Hacker News MOTD shell script

Hacker news motd script · GitHub Skip to content --> Search Gists Search Gists Sign in Sign up You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You switched accounts on another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. Dismiss alert {{ message }} Instantly share code, notes, and snippets. brandonpollack23 / .bashrc Created April 3, 2026 03:45 Show Gist options Download ZIP Star 0 ( 0 ) You must be signed in to star a gist Fork 0 ( 0 ) You must be signed in to fork a gist Embed Select an option Embed Embed this gist in your website. Share Copy sharable link for this gist. Clone via HTTPS Clone using the web URL. No results found Learn more about clone URLs Clone this repository at <script src="https://gist.github.com/brandonpollack23/db78386cb84389772974edeb9e9e29bc.js"></script> Save brandonpollack23/db78386cb84389772974edeb9e9e29bc to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop. Embed Select an option Embed Embed this gist in your website. Share Copy sharable link for this gist. Clone via HTTPS Clone using the web URL. No results found Learn more about clone URLs Clone this repository at <script src="https://gist.github.com/brandonpollack23/db78386cb84389772974edeb9e9e29bc.js"></script> Save brandonpollack23/db78386cb84389772974edeb9e9e29bc to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop. Download ZIP Hacker news motd script Raw .bashrc This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters Show hidden characters # Hacker News MOTD _hn_output= $( source " $HOME /rcfiles/hacker-news.sh " ) if [[ -n " $_hn_output " ]] ; then echo " $_hn_output " else echo " ⏳ Fetching Hacker News in the background... " fi unset _hn_output Raw hacker-news.sh This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters Show hidden characters _hn_cache="$HOME/.cache/hn_motd" _hn_default_max_age=${HN_MAX_AGE:-18000} # 5 hours, overridable via env _hn_default_count=${HN_COUNT:-30} # top N stories to cache, overridable via env _hn_stale() { local max_age=${1:-$_hn_default_max_age} [[ ! -f "$_hn_cache" ]] && return 0 local age=$(($(date +%s) - $(date -r "$_hn_cache" +%s))) ((age > max_age)) } _hn_fetch() { local count=${1:-$_hn_default_count} local ids id item title url text kid comment obj tmpfile ids=$(curl -sf https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json) || return tmpfile=$(mktemp) echo "[]" >"$tmpfile" for id in $(echo "$ids" | jq ".[: ${count}][]"); do item=$(curl -sf "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/${id}.json") || continue title=$(echo "$item" | jq -r '.title // empty') [[ -z "$title" ]] && continue url=$(echo "$item" | jq -r '.url // empty') text=$(echo "$item" | jq -r '.text // empty') comment="" if [[ -n "$url" ]]; then kid=$(echo "$item" | jq '.kids[0] // empty') if [[ -n "$kid" ]]; then comment=$(curl -sf "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/${kid}.json" | jq -r '.text // empty' | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g') comment="${comment:0:100}" fi elif [[ -n "$text" ]]; then comment=$(echo "$text" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | head -c 100) url="" fi obj=$(jq -n --arg t "$title" --arg u "$url" --arg c "$comment" \ '{title: $t, url: $u, comment: $c}') jq --argjson e "$obj" '. + [$e]' "$tmpfile" >"${tmpfile}.tmp" && command mv "${tmpfile}.tmp" "$tmpfile" done command mv "$tmpfile" "$_hn_cache" } hn() { local max_age=$_hn_default_max_age count=$_hn_default_count while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do case $1 in --max-age) max_age=$2 shift 2 ;; --count) count=$2 shift 2 ;; *) shift ;; esac done if [[ ! -f "$_hn_cache" ]]; then (_hn_fetch "$count" &) return elif _hn_stale "$max_age"; then (_hn_fetch "$count" &) fi [[ -f "$_hn_cache" ]] || return local entry title url comment entry=$(jq -c '.[]' "$_hn_cache" | shuf -n1) title=$(echo "$entry" | jq -r '.title') url=$(echo "$entry" | jq -r '.url') comment=$(echo "$entry" | jq -r '.comment') echo -e "\n🔥 \e[2mHacker News MOTD\e[22m\n" echo -e "📰 \e[1m${title}\e[0m" [[ -n "$url" ]] && echo -e " ${url}" [[ -n "$comment" ]] && echo -e " 💬 \e[3m${comment}\e[23m…" echo } hn "$@" Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub . Already have an account? Sign in to comment You can’t perform that action at this time.