output Hacker News in plain text
Send an email to yourself at lunch time with the top ten stories on Hacker News including the top comment for those stories.
$ crontab -l
MAILTO="me@example.com"
00 13 * * * DISPLAY=:0 hnplain -n 10 --topcomment$ hnplain -n 5 --list show --topcomment
1. Show HN: Temple.io – Read, annotate, and search popular religious texts
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Link: http://temple.io
Comments (3): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9560269
atonse 2015-05-17 19:25:28
> Fascinating - what I'd love to see is the debate (probably in
> annotations) vs how verses are interpreted.
2. Show HN: Our 1 week hack: A chat room for every app installed on your phone
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Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larvalabs.myapps
Comments (0): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9560674
3. Show HN: A DJ Khaled Tinder Bot
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Link: http://joelotter.com/2015/05/17/dj-khaled-tinder-bot.html
Comments (2): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558251
maknz 2015-05-17 09:56:22
> Great writeup, hilarious outcome! Nice work.
4. Show HN: Simulation of common page replacement algorithms in C
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Link: https://github.com/selbyk/pagesim
Comments (4): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9557475
georgerobinson 2015-05-17 00:11:16
> I so could have done with something like this for my Operating Systems
> exam last week. Never the less, it looks great!
5. Show HN: Simple Hash Table Implementation for C
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Link: https://github.com/watmough/jwHash
Comments (22): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9557920
watmough 2015-05-17 01:59:49
> I know this is pretty simple, but I never ever did at any point
> implement a hash table, just went more or less straight to programming
> in Assembler in a semi-mature system, then to MFC on Windows since
> about 1998. Performance-wise, my single-threaded test runs about 6
> times faster than the equivalent JS, which puts it in the C ballpark.
> I was really pleased about the performance under multi-threading.
> With 4+ threads, it's near to being 4 times faster, and the bucket
> lock only spins occasionally (prints a few '.' but still works).$ hnplain --help
usage: hnplain [-h] [--list {ask,new,top,job,show}] [-n N] [--topcomment]
output Hacker News in plain text
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--list {ask,new,top,job,show}
what list to pull stories from (default: top)
-n N the number of stories (default: 15)
--topcomment add the top comment of a story