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.
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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…
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