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Show HN: My first project, an AI-powered financial news analyzer

By lamarcol 3 min read 0 views 0 comments

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 did, in a simplified and imprecise way, what I had in mind. At first glance, I realized it was a very simple program: feedparser retrieved news from Google News, beautifulsoup4 extracted the content, the sentiment was analyzed with FinBERT, running through Transformers and PyTorch.From there, I started modifying it with the free versions of Gemini. I had to solve a lot of problems, for example fixing the extraction of articles from Google News, I managed to solve it with a new library (googlenewsdecoder).Then I had to replace FinBERT, because it classified sentiment based on the context of the words but didn't take into account the actual impact of the event using external sources.I…

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