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Zikes
Looks like it's off to a good start! Some colors & lines would go a ways towards making it a bit more usable. I'm looking forward to diving into the code later this evening.
andrewstuart2
Thanks! I'll try to put in a bit more work on the UI front. I look forward to any more feedback you have.
Zikes
Indentation would make it easier to read the comments structure, especially if each indent had a line or block down the left margin.
yakshemash
Live links would also be nice, though it defeats somehow the original purpose of shunning the browser.
[dead] clockworkelf
Aren't these Go stories more or less geek masturbation? Yeah Go is probably amazing but beyond HN hasn't much mindshare.
andrewstuart2
As a warning for any who choose to hack on this, cloudflare gets a bit upset if you query too often, resulting in a period of sadness. It's probably a good sign I should be doing unit testing.
elithrar
Neat stuff! You should consider building some binaries and making them available via GitHub's releases feature: being able to ship just binaries is a big plus for Go ;)
andrewstuart2
Sweet, and done. I had no idea GitHub has that as a feature.
kibibu
Brings it up to feature parity with SourceForge circa 1999 ;)
pablasso
You may want to point that the binary is for Linux.
skwuent
Nice! Maybe this can be made to use stdout so I can grep -v raises.*eries and other money talk...
jawerty
This has the right words to make it to the front page...jk I love it. I made something like this for reddit a while ago; I really enjoy stuff like this. It allows you to stay within the terminal rather than keeping the browser open at all times.
grunz
Please make a plugin for xiki.org
rly_ItsMe
A 7,9 MB binary to read HN? Just for the sake of using go? Are you kidding me?

I'll rather stay with my old python one: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hacker-top/1.0

drtse4
Try compiling it with gccgo that is able to dynamically link the go standard library (shared among your go projects) instead of building a single big binary, my guess is it should be just a few hundred kb :)
rly_ItsMe
I did not compiled it by my self - I've just grabbed the binary provided by OP.
4ad
Do you object to the hundreds of megabytes of your browser's code and dependant libraries too? Or since you brought up Python, why don't you object to the size of python's libraries and binaries?

7.9MB is nothing.