Its a pretty nifty concept. Wish there was a way to browse comments without leaving the terminal though.
haxor-news can display comments in the terminal
https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
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Re: Show HN: PyHN - Hacker news client for command line
#12Cool. But I do like comments.
I guess there's another project for me, once I finish writing a somewhat complex, networked application in Scheme, and building a Bryan Cantrill Bingo Sheet generator (which would be trivial, if I could ever get around to it).
Hey, no matter how silly the idea, I have to keep in practice somehow.
Re: Show HN: PyHN - Hacker news client for command line
#13Nice work and I've installed it. One problem I found is the current subject titles focus blacked out. I fixed this in $HOME/.pyhn/config by changing:
FROM: 35 focus = black||underline
TO: 35 focus = light blue||underline
Re: Show HN: PyHN - Hacker news client for command line
#14Great idea, but the delivery leaves much to be desired: I am not going to run "pip install" and bypass the software management subsystem of my operating system, thereby compromising the integrity of my system . No OS package, no install.
"the delivery leaves much to be desired"
If you have access to the source, that is all you need.
Re: Show HN: PyHN - Hacker news client for command line
#15Its a pretty nifty concept. Wish there was a way to browse comments without leaving the terminal though.
There's also hnwatch from 2Ton, written exclusively in assembler ⌘ https://2ton.com.au/hnwatch/
There's a binary in the HeavyThing tarball so you needn't assemble the thing yourself.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
The distribution packages are often carefully tuned to match compatible versions, with pip, you might add something that the packaging system doesn't account for. I disliked pip ever since but the virtualenv idea sounds good.
pip install --user and you have a local installation leaving everything untouched. As you have a local npm/cabal/gem package store.
So now it is expected of me to learn some programming language's private packaging system, just to use an application?
Nope, that won't fly.
Re: Show HN: PyHN - Hacker news client for command line
#17Great idea, but the delivery leaves much to be desired: I am not going to run "pip install" and bypass the software management subsystem of my operating system, thereby compromising the integrity of my system . No OS package, no install.
Genuinely curious - how does installing a Python library through pip 'compromise the integrity of [your] system'?
My operating system wouldn't know about this new content, which means that it would not be automatically reproducible. There would now be a change to the system that the system doesn't know about.
I don't do that. On my system every single change to every single file is encapsulated inside of an OS package. The integrity of the OS content is not compromised in any way, because the OS knows about every single application's file. Emphasis on application's file, as opposed to just raw data.
Re: Show HN: PyHN - Hacker news client for command line
#18Great idea, but the delivery leaves much to be desired: I am not going to run "pip install" and bypass the software management subsystem of my operating system, thereby compromising the integrity of my system . No OS package, no install.
Why not just use a virtual env?
What is a "virtual env"? Why am I expected to know this just to run an end-user application? Is my spare time completely worthless?
Steve Jobs would have had a field day with this one, if he were alive!
Re: Show HN: PyHN - Hacker news client for command line
#19Great idea, but the delivery leaves much to be desired: I am not going to run "pip install" and bypass the software management subsystem of my operating system, thereby compromising the integrity of my system . No OS package, no install.
Just make one, it's usually straightforward