I wanted to have up to date HN information, and I noticed I was opening my terminal a lot. I used to have fortune readings in my terminal, but I figured it was better if I was able to read HN headlines.
This was made simply in bash so as to not require many dependencies. It also requires some
tools found in *NIX including tr, jq, curl, sed (no longer need - thanks gabrielsroka), awk, echo and bash.
Clone autobahn
git clone https://github.com/realrasengan/autobahn
Copy autobahn.sh new location
cd autobahn
cp autobahn.sh ~/.autobahn.sh
Add to .bashrc
echo "bash ~/.autobahn.sh" >> .bashrc
Adding the script to crontab greatly increases the speed at which the script will run on terminal open.
crontab -l > .tmp.crontab.output
echo "*/10 * * * * ~/.autobahn.sh" >> .tmp.crontab.output
crontab .tmp.crontab.output
rm .tmp.crontab.output
You can also set the max # of stories to display (defaults at 10). For example, this will limit it to 5:
crontab -l > .tmp.crontab.output
echo "*/10 * * * * ~/.autobahn.sh 5" >> .tmp.crontab.output
crontab .tmp.crontab.output
rm .tmp.crontab.output
Then type source .bashrc
The script will create 2 files on each run:
~/.autobahn.output ~/.autobahn.last
01) Stripe Capital <https://stripe.com/capital>
166 points by jonknee | 1 hour ago | 63 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20888817>
02) An Introduction to D3.js <https://wattenberger.com/blog/d3>
231 points by slowhand09 | 2 hours ago | 36 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20887708>
03) Debunking the Silly “Passive [Investing] Is a Bubble” Myth <https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/09/debunking-the-silly-passive-is-a-bubble-myth/>
208 points by sharkbot | 2 hours ago | 122 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20887641>
04) Don’t force allocations on the callers of your API <https://dave.cheney.net/2019/09/05/dont-force-allocations-on-the-callers-of-your-api>
44 points by robfig | 1 hour ago | 23 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20888238>
05) WeWork Parent Weighs Slashing Its Valuation in Half <https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-parent-weighs-slashing-its-valuation-roughly-in-half-11567689174?mod=rsswn>
215 points by jason_zig | 5 hours ago | 158 comments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20886315>
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Remove from .bashrc
Remove from crontab
Remove files with prefix ~/.autobahn.*
Those alternate implementations do not implement everything that full script does, in particular they do not cache the data, so they are unusable for includision in your .bashrc (unless you are very patient...)
hn.py - in Python 3.6 + and the requests module
hn.ps1 - in MS PowerShell by gabrielsroka
hn.sh - in Bash, minimal implementation
Copyright (c) 2019 Andrew Lee (MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2019 github.com/realrasengan/autobahn Contributors (MIT License)