emacs-hnreader

There’s https://github.com/thanhvg/emacs-hnreader, but it doesn’t appear to support commenting.

I know, right? Org-mode is soooo much more practical. imenu works great, sparse-trees are awesome, you can edit pretty much any part¹ in an indirect buffer and all. These days I try to consume anything that can be fit into an outline, in org-mode - hackernews², reddit³, slack⁴, jira boards and tickets⁵, wiktionary entries⁶, etc. Fun anecdote - I once needed to sort some nested items in a big yaml file. After spending three minutes trying to understand sort-regexp-fields (or some other function), I cheated - I ran org-mode, and then org-sort and then went back to yaml-mode. So stupid, yet so brilliant. Why the heck would I ever want to use "first-class IDE" or "intuitive, plebeian editor" if Emacs has anything I could possibly imagine? Right at my fingertips. ___ ¹ https://github.com/agzam/org-edit-indirect.el ² https://github.com/thanhvg/

HN threads is probably not the best example because the site is pretty readable already. But it's not that difficult to fetch a thread and render it in the Org-mode outline format. nhreader.el¹ does that. For reading articles I just use eww. it has (eww-readable) that removes all the fluff like banners. The trade-off that eww (by design) doesn't do any javascript. That makes it difficult to use with websites with client-site rendering (React, et al.). For that, I have a little automation elisp² that uses OSA (JXA) and extracts the rendered content off the page. I need to figure something similar for Linux, but it's not so straightforward, the only way I know is to run the browser with the debugger port. ¹ https://github.com/thanhvg/emacs-hnreader ² https://github.com/agzam/.doom.d/blob/main/modules/custom/we...

I'm glad you asked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud3Gmxg5UZg - Browsing Reddit and HackerNews In Emacs (7 minutes). If you don't want to watch it: https://github.com/thanhvg/emacs-hnreader - for browsing HN. https://github.com/thanhvg/emacs-reddigg - for browsing Reddit. https://github.com/agzam/consult-hn - for searching through HN. https://github.com/agzam/browser-hist.el - for browser history.