The 250 one-liners that built
data engineering in 2026.
Hand-curated shell pipelines combining apify · jq · claude · gemini · duckdb · groq · miller. Every entry runs as-is on a fresh laptop. Copy. Run. Learn.
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#006
HN front page → Gemini 3.1 Pro analysis
curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json" \ | jq -r '.[0:30][]' \ | …
curljqxargsgemini
›#007
Reddit trending → Claude 1-line take
curl -s -A "oneliner101/1.0" \ "https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/top.json?limit=25…
curljqclaude
›#008
Wikipedia article → 5-year-old explanation
curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Homotopy_type_theory" \ | jq -r…
curljqclaude
›#019
Should I read this HN thread? Claude TL;DR
ID=42583107 # any HN story id curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/$ID" \ | jq -…
curljqclaude
›#022
Schema-validated LLM output with claude --json-schema
curl -s -A "oneliner101/1.0" \ "https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/top.json?limit=20&t=da…
curljqclaude
›#023
Gemini structured JSON envelope with -o json
curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Transformer_(deep_learning_arch…
curljqgemini
›#024
Production-grade reasoning that doesn't stall — --fallback-model
curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json" \ | jq -r '.[0:30][]' \ | …
curljqxargsclaude
›#025
Pure-LLM lockdown mode with --tools ""
curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=front_page&hitsPerPage=20" \ | jq -r '.…
curljqclaude
›#026
LLM persona via --append-system-prompt
curl -s -A "oneliner101/1.0" \ "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/top.json?limit=15&t=w…
curljqclaude
›#027
Capped fan-out across N inputs with --max-budget-usd
SUBS=(MachineLearning LocalLLaMA singularity ClaudeAI OpenAI) mkdir -p /tmp/sub # Stage 1…
parallelcurljqclaude
›#028
Groq speed lane via llm -m groq-llama-3.3-70b-versatile
curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=duckdb&hitsPerPage=20" \ | jq -r '.hit…
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