Show HN: A Gnus Back End for HN (opens in new tab)

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103 pointsdickmao6y ago9 comments

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Insane! But in a good way. I've been very slowly working towards refactoring Gnus to use real OO classes to implement backends, and I always thought I'd know I was done when I could implement a HN backend without too much trouble. Both sad and happy to see that someone got there first. I will give this a try.

giancarlostoro6y ago

The naming confused me. I love the name though. "Back End for HN" made me think it was another HN-clone. It's an Emacs client for HN if anybody is wondering.

aidenn06y ago

Gnus is a venerable e-mail and newsgroup reader for GNU Emacs. What is new here is a backend (i.e. datasource) for Gnus to fetch from HN.

mhd6y ago

After seeing how the D forum is done, it might be interesting to see a HN->nttp bridge/server.

I mean, you could read hn with rn.

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jangid6y ago

Yesterday only I set it up with B R command. But that just shows just three links - two to the comments, and one to the article.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse