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Tech & AI Trend Radar (HN + Lobsters + GitHub)

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Tech & AI Trend Radar (HN + Lobsters + GitHub)

Tech & AI Trend Radar (HN + Lobsters + GitHub)

Track what the tech and AI world is talking about right now. Aggregates Hacker News front page & Show HN, Lobsters hottest stories, and the fastest-growing new GitHub repos into one unified, deduplicated dataset with points and comment counts.

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from $2.00 / 1,000 trending items

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FEI Yang

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Track what the tech and AI world is talking about right now — one unified dataset, refreshed on every run.

What it does

Aggregates four public sources into a single, deduplicated, sortable dataset:

SourceWhat you get
Hacker News – front pageThe 30 stories currently on HN's front page
Hacker News – Show HNNew products & side-projects launched in the last N days
LobstersHottest stories from the high-signal tech community
GitHub trendingFastest-growing repos created in the last N days (via the official Search API)

No login, no API keys, no scraping HTML — every source is a public JSON API, so the Actor doesn't break when a page is redesigned.

Output

Each item has a uniform schema across all four sources:

{
"source": "hn-frontpage",
"sourceUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123456",
"title": "...",
"url": "https://...",
"points": 437,
"comments": 128,
"author": "pg",
"tags": ["tech"],
"createdAt": "2026-10-11T05:12:00.000Z",
"summary": "...",
"lang": null
}

Input

  • sources — which of the four to use
  • minPoints — drop anything below this score
  • days — look-back window for Show HN & GitHub trending (default 7)
  • keywords — keep only items mentioning any of these words
  • maxItems — hard cap (default 500)

Who it's for

  • Content creators looking for what to write about today
  • Investors & analysts tracking early signals in AI/dev tooling
  • Product teams monitoring new launches and competitors
  • Anyone building a daily/weekly newsletter who needs a clean feed

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.002 per item returned. A typical run (4 sources, defaults) returns ~150 items → ~$0.30.

Notes

  • Only public data. No authentication, no rate-limit circumvention.
  • GitHub Search API is used for trending (unauthenticated callers get a lower rate limit — fine for scheduled runs).