Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal • Hacker News Board

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by nickdothutton » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

Nicely done, something I can cross off my todo list!

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

#12

Post by ecliptik » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:09 PM UTC

Last spring I built a dashboard out of a Pocket C.H.I.P [1] and use haxor-news as one of the panes to refresh the top 10 HN posts every minute.

It keeps me from mindlessly flipping to a HN tab to check for new posts, just glance over occasionally to see if anything looks interesting.

1. https://www.ecliptik.com/Pocket-CHIP-Terminal-Dashboard/

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by Ostrogodsky » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:22 PM UTC

nvr219 wrote: post #7

BrianOnHN wrote: post #2

I used to question alternative CLI ui/ux. Not anymore: > Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this..." > Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly... Well played.

Boss keys[1] should be standard for every website. The March Madness[2] one for example. There are some good ones developed for Reddit to look like Outlook[3], shell [4], etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key [2] https://www.ncaa.com/march-madness-live/boss [3] http://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit// [4] https://redditshell.com/

My "boss key" was Alt+Tab. No need to reinvent the wheel

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 6:32 PM UTC

BrianOnHN wrote: post #2

I used to question alternative CLI ui/ux. Not anymore: > Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this..." > Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly... Well played.

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Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by dang » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 7:26 PM UTC

One past thread:

Browse Hacker News Like a Haxor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11518596 - April 2016 (61 comments)

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by jedimastert » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 7:27 PM UTC

I feel like this might be a silly question, but does anyone have a good cli RSS reader?

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by fartcannon » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 7:32 PM UTC

jedimastert wrote: post #16

I feel like this might be a silly question, but does anyone have a good cli RSS reader?

Newsboat and snownews exist, but I don't use them frequently enough to give them a review.

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by jedimastert » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 7:32 PM UTC

ecliptik wrote: post #12

Last spring I built a dashboard out of a Pocket C.H.I.P [1] and use haxor-news as one of the panes to refresh the top 10 HN posts every minute. It keeps me from mindlessly flipping to a HN tab to check for new posts, just glance over occasionally to see if anything looks interesting. 1. https://www.ecliptik.com/Pocket-CHIP-Terminal-Dashboard/

I just remembered I have mine still, that seems like as good a use as any. The project is basically defunct now, right?

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by fartcannon » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 7:33 PM UTC

How does this compare to just loading hackernews up in lynx or links2?

Edit: Nevermind, I see. Its actually a very cool interface!

Re: Haxor News: Hacker News in the terminal

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Post by joshgel » Sat, Jan 01, 2022, 7:37 PM UTC

I've thought about building an API that integrates Twillo with the HN API. Lots of planes/airlines have free messaging wifi, but not free wifi. But, if you could text a number and get the top n stories, then read the comments and perhaps the text of the stories (?) would be pretty nice way to pass some time. Alas I haven't done it yet...