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

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Post by aome510 »

sm1ch wrote: post #18

Fantastic! Here are three features that I would love to see: 1. collapsable threads, ideally with three different shortcuts: (i) collapse daughters of current comment, (ii) collapse mother of current comment - this is very useful when on the Nth comment far away below the mother comment, so no need to scroll up, but can continue reading the sister of mother's comment, (iii) collapse entire thread. 2. A story view for…

Thanks for the ideas!

> 1. collapsable threads, ideally with three different shortcuts: (i) collapse daughters of current comment, (ii) collapse mother of current comment - this is very useful when on the Nth comment far away below the mother comment, so no need to scroll up, but can continue reading the sister of mother's comment, (iii) collapse entire thread.

Please correct me if I misunderstand your request. I guess what you want is navigating between sibling comments right? It seems that most of the use cases you mention above can be done with a combination of `l` (move to the next sibling) and `h` (move the previous sibling) commands.

> 2. A story view for the /active section. I think there is no official API for it, but I find it to be the most useful entrypoint into HN at the beginning of the day, to catch up.

I don't really get this feature. Can you elaborate more?

> 3. Semi-offtopic dreamland: a version adapted to (a terminal in) the remarkable and related tablets :)

Yeah, I also would love to achieve this, but supporting tablets seems to be quite painful experience :<.

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

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Post by csomar »

aome510 wrote: post #12

update: add `?` as a hotkey to open the help dialog in the new version `v0.5.1`. It seems that many feel more comfortable using `?` than ` / ` as the default hotkey.

Any chance to make shortcuts customizable. I'm used to Vim and it would be nice to have vim-like navigation instead of memorizing new keys.

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

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Post by sm1ch »

aome510 wrote: post #21
sm1ch wrote: post #18

Fantastic! Here are three features that I would love to see: 1. collapsable threads, ideally with three different shortcuts: (i) collapse daughters of current comment, (ii) collapse mother of current comment - this is very useful when on the Nth comment far away below the mother comment, so no need to scroll up, but can continue reading the sister of mother's comment, (iii) collapse entire thread. 2. A story view for…

Thanks for the ideas! > 1. collapsable threads, ideally with three different shortcuts: (i) collapse daughters of current comment, (ii) collapse mother of current comment - this is very useful when on the Nth comment far away below the mother comment, so no need to scroll up, but can continue reading the sister of mother's comment, (iii) collapse entire thread. Please correct me if I misunderstand your request. I gue…

> I guess what you want is navigating between sibling comments right?

It's actually more than that: when there are lots of sub-comments, it helps to see the immediate "mother" of the comment node you're reading. Imagine a comment that has two replies, and the first reply has dozens and dozens of sub-replies and sub-sub-replies, which typically veer into all sorts of adjacent issues. By the time I'm done with the 1st reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, it is often unclear what the initial comment (or even topic) was. It is then very helpful to be able to glance back up to the initial comment across the now-collapsed first reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, before reading reply #2. Simply navigating to reply #2 doesn't give you that.

> don't really get this feature. Can you elaborate more?

I mean this page of the HN site: https://news.ycombinator.com/active . It has the currently actively discussed stories, and is a great way to catch up after not reading HN for a day or two. A kind of intermediate step between best ( https://news.ycombinator.com/best ) and the homepage.

[Edit: the 'active' page apparently has an RSS feed here, in case you would be inclined to add it: https://hnrss.org/active ]

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

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Post by aome510 »

csomar wrote: post #22
aome510 wrote: post #12

update: add `?` as a hotkey to open the help dialog in the new version `v0.5.1`. It seems that many feel more comfortable using `?` than ` / ` as the default hotkey.

Any chance to make shortcuts customizable. I'm used to Vim and it would be nice to have vim-like navigation instead of memorizing new keys.

Yes! Making commands customizable is on top of my to-do list.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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

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

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Post by aome510 »

sm1ch wrote: post #23
aome510 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the ideas! > 1. collapsable threads, ideally with three different shortcuts: (i) collapse daughters of current comment, (ii) collapse mother of current comment - this is very useful when on the Nth comment far away below the mother comment, so no need to scroll up, but can continue reading the sister of mother's comment, (iii) collapse entire thread. Please correct me if I misunderstand your request. I gue…

> I guess what you want is navigating between sibling comments right? It's actually more than that: when there are lots of sub-comments, it helps to see the immediate "mother" of the comment node you're reading. Imagine a comment that has two replies, and the first reply has dozens and dozens of sub-replies and sub-sub-replies, which typically veer into all sorts of adjacent issues. By the time I'm done with the 1st…

> It's actually more than that: when there are lots of sub-comments, it helps to see the immediate "mother" of the comment node you're reading. Imagine a comment that has two replies, and the first reply has dozens and dozens of sub-replies and sub-sub-replies, which typically veer into all sorts of adjacent issues. By the time I'm done with the 1st reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, it is often unclear what the initial comment (or even topic) was. It is then very helpful to be able to glance back up to the initial comment across the now-collapsed first reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, before reading reply #2. Simply navigating to reply #2 doesn't give you that.

I think I get what you mean. Instead of adding 3 different collapse commands, WDYT about adding one command to collapse the current comment and one command to move up to the parent comment?

> I mean this page of the HN site: https://news.ycombinator.com/active . It has the currently actively discussed stories, and is a great way to catch up after not reading HN for a day or two. A kind of intermediate step between best ( https://news.ycombinator.com/best ) and the homepage.

Interesting, I don't know `/best` and `/active` exist. `/best` seems to be a list of stories (up to past 4 days) sorted by `points`.

`/active`, on the other hand, and `/news` as well are quite weird. I don't really know the algorithm behind the order of sorting submissions in those.

In the meantime, I guess open the `Story View - All stories` with `sort_by=popularity` and `time_range=past 24 hours` might do the job.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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

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

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Post by sm1ch »

aome510 wrote: post #26
sm1ch wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I guess what you want is navigating between sibling comments right? It's actually more than that: when there are lots of sub-comments, it helps to see the immediate "mother" of the comment node you're reading. Imagine a comment that has two replies, and the first reply has dozens and dozens of sub-replies and sub-sub-replies, which typically veer into all sorts of adjacent issues. By the time I'm done with the 1st…

> It's actually more than that: when there are lots of sub-comments, it helps to see the immediate "mother" of the comment node you're reading. Imagine a comment that has two replies, and the first reply has dozens and dozens of sub-replies and sub-sub-replies, which typically veer into all sorts of adjacent issues. By the time I'm done with the 1st reply and its dozens and dozens of sub-replies, it is often unclear…

> WDYT about adding one command to collapse the current comment and one command to move up to the parent comment?

That would be great! (Or alternatively a single command that does both of these, which was mostly my option (ii) in the initial comment).

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

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Post by didizaja »

This is an amazing looking TUI, and I can tell you've put a lot of work and thought into this. Amazing job! You're making me want to install/learn Rust so I can try this out and/or contribute to this (if contributors are allowed, that is). :)

Also, what a small world! I've been building a similar, Python-based application [0] for reading HN for the last few months, but it's nowhere near as nice-looking or complex as yours (and currently only an MVP that uses less with the -R flag lol). I actually grabbed the data based on parsing raw HTML, but using Algolia is something I hadn't considered.

[0]: https://github.com/zaataylor/rich-hn

edit: currently installing Rust

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

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Post by aome510 »

xianx wrote: post #19
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

I use Newsboat and newspaper3k for that, works pretty well. Example: https://hund.tty1.se/2020/07/29/an-introduction-to-the-web-f... You can add the HN feed with hnrss: https://hnrss.github.io/ Maybe not the best solution, but I've been using it for a couple of weeks and it works.

I just played around with newspaper3k today, and it works really well out of the box.

I plan to add support for article view reader mode with newspaper3k integration. My current approach is to create a child process with `std::Process:Command` then run a python script. Doesn't seem to be the best approach, but I guess it's the easiest one.

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