Hacker News / GitHub Trending headlines as a Custom Command widget

[bhpark1013]

I maintain claudenews, a Claude Code plugin that puts dev news in the status line. It used to need the whole statusLine slot, which meant you had to choose between it and ccstatusline. As of v0.25.1 it has a --segment mode that renders exactly one line, so it can just be a Custom Command widget instead.

Sharing the config in case it's useful to anyone else.

[claude-news] HackerNews │ Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop  ▲46 💬3

The headline rotates on each refresh. Sources are opt-in per feed — HN, GitHub Trending, Lobsters, dev.to, Qiita, Zenn, Hatena, V2EX, InfoQ CN, Habr, TabNews, plus your own RSS.

Setup

1. Install the plugin in Claude Code:

   /plugin marketplace add bhpark1013/claudenews
   /plugin install claudenews
   /claudenews:setup
   

   setup writes a small launcher to ~/.claude/hud/claudenews-hud.mjs. That path is stable — it resolves whatever plugin version you have, so it keeps working across updates.

2. In ccstatusline, add a Custom Command widget with:

   command:         node ~/.claude/hud/claudenews-hud.mjs --segment
   preserve colors: on
   

3. /claudenews:setup set statusLine to itself in step 1. Point it back at ccstatusline:

   // ~/.claude/settings.json
   "statusLine": { "type": "command", "command": "npx -y ccstatusline@latest" }

Or straight into ~/.config/ccstatusline/settings.json:

{
  "id": "claudenews",
  "type": "custom-command",
  "commandPath": "node ~/.claude/hud/claudenews-hud.mjs --segment",
  "preserveColors": true
}

Notes

• preserveColors: true matters. Without it the source name, score and comment count lose their colors and the line reads as a wall of text.
• terminal_width is respected. --segment takes the width ccstatusline passes on stdin and truncates to it, so it won't blow out your row.
• No OSC 8 hyperlink in segment mode. Standalone claudenews makes the headline clickable, but that escape sequence isn't something the host counts when measuring widget width, so segment mode drops it. /claudenews:open opens the current item instead.
• ~60 ms per render on an M-series Mac, so the default 1000 ms timeout is plenty. It reads a cached file; fetching happens in the background on a hook.
• One line, always. No parent-statusline chaining, no summary line, no hint text — ccstatusline owns the row.

Happy to adjust anything that doesn't fit ccstatusline's conventions.