Get latest news headers from news.ycombinator.com (top 5)

Get-YcombinatorFeed.ps1

# For PowerShell 7+, because Foreach-Object -Parallel is used
# Based on https://github.com/HackerNews/API
# 
function Get-YcombinatorFeed {
    
    (Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty") -as [array] |
    
    Select-Object -First 5 | Foreach-Object -ThrottleLimit 5 -Parallel {
        Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get ( "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{0}.json"  -f $_ )
    
    } | Format-Table -AutoSize title, url
    
}

# For PowerShell 5
function Get-YcombinatorFeed {
    
    (Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -UseBasicParsing "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty") -as [array] |
    
    Select-Object -First 5 | Foreach-Object  {
        Invoke-RestMethod -UseBasicParsing -Method Get ( "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{0}.json"  -f $_ )
    
    } | Format-Table -AutoSize title, url
    
}

1. Grab data from "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json?print=pretty"
2. Select top 5 items from list.
3. Iterate over data from point 2
4. Download JSON from "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{0}.json" where {0} is placeholder for news ID (Obtained in point 2)
5. Display as simple table with article title and URL on right side.