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This would be infinitely more useful if there was a view that scraped the comments for each article or (even better) scraped the article itself (instapaper style). I would love to peruse hacker news this way in-between working as I hate getting distracted on websites.

If I get some free time I might look into adding that myself.

Links comes pretty close. Here's some of the output of this comments page:

    $ links -dump 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992951'
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      [IMG] Show HN: HN In Your Terminal (github.com)                      
            37 points by ciaranarcher 5 hours ago | 14 comments            
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       [IMG] bstar77 1 hour ago | link                                     
             This would be infinitely more useful if there was a view that 
             scraped the comments for each article or (even better)        
             scraped the article itself (instapaper style). I would love   
             to peruse hacker news this way in-between working as I hate   
             getting distracted on websites.                               
                                                                           
             If I get some free time I might look into adding that myself. 
                                                                           
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       [IMG] slajax 1 hour ago | link                                      
             I would use this but I also think it needs to implement at    
             very least the comments page view. Otherwise you might as     
             well just stick to the browser. There are a lot of times I'll 
             read comments before I read an article, so I could still find 
             it useful even if you didn't scrape the entire article to     
             it's own view but allowed me to browse the comments.          
             
             reply
                                      
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very nice, then it's definitely possible to just have this gem use a links dump to display the comment content. I think links by itself is a bit clumsy for everyday use.

If it just had a version of Lynx embedded it could show the website fairly well unless it was a heavily scripted site that loads its content for each page via JavaScript.

I already use hnews. http://rubygems.org/gems/hnews Good work though, looks pretty awesome!

Wow, thanks. I'm the developer behind hnews, great to see others using it and other similar projects being worked on :)

If you would like to hack on it feel free, the source is at https://github.com/bencevans/hnews

Ironically, I found your gem after wanting to build my own HN CLI. Saved me a bit of time. Thanks!

Glad it helped! :)

In true hacker spirit ~ Don't repeat work already done, and share your own

I use lynx or links to browse hacker news. Useful too.

Nice project, I may end up using this for stealthy HN browsing at work ;-)

I wrote a Hacker News plugin for Sublime Text a little while ago that lets you browse HN from inside the editor. If anyone is interested, the repo is here: https://github.com/dotty/HackerNews-SublimeTextPlugin

I would use this but I also think it needs to implement at very least the comments page view. Otherwise you might as well just stick to the browser. There are a lot of times I'll read comments before I read an article, so I could still find it useful even if you didn't scrape the entire article to it's own view but allowed me to browse the comments.

Looks nice, but it seems to eat all kb input on 10.8 except for up-down arrow keys :(

oh-my-zsh, retina MBP, 10.8.2

Can't wait to apply this and the gems mentioned below to a Pebble or other hacker hardware. Thanks!

Looks nice!

Thanks! If you have any suggested improvements then just create an issue on Github and I'll try get around to it (or create a pull request alternatively).

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