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24 alternatives to Hacker News CLI, written in Go

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

Hacker News CLI is a command-line interface for browsing Hacker News, built in Go using ncurses for terminal display. It enables developers to read and interact with Hacker News content directly from their terminal… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hacker News CLI, written in Go launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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

    24d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2012 · zachwill.github.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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    Hacker News on the Terminal. Contribute to ciaranarcher/hacker_term development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Browse Hacker News from your Terminal

    2016 · 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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    Browse Hacker News like a haxor: A Hacker News command line interface (CLI). - donnemartin/haxor-news

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I put this together since I find myself switching away from the terminal to see if anything new popped up in HN. There might be similar ones out there, didn't bother looking. It was a quick experiment, which might end up with a few more features.

    2011 · github.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11HN

    2014 · realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com · its alternatives →

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    I wrote this small client to read hackernews from my favorite editor. It's currently using an external HTTP API [0] but I'm working on my own proxy [1]. I'd love to actually scrape and cache all the info I need using lisp. However, my time constraints are keeping me away of that goal. I could definitely use some help here! :) I'm also planning to add support for comments and posting new things. Any feedback is highly appreciated! Thank you! [0] http://api.ihackernews.com/ [1] https://github.com/clarete/rhn

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13HN

    2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.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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    Hi folks this is a project I worked on with some of my students when I was running an online JS programming course. Although the online course is no more, I finally got around to releasing Hacker Herald with a former instructor and student - thanks Arnav and Archis! To those wondering if there is a need for such a Hacker News front end, I would just point out that most newspaper websites are laid out like this - clearly some people like this kind of layout! Also for some stories a picture really does help - currently there is a HN story titled, "Portland airport grows with expansive mass…

    2024 · hackerherald.com · its alternatives →

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    A CLI to read top, best, and latest news from hacker news.

    2020 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    A browser extension that displays Hacker News comments for the current webpage - jdormit/looped-in

    2018 · 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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    Some two years ago, I found myself spending a lot of time in the terminal between learning vim and discovering new command line tools. I was surprised to see that the niche of HN clis was (relatively) small, and so I decided to write my own command line tool for browsing HN called `circumflex`(`clx`). `clx` is written in Go using Bubble Tea[1]. You can read the comment section or the linked article in reader mode in the pager `less`. Using `lesskey` to add custom keybindings, the replies can be collapsed and expanded in real-time (but not individual replies, only all replies at once). Behind…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Kotlin/Swing desktop application front-end for Hacker News - westoncb/HNDesktop

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    2016 · hackernewsfilter.com · its alternatives →

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    hey hn! I (re)built this TUI tool for browsing BBC News in the terminal, it uses an RSS feed for getting headlines and previews and you can read articles too. Try it out and let me know what you think! :)

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Gnus backend for Hacker News. Contribute to dickmao/nnhackernews development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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