Omanews

Hacker News in the Omarchy bar. Omanews is a triage surface, not a reader: glance at the bar to see how many new top stories arrived, skim headlines in a compact dropdown, and eject to the browser for anything worth reading.

Features

Bar glyph with unread badge: count of top-30 stories you haven't seen yet; the badge disappears at zero.
Anchored dropdown in the native Omarchy panel style:
- Top / New / Best tabs.
- Stories grouped under TODAY and EARLIER.
- Each row: title, points, and a muted domain · 42 comments · 3h ago sub-line.
- Unread stories highlighted; read ones plain.
No auth, no accounts - only the free official HN Firebase API.
Refreshes every 15 minutes; offline it keeps the last data and shows a muted hint.
Read-state persists in ~/.local/state/omanews/seen.json (capped at 500 ids). Opening the dropdown does not mark stories read - only opening them does.

Install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/SVIGHNESH/omanews
omarchy plugin enable vighnesh.omanews
omarchy bar move vighnesh.omanews   # place the widget if needed

Requires curl and jq - standard on Omarchy.

Keys

Key	Action
`j` / `k`, `↑` / `↓`	Move selection
`h` / `l`, `←` / `→`, Tab	Switch tab (Top / New / Best)
`Enter`	Open story in browser
`c`	Open HN comments
`r`	Refresh
`Shift+R`	Mark all read
`Esc`	Close

Mouse: click a row to open the story, click the sub-line to open comments.

Uninstall

omarchy plugin remove vighnesh.omanews

State lives in ~/.local/state/omanews/ and can be deleted freely.

License

MIT