[luke8086]

Very cool project! Definitely going to check it out.

If you don't mind a bit of a shameless plug, I've also recently built a terminal client for HN [1], although with a slightly different objective - to make it look less like a website, and more like a traditional mail/news reader (i.e. mutt/slrn)

It's not going to have any advanced features because I mostly wrote it for my own use, but maybe someone finds it useful.

[1] https://luke8086.neocities.org/retronews.html

[epilys]

Here's a single file, no dependency nntp / Usenet server library in python3 I wrote. It includes an HN gateway as an example. I have used it with slrn (tui), meli (tui), pan (gui) and thunderbird (gui)

https://github.com/epilys/nntpserver.py