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79 points wesleyhill | 1 comments | 19 Oct 25 10:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source

hey hn!

I (re)built this TUI tool for browsing BBC News in the terminal, it uses an RSS feed for getting headlines and previews and you can read articles too.

Try it out and let me know what you think! :)

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alberth ◴[21 Oct 25 20:29 UTC] No.45661267[source]▶

>>45633386 (OP) #

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)

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1. NoboruWataya ◴[21 Oct 25 22:08 UTC] No.45662351[source]▶

>>45661267 #

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.

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