hn

A CLI(Command Line Interface) tool for hacker news[0] reading.

Setup

• Ensure that your system has Go development environment[1].
• Type $ go get github.com/sjp38/hn from your shell.
• That's it!

Usage

Basic usage is hn [options]. Without option, it will print out top ten stories of hacker news in brief form like below:

$ hn
[1] U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination (247)
[2] What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn (933)
[3] Too much sitting, too little exercise accelerate biological aging (12)
[4] PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python (313)
[5] Welcoming Fabric to Google (248)
[6] Caching at Reddit (147)
[7] Rust vs. Go (303)
[8] How the Human Brain Decides What Is Important and What’s Not (32)
[9] Go vs. Swift [pdf] (50)
[10] Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse (67)

Each number inside parantheses is the HN score of the story.

Options

It also provides few command line options. You can show description about that using -help option as below:

$ hn -help
Usage of hn:
  -category string
        Category of items to show.  It should be (top|new|best) (default "top")
  -nrItems int
        Number of items to print out (default 10)
  -showCommentURL
        Show URL for HN comments
  -showOrigURL
        Show URL for the story
  -showTitle
        Show Title
  -showURLs
        Show URLs for the story and HN comments
exit status 2

ShowURLs option

While default execution output has only title and score of each stories, you can also show more detailed information including URLs for each story using -showURLs option as below:

$ go run hn.go -showURLs
[1] U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination (253)
    (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oracle-usa-labor-idUSKBN1522O6?il=0)
    (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13430222)

[2] What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn (934)
    (https://gist.github.com/yossorion/4965df74fd6da6cdc280ec57e83a202d)
    (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13426494)

[3] Too much sitting, too little exercise accelerate biological aging (16)
    (http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/9448.html)
    (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13431806)

[4] PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python (317)
    (http://pytorch.org/)
    (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428098)

[5] Welcoming Fabric to Google (251)
    (https://firebase.googleblog.com/2017/01/FabricJoinsGoogle17.html)
    (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428595)

[6] Go vs. Swift [pdf] (53)
    (https://github.com/jakerockland/go-vs-swift/blob/master/go-vs-swift.pdf)
    (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13430640)

[7] Caching at Reddit (149)
    (https://redditblog.com/2017/1/17/caching-at-reddit/)
    (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13429314)

[8] How the Human Brain Decides What Is Important and What’s Not (33)
    (http://neurosciencenews.com/importance-neuroscience-decisions-5967/)
    (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13430892)

[9] Rust vs. Go (306)
    (https://blog.ntpsec.org/2017/01/18/rust-vs-go.html)
    (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13430108)

[10] Playing with 80M Amazon Product Review Ratings Using Apache Spark (100)
     (http://minimaxir.com/2017/01/amazon-spark/)
     (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13429656)

License

GPL v3

Author

SeongJae Park (sj38.park@gmail.com)

References

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/

[1] https://golang.org/doc/install