HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal client

Re:HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal ... by alberth on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:21AM (#40559308)

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)

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Re:HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal ... by omoikane on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:51AM (#40559439)

Unfortunately the hierarchical comments are not indented properly with Lynx.

The topic listings work just fine though. Although if I were using Lynx just for the headlines, I might start at https://brutalist.report/ instead of hacker news.

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Re:HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal ... by fellerts on Monday June 03, 2024 @03:48AM (#40560269)

That's because comments are indented with an invisible gif (https://news.ycombinator.com/s.gif), not with CSS. Maybe you could add a custom stylesheet to Lynx to make the indent work? Some prior art: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12098017

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Re:HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal ... by zimpenfish on Monday June 03, 2024 @11:28AM (#40563649)

> Maybe you could add a custom stylesheet to Lynx to make the indent work?

Lynx Style Sheets (LSS) don't really cover that kind of scenario from what I remember[1] - they're more "apply this ncurses/slang-style to this element".[2]

[1] I wrote the original code but I am old and increasingly senile.

[2] I've not really been involved for ~20 years but unless the internal "renderer" has been radically overhauled, supporting anything like "real" CSS isn't really doable.

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Re:HN-text: an easy-to-use, text-first Hacker News terminal ... by gitinit on Monday June 03, 2024 @01:37AM (#40559655)

What about using browsh[0] over SSH/Mosh/HTTP?

[0]: https://www.brow.sh/

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