Show HN: bbcli – A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker (github.com)

I always like seeing new TUI tools, nice work!

It might be before your time, but if you want some bonus points emulate Ceefax:

https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/51354070.jpg [edited]

Very cool.

Would be interesting to hear why this over a general purpose text-based browser like Lynx.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

I have an almost identical RSS experience using emacs+elfeed+firefox but with the added bonus of being able to filter out articles (eg sport) that I'm not interested in. Plus I can read many other feeds beyond BBC.

This is the kind of tool that actually gets used daily, well done!

Three reasons for TUIs:

Speed of rendering

Consistency / limited styles

Keyboard controls

It is possible to achieve this other ways. But what’s interesting that for example Visual Basic or Borland C use a windowing concept

a real hacker would never consume that propaganda slop