Show HN: HN In Your Terminal

[ciaranarcher]

https://github.com/ciaranarcher/hacker_term

[bstar77]

This would be infinitely more useful if there was a view that scraped the comments for each article or (even better) scraped the article itself (instapaper style). I would love to peruse hacker news this way in-between working as I hate getting distracted on websites.

If I get some free time I might look into adding that myself.

[gcr → bstar77]

Links comes pretty close. Here's some of the output of this comments page:

    $ links -dump 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992951'
      [IMG]    Hacker Newsnew | comments | ask | jobs | submit    login    
      [IMG] Show HN: HN In Your Terminal (github.com)                      
            37 points by ciaranarcher 5 hours ago | 14 comments            
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       [IMG] bstar77 1 hour ago | link                                     
             This would be infinitely more useful if there was a view that 
             scraped the comments for each article or (even better)        
             scraped the article itself (instapaper style). I would love   
             to peruse hacker news this way in-between working as I hate   
             getting distracted on websites.                               
                                                                           
             If I get some free time I might look into adding that myself. 
                                                                           
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       [IMG] slajax 1 hour ago | link                                      
             I would use this but I also think it needs to implement at    
             very least the comments page view. Otherwise you might as     
             well just stick to the browser. There are a lot of times I'll 
             read comments before I read an article, so I could still find 
             it useful even if you didn't scrape the entire article to     
             it's own view but allowed me to browse the comments.          
             
             reply
                                      
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[bstar77 → gcr]

very nice, then it's definitely possible to just have this gem use a links dump to display the comment content. I think links by itself is a bit clumsy for everyday use.

[NathanKP → bstar77]

If it just had a version of Lynx embedded it could show the website fairly well unless it was a heavily scripted site that loads its content for each page via JavaScript.

[bilawal]

I already use hnews. http://rubygems.org/gems/hnews Good work though, looks pretty awesome!

[bencevans → bilawal]

Wow, thanks. I'm the developer behind hnews, great to see others using it and other similar projects being worked on :)

If you would like to hack on it feel free, the source is at https://github.com/bencevans/hnews

[bilawal → bencevans]

Ironically, I found your gem after wanting to build my own HN CLI. Saved me a bit of time. Thanks!

[timothybone → bilawal]

In true hacker spirit ~ Don't repeat work already done, and share your own

[bencevans → bilawal]

Glad it helped! :)

[jakubx]

I use lynx or links to browse hacker news. Useful too.

[slajax]

I would use this but I also think it needs to implement at very least the comments page view. Otherwise you might as well just stick to the browser. There are a lot of times I'll read comments before I read an article, so I could still find it useful even if you didn't scrape the entire article to it's own view but allowed me to browse the comments.

[kaolinite]

Nice project, I may end up using this for stealthy HN browsing at work ;-)

I wrote a Hacker News plugin for Sublime Text a little while ago that lets you browse HN from inside the editor. If anyone is interested, the repo is here: https://github.com/dotty/HackerNews-SublimeTextPlugin

[thirdtruck]

Can't wait to apply this and the gems mentioned below to a Pebble or other hacker hardware. Thanks!

[_wiw4]

Looks nice, but it seems to eat all kb input on 10.8 except for up-down arrow keys :(

oh-my-zsh, retina MBP, 10.8.2

[tectonic]

Looks nice!

[ciaranarcher → tectonic]

Thanks! If you have any suggested improvements then just create an issue on Github and I'll try get around to it (or create a pull request alternatively).

[eps]

There are a lot of pointless things that are also very interesting and impressive.

[jacquesm → eps]

This is far from pointless.

[lsiebert]

The console can save quite a bit of battery life on a linux box over even a lightweight gui.