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24 alternatives to A Hacker News CLI with autocomplete, output highlights, comment filters

Browse Hacker News like a haxor: A Hacker News command line interface (CLI). - donnemartin/haxor-news

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. A Hacker News CLI with autocomplete, output highlights, comment filters launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A Hacker News command line interface

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    :newspaper: CLI to browse Hacker News. Contribute to rafaelrinaldi/hn-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A hackernews ncurses CLI written in GO. Contribute to andrewstuart/hn development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A different way to browse the discussions on hackernews. Control everything intuitively with your keyboard.

    2021 · haxplore.pabue.co · its alternatives →

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    2012 · zachwill.github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News. Contribute to aome510/hackernews-TUI development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Browse Hacker News from your Terminal

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi! I’m Julien and I built a recommendation engine for Hacker News. I feel like this website is a gold mine. Every day, I find some very interesting stories about a topic. And sometimes, I want to find other stories covering that same topic but I can’t. Hacker News has years of history of awesome discussion and ressources. Unfortunately, I think HN Algolia isn’t helpful in searching these old threads. As a student, I want to learn a lot from this website. This is why I created HN Recommend. Input a sentence or the URL of an article, and get the most popular and similar posts from Hacker…

    2023 · hn-recommend.julienc.me · its alternatives →

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    HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two. 1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn't require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it. 2. If you land on an article that has previously been…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I love HN but always felt the search with algolia is okay but does have some limitations. Since I work at Vectara I decided to try and create a better search for HN. It's based on data from roughly the last 6 months of HN stories and comments. Would love to hear feedback and how useful this is relative to the existing search.

    2024 · hackernews.demo.vectara.com · its alternatives →

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    Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Focus on the really fresh and unread news in Hacker News.

    2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    sleeek tui for hacker news. Contribute to ahmd-sh/hntui development by creating an account on GitHub.

    23d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I'm Jonathan and I built Hacker Search (https://hackersearch.net), a semantic search engine for Hacker News. Type a keyword or a description of what you're interested in, and you'll get top links from HN surfaced to you along with brief summaries. Unlike HN's otherwise very valuable search feature, Hacker Search doesn't require you to get your keywords exactly right. That's achieved by leveraging OpenAI's latest embedding models alongside more traditional indexes extracted from the scraped and cleaned up contents of the links. I think there are many more interesting things…

    2024 · hackersearch.net · its alternatives →

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    Source: https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai

    Sep 2026 · unslop.news · its alternatives →

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    2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · its alternatives →

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    ImTui: Immediate Mode Text-based User Interface C++ Library - imtui/examples/hnterm at master · ggerganov/imtui

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Get HN discussion for the current URL. Powered by the HN search engine at http://hn.algolia.com - nadeesha/hackertalk

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A command line tool to print out the latest posts on Hacker News to your terminal. - mtharrison/hackernews

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    It's been 2 years since the initial release [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102610). The initial version was a very basic prototype which was not available anywhere beyond the GitHub repo. You had to install it as a userscript or load the extension manually. Since then, it remained simple but better, new features include: - Improved accuracy by also using comments to help gauge the topic of discussion and the right keywords. - Published as plugin for more browsers: Chrome, Firefox (including android), and more recently Microsoft Edge. - Support for narrow screens…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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