Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

by nothrowaways on 1/1/2022, 3:28 PM with 41 comments
  • by aome510 on 1/1/2022, 9:03 PM

    Shameless plug my Hacker News TUI app [1] here. I recently released a new version `v0.9.0` [2].

    [1]: https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI

    [2]: https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI/releases/tag/v0.9....

  • by nlh on 1/1/2022, 5:36 PM

    This is excellent!

    And also - I think that building HN utilities / clients is like the modern nerd FizzBuzz (in a good way). Is it strictly necessary? No, but it’s a great intellectual exercise, it’s something many of us have thought about, and because there’s a common API underlying, it gives folks a chance to learn about lots of creative ways to attack the same fundamental problem space.

    Keep it up everyone!

  • by dijit on 1/1/2022, 11:13 PM

    Ironically one of the few websites I actually enjoy using in its web format is hacker news.

    Still, this looks really cool! Great job!

  • by nichochar on 1/1/2022, 5:34 PM

    This is awesome! Actually, building a HN CLI client is my goto "Todo list app" exercise when I learn new languages.

    Here are my versions for elixir: https://github.com/nichochar/CLHN and golang https://github.com/nichochar/clhn-go

    (they are much more lightweight than the presented one, but work well)

  • by ecliptik on 1/1/2022, 6:09 PM

    Last spring I built a dashboard out of a Pocket C.H.I.P [1] and use haxor-news as one of the panes to refresh the top 10 HN posts every minute.

    It keeps me from mindlessly flipping to a HN tab to check for new posts, just glance over occasionally to see if anything looks interesting.

    1. https://www.ecliptik.com/Pocket-CHIP-Terminal-Dashboard/

  • by BrianOnHN on 1/1/2022, 4:13 PM

    I used to question alternative CLI ui/ux.

    Not anymore:

    > Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this..."

    > Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly...

    Well played.

  • by joshgel on 1/1/2022, 7:37 PM

    I've thought about building an API that integrates Twillo with the HN API. Lots of planes/airlines have free messaging wifi, but not free wifi. But, if you could text a number and get the top n stories, then read the comments and perhaps the text of the stories (?) would be pretty nice way to pass some time. Alas I haven't done it yet...

  • by personjerry on 1/2/2022, 12:35 AM

    Why not just use a command line browser?

      links https://news.ycombinator.com

  • by jedimastert on 1/1/2022, 7:27 PM

    I feel like this might be a silly question, but does anyone have a good cli RSS reader?

  • by dang on 1/1/2022, 7:26 PM

    One past thread:

    Browse Hacker News Like a Haxor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11518596 - April 2016 (61 comments)

  • by framecowbird on 1/1/2022, 7:53 PM

    Super cool, as long as you can change the font on your terminal! Programming fonts are really aweful for reading prose...

  • by fartcannon on 1/1/2022, 7:33 PM

    How does this compare to just loading hackernews up in lynx or links2?

    Edit: Nevermind, I see. Its actually a very cool interface!

  • by pdimitar on 1/2/2022, 4:13 AM

    And of course it has to be a Python script and have no proper installer from OS package managers. :(

  • by L0in on 1/2/2022, 1:47 AM

    Amazing. Thank you for posting it!

  • by nickdothutton on 1/1/2022, 5:38 PM

    Nicely done, something I can cross off my todo list!

  • by acqbu on 1/1/2022, 4:17 PM

    This is neat!