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 :)

> distraction-free Hacker News terminal client.

This seems contradictory :)

I made a similar project https://github.com/dominickp/hn But I really like how your version shows a text version of the article in the UI.

Reminds me of HN Gopher[1], which is also a great text-only way of reading, although not necessarily browsing, HN.

1. https://github.com/michael-lazar/hn-gopher

I used to enjoy this alternative CLI

https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news

But the docker image seemed to dissapear from docker hub so I stopped using it.

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.

This reminds me of a HN post way back, there was an article about Min versions of websites. With images and large media filtered out, so it's the bare minimum, usually just text.

Great companion tool to tailhn (https://github.com/chfritz/tailhn), which allows you to `tail` all new HN posts on the terminal where you can use `grep` and other things to filter, e.g., `tailhn | grep -r robot` to see all new posts about robotics.

Is there a way to refresh from the front page? or do you just quit and start it again?

Would be nice to publish a docker image or have a nix flake to run this as an alternative to the binaries.

Lynx

Or you could just use the terminal browser Lynx, that will display all sites as text-only.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

Got a (hopefully false-positive) virus alert on Windows 11 from Defender:

> Trojan:Win32/Sabsik.FL.A!ml

> Details: This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker.

Maybe due to UPX?

Very good, something I would have written as side project if I had the motivation

Same language and libraries

Just don't understand why web scrapping, wasn't there an API?

Thanks for sharing! Browsed the source code and Go seems like a pleasant language! Either that or the author wrote very pretty code

Interesting, congratulations! I'm very fond of these hobby projects.

By the way, my one and only wish for HN maintainers is to have a dark mode - please...

Looks cool. Love terminal apps. Currently still fascinated and happy with Spotify Terminal

Great work. Would love to have the options of following someone and getting a feed of their comments/or stories

Thanks for doing this. I'll give it a try.

I took a quick look at your website, and your photography looks really beautiful. Are you based in Copenhagen?

A few more steps and we’ll have HN over NNTP. Which would give me a reason to dust off my slrn config from god knows where it is now.

I just came here to say, sincerely, that I love that you kept this so simple and just put everything in one single main package, with well-named files, rather than googling "the proper go project structure" and ending up with something unnecessary like:

     ⌞ app
         ⌞ cli.go <- actual package main
     ⌞ internal // (or pkg, or pkg/internal)
         ⌞ parser
             ⌞ parser.go
             ⌞ parser_test.go
 
         ⌞ ui
             ...etc

is unicode text hidden in the web client, scrubbed out client side on submission, or erased when being received by the server?

does your client let us read and write full unicode?

test string: ;

cool project! nice

I keep seeing HN clients again and again to the point that... its tiresome. Why do you think there's a need to create a client for a website?

Emacs browser eww does the same thing.

Could this be done for DOS as well?

I mean really cool, but I don't need 20+ hacker news tabs in my terminal too, I have enough in my Chrome lol.

Very nice! Now if it could just support offline use like the .qwk readers from the BBS days.