tailhn

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1.0.4 • Public • Published

Tiny script to tail new stories on Hacker News from the command line. Prints titles and urls to the console.

Requirements

A recent version of node.js, which includes npm and npx.

Usage

You can use this directly using npx -- it will ask you to install it if not already installed:

npx tailhn

Use together with grep to monitor for interesting stories, e.g.:

npx tailhn | grep -i robot