Keyboard

j / ↓

Move focus down the story list

k / ↑

Move focus up the story list

Enter

Open the focused story (loads its article and discussion in the right panes)

?

Toggle this help

Esc

Close this help

Mouse and touch

• Click a story title to load its article and discussion in the right panes; the list stays where you left it (your scroll position and any infinite-scrolled extra rows are preserved).
• Scroll the story list down past the visible rows to load more stories.
• Drag the splitter bars between panes to resize them; the layout you chose persists across reloads.
• Click Open original ↑ in the article pane to read the full source page in a new tab.
• Click Open on HN ↑ in the discussion pane (or the small ↑ next to any comment) to vote, reply, save, or hide on news.ycombinator.com.

Source tabs

The tabs above the story list switch the feed: Top, Show HN, Ask HN, New.

Theme

The sun/moon button in the header toggles between light and dark themes. The first visit follows your operating system's preference.

About

yavchn never sees your HN credentials. The discussion is fetched server-side and rendered into the pane; logged-in actions hand off to news.ycombinator.com in a new tab where your existing session does the work.

Open source: github.com/paulmooreparks/yavchn.