVault’s Designer News and Y Combinator’s Hacker News. I decided to take advantage of having all those posts from two different sources together and built a scraper for it with Node.js. Once I had all the posts stored… Continue reading Scraper and Web API for The News