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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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Today's HN top 10, ranked by score

curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json" \ | jq -r '.[0:30][]' \ | …

Full-text search HN by keyword

curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=claude+code&tags=story&hitsPerPage=20"…

Any GitHub user's stars → markdown list

curl -s "https://api.github.com/users/torvalds/starred?per_page=50" \ | jq -r '.[] | "- [\…

Wikipedia article summary in 1 line

curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Functional_programming" \ | jq …

HN front page → Gemini 3.1 Pro analysis

curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json" \ | jq -r '.[0:30][]' \ | …

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Wikipedia article → 5-year-old explanation

curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Homotopy_type_theory" \ | jq -r…

JSON from curl → DuckDB analysis via /dev/stdin

curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=duckdb&hitsPerPage=100" \ | jq '.hits'…

What's my IP and where is it?

curl -fsSL -A 'Mozilla/5.0 oneliner101' https://ifconfig.co/json \ | jq -r '"\(.ip)\t\(.ci…

Live currency rates, no API key

curl -s "https://open.er-api.com/v6/latest/USD" \ | jq '{base: .base_code, time: .time_las…

Most-starred repos in any language

curl -s "https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=language:rust&sort=stars&order=desc&…

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 -…

PyPI download stats for any package

curl -s "https://pypistats.org/api/packages/pandas/recent" \ | jq '.data'

Wikipedia page views over time

curl -s "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia/all-…

Schema-validated LLM output with claude --json-schema

curl -s \ "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=local+llm&tags=story&hitsPerPage=20"…

Gemini structured JSON envelope with -o json

curl -s "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Transformer_(deep_learning_arch…

Production-grade reasoning that doesn't stall — --fallback-model

curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json" \ | jq -r '.[0:30][]' \ | …

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Pure-LLM lockdown mode with --tools ""

curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=front_page&hitsPerPage=20" \ | jq -r '.…

LLM persona via --append-system-prompt

curl -s \ "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=AI&tags=front_page&hitsPerPage=15" \…

Capped fan-out across N inputs with --max-budget-usd

TOPICS=(machine-learning local-llm agi claude openai) mkdir -p /tmp/topic # Stage 1: scra…

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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…

Analyze yesterday's S&P 500 performance with Claude

curl -fsSL -A 'Mozilla/5.0' "https://query1.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart/SPY?range=5…

Scan App Configs for Exposed Secrets

curl -sL https://api.example.com/config.json | jq -r '. | to_entries | map("\(.key): \(.va…

Scan webpages for exposed secrets using LLM

curl -sL https://targeting.ai | llm -s "Scan this text for exposed API keys, passwords, or…

Fetch and Display City Weather in Terminal

curl -s -H "Accept-Language: en" "wttr.in/London?0&m"

Analyze news with game theory via curl and OpenAI

curl -s "https://newsapi.org/v2/everything?q=OPEC&pageSize=3&apiKey=$NEWS_API_KEY" \ | jq …

Extract and Group Outbound Links via Firecrawl

curl -sX POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1/scrape \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_A…

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Extract and Group Page Links by Domain using Firecrawl

curl -sX POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1/scrape \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_A…

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Extract Website Branding with Firecrawl

curl -sX POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1/scrape \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_A…

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Query Firecrawl search results directly with DuckDB

curl -sX POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v1/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FIRECRAWL_A…

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Scrape Google Maps and query top-rated places with DuckDB

curl -s -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/apify~google-maps-scraper/run-sync-get-data…

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