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makecheck
Pretty neat.

Note that in order to work on Mac OS X, the word "wget" should change to "curl" in the script. (Otherwise it works exactly as-is.)

jeybalachandran
Great catch, I have wget installed via brew so overlooked that, I'll create a patch shortly.
spatten
When you say "If you're terminal is awesome, you can ⌘-click on the links to open them in a browser.", what kind of awesome do I need?

I'm running plain old terminal on OS X.

(oh, and not to be picky, but that should be "your", not "you're")

Groxx
They probably mean iTerm2 (which is a definite upgrade, worth it if you haven't tried it)
xdissent
Plain old terminal works for me, but you have to ⌘-double-click.
kip_
I'm running plain old terminal on OS X Lion and if I hold down the ⌘-key and double click, the link in the terminal opens in my default browser.
dangrossman
I tried it on CentOS (RHEL) 5.6

    [admin@gold admin]# hackernews
    sed: invalid option -- E

    [admin@gold admin]# sed --version
    GNU sed version 4.1.5
nzmsv
Changing "sed -E" to "sed -r" and all instances of "==" to "=" makes this script run on my Debian system. Unfortunately, it leaves the terminal blue when it is done.
makecheck
If you add a line like the following to the end of the script, any color changes should be undone:

    echo "\033[0m"
Also, I believe Debian's /bin/sh is "dash" whereas it is "bash" on most other systems. You could change your copy of the script's header to use "/bin/bash" instead of "sh" (assuming that bash is installed too), which is easier than fixing equal-signs and such.

As far as the original code is concerned, using "perl" may be slightly more portable than "sed -E".

jeybalachandran
There is a patch in master to support both Debian and Mac OS X. OS X doesn't use GNU sed which was the source of the problem.
tuananh
kind of cool but in the end, you need to open your browser anyway !!
makecheck
Here is one way to force your browser to open a URL by entering a terminal command:

    echo 'open location "http://my.domain.com/some/file.html"' | osascript
fceccon
You can also open an url with:

   open http://my.domain.com/some/file.html
burgerbrain
Not to be rude, but what does this get me over elinks?
xdissent
You're altering the terminal colors without resetting them. You should output a reset code after you're done (\033[0m IIRC?) or (drastically) issue `reset`. Although, a blue terminal is kind of a nice change.
Nic0
I used pkrumins ncurses hacker-top program, it's nice. https://github.com/pkrumins/hacker-top Sometime it has a bug to retrieve news, and I fixed it. https://github.com/Nic0/hacker-top

Certainly a nice way to follow HN, the only advantage with the website, it to have gray links on already visited links. That's mainly why I don't use it anymore.

klapinat0r
A "solution" to this could be a small local cache or sqlite db. Say you use Chrome, then you could have a cronjob which checks your history (given you're not in cognito) sqlite db for links in your last `$ hackernews` run. Not saying it's an adequate way to solve it, but it certainly is a hack ;)
makecheck
Here's a couple of edits that will pull colors from the 256-color (XTerm) palette and make the titles bold:

  blue_highlight=`echo "\033[0;38;5;68m"`                                                                                                      
  brown_highlight=`echo "\033[0;1;38;5;202m"`
  . . .
  . . . (end of script)
  echo "\033[0m"
jeybalachandran
Thanks, fixed in master. Also updated so only uses colors via a -c argument.
lightyrs
This is dangerously good. Thanks?
JacobIrwin
Cool.. Here I was thinking the HN web app was as simple and plain as I could view the feeds..
zx2c4
Dear Sir,

You have committed an egregious atrocity: you parse XML with a regex.

Please read this classic post: http://goo.gl/wPtKX

Thank you, Internet

jeybalachandran
I was counting on someone pointing me to that. Well aware of it and appreciate the reality check. I did this as a quick-and-dirty solution, I haven't tried parsing XML in shell, ever. Do you have suggestions?