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SHOW HN2014

Hacker News CLI, written in Go

Shown by andrewstuart2 on Jul 31, 2014. Click the card to turn it over.

98points

23comments

#278of 2,272 in 2014

Top 13%of 2014 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

1 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Idea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

Binary is 7.9 MB, too large for reading HN
From 1 comment
- A 7,9 MB binary to read HN? Just for the sake of using go? Are you kidding me? I'll rather stay with my old python one: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top/1.0
  rly_ItsMe on HN
Does not build on macOS due to goncurses dependency
From 2 comments
- Does it only work for Linux? I could not go get it under MacOs.
  cnbuff410 on HN
- Looks like the goncurses dependency requires some help to run on OSX: https://code.google.com/p/goncurses/wiki/KnownIssues
  billhathaway on HN
Cloudflare rate limiting when queried often
From 1 comment
- As a warning for any who choose to hack on this, cloudflare gets a bit upset if you query too often, resulting in a period of sadness. It's probably a good sign I should be doing…
  andrewstuart2 on HN

Better UI with colors and lines
From 2 comments
- Looks like it's off to a good start! Some colors & lines would go a ways towards making it a bit more usable. I'm looking forward to diving into the code later this evening.
  Zikes on HN
- Indentation would make it easier to read the comments structure, especially if each indent had a line or block down the left margin.
  Zikes on HN
Live links in the terminal
From 1 comment
- Live links would also be nice, though it defeats somehow the original purpose of shunning the browser.
  yakshemash on HN
Stdout output for grep filtering
From 1 comment
- Nice! Maybe this can be made to use stdout so I can grep -v raises.*eries and other money talk...
  skwuent on HN

Does it work outside Linux?
From 1 comment
- Does it only work for Linux? I could not go get it under MacOs.
  cnbuff410 on HN

HackerNode (NodeJS)
From 1 comment
- I did something similar a few months back but in NodeJS. https://github.com/TerryMooreII/HackerNode
  terrymooreii on HN
hacker-top (Python)
From 1 comment
- A 7,9 MB binary to read HN? Just for the sake of using go? Are you kidding me? I'll rather stay with my old python one: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top/1.0
  rly_ItsMe on HN
Reddit terminal client
From 1 comment
- This has the right words to make it to the front page...jk I love it. I made something like this for reddit a while ago; I really enjoy stuff like this. It allows you to stay…
  jawerty on HN