Snark Express TUI

Terminal UI for Snark Express — browse cryptography papers from the command line.

Black & orange themed, vim-style navigation, post-quantum authentication.

Install

pip install snarkexpress-tui
snarkexpress

Or run directly without installing:

uvx --from snarkexpress-tui snarkexpress

Node.js 18+ is optional, only needed for post-quantum crypto (login/register):

npm install -g @noble/post-quantum

From Source

git clone https://github.com/kurtpan666/SnarkExpress-TUI.git
cd SnarkExpress-TUI
./start.sh

start.sh checks the environment, installs all dependencies, and launches the TUI.

Configuration

The TUI connects to https://snarkexpress.up.railway.app/api by default. Override with:

SNARKEXPRESS_API_URL=https://your-api.example.com/api snarkexpress

Keyboard Shortcuts

Global

Paper List (Home)

Search

Paper Detail

Features

• Browse papers with Hot / New / Top sorting and infinite scroll
• Search with quick and advanced filters (title, author, tag, sort by relevance/date/votes)
• Paper details with abstract, BibTeX, voting, comments, related papers
• Submit papers with URL auto-extraction (ePrint, arXiv, CiC, DOI)
• Comments — nested threads with reply/delete
• Vote on papers (upvote / downvote with toggle)
• User profiles with submissions, comments, votes, and badges
• Tags — clickable tag cloud sorted by popularity, wrapping to fill terminal width
• PQ Auth — ML-DSA + ML-KEM challenge-response login
• Key management — import/export encrypted key bundles with PIN encryption

Architecture

Standalone API client for the Snark Express backend. All communication happens via REST API. Post-quantum cryptography (ML-DSA-65 + ML-KEM-768) is handled by a bundled Node.js helper (crypto_helper.mjs) using @noble/post-quantum.