Show HN: I built a fast RSS reader in Zig

Summary

Hys — RSS Reader for Digital Minimalists Features • Quick Start • Installation • Usage • Configuration • Contributing • License 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. ✨ Features Feature Description 🧠 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 🚀 Quick Start # 1. Install Hys with Homebrew brew tap superstarryeyes/tap brew install hys # 2. Add your first feed hys --sub " https://news.ycombinator.com/rss " # 3. Start reading hys 📦 Installation Prerequisites Zig 0.15.2 : For building from source. Install instructions : For building from source. Install instructions libcurl : Robust HTTP/2 and TLS support. Install via your package manager: macOS: Pre-installed (no action needed) Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev Fedora: sudo dnf install libcurl-devel Arch: sudo pacm...