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Comment by Zambyte | Hacker News Reader

> distraction-free Hacker News terminal client.

This seems contradictory :)

I have been working out plans for making an interesting subset of the internet available offline (along with a search engine).

However, I realized that my entire motivation for working offline was that it eliminates distraction. So it would defeat the purpose!

However I'd still much rather be distracted on Wikipedia (or even HN) than other sites (esp. those with primarily images, gifs or video).

I might need to segment it into "tiers", and have more fun parts come "online" as the day progresses...

That sounds awesome. I have actually been working on something similar myself. I have been building a distributed NATS[0] cluster to funnel data down from the internet and index it locally. I also have a local Ollama box wired up to try to do some NLP on it.

I started with Benthos to pull in, but since the recent license changes[1] I am rethinking that :(

If you would like to collaborate feel free to shoot me an email!

[0] https://nats.io/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40537911

No more e-worms! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5BZkaWZAAA

Hope you call it the Innernette :)

If you’re looking at that along with a text based interface then be sure to checkout offpunk [1] if you haven’t already.

[1] https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/

Have you seen https://devdocs.io/ ? Even has an offline mode.

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