lobsters_top

Lobsters front-page listings — hottest / newest / active, optionally filtered by a single tag. Each row shows score, comment count, and title, linked to the story URL (or the Lobsters comment page when there isn't one).

Kind	Safety	Shapes
cached	Safe	linked_text_block, text_block, text, markdown_text_block, entries, bars, timeline

Options

Option	Type	Required	Default	Description
count	integer (1..=25)	no	10	Number of stories to display.
kind	"hottest" | "newest" | "active"	no	"hottest"	Which Lobsters listing to query. Forced to hottest when tag is set (the tag listing only exposes the hottest variant).
tag	string	no	—	Filter to a single Lobsters tag (e.g. "rust", "c++"). Allowed chars: [a-z0-9_+-].

Compatible renderers

Shape	Renderers
linked_text_block	list_links
text_block	animated_boot, animated_postfx, animated_scanlines, animated_splitflap, animated_wave, list_plain
text	animated_boot, animated_figlet_morph, animated_postfx, animated_scanlines, animated_splitflap, animated_typewriter, animated_wave, text_ascii, text_plain
markdown_text_block	text_markdown
entries	animated_boot, animated_postfx, animated_scanlines, animated_splitflap, animated_wave, grid_table
bars	animated_boot, animated_postfx, animated_scanlines, animated_splitflap, animated_wave, chart_bar, chart_pie, list_ranking
timeline	animated_boot, animated_postfx, animated_scanlines, animated_splitflap, animated_wave, list_timeline

Preview

linked_text_block via list_links

75pt 17c  Show: terminal dashboard with 
41pt 6c   Fake Notepad++ for Mac        
29pt 2c   This Wasm interpreter fits in 
                                        
                                        

[[widget]]
id = "lobsters_top"
fetcher = "lobsters_top"
render = "list_links"

text_block via list_plain

75pt 17c  Show: terminal dashboard with 
41pt 6c   Fake Notepad++ for Mac        
29pt 2c   This Wasm interpreter fits in 
                                        

[[widget]]
id = "lobsters_top"
fetcher = "lobsters_top"
render = "list_plain"

text via text_ascii

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 █  ▄ █ ▐▙▟▘ █▗      █   █  █ ▄         ▄▝█ ▐▌▐▌█ █ ███▌ ▄       █▗ █▀▀ ▐▌▝▘█▜▜▌
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[[widget]]
id = "lobsters_top"
fetcher = "lobsters_top"
render = "text_ascii"

text via text_plain

75pt 17c  Show: terminal dashboard with 
                                        

[[widget]]
id = "lobsters_top"
fetcher = "lobsters_top"
render = "text_plain"

markdown_text_block via text_markdown

- 75pt 17c  Show: terminal dashboard    
with local trust                        
(https://example.com/show)              
- 41pt 6c   Fake Notepad++ for Mac      
(https://example.com/np)                

[[widget]]
id = "lobsters_top"
fetcher = "lobsters_top"
render = "text_markdown"

entries via grid_table

Show: terminal dashboard with local tru 
Fake Notepad++ for Mac                  
This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code 
                                        
                                        

[[widget]]
id = "lobsters_top"
fetcher = "lobsters_top"
render = "grid_table"

bars via chart_bar

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███ ▆▆▆                                 
███ ███ ▅▅▅                             
███ ███ ███                             
75█ 41█ 29█                             
Sho Fak Thi                             

[[widget]]
id = "lobsters_top"
fetcher = "lobsters_top"
render = "chart_bar"

bars via chart_pie

                                        
         ●          ■ Show: terminal das
    ●●●●●●●●●●●                         
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 ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●  ■ This Wasm interpre
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         ●                              

[[widget]]
id = "lobsters_top"
fetcher = "lobsters_top"
render = "chart_pie"

bars via list_ranking

1. Show: terminal dashboard …         75
2. Fake Notepad++ for Mac             41
3. This Wasm interpreter fits …       29
                                        
                                        

[[widget]]
id = "lobsters_top"
fetcher = "lobsters_top"
render = "list_ranking"

timeline via list_timeline

May 2 │ Show: terminal dashboard with local trust 
      │ 75pt 17c                                  
May 2 │ Fake Notepad++ for Mac                    
      │ 41pt 6c                                   
May 2 │ This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code   
      │ 29pt 2c                                   
                                                  
                                                  

[[widget]]
id = "lobsters_top"
fetcher = "lobsters_top"
render = "list_timeline"