It's simple because it doesn't actually interact with hackernews. It uses an http api to get the data.

This version is able to list posts present in the main page, as well as their points and comment count. You can also click (or RET) in the post titles to open them in a browser.

Or you can press 't' to open the article in text only mode in emacs itself. It may not work for some articles due to the page structure.

The next versions will implement the upvote command and the possibility to interact with comments.

If you like this package repo stuff, you just need add the marmalade repo to your emacs config with the following code:

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives 
    '("marmalade" .
      "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)

And then, run M-x package-install, the package name is hackernews.

Copy the hackernews.el to your elisp directory and add the following code to your .emacs file:

(require 'hackernews)

Just run M-x hackernews

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