Show HN: Cervantes yet Another HN Reader
Cervantes is a new native Hacker News client designed for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It offers features such as full thread views, Algolia search integration, and user profiles. The application is built using modern technologies like Tauri, React, and TypeScript, and is available for various Linux distributions.
- ▪Cervantes supports all six Hacker News feeds including Top, New, and Jobs.
- ▪Users can save stories, tag them, and add private notes within the app.
- ▪The client features a dark and light theme toggle, along with keyboard shortcuts for enhanced usability.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 13 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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Cervantes A native Hacker News client for Linux (and macOS/Windows), built with Tauri 2, React 19, and TypeScript. Features All six HN feeds — Top, New, Best, Ask, Show, Jobs with pagination Full thread view — recursive comment trees, collapse/expand, upvoting Algolia search — live Stories and Comments tabs powered by the HN Algolia API, embedded in the app Favorites — save stories, tag them (Read Later, Interesting, etc.), add private notes, sync from your HN account Notes — attach a note to any story or comment; browse all notes in the Notes tab Profiles — click any username to open their profile, follow users, read their activity in the Following feed Feed freshness — background poller tracks position changes every 5 minutes; trending ▲/▼ indicators on every row Keyboard shortcut —…
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