Show HN: Newsline – one-line news in your status line while your AI agent works Newsline, a new open-source tool by developer itdar, lets users display rotating one-line news headlines in their terminal status line, designed to be used while waiting for AI agents like Claude Code to finish tasks. The tool installs via curl, Homebrew, npm, or as a Claude Code plugin, and operates with a local cache and optional edge service that only sends language, coarse country, time, topic, and plugin version for feed curation, never accessing code, prompts, files, or conversations. Fully local mode is available by setting "api": "off" and "endpoint": "off" in the config file. 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 . 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 need one. No brew / npm ? Use the curl line. The news line appears on your next message — no restart. Setup asks for a language, topic & headline color and keeps your existing status line. Your machine fetches and shows the news — it never touches your code, prompts, files, or Claude conversations.- A small edge service picks the best regional sources and routes headline clicks, so sources stay fresh without reinstalling. If it's unreachable, newsline falls back to built-in feeds . - The status line is instant served from a cache ; refreshes run in the background. Everything that runs on your machine is in this repo — and this is the complete list of what ever leaves it: Feed curation at most once per hour : lang , coarse country, local time, day of week, timezone offset, topic , and the plugin version go to the edge service so it can pick fresh regional sources. No tracking ID, no personal data. Headline clicks : links open through a small redirect it sees the article URL plus lang / topic /version , so dead sources can be swapped server-side and clicks counted in aggregate. There is no per-user identifier. Never sent, never read : your code, prompts, files, or Claude conversations. The status line renders from a local cache and never blocks on the network. Fully local mode : set "api": "off" and "endpoint": "off" in ~/.config/newsline/config.json — feeds come from the bundled feeds.json and headlines link straight to the articles. Nothing is contacted except the news feeds themselves. Re-run newsline init , or edit ~/.config/newsline/config.json : | Key | Default | Meaning | |---|---|---| lang | auto | ko ja en es fr de pt zh , or auto | topic | general | general tech business world sports science health entertainment | rotate | 6 | seconds per headline | count | 15 | headlines in rotation | maxlen | 120 | max characters max = no cut | icon | 📰 | leading glyph none to hide | color | magenta | headline color: default gray white cyan yellow green blue magenta red | clickhint | auto | click-modifier hint before the headline auto per terminal, off to hide, or custom text | Set one directly with newsline color