Hys is a fast, lightweight, and opinionated terminal RSS reader written in Zig that helps you avoid doom-scrolling. It enforces a once-per-day fetch limit, encouraging you to gather new information in a single daily batch like a morning newspaper, rather than receive an endless stream of pings and notifications throughout the day.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Doomscroll-Free – designed as a “Daily Digest.” Enforces a fetch limit to help you stay informed without the infinite scroll.
- Blazing Fast – built with Zig. Starts in milliseconds and parses hundreds of items in seconds.
- Open Links – OSC 8 hyperlink support to open articles in your default browser from URLs and links.
- OPML Ready – import your existing subscriptions from any standard RSS reader or export your feeds effortlessly.
- Multilingual Support – native support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indic, Cyrillic etc.
- Feed Groups – organize your feeds into groups (e.g. tech, science, art) and read them individually or all at once.
- Pager TUI – automatically pipes into less for a distraction-free reading experience with intuitive vim-style keybindings.
- Search – find text in your feeds with the search functionality integrated into less.
- Universal Feed Support – RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 with robust parsing, HTML entity decoding, and UTF-8 validation
Website: github.com/superstarryeyes/hys
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Developer: Starry Eyes
License: MIT License
hys is written in Zig. Learn Zig with our recommended free tutorials.
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