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   by howiem 9y ago

   I’ve now added the ability to comment and am fine tuning replies :) thanks again for all the great feedback.
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   by howiem 9y ago

   I've just added the ability to save interesting posts. You will see a button that says "favorite" under each post. You will be prompted to sign up and then it will save it your account to access at a later stage. Next up comm
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   Modern JavaScript date utility library(date-fns.org)

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   by howiem 9y ago

   Thank you everyone for the great feedback. Please feel free to share any helpful links that explain blockchain, cryptocurrencies, ICOs etc. and I will post on the 101 resource page. I am very new to this and only a curious observer of the c
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   by howiem 9y ago

   I may, in the meantime you can access it via my backend service. It's a mongodb store https://cryptoserver.now.sh/threads
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   by howiem 9y ago

   Once again I’d appreciate any great 101 resources people have found explaining blockchain, cryptocurrencies and other related topics. I will look at adding more content to the 101 page. I know very little about the topic and just chose this
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   by howiem 9y ago

   Thanks for your comments. This is very much an early prototype and I appreciate your comments. I will be looking to add the ability to comment next. Regarding adding text at the bottom I thought it might be easier for people to read a glimp
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   by howiem 9y ago

   Sorry if I confused anyone, didn’t mean to start a flame war. It was just the first domain I found that was available, I didn’t think too much about it
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   by howiem 9y ago

   Thanks. I've simply used the coinmarketcap API to get the currency feeds, super straight forward. It fetches from the client side. Anyone can use it here https://coinmarketcap.com/api/
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    by howiem 9y ago

    For scraping I've used the webhose api (I am still on the free account hence when u click on the link it has a 5 second redirect). I've found it is an excellent resource and easy to use API, I highly recommend it http:/&#x2F
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    by howiem 9y ago

    Cool. Ill add that to the list. Please provide suggestions of other topics and I will add it in :D
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    by howiem 9y ago

    Great idea, I actually had this before. I was feeding the articles into google's natural language processing API to get a sentiment index from -1 to 1 (-1 negative, 0 neutral +1 positive). The issue I was having that it wasn't rea
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    by howiem 9y ago

    Thanks. I'm working on this now. I've built the authentication system and user models and will be working on comments next
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    by howiem 9y ago

    Great idea, I'll put that on the list
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    by howiem 9y ago

    Sorry for the confusion I've gotten used to referring to cryptocurrency as crypto as shorthand
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    by howiem 9y ago

    Awesome thanks for the feedback. I’ll feed some more content for the 101s :) id appreciate any interesting posts or links anyone recommends explaining crypto currency and block chain in plan English
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    by howiem 9y ago

    I built this using the webhose api to scrape and filter for cryptocurrency related topics from reputable news sources and trending forum posts. I'm a terrible designer so I eyeballed the hacker news layout and finger painted some CSS o
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    Show HN: A cryptocurrency news scraper inspired by Hacker News(cryptonewsagency.com)

    183 points by howiem 9y ago|102 comments