Comment by johnfn

I love the contrast between

#2 Amazon expanding to brick-and-mortar territory

and

#10 Airbnb launching space division

A delightful, hilarious set of results.

This was my session where I tried this. The accuracy to the Python experience is too real:

{hn.py is a python script that reads the current headlines from Hacker News}

python hn.py

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "hn.py", line 1, in <module>
        import requests
    ImportError: No module named requests

pip install requests

    Collecting requests
      Using cached requests-2.25.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (61 kB)
    Collecting idna<3,>=2.5
      Using cached idna-2.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl (58 kB)
    Collecting urllib3!=1.25.0,!=1.25.1,<1.26,>=1.21.1
      Using cached urllib3-1.25.10-py2.py3-none-any.whl (127 kB)
    Collecting chardet<4,>=3.0.2
      Using cached chardet-3.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (133 kB)
    Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17
      Using cached certifi-2020.12.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl (157 kB)
    Installing collected packages: idna, urllib3, chardet, certifi, requests
    Successfully installed certifi-2020.12.5 chardet-3.0.4 idna-2.10 requests-2.25.1 urllib3-1.25.10

python hn.py

    1. Understanding the HN Algorithm
    2. Show HN: A tiny JavaScript library for creating HTML5 presentations
    3. Ask HN: How do you learn a new programming language?
    4. HN is hiring: Software Engineer (Remote)
    5. HN Hackathon 2021: Build the Future of the Open Web
    6. A new HN user's first impressions
    7. How to get started with HN?
    8. A beginner's guide to HN
    9. HN's top posts this week
    10. The best HN threads of all time

more hn.py

    import requests
    
    url = "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json"
    
    response = requests.get(url)
    
    top_stories = response.json()

    for story_id in top_stories[:10]:
        story_url = f"https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{story_id}.json"
        story_response = requests.get(story_url)
        story_data = story_response.json()
        print(f"{story_data['title']}")

More succinct prompt:

> w3m news.ycombinator.com