Nice work :-) may end up using this. I noticed that you rolled your own hacker news parsing - any reason why you used this over <a href="http://www.hnsearch.com/api" rel="nofollow">http://www.hnsearch.com/api</a> or similar?<p>On another note (and sorry for advertising my own project) but it is relevant and some may find it useful - Hacker News for Sublime Text: <a href="https://github.com/dotty/HackerNews-SublimeTextPlugin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dotty/HackerNews-SublimeTextPlugin</a><p>By the way, you might want to consider putting "Show HN: ..." in the title. Tends to stand out more and people often look for these posts.
Interesting to post this 4 days after another terminal version of Hacker News<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992951" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992951</a><p>Maybe should have put "another" in the title? :-)
I mean this with all sincerity, but did I understand this correctly? Using Terminal to sift thru HN articles, only to open them up in a web browser via the "c" key or the Enter key? I fail see the point. If you have a browser, you don't need the less usable Terminal version.<p>I tried thinking about who could be the target audience for something like this and had images of 1960s-era IBMers who worked exclusively with character-based terminals hooked to the mainframes (ignore the lack of browsers in that time period for the moment). But today, barring specialized defense related jobs and the like, everyone has a browser. Hell, many of us have browsers in our pockets via smartphones.<p>I guess I just don't understand the fetish with 1960s-era technologies in 2013 (up to and including vi/vim vs. more powerful editors). Is it nostalgia?
Tried installing... Installation bombed with errors:<p><pre><code> running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'urwid.str_util' extension
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat
</code></pre>
----------------------------------------<p>I have Python 2.7 and VS2010 Express installed and have already done most of the things SO recommends, such as setting up path variables, etc....<p>Any other ideas?
This is nice, good work.<p>As a testament to the simplicity of HN's design though, it should be noted HN is fully functional and looks good in elinks etc. In fact I'm posting this very comment from my terminal with elinks. With elinks re-writing scripting it wouldn't be hard to massage the pages a little first to get them looking even better.
Noob question (I barely ever use Python stuff), but after I install this with pip, how do I actually run it? I'd have expected a hashbanged script on my path but bash can't seem to find one...