Very cool project! Definitely going to check it out.
If you don't mind a bit of a shameless plug, I've also recently built a terminal client for HN [1], although with a slightly different objective - to make it look less like a website, and more like a traditional mail/news reader (i.e. mutt/slrn)
It's not going to have any advanced features because I mostly wrote it for my own use, but maybe someone finds it useful.