Hnwatch
Productivity
terminal news reader
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
4 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.25.
Execution: 1 for, 5 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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
What HN said
What people liked
Impressive that it is written in assembly
From 2 comments
This is awesome, the sshtalk mentioned above looks great too, although trying to brute force a room name isn't working out for me. I found a few of the key bindings by accident,…
Tiksi on HNWhy choose assembly for this?
dimitar on HN
Interesting project and useful assembly reference
From 2 comments
Hmmm! some nice stuff there besides the "hnwatch" itself: - it's apparently written in "FASM" assembler, which is BSD-licensed (according to Wikipedia), cross-platform,…
akavel on HNIf you listen closely, you can hear me clapping. Well done.
harel on HN
Objections
Shows only first four stories and does not load comments
From 3 comments
I made a docker image for this: https://github.com/agonzalezro/docker-hnwatch If you want to run it: docker run -it agonzalezro/hnwatch I don't know why but hnwatch doesn't look…
agonzalezro on HNI really don't get this to work as I feel it should. Initially I get like 4 articles showing up, sometimes two articles have the same pos-value. The list of articles then…
Karlozkiller on HNAwesome work! Unfortunately I too am only seeing the first 4 lines of HN. Also, when I press Enter on a selection, it doesn't show comments. I love the idea of this and I hope to…
jpstory on HN
Does not run on macOS or ARM
From 1 comment
Does rather limit the audience though - my main VM is ARM, my main machine is OSX and consequently I can't use this on either. Which is a shame because I'd really like to.
zimpenfish on HN
Terminal resize causes a coredump
From 1 comment
Pretty cool. I do however get a coredump resizing the terminal window: Ubuntu 14.04LTS, tmux, hnwatch
Torgo on HN
Requests
Page up and page down keys
From 1 comment
Feature request: page up and down keys. :)
jonathonf on HN
Add a list feature for sshtalk rooms
From 1 comment
I was just poking around to see how it works. I love the idea, but I doubt I could convince enough people to join that wouldn't already have the room name to justify the effort…
Tiksi on HN
Questions
Why was assembly chosen
From 1 comment
Why choose assembly for this?
dimitar on HN
Why does the feed load so slowly
From 1 comment
I really don't get this to work as I feel it should. Initially I get like 4 articles showing up, sometimes two articles have the same pos-value. The list of articles then…
Karlozkiller on HN
Alternatives named
lynx and newsbeuter with RSS
From 2 comments
lynx
fascinated on HNYou could /almost/ have this with newsbeauter and lynx, except that the RSS feed doesn't include points or comment number and lynx doesn't indent comments, so all comments appear…
jrcii on HN