donnemartin/haxor-news
Haxor News
Haxor-news is a command line interface and terminal news aggregator for browsing top stories, reading discussion threads, and searching job posts via the Hacker News API. It provides a text-based terminal user interface for consuming curated news feeds and viewing formatted web content directly within a system shell.
The tool includes a regex-powered content filter used to search hiring and freelance threads, isolating specific professional roles and skills through regular expressions. It also functions as a terminal web content reader that fetches and formats HTML from external links for readability.
The system covers general news browsing and discussion thread viewing, alongside specialized utilities for technical job searching. It supports terminal interface customization, interactive command auto-completion, and the ability to open external URLs in a system-default browser.
Integration is handled via standard stream piping, allowing command output to be sent to system pagers or other shell processes.
Features
- Hacker News Clients - Provides a full-featured terminal client for browsing top stories and navigating community content on Hacker News.
- News Aggregators - Provides programmatic access to curated lists of top, best, and new posts from the news aggregator.
- Regex Content Filtering - Uses regular expression pattern matching to filter hiring and freelance threads for specific professional roles and skills.
- Threaded Discussion Interfaces - Displays community discussion threads in a hierarchical structure to maintain conversation context.
- News Aggregators - Aggregates and displays curated news feeds and community discussions via a shell interface.
- External API Data Fetching - Retrieves community stories and discussion threads via network requests to the Hacker News API.
- Terminal Content Rendering - Visualizes structured news content and formatted HTML within a terminal interface.
- Job Search and Recruitment - Facilitates searching for technical professional roles and freelance opportunities through filtered community threads.
- Freelance Opportunity Filtering - Filters freelance seeking posts using regular expressions to isolate specific professional roles.
- Job Listing Filtering - Filters hiring posts using regular expressions to identify specific job requirements and company roles.
- Community Question Browsing - Retrieves and displays community questions from Ask HN posts with configurable limits.
- Terminal Content Readers - Fetches and formats HTML from external links for readability within a terminal user interface.
- CLI Pipe Integration - Enables sending command output to system pagers or files using standard Unix-style pipes.
- Application Command Dispatchers - Maps user keyboard input to internal application functions via a command dispatch system.
- Standard Stream Piping - Writes formatted data to standard output to support integration with shell pipes and pagers.
- Terminal Web Browsers - Provides a focused reading experience by formatting and rendering external web content directly inside the terminal.
- Terminal Web Renderers - Formats and renders external HTML content for readability within the terminal emulator.
- CLI Utilities - Hacker News browser for the terminal.
- Applications - Terminal-based browser for Hacker News.
