/hackernews-bot

HackerNews Bot for random story

Primary LanguageGo

HackerNews Random

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This Go script fetches the top stories from Hacker News, selects a random story, and opens Chrome with the url

Prerequisites

  • Go 1.16 or later

Quickstart

git clone github.com/stym06/hackernews-bot.git && cd hackernews-bot
make build
source ~/.zshrc

Usage

When you run hn command now, it will open up Chrome with a random story from HackerNews

> hn show
  Tripping on Xenon Gas (2023)
  https://tripsitter.substack.com/p/xenon