Show HN: My first project, an AI-powered financial news analyzer
I'm 17, and I started NotBot a few months ago to see whether I could turn an idea into a working project. My main interest is economics, not becoming a programmer, but I enjoy experimenting with code. A few months ago, I had the idea of creating a program that would analyze the most recent news about a specific stock and calculate a weighted average of their polarity to create a sort of sentiment indicator. While researching, I found a YouTube video about creating a simple GitHub repository that
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2026-11-09 00:00:22.456Z
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Repository: lamarcol/NotBot. Source account: I'm 17, and I started NotBot a few months ago to see whether I could turn an idea into a working project. My main interest is economics, not becoming a programmer, but I enjoy experimenting with code. A few months ago, I had the idea of creating a program that would analyze the most recent news about a specific stock and calculate a weighted average of their polarity to create a sort of sentiment indicator. While researching, I found a YouTube video about creating a simple GitHub repository that
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