On: Follow Hacker News from the Console

Cool, but

    lynx "http://news.ycombinator.com"

is almost identical.

A little shell script magic gets you auto-refreshing:

    #!/bin/sh

    while true; do
        sh -c "sleep 90; pkill lynx" &
        lynx "http://news.ycombinator.com"
    done

(there's probably a better way that won't kill all your lynx sessions)

while true; do clear; lynx -dump -nolist http://news.ycombinator.com/; sleep 90; done

I have not written about it yet, but the hacker-top program contains a python module called 'pyhackerstories.py' which you can import 'get_stories' function from.

Then you can do tricks like these:

    >>> from pyhackerstories import get_stories
    >>> stories = get_stories()
    >>> for story in stories:
    ...     print "%2d. %s (%d)" % (story.position, story.title, story.score)
    ...
    1. Hans Reiser leads police to body, believed to be his wife (23)
    2. Follow Hacker News from the Console (18)
    3. Scaling on EC2 - WebMynd's experiences (YC Winter '08) (57)
    4. Google Protocol Buffers - Open Sourced (19)
    5. Balsamiq - Software and Website Mockup App (47)
    ...

Cheers :)

    watch -n 90 lynx -dump -nolist http://news.ycombinator.com/

Sure, but you don't get the color :)

In case you're in the same boat as me: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/lynxt...

I can't believe it took me this long to realize it's not included.

I can't believe it took you this long to discover Fink. :-)

It's not that I haven't heard of it or macports, it's that I haven't really found a need until now.

It's also available in MacPorts and Fink, I believe.

Is it possible to get rid of all the metadata in Lynx, like image names etc?

I tried "lynx -verbose" but it still displays stuff like [INLINE] and [LINK].