ViHN: Vim for Hacker News
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ViHN: Vim for Hacker News
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#2tl;dr: I made ViHN [1] to read Hacker News without having to move my hands away from the keyboard. It’s freely available on Firefox [2] and Chrome [3].
[1] https://github.com/qsantos/ViHN/
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/vihn/
[3] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vihn/cfmccoefeojndm...
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#3I just use vimium, basically never have to use my mouse when browsing HN
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#4I just use vimium, basically never have to use my mouse when browsing HN
And Vimium C
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#5There should be a couple command line tools to read HN, this way you can even stay in the terminal and don't need to switch to the browser
Switching to my browser, navigating to HN, and checking the first page (and going back if nothing interests me) already does not require me to touch my mouse and can be done with very few keystrokes. Typically, I visit HN when I'm waiting for something to complete or similar, though, in which case I anyways happily move my hand to the mouse, as I'll be _browsing_ for a bit
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#6Is it really vim if you don't have modes and can't combine operations ;p. Everything is pretty much single keystrokes that don't combine in any meaningful way. The only "vim" thing about it is h/j/k/l. Thing like collapsing don't use vim keys z(a|o|c), going to different places doesn't use g.
There's some weird scroll into view code as well, holding j to just scroll down buffers up a bunch of scrolls and then scrolls all at once. I'm guessing it's a side effect of smooth scrolling or something.
To avoid being a typical grumpy HN commentator, nice work :).
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#7Y'all may be interested in my HNTV script:
curl -s 'https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com' \
| egrep -o 'https?://www.youtube.com[^"]+' \
| mpv --playlist=- \
--speed=1.5 \
--ytdl-format='bestvideo[heightRe: ViHN: Vim for Hacker News
#8I just use vimium, basically never have to use my mouse when browsing HN
Vimlike also works exceptionally well in Safari on Mac and iOS:
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#9I just use vimium, basically never have to use my mouse when browsing HN
Same here!
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#10I use https://haxplore.com which has a very nice way to navigate the nested conversations in my opinion.