hn
Hacker News without leaving your terminal.
Installation
Copy the shell script to a folder in your $PATH.
Usage
$ hn -h
NAME:
hn -- Hacker News without leaving your terminal.
SYNOPSIS:
hn [-c] [-h] [-l LIMIT]
OPTIONS:
-c Colorize the output.
-l Limit to LIMIT articles.
-h Prints a summary of the help options.
EXAMPLES:
hn
GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supports_sopa_im_transferring_51_domains/
StackOverflow also planning to switch from GoDaddy due to SOPA concerns.
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/116891/1588
GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/npair/godaddy_has_not_withdrawn_its_official/
...
hn -l 1
GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supports_sopa_im_transferring_51_domains/
If your terminal is awesome, you can ⌘-click or ⌘-double-click on the links to open them in a browser.
License
Copyright (c) 2011 Jey Balachandran
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software", to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.