HN

The HackerNews CLI we deserve, but don't need, or something.

Installation

In the source directory run:

cargo build --release

Then the runnable binary will be in /target/release/.

Usage

Show first 10 results for 'top'

$ hn

Outputs:

  0: "Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible"
     125p / 83c - by "soapdog"
  1: "Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent"
     313p / 169c - by "oftenwrong"
  ...

Show next 10 results for 'top'

hn 1

Outputs:

 10: "MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, made in Rust"
     59p / 15c - by "qdequelen"
 11: "Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends"
     13p / 1c - by "l1am0"
 ...

and so on.

Open an article in default browser

hn -a 1

Open comments in default browser

hn -c 1

Open both

hn -b 1

Open front page in default browser

hn -o