Using Rye console to retrieve and summarize HN News with OpenAI (asciinema.org)

Rye’s console can now fetch Hacker News content with Surf and summarize it through the OpenAI API in an interactive, streaming fashion. The demo shows building a request that combines HN text, user interests, and a specific question, then prints the OpenAI response as it arrives. Rye’s REPL makes this composable: you can call Surf to retrieve pages, feed them into the OpenAI module, and iterate interactively. The console also gained UX niceties like automatic multi-line entry mode for unclosed blocks and strings, making exploratory coding and prompt composition smoother. Technically, the feature is enabled by compiling Rye with the ./buildai script in the main repo, which activates the contrib “openai” and “surf” modules; users with Go can build the binary and run bin/rye locally. The project frames Rye as a bridge between a programming language, a REPL, and a programmable UI—useful for rapid prototyping of retrieval-augmented workflows, streaming outputs, and ad-hoc data exploration. OpenAI and Surf will ship by default in upcoming releases. It’s an early but practical experiment that highlights how modular consoles can integrate web scraping and LLM summarization for developer-centric AI tooling.