hackernews-TUI

hackernews_tui is a Terminal UI to browse Hacker News written in Rust.

The application mainly consists of two views:

• Story View displaying a list of top stories.
• Comment View displaying a list of comments in a story.

Installation

Using cargo

Run cargo install hackernews_tui to install the application as a binary.

Using archlinux AUR

Run yay -S hackernews_tui to install the application as an AUR package.

Examples

Story View:

Comment View:

Documentation

Keyboard shortcuts

Story View

• k, j move the focus up and down between stories.
• return to enter the Comment View of the focused story.
• O to open the link associated with the focused story in the default browser.
• q to exit the application.
• {story_id} g to move the focus to the {story_id}-th story. Note that {story_id} is 1-based index.
• t to move the focus to the top of the view, b to move the focus to the bottom of the view.

Comment View

• O to open the link associated with the discussed story in the default browser.
• q to move back to the Story View.
• k, j to move the focus up and down between comments.
• l to move the focus to the next comment with smaller or equal level as the currently focused comment.
• h to move the focus to the previous comment with smaller or equal level as the currently focused comment.
• t to move the focus to the top of the view, b to move the focus to the bottom of the view.
• {link_id} f to open the the {link_id}-th link in the focused comment. For example, press 0 followed by f will open the first link in the currently focused comment.

Roadmap/TODO List

TBA...