leo424y / hacker_term

Hacker News on the Terminal

hacker_term

Hacker News on the Terminal.

Requirements

• Ruby 1.9.3

Installation

• Install with gem install hacker_term
• Run using hacker_term
• Tests included; I run them using rspec -fd in the project directory

Overview

See the front page of HN, use the arrow keys to browse and open particular items in the default system browser.

• Uses the Ruby curses library to create a terminal UI.
• Captures keyboard events to allow browsing of the HN front page from the terminal.
• Tested (and looks colourful) on OSX Mountain Lion, but some functionality may be lost on other flavours of Linux.
• Not tested and verified on anything other than the basic OSX terminal application - but may well work anyway.
• Uses the HN feed available at http://hndroidapi.appspot.com - without that resource this project would not exist.
• Sorting options included.
• Some stats included.
• Blog post here: http://flydillonfly.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/hacker-news-in-your-terminal/

Background

This project was created to allow me to scratch a particular programming itch after reading about https://github.com/etsy/mctop. It brought me back to my days in college coding in C where everything was a terminal program!

Please enjoy/contribute/ignore as you see fit.