Gopher would be far easier, they already are some gopher clients for the ZX and you can visit an HN mirror at gopher://hngopher.com

Also:

    gopher://magical.fish (web-like portal with news feeds, games and services)

    gopher://sdf.org (blogs basically)

    gopher://bitreich.org (huge directory a la Altavista/Yahoo back in the day)
 
    gopher://gopher.icu (Nice personal page)

    gopher://gopher.icu/7.gutenberg (Gutenberg project)

    gopher://1436.ninja (Nice personal page too)