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+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from datetime import date
+from mastodon import Mastodon
+
+import sys
+import requests
+
+# Constant URL to Hacker News
+base_url = "https://news.ycombinator.com/"
+
+# Calculate the date 10 years ago as %Y-%m%d
+year = int(date.today().strftime("%Y")) - 10
+today = str(year) + date.today().strftime("-%m-%d")
+
+# Request the page
+r = requests.get(base_url + 'front?day='+today)
+
+# Parse the html
+soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, features="lxml")
+
+# Get the post specified by the first argument
+items = soup.find_all("tr", "athing")[:3]
+index = int(sys.argv[1])
+item = items[index]
+story = item.find("a", "storylink")
+
+# Parse the title and link from the post
+title = story.text
+link = story["href"]
+if "http" not in link:
+    link = base_url + link
+
+# Find the comments link from the row
+comment_el = item.next_sibling
+comment_link = base_url + comment_el.find_all("a")[-1]["href"]
+
+# Format the final string
+final = title + "\n" + link + "\n"+comment_link
+
+# Connect to Mastodon and send a toot
+mastodon = Mastodon(
+    access_token = 'hndecade_usercred.secret',
+    api_base_url = 'https://botsin.space'
+)
+mastodon.toot(final)
+