hn

About

A Hacker News ncurses CLI reader written in Go. Currently known to work on Linux, and a few people have gotten it to work on OSX.

Right now it's able to view articles, view comments, and open a page in your default browser, all done directly from the site using goquery (jquery-like library for Go), goncurses, and xdg-open for opening pages.

Installation

Assuming you have your GOPATH and PATH set appropriately:

Unfortunately, you'll also need mercurial installed, for packages hosted at code.google.com. If you're working with Go, you've probably already done that.

go get github.com/andrewstuart/hn

Usage

$ hn

Story view

• n) Go to next page
• p) Go to previous page
• (num)c) View comments for story (num)
• (num)o) Open story (num) in default browser
• q) Quit hn

Comments view

• d) Go down 30 lines
• u) Go up 30 lines
• j) Go down 1 line
• k) Go up 1 line
• n) Go down 1 page
• p) Go up 1 page
• q) Go back to story view

API (unfinished/deprecated/idk)

This basically only works for page 1 in its current state, IIRC.

$ hn -s -p 3000 & 

$ curl localhost:3000