Show HN: Simple Hacker News Client for Emacs

#1

Post by clarete » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 5:49 PM UTC

I wrote this small client to read hackernews from my favorite editor. It's currently using an external HTTP API [0] but I'm working on my own proxy [1].

I'd love to actually scrape and cache all the info I need using lisp. However, my time constraints are keeping me away of that goal. I could definitely use some help here! :)

I'm also planning to add support for comments and posting new things. Any feedback is highly appreciated! Thank you!

[0] http://api.ihackernews.com/ [1] https://github.com/clarete/rhn

Show HN: Simple Hacker News Client for Emacs
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Re: Show HN: Simple Hacker News Client for Emacs

#2

Post by marcosmlopes » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 5:53 PM UTC

sweet

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#3

Post by clarete » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 5:55 PM UTC

marcosmlopes wrote: post #2

sweet

Thank you man!

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#4

Post by prateekj » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 5:56 PM UTC

Nice

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#5

Post by manojlds » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 6:50 PM UTC

If I were to create a mobile app for HackerNews, what would be the best way to go about doing that in terms of API to use?

Re: Show HN: Simple Hacker News Client for Emacs

#6

Post by clarete » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 6:54 PM UTC

manojlds wrote: post #5

If I were to create a mobile app for HackerNews, what would be the best way to go about doing that in terms of API to use?

So, hackernews.el is actually a very simple front-end for the guy that really has to deal with hackernews. I'm using a library that I built on top of `ruby-hackernews`, you can see what I did here: https://github.com/clarete/rhn

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#7

Post by terhechte » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 7:10 PM UTC

manojlds wrote: post #5

If I were to create a mobile app for HackerNews, what would be the best way to go about doing that in terms of API to use?

http://api.ihackernews.com/

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#8

Post by Mithrandir » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 7:57 PM UTC

manojlds wrote: post #5

If I were to create a mobile app for HackerNews, what would be the best way to go about doing that in terms of API to use?

HNSearch has an API: https://www.hnsearch.com/api

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#9

Post by jpitz » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 8:22 PM UTC

Just sent a pull request - I'd use this if it linked to comments. Otherwise this is exactly what I want!

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#10

Post by thex86 » Fri, Oct 18, 2013, 9:29 PM UTC

Serious question: does anyone know of a similar command-line/vim alternative?