A ruby script to read hacker news from the terminal. I found this at http://andrewvos.com/2013/08/02/hacker-news-in-the-terminal/, but it didn't work for me, so these are my modifications. Please note, I have never programmed in ruby before.

hn.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require "httparty"
require "nokogiri"
require "rainbow"
require "ostruct"
require 'rainbow/ext/string'

def show_latest
  response = HTTParty.get("http://news.ycombinator.com")
  if response.body == @previous_body
    return
  end
  @previous_body = response.body

  html = Nokogiri::HTML(response.body)
  items = []
  comments = []
  html.css("td.title a").each do |node|
    unless node.text == "More"
      items << OpenStruct.new(:points => node.parent.parent.next_sibling.css("span").text, :title => node.text,
        :url => node["href"],
        :comment => "https://news.ycombinator.com/#{node.parent.parent.next_sibling.css('a').drop(1).first['href']}"
        )
    end
    break if items.size == 10
  end

  puts "\e[H\e[2J"

  max_width = items.map {|i|
    ["#{i.title} #{i.points}".size, i.url.size]
  }.flatten.max

  puts "Hacker News".ljust(max_width).color(:red)
  items.each do |item|
    puts item.title.color(:yellow)
    puts item.url.ljust(max_width).color(:cyan)
    puts "Comments: #{item.comment.ljust(max_width)}".color(:magenta)
  end
end

loop {
  show_latest
  sleep 60
}