atasoya/carbonara

Carbonara is a small terminal program that pulls together several different streams of tech news so you can read them in one place without opening a browser. The tagline calls it tech feeds in your terminal cooked al dente with Zig, which is a hint that the program is written in the Zig programming language and is meant to feel lightweight. According to the README, the program covers five sources. It can show the currently trending repositories on GitHub, the top stories on Hacker News, the top posts on Product Hunt, the top papers on the ArXiv research site, and any RSS feed you point it at. That last item makes it flexible: if you already follow a blog or newsletter that publishes an RSS feed, you can plug that URL into Carbonara and read its headlines next to all the other sources. There are three installation paths. You can clone the repository and build it yourself with the Zig build tool, then put the resulting binary somewhere on your PATH. If you use macOS or Linux with Homebrew, the project ships a tap so a brew install command pulls it down. There is also a single curl line that downloads and runs an install script. The README does not go into detail about what that script does internally. Configuration lives in a JSON file at a fixed path under your home directory. The example shown lists the RSS feeds you want to subscribe to. Product Hunt access needs an extra step: you have to set an environment variable with a personal token before that section will load any data. The rest of the README is two screenshots, a banner and a demo gif.