Show HN: Newsline – one-line news in your status line while your AI agent works
Newsline is a command‑line utility that shows a rotating one‑line news headline in the terminal status line while an AI agent runs. It can be installed via a curl script, Homebrew tap, or npm package and also offers a Claude Code plugin. The tool emphasizes privacy by sending only minimal metadata to an edge service and provides a fully offline mode using bundled feeds.
- ▪Newsline fetches regional headlines and displays them in the status line without interrupting the AI session.
- ▪Installation options include a curl installer, Homebrew tap, npm package, and a Claude Code plugin.
- ▪Only limited metadata such as language, country, and topic is sent to an edge service; a fully local mode uses bundled feeds only.
- ▪Users can customize language, topic, rotation interval, headline count, colors, and can update or uninstall the tool with simple commands.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 3,384 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/itdar/newsline |
| Publication time | Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:44:58 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-20T15:53:38.286Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-20T15:53:38.286Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | AJqrQdKkKwEd |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
English · 한국어 · 日本語 · Español · Français · Deutsch · Português · 中文 newsline Waiting for Claude Code to finish? Read the latest one-line news right in your status line. A rotating regional headline sits at the bottom of your session — so a long wait turns into a quick news check. It shows below your existing status line (your HUD stays). Install & run — one line # curl (macOS / Linux / WSL) — installs and sets up right away curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/itdar/newsline/master/install.sh | sh # Homebrew brew install itdar/tap/newsline && newsline init # npm npm i -g newsline-cli && newsline init # Claude Code plugin — run inside Claude Code, then /newsline:setup /plugin marketplace add itdar/newsline /plugin install newsline@itdar Pick whichever you already have — you only…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.