[HN Gopher] HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News term...
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HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal client
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 35 points
Date : 2024-06-02 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| sockbot wrote:
| Would you consider adding armhf as a build target? This would
| make it useful for a wide range of older devices including
| Raspberry Pi 1 or 0, which are more likely to be used via console
| interface.
| lexoj wrote:
| Good point, will look into it, thanks!
| Zambyte wrote:
| > distraction-free Hacker News terminal client.
|
| This seems contradictory :)
| andai wrote:
| I have been working out plans for making an interesting subset
| of the internet available offline (along with a search engine).
|
| However, I realized that my entire motivation for working
| offline was that it eliminates distraction. So it would defeat
| the purpose!
|
| However I'd still much rather be distracted on Wikipedia (or
| even HN) than other sites (esp. those with primarily images,
| gifs or video).
|
| I might need to segment it into "tiers", and have more fun
| parts come "online" as the day progresses...
| arcastroe wrote:
| I used to enjoy this alternative CLI
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| https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news
|
| But the docker image seemed to dissapear from docker hub so I
| stopped using it.
| lexoj wrote:
| I've tried this one and I found it a bit unpleasant UX to type
| numbers to select the story I want to read. (Hence I wrote
| something like hn-text that I can navigate/open articles using
| only one hand and visually)
| cristoperb wrote:
| Is there a way to refresh from the front page? or do you just
| quit and start it again?
| lexoj wrote:
| Very good feature request, will definitely implement next :)
|
| (So for now, yes, press q to quit and run it again)
| austinjp wrote:
| When launching it, the user can just wrap it in 'while true ;
| do .... ; done' and hey presto, 'q' is the refesh key.
| lexoj wrote:
| That's pretty clever and works quite nicely (i just tried)!
| shayonj wrote:
| cool project! nice
| andai wrote:
| Nice! I spent a few months in a bandwidth constrained environment
| (bluetooth tunnel to free Cafe wifi across the town square...). I
| generally got a few KB/s. The recent article on Antarctica's
| internet reminded me of those days.
|
| HN was one of the only sites that was reasonably pleasant to use
| during that time. Still, I found it more fun and faster to surf
| via a VPS. So the VPS itself would load and render the page, and
| only send me the bytes over Mosh (a more efficient SSH protocol).
|
| I tried a few terminal based browsers using this setup. The one
| that worked best for HN (especially comment indentation!) was
| w3m.
|
| Here's the current thread in w3m:
| https://files.catbox.moe/zuabb4.png
|
| I did have fast mobile data but it was expensive and limited. I
| watched a lot of videos on YouTube and one day realized that
| almost everything I watched was actually just lectures or
| discussions. So I could just stream the audio and save 80% of the
| bandwidth.
|
| I set up a little PHP script* that took a YouTube URL and ran
| `youtube-dl -g f bestaudio` to give you the URL of an audio-only
| stream. (Directly from YouTube's servers!)
|
| I could then just load it directly in my browser, or download it
| for later. (I think I should have used `worstaudio` instead.)
|
| * That little utility page is not up anymore, but others found it
| very useful so I should probably make another one...
|
| Another benefit of this is to battery life (decoding video is
| expensive) and being able to turn off the screen (a feature that
| Google banned from the app store, years before making their own
| (paid) version available...) Later I learned about f-droid and
| newpipe... good times :)
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