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This is a big one for me.

This release marks the launch of something I've been wanting to have in circumflex for a long time--native comment section view with individually collapsable comments and more control over the output.

Until this release, I've leaned on outputting the views to less, which in fairness has served very well and I even found a way to collapse replies in it by defining the lesskey schema to filter out invisible characters to collapse and show threads. However, while efficient, it was at its core hacky, hard to build upon and almost impossible to extend.

In 4.0, we never leave circumflex to another application. That means more control of folding and navigating.

The release is also saying goodbye to some very helpful packages and API's that helped circumflex to where it is today. 4.0 has fewer dependencies than before and is using the official HN APIs for all calls.

I hope you will enjoy this release.

New features

  • Comment section and Reader Mode are now rendered inside circumflex instead of less
  • Add u keybinding to toggle read/unread status on stories
  • Add support for customizing the theme
    • Add default-theme subcommand to generate a default theme config file
  • Add --pages flag to configure the number of pages fetched per category (1-5)
  • Show terminal progress bar during fetching via OSC 9;4 codes
  • Mod's comments are now highlighted in green
  • Highlight YC Fall (F) and Spring (X) startup batches in headlines

Infrastructure

  • Add support for go install
  • Improve error messages for timeouts, non-200 responses, and unexpected server responses
  • Fetching can now be canceled
  • Normalize header levels in reader mode so articles always start at h1

Changes

  • Auto-enable Nerd Fonts when running inside Ghostty
    • Change --nerdfonts flag to accept true/false for explicit control
  • Rename Parent Poster (PP) label to Grandparent Poster (GP)
  • Add 5-minute threshold for updating last-read time on stories

Removed

  • Remove --plain-headlines, --plain-comments, --hide-indent, and --disable-emojis flags

License

  • Change license from AGPL-3.0 to MIT

Dependencies

  • Removed less as a dependency
  • Use the official HN Firebase API for all requests
  • Bump Bubble Tea to 2.0
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