SlowHN

A slow, static site interface for Y Combinator's Hacker News. For a customized, daily updated instance, see this.

SlowHN is a toolchain that is composed out of three steps and tools. To run them, you will need golang, curl, bash and jq.

1. Fetch HNs 'top' page entries for yesterday (fetch)
2. Turn the JSON into an HTML table (tohtml)
3. Insert that table into an existing HTML file (htmled)

Installation

To get started, run these commands:

git clone https://github.com/gecero/slowhn
cd slowhn
# Install htmled, which is not included in this repo
go install github.com/gecero/mariurss/htmled@latest

Usage

The intended usage for these tools looks like this:

# This will put the SlowHN table into index.html's div #slowhn-content
./fetch | ./tohtml | htmled index.html "#slowhn-content"