Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions • Hacker News Board

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The main reason I didn't add `?` in the first place because I want users to be able to open the help menu while typing in the Search View.

That said, I'll definitely think more about this.

Re: Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions

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Post by hliyan » Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 5:10 AM UTC

What I really want is a reader view on the terminal -- something that cuts out all layout, formatting and images and shows me the raw article text in a fixed with font. Ditto for comments. I've already tried the "hn" [1] command line tool, but it doesn't strip out navigation menus, heads and footers from articles. It's also a bit slow.

[1] https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news

Re: Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions

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Post by ggerganov » Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 5:20 AM UTC

Good to see more TUI programs getting attention, well done!

What are some additional features in mind that you are planning to add?

Here is an idea for extra hacker vibe - try adding "The Matrix" effect when rendering the screen:

https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1337719342465748993

Re: Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions

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Post by divbzero » Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 5:28 AM UTC

+1 on seeing more text-based interfaces. Also worth mentioning are alternative HN gateways:

  gopher://hngopher.com

(Edit: There is also a Gemini gateway by Drew Devault that appears to be down for the time being.)

Re: Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions

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Post by aome510 » Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 5:31 AM UTC

ggerganov wrote: post #7

Good to see more TUI programs getting attention, well done! What are some additional features in mind that you are planning to add? Here is an idea for extra hacker vibe - try adding "The Matrix" effect when rendering the screen: https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1337719342465748993

> What are some additional features in mind that you are planning to add?

I don't really have any particular ideas in mind rn. I would love to receive feedbacks and ideas from the community.

> Here is an idea for extra hacker vibe - try adding "The Matrix" effect when rendering the screen: https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1337719342465748993

Wow this looks dope. I'll try it out.

I just realize that you are the author of https://github.com/ggerganov/hnterm. I just came across with it recently while finding some HackerNews apps on GitHub. If I understand correctly, `hnterm` seems to use the official Hacker news API for rendering. I found it quite hard to use compared to the HN Algolia APIs. Do you have any suggestions on how to utilize the official APIs better?

Re: Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions

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Post by aome510 » Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 5:35 AM UTC

hliyan wrote: post #6

What I really want is a reader view on the terminal -- something that cuts out all layout, formatting and images and shows me the raw article text in a fixed with font. Ditto for comments. I've already tried the "hn" [1] command line tool, but it doesn't strip out navigation menus, heads and footers from articles. It's also a bit slow. [1] https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news

Exactly this! I also want the same thing but didn't really find a good way to achieve it during my first find a while ago.