This is a Rust program that fetches the top 500 stories from Hacker News and sends them to a Telegram chat.

It deduplicates the stories and only sends the new ones.

Written as a learning exercise.

  $ export TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=your_token
  $ export TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID=your_chat_id
  $ docker build -t hn500 .
  $ docker run --name hn500 -e TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN -e TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID hn500

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