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On OS X at least, you could shell out to the open command and pass in the url.
I am going to try to add it right now. :)
This is not going that fast. I have postponed it for a while.
Dear hackers, I pushed my "Hacker Top" program to github.
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Re: Dear hackers, I pushed my "Hacker Top" program to github.
#22It's neat, but it only displays the top stories and there's no way to really read the stories? I think it's nifty, but not necessarily useful.
Try cycling the display modes with 'm'. There is a mode that displays the URLs. I usually just copy/paste it. I can't open them in a browser because I run this program on another computer via a ssh session, therefore I have not yet implemented this feature. Sometimes the URLs are too long, though. Then I have to navigate to hacker news. The same if I want to comment.
If you can use VNC, I built this a few years ago: http://akkartik.name/vnc.html
Re: Dear hackers, I pushed my "Hacker Top" program to github.
#23It would be nice if HN got a real API. I like to read HN from my phone, but the table-based layout just doesn't work. Being able to write a "rich" interface would be much nicer.
(Plus, it would be nice to get notifications about comment replies, etc.)