Show HN: leaf – one month later: website, releases and lots of improvements
The article discusses the terminal-based Markdown previewer called 'leaf', which offers a GUI-like experience for users. It highlights features such as syntax highlighting, interactive navigation, and editor integration, all while remaining within the terminal. The tool aims to provide a more efficient way to preview Markdown files without the need for heavy web applications.
- ▪Leaf allows users to read Markdown files directly in the terminal with a clean interface.
- ▪It includes features like syntax highlighting for over 40 languages and LaTeX math rendering.
- ▪The tool supports auto-reload when files change and offers a fuzzy file picker for easy navigation.
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| Original publisher | Rivolink |
| Canonical URL | https://leaf.rivolink.mg |
| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 19:09:43 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-30T19:29:44.116Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-30T19:29:44.116Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | KYg4qAWsWA_r |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Markdown, beautifully rendered in your terminal A terminal-based Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience. Rich rendering, interactive navigation, and editor integration — all without leaving your terminal. Get Started View Docs leaf leaf ════ Terminal Markdown previewer — GUI-like experience. leaf lets you read Markdown files directly in the terminal with a clean, focused interface. Designed for developers, CLI users, and AI-assisted workflows. Usage ───── bash 12345 leaf README.md# Open a file leaf -w README.md# Watch mode leaf# Fuzzy picker leaf --picker# Directory browser cat file.md | leaf# Stdin leaf leaf-summary.md ⟳ watch ctrl+e edit · ctrl+f find · t toc · ? help · q quit Why leaf ? Leave your terminal to preview? Previewing Markdown shouldn't mean switching to a browser or…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Rivolink.
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