These are offensive fortunes and so they will live in the offensive fortune directory.
Download ngatehackersnews fortune file.
Run strfile ngatehackernews and copy ngatehackernews and ngatehackernews.dat to /usr/local/share/games/fortunes/off/. Or /usr/share/games/fortunes/off/. Or wherever the fortune file should live, consult your fortune(6) manpage which will specify where. You can also place them in a local directory such as ~/.fortune.
Then run fortune -o ngatehackernews to get a random n-gate headline summary. Neat huh? Maybe chuck it in your bash profile to brighten your day.
This is what I do:
# copy ngatehackernews{,.dat} to ~/.fortune
if shopt -q login_shell; then
[ -d ~/.fortune ] && fortune ~/.fortune
fiI will keep the fortune file up to date, so the link that lives in master will hopefully contain the latest updates.
You will need python3 and a few dependencies, make, and wget.
To install python3 dependencies run: pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt.
Then run make and it will mirror n-gate.com and generate the fortune files ngatehackernews and ngatehackernews.dat.
make clean will clean the fortune files and make cleanall will clean fortune files and the n-gate.com mirror.
There is no guarantee to work if new weird HTML oddities are introduced in headline summaries. Parsing all the HTML entries was a bit of a headache to begin with.
An attempt has been made to ensure the resulting fortune file is generated deterministically by sorting the input file pathnames in lexical order. This has the desired side-effect of having the quotes generated in ascending order by date.
All the content from n-gate.com and anything inside ngatehackernews fortune file is copyright the original n-gate.com author, whoever (s)he is.
Everything else in this repository is licensed under the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication.