wef
7 hours ago
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.
Show HN: bbcli – A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker
70 pointsposted 3 days ago
by wesleyhill13 Comments
esafak
10 hours ago
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]
folmar
9 hours ago
The link is payload, maybe you could link to a concrete image or some free search engine?
k1t
9 hours ago
https://nmsceefax.co.uk/ for a live browser-based example.
LeoPanthera
5 hours ago
Done. https://nmsceefax.co.uk
alberth
10 hours ago
Very cool.
Would be interesting to hear why this over a general purpose text-based browser like Lynx.
NoboruWataya
8 hours ago
If you actually try access bbc.co.uk using Lynx, you'll see it's just not a great experience. Most modern websites are not made with text-based browsers in mind at all, and the HTML (and other stuff) they are made of does not lend itself to easy or intuitive display in the terminal.
This seems more akin to an RSS reader than a general web browser.
GaryBluto
9 hours ago
You don't want to get put on trial for computer misuse, do you? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2005/oct/07/manf...
fragmede
6 hours ago
https://boingboing.net/2005/10/06/guy-who-was-busted-f.html/... was the best link I could find for that story
RestartKernel
4 hours ago
My own government luckily even offers to reach out in your stead if a company doesn't respond to your disclosure, so pen testing random websites seems implicitly allowed, but such a vertict is still scary to read for such an innocuous probe.
teunlao
7 hours ago
This is the kind of tool that actually gets used daily, well done!
devrundown
11 hours ago
I always like seeing new TUI tools, nice work!
SwiftyBug
11 hours ago
Me too! I found a few nice ones in the App Showcase page in the Ratatui website: https://ratatui.rs/showcase/apps/