Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by andrewstuart2 » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 7:46 PM UTC

Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go
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Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by Zikes » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 8:20 PM UTC

Looks like it's off to a good start! Some colors & lines would go a ways towards making it a bit more usable. I'm looking forward to diving into the code later this evening.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by clockworkelf » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 8:55 PM UTC

Aren't these Go stories more or less geek masturbation? Yeah Go is probably amazing but beyond HN hasn't much mindshare.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by andrewstuart2 » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 9:31 PM UTC

As a warning for any who choose to hack on this, cloudflare gets a bit upset if you query too often, resulting in a period of sadness. It's probably a good sign I should be doing unit testing.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by andrewstuart2 » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 9:34 PM UTC

Zikes wrote: post #2

Looks like it's off to a good start! Some colors & lines would go a ways towards making it a bit more usable. I'm looking forward to diving into the code later this evening.

Thanks! I'll try to put in a bit more work on the UI front. I look forward to any more feedback you have.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by Zikes » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 9:41 PM UTC

andrewstuart2 wrote: post #5

Zikes wrote: post #2

Looks like it's off to a good start! Some colors & lines would go a ways towards making it a bit more usable. I'm looking forward to diving into the code later this evening.

Thanks! I'll try to put in a bit more work on the UI front. I look forward to any more feedback you have.

Indentation would make it easier to read the comments structure, especially if each indent had a line or block down the left margin.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by omribahumi » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 9:43 PM UTC

Thanks for goquery! didn't know about it :) https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery

Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by elithrar » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 10:25 PM UTC

Neat stuff! You should consider building some binaries and making them available via GitHub's releases feature: being able to ship just binaries is a big plus for Go ;)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by skwuent » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 10:39 PM UTC

Nice! Maybe this can be made to use stdout so I can grep -v raises.*eries and other money talk...

Re: Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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Post by jawerty » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 10:42 PM UTC

This has the right words to make it to the front page...jk I love it. I made something like this for reddit a while ago; I really enjoy stuff like this. It allows you to stay within the terminal rather than keeping the browser open at all times.