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Epictetus 641d531d88 Sprint 3: Anti-bot retrieval layer + metrics module
Anti-bot changes (all 6 adapters):
- Browser-grade User-Agent rotation (Chrome/Firefox on Linux/Windows)
- Shared browser_headers() with Accept, Accept-Language, DNT
- Session-consistent UA fingerprint (picked once, not per-request)
- jitter_sleep() replaces fixed time.sleep() on all adapters
- Exponential backoff on 429/503 already on reddit, now consistent

New shared module:
- adapters/__init__.py: browser_user_agent(), browser_headers(), jitter_sleep()
- adapters/_http.py: HTTPClient class for future browser-mode adapters

Metrics module (from Sprint 2 carry):
- oracle/metrics.py: MetricsRun for log_adapter/log_verdicts/log_scores
- oracle/weekly.py: SYSTEM HEALTH section wired to adapter_health
- oracle/cli.py: metrics subparser with --adapters/--publish/--scores/--alerts

Before: bot signatures like 'ai-oracle/0.1', 'python:athena:v0.1'
After: 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0'
2026-07-22 14:26:42 +00:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Hacker News adapter for Athena.
Fetches best stories via the official Firebase API — no auth, no scraping.
API: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/
Endpoints used:
/v0/beststories.json — IDs of current best stories (200 items)
/v0/item/{id}.json — story details (title, url, score, time, by, type)
Rate limits: HN is generous; 3s spacing between batch requests is polite.
Strategy: fetch best stories, filter for AI/ML relevance, score by points+comments.
"""
import json
import os
import re
import time
import urllib.request
import urllib.error
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from adapters import SourceAdapter, browser_user_agent, jitter_sleep
from adapters._store import true_first_seen, upsert_entries
class HackerNewsAdapter(SourceAdapter):
"""Hacker News Firebase API adapter."""
BASE = "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0"
AI_KEYWORDS = [
# Multi-word phrases (unambiguous)
"language model", "deep learning", "foundation model", "retrieval augmented",
"code generation", "context length", "context window", "attention mechanism",
# Compound/abbreviations (unambiguous)
"llm", "gpt-", "gpt ", "rag ", "rag.", "vlm", "vla",
# Specific company/product names
"openai", "anthropic", "deepseek", "meta ai", "xai", "ponytail",
# Topic-specific (with word boundary awareness in _is_ai_relevant)
"inference", "transformer", "diffusion", "alignment", "fine-tun",
"embedd", "pretrain", "post-train", "multimodal", "reasoning",
# Domain-specific (need boundary check)
"ai ", " ai", "ai-", "-ai", # "ai" as word, not substring
"agent", "agents", "neural", "autonomous",
"compute", "training run", "computer use", "coding agent",
# Community terms
"local-llm", "local llama", "llama ",
]
def __init__(self, user_agent=None):
self.user_agent = user_agent or browser_user_agent()
def name(self) -> str:
return "hackernews"
def _request(self, path: str, max_retries: int = 2) -> dict | list | None:
"""Make a GET request to the HN Firebase API."""
url = f"{self.BASE}{path}"
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": browser_user_agent()})
for attempt in range(max_retries + 1):
try:
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=15) as resp:
return json.loads(resp.read().decode("utf-8"))
except (urllib.error.HTTPError, urllib.error.URLError) as e:
if attempt < max_retries:
time.sleep(3 * (attempt + 1))
continue
print(f" HTTP error: {e}")
return None
except Exception as e:
print(f" Request error: {e}")
return None
return None
def _is_ai_relevant(self, title: str) -> bool:
"""Check if a story title is AI/ML relevant.
Uses multi-pass matching: first check unambiguous multi-word/phrases,
then check word-boundary matches for shorter keywords that could
false-positive (e.g. 'ai' matching 'Britain').
"""
title_lower = title.lower()
# Pass 1: unambiguous keywords (multi-word, compound, specific names)
unambiguous = [
"language model", "deep learning", "foundation model", "retrieval augmented",
"code generation", "context length", "context window", "attention mechanism",
"llm", "gpt-", "gpt ", "rag ", "rag.", "vlm", "vla",
"openai", "anthropic", "deepseek", "meta ai", "xai", "ponytail",
"inference", "transformer", "diffusion", "alignment", "fine-tun",
"embedd", "pretrain", "post-train", "multimodal", "reasoning",
"agent", "agents", "neural", "autonomous",
"training run", "computer use", "coding agent",
"local-llm", "local llama", "llama ",
]
for kw in unambiguous:
if kw in title_lower:
return True
# Pass 2: word-boundary check for "ai" and "compute" (avoid 'Britain', 'Guinea', etc.)
import re
if re.search(r'\bai\b', title_lower):
return True
if re.search(r'\bcompute\b', title_lower):
# Only if combined with other tech context
tech_words = ["gpu", "tpu", "cluster", "datacenter", "data center", "server"]
if any(w in title_lower for w in tech_words):
return True
return False
def _score(self, item: dict) -> float:
"""Score: points + engagement (comments), log scale."""
score = item.get("score", 0)
comments = item.get("descendants", 0)
import math
# Log scale on points (HN stories range 1-2000+)
point_score = min(math.log1p(score) / 1.8, 7.0)
# Engagement bonus (comments indicate discussion quality)
engagement = min(math.log1p(comments) / 2.5, 2.0)
# Type bonus: original content (no URL) is often higher signal
if item.get("type") == "story" and not item.get("url"):
engagement += 0.5 # self-post bonus (often original content)
return min(round(point_score + engagement, 2), 10.0)
def _tags(self, item: dict) -> list:
"""Generate category tags from HN metadata."""
tags = ["hackernews"]
title = (item.get("title", "") or "").lower()
url = (item.get("url", "") or "").lower()
combined = f"{title} {url}"
# Source type detection
if item.get("type") == "story" and not item.get("url"):
tags.append("self-post")
else:
tags.append("link-post")
# Domain tagging from URL
if "arxiv.org" in url:
tags.append("source:arxiv")
elif "github.com" in url:
tags.append("source:github")
elif "blog" in url or "medium.com" in url or "substack.com" in url:
tags.append("source:blog")
elif "twitter.com" in url or "x.com" in url:
tags.append("source:twitter")
elif "youtube.com" in url or "youtu.be" in url:
tags.append("source:video")
# AI subdomain tagging from title
if any(kw in combined for kw in ["agent", "agents"]):
tags.append("topic:agents")
if any(kw in combined for kw in ["llm", "language model", "gpt", "transformer"]):
tags.append("topic:llm")
if any(kw in combined for kw in ["inference", "compute", "training"]):
tags.append("topic:infrastructure")
if any(kw in combined for kw in ["alignment", "safety", "trust"]):
tags.append("topic:safety")
if any(kw in combined for kw in ["open-source", "open source", "oss"]):
tags.append("topic:open-source")
if any(kw in combined for kw in ["pricing", "cost", "margin", "business"]):
tags.append("topic:business")
# Engagement level
score = item.get("score", 0)
if score > 500:
tags.append("engagement:high")
elif score > 200:
tags.append("engagement:medium")
return tags
def fetch(self, query: str = "", limit: int = 20) -> list[dict]:
"""
Fetch AI/ML stories from Hacker News.
Fetches best stories (HN's internal ranking), filters for AI relevance,
returns top entries by score.
"""
now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
# Fetch best story IDs (200 items)
story_ids = self._request("/beststories.json")
if not story_ids or not isinstance(story_ids, list):
print(" Failed to fetch best stories")
return []
# Fetch story details (batch, with spacing)
stories = []
# Only need to check ~100 stories to find 20 AI ones
for idx, sid in enumerate(story_ids[:100]):
item = self._request(f"/item/{sid}.json")
if item and item.get("type") == "story" and item.get("title"):
stories.append(item)
if idx % 20 == 19: # polite spacing every 20 requests
jitter_sleep(1)
# Filter for AI relevance
ai_stories = [s for s in stories if self._is_ai_relevant(s.get("title", ""))]
# Score and sort
for s in ai_stories:
s["_score"] = self._score(s)
ai_stories.sort(key=lambda s: s.get("_score", 0), reverse=True)
ai_stories = ai_stories[:limit]
# Convert to DB format
entries = []
for item in ai_stories:
score = item.pop("_score", 0)
source_id = str(item.get("id", ""))
# URL: story URL or fallback
url = item.get("url", "") or ""
if not url:
url = f"https://news.ycombinator.com/item/{source_id}"
# Title (clean)
title = item.get("title", "")
# Extracted text: for self-posts, we don't have body text via this API.
# We store what we have (title + metadata) and leave extracted_text empty.
# A future enhancement could fetch comments via /v0/item/{id}.json children.
extracted_text = ""
tags = self._tags(item)
# Structured metadata
raw_meta = {
"id": item.get("id"),
"by": item.get("by", ""),
"score": item.get("score", 0),
"descendants": item.get("descendants", 0),
"time": item.get("time", 0),
"type": item.get("type", "story"),
"is_self_post": not bool(item.get("url")),
"score_type": "actual", # real HN points
}
now_str = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")
# first_seen = TRUE publish date (HN 'time'), not harvest time
first_seen = true_first_seen(raw_meta, "hackernews", now_str)
entries.append({
"source": "hackernews",
"source_id": source_id,
"url": url,
"title": title,
"extracted_text": extracted_text,
"summary": None,
"category_tags": json.dumps(tags),
"signal_score": score,
"raw_metadata": json.dumps(raw_meta),
"first_seen": first_seen,
"last_updated": now_str,
})
return entries
if __name__ == "__main__":
import argparse
import sqlite3
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Hacker News adapter for Athena")
parser.add_argument("--limit", type=int, default=20, help="Max entries")
parser.add_argument("--db", default=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "oracle.db"), help="SQLite DB")
parser.add_argument("--schema", default=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "schema.sql"), help="Schema file")
parser.add_argument("--dry-run", action="store_true", help="Don't store in DB")
args = parser.parse_args()
print(f"=== Hacker News Adapter ===")
print(f" Limit: {args.limit}")
print()
adapter = HackerNewsAdapter()
entries = adapter.fetch(limit=args.limit)
print(f" Fetched {len(entries)} entries")
if not args.dry_run:
conn = sqlite3.connect(args.db)
if os.path.exists(args.schema):
with open(args.schema) as f:
conn.executescript(f.read())
conn.commit()
cur = conn.cursor()
stored = upsert_entries(conn, entries)
print(f"\n Stored {stored} entries")
# Print top 5
print(f"\n Top entries:")
for i, e in enumerate(entries[:5]):
meta = json.loads(e["raw_metadata"]) if isinstance(e["raw_metadata"], str) else e["raw_metadata"]
print(f" [{i+1}] score={e['signal_score']:.2f} hn_points={meta.get('score', '?')}")
print(f" {e['title'][:90]}")
print(f" {e['url']}")
print(f"\n Done.")