lucianu/hn-reader

A command-line client for Hacker News

hn-reader

It allows you to read Hacker News without a browser.

hn-reader's Issues

Add a nix setup

I have two main reasons for wanting this:

• better reproducibility: I will pin the version of ghc and of all the packages
• I want to produce static binaries and I remember that nix provides a way to do it

Look at using brick for displaying things in the terminal

The way I currently display stories feels fragile. I have to handle manually things like alignment between parts of a story. Concatenating my data with static strings is also cumbersome.

I'll have to see if brick can make this nicer.

Cache stories and comments

Right now, every time the reader displays stories or comments, it has to fetch them again from the API.
This is wasteful and slow, especially since I'm not using async yet.

But even with async, it's still wasteful, so I want to cache everything.

I will also add logic to delete stories and comments that are several days old, to avoid cluttering the user's computer. Especially, since the reader doesn't offer the possibility of reading stories from previous days.

Fill in the README

It should at least include build instructions.

Then, it could also provide a walk-through of the code base, for those that want to learn from it. But the build instructions are essential.