Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News

aahmd-sh about 4 hours ago 36 commentsRead Article on github.com

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hi there! i'd like you to try out a tui i made for browsing hackernews. it's built using opentui and also effect (learning experiment). i really like it and i think you will too!

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sho_hn•about 3 hours ago

"Zig with TypeScript bindings and React components" for a TUI is definitely the wildest, weirdest stack for a given job I've seen.

markild•about 2 hours ago

Where are you seeing any mention of Zig? All I see is TypeScript?

tom1337•about 2 hours ago

It uses OpenTUI which is build in Zig: https://github.com/anomalyco/opentui

keiejfiejcjej•7 minutes ago

So how is it a weird stack given the TUI framework itself was written in Zig?

rootnod3•about 1 hour ago

That is a wild stack to use for a RSS feed.

dhanushnehru•about 1 hour ago

I'd recommend saving actual HN item IDs rather than feed positions. Since the front page reorders constantly, relying on item IDs makes returning to a saved thread completely predictable.

ChaseRensberger•36 minutes ago

I've been using https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex for a while now, I like it a lot.

shalaev_s•about 1 hour ago

Without Claude code demo it would be impossible to see how it works, nicely done

sparrowidle•about 1 hour ago

Piping through readability before rendering is what made mine usable, raw html to markdown on news sites is mostly nav junk.

ByteJoseph•about 1 hour ago

Does it support account login ?

codetiger•about 1 hour ago

I was searching for upvote shortcut and realized it does not support login

KPGv2•32 minutes ago

Great! Get the News part of Hacker News without the Drama part of Hacker News. It's always better to increase friction to help you wean yourself off destructive habits like this one, where I'm spending time sending text to a stranger who will immediately discount my thoughts since I'm not them.

Long time ago I had an extension for my browser that would "pause" every social media comment I made and do analysis to see if I was acting like a dick. Maybe I should get it working again.

It all started when I found some website where you'd give it your Reddit account, and it'd do a bunch of processing and produce a report about how much you swore, if you had net favorability or not with up/down votes, sentiment analysis to see if you were coming from a place of friendship, etc. It really drove my behavior in a more positive direction.

I'm a kind, not just nice, person IRL. But the Internet turns humans into text, and I was taught as a child to engage harshly and critically with all text. That is to say, I had good English lit teachers.

KPGv2•41 minutes ago

Made me think of a cool way to burn tokens: browser that reports websites you visit to an agent, which then writes a TUI for that site, ultimately leading you to a collection of low-resource UIs for the five or so websites you actually visit. Then you stop needing to use a browser and your 16GB RAM with a browser using 64GB of RAM becomes a system with free RAM for the first time in years.

Think: Lynx but pretty.

(Also bonus, bot checks that flag you as one means you have more free time to not get advertised to or sucked into Internet drama.)

milhan00•about 2 hours ago

It would be nice to read the articles in the terminal as well, maybe just as an markdown output.

glitchc•about 3 hours ago

Thank you, I've been looking for a meaningful way to browse HN on my cyberdeck and this looks perfect.

nateb2022•about 2 hours ago

As an aside, 'meaningful' is an obtuse adjective to use there; and it's typical of text generated by Claude.[0] I seem to see it a lot more frequently than pre-AI (~2022). Maybe my next project will be statistically analyzing word frequencies in HN comments pre-AI and post-AI.

[0]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7031138

glitchc•about 1 hour ago

Thanks for you concern, I typed that message out by hand and genuinely meant it. The terseness stems from the use of a mobile phone, not Claude. As it happens, I don't have an Anthropic account, nor do I possess an OpenAI one. If you look at my comment history, you'll notice I've been around for a while (as I noticed, have you).

nateb2022•about 1 hour ago

I think a lot of the focus on AI output poisoning future models' training has left their effects on our reasoning/ vocubulary neglected, which is why I brought it up.

How we define words, what connotations they evince and the qualities they exude, simultaneously limits and enables thought.

keel-control•about 3 hours ago

why not use ratatui

ErenayDev•about 2 hours ago

maybe, the author isnot interested in low-level langs

Edit: sorry, i was wrong. https://github.com/holo-q/ratatui-ts

keel-control•about 2 hours ago

I just rewrote it on my device in ratatui using codex in 16 minutes and it uses 10x less RAM 150MB -> 15MB

the binary file is 10MB

edweis•about 3 hours ago

Can you make an interactive ssh instead?

nottorp•about 2 hours ago

How many fps can it do?

suzukivenom•about 3 hours ago

just why

Yakobeen•about 2 hours ago

thanks for sharing! gonna try it out

tamimio•about 3 hours ago

Loved it, thanks for sharing! If you can add logins and posting it would be great!

grim_io•about 2 hours ago

That's a lot of deps to read HN.

Maybe your clanker can do it without.

MisterMunchkin•about 2 hours ago

And this is why people aren’t going out of the loop any time soon. A normie asks the bot to make a project, it produces nonsensical complexity like this.

TeMPOraL•about 2 hours ago

Except why would you waste your time on projects like these, if an LLM can zero-shot them for you?

nateb2022•about 1 hour ago

You're restating their point. Normies' output will still be bad compared to the output that good engineers would produce, with or without AI. You wouldn't want to use poorly built software regardless of origin.

dmos62•about 2 hours ago

Are you comparing with `curl | lynx` or with Chrome?

nateb2022•about 2 hours ago

HN data is accessible through the Firebase API: https://github.com/hackernews/api

You don't need to as much as parse HTML to read it. Building a client by hand in C even should be pretty painless as long as you don't write your JSON parser yourself.

dmos62•about 2 hours ago

That's fair criticism.

tantalor•about 2 hours ago

In the old days, you would telnet into a host machine that just serves this up to you. No need to install anything.

nateb2022•about 2 hours ago

charm makes some awesome libraries for building/serving CLIs over SSH: https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish

ligarota•about 3 hours ago

YaHnTui