Hacker News API examples & templates
Use these vals as a playground to view and fork Hacker News API examples and templates on Val Town. Run any example below or find templates that can be used as a pre-built solution.
stevekrouse
dailyDadJoke
Daily Dad Joke How do you make a programmer laugh every morning? A dad joke cron job! Setup Fork this val Click Create fork 🤣🤣🤣🤣 API This val uses the icanhazdadjoke API . You can find more docs here , such as how to filter by type .
Cron
visnup
harpers
An interesting Harper's message of the day when I open a shell. Setup crontab to grab updates on the first of the month 10 0 1 * * curl -s https://visnup-harpers.web.val.run > $HOME/.motd ~/.config/fish/functions/fish_greeting.fish to pick a random line on new fish shell; other shell support left to the reader function fish_greeting
set line (random 1 (cat ~/.motd | wc -l))
awk "NR==$line" ~/.motd | fold -s -w (tput cols)
end
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